v0.18.0

0.18.0 - 2026-09-07

Highlights: faster, interruptible upgrades, offline group rosters, and explicit opt-in self-chat sends.

• Sync: speed up historical identity repair with indexed lookups and selective search-index updates, and honor cancellation between identities during startup. (#395, #398 - thanks @amitav13)
• Groups: add groups participants list for offline roster snapshots with roles and timestamps, and refresh participant snapshots with sync --refresh-groups. (#359, #381 - thanks @shishiv)
• Send: add default-off send text --allow-self for direct and delegated self-chat attempts, retaining the default rejection and documenting acknowledgement-only delivery and daemon restart requirements. (#396 - thanks @frdteknikelektro)
• Sync: expose server backlog preview and completion lifecycle events without changing webhook payloads; document that they do not classify individual deliveries or indicate a drained webhook queue. (#379 - thanks @hchittanuru3)
• Builds: refresh pnpm to 12.3.4 with its verified integrity pin and identify source builds as the upcoming 0.18.0 minor.
• Release: require the exact version in dated changelog headings before local release preparation. (#397 - thanks @vincentkoc)