VayuMail 2.2.12

Added

• VayuTalk self-destruct timers + Live mode. Messages now burn on a timer
  that starts when they're read, not when they're sent — so a message you
  send waits (no countdown) until the other person opens it, then both copies
  disappear on the same clock.
  • Timer options: 5 seconds, 1 minute, 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes,
    1 hour — default 5 minutes. Tap the timer pill in the composer to cycle
    them; each read message shows a countdown ring and remaining time, then
    collapses to a tombstone.
  • Live toggle: a composer pill for messages that are never stored on the
    server (delivered only while both of you are online) and burn the moment
    they're read.
  • The burn countdown now runs from read time (reveal for the recipient, the
    read receipt for the sender) instead of from send. The local timer clamp
    widened to [5s, 1h] to match the relay; the incoming envelope carries the
    sender's chosen burn_seconds. Plaintext still lives in memory only.

Note

• Requires a VayuPress relay running v3.13.56+ for the read-time burn and
  Live semantics. Against an older relay the app still works (the timer behaves
  as a send-time lifetime).

Fixed

• Real text renders correctly again — reverted the colour-emoji font. The
  bundled Noto Color Emoji font (2.2.10) broke text: this build of Gio does not
  rasterise its colour glyphs, and the font also claimed the ASCII digits
  (they exist in it for keycap emoji like 1️⃣), so clock times showed as : with
  the numbers blank, safety numbers rendered as scattered letters with the digits
  gone, and emoji messages showed as empty bubbles. Removing the font restores
  correct rendering of all letters, digits, times and safety numbers. Emoji again
  fall back to the platform glyphs; a proper emoji solution needs a monochrome
  (outline) font this build of Gio can actually draw — tracked as a follow-up.

Changed

• Verify screen: safety numbers now render as a clean, aligned grid. Each
  four-character group sits in its own equal-width, centered cell (five per row),
  so the columns line up neatly instead of flowing as a ragged proportional
  string — matching the tidy layout of the web console.

Downloads

• vayumail-2.2.12.apk — install directly on your
  Android device (sideload).
• vayumail-2.2.12.aab — upload to the Google Play
  Console (Play requires an App Bundle, not an APK).

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sideloading only; set ANDROID_KEYSTORE_B64 /
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Store-ready builds signed with your upload key.

VayuMail 2.2.11

Fixed

• Real text renders correctly again — reverted the colour-emoji font. The
  bundled Noto Color Emoji font (2.2.10) broke text: this build of Gio does not
  rasterise its colour glyphs, and the font also claimed the ASCII digits
  (they exist in it for keycap emoji like 1️⃣), so clock times showed as : with
  the numbers blank, safety numbers rendered as scattered letters with the digits
  gone, and emoji messages showed as empty bubbles. Removing the font restores
  correct rendering of all letters, digits, times and safety numbers. Emoji again
  fall back to the platform glyphs; a proper emoji solution needs a monochrome
  (outline) font this build of Gio can actually draw — tracked as a follow-up.

Changed

• Verify screen: safety numbers now render as a clean, aligned grid. Each
  four-character group sits in its own equal-width, centered cell (five per row),
  so the columns line up neatly instead of flowing as a ragged proportional
  string — matching the tidy layout of the web console.

Downloads

• vayumail-2.2.11.apk — install directly on your
  Android device (sideload).
• vayumail-2.2.11.aab — upload to the Google Play
  Console (Play requires an App Bundle, not an APK).

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VayuMail 2.2.10

Added

• Emoji now render. The app bundles the Noto Color Emoji font (via Gio's
  official emoji font module) and adds it as a fallback in the text shaper, so
  emoji show as glyphs instead of empty □ boxes — in chat and everywhere else.
  Ordinary text still uses the platform's native system font; the emoji font is an
  additive fallback that Gio uses only for codepoints the system font lacks. Adds
  ~10 MB to the app download (color-emoji fonts embed bitmaps) — the price of real
  emoji in a pure-Go UI. Pinned by a shaping test so a regression fails CI.

Downloads

• vayumail-2.2.10.apk — install directly on your
  Android device (sideload).
• vayumail-2.2.10.aab — upload to the Google Play
  Console (Play requires an App Bundle, not an APK).

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VayuMail 2.2.9

Fixed

• Chat is now two-sided: your messages sit on the right, theirs on the left.
  Sent and received bubbles were both hugging the left edge. The cause was a
  layout bug — the flexible spacer that pushes a sent bubble to the right returned
  a zero-size box, and Gio advances by a child's returned size, so the spacer
  collapsed and the bubble fell back to the left. The spacer now fills its
  allocated width, so the thread reads like a normal chat. (Also fixes the
  outgoing status — “Sending…/Sent/Queued/Read” — aligning to the far edge of the
  bubble.)

Known limitation

• Emoji still render as empty boxes on the phone. This is a limitation of the
  pure-Go UI toolkit (Gio), which does not use Android's colour-emoji font; the
  message text itself transmits and decrypts correctly (the web shows the emoji).
  A bundled emoji font is planned. Plain text and all message delivery are
  unaffected.

