chore(release): prepare for 2.29.0

refactor: make signing key non-optional for pk_encrypt
refactor: use SYMMETRIC_KEY_ALGORITHM constant in symm_encrypt_message()
2026-04-02 05:22:14 +03:00 · 2025-12-01 02:07:21 +00:00 · 2025-12-01 01:16:01 +00:00 · 2025-12-01 01:16:01 +00:00 · 2025-11-30 02:59:17 +00:00 · 2025-11-30 02:59:17 +00:00
227 changed files with 18740 additions and 9484 deletions
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ updates:
    commit-message:
      prefix: "chore(cargo)"
    open-pull-requests-limit: 50
+    cooldown:
+      default-days: 7

  # Keep GitHub Actions up to date.
  # <https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/working-with-dependabot/keeping-your-actions-up-to-date-with-dependabot>
@@ -14,3 +16,5 @@ updates:
    directory: "/"
    schedule:
      interval: "weekly"
+    cooldown:
+      default-days: 7
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -20,17 +20,18 @@ permissions: {}

 env:
  RUSTFLAGS: -Dwarnings
-  RUST_VERSION: 1.88.0
+  RUST_VERSION: 1.91.0

  # Minimum Supported Rust Version
-  MSRV: 1.85.0
+  MSRV: 1.88.0

 jobs:
  lint_rust:
    name: Lint Rust
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 60
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
@@ -52,8 +53,9 @@ jobs:
  cargo_deny:
    name: cargo deny
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 60
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
@@ -66,21 +68,25 @@ jobs:
  provider_database:
    name: Check provider database
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 60
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
+      - name: Install rustfmt
+        run: rustup component add --toolchain stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu rustfmt
      - name: Check provider database
        run: scripts/update-provider-database.sh

  docs:
    name: Rust doc comments
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 60
    env:
      RUSTDOCFLAGS: -Dwarnings
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
@@ -105,6 +111,7 @@ jobs:
          - os: ubuntu-latest
            rust: minimum
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    timeout-minutes: 60
    steps:
      - run:
          echo "RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN=$MSRV" >> $GITHUB_ENV
@@ -115,7 +122,7 @@ jobs:
        shell: bash
        if: matrix.rust == 'latest'

-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
@@ -137,12 +144,12 @@ jobs:
      - name: Tests
        env:
          RUST_BACKTRACE: 1
-        run: cargo nextest run --workspace
+        run: cargo nextest run --workspace --locked

      - name: Doc-Tests
        env:
          RUST_BACKTRACE: 1
-        run: cargo test --workspace --doc
+        run: cargo test --workspace --locked --doc

      - name: Test cargo vendor
        run: cargo vendor
@@ -153,8 +160,9 @@ jobs:
      matrix:
        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest]
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    timeout-minutes: 60
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
@@ -166,7 +174,7 @@ jobs:
        run: cargo build -p deltachat_ffi

      - name: Upload C library
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
        with:
          name: ${{ matrix.os }}-libdeltachat.a
          path: target/debug/libdeltachat.a
@@ -178,8 +186,9 @@ jobs:
      matrix:
        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    timeout-minutes: 60
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
@@ -191,7 +200,7 @@ jobs:
        run: cargo build -p deltachat-rpc-server

      - name: Upload deltachat-rpc-server
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
        with:
          name: ${{ matrix.os }}-deltachat-rpc-server
          path: ${{ matrix.os == 'windows-latest' && 'target/debug/deltachat-rpc-server.exe' || 'target/debug/deltachat-rpc-server' }}
@@ -200,8 +209,9 @@ jobs:
  python_lint:
    name: Python lint
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 60
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
@@ -217,6 +227,38 @@ jobs:
        working-directory: deltachat-rpc-client
        run: tox -e lint

+  # mypy does not work with PyPy since mypy 1.19
+  # as it introduced native `librt` dependency
+  # that uses CPython internals.
+  # We only run mypy with CPython because of this.
+  cffi_python_mypy:
+    name: CFFI Python mypy
+    needs: ["c_library", "python_lint"]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 60
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+        with:
+          show-progress: false
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Download libdeltachat.a
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
+        with:
+          name: ubuntu-latest-libdeltachat.a
+          path: target/debug
+
+      - name: Install tox
+        run: pip install tox
+
+      - name: Run mypy
+        env:
+          DCC_RS_TARGET: debug
+          DCC_RS_DEV: ${{ github.workspace }}
+        working-directory: python
+        run: tox -e mypy
+
+
  cffi_python_tests:
    name: CFFI Python tests
    needs: ["c_library", "python_lint"]
@@ -226,9 +268,9 @@ jobs:
        include:
          # Currently used Rust version.
          - os: ubuntu-latest
-            python: 3.13
+            python: 3.14
          - os: macos-latest
-            python: 3.13
+            python: 3.14

          # PyPy tests
          - os: ubuntu-latest
@@ -236,27 +278,28 @@ jobs:
          - os: macos-latest
            python: pypy3.10

-          # Minimum Supported Python Version = 3.8
+          # Minimum Supported Python Version = 3.10
          # This is the minimum version for which manylinux Python wheels are
          # built. Test it with minimum supported Rust version.
          - os: ubuntu-latest
-            python: 3.8
+            python: "3.10"

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    timeout-minutes: 60
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false

      - name: Download libdeltachat.a
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: ${{ matrix.os }}-libdeltachat.a
          path: target/debug

      - name: Install python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v6
        with:
          python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}

@@ -269,7 +312,7 @@ jobs:
          DCC_RS_TARGET: debug
          DCC_RS_DEV: ${{ github.workspace }}
        working-directory: python
-        run: tox -e mypy,doc,py
+        run: tox -e doc,py

  rpc_python_tests:
    name: JSON-RPC Python tests
@@ -279,11 +322,11 @@ jobs:
      matrix:
        include:
          - os: ubuntu-latest
-            python: 3.13
+            python: 3.14
          - os: macos-latest
-            python: 3.13
+            python: 3.14
          - os: windows-latest
-            python: 3.13
+            python: 3.14

          # PyPy tests
          - os: ubuntu-latest
@@ -291,19 +334,20 @@ jobs:
          - os: macos-latest
            python: pypy3.10

-          # Minimum Supported Python Version = 3.8
+          # Minimum Supported Python Version = 3.10
          - os: ubuntu-latest
-            python: 3.8
+            python: "3.10"

    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    timeout-minutes: 60
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false

      - name: Install python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v6
        with:
          python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}

@@ -311,7 +355,7 @@ jobs:
        run: pip install tox

      - name: Download deltachat-rpc-server
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: ${{ matrix.os }}-deltachat-rpc-server
          path: target/debug
--- a/.github/workflows/deltachat-rpc-server.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deltachat-rpc-server.yml
@@ -30,22 +30,46 @@ jobs:
        arch: [aarch64, armv7l, armv6l, i686, x86_64]
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
+      - uses: cachix/install-nix-action@0b0e072294b088b73964f1d72dfdac0951439dbd # v31

      - name: Build deltachat-rpc-server binaries
        run: nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.arch }}-linux

      - name: Upload binary
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.arch }}-linux
          path: result/bin/deltachat-rpc-server
          if-no-files-found: error

+  build_linux_wheel:
+    name: Linux wheel
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        arch: [aarch64, armv7l, armv6l, i686, x86_64]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+        with:
+          show-progress: false
+          persist-credentials: false
+      - uses: cachix/install-nix-action@0b0e072294b088b73964f1d72dfdac0951439dbd # v31
+
+      - name: Build deltachat-rpc-server wheels
+        run: nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.arch }}-linux-wheel
+
+      - name: Upload wheel
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
+        with:
+          name: deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.arch }}-linux-wheel
+          path: result/*.whl
+          if-no-files-found: error
+
  build_windows:
    name: Windows
    strategy:
@@ -54,22 +78,46 @@ jobs:
        arch: [win32, win64]
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
+      - uses: cachix/install-nix-action@0b0e072294b088b73964f1d72dfdac0951439dbd # v31

      - name: Build deltachat-rpc-server binaries
        run: nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.arch }}

      - name: Upload binary
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.arch }}
          path: result/bin/deltachat-rpc-server.exe
          if-no-files-found: error

+  build_windows_wheel:
+    name: Windows wheel
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        arch: [win32, win64]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+        with:
+          show-progress: false
+          persist-credentials: false
+      - uses: cachix/install-nix-action@0b0e072294b088b73964f1d72dfdac0951439dbd # v31
+
+      - name: Build deltachat-rpc-server wheels
+        run: nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.arch }}-wheel
+
+      - name: Upload wheel
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
+        with:
+          name: deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.arch }}-wheel
+          path: result/*.whl
+          if-no-files-found: error
+
  build_macos:
    name: macOS
    strategy:
@@ -79,7 +127,7 @@ jobs:

    runs-on: macos-latest
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
@@ -91,7 +139,7 @@ jobs:
        run: cargo build --release --package deltachat-rpc-server --target ${{ matrix.arch }}-apple-darwin --features vendored

      - name: Upload binary
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.arch }}-macos
          path: target/${{ matrix.arch }}-apple-darwin/release/deltachat-rpc-server
@@ -105,25 +153,49 @@ jobs:
        arch: [arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a]
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
+      - uses: cachix/install-nix-action@0b0e072294b088b73964f1d72dfdac0951439dbd # v31

      - name: Build deltachat-rpc-server binaries
        run: nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.arch }}-android

      - name: Upload binary
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.arch }}-android
          path: result/bin/deltachat-rpc-server
          if-no-files-found: error

+  build_android_wheel:
+    name: Android wheel
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        arch: [arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a]
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
+        with:
+          show-progress: false
+          persist-credentials: false
+      - uses: cachix/install-nix-action@0b0e072294b088b73964f1d72dfdac0951439dbd # v31
+
+      - name: Build deltachat-rpc-server wheels
+        run: nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.arch }}-android-wheel
+
+      - name: Upload wheel
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
+        with:
+          name: deltachat-rpc-server-${{ matrix.arch }}-android-wheel
+          path: result/*.whl
+          if-no-files-found: error
+
  publish:
    name: Build wheels and upload binaries to the release
-    needs: ["build_linux", "build_windows", "build_macos"]
+    needs: ["build_linux", "build_linux_wheel", "build_windows", "build_windows_wheel", "build_macos", "build_android", "build_android_wheel"]
    environment:
      name: pypi
      url: https://pypi.org/p/deltachat-rpc-server
@@ -132,78 +204,132 @@ jobs:
      contents: write
    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
+      - uses: cachix/install-nix-action@0b0e072294b088b73964f1d72dfdac0951439dbd # v31

      - name: Download Linux aarch64 binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-linux
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-linux.d

+      - name: Download Linux aarch64 wheel
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
+        with:
+          name: deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-linux-wheel
+          path: deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-linux-wheel.d
+
      - name: Download Linux armv7l binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-armv7l-linux
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-armv7l-linux.d

+      - name: Download Linux armv7l wheel
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
+        with:
+          name: deltachat-rpc-server-armv7l-linux-wheel
+          path: deltachat-rpc-server-armv7l-linux-wheel.d
+
      - name: Download Linux armv6l binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-armv6l-linux
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-armv6l-linux.d

+      - name: Download Linux armv6l wheel
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
+        with:
+          name: deltachat-rpc-server-armv6l-linux-wheel
+          path: deltachat-rpc-server-armv6l-linux-wheel.d
+
      - name: Download Linux i686 binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-i686-linux
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-i686-linux.d

+      - name: Download Linux i686 wheel
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
+        with:
+          name: deltachat-rpc-server-i686-linux-wheel
+          path: deltachat-rpc-server-i686-linux-wheel.d
+
      - name: Download Linux x86_64 binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-linux
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-linux.d

+      - name: Download Linux x86_64 wheel
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
+        with:
+          name: deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-linux-wheel
+          path: deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-linux-wheel.d
+
      - name: Download Win32 binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-win32
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-win32.d

+      - name: Download Win32 wheel
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
+        with:
+          name: deltachat-rpc-server-win32-wheel
+          path: deltachat-rpc-server-win32-wheel.d
+
      - name: Download Win64 binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-win64
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-win64.d

+      - name: Download Win64 wheel
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
+        with:
+          name: deltachat-rpc-server-win64-wheel
+          path: deltachat-rpc-server-win64-wheel.d
+
      - name: Download macOS binary for x86_64
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-macos
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-macos.d

      - name: Download macOS binary for aarch64
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-macos
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-macos.d

      - name: Download Android binary for arm64-v8a
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-arm64-v8a-android
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-arm64-v8a-android.d

+      - name: Download Android wheel for arm64-v8a
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
+        with:
+          name: deltachat-rpc-server-arm64-v8a-android-wheel
+          path: deltachat-rpc-server-arm64-v8a-android-wheel.d
+
      - name: Download Android binary for armeabi-v7a
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-armeabi-v7a-android
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-armeabi-v7a-android.d

+      - name: Download Android wheel for armeabi-v7a
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
+        with:
+          name: deltachat-rpc-server-armeabi-v7a-android-wheel
+          path: deltachat-rpc-server-armeabi-v7a-android-wheel.d
+
      - name: Create bin/ directory
        run: |
          mkdir -p bin
@@ -222,38 +348,21 @@ jobs:
      - name: List binaries
        run: ls -l bin/

-      # Python 3.11 is needed for tomllib used in scripts/wheel-rpc-server.py
-      - name: Install python 3.12
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-        with:
-          python-version: 3.12
-
      - name: Install wheel
        run: pip install wheel

-      - name: Build deltachat-rpc-server Python wheels and source package
+      - name: Build deltachat-rpc-server Python wheels
        run: |
          mkdir -p dist
-          nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-linux-wheel
-          cp result/*.whl dist/
-          nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-armv7l-linux-wheel
-          cp result/*.whl dist/
-          nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-armv6l-linux-wheel
-          cp result/*.whl dist/
-          nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-linux-wheel
-          cp result/*.whl dist/
-          nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-i686-linux-wheel
-          cp result/*.whl dist/
-          nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-win64-wheel
-          cp result/*.whl dist/
-          nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-win32-wheel
-          cp result/*.whl dist/
-          nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-arm64-v8a-android-wheel
-          cp result/*.whl dist/
-          nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-armeabi-v7a-android-wheel
-          cp result/*.whl dist/
-          nix build .#deltachat-rpc-server-source
-          cp result/*.tar.gz dist/
+          mv deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-linux-wheel.d/*.whl dist/
+          mv deltachat-rpc-server-armv7l-linux-wheel.d/*.whl dist/
+          mv deltachat-rpc-server-armv6l-linux-wheel.d/*.whl dist/
+          mv deltachat-rpc-server-i686-linux-wheel.d/*.whl dist/
+          mv deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-linux-wheel.d/*.whl dist/
+          mv deltachat-rpc-server-win64-wheel.d/*.whl dist/
+          mv deltachat-rpc-server-win32-wheel.d/*.whl dist/
+          mv deltachat-rpc-server-arm64-v8a-android-wheel.d/*.whl dist/
+          mv deltachat-rpc-server-armeabi-v7a-android-wheel.d/*.whl dist/
          python3 scripts/wheel-rpc-server.py x86_64-darwin bin/deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-macos
          python3 scripts/wheel-rpc-server.py aarch64-darwin bin/deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-macos
          mv *.whl dist/
@@ -271,7 +380,7 @@ jobs:
            --repo ${{ github.repository }} \
            bin/* dist/*

