Improved
Release Candidate (2026/01/06)
Support for Python 3.9 is dropped
As the official security support is ended on 31 Oct 2025, Python 3.9 is no longer supported.
Changes since RC1
Bug Fixes
- Fixed the version string position in the banner.
Improvements
- Optimized iOS message processing by implementing global in-memory mapping for quoted message lookups.
- Added prebuilt binaries for macOS (Intel) and Windows (ARM64).
Note on this Pre-release
As we currently do not have a physical testing device for this version, we are releasing this as a Release Candidate.
If you are a regular user, please help us test!
- Install via pip:
pip install whatsapp-chat-exporter --pre - Report any crashes or issues in the GitHub Issues tab (please report in existing issues if they are available).
- If no major bugs are reported for a while, this will be promoted to the stable version.
Pre-built Binary Integrity
The attached binaries were generated by workflow run 20749682997. You can verify their integrity and provenance using the GitHub CLI. Detailed instructions are available in the .