Signal Desktop Releases

What’s new?

Overview of recent Signal Desktop app updates and main changes
Dates refer to beta releases, which are rolled out to stable versions one week later.
Released features only. For in-development features, see News.
Maintained by AboutSignal. Not official release notes.

8.9

Updated message request UI & group calls participant menu

April 26, 2026

Updated message request UI: new warnings when you receive a new message from someone you don't know. Useful for help identify phishing attacks on Signal
Updated design for Release note chat: New chat color and background to help you recognize the only official chat
Group calls participant menu: a menu to easily see all the participants in a group call

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8.8

Bug fixes & technical improvements

April 15, 2026

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8.7

Bug fixes & technical improvements

April 9, 2026

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8.6

Collapsed events

April 2, 2026

Collapsed events: in-chat notifications (calls, group updates, members leaving/joining) now be grouped together. Read more

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8.5

Bug fixes & technical improvements

March 25, 2026

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8.4

Bug fixes & technical improvements

March 19, 2026

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8.3

Member labels

March 11, 2026

Member label: describe yourself with a member label in groups. Group admins can also choose who is allowed to set a member label. Read more

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8.2

Send view once media

March 5, 2026

You can now send view once media from Signal Desktop. This was possible only from mobile app. Read more

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8.1

Bug fixes & technical improvements

February 26, 2026

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8.0

Signal Secure Backups & new context menu All media

February 18, 2026

Signal Secure Backups are now available to everyone. You can use them to back up all your chats and 45 days of media for free; or all chats and media for a monthly fee. Read more
Context menu in all media screen: an handy context menu in all media screen to easily forward, save, delete any file. Go to Chat settings → All media → Right click any item

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