ALEAPP v2026.4.3

ALEAPP v2026.4.3

• SwiftKey language models: four new artifacts read from the keyboard's dynamic.lm files (Models, Terms, Term Sequences and Terms by App), for the Samsung Keyboard and the SwiftKey app. Thanks to @crox4n6 for the first parser and its fixture.
• Telegram Messages: layer 227 is supported, from @snoop168. Sender rank and guest peer are read on the older constructors that carry them, seventeen older message classes are read including the secret chat ones, a service message reports the sender its record stores, and the table is kept when one record cannot be walked.
• Reading acquisitions with -t raw: qnxprobe is updated to 1.57. On NTFS, a cloud provider's online-only placeholder (OneDrive Files On-Demand) is no longer staged as zeros, a file the Windows Overlay Filter compressed with XPRESS is staged as its content, and an NTFS-compressed file with a compression unit that ends early is staged at its full length.
• Fixes: the history setting checkbox is visible in the window on Windows, and the macOS disk image has a new background with the icons centred on its arrow.

Full Changelog: v2026.4.2...v2026.4.3

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Which file to download

Platform	File
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit Intel or AMD	-windows-x64-setup.exe (installer), or -windows-x64-portable.zip to run without installing
Windows 11 on ARM	-windows-arm64-setup.exe, or -windows-arm64-portable.zip
macOS, Apple silicon	-macos-arm64.dmg
macOS, Intel	-macos-x64.dmg
Linux, 64-bit Intel or AMD	-linux-x64.AppImage
Linux on ARM	-linux-arm64.AppImage

Every download holds one program, aleapp. Started without arguments, from the Start
menu, the Applications folder or a double-click, it opens the window. Given arguments in a
terminal, it is the command line. On macOS the command line is inside the app:

/Applications/ALEAPP.app/Contents/MacOS/aleapp --help

For tools that run ALEAPP themselves. The options, output and exit codes of aleapp
are those of earlier releases, but the downloads changed shape: there is no aleappGUI
any more, since aleapp without arguments opens the window. On Windows and macOS,
aleapp needs the folder it came in, so run it from there rather than copying the
executable elsewhere on its own; on Linux the AppImage is the whole program.

First launch

The macOS disk images are signed with a Developer ID and notarised by Apple, so they open
without a warning.

The Windows binaries are not signed yet, so SmartScreen says "Windows protected your PC"
the first time. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

On Linux, make the AppImage executable once (chmod +x ALEAPP-*.AppImage). It needs FUSE
to start; where FUSE is not available, run it with --appimage-extract-and-run.

If you would rather not clear a warning, run from source instead; the README has the steps.

Verify what you downloaded

SHA256SUMS.txt covers every file in this release. On macOS or Linux, from the folder you
downloaded into:

grep <the file you downloaded> SHA256SUMS.txt | shasum -a 256 -c -

Use sha256sum in place of shasum -a 256 on Linux. On Windows, in PowerShell:

(Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 .\<the file you downloaded>).Hash

and compare it with the line in SHA256SUMS.txt, which is lower case.

Linux

The build is made on Ubuntu 22.04, so it needs glibc 2.35 or newer and will not start on
an older distribution.