-      - name: Publish deltachat-rpc-client to PyPI
+      - name: Publish deltachat-rpc-server to PyPI
        if: github.event_name == 'release'
        uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1

@@ -285,76 +394,76 @@ jobs:
      # Needed to publish the binaries to the release.
      contents: write
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
-      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v6
        with:
          python-version: "3.11"

      - name: Download Linux aarch64 binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-linux
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-linux.d

      - name: Download Linux armv7l binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-armv7l-linux
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-armv7l-linux.d

      - name: Download Linux armv6l binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-armv6l-linux
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-armv6l-linux.d

      - name: Download Linux i686 binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-i686-linux
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-i686-linux.d

      - name: Download Linux x86_64 binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-linux
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-linux.d

      - name: Download Win32 binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-win32
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-win32.d

      - name: Download Win64 binary
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-win64
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-win64.d

      - name: Download macOS binary for x86_64
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-macos
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-macos.d

      - name: Download macOS binary for aarch64
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-macos
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-macos.d

      - name: Download Android binary for arm64-v8a
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-arm64-v8a-android
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-arm64-v8a-android.d

      - name: Download Android binary for armeabi-v7a
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-armeabi-v7a-android
          path: deltachat-rpc-server-armeabi-v7a-android.d
@@ -384,7 +493,7 @@ jobs:
          ls -lah

      - name: Upload to artifacts
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
        with:
          name: deltachat-rpc-server-npm-package
          path: deltachat-rpc-server/npm-package/*.tgz
@@ -401,7 +510,7 @@ jobs:
            deltachat-rpc-server/npm-package/*.tgz

      # Configure Node.js for publishing.
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v6
        with:
          node-version: 20
          registry-url: "https://registry.npmjs.org"
--- a/.github/workflows/jsonrpc-client-npm-package.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/jsonrpc-client-npm-package.yml
@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ jobs:
      id-token: write
      contents: read
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false

-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v6
        with:
          node-version: 20
          registry-url: "https://registry.npmjs.org"
--- a/.github/workflows/jsonrpc.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/jsonrpc.yml
@@ -16,12 +16,12 @@ jobs:
  build_and_test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
      - name: Use Node.js 18.x
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v6
        with:
          node-version: 18.x
      - name: Add Rust cache
--- a/.github/workflows/nix.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nix.yml
@@ -5,10 +5,12 @@ on:
    paths:
      - flake.nix
      - flake.lock
+      - .github/workflows/nix.yml
  push:
    paths:
      - flake.nix
      - flake.lock
+      - .github/workflows/nix.yml
    branches:
      - main

@@ -19,15 +21,12 @@ jobs:
    name: check flake formatting
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
-      - run: nix fmt
-
-      # Check that formatting does not change anything.
-      - run: git diff --exit-code
+      - uses: cachix/install-nix-action@0b0e072294b088b73964f1d72dfdac0951439dbd # v31
+      - run: nix fmt flake.nix -- --check

  build:
    name: nix build
@@ -81,11 +80,11 @@ jobs:
          #- deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-android
          #- deltachat-rpc-server-x86-android
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
+      - uses: cachix/install-nix-action@0b0e072294b088b73964f1d72dfdac0951439dbd # v31
      - run: nix build .#${{ matrix.installable }}

  build-macos:
@@ -96,14 +95,15 @@ jobs:
      matrix:
        installable:
          - deltachat-rpc-server
+          - deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-darwin

-          # Fails to bulid
+          # Fails to build
+          # because of <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/413910>.
          # - deltachat-rpc-server-aarch64-darwin
-          # - deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-darwin
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
+      - uses: cachix/install-nix-action@0b0e072294b088b73964f1d72dfdac0951439dbd # v31
      - run: nix build .#${{ matrix.installable }}
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-deltachat-rpc-client-pypi.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-deltachat-rpc-client-pypi.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ jobs:
        working-directory: deltachat-rpc-client
        run: python3 -m build
      - name: Store the distribution packages
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
        with:
          name: python-package-distributions
          path: deltachat-rpc-client/dist/
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ jobs:

    steps:
      - name: Download all the dists
-        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
        with:
          name: python-package-distributions
          path: dist/
--- a/.github/workflows/repl.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/repl.yml
@@ -14,15 +14,15 @@ jobs:
    name: Build REPL example
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
+      - uses: cachix/install-nix-action@0b0e072294b088b73964f1d72dfdac0951439dbd # v31
      - name: Build
        run: nix build .#deltachat-repl-win64
      - name: Upload binary
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5
        with:
          name: repl.exe
          path: "result/bin/deltachat-repl.exe"
--- a/.github/workflows/upload-docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/upload-docs.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
@@ -31,12 +31,12 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
          fetch-depth: 0 # Fetch history to calculate VCS version number.
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
+      - uses: cachix/install-nix-action@0b0e072294b088b73964f1d72dfdac0951439dbd # v31
      - name: Build Python documentation
        run: nix build .#python-docs
      - name: Upload to py.delta.chat
@@ -50,12 +50,12 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
          fetch-depth: 0 # Fetch history to calculate VCS version number.
-      - uses: DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action@main
+      - uses: cachix/install-nix-action@0b0e072294b088b73964f1d72dfdac0951439dbd # v31
      - name: Build C documentation
        run: nix build .#docs
      - name: Upload to c.delta.chat
@@ -72,13 +72,13 @@ jobs:
        working-directory: ./deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript

    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
          fetch-depth: 0 # Fetch history to calculate VCS version number.
      - name: Use Node.js
-        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v6
        with:
          node-version: '18'
      - name: npm install
--- a/.github/workflows/upload-ffi-docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/upload-ffi-docs.yml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ jobs:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          show-progress: false
          persist-credentials: false
--- a/.github/workflows/zizmor-scan.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/zizmor-scan.yml
@@ -14,18 +14,18 @@ jobs:
      security-events: write
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        uses: actions/checkout@v5
        with:
          persist-credentials: false

      - name: Install the latest version of uv
-        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v6
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@5a7eac68fb9809dea845d802897dc5c723910fa3

      - name: Run zizmor
        run: uvx zizmor --format sarif . > results.sarif

      - name: Upload SARIF file
-        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v3
+        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v4
        with:
          sarif_file: results.sarif
          category: zizmor
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ deltachat-ffi/xml
 coverage/
 .DS_Store
 .vscode
+.zed
 python/accounts.txt
 python/all-testaccounts.txt
 tmp/
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,759 @@
 # Changelog

