release aTox 0.6.0 – a new version of the free open source mobile messenger using the Tox (c-toxcore) protocol . Tox offers a decentralized P2P messaging model that uses cryptographic techniques to identify a user and protect transit traffic from interception. The application is written in the Kotlin programming language. The source code and ready-made assemblies of the application are distributed under the GNU GPLv3 license.
Features of aTox:
- Open source: free to redistribute, explore and modify.
- Convenience: simple and straightforward settings.
- End-to-end encryption: the only people who can see your correspondence are you and your interlocutors.
- Distributed: no central servers that can be turned off or from which your data can be transferred to someone else.
- Lightweight: no telemetry, ads, or other forms of surveillance, and the installer for the current version of the app weighs only 14 megabytes.
Changelog for aTox 0.6.0:
- Added:
- Messages typed but not sent are now saved as drafts.
- Support for using proxies.
- Setting to set the automatic status “Away” after a specified time.
- It is now possible to use a custom host list.
- Added improved notifications with a better app icon, contact avatars for notifications with incoming messages, and the ability to reply to incoming messages directly from the notification curtain.
- Setting for automatic acceptance of files from interlocutors.
- Beautiful standard avatars generated if the contact has not set their avatar.
- Fixed:
- Clearing chat message history did not remove downloaded files that were not available because of this.
- Long messages with multibyte characters were not splitting correctly, causing the application to crash.
- The dates of receipt of old messages were arbitrarily updated with new ones.
- Other:
- Added Brazilian Portuguese translation.
- Added Russian translation.
- German translation added.
In future versions of aTox, the developer plans to add the following major functions (from higher priority to lower priority): audio calls, video calls, group chats. And many other, smaller new features and improvements.
You can download packages from aTox from GitHub
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