v6.48.0

• Video and audio playback will now pause whenever the Signal window is closed and minimized in the system tray. If you’re looking for silence, X marks the spot.
• By popular demand, emoticons like “:-)” now automatically become emoji like “🙂” — but if this makes you “:-(“ you can disable this feature in the “Chats” section of your Signal Desktop settings

v6.48.0-beta.2

• Video and audio playback will now pause whenever the Signal window is closed and minimized in the system tray. If you’re looking for silence, X marks the spot.
• By popular demand, emoticons like “:-)” now automatically become emoji like “🙂” — but if this makes you “:-(“ you can disable this feature in the “Chats” section of your Signal Desktop settings

v6.47.1

• If you spend a lot of time trying to pick out the perfect emoji reaction for every situation, you'll be 🎉 to know that we fixed a bug with typing indicators that sometimes caused the emoji selection box to disappear while you were in the middle of pondering your choices.
• Signal will now match your selected title bar color on Microsoft Windows. When all of your windows in Windows look the same, that's a common theme.

v6.48.0-beta.1

• Video and audio playback will now pause whenever the Signal window is closed and minimized in the system tray. If you’re looking for silence, X marks the spot.
• By popular demand, emoticons like “:-)” now automatically become emoji like “🙂” — but if this makes you “:-(“ you can disable this feature in the “Chats” section of your Signal Desktop settings

v6.47.0

• If you spend a lot of time trying to pick out the perfect emoji reaction for every situation, you'll be 🎉 to know that we fixed a bug with typing indicators that sometimes caused the emoji selection box to disappear while you were in the middle of pondering your choices.
• Signal will now match your selected title bar color on Microsoft Windows. When all of your windows in Windows look the same, that's a common theme.

v6.47.0-beta.2

• If you spend a lot of time trying to pick out the perfect emoji reaction for every situation, you'll be 🎉 to know that we fixed a bug with typing indicators that sometimes caused the emoji selection box to disappear while you were in the middle of pondering your choices.
• Signal will now match your selected title bar color on Microsoft Windows. When all of your windows in Windows look the same, that's a common theme.

v6.47.0-beta.1

• If you spend a lot of time trying to pick out the perfect emoji reaction for every situation, you'll be 🎉 to know that we fixed a bug with typing indicators that sometimes caused the emoji selection box to disappear while you were in the middle of pondering your choices.
• Signal will now match your selected title bar color on Microsoft Windows. When all of your windows in Windows look the same, that's a common theme.

v6.46.0

• The default fonts for Urdu have been updated for improved readability when that language is selected (Signal Settings > Appearance > Language). Thanks, @asakpke!

v6.46.0-beta.2

• The default fonts for Urdu have been updated for improved readability when that language is selected (Signal Settings > Appearance > Language). Thanks, @asakpke!

v6.45.1

• Now you can optionally turn emoticons into emoji. If you want to “🙂” whenever you type “:-)”, you can enable this feature in the “Chats” section of your Signal Desktop settings.
• A new keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+s/Cmd+s) helps you quickly save pictures and videos from the media viewer.
• It’s too bad that we already made a New Year's Resolution joke in the release notes for the last update, because we just increased the maximum resolution for screen sharing during Signal video calls. Our new resolution is to avoid any resolution puns until 2025.
• Thanks to @dasois and @pelya for their contributions to this release!