+## [2.29.0] - 2025-12-01
+
+### API-Changes
+
+- deltachat-rpc-client: Add Message.exists().
+
+### Features / Changes
+
+- [**breaking**] Increase backup version from 3 to 4.
+- Hide `To` header in encrypted messages.
+- `deltachat_rpc_client.Rpc` accepts `rpc_server_path` for using a particular deltachat-rpc-server ([#7493](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7493)).
+- Don't send `Chat-Group-Avatar` header in unencrypted groups.
+- Don't update `self-{avatar,status}` from received messages ([#7002](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7002)).
+
+### Fixes
+
+- `CREATE INDEX imap_only_rfc724_mid ON imap(rfc724_mid)` ([#7490](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7490)).
+- Use the same webxdc ratelimit for all email servers.
+- Handle the case when account does not exist in `get_existing_msg_ids()`.
+- Don't send self-avatar in unencrypted messages ([#7136](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7136)).
+- Do not configure folders during transport configuration.
+- Upload sync messages only with the primary transport.
+- Do not use deprecated ConfiguredProvider in get_configured_provider.
+
+### Build system
+
+- Make scripts for remote testing usable.
+- Increase minimum supported Python version to 3.10.
+- Use SPDX license expression in Python package metadata.
+
+### CI
+
+- Set timeout-minutes for all jobs in ci.yaml workflow.
+- Do not install Python manually to bulid RPC server wheels.
+- Do not build fake RPC server source packages.
+- Build Python wheels in separate jobs.
+
+### Refactor
+
+- [**breaking**] Remove some unneeded stock strings ([#7496](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7496)).
+- Strike events in rpc-client request handling, get result from queue.
+- Use ConfiguredProvider config directly when loading legacy settings.
+- Remove update_icons and disable_server_delete migrations.
+- Use `SYMMETRIC_KEY_ALGORITHM` constant in `symm_encrypt_message()`.
+- Make signing key non-optional for `pk_encrypt`.
+
+### Tests
+
+- `test_remove_member_bcc`: Test unencrypted group as it was initially.
+
+### Miscellaneous Tasks
+
+- deps: Bump cachix/install-nix-action from 31.8.1 to 31.8.4.
+- cargo: Bump hyper from 1.7.0 to 1.8.1.
+- cargo: Bump human-panic from 2.0.3 to 2.0.4.
+- cargo: Bump hyper-util from 0.1.17 to 0.1.18.
+- cargo: Bump rusqlite from 0.36.0 to 0.37.0.
+- cargo: Bump tokio-util from 0.7.16 to 0.7.17.
+- cargo: Bump toml from 0.9.7 to 0.9.8.
+- cargo: Bump proptest from 1.8.0 to 1.9.0.
+- cargo: Bump parking_lot from 0.12.4 to 0.12.5.
+- cargo: Bump syn from 2.0.106 to 2.0.110.
+- cargo: Bump quick-xml from 0.38.3 to 0.38.4.
+- cargo: Bump rustls-pki-types from 1.12.0 to 1.13.0.
+- cargo: Bump nu-ansi-term from 0.50.1 to 0.50.3.
+- cargo: Bump sanitize-filename from 0.5.0 to 0.6.0.
+- cargo: Bump quote from 1.0.41 to 1.0.42.
+- cargo: Bump libc from 0.2.176 to 0.2.177.
+- cargo: Bump bytes from 1.10.1 to 1.11.0.
+- cargo: Bump image from 0.25.8 to 0.25.9.
+- cargo: Bump rand from 0.9.0 to 0.9.2 ([#7501](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7501)).
+- cargo: Bump tokio from 1.45.1 to 1.48.0.
+
+## [2.28.0] - 2025-11-23
+
+### API-Changes
+
+- New API `get_existing_msg_ids()` to check if the messages with given IDs exist.
+- Add API to get storage usage information. (JSON-RPC method: `get_storage_usage_report_string`) ([#7486](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7486)).
+
+### Features / Changes
+
+- Experimentaly allow adding second transport.
+  There is no synchronization yet, so UIs should not allow the user to change the address manually and only expose the ability to add transports if `bcc_self` is disabled.
+- Default `bcc_self` to 0 for all new accounts.
+- Rephrase "Establishing end-to-end encryption" -> "Establishing connection".
+- Stock string for joining a channel ([#7480](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7480)).
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Limit the range of `Date` to up to 6 days in the past.
+- `ContactId::set_name_ex()`: Emit ContactsChanged when transaction is completed.
+- Set SQLite busy timeout to 1 minute on iOS.
+- Sort system messages to the bottom of the chat.
+- Assign outgoing self-sent unencrypted messages to ad-hoc groups with only SELF ([#7409](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7409)).
+- Add missing stock strings.
+- Look up or create ad-hoc group if there are duplicate addresses in "To".
+
+### Documentation
+
+- Add missing RFC 9788, link 'Header Protection for Cryptographically Protected Email' as other RFC.
+- Remove unsupported RFC 3503 (`$MDNSent` flag) from the list of standards.
+- Mark database encryption support as deprecated ([#7403](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7403)).
+
+### Build system
+
+- Increase Minimum Supported Rust Version to 1.88.0.
+- Update rPGP from 0.17.0 to 0.18.0.
+- nix: Update `fenix` and use it for all Rust builds.
+
+### CI
+
+- Do not use --encoding option for rst-lint.
+
+### Refactor
+
+- Use `HashMap::extract_if()` stabilized in Rust 1.88.0.
+- Remove some easy to remove unwrap() calls.
+
+### Tests
+
+- Contact shalln't be verified by another having unknown verifier.
+
+## [2.27.0] - 2025-11-16
+
+### API-Changes
+
+- Add APIs to stop background fetch.
+- [**breaking**]: rename JSON-RPC method accounts_background_fetch() into background_fetch()
+- rpc-client: Add APIs for background fetch.
+- rpc-client: Add Account.wait_for_msg().
+- Deprecate deletion timer string for '1 Minute'.
+
+### Features / Changes
+
+- Implement RFC 9788 (Header Protection for Cryptographically Protected Email) ([#7130](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7130)).
+- Tweak initial info-message for unencrypted chats ([#7427](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7427)).
+- Add Contact::get_or_gen_color. Use it in CFFI and JSON-RPC to avoid gray self-color ([#7374](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7374)).
+- [**breaking**] Withdraw broadcast invites. Add Qr::WithdrawJoinBroadcast and Qr::ReviveJoinBroadcast QR code types. ([#7439](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7439)).
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Set `get_max_smtp_rcpt_to` for chatmail to the actual limit of 1000 instead of unlimited. ([#7432](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7432)).
+- Always set bcc_self on backup import/export.
+- Escape connectivity HTML.
+- Send webm as file, it is not supported by all UI.
+
+### Build system
+
+- nix: Exclude CONTRIBUTING.md from the source files.
+
+### Refactor
+
+- Use wait_for_incoming_msg() in more tests.
+
+### Tests
+
+- Fix flaky test_send_receive_locations.
+- Port folder-related CFFI tests to JSON-RPC.
+- HP-Outer headers are added to messages with standard Header Protection ([#7130](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7130)).
+- rpc-client: Test_qr_securejoin_broadcast: Wait for incoming message before getting chatlist ([#7442](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7442)).
+- Add pytest fixture for account manager.
+- Test background_fetch() and stop_background_fetch().
+
+## [2.26.0] - 2025-11-11
+
+### API-Changes
+
+- [**breaking**] JSON-RPC: `chat_type` now contains a variant of a string enum/union. Affected places: `FullChat.chat_type`, `BasicChat.chat_type`, `ChatListItemFetchResult::ChatListItem.chat_type`, `Event:: SecurejoinInviterProgress.chat_type` and `MessageSearchResult.chat_type` ([#7285](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7285))
+
+### Features / Changes
+
+- Error toast for "Not creating securejoin QR for old broadcast".
+
+### Fixes
+
+- `is_encrypted()` should be true for Saved Messages chat so messages there are editable.
+- Do not return an error from `receive_imf` if we fail to add a member because we are not in chat.
+- Do not add QR inviter to groups immediately.
+- Do not ignore I/O errors in `BlobObject::store_from_base64`.
+
+### Miscellaneous Tasks
+
+- Rustfmt.
+
+### Refactor
+
+- imap: Move resync request from Context to Imap.
+- Replace imap:: calls in migration 73 with SQL queries.
+- Remove unused imports.
+
+### Documentation
+
+- Readme: update language binding section to avoid usage of cffi in new projects ([#7380](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7380)).
+- Fix Context::set_stock_translation reference.
+
+### Tests
+
+- Test editing saved messages.
+- Remove ThreadPoolExecutor from test_wait_next_messages.
+- Move test_two_group_securejoins from receive_imf to securejoin module.
+- At the end of securejoin Bob has two members in a group chat.
+- Bob has 0 members in the chat until securejoin finishes.
+- Do not add QR inviter to groups right after scanning the code.
+
+## [2.25.0] - 2025-11-05
+
+### Features / Changes
+
+- Put self-name into group invite codes ([#7398](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7398)).
+- Slightly nicer and shorter QR and invite codes ([#7390](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7390))
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Add device message instead of partial message when receive_imf fails. This fixes a rare bug where the IMAP loop got stuck.
+- Add info message if user tries to create a QR code for deprecated channel ([#7399](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7399)).
+
+### Miscellaneous Tasks
+
+- deps: Bump actions/upload-artifact from 4 to 5.
+- deps: Bump actions/download-artifact from 5 to 6.
+- deps: Bump astral-sh/setup-uv from 7.1.0 to 7.1.2.
+
+### Refactor
+
+- sql: Do not expose rusqlite Error type in query_map methods.
+
+## [2.24.0] - 2025-11-03
+
+***Note that in v2.24.0, the IMAP loop can get stuck in rare circumstances;
+use v2.23.0 or v2.25.0 instead.***
+
+### Documentation
+
+- Comment why spaced en dash is used to separate message Subject from text.
+
+### Features / Changes
+
+- [**breaking**] QR codes and symmetric encryption for broadcast channels ([#7268](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7268)).
+  - A new QR type AskJoinBroadcast; cloning a broadcast
+    channel is no longer possible; manually adding a member to a broadcast
+    channel is no longer possible (the only way to join a channel is scanning a QR code or clicking a link)
+
+### Refactor
+
+- Split "transport" module out of "login_param".
+
+## [2.23.0] - 2025-11-01
+
+### API-Changes
+
+- Make `dc_chat_is_protected` always return 0.
+- [**breaking**] Remove public APIs to check if the chat is protected.
+- [**breaking**] Remove APIs to create protected chats.
+- [**breaking**] Remove Chat.is_protected().
+- deltachat-rpc-client: Add Account.add_transport_from_qr() API.
+- JSON-RPC: add `get_push_state` to check push notification state ([#7356](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7356)).
+- JSON-RPC: remove unused TypeScript constants ([#7355](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7355)).
+- Remove `Config::SentboxWatch` ([#7178](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7178)).
+- Remove `Config::ConfiguredSentboxFolder` and everything related.
+
+### Build system
+
+- Ignore configuration for the zed editor ([#7322](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7322)).
+- nix: Fix build of deltachat-rpc-server-x86_64-darwin.
+- Update rand to 0.9.
+- Do not install `pdbpp` in the test environment for CFFI Python bindings.
+- Migrate from tokio-tar to astral-tokio-tar.
+- deps: Bump actions/setup-node from 5 to 6.
+- deps: Bump cachix/install-nix-action from 31.8.0 to 31.8.1.
+- Fix Rust 1.91.0 lint for derivable Default.
+
+### CI
+
+- Pin GitHub action `astral-sh/setup-uv`.
+- Set 7 days cooldown on Dependabot updates.
+- Update Rust to 1.91.0.
+
+### Documentation
+
+- Document Autocrypt-Gossip `_verified` attribute.
+
+### Features/Changes
+
+Metadata reduction:
+- Protect Autocrypt header.
+- Anonymize OpenPGP recipients (temorarily disabled due to interoperability problems, see <https://github.com/chatmail/core/issues/7384>).
+- Protect the `Date` header.
+
+Onboarding improvements:
+- Allow plain domain in `dcaccount:` scheme.
+- Do not resolve MX records during configuration.
+
+Preparation for multi-transport:
+- Move the messages only from INBOX and Spam folders.
+- deltachat-rpc-client: Support multiple transports in resetup_account().
+
+Various other changes:
+- Opt-in weekly sending of statistics ([#6851](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/6851))
+- Synchronize encrypted groups creation across devices ([#7001](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7001)).
+- Do not send Autocrypt in MDNs.
+- Do not run SecureJoin if we are already in the group.
+- Show if proxy is enabled in connectivity view ([#7359](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7359)).
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Don't ignore QR token timestamp from sync messages.
+- Do not allow sync item timestamps to be in the future.
+- jsonrpc: Fix `ChatListItem::is_self_in_group`.
+- Delete obsolete "configured*" keys from `config` table ([#7171](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7171)).
+- Fix flaky tests::verified_chats::test_verified_chat_editor_reordering and receive_imf::receive_imf_tests::test_two_group_securejoins.
+- Stop using `leftgrps` table.
+- Stop notifying about messages in contact request chats.
+
+### Refactor
+
+- Remove invalid Gmail OAuth2 tokens.
+- Remove ProtectionStatus.
+- Rename chat::create_group_chat() to create_group().
+- Remove error stock strings that are rarely used these days ([#7327](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7327)).
+- Jsonrpc rename change casing in names of jsonrpc structs/enums to comply with rust naming conventions. ([#7324](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7324)).
+- Stop using deprecated Account.configure().
+- add_transport_from_qr: Do not set deprecated config values.
+- sql: Change second query_map function from FnMut to FnOnce.
+- sql: Add query_map_vec().
+- sql: Add query_map_collect().
+- Use rand::fill() instead of rand::rng().fill().
+- Use SampleString.
+- Remove unused call to get_credentials().
+
+### Tests
+
+- rpc-client: VCard color is the same as the contact color ([#7294](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7294)).
+- Add unique offsets to ids generated by `TestContext` to increase test correctness ([#7297](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7297)).
+
+## [2.22.0] - 2025-10-17
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Do not notify about incoming calls for contact requests and blocked contacts.
+
+### Tests
+
+- Accept the chat with the caller before accepting calls.
+
+## [2.21.0] - 2025-10-16
+
+### Build system
+
+- nix: Remove unused dependencies.
+
+### Features / Changes
+
+- TLS 1.3 session resumption.
+- REPL: Add send-sync command.
+- Set `User-Agent` for tile.openstreetmap.org requests.
+- Cache tile.openstreetmap.org tiles for 7 days.
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Remove Exif with non-fatal errors from images.
+- jsonrpc: Use Core's logic for computing VcardContact.color ([#7294](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7294)).
+
+### Miscellaneous Tasks
+
+- deps: Bump cachix/install-nix-action from 31.7.0 to 31.8.0.
+- cargo: Bump async_zip from 0.0.17 to 0.0.18 ([#7257](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7257)).
+- deps: Bump github/codeql-action from 3 to 4 ([#7304](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7304)).
+
+### Refactor
+
+- Use rustls reexported from tokio_rustls.
+- Pass ALPN around as &str.
+- mimeparser: Store only one signature fingerprint.
+
+### Tests
+
+- Test expiration of ephemeral messages with unknown viewtype.
+- Test expiration of non-ephemeral message with unknown viewtype.
+
+## [2.20.0] - 2025-10-13
+
+This release fixes a bug that resulted in ephemeral loop getting stuck in infinite loop
+when trying to delete a message with unknown viewtype.
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Accept unknown viewtype in ephemeral loop.
+- Accept unknown viewtype in delete-old-messages loop.
+
+## [2.19.0] - 2025-10-12
+
+### Features / Changes
+
+- Slightly increase saturation of colors.
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Do not fail to receive call accepted/ended messages referring to non-call Message-ID.
+- Do not fail to fully download previously trashed messages.
+- Emit AccountsItemChanged when own key is generated/imported, use gray self-color until that ([#7296](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7296)).
+- Do not try to process calls from partial messages.
+
+### CI
+
+- Update to Python 3.14.
+
+### Refactor
+
+- Use variables directly in formatted strings ([#7284](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7284)).
+- Set_chat_profile_image(): Remove !chat.is_mailing_list() check.
+
+### Miscellaneous Tasks
+
+- cargo: Bump quick-xml from 0.37.5 to 0.38.3.
+- Add nodejs to nix dev env ([#7283](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7283))
+
+## [2.18.0] - 2025-10-08
+
+### API-Changes
+
+- [**breaking**] Remove APIs for video chat invitations.
+
+### CI
+
+- nix: Run the workflow when workflow file changes.
+- nix: Switch from DeterminateSystems/nix-installer-action to cachix/install-nix-action.
+
+### Features / Changes
+
+- No implicit member changes from old Delta Chat clients ([#7220](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7220)).
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Do not fail to load messages with unknown viewtype.
+- Only omit group changes messages if SELF is really added ([#7220](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7220)).
+
+### Refactor
+
+- Assert that Iroh node addresses have home relay URL.
+
+## [2.17.0] - 2025-10-04
+
+### API-Changes
+
+- [**breaking**] Remove deprecated verified_one_on_one_chats config.
+
+### CI
+
+- Require that Cargo.lock is up to date.
+- Fix CI checking Nix formatting.
+
+### Documentation
+
+- Comment about outdated timespan.
+- Clarify CALL events ([#7188](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7188)).
+- Add docs for JS `BaseDeltaChat`.
+
+### Features / Changes
+
+- Make `text/calendar` alternative available as an attachment.
+- Better summary for calls.
+- Add strings 'You left the channel.' and 'Scan to join Channel' ([#7266](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7266)).
+- Stock strings for calls.
+- ffi: Add DC_STR_CANT_DECRYPT_OUTGOING_MSGS define.
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Prefer last part in `multipart/alternative`.
+- Prefetch messages in limited batches ([#6915](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/6915)).
+- Forward calls as text messages.
+- Consistent spelling of "canceled" with a single "l".
+- Lowercase "call" in "Missed call" and similar strings.
+
+### Refactor
+
+- Return the reason when failing to place calls.
+
+### Tests
+
+- Test reception of `multipart/alternative` with `text/calendar`.
+
+## [2.16.0] - 2025-10-01
+
+### API-Changes
+
+- [**breaking**] Get rid of inviter progress other than 0 and 1000.
+- Add has_video attribute to incoming call events.
+- Add JSON-RPC API to get ICE servers.
+- Add call_info() JSON-RPC API.
+- Add chat ID to SecureJoinInviterProgress.
+- deltachat-rpc-client: Add Chat.resend_messages().
+- Add `chat_id` to all call events ([#7216](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7216)).
+
+### Build system
+
+- Update rPGP from 0.16.0 to 0.17.0.
+
+### CI
+
+- Update Rust to 1.90.0.
+- Install rustfmt before checking provider database.
+
+### Documentation
+
+- Add more `get_next_event` docs.
+- SecurejoinInviterProgress never returns an error.
+
+### Features / Changes
+
+- Don't fetch messages from unknown folders ([#7190](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7190)).
+- Get ICE servers from IMAP METADATA.
+- Don't ignore receive_imf_inner() errors, try adding partially downloaded message instead ([#7196](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7196)).
+- Set dimensions for outgoing Sticker messages.
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Create 1:1 chat only if auth token is for setup contact.
+- Ignore vc-/vg- prefix for SecurejoinInviterProgress.
+- Don't init Iroh on channel leave ([#7210](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7210)).
+- Take the last valid Autocrypt header ([#7167](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7167)).
+- Don't add "member removed" messages from nonmembers ([#7207](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7207)).
+- Do not consider the call stale if it is not sent out yet.
+- Receive_imf: Report replaced message id in `MsgsChanged` if chat is the same.
+- Allow Exif for stickers, don't recode them because of that ([#6447](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/6447)).
+
+### Refactor
+
+- Remove unused prop (TS, `BaseDeltaChat`).
+- Remove unused FolderMeaning::Drafts.
+
+### Tests
+
+- Rename test_udpate_call_text into test_update_call_text.
+- Update timestamp_sent in pop_sent_msg_opt().
+- Do not match call ID from second alice with first alice event.
+
+## [2.15.0] - 2025-09-15
+
+### API-Changes
+
+- Add JSON-RPC API for calls ([#7194](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7194)).
+
+### Build system
+
+- Remove unused `quoted_printable` dependency.
+
+## [2.14.0] - 2025-09-12
+
+### API-Changes
+
+- Put the chattype into the SecurejoinInviterProgress event ([#7181](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7181)).
+
+### Fixes
+
+- param: Split params only on \n.
+- B-encode SDP offer and answer sent in headers.
+
+### Refactor
+
+- Use recv_msg_trash() instead of recv_msg_opt().
+- Prepare_msg_raw(): don't return MsgId.
+
+### Tests
+
+- Message is OutFailed if all keys are missing ([#6849](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/6849)).
+- Test sending SDP offer and answer with newlines.
+
+## [2.13.0] - 2025-09-09
+
+### API-Changes
+
+- [**breaking**] Remove `is_profile_verified` APIs.
+- [**breaking**] Remove deprecated `is_protection_broken`.
+- [**breaking**] Remove `e2ee_enabled` preference.
+
+### Features / Changes
+
+- Add call ringing API ([#6650](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/6650), [#7174](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7174), [#7175](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7175), [#7179](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7179))
+- Warn for outdated versions after 6 months instead of 1 year ([#7144](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7144)).
+- Do not set "unknown sender for this chat" error.
+- Do not replace messages with an error on verification failure.
+- Support receiving Autocrypt-Gossip with `_verified` attribute.
+- Withdraw all QR codes when one is withdrawn.
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Don't reverify contacts by SELF on receipt of a message from another device.
+- Don't verify contacts by others having an unknown verifier.
+- Update verifier_id if it's "unknown" and new verifier has known verifier.
+- Mark message as failed if it can't be sent ([#7143](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7143)).
+- Add "Messages are end-to-end encrypted." to non-protected groups.
+
+### Documentation
+
+- Fix for SecurejoinInviterProgress with progress == 600.
+- STYLE.md: Prefer BTreeMap and BTreeSet over hash variants.
+
+### Miscellaneous Tasks
+
+- Update provider database.
+- Update dependencies.
+
+### Refactor
+
+- Check that verifier is verified in turn.
+- Remove unused `EncryptPreference::Reset`.
+- Remove `Aheader::new`.
+
+### Tests
+
+- Add another TimeShiftFalsePositiveNote ([#7142](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7142)).
+- Add TestContext.create_chat_id.
+
+## [2.12.0] - 2025-08-26
+
+### API-Changes
+
+- api!(python): remove remaining broken API for reactions
+
+### Features / Changes
+
+- Use Group ID for chat color generation instead of the name for encrypted groups.
+- Use key fingerprints instead of addresses for key-contacts color generation.
+- Replace HSLuv colors with OKLCh.
+- `wal_checkpoint()`: Do `wal_checkpoint(PASSIVE)` and `wal_checkpoint(FULL)` before `wal_checkpoint(TRUNCATE)`.
+- Assign messages to key-contacts based on Issuer Fingerprint.
+- Create_group_ex(): Log and replace invalid chat name with "…".
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Do not create a group if the sender includes self in the `To` field.
+- Do not reverify already verified contacts via gossip.
+- `get_connectivity()`: Get rid of locking SchedulerState::inner ([#7124](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7124)).
+- Make reaction message hidden only if there are no other parts.
+
+### Refactor
+
+- Do not return `Result` from `valid_signature_fingerprints()`.
+- Make `ConnectivityStore` use a non-async lock ([#7129](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7129)).
+
+### Documentation
+
+- Remove broken link from documentation comments.
+- Remove the comment about Color Vision Deficiency correction.
+
+## [2.11.0] - 2025-08-13
+
+### Features / Changes
+
+- Contact::lookup_id_by_addr_ex: Prefer returning key-contact.
+- Contact::lookup_id_by_addr_ex: Prefer returning accepted contacts.
+- Better string when using disappearing messages of one year (365..367 days, so it can be tweaked later).
+- Do not require resent messages to be from the same chat.
+- `lookup_key_contact_by_address()`: Allow looking up ContactId::SELF without chat id.
+- `get_securejoin_qr()`: Log error if group doesn't have grpid.
+- `receive_imf::add_parts()`: Get rid of extra `Chat::load_from_db()` calls.
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Ignore case when trying to detect 'invalid unencrypted mail' and add an info-message.
+- Run wal_checkpoint during housekeeping ([#6089](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/6089)).
+- Allow receiving empty files.
+- Set correct sent_timestamp for saved outgoing messages.
+- Do not remove query parameters from URLs.
+- Log and set imex progress error ([#7091](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7091)).
+- Do not add key-contacts to unencrypted groups.
+- Do not reset `GuaranteeE2ee` in the database when resending messages.
+- Assign messages to a group if there is a `Chat-Group-Name`.
+- Take `Chat-Group-Name` into account when matching ad hoc groups.
+- Don't break long group names with non-ASCII characters.
+- Add messages that can't be verified as `DownloadState::Available` ([#7059](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7059)).
+
+### Tests
+
+- Log the number of the test account if there are multiple alices ([#7087](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7087)).
+
+### CI
+
+- Update Rust to 1.89.0.
+
+### Refactor
+
+- Rename icon-address-contact to icon-unencrypted.
+- Skip loading the contact of 1:1 unencrypted chat to show the avatar.
+- Chat::is_encrypted(): Make one query instead of two for 1:1 chats.
+
+### Miscellaneous Tasks
+
+- cargo: Bump toml from 0.8.23 to 0.9.4.
+- cargo: Bump human-panic from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3.
+- deny.toml: Add exception for duplicate toml_datetime 0.6.11 dependency.
+- deps: Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5.
+- deps: Bump actions/download-artifact from 4 to 5.
+
+## [2.10.0] - 2025-08-04
+
+### Features / Changes
+
+- Also lookup key contacts in lookup_id_by_addr() ([#7073](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7073)).
+
+### Miscellaneous Tasks
+
+- cargo: Bump serde_json from 1.0.140 to 1.0.142.
+- cargo: Bump bolero from 0.13.3 to 0.13.4.
+- cargo: Bump async-channel from 2.3.1 to 2.5.0.
+- cargo: Bump hyper-util from 0.1.14 to 0.1.16.
+- cargo: Bump criterion from 0.6.0 to 0.7.0.
+- cargo: Bump strum from 0.27.1 to 0.27.2.
+- cargo: Bump strum_macros from 0.27.1 to 0.27.2.
+- Upgrade async-imap to 0.11.1.
+
+## [2.9.0] - 2025-07-31
+
+### Features / Changes
+
+- repl: Add import-vcard and make-vcard commands ([#7048](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7048)).
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Display correct timer value for ephemeral timer changes.
+- Get_chat_msgs_ex(): Report local midnight in ChatItem::DayMarker.
+
+### Refactor
+
+- Rename add_or_lookup_key_contacts_by_address_list() to add_or_lookup_key_contacts().
+- Don't call add_or_lookup_key_contacts() in advance.
+
+## [2.8.0] - 2025-07-28
+
+### Features / Changes
+
+- Remove ProtectionBroken, make such  chats Unprotected ([#7041](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7041)).
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Lookup self by address if there is no fingerprint or gossip.
+
+## [2.7.0] - 2025-07-26
+
+### Features / Changes
+
+- Mimefactory: Order message recipients by time of addition ([#6872](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/6872)).
+- Put the debug/release build version into the info ([#7034](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7034)).
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Realtime late join ([#6869](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/6869)).
+- Do not fail to upgrade if the verifier of a contact doesn't exist anymore ([#7044](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7044)).
+
+### Tests
+
+- Add regression test for verification-gossiping crash ([#7033](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/7033)).
+
 ## [2.6.0] - 2025-07-23

