The time has come for a new Desktop Release! 
Help us find the most
annoying bugs so we can make sure this update is ready to be released on
the website and in stores. 
Release Highlights
All platforms
one-to-one chats guarantee end-to-end encryption for introduced contacts now
for everyone’s simplicity, we mark these contacts and chats with green checkmarks
groups are created automatically with guaranteed end-to-end encryption if possible
Accept/Blocked, Archived, Pinned, Mute is synced across all your devices
Desktop specific
Images are now compressed (unless you send them as files)
Global Gallery with your pictures, documents, media across all chats
many more improvements and bugfixes
- Since we needed to upgrade electron this version drops support for windows 7, 8 and 8.1 (Farewell, Windows 7/8/8.1 | Electron)
- Core is now built on Debian 10: now requires glibc 2.28, ubuntu 18 is not supported anymore.
Testing focus
Normal usage and:
- verified DM chats
- verified Group chats
- creating new chats
- search in chat
- send images compressed as images and uncompressed as files.
- new experimental feature “Related Chats”
- we’re SYNCING: Accept/Blocked, Archived, Pinned and Mute are synced across all your devices, so please test it if you have multiple devices
Where to report Bugs?
You can find already known bugs on: Issues · deltachat/deltachat-desktop · GitHub
Please report the found bugs either here in this forum topic or even better
as issue on GitHub: Issues · deltachat/deltachat-desktop · GitHub
Downloads
https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.41.1/https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.41.2/https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.41.3/- Index of /desktop/v1.41.4/
Important: please backup your current setup (or most important accounts)
before upgrading in order to be safe when trying test-releases. You can
find this option under Settings > Chats and Media > Backup.