# 🧪 Help testing the upcoming 1.41.X release **URL:** \ **Category:** User Testing\ **Tags:** desktop\ **Created:** [November 13, 2023, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/help-testing-the-upcoming-1-41-x-release/2793 "2023-11-13T22:42:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Simon](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/simon/32/287_2.png) [@Simon](https://forum.delta.chat/u/Simon)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2023, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/help-testing-the-upcoming-1-41-x-release/2793/1 "2023-11-13T22:42:37Z")
The time has come for a new Desktop Release! 🎉 Help us find the most annoying bugs so we can make sure this update is ready to be released on the website and in stores. 💪 ### Release Highlights #### All platforms 💌 one-to-one chats guarantee end-to-end encryption for introduced contacts now 😌 for everyone’s simplicity, we mark these contacts and chats with green checkmarks 👥 groups are created automatically with guaranteed end-to-end encryption if possible 🔄 Accept/Blocked, Archived, Pinned, Mute is synced across all your devices #### Desktop specific 🗜 Images are now compressed (unless you send them as files) 🖼 Global Gallery with your pictures, documents, media across all chats ✨ many more improvements and bugfixes - Since we needed to upgrade electron this version drops support for windows 7, 8 and 8.1 ([Farewell, Windows 7/8/8.1 | Electron](https://www.electronjs.org/blog/windows-7-to-8-1-deprecation-notice)) - Core is now built on Debian 10: now requires glibc 2.28, ubuntu 18 is not supported anymore. [Full Changelog](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#1_41_0) ### Testing focus Normal usage and: - verified DM chats - verified Group chats - creating new chats - search in chat - send images compressed as images and uncompressed as files. - new experimental feature “Related Chats” - we’re SYNCING: Accept/Blocked, Archived, Pinned and Mute are synced across all your devices, so please test it if you have multiple devices ### Where to report Bugs? You can find already known bugs on: [Issues · deltachat/deltachat-desktop · GitHub](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/issues) Please report the found bugs either here in this forum topic or even better as issue on GitHub: [Issues · deltachat/deltachat-desktop · GitHub](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/issues) ### Downloads - ~~[https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.41.1/](https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.41.1/)~~ - ~~[https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.41.2/](https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.41.2/)~~ - ~~[https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.41.3/](https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.41.3/)~~ - [https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.41.4/](https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.41.4/) > Important: please backup your current setup (or most important accounts) > before upgrading in order to be safe when trying test-releases. You can > find this option under _Settings_ \> _Chats and Media_ \> _Backup_. ---
**Author:** ![Simon](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/simon/32/287_2.png) [@Simon](https://forum.delta.chat/u/Simon)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2023, 2:48am UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/help-testing-the-upcoming-1-41-x-release/2793/2 "2023-11-14T02:48:44Z")
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**Author:** ![Simon](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/simon/32/287_2.png) [@Simon](https://forum.delta.chat/u/Simon)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2023, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/help-testing-the-upcoming-1-41-x-release/2793/3 "2023-11-22T20:24:43Z")
Next test release 1.41.4 is out, if everything works we will release the next version 1.42 soon to the websites and the stores. ---
**Author:** ![Simon](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/simon/32/287_2.png) [@Simon](https://forum.delta.chat/u/Simon)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2023, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/help-testing-the-upcoming-1-41-x-release/2793/4 "2023-11-24T12:33:55Z")
Thanks for testing, [Index of /desktop/v1.42.0/](https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.42.0/) is releasing now. Update: we have [Index of /desktop/v1.42.1/](https://download.delta.chat/desktop/v1.42.1/) now. ---
**Author:** ![r10s](https://forum.delta.chat/user_avatar/forum.delta.chat/r10s/32/1513_2.png) [@r10s](https://forum.delta.chat/u/r10s)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2026, 11:03am UTC](https://forum.delta.chat/t/help-testing-the-upcoming-1-41-x-release/2793/5 "2026-02-12T11:03:44Z")