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New security review by Trail of Bits and new v6.1 released – better calls, better iOS notifications and better user experience!

SimpleX network: cryptographic design review by Trail of Bits, v6.1 released with better calls and user experience.

v6.1-beta.0 is released with support for SOCKS proxies both in iOS (via TestFlight) and Android (via Github releases as direct APK download:

GitHub

Release v6.1.0-beta.0 · simplex-chat/simplex-chat

New in v6.1-beta.0 support generic SOCKS proxies. new UI for switching user profiles. Commits: ios: allow for chat profile selection on new chat...

). You can host your own SOCKS proxy (this one looks good:

GitHub

GitHub - heiher/hev-socks5-server: A lightweight, fast and reliable socks5 server

A lightweight, fast and reliable socks5 server. Contribute to heiher/hev-socks5-server development by creating an account on GitHub.

) or you can try ours, if you use preset servers (it won't allow connecting to any other servers directly, but you can still send messages to anybody who uses other servers): Address: 139.162.173.97 Port: 443 Username: user Password: YJHolWSzTfOny7es