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Last updated: 25 September 2026

1.0.0-alpha.8 — 25 September 2026

• See every device you are signed in on under Account, and sign out any of them remotely.
• Assign a board card to a board member, who sees it on the card and gets a notification.
• Board owners and assignees get a notification when a card is added, moved, edited or deleted.
• Tapping a card now shows its details, and you tap the title or notes to edit them.
• Attach files already sent in a channel to a board card without uploading them again.
• Boards open without a connection, showing what they held the last time you looked.
• Pinch or tap to zoom out on a board and see more columns at once.
• Add a column anywhere on a board by double-tapping the gap, and clear all cards from a column.
• Only a board's owner can rename it, delete it or change its members.
• Smaller fixes: the new-card field stays above the phone keyboard, board menus hide moves that cannot happen, and the board name field is labelled correctly.

1.0.0-alpha.5 — 10 September 2026

• Picking a file to send on the Linux desktop app now shows your files instead of an empty folder.
• Clearer buttons on the attachment sheet and the full-screen viewer.

1.0.0-alpha.4 — 7 September 2026

• One account can now belong to several workspaces, and switching between them keeps each one where you left it.
• Tap the workspace name at the top to switch, with unread counts for the ones you are not looking at.
• Notifications now arrive from every workspace you belong to, not only the last one you signed in to.
• Being removed from one workspace no longer signs you out of the others.
• Type a colon and two letters in the message box to pick an emoji, and the picker keeps your recent ones.
• Headers, pinned bars and banners are frosted glass now, with the conversation scrolling under them.
• Search slides up into the header as you scroll a list, so it stays one tap away.
• The conversation holds your place when a pinned bar or a banner appears above it.
• Smaller fixes: friendlier empty screens in Files, and the message alignment switch now appears only on desktop.

1.0.0-alpha.3 — 3 September 2026

• Messages with several photos or files now lay out as a tidy grid, with documents listed beneath it.
• Large files show how far the download has got, and can be saved straight to your device.
• A message's text now shows below the photo or video when you open it full screen.
• Sending a message no longer fails with an error.
• The keyboard opens and closes more smoothly on Android, without the message box jumping.
• The message box is now a floating capsule over a blurred band, matching the tab bar.
• Deleted messages no longer linger on your device, and Files and shared photos stay up to date offline.
• Smaller fixes: no more gap under the tab bar on iPhone, and clearer wording on the save option.

1.0.0-alpha.2 — 2 September 2026

• Send up to ten photos, videos or files in a single message.
• Conversations, Settings and profiles now open over the screen underneath, so coming back lands where you left off. Swipe right anywhere to close.
• A second pass on the desktop and wide browser window: the login screen, the country picker, details dialogs and the account menu.
• The sender's photo follows their messages as you scroll, so a long run still says who is talking.
• Code blocks wrap long lines, widen on desktop, and can be selected and copied.
• Photos, videos and link previews fit their message better.
• The full-screen viewer follows your flick as it closes, stops sound at once, and keeps its buttons visible over bright photos.
• Smoother scrolling and keyboard on iPhone.
• Returning to the app or reconnecting now refreshes unread badges, mention counts and the Home previews.
• A new look for the tab bar, filters and new-message button, and Android system bars now follow your theme.
• Smaller fixes: Escape closes just the picture, nobody can be removed from the default or announcements channel, and Logout has moved to the Account header.

1.0.0-alpha.1 — 28 August 2026

• Messages can carry code. Wrap a snippet in three backticks for a block, or in a single backtick for a short run mid-sentence, and it comes out in a monospaced slab that keeps every space and line break exactly as you typed them, with a copy button of its own. Name a language after the opening backticks and it is coloured and labelled to match: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Rust, Go, Java, Kotlin, Swift, C, C++, C#, PHP, Ruby, Dart, Scala, Lua, shell, SQL, YAML, TOML, INI, JSON, CSS, HTML and Dockerfiles.
• The closing fence is typed for you. The moment you type the third backtick the app adds the matching one below and puts the cursor between them, so a block cannot quietly stay plain text because the last line was forgotten. A snippet pasted in with its fences already on it is left exactly as pasted.
• Code is treated as code everywhere else too. A link inside a fence no longer unfurls into a preview card, a message that is nothing but a snippet is no longer offered for translation, and a quoted reply or a channel's last-message line shows the code itself instead of a row of backticks.
• Open a fence with md and the block is rendered as a formatted document rather than as code, with headings, bullet and numbered lists, quotes, bold, italic, strikethrough and links. It is the one place TeamTalk formats your text, and only because you asked for it by name.
• Text and PDF files can now be selected and copied from inside the preview window. A PDF used to be a picture of a document you could only look at; the words in it can be dragged over and lifted out now. Dragging a selection past the edge of the window no longer closes it out from under you.
• On Android, saving a file puts it straight into the phone's Downloads folder and tells you what it was called when it got there, instead of routing you through the share sheet to choose somewhere. On iPhone the share sheet is still the way out.
• Swipe right to go back from anywhere on the screen, not only from the very left edge, in conversations, threads, search, settings and member pages. It works on Android now as well, alongside the system gesture. The channel details, channel members and direct message panels can be dragged shut the same way, and follow your finger as they go.

1.0.0-alpha.0 — 28 August 2026

• This is the first alpha release of TeamTalk, a chat app for one team and nobody else. There is no public sign-up: the owner invites everyone by hand, and you sign in with your phone number rather than an email address.
• Signing in uses a six-digit code from an authenticator app instead of a password, and you are given single-use backup codes for the day you lose the phone that holds it. Owners can issue a member a fresh authenticator QR code from the members list.
• Talk in channels the team creates, one to one in direct messages, or in a thread hanging off any single message. Channels carry a name and a description, can be pinned to the top of Home in the order you want them, and quiet ones drop into an archived section.
• Reply to a message, react to it with an emoji, pin the ones worth keeping to the top of the channel, and mention someone by name to put it in front of them. Paste a link and it unfurls into a preview with the page's title and picture.
• Send voice notes, photos, videos and files. Long videos are compressed on the phone before they leave it, and every upload resumes where it stopped, so a dropped signal partway through does not mean starting the whole thing again.
• See who has read a message, who is online right now and when everyone else was last around, and find your way back to where you stopped reading with a marker in the conversation.
• Inbox gathers the mentions, reactions and thread replies waiting on you, filtered by which of the three you want to deal with.
• Everything the team has shared is browsable — per channel under Shared content, and all together on the Files screen, where it can be sorted into folders and saved back out to your computer's Downloads folder or your phone's share sheet.
• TeamTalk keeps working without a signal. Messages you write offline are queued and sent the moment you reconnect, conversations you have already opened are stored on the device so they open instantly and can be read with no connection, and anything you missed while away is filled in on reconnect.
• New messages, mentions and reactions arrive as notifications on the phone and on the desktop, including while the desktop app is tucked away in the tray.
• The app speaks English and Khmer throughout. Where your team's server has the feature switched on, you can also tap a message to translate it between English, Chinese and Khmer, and have a voice note transcribed and translated the same way.
• One account, four ways in: an Android app, an iOS app, a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux, and a browser — each in your choice of a light or a dark theme.
• This is an alpha. Expect rough edges, expect things to move, and please tell us what breaks.