aTox 0.6.0, a new version of the free and open source mobile messenger using the Tox (c-toxcore) protocol, has been released. Tox offers a decentralized P2P messaging model that uses cryptographic methods to authenticate the user and protect transit traffic from interception. The application is written in the Kotlin programming language. The source code and ready-made builds of the application are distributed under the GNU GPLv3 license.
aTox features:
- Open source: the ability to freely distribute, explore and modify it.
- Convenience: simple and clear settings.
- End-to-End Encryption: The only people who can see your conversations are you and your conversation partners.
- Distribution: no central servers that can be turned off or from which your data can be transferred to someone else.
- Lightweight: There are no telemetry, ads, or other forms of surveillance of you, and the installer for the current version of the application weighs only 14 megabytes.
aTox 0.6.0 changelog:
- Added by:
- Typed but not sent messages are now saved as drafts.
- Proxy support.
- Setting to set the automatic status "Away" after the specified time.
- It is now possible to use a custom list of start nodes.
- Added improved notifications with a nicer app icon, contact avatars for incoming message notifications, and the ability to reply to incoming messages directly from the notification shade.
- Setting for automatic acceptance of files from interlocutors.
- Beautiful standard avatars that are generated if the contact has not set his own avatar.
- Fixed:
- Clearing the history of chat messages did not delete downloaded files that were inaccessible because of this.
- Long messages with multibyte characters were not split correctly, causing the application to crash.
- Receipt dates for old messages were arbitrarily updated with new ones.
- Other:
- Added Brazilian Portuguese translation.
- Added translation into Russian.
- Added translation into German.
In future versions of aTox, the developer plans to add the following major features (from higher priority to lower priority): audio calls, video calls, group chats. As well as many other, smaller new features and improvements.
You can download packages from aTox from GitHub and F-Droid (version 0.6.0 will be added soon, and with it the nasty warning about "non-free network services" will be removed).
Source: opennet.ru