signalapp / Signal-Desktop

[Cath O'Deray]

I am not sure what you want to say with this reply?

Advance notice of the intended change to net-im/signal-desktop.

 

[bsduck]

It was updated to version 7.20.1 a few days ago (August 22) but still uses electron30.

 

[Deleted member 15063]

Yeah, signal-desktop still works with electron30, I didn't change the version.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Thanks, is the idea to switch to 31 only if:

• Signal stops working with 30; or
• package infrastructure switches to 31 alone?

 

[Deleted member 15063]

Thanks, is the idea to switch to 31 only if:

• Signal stops working with 30; or
• package infrastructure switches to 31 alone?

I'll keep electron30 if

1. signal still works with it
2. electron30 still gets security update
3. editors/vscode still uses electron30

 

[mro]

seems to be outdated since recently again.:-(

 

[mro]

uh, a

$doas pkg install -f signal-desktop

fixed it. Thanks so much!

 

[pebkac]

uh, a

$doas pkg install -f signal-desktop

fixed it. Thanks so much!

Thanks a lot, that was helpful!

Does anybody know why a pkg upgrade didn't pick up the new version?

 

[bsduck]

Because it's still the same version that you reinstalled! I think Signal has a feature that checks when it was last updated and disables itself if that's too long ago. By reinstalling it, even the same version, you reset the counter.

 

[pebkac]

Because it's still the same version that you reinstalled! I think Signal has a feature that checks when it was last updated and disables itself if that's too long ago. By reinstalling it, even the same version, you reset the counter.

Now the penny dropped.

That is a crazy application logic.

 

[Zagzigger]

As of now (19 January 2025) on FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE, signal-desktop is not available.
Is it being updated or something? - for me, it is a very important application.

 

[Deleted member 15063]

On quarterly or latest ?

 

[Zagzigger]

On quarterly or latest ?

Forgive my ignorance, but I don't often get into this area.
Using uname -a gives me
14.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE releng/14.2-n269506-c8918d6c7412 GENERIC amd64

 

[Deleted member 15063]

You are probably on quarterly branch. I've pushed 7.36.1 to this branch, the package will be (hopefully) available in the next days.

 

[mro]

thanks for signal-desktop-7.36.1 - it so nice!

 

[nxjoseph]

Anybody got launching issues with signal-desktop-7.38.0?

% signal-desktop
ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libsndio.so.7.3" not found, required by "signal-desktop"

See PR 284361.

 

[nxjoseph]

Anybody got launching issues with signal-desktop-7.38.0?

% signal-desktop
ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libsndio.so.7.3" not found, required by "signal-desktop"

See PR 284361.

It is fixed now, thanks.

I also left my PC on last overnight and: devel/llvm19 took 2h 12m to build, devel/electron32 took 9h 25m to build and net-im/signal-desktop 7.40.0 took 4m 30s to build.

 

[mro]

disappeared from 14.2 quarterly. https://www.freshports.org/net-im/signal-desktop#packages
:-(

Post in thread 'pkg: 1.21.3 -> 2.1.0 packages to be REMOVED'

Apr 19, 2025

signal-desktop: 7.36.1 will now not send messages from my desktop (14.2 RELEASE). It has a panel which tells you that this version has been updated etc.
But worse than that, it will not send messages at all. For me, this is a pain - I have a lot of conversations going on Signal.
Any news on when the next version will be available?
Thanks.

• Zagzigger

• 

 

[markjcrane]

Once again signal-desktop package is missing again. Is anyone working on this?

 

[Alexander88207]

It will be an endless cycle until they do manage to build several versions of electron.

Example: Electron is present --> Apps are consuming it --> Electron update --> Apps are updated to use the newer version ---> New electron version have to be whitelisted to be built --> Package will not be present in time that apps can consume the new version.

 

[nxjoseph]

There is an unofficial signal app that recently pushed to the ports tree, i hope it would have better availability than net-im/signal-desktop because it uses rust unlike signal that needs to built with Electron which take a lot hours to build. net-im/flare. It's still in development and doesn't have all the features of official signal app has. There is also a problem with flare, affecting wayland users, at least Sway.