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Re:Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts by rococode on Sunday July 25, 2021 @02:35PM (#27951665)
They've just posted an update saying that the issue was fixed on July 21. It's certainly good that it's fixed...

But that's still over 7 months before it was fixed, including a 2 month period where people were still bumping the issue asking for help with no response from maintainers (afterwards, the issue went quiet until ~2 weeks ago). And there was at least one other issue on the same problem a few months later that received no response [1].

I understand the team is probably understaffed given the vast number of open issues (1300+) they have, many with no response, and I can sympathize with the challenges of being a small team developing an app used by millions, but they probably need to figure out a better way to triage...

[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/11137

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Re:Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts by spullara on Sunday July 25, 2021 @04:16PM (#27952540)
It was fixed a long time and only closed recently, see the message from the dev.
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Re:Signal on Android: Images sent to wrong contacts by rococode on Sunday July 25, 2021 @04:24PM (#27952608)
No, the dev writes on GitHub that "this issue was fixed in 5.17 (which hit 100% production on 7/21)". Releases show 5.17.0 was released on July 15. They've also linked the commits that fix the bug - the fixes were committed 10 days ago.
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