 ### Fixes
@@ -1492,7 +2246,7 @@ This reverts commit 6f22ce2722b51773d7fbb0d89e4764f963cafd91..
 ### Fixes

 - Reset quota on configured address change ([#5908](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/5908)).
- Do not emit progress 1000 when configuration is cancelled.
+- Do not emit progress 1000 when configuration is canceled.
 - Assume file extensions are 32 chars max and don't contain whitespace ([#5338](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/5338)).
 - Re-add tokens.foreign_id column ([#6038](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/6038)).

@@ -3940,7 +4694,7 @@ Bugfix release attempting to fix the [iOS build error](https://github.com/chatma
 - Recreate `smtp` table with AUTOINCREMENT `id` ([#4390](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/4390)).
 - Do not return an error from `send_msg_to_smtp` if retry limit is exceeded.
 - Make the bots automatically accept group chat contact requests ([#4377](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/4377)).
- Delete `smtp` rows when message sending is cancelled ([#4391](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/4391)).
+- Delete `smtp` rows when message sending is canceled ([#4391](https://github.com/chatmail/core/pull/4391)).

 ### Refactor

@@ -3951,7 +4705,7 @@ Bugfix release attempting to fix the [iOS build error](https://github.com/chatma
 ### Fixes

 - Fetch at most 100 existing messages even if EXISTS was not received.
- Delete `smtp` rows when message sending is cancelled.
+- Delete `smtp` rows when message sending is canceled.

 ### Changes

@@ -4038,14 +4792,14 @@ Bugfix release attempting to fix the [iOS build error](https://github.com/chatma
 ## [1.112.3] - 2023-03-30

 ### Fixes
- `transfer::get_backup` now frees ongoing process when cancelled. #4249
+- `transfer::get_backup` now frees ongoing process when canceled. #4249

 ## [1.112.2] - 2023-03-30

 ### Changes
 - Update iroh, remove `default-net` from `[patch.crates-io]` section.
 - transfer backup: Connect to multiple provider addresses concurrently.  This should speed up connection time significantly on the getter side.  #4240
- Make sure BackupProvider is cancelled on drop (or `dc_backup_provider_unref`).  The BackupProvider will now always finish with an IMEX event of 1000 or 0, previously it would sometimes finished with 1000 (success) when it really was 0 (failure). #4242
+- Make sure BackupProvider is canceled on drop (or `dc_backup_provider_unref`).  The BackupProvider will now always finish with an IMEX event of 1000 or 0, previously it would sometimes finished with 1000 (success) when it really was 0 (failure). #4242

 ### Fixes
 - Do not return media from trashed messages in the "All media" view. #4247
@@ -6533,3 +7287,26 @@ https://github.com/chatmail/core/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
 [2.4.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.3.0..v2.4.0
 [2.5.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.4.0..v2.5.0
 [2.6.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.5.0..v2.6.0
+[2.7.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.6.0..v2.7.0
+[2.8.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.7.0..v2.8.0
+[2.9.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.8.0..v2.9.0
+[2.10.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.9.0..v2.10.0
+[2.11.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.10.0..v2.11.0
+[2.12.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.11.0..v2.12.0
+[2.13.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.12.0..v2.13.0
+[2.14.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.13.0..v2.14.0
+[2.15.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.14.0..v2.15.0
+[2.16.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.15.0..v2.16.0
+[2.17.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.16.0..v2.17.0
+[2.18.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.17.0..v2.18.0
+[2.19.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.18.0..v2.19.0
+[2.20.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.19.0..v2.20.0
+[2.21.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.20.0..v2.21.0
+[2.22.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.21.0..v2.22.0
+[2.23.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.22.0..v2.23.0
+[2.24.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.23.0..v2.24.0
+[2.25.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.24.0..v2.25.0
+[2.26.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.25.0..v2.26.0
+[2.27.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.26.0..v2.27.0
+[2.28.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.27.0..v2.28.0
+[2.29.0]: https://github.com/chatmail/core/compare/v2.28.0..v2.29.0
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Contributing to Delta Chat
+# Contributing to chatmail core

 ## Bug reports

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ If you want to contribute a code, follow this guide.

   The following prefix types are used:
   - `feat`: Features, e.g. "feat: Pause IO for BackupProvider". If you are unsure what's the category of your commit, you can often just use `feat`.
-   - `fix`: Bug fixes, e.g. "fix: delete `smtp` rows when message sending is cancelled"
+   - `fix`: Bug fixes, e.g. "fix: delete `smtp` rows when message sending is canceled"
   - `api`: API changes, e.g. "api(rust): add `get_msg_read_receipts(context, msg_id)`"
   - `refactor`: Refactorings, e.g. "refactor: iterate over `msg_ids` without `.iter()`"
   - `perf`: Performance improvements, e.g. "perf: improve SQLite performance with `PRAGMA synchronous=normal`"
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "2.6.0"
+version = "2.29.0"
 edition = "2024"
 license = "MPL-2.0"
-rust-version = "1.85"
+rust-version = "1.88"
 repository = "https://github.com/chatmail/core"

 [profile.dev]
@@ -44,14 +44,16 @@ ratelimit = { path = "./deltachat-ratelimit" }
 anyhow = { workspace = true }
 async-broadcast = "0.7.2"
 async-channel = { workspace = true }
-async-imap = { version = "0.11.0", default-features = false, features = ["runtime-tokio", "compress"] }
+async-imap = { version = "0.11.1", default-features = false, features = ["runtime-tokio", "compress"] }
 async-native-tls = { version = "0.5", default-features = false, features = ["runtime-tokio"] }
 async-smtp = { version = "0.10.2", default-features = false, features = ["runtime-tokio"] }
-async_zip = { version = "0.0.17", default-features = false, features = ["deflate", "tokio-fs"] }
+async_zip = { version = "0.0.18", default-features = false, features = ["deflate", "tokio-fs"] }
 base64 = { workspace = true }
+blake3 = "1.8.2"
 brotli = { version = "8", default-features=false, features = ["std"] }
 bytes = "1"
 chrono = { workspace = true, features = ["alloc", "clock", "std"] }
+colorutils-rs = { version = "0.7.5", default-features = false }
 data-encoding = "2.9.0"
 escaper = "0.1"
 fast-socks5 = "0.10"
@@ -59,17 +61,16 @@ fd-lock = "4"
 futures-lite = { workspace = true }
 futures = { workspace = true }
 hex = "0.4.0"
-hickory-resolver = "0.25.2"
 http-body-util = "0.1.3"
 humansize = "2"
 hyper = "1"
-hyper-util = "0.1.14"
+hyper-util = "0.1.16"
 image = { version = "0.25.6", default-features=false, features = ["gif", "jpeg", "ico", "png", "pnm", "webp", "bmp"] }
 iroh-gossip = { version = "0.35", default-features = false, features = ["net"] }
 iroh = { version = "0.35", default-features = false }
 kamadak-exif = "0.6.1"
 libc = { workspace = true }
-mail-builder = { version = "0.4.3", default-features = false }
+mail-builder = { version = "0.4.4", default-features = false }
 mailparse = { workspace = true }
 mime = "0.3.17"
 num_cpus = "1.17"
@@ -77,18 +78,17 @@ num-derive = "0.4"
 num-traits = { workspace = true }
 parking_lot = "0.12.4"
 percent-encoding = "2.3"
-pgp = { version = "0.16.0", default-features = false }
+pgp = { version = "0.18.0", default-features = false }
 pin-project = "1"
 qrcodegen = "1.7.0"
-quick-xml = "0.37"
-quoted_printable = "0.5"
+quick-xml = { version = "0.38", features = ["escape-html"] }
+rand-old = { package = "rand", version = "0.8" }
 rand = { workspace = true }
 regex = { workspace = true }
 rusqlite = { workspace = true, features = ["sqlcipher"] }
-rust-hsluv = "0.1"
 rustls-pki-types = "1.12.0"
-rustls = { version = "0.23.22", default-features = false }
 sanitize-filename = { workspace = true }
+sdp = "0.8.0"
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
 serde_urlencoded = "0.7.1"
 serde = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }
@@ -104,19 +104,18 @@ thiserror = { workspace = true }
 tokio-io-timeout = "1.2.1"
 tokio-rustls = { version = "0.26.2", default-features = false }
 tokio-stream = { version = "0.1.17", features = ["fs"] }
-tokio-tar = { version = "0.3" } # TODO: integrate tokio into async-tar
+astral-tokio-tar = { version = "0.5.6", default-features = false }
 tokio-util = { workspace = true }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["fs", "rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
-toml = "0.8"
+toml = "0.9"
 tracing = "0.1.41"
 url = "2"
 uuid = { version = "1", features = ["serde", "v4"] }
 webpki-roots = "0.26.8"
-blake3 = "1.8.2"

