cthrone v0.12.0

💬 cthrone v0.12.0

Chat from one device to another — a terminal, a desktop window, or a
phone. One device hosts, the others connect; there is no account and
no server, and every session is sealed end to end.

Built from 44d9bab08d93d30a159b0f559d818117db05e935 · workflow run

📦 Download

	Platform	Asset
🐧	Linux	cthrone_v0.12.0_linux.tar.gz
🐧	Linux, with the window	cthrone_v0.12.0_linux_gui_amd64.tar.gz
🪟	Windows	cthrone_v0.12.0_windows.zip
🪟	Windows, with the window	cthrone_v0.12.0_windows_gui_amd64.zip
🍎	macOS, Apple silicon	cthrone_v0.12.0_darwin_arm64.tar.gz
🍎	macOS, with the window	cthrone_v0.12.0_darwin_gui_arm64.tar.gz
🍎	macOS, Intel	cthrone_v0.12.0_darwin_amd64.tar.gz
🤖	Android app	cthrone_v0.12.0_android_gui_arm64.apk
🤖	Android CLI (Termux)	cthrone_v0.12.0_android.zip

Every CLI archive carries cthrone and the short alias ct: unpack it and
run add_to_path.sh (or .bat) once. The window archives are the same
tool with the GUI built in; on Linux they need the GTK3, OpenGL and X11
runtime libraries. The APK is debug-signed — tap it and allow the
install once.

✅ Verify

sha256sum -c checksums.txt        # macOS: shasum -a 256 -c checksums.txt

🔒 Security

Every session is sealed and authenticated end to end — X25519, HKDF
per direction, AES-256-GCM — and the peer's device key is pinned on first
contact. The websocket is wss:// by default and the host's certificate
is pinned too; --no-tls is the opt-out, kept for a peer that predates
the current protocol.

⚠️ What this build does not do

• Only WAV and MP3 play inside the app. Those two play on the file's
  own row; Ogg/Vorbis, AAC/M4A and FLAC have no decoder in this build,
  so they open with another app — and on a phone that means Save as…
  and the file manager.
• PDFs are not drawn: they open with the device's viewer.
• recv/exec are not implemented.
• The Windows Bluetooth transport, the phone build and the
  APK on a device have not been run yet. Nothing here has been
  heard on a phone either: the in-app player is compiled into the APK
  and has never been run on one.

🧾 Every change

Features

• feat: reconnect a dropped client with backoff — #372 by @fiwon123
• feat: play a sound inside the app (#306) — #373 by @fiwon123

Fixes

• fix: the release notes say what the player actually does (#374) — #375 by @fiwon123

Documentation

• docs: report v0.12.0 as the release (#376) — #377 by @fiwon123

Dependencies

• deps: bump github.com/nats-io/nats.go from 1.54.0 to 1.55.0 — #371 by @app/dependabot

Full changelog: v0.11.7...v0.12.0