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title: Cwtch 1.14
description: "Cwtch 1.14 is now available to download"
slug: cwtch-1-14
tags: [cwtch, cwtch-stable, release]
image: /img/Themes_collage.png
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authors:
- name: Sarah Jamie Lewis
title: Executive Director, Open Privacy Research Society
image_url: /img/sarah.jpg
---
[Cwtch 1.14 is now available for download](https://cwtch.im/download)!
Cwtch is a communication application (and associated libraries) that uses Tor v3 Onion Services to establish surveillance resistant channels between people. Cwtch has been designed to be
secure, private, and resilient.
You can download Cwtch from [https://cwtch.im/download](https://cwtch.im/download).
Subscribe to our [RSS feed](/blog/rss.xml), [Atom feed](/blog/atom.xml), or [JSON feed](/blog/feed.json) to stay up to date, and get the latest on, all aspects of Cwtch development.
Alternatively we also provide a [releases-only RSS feed](https://cwtch.im/releases/index.xml).
## In This Release
[](/img/Themes_collage.png)
We have made many changes to Cwtch themeing in 1.14, including new Custom Themes
A special thanks to the [amazing volunteer translators](https://docs.cwtch.im/docs/contribute/translate) and [testers](https://docs.cwtch.im/docs/contribute/testing) who made this release possible.
- **New Features:**
- **Custom Themes** - You can now load [custom themes](https://docs.cwtch.im/docs/contribute/themes) into Cwtch.
- **Message View Backgrounds** - This release contains the first support for (optional) background images in the message view. Future releases will allow per-conversation images.
- **Bug Fixes / Improvements:**
- Fixed tor connectivity in newer Tails releases
- Fixes in the Retry Plugin for better managing of a large number of contacts
- Several UX improvements for font scaling, and styling
- Fixed Android File Sharing Bug which prevent downloads of [non-previewed files](https://docs.cwtch.im/docs/settings/experiments/image-previews-and-profile-pictures).
- Fixed Android File Sharing Bug that resulted in a UI reset triggered by a rate race condition between reconnection and new message arriving
- Split Settings Pane into multiple tabs for easier navigation of options
- Fixed contact row date time/localization inconsistency
- Fixed contact row issue where `LANG` wasn't set on some linux systems
- libCwtch now support older Mac releases (min 10.12)
- Updates images and descriptions in the Windows Installer
- **Accessibility / UX:**
- Core translations for **Brazilian Portuguese**, **Danish** , **Dutch**, **French**, **German**, **Italian**, **Norwegian** , **Romanian** , **Russian**, **Polish**, **Slovak**, **Spanish**, **Swahili**, **Swedish**, **Turkish**, and **Welsh**
- Partial translations for **Korean** (41%), **Japanese** (26%), , **Luxembourgish** (19%), **Greek** (15%), **Uzbek** (9%), and **Portuguese** (5%)
- **Theme Refresh** - Many small adjustments to existing themes to make them more accessible
## Reproducible Bindings
Cwtch 1.14 is based on libCwtch version `libCwtch-autobindings-2024-02-12-11-04-v0.0.12`.
The [repliqate scripts](https://docs.cwtch.im/blog/cwtch-bindings-reproducible#introducing-repliqate) to reproduce these bindings from source
can be found at [https://git.openprivacy.ca/cwtch.im/repliqate-scripts/src/branch/main/cwtch-autobindings-v0.0.12](https://git.openprivacy.ca/cwtch.im/repliqate-scripts/src/branch/main/cwtch-autobindings-v0.0.12)
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