 [dev-dependencies]
 anyhow = { workspace = true, features = ["backtrace"] } # Enable `backtrace` feature in tests.
-criterion = { version = "0.6.0", features = ["async_tokio"] }
+criterion = { version = "0.7.0", features = ["async_tokio"] }
 futures-lite = { workspace = true }
 log = { workspace = true }
 nu-ansi-term = { workspace = true }
@@ -157,6 +156,11 @@ name = "receive_emails"
 required-features = ["internals"]
 harness = false

+[[bench]]
+name = "decrypting"
+required-features = ["internals"]
+harness = false
+
 [[bench]]
 name = "get_chat_msgs"
 harness = false
@@ -175,29 +179,29 @@ harness = false

 [workspace.dependencies]
 anyhow = "1"
-async-channel = "2.3.1"
+async-channel = "2.5.0"
 base64 = "0.22"
-chrono = { version = "0.4.41", default-features = false }
+chrono = { version = "0.4.42", default-features = false }
 deltachat-contact-tools = { path = "deltachat-contact-tools" }
 deltachat-jsonrpc = { path = "deltachat-jsonrpc", default-features = false }
 deltachat = { path = ".", default-features = false }
 futures = "0.3.31"
-futures-lite = "2.6.0"
+futures-lite = "2.6.1"
 libc = "0.2"
 log = "0.4"
 mailparse = "0.16.1"
-nu-ansi-term = "0.46"
+nu-ansi-term = "0.50"
 num-traits = "0.2"
-rand = "0.8"
+rand = "0.9"
 regex = "1.10"
-rusqlite = "0.36"
-sanitize-filename = "0.5"
+rusqlite = "0.37"
+sanitize-filename = "0.6"
 serde = "1.0"
 serde_json = "1"
-tempfile = "3.20.0"
+tempfile = "3.23.0"
 thiserror = "2"
 tokio = "1"
-tokio-util = "0.7.14"
+tokio-util = "0.7.17"
 tracing-subscriber = "0.3"
 yerpc = "0.6.4"

--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -80,18 +80,26 @@ Connect to your mail server (if already configured):
 > connect
 ```

-Create a contact:
+Export your public key to a vCard file:
+
+```
+> make-vcard my.vcard 1
+```
+
+Create contacts by address or vCard file:

 ```
 > addcontact yourfriends@email.org
+> import-vcard key-contact.vcard
 ```

 List contacts:

