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 README.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/KnugiHK/WhatsApp-Chat-Exporter/compare/0.13.0rc1...0.13.0rc2