Downloads

• vayumail-2.2.9.apk — install directly on your
  Android device (sideload).
• vayumail-2.2.9.aab — upload to the Google Play
  Console (Play requires an App Bundle, not an APK).

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VayuMail 2.2.8

Fixed

• Talk-subdomain discovery no longer depends on a CDN-fronted fetch. The app
  learned its proxy-off talk.<domain> relay from the main domain's autoconfig —
  but that fetch can itself be bot-challenged by the very CDN the subdomain exists
  to bypass, which made discovery circular. The app now also probes the
  conventional talk.<domain> directly (a proxy-off host, so it reaches the origin
  even when autoconfig can't be read), and uses it once it answers as a live
  relay. Still trust-constrained to the mail domain and still falls back to the
  mail domain when no live relay is found, so nothing regresses for servers
  without a talk subdomain.

Downloads

• vayumail-2.2.8.apk — install directly on your
  Android device (sideload).
• vayumail-2.2.8.aab — upload to the Google Play
  Console (Play requires an App Bundle, not an APK).

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VayuMail 2.2.7

Added

• Chat automatically uses your server's proxy-off talk.<domain> relay when it
  exists. If a CDN (e.g. Cloudflare) sits in front of your server, its bot
  challenge blocks the app's long-lived chat stream — so the app could send but
  never receive. When VayuPress advertises a dedicated talk. subdomain (set up
  automatically once you point its DNS), the app now discovers it, confirms it is
  within your mail domain and answering as a live relay, and routes its chat
  stream there — bypassing the CDN with no setting to change. If none is
  advertised (or it isn't reachable), the app keeps using the mail domain exactly
  as before, so nothing changes for servers without a talk subdomain.

Notes

• Pairs with VayuPress 3.11.48, which provisions the talk.<domain> vhost + TLS
  cert and advertises the host on its own. See that release's notes: your only
  step is one DNS record.

Downloads

• vayumail-2.2.7.apk — install directly on your
  Android device (sideload).
• vayumail-2.2.7.aab — upload to the Google Play
  Console (Play requires an App Bundle, not an APK).

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VayuMail 2.2.6

Added

• Verify screen now shows BOTH safety numbers — yours and your contact's.
  Previously it showed only the contact's number, so there was nothing to read
  back to them. It now displays "You" (your own key) above the contact's, exactly
  like the web console, so the two of you can compare both numbers over a trusted
  channel and confirm no one is in the middle. Your own number appears as soon as
  your key has synced.

Notes

• Pairs with VayuPress 3.11.47, which stops the web console from consuming
  messages out of a shared mailbox's queue before this app can receive them (the
  cause of "an app-to-app message only shows up in the web"). Update the server
  too, and confirm it is running the new build with
  curl -s https://YOUR-DOMAIN/health → "version":"3.11.47".

Downloads

• vayumail-2.2.6.apk — install directly on your
  Android device (sideload).
• vayumail-2.2.6.aab — upload to the Google Play
  Console (Play requires an App Bundle, not an APK).

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VayuMail 2.2.5

Fixed

• Faster recovery when a key re-sync briefly fails. The self-heal that
  re-fetches your key on a decrypt failure now waits only a few seconds before
  retrying after a failed fetch (instead of the full 30-second cooldown used
  after a successful one), so a momentary network/server blip no longer delays a
  web-sent message — while a persistent failure still can't hammer the server.

Downloads

• vayumail-2.2.5.apk — install directly on your
  Android device (sideload).
• vayumail-2.2.5.aab — upload to the Google Play
  Console (Play requires an App Bundle, not an APK).

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VayuMail 2.2.4

Fixed

• Messages sent from the web now reliably decrypt on the phone. If an
  incoming message can't be opened — because this device's key had drifted from
  the one the server encrypted to — the app now automatically re-fetches its
  authoritative key from the server and retries, instead of silently dropping the
  message. This self-heals a stale key without any manual "sync" step. The
  re-fetch is rate-limited so a burst of unreadable messages can't hammer the
  server. (TestHandleEnvelopeResyncsOnDecryptFailure.)

Added

• Automated Google Play publishing. The release workflow now uploads the
  signed AAB to Google Play on every release (gated on a service-account secret;
  a no-op until configured). Once set up, a GitHub release becomes a Play release
  with no manual step, and Play updates the app on every device automatically —
  no sideloading. One-time setup is documented in docs/PLAY-PUBLISHING.md.

Downloads

• vayumail-2.2.4.apk — install directly on your
  Android device (sideload).
• vayumail-2.2.4.aab — upload to the Google Play
  Console (Play requires an App Bundle, not an APK).

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VayuMail 2.2.3

Added

• Message clock time. Each chat bubble now shows the wall-clock time it was
  sent (the server's send time, in your local zone), matching what the web
  shows for the same message — alongside the existing disappear-countdown.

Fixed

• Incoming messages show when they were sent, not when the phone received
  them. A message that waited in the queue while you were offline now displays
  its real send time (from the server), instead of the moment it arrived.

Downloads

• vayumail-2.2.3.apk — install directly on your
  Android device (sideload).
• vayumail-2.2.3.aab — upload to the Google Play
  Console (Play requires an App Bundle, not an APK).

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