 ```
 > listcontacts
+Contact#Contact#11: key-contact@email.org <key-contact@email.org>
 Contact#Contact#Self: Me √ <your@email.org>
-1 key contacts.
+2 key contacts.
 Contact#Contact#10: yourfriends@email.org <yourfriends@email.org>
 1 address contacts.
 ```
@@ -189,12 +197,10 @@ and then run the script.
 Language bindings are available for:

 - **C** \[[📂 source](./deltachat-ffi) | [📚 docs](https://c.delta.chat)\]
+   - -> libdeltachat is going to be deprecated and only exists because Android, iOS and Ubuntu Touch are still using it. If you build a new project, then please use the jsonrpc api instead.
 - **JS**: \[[📂 source](./deltachat-rpc-client) | [📦 npm](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@deltachat/jsonrpc-client) | [📚 docs](https://js.jsonrpc.delta.chat/)\]
 - **Python** \[[📂 source](./python) | [📦 pypi](https://pypi.org/project/deltachat) | [📚 docs](https://py.delta.chat)\]
- **Go**
-  - over jsonrpc: \[[📂 source](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-rpc-client-go/)\]
-  - over cffi[^1]: \[[📂 source](https://github.com/deltachat/go-deltachat/)\]
- **Free Pascal**[^1] \[[📂 source](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-fp/)\]
+- **Go** \[[📂 source](https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-rpc-client-go/)\]
 - **Java** and **Swift** (contained in the Android/iOS repos)

 The following "frontend" projects make use of the Rust-library
@@ -207,5 +213,3 @@ or its language bindings:
 - [Telepathy](https://code.ur.gs/lupine/telepathy-padfoot/)
 - [Ubuntu Touch](https://codeberg.org/lk108/deltatouch)
 - several **Bots**
-
-[^1]: Out of date / unmaintained, if you like those languages feel free to start maintaining them. If you have questions we'll help you, please ask in the issues.
--- a/STYLE.md
+++ b/STYLE.md
@@ -112,6 +112,18 @@ Follow
 <https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/error/index.html#common-message-styles>
 for `.expect` message style.

+## BTreeMap vs HashMap
+
+Prefer [BTreeMap](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.BTreeMap.html)
+over [HashMap](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.HashMap.html)
+and [BTreeSet](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.BTreeSet.html)
+over [HashSet](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.HashSet.html)
+as iterating over these structures returns items in deterministic order.
+
+Non-deterministic code may result in difficult to reproduce bugs,
+flaky tests, regression tests that miss bugs
+or different behavior on different devices when processing the same messages.
+
 ## Logging

 For logging, use `info!`, `warn!` and `error!` macros.
--- a/assets/icon-address-contact.png
+++ b/assets/icon-address-contact.png
--- a/assets/icon-address-contact.svg
+++ b/assets/icon-address-contact.svg
--- a/assets/self-reporting-bot.vcf
+++ b/assets/self-reporting-bot.vcf
--- a/benches/decrypting.rs
+++ b/benches/decrypting.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,200 @@
+//! Benchmarks for message decryption,
+//! comparing decryption of symmetrically-encrypted messages
+//! to decryption of asymmetrically-encrypted messages.
+//!
+//! Call with
+//!
+//! ```text
+//! cargo bench --bench decrypting --features="internals"
+//! ```
+//!
+//! or, if you want to only run e.g. the 'Decrypt a symmetrically encrypted message' benchmark:
+//!
+//! ```text
+//! cargo bench --bench decrypting --features="internals" -- 'Decrypt a symmetrically encrypted message'
+//! ```
+//!
+//! You can also pass a substring.
+//! So, you can run all 'Decrypt and parse' benchmarks with:
+//!
+//! ```text
+//! cargo bench --bench decrypting --features="internals" -- 'Decrypt and parse'
+//! ```
+//!
+//! Symmetric decryption has to try out all known secrets,
+//! You can benchmark this by adapting the `NUM_SECRETS` variable.
+
+use std::hint::black_box;
+
+use criterion::{Criterion, criterion_group, criterion_main};
+use deltachat::internals_for_benches::create_broadcast_secret;
+use deltachat::internals_for_benches::create_dummy_keypair;
+use deltachat::internals_for_benches::save_broadcast_secret;
+use deltachat::{
+    Events,
+    chat::ChatId,
+    config::Config,
+    context::Context,
+    internals_for_benches::key_from_asc,
+    internals_for_benches::parse_and_get_text,
+    internals_for_benches::store_self_keypair,
+    pgp::{KeyPair, decrypt, pk_encrypt, symm_encrypt_message},
+    stock_str::StockStrings,
+};
+use rand::{Rng, rng};
+use tempfile::tempdir;
+
+const NUM_SECRETS: usize = 500;
+
+async fn create_context() -> Context {
+    let dir = tempdir().unwrap();
+    let dbfile = dir.path().join("db.sqlite");
+    let context = Context::new(dbfile.as_path(), 100, Events::new(), StockStrings::new())
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+
+    context
+        .set_config(Config::ConfiguredAddr, Some("bob@example.net"))
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+    let secret = key_from_asc(include_str!("../test-data/key/bob-secret.asc")).unwrap();
+    let public = secret.signed_public_key();
+    let key_pair = KeyPair { public, secret };
+    store_self_keypair(&context, &key_pair)
+        .await
+        .expect("Failed to save key");
+
+    context
+}
+
+fn criterion_benchmark(c: &mut Criterion) {
+    let mut group = c.benchmark_group("Decrypt");
+
+    // ===========================================================================================
+    // Benchmarks for decryption only, without any other parsing
+    // ===========================================================================================
+
+    group.sample_size(10);
+
+    group.bench_function("Decrypt a symmetrically encrypted message", |b| {
+        let plain = generate_plaintext();
+        let secrets = generate_secrets();
+        let encrypted = tokio::runtime::Runtime::new().unwrap().block_on(async {
+            let secret = secrets[NUM_SECRETS / 2].clone();
+            symm_encrypt_message(
+                plain.clone(),
+                create_dummy_keypair("alice@example.org").unwrap().secret,
+                black_box(&secret),
+                true,
+            )
+            .await
+            .unwrap()
+        });
+
+        b.iter(|| {
+            let mut msg =
+                decrypt(encrypted.clone().into_bytes(), &[], black_box(&secrets)).unwrap();
+            let decrypted = msg.as_data_vec().unwrap();
+
+            assert_eq!(black_box(decrypted), plain);
+        });
+    });
+
+    group.bench_function("Decrypt a public-key encrypted message", |b| {
+        let plain = generate_plaintext();
+        let key_pair = create_dummy_keypair("alice@example.org").unwrap();
+        let secrets = generate_secrets();
+        let encrypted = tokio::runtime::Runtime::new().unwrap().block_on(async {
+            pk_encrypt(
+                plain.clone(),
+                vec![black_box(key_pair.public.clone())],
+                key_pair.secret.clone(),
+                true,
+                true,
+            )
+            .await
+            .unwrap()
+        });
+
+        b.iter(|| {
+            let mut msg = decrypt(
+                encrypted.clone().into_bytes(),
+                std::slice::from_ref(&key_pair.secret),
+                black_box(&secrets),
+            )
+            .unwrap();
+            let decrypted = msg.as_data_vec().unwrap();
+
+            assert_eq!(black_box(decrypted), plain);
+        });
+    });
+
+    // ===========================================================================================
+    // Benchmarks for the whole parsing pipeline, incl. decryption (but excl. receive_imf())
+    // ===========================================================================================
+
+    let rt = tokio::runtime::Runtime::new().unwrap();
+    let mut secrets = generate_secrets();
+
+    // "secret" is the shared secret that was used to encrypt text_symmetrically_encrypted.eml.
+    // Put it into the middle of our secrets:
+    secrets[NUM_SECRETS / 2] = "secret".to_string();
+
+    let context = rt.block_on(async {
+        let context = create_context().await;
+        for (i, secret) in secrets.iter().enumerate() {
+            save_broadcast_secret(&context, ChatId::new(10 + i as u32), secret)
+                .await
+                .unwrap();
+        }
+        context
+    });
+
+    group.bench_function("Decrypt and parse a symmetrically encrypted message", |b| {
+        b.to_async(&rt).iter(|| {
+            let ctx = context.clone();
+            async move {
+                let text = parse_and_get_text(
+                    &ctx,
+                    include_bytes!("../test-data/message/text_symmetrically_encrypted.eml"),
+                )
+                .await
+                .unwrap();
+                assert_eq!(text, "Symmetrically encrypted message");
+            }
+        });
+    });
+
+    group.bench_function("Decrypt and parse a public-key encrypted message", |b| {
+        b.to_async(&rt).iter(|| {
+            let ctx = context.clone();
+            async move {
+                let text = parse_and_get_text(
+                    &ctx,
+                    include_bytes!("../test-data/message/text_from_alice_encrypted.eml"),
+                )
+                .await
+                .unwrap();
+                assert_eq!(text, "hi");
+            }
+        });
+    });
+
+    group.finish();
+}
+
+fn generate_secrets() -> Vec<String> {
+    let secrets: Vec<String> = (0..NUM_SECRETS)
+        .map(|_| create_broadcast_secret())
+        .collect();
+    secrets
+}
+
+fn generate_plaintext() -> Vec<u8> {
+    let mut plain: Vec<u8> = vec![0; 500];
+    rng().fill(&mut plain[..]);
+    plain
+}
+
+criterion_group!(benches, criterion_benchmark);
+criterion_main!(benches);
--- a/deltachat-contact-tools/src/lib.rs
+++ b/deltachat-contact-tools/src/lib.rs
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ impl ContactAddress {
    pub fn new(s: &str) -> Result<Self> {
        let addr = addr_normalize(s);
        if !may_be_valid_addr(&addr) {
-            bail!("invalid address {:?}", s);
+            bail!("invalid address {s:?}");
        }
        Ok(Self(addr.to_string()))
    }
@@ -257,16 +257,16 @@ impl EmailAddress {
            .chars()
            .any(|c| c.is_whitespace() || c == '<' || c == '>')
        {
-            bail!("Email {:?} must not contain whitespaces, '>' or '<'", input);
+            bail!("Email {input:?} must not contain whitespaces, '>' or '<'");
        }

        match &parts[..] {
            [domain, local] => {
                if local.is_empty() {
-                    bail!("empty string is not valid for local part in {:?}", input);
+                    bail!("empty string is not valid for local part in {input:?}");
                }
                if domain.is_empty() {
-                    bail!("missing domain after '@' in {:?}", input);
+                    bail!("missing domain after '@' in {input:?}");
                }
                if domain.ends_with('.') {
                    bail!("Domain {domain:?} should not contain the dot in the end");
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ impl EmailAddress {
                    domain: (*domain).to_string(),
                })
            }
-            _ => bail!("Email {:?} must contain '@' character", input),
+            _ => bail!("Email {input:?} must contain '@' character"),
        }
    }
 }
--- a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat_ffi"
-version = "2.6.0"
+version = "2.29.0"
 description = "Deltachat FFI"
 edition = "2018"
 readme = "README.md"
--- a/deltachat-ffi/deltachat.h
+++ b/deltachat-ffi/deltachat.h
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ typedef struct _dc_event_emitter dc_accounts_event_emitter_t;
 // create/open/config/information

 /**
- * Create a new context object and try to open it without passphrase. If
+ * Create a new context object and try to open it. If
 * database is encrypted, the result is the same as using
 * dc_context_new_closed() and the database should be opened with
 * dc_context_open() before using.
@@ -283,8 +283,13 @@ dc_context_t*   dc_context_new_closed        (const char* dbfile);


 /**
- * Opens the database with the given passphrase. This can only be used on
- * closed context, such as created by dc_context_new_closed(). If the database
+ * Opens the database with the given passphrase.
+ * NB: Nonempty passphrase (db encryption) is deprecated 2025-11:
+ * - Db encryption does nothing with blobs, so fs/disk encryption is recommended.
+ * - Isolation from other apps is needed anyway.
+ *
+ * This can only be used on closed context, such as
+ * created by dc_context_new_closed(). If the database
 * is new, this operation sets the database passphrase. For existing databases
 * the passphrase should be the one used to encrypt the database the first
 * time.
@@ -301,6 +306,8 @@ int             dc_context_open              (dc_context_t *context, const char*

 /**
 * Changes the passphrase on the open database.
+ * Deprecated 2025-11, see `dc_context_open()` for reasoning.
+ *
 * Existing database must already be encrypted and the passphrase cannot be NULL or empty.
 * It is impossible to encrypt unencrypted database with this method and vice versa.
 *
@@ -415,7 +422,6 @@ char*           dc_get_blobdir               (const dc_context_t* context);
 *                    As for `displayname` and `selfstatus`, also the avatar is sent to the recipients.
 *                    To save traffic, however, the avatar is attached only as needed
 *                    and also recoded to a reasonable size.
- * - `e2ee_enabled` = 0=no end-to-end-encryption, 1=prefer end-to-end-encryption (default)
 * - `mdns_enabled` = 0=do not send or request read receipts,
 *                    1=send and request read receipts
 *                    default=send and request read receipts, only send but not request if `bot` is set
@@ -459,12 +465,6 @@ char*           dc_get_blobdir               (const dc_context_t* context);
 *                    The library uses the `media_quality` setting to use different defaults
 *                    for recoding images sent with type #DC_MSG_IMAGE.
 *                    If needed, recoding other file types is up to the UI.
- * - `webrtc_instance` = webrtc instance to use for videochats in the form
- *                    `[basicwebrtc:|jitsi:]https://example.com/subdir#roomname=$ROOM`
- *                    if the URL is prefixed by `basicwebrtc`, the server is assumed to be of the type
- *                    https://github.com/cracker0dks/basicwebrtc which some UIs have native support for.
- *                    The type `jitsi:` may be handled by external apps.
- *                    If no type is prefixed, the videochat is handled completely in a browser.
 * - `bot`          = Set to "1" if this is a bot.
 *                    Prevents adding the "Device messages" and "Saved messages" chats,
 *                    adds Auto-Submitted header to outgoing messages,
@@ -576,11 +576,10 @@ int             dc_set_stock_translation(dc_context_t* context, uint32_t stock_i
 /**
 * Set configuration values from a QR code.
 * Before this function is called, dc_check_qr() should confirm the type of the
- * QR code is DC_QR_ACCOUNT, DC_QR_LOGIN or DC_QR_WEBRTC_INSTANCE.
+ * QR code is DC_QR_ACCOUNT or DC_QR_LOGIN.
 *
 * Internally, the function will call dc_set_config() with the appropriate keys,
- * e.g. `addr` and `mail_pw` for DC_QR_ACCOUNT and DC_QR_LOGIN
- * or `webrtc_instance` for DC_QR_WEBRTC_INSTANCE.
+ * e.g. `addr` and `mail_pw` for DC_QR_ACCOUNT and DC_QR_LOGIN.
 *
 * @memberof dc_context_t
 * @param context The context object.
@@ -1053,42 +1052,6 @@ void            dc_send_edit_request         (dc_context_t* context, uint32_t ms
 void            dc_send_delete_request       (dc_context_t* context, const uint32_t* msg_ids, int msg_cnt);


-/**
- * Send invitation to a videochat.
- *
- * This function reads the `webrtc_instance` config value,
- * may check that the server is working in some way
- * and creates a unique room for this chat, if needed doing a TOKEN roundtrip for that.
- *
- * After that, the function sends out a message that contains information to join the room:
- *
- * - To allow non-delta-clients to join the chat,
- *   the message contains a text-area with some descriptive text
- *   and a URL that can be opened in a supported browser to join the videochat.
- *
- * - delta-clients can get all information needed from
- *   the message object, using e.g.
- *   dc_msg_get_videochat_url() and check dc_msg_get_viewtype() for #DC_MSG_VIDEOCHAT_INVITATION.
- *
- * dc_send_videochat_invitation() is blocking and may take a while,
- * so the UIs will typically call the function from within a thread.
- * Moreover, UIs will typically enter the room directly without an additional click on the message,
- * for this purpose, the function returns the message id directly.
- *
- * As for other messages sent, this function
- * sends the event #DC_EVENT_MSGS_CHANGED on success, the message has a delivery state, and so on.
- * The recipient will get noticed by the call as usual by #DC_EVENT_INCOMING_MSG or #DC_EVENT_MSGS_CHANGED,
- * However, UIs might some things differently, e.g. play a different sound.
- *
- * @memberof dc_context_t
- * @param context The context object.
- * @param chat_id The chat to start a videochat for.
- * @return The ID of the message sent out
- *     or 0 for errors.
- */
-uint32_t dc_send_videochat_invitation (dc_context_t* context, uint32_t chat_id);
-
-
 /**
 * A webxdc instance sends a status update to its other members.
 *
@@ -1215,6 +1178,117 @@ void             dc_set_webxdc_integration (dc_context_t* context, const char* f
 uint32_t        dc_init_webxdc_integration    (dc_context_t* context, uint32_t chat_id);


+/**
+ * Start an outgoing call.
+ * This sends a message of type #DC_MSG_CALL with all relevant information to the callee,
+ * who will get informed by an #DC_EVENT_INCOMING_CALL event and rings.
+ *
+ * Possible actions during ringing:
+ *
+ * - caller cancels the call using dc_end_call():
+ *   callee receives #DC_EVENT_CALL_ENDED and has a "Missed call"
+ *
+ * - callee accepts using dc_accept_incoming_call():
