March 2026 releases // Meowlnir protections and XChat support

The initial revision of protections in Meowlnir is finally here. The Telegram Go rewrite is also nearing completion.

Bridges

The Go rewrite of Telegram received support for avoiding contact names, which was the main blocker for multi-user bridges. Other than the old-style relaybot, it should now be ready to replace the old bridge. I'm not yet certain whether I'll implement the actual old-style relaybot, or just add enough config options to allow emulating the behavior with a dedicated relay user. Either way, I'm hoping to have it ready for the next release.

Signal had some breaking changes which resulted in extremely rare unscheduled releases. This latest release also starts sending the new fields to match how native Signal 8.0 clients work.

The Twitter bridge has been updated to support the new encrypted XChat chats. The quality of the encryption protocol is obviously extremely dubious and you shouldn't rely on Twitter for anything sensitive, but supporting the new chat type is necessary to keep receiving messages. The bridge will prompt you to provide the encryption PIN after updating, which you can do using the relogin <id> command (where <id> can be found with list-logins).

Meowlnir

I finally got around to reviewing and slightly refactoring the protections PR, which is now included in this release. The list of available protections is still fairly small, plus most of them aren't designed to work well with the policy server and are therefore marked as unsafe. However, the most important one (no_media) works fine both with and without a policy server.

Future development plans include more advanced media protections using local image classification models and making the other protections safer to use in the policy server mode.

gomuks

Direct chat classification was switched to use the m.direct account data event, so you may have to manually mark rooms as DMs if they weren't already there. The /converttodm command exists to do that.

Klipy support was also added to the GIF picker, as Tenor is being shut down in June.