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Private, encrypted messaging platform with no user identifiers

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SimpleX's v7.0 beta grows a private messenger into a public-channel network

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◆Current state
SimpleX is deep in the v7.0 beta cycle, and the through-line is channels. Successive betas have added subscriber and contributor roles, CLI channel connections, obfuscated-link moderation, and now registered SimpleX names for channels and businesses. The metadata-free privacy model stays intact, but the product is growing a public broadcast surface it didn't previously have.
◆Where it's heading
Each beta hardens the channels stack — roles, moderation, web previews, relay management — while chipping away at connection stability and delivery in large groups. The move to registered SimpleX names for channels and business accounts points toward discoverable, addressable identities, a notable shift for a network built on unaddressed contact. The remaining betas look aimed at stabilizing delivery and finalizing the naming and business layer before a 7.0 stable.
◆Prediction
The next beta most likely locks down the SimpleX names registration flow, currently gated behind test infrastructure, and continues group-delivery stability work ahead of a 7.0 stable release.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2d ago

    SimpleX adds named channels and business accounts (v7.0 beta.3)

    beta.3 introduces registered SimpleX names for channels and businesses alongside connection-stability and channel-contributor fixes, extending the v7.0 push toward discoverable public channels. The naming layer is still gated behind test infrastructure, so it reads as a direction being staged rather than shipped.

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  2. 2d ago

    armv7a build tag (no user-facing changes)

    An armv7a build-tag merge with no product changes — a packaging artifact of the multi-arch release pipeline, not a user-facing update.

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  3. 13d ago

    Channel subscriber roles and CLI channel connect (v7.0 beta.2)

    beta.2 surfaces subscriber roles in channel member lists and lets users connect to channels from the CLI, continuing to flesh out channel roles and access paths in the v7.0 line.

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  4. 13d ago

    armv7a build tag (no user-facing changes)

    An armv7a build-tag merge with no product changes — a release-pipeline artifact rather than a shipped feature.

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  5. 16d ago

    Promote channel subscribers to contributors (v7.0 beta.1)

    beta.1 lets owners promote subscribers to contributors, widens channel messages, blocks obfuscated links where groups prohibit them, and fixes iOS link handling — building out channel moderation and roles.

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  6. 16d ago

    armv7a build tag (no user-facing changes)

    An armv7a build-tag merge with no product changes — a packaging artifact of the release pipeline.

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