+ *   caller receives #DC_EVENT_OUTGOING_CALL_ACCEPTED.
+ *   callee's devices receive #DC_EVENT_INCOMING_CALL_ACCEPTED, call starts
+ *
+ * - callee declines using dc_end_call():
+ *   caller receives #DC_EVENT_CALL_ENDED and has a "Declinced Call".
+ *   callee's other devices receive #DC_EVENT_CALL_ENDED and have a "Canceled Call",
+ *
+ * - callee is already in a call:
+ *   what to do depends on the capabilities of UI to handle calls.
+ *   if UI cannot handle multiple calls, an easy approach would be to decline the new call automatically
+ *   and make that visble to the user in the call, e.g. by a notification
+ *
+ * - timeout:
+ *   after 1 minute without action,
+ *   caller and callee receive #DC_EVENT_CALL_ENDED
+ *   to prevent endless ringing of callee
+ *   in case caller got offline without being able to send cancellation message.
+ *   for caller, this is a "Canceled call";
+ *   for callee, this is a "Missed call"
+ *
+ * Actions during the call:
+ *
+ * - caller ends the call using dc_end_call():
+ *   callee receives #DC_EVENT_CALL_ENDED
+ *
+ * - callee ends the call using dc_end_call():
+ *   caller receives #DC_EVENT_CALL_ENDED
+ *
+ * Contact request handling:
+ *
+ * - placing or accepting calls implies accepting contact requests
+ *
+ * - ending a call does not accept a contact request;
+ *   instead, the call will timeout on all affected devices.
+ *
+ * Note, that the events are for updating the call screen,
+ * possible status messages are added and updated as usual, including the known events.
+ * In the UI, the sorted chatlist is used as an overview about calls as well as messages.
+ * To place a call with a contact that has no chat yet, use dc_create_chat_by_contact_id() first.
+ *
+ * UI will usually allow only one call at the same time,
+ * this has to be tracked by UI across profile, the core does not track this.
+ *
+ * @memberof dc_context_t
+ * @param context The context object.
+ * @param chat_id The chat to place a call for.
+ *     This needs to be a one-to-one chat.
+ * @param place_call_info any data that other devices receive
+ *     in #DC_EVENT_INCOMING_CALL.
+ * @return ID of the system message announcing the call.
+ */
+uint32_t        dc_place_outgoing_call       (dc_context_t* context, uint32_t chat_id, const char* place_call_info);
+
+
+/**
+ * Accept incoming call.
+ *
+ * This implicitly accepts the contact request, if not yet done.
+ * All affected devices will receive
+ * either #DC_EVENT_OUTGOING_CALL_ACCEPTED or #DC_EVENT_INCOMING_CALL_ACCEPTED.
+ *
+ * If the call is already accepted or ended, nothing happens.
+ * If the chat is a contact request, it is accepted implicitly.
+ *
+ * @memberof dc_context_t
+ * @param context The context object.
+ * @param msg_id The ID of the call to accept.
+ *     This is the ID reported by #DC_EVENT_INCOMING_CALL
+ *     and equals to the ID of the corresponding info message.
+ * @param accept_call_info any data that other devices receive
+ *     in #DC_EVENT_OUTGOING_CALL_ACCEPTED.
+ * @return 1=success, 0=error
+ */
+ int            dc_accept_incoming_call      (dc_context_t* context, uint32_t msg_id, const char* accept_call_info);
+
+
+ /**
+  * End incoming or outgoing call.
+  *
+  * For unaccepted calls ended by the caller, this is a "cancellation".
+  * Unaccepted calls ended by the callee are a "decline".
+  * If the call was accepted, this is a "hangup".
+  *
+  * All participant devices get informed about the ended call via #DC_EVENT_CALL_ENDED unless they are contact requests.
+  * For contact requests, the call times out on all other affected devices.
+  *
+  * If the message ID is wrong or does not exist for whatever reasons, nothing happens.
+  * Therefore, and for resilience, UI should remove the call UI directly when calling
+  * this function and not only on the event.
+  *
+  * If the call is already ended, nothing happens.
+  *
+  * @memberof dc_context_t
+  * @param context The context object.
+  * @param msg_id the ID of the call.
+  * @return 1=success, 0=error
+  */
+ int            dc_end_call                  (dc_context_t* context, uint32_t msg_id);
+
+
 /**
 * Save a draft for a chat in the database.
 *
@@ -1332,12 +1406,14 @@ dc_msg_t*       dc_get_draft                 (dc_context_t* context, uint32_t ch
 * Optionally, some special markers added to the ID array may help to
 * implement virtual lists.
 *
+ * To get the concrete time of the message, use dc_array_get_timestamp().
+ *
 * @memberof dc_context_t
 * @param context The context object as returned from dc_context_new().
 * @param chat_id The chat ID of which the messages IDs should be queried.
 * @param flags If set to DC_GCM_ADDDAYMARKER, the marker DC_MSG_ID_DAYMARKER will
 *     be added before each day (regarding the local timezone). Set this to 0 if you do not want this behaviour.
- *     To get the concrete time of the marker, use dc_array_get_timestamp().
+ *     The day marker timestamp is the midnight one for the corresponding (following) day in the local timezone.
 *     If set to DC_GCM_INFO_ONLY, only system messages will be returned, can be combined with DC_GCM_ADDDAYMARKER.
 * @param marker1before Deprecated, set this to 0.
 * @return Array of message IDs, must be dc_array_unref()'d when no longer used.
@@ -1694,9 +1770,7 @@ dc_chat_t*      dc_get_chat                  (dc_context_t* context, uint32_t ch
 *
 * @memberof dc_context_t
 * @param context The context object.
- * @param protect If set to 1 the function creates group with protection initially enabled.
- *     Only verified members are allowed in these groups
- *     and end-to-end-encryption is always enabled.
+ * @param protect Deprecated 2025-08-31, ignored.
 * @param name The name of the group chat to create.
 *     The name may be changed later using dc_set_chat_name().
 *     To find out the name of a group later, see dc_chat_get_name()
@@ -2087,9 +2161,19 @@ int             dc_may_be_valid_addr         (const char* addr);


 /**
- * Check if an e-mail address belongs to a known and unblocked contact.
+ * Looks up a known and unblocked contact with a given e-mail address.
 * To get a list of all known and unblocked contacts, use dc_get_contacts().
 *
+ * **POTENTIAL SECURITY ISSUE**: If there are multiple contacts with this address
+ * (e.g. an address-contact and a key-contact),
+ * this looks up the most recently seen contact,
+ * i.e. which contact is returned depends on which contact last sent a message.
+ * If the user just clicked on a mailto: link, then this is the best thing you can do.
+ * But **DO NOT** internally represent contacts by their email address
+ * and do not use this function to look them up;
+ * otherwise this function will sometimes look up the wrong contact.
+ * Instead, you should internally represent contacts by their ids.
+ *
 * To validate an e-mail address independently of the contact database
 * use dc_may_be_valid_addr().
 *
@@ -2111,6 +2195,13 @@ uint32_t        dc_lookup_contact_id_by_addr (dc_context_t* context, const char*
 * To add a number of contacts, see dc_add_address_book() which is much faster for adding
 * a bunch of addresses.
 *
+ * This will always create or look up an address-contact,
+ * i.e. a contact identified by an email address,
+ * with all messages sent to and from this contact being unencrypted.
+ * If the user just clicked on an email address,
+ * you should first check `lookup_contact_id_by_addr`,
+ * and only if there is no contact yet, call this function here.
+ *
 * May result in a #DC_EVENT_CONTACTS_CHANGED event.
 *
 * @memberof dc_context_t
@@ -2479,6 +2570,7 @@ void            dc_stop_ongoing_process      (dc_context_t* context);

 #define         DC_QR_ASK_VERIFYCONTACT      200 // id=contact
 #define         DC_QR_ASK_VERIFYGROUP        202 // text1=groupname
+#define         DC_QR_ASK_VERIFYBROADCAST    204 // text1=broadcast name
 #define         DC_QR_FPR_OK                 210 // id=contact
 #define         DC_QR_FPR_MISMATCH           220 // id=contact
 #define         DC_QR_FPR_WITHOUT_ADDR       230 // test1=formatted fingerprint
@@ -2486,7 +2578,6 @@ void            dc_stop_ongoing_process      (dc_context_t* context);
 #define         DC_QR_BACKUP                 251 // deprecated
 #define         DC_QR_BACKUP2                252
 #define         DC_QR_BACKUP_TOO_NEW         255
-#define         DC_QR_WEBRTC_INSTANCE        260 // text1=domain, text2=instance pattern
 #define         DC_QR_PROXY                  271 // text1=address (e.g. "127.0.0.1:9050")
 #define         DC_QR_ADDR                   320 // id=contact
 #define         DC_QR_TEXT                   330 // text1=text
@@ -2494,8 +2585,10 @@ void            dc_stop_ongoing_process      (dc_context_t* context);
 #define         DC_QR_ERROR                  400 // text1=error string
 #define         DC_QR_WITHDRAW_VERIFYCONTACT 500
 #define         DC_QR_WITHDRAW_VERIFYGROUP   502 // text1=groupname
+#define         DC_QR_WITHDRAW_JOINBROADCAST 504 // text1=broadcast name
 #define         DC_QR_REVIVE_VERIFYCONTACT   510
 #define         DC_QR_REVIVE_VERIFYGROUP     512 // text1=groupname
+#define         DC_QR_REVIVE_JOINBROADCAST   514 // text1=broadcast name
 #define         DC_QR_LOGIN                  520 // text1=email_address

 /**
@@ -2512,8 +2605,9 @@ void            dc_stop_ongoing_process      (dc_context_t* context);
 *   ask whether to verify the contact;
 *   if so, start the protocol with dc_join_securejoin().
 *
- * - DC_QR_ASK_VERIFYGROUP with dc_lot_t::text1=Group name:
- *   ask whether to join the group;
+ * - DC_QR_ASK_VERIFYGROUP or DC_QR_ASK_VERIFYBROADCAST
+ *   with dc_lot_t::text1=Group name:
+ *   ask whether to join the chat;
 *   if so, start the protocol with dc_join_securejoin().
 *
 * - DC_QR_FPR_OK with dc_lot_t::id=Contact ID:
@@ -2540,10 +2634,6 @@ void            dc_stop_ongoing_process      (dc_context_t* context);
 *   show a hint to the user that this backup comes from a newer Delta Chat version
 *   and this device needs an update
 *
- * - DC_QR_WEBRTC_INSTANCE with dc_lot_t::text1=domain:
- *   ask the user if they want to use the given service for video chats;
- *   if so, call dc_set_config_from_qr().
- *
 * - DC_QR_PROXY with dc_lot_t::text1=address:
 *   ask the user if they want to use the given proxy.
 *   if so, call dc_set_config_from_qr() and restart I/O.
@@ -2600,7 +2690,8 @@ dc_lot_t*       dc_check_qr                  (dc_context_t* context, const char*
 * Get QR code text that will offer an Setup-Contact or Verified-Group invitation.
 *
 * The scanning device will pass the scanned content to dc_check_qr() then;
- * if dc_check_qr() returns DC_QR_ASK_VERIFYCONTACT or DC_QR_ASK_VERIFYGROUP
+ * if dc_check_qr() returns
+ * DC_QR_ASK_VERIFYCONTACT, DC_QR_ASK_VERIFYGROUP or DC_QR_ASK_VERIFYBROADCAST
 * an out-of-band-verification can be joined using dc_join_securejoin()
 *
 * The returned text will also work as a normal https:-link,
@@ -2641,7 +2732,7 @@ char*           dc_get_securejoin_qr_svg         (dc_context_t* context, uint32_
 * Continue a Setup-Contact or Verified-Group-Invite protocol
 * started on another device with dc_get_securejoin_qr().
 * This function is typically called when dc_check_qr() returns
- * lot.state=DC_QR_ASK_VERIFYCONTACT or lot.state=DC_QR_ASK_VERIFYGROUP.
+ * lot.state=DC_QR_ASK_VERIFYCONTACT, lot.state=DC_QR_ASK_VERIFYGROUP or lot.state=DC_QR_ASK_VERIFYBROADCAST
 *
 * The function returns immediately and the handshake runs in background,
 * sending and receiving several messages.
@@ -3214,12 +3305,30 @@ void           dc_accounts_maybe_network_lost    (dc_accounts_t* accounts);
 * without forgetting to create notifications caused by timing race conditions.
 *
 * @memberof dc_accounts_t
+ * @param accounts The account manager as created by dc_accounts_new().
 * @param timeout The timeout in seconds
 * @return Return 1 if DC_EVENT_ACCOUNTS_BACKGROUND_FETCH_DONE was emitted and 0 otherwise.
 */
 int            dc_accounts_background_fetch    (dc_accounts_t* accounts, uint64_t timeout);


+/**
+ * Stop ongoing background fetch.
+ *
+ * Calling this function allows to stop dc_accounts_background_fetch() early.
+ * dc_accounts_background_fetch() will then return immediately
+ * and emit DC_EVENT_ACCOUNTS_BACKGROUND_FETCH_DONE unless
+ * if it has failed and returned 0.
+ *
+ * If there is no ongoing dc_accounts_background_fetch() call,
+ * calling this function does nothing.
+ *
+ * @memberof dc_accounts_t
+ * @param accounts The account manager as created by dc_accounts_new().
+ */
+void           dc_accounts_stop_background_fetch (dc_accounts_t *accounts);
+
+
 /**
 * Sets device token for Apple Push Notification service.
 * Returns immediately.
@@ -3809,18 +3918,12 @@ int             dc_chat_can_send              (const dc_chat_t* chat);


 /**
- * Check if a chat is protected.
- *
- * Only verified contacts
- * as determined by dc_contact_is_verified()
- * can be added to protected chats.
- *
- * Protected chats are created using dc_create_group_chat()
- * by setting the 'protect' parameter to 1.
+ * Deprecated, always returns 0.
 *
 * @memberof dc_chat_t
 * @param chat The chat object.
- * @return 1=chat protected, 0=chat is not protected.
+ * @return Always 0.
+ * @deprecated 2025-09-09
 */
 int             dc_chat_is_protected         (const dc_chat_t* chat);

@@ -3840,28 +3943,6 @@ int             dc_chat_is_protected         (const dc_chat_t* chat);
 int             dc_chat_is_encrypted         (const dc_chat_t *chat);


-/**
- * Checks if the chat was protected, and then an incoming message broke this protection.
- *
- * This function is only useful if the UI enabled the `verified_one_on_one_chats` feature flag,
- * otherwise it will return false for all chats.
- *
- * 1:1 chats are automatically set as protected when a contact is verified.
- * When a message comes in that is not encrypted / signed correctly,
- * the chat is automatically set as unprotected again.
- * dc_chat_is_protection_broken() will return true until dc_accept_chat() is called.
- *
- * The UI should let the user confirm that this is OK with a message like
- * `Bob sent a message from another device. Tap to learn more` and then call dc_accept_chat().
- *
- * @deprecated 2025-07 chats protection cannot break any longer
- * @memberof dc_chat_t
- * @param chat The chat object.
- * @return 1=chat protection broken, 0=otherwise.
- */
-int             dc_chat_is_protection_broken (const dc_chat_t* chat);
-
-
 /**
 * Check if locations are sent to the chat
 * at the time the object was created using dc_get_chat().
@@ -4637,22 +4718,6 @@ int             dc_msg_is_setupmessage        (const dc_msg_t* msg);
 char*           dc_msg_get_setupcodebegin     (const dc_msg_t* msg);


-/**
- * Get URL of a videochat invitation.
- *
- * Videochat invitations are sent out using dc_send_videochat_invitation()
- * and dc_msg_get_viewtype() returns #DC_MSG_VIDEOCHAT_INVITATION for such invitations.
- *
- * @memberof dc_msg_t
- * @param msg The message object.
- * @return If the message contains a videochat invitation,
- *     the URL of the invitation is returned.
- *     If the message is no videochat invitation, NULL is returned.
- *     Must be released using dc_str_unref() when done.
- */
-char*           dc_msg_get_videochat_url (const dc_msg_t* msg);
-
-
 /**
 * Gets the error status of the message.
 * If there is no error associated with the message, NULL is returned.
@@ -4675,41 +4740,6 @@ char*           dc_msg_get_videochat_url (const dc_msg_t* msg);
 char*           dc_msg_get_error               (const dc_msg_t* msg);


-/**
- * Get type of videochat.
- *
- * Calling this functions only makes sense for messages of type #DC_MSG_VIDEOCHAT_INVITATION,
- * in this case, if `basicwebrtc:` as of https://github.com/cracker0dks/basicwebrtc or `jitsi`
- * were used to initiate the videochat,
- * dc_msg_get_videochat_type() returns the corresponding type.
- *
- * The videochat URL can be retrieved using dc_msg_get_videochat_url().
- * To check if a message is a videochat invitation at all, check the message type for #DC_MSG_VIDEOCHAT_INVITATION.
- *
- * @memberof dc_msg_t
- * @param msg The message object.
- * @return Type of the videochat as of DC_VIDEOCHATTYPE_BASICWEBRTC, DC_VIDEOCHATTYPE_JITSI or DC_VIDEOCHATTYPE_UNKNOWN.
- *
- * Example:
- * ~~~
- * if (dc_msg_get_viewtype(msg) == DC_MSG_VIDEOCHAT_INVITATION) {
- *   if (dc_msg_get_videochat_type(msg) == DC_VIDEOCHATTYPE_BASICWEBRTC) {
- *       // videochat invitation that we ship a client for
- *   } else {
- *       // use browser for videochat - or add an additional check for DC_VIDEOCHATTYPE_JITSI
- *   }
- * } else {
- *    // not a videochat invitation
- * }
- * ~~~
- */
-int dc_msg_get_videochat_type (const dc_msg_t* msg);
-
-#define DC_VIDEOCHATTYPE_UNKNOWN     0
-#define DC_VIDEOCHATTYPE_BASICWEBRTC 1
-#define DC_VIDEOCHATTYPE_JITSI       2
-
-
 /**
 * Checks if the message has a full HTML version.
 *
@@ -5342,11 +5372,9 @@ dc_provider_t*  dc_provider_new_from_email            (const dc_context_t* conte


 /**
- * Create a provider struct for the given e-mail address by local and DNS lookup.
+ * Create a provider struct for the given e-mail address by local lookup.
 *
- * First lookup is done from the local database as of dc_provider_new_from_email().
- * If the first lookup fails, an additional DNS lookup is done,
- * trying to figure out the provider belonging to custom domains.
+ * DNS lookup is not used anymore and this function is deprecated.
 *
 * @memberof dc_provider_t
 * @param context The context object.
@@ -5354,6 +5382,7 @@ dc_provider_t*  dc_provider_new_from_email            (const dc_context_t* conte
 * @return A dc_provider_t struct which can be used with the dc_provider_get_*
 *     accessor functions. If no provider info is found, NULL will be
 *     returned.
+ * @deprecated 2025-10-17 use dc_provider_new_from_email() instead.
 */
 dc_provider_t*  dc_provider_new_from_email_with_dns    (const dc_context_t* context, const char* email);

@@ -5609,14 +5638,21 @@ int64_t         dc_lot_get_timestamp     (const dc_lot_t* lot);


 /**
- * Message indicating an incoming or outgoing videochat.
- * The message was created via dc_send_videochat_invitation() on this or a remote device.
+ * Message indicating an incoming or outgoing call.
 *
- * Typically, such messages are rendered differently by the UIs,
- * e.g. contain a button to join the videochat.
- * The URL for joining can be retrieved using dc_msg_get_videochat_url().
+ * These messages are created by dc_place_outgoing_call()
+ * and should be rendered by UI similar to text messages,
+ * maybe with some "phone icon" at the side.
+ *
+ * The message text is updated as needed
+ * and UI will be informed via #DC_EVENT_MSGS_CHANGED as usual.
+ *
+ * Do not start ringing when seeing this message;
+ * the mesage may belong e.g. to an old missed call.
+ *
+ * Instead, ringing should start on the event #DC_EVENT_INCOMING_CALL
 */
-#define DC_MSG_VIDEOCHAT_INVITATION 70
+#define DC_MSG_CALL 71


 /**
@@ -6461,11 +6497,7 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);
 * generated by dc_get_securejoin_qr().
 *
 * @param data1 (int) The ID of the contact that wants to join.
- * @param data2 (int) The progress as:
- *     300=vg-/vc-request received, typically shown as "bob@addr joins".
- *     600=vg-/vc-request-with-auth received, vg-member-added/vc-contact-confirm sent, typically shown as "bob@addr verified".
- *     800=contact added to chat, shown as "bob@addr securely joined GROUP". Only for the verified-group-protocol.
- *     1000=Protocol finished for this contact.
+ * @param data2 (int) The progress, always 1000.
 */
 #define DC_EVENT_SECUREJOIN_INVITER_PROGRESS      2060

@@ -6617,6 +6649,60 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);
 */
 #define DC_EVENT_CHANNEL_OVERFLOW              2400

+
+
+/**
+ * Incoming call.
+ * UI will usually start ringing,
+ * or show a notification if there is already a call in some profile.
+ *
+ * Together with this event,
+ * a message of type #DC_MSG_CALL is added to the corresponding chat;
+ * this message is announced and updated by the usual event as #DC_EVENT_MSGS_CHANGED,
+ * there is usually no need to take care of this message from any of the CALL events.
+ *
+ * If user takes action, dc_accept_incoming_call() or dc_end_call() should be called.
+ *
+ * Otherwise, ringing should end on #DC_EVENT_CALL_ENDED
+ * or #DC_EVENT_INCOMING_CALL_ACCEPTED
+ *
+ * @param data1 (int) msg_id ID of the message referring to the call.
+ * @param data2 (char*) place_call_info, text passed to dc_place_outgoing_call()
+ * @param data2 (int) 1 if incoming call is a video call, 0 otherwise
+ */
+#define DC_EVENT_INCOMING_CALL                            2550
+
+/**
+ * The callee accepted an incoming call on this or another device using dc_accept_incoming_call().
+ * The caller gets the event #DC_EVENT_OUTGOING_CALL_ACCEPTED at the same time.
+ *
+ * UI usually only takes action in case call UI was opened before, otherwise the event should be ignored.
+ *
+ * @param data1 (int) msg_id ID of the message referring to the call
+ */
+ #define DC_EVENT_INCOMING_CALL_ACCEPTED                  2560
+
+/**
+ * A call placed using dc_place_outgoing_call() was accepted by the callee using dc_accept_incoming_call().
+ *
+ * UI usually only takes action in case call UI was opened before, otherwise the event should be ignored.
+ *
+ * @param data1 (int) msg_id ID of the message referring to the call
+ * @param data2 (char*) accept_call_info, text passed to dc_accept_incoming_call()
+ */
+#define DC_EVENT_OUTGOING_CALL_ACCEPTED                   2570
+
+/**
+ * An incoming or outgoing call was ended using dc_end_call() on this or another device, by caller or callee.
+ * Moreover, the event is sent when the call was not accepted within 1 minute timeout.
+ *
+ * UI usually only takes action in case call UI was opened before, otherwise the event should be ignored.
+ *
+ * @param data1 (int) msg_id ID of the message referring to the call
+ */
+#define DC_EVENT_CALL_ENDED                               2580
+
+
 /**
 * @}
 */
@@ -6900,11 +6986,6 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);
 /// Used to build the string returned by dc_get_contact_encrinfo().
 #define DC_STR_ENCR_NONE                  28

-/// "This message was encrypted for another setup."
-///
-/// Used as message text if decryption fails.
-#define DC_STR_CANTDECRYPT_MSG_BODY       29
-
 /// "Fingerprints"
 ///
 /// Used to build the string returned by dc_get_contact_encrinfo().
@@ -7037,6 +7118,8 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);
 /// "Unknown sender for this chat. See 'info' for more details."
 ///
 /// Use as message text if assigning the message to a chat is not totally correct.
+///
+/// @deprecated 2025-08-18
 #define DC_STR_UNKNOWN_SENDER_FOR_CHAT    72

 /// "Message from %1$s"
@@ -7099,17 +7182,6 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);
 /// @deprecated Deprecated 2021-01-30, DC_STR_EPHEMERAL_WEEKS is used instead.
 #define DC_STR_EPHEMERAL_FOUR_WEEKS       81

-/// "Video chat invitation"
-///
-/// Used in summaries.
-#define DC_STR_VIDEOCHAT_INVITATION       82
-
-/// "You are invited to a video chat, click %1$s to join."
-///
-/// Used as message text of outgoing video chat invitations.
-/// - %1$s will be replaced by the URL of the video chat
-#define DC_STR_VIDEOCHAT_INVITE_MSG_BODY  83
-
 /// "Error: %1$s"
 ///
 /// Used in error strings.
@@ -7143,11 +7215,6 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);
 /// Used as device message text.
 #define DC_STR_SELF_DELETED_MSG_BODY      91

-/// "'Delete messages from server' turned off as now all folders are affected."
-///
-/// Used as device message text.
-#define DC_STR_SERVER_TURNED_OFF          92
-
 /// "Message deletion timer is set to %1$s minutes."
 ///
 /// Used in status messages.
@@ -7344,19 +7411,6 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);
 /// @deprecated 2025-06-05
 #define DC_STR_AEAP_ADDR_CHANGED          122

-/// "You changed your email address from %1$s to %2$s.
-/// If you now send a message to a group, contacts there will automatically
-/// replace the old with your new address.\n\n It's highly advised to set up 
-/// your old email provider to forward all emails to your new email address. 
-/// Otherwise you might miss messages of contacts who did not get your new 
-/// address yet." + the link to the AEAP blog post
-/// 
-/// As soon as there is a post about AEAP, the UIs should add it:
-/// set_stock_translation(123, getString(aeap_explanation) + "\n\n" + AEAP_BLOG_LINK)
-///
-/// Used in a device message that explains AEAP.
-#define DC_STR_AEAP_EXPLANATION_AND_LINK  123
-
 /// "You changed group name from \"%1$s\" to \"%2$s\"."
 ///
 /// `%1$s` will be replaced by the old group name.
@@ -7408,7 +7462,7 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);
 /// Used in status messages.
 #define DC_STR_REMOVE_MEMBER_BY_OTHER 131

-/// "You left."
+/// "You left the group."
 ///
 /// Used in status messages.
 #define DC_STR_GROUP_LEFT_BY_YOU 132
@@ -7473,14 +7527,13 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);

 /// "You set message deletion timer to 1 minute."
 ///
-/// Used in status messages.
+/// @deprecated 2025-11-14, this string is no longer needed
 #define DC_STR_EPHEMERAL_TIMER_1_MINUTE_BY_YOU 142

 /// "Message deletion timer is set to 1 minute by %1$s."
 ///
 /// `%1$s` will be replaced by name and address of the contact.
-///
-/// Used in status messages.
+/// @deprecated 2025-11-14, this string is no longer needed
 #define DC_STR_EPHEMERAL_TIMER_1_MINUTE_BY_OTHER 143

 /// "You set message deletion timer to 1 hour."
@@ -7579,6 +7632,18 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);
 /// `%2$s` will be replaced by name and address of the contact.
 #define DC_STR_EPHEMERAL_TIMER_WEEKS_BY_OTHER 157

+/// "You set message deletion timer to 1 year."
+///
+/// Used in status messages.
+#define DC_STR_EPHEMERAL_TIMER_1_YEAR_BY_YOU 158
+
+/// "Message deletion timer is set to 1 year by %1$s."
+///
+/// `%1$s` will be replaced by name and address of the contact.
+///
+/// Used in status messages.
+#define DC_STR_EPHEMERAL_TIMER_1_YEAR_BY_OTHER 159
+
 /// "Scan to set up second device for %1$s"
 ///
 /// `%1$s` will be replaced by name and address of the account.
@@ -7594,12 +7659,6 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);
 /// Used in info messages.
 #define DC_STR_CHAT_PROTECTION_ENABLED 170

-/// "%1$s sent a message from another device."
-///
-/// Used in info messages.
-/// @deprecated 2025-07
-#define DC_STR_CHAT_PROTECTION_DISABLED 171
-
 /// "Others will only see this group after you sent a first message."
 ///
 /// Used as the first info messages in newly created groups.
@@ -7636,7 +7695,12 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);
 /// Used in summaries.
 #define DC_STR_REACTED_BY 177

-/// "Establishing guaranteed end-to-end encryption, please wait…"
+/// "Member %1$s removed."
+///
+/// `%1$s` will be replaced by name of the removed contact.
+#define DC_STR_REMOVE_MEMBER 178
+
+/// "Establishing connection, please wait…"
 ///
 /// Used as info message.
 #define DC_STR_SECUREJOIN_WAIT 190
@@ -7655,8 +7719,62 @@ void dc_event_unref(dc_event_t* event);
 /// "❤️ Seems you're enjoying Delta Chat!"… (donation request device message)
 #define DC_STR_DONATION_REQUEST 193

-/// "Contact". Deprecated, currently unused.
-#define DC_STR_CONTACT 200
+/// "Outgoing call"
+#define DC_STR_OUTGOING_CALL 194
+
+/// "Incoming call"
+#define DC_STR_INCOMING_CALL 195
+
+/// "Declined call"
+#define DC_STR_DECLINED_CALL 196
+
+/// "Canceled call"
+#define DC_STR_CANCELED_CALL 197
+
+/// "Missed call"
+#define DC_STR_MISSED_CALL 198
+
+/// "You left the channel."
+///
+/// Used in status messages.
+#define DC_STR_CHANNEL_LEFT_BY_YOU 200
+
+/// "Scan to join channel %1$s"
+///
+/// Subtitle for channel join qrcode svg image generated by the core.
+///
+/// `%1$s` will be replaced with the channel name.
+#define DC_STR_SECURE_JOIN_CHANNEL_QR_DESC 201
+
+/// "You joined the channel."
+#define DC_STR_MSG_YOU_JOINED_CHANNEL 202
+
+/// "%1$s invited you to join this channel. Waiting for the device of %2$s to reply…"
+///
+/// Added as an info-message directly after scanning a QR code for joining a broadcast channel.
+///
+/// `%1$s` and `%2$s` will both be replaced by the name of the inviter.
+#define DC_STR_SECURE_JOIN_CHANNEL_STARTED 203
+
+/// "The attachment contains anonymous usage statistics, which help us improve Delta Chat. Thank you!"
+///
+/// Used as the message body for statistics sent out.
+#define DC_STR_STATS_MSG_BODY 210
+
+/// "Proxy Enabled"
+///
+/// Title for proxy section in connectivity view.
+#define DC_STR_PROXY_ENABLED  220
+
+/// "You are using a proxy. If you're having trouble connecting, try a different proxy."
+///
+/// Description in connectivity view when proxy is enabled.
+#define DC_STR_PROXY_ENABLED_DESCRIPTION  221
+
+/// "Messages in this chat use classic email and are not encrypted."
+///
+/// Used as the first info messages in newly created classic email threads.
+#define DC_STR_CHAT_UNENCRYPTED_EXPLANATON 230

 /**
 * @}
--- a/deltachat-ffi/src/lib.rs
+++ b/deltachat-ffi/src/lib.rs
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ use std::sync::{Arc, LazyLock};
 use std::time::{Duration, SystemTime};

 use anyhow::Context as _;
-use deltachat::chat::{ChatId, ChatVisibility, MessageListOptions, MuteDuration, ProtectionStatus};
+use deltachat::chat::{ChatId, ChatVisibility, MessageListOptions, MuteDuration};
 use deltachat::constants::DC_MSG_ID_LAST_SPECIAL;
 use deltachat::contact::{Contact, ContactId, Origin};
 use deltachat::context::{Context, ContextBuilder};
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ use deltachat_jsonrpc::api::CommandApi;
 use deltachat_jsonrpc::yerpc::{OutReceiver, RpcClient, RpcSession};
 use message::Viewtype;
 use num_traits::{FromPrimitive, ToPrimitive};
-use rand::Rng;
 use tokio::runtime::Runtime;
 use tokio::sync::RwLock;
 use tokio::task::JoinHandle;
@@ -101,7 +100,7 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_context_new(

    let ctx = if blobdir.is_null() || *blobdir == 0 {
        // generate random ID as this functionality is not yet available on the C-api.
-        let id = rand::thread_rng().gen();
+        let id = rand::random();
        block_on(
            ContextBuilder::new(as_path(dbfile).to_path_buf())
                .with_id(id)
@@ -129,7 +128,7 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_context_new_closed(dbfile: *const libc::c_char) -> *
        return ptr::null_mut();
    }

-    let id = rand::thread_rng().gen();
+    let id = rand::random();
    match block_on(
        ContextBuilder::new(as_path(dbfile).to_path_buf())
            .with_id(id)
@@ -375,7 +374,7 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_get_connectivity(context: *const dc_context_t) -> li
        return 0;
    }
    let ctx = &*context;
-    block_on(ctx.get_connectivity()) as u32 as libc::c_int
+    ctx.get_connectivity() as u32 as libc::c_int
 }

 #[no_mangle]
@@ -556,6 +555,10 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_event_get_id(event: *mut dc_event_t) -> libc::c_int
        EventType::AccountsChanged => 2302,
        EventType::AccountsItemChanged => 2303,
        EventType::EventChannelOverflow { .. } => 2400,
+        EventType::IncomingCall { .. } => 2550,
+        EventType::IncomingCallAccepted { .. } => 2560,
+        EventType::OutgoingCallAccepted { .. } => 2570,
+        EventType::CallEnded { .. } => 2580,
        #[allow(unreachable_patterns)]
        #[cfg(test)]
        _ => unreachable!("This is just to silence a rust_analyzer false-positive"),
@@ -619,7 +622,11 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_event_get_data1_int(event: *mut dc_event_t) -> libc:
        EventType::WebxdcRealtimeData { msg_id, .. }
        | EventType::WebxdcStatusUpdate { msg_id, .. }
        | EventType::WebxdcRealtimeAdvertisementReceived { msg_id }
-        | EventType::WebxdcInstanceDeleted { msg_id, .. } => msg_id.to_u32() as libc::c_int,
+        | EventType::WebxdcInstanceDeleted { msg_id, .. }
+        | EventType::IncomingCall { msg_id, .. }
+        | EventType::IncomingCallAccepted { msg_id, .. }
+        | EventType::OutgoingCallAccepted { msg_id, .. }
+        | EventType::CallEnded { msg_id, .. } => msg_id.to_u32() as libc::c_int,
        EventType::ChatlistItemChanged { chat_id } => {
            chat_id.unwrap_or_default().to_u32() as libc::c_int
        }
@@ -671,6 +678,9 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_event_get_data2_int(event: *mut dc_event_t) -> libc:
        | EventType::ChatModified(_)
        | EventType::ChatDeleted { .. }
        | EventType::WebxdcRealtimeAdvertisementReceived { .. }
+        | EventType::IncomingCallAccepted { .. }
+        | EventType::OutgoingCallAccepted { .. }
+        | EventType::CallEnded { .. }
        | EventType::EventChannelOverflow { .. } => 0,
        EventType::MsgsChanged { msg_id, .. }
        | EventType::ReactionsChanged { msg_id, .. }
@@ -689,6 +699,8 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_event_get_data2_int(event: *mut dc_event_t) -> libc:
            ..
        } => status_update_serial.to_u32() as libc::c_int,
        EventType::WebxdcRealtimeData { data, .. } => data.len() as libc::c_int,
+        EventType::IncomingCall { has_video, .. } => *has_video as libc::c_int,
+
        #[allow(unreachable_patterns)]
        #[cfg(test)]
        _ => unreachable!("This is just to silence a rust_analyzer false-positive"),
@@ -767,8 +779,21 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_event_get_data2_str(event: *mut dc_event_t) -> *mut
        | EventType::ChatlistChanged
        | EventType::AccountsChanged
        | EventType::AccountsItemChanged
-        | EventType::WebxdcRealtimeAdvertisementReceived { .. }
-        | EventType::EventChannelOverflow { .. } => ptr::null_mut(),
+        | EventType::IncomingCallAccepted { .. }
+        | EventType::WebxdcRealtimeAdvertisementReceived { .. } => ptr::null_mut(),
+        EventType::IncomingCall {
+            place_call_info, ..
+        } => {
+            let data2 = place_call_info.to_c_string().unwrap_or_default();
+            data2.into_raw()
+        }
+        EventType::OutgoingCallAccepted {
+            accept_call_info, ..
+        } => {
+            let data2 = accept_call_info.to_c_string().unwrap_or_default();
+            data2.into_raw()
+        }
+        EventType::CallEnded { .. } | EventType::EventChannelOverflow { .. } => ptr::null_mut(),
        EventType::ConfigureProgress { comment, .. } => {
            if let Some(comment) = comment {
                comment.to_c_string().unwrap_or_default().into_raw()
@@ -1072,25 +1097,6 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_send_delete_request(
        .ok();
 }

-#[no_mangle]
-pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_send_videochat_invitation(
-    context: *mut dc_context_t,
-    chat_id: u32,
-) -> u32 {
-    if context.is_null() {
-        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_send_videochat_invitation()");
-        return 0;
-    }
-    let ctx = &*context;
-
-    block_on(async move {
-        chat::send_videochat_invitation(ctx, ChatId::new(chat_id))
-            .await
-            .map(|msg_id| msg_id.to_u32())
-            .unwrap_or_log_default(ctx, "Failed to send video chat invitation")
-    })
-}
-
 #[no_mangle]
 pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_send_webxdc_status_update(
    context: *mut dc_context_t,
@@ -1167,6 +1173,61 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_init_webxdc_integration(
        .unwrap_or(0)
 }

+#[no_mangle]
+pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_place_outgoing_call(
+    context: *mut dc_context_t,
+    chat_id: u32,
+    place_call_info: *const libc::c_char,
+) -> u32 {
+    if context.is_null() || chat_id == 0 {
+        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_place_outgoing_call()");
+        return 0;
+    }
+    let ctx = &*context;
+    let chat_id = ChatId::new(chat_id);
+    let place_call_info = to_string_lossy(place_call_info);
+
+    block_on(ctx.place_outgoing_call(chat_id, place_call_info))
+        .context("Failed to place call")
+        .log_err(ctx)
+        .map(|msg_id| msg_id.to_u32())
+        .unwrap_or_log_default(ctx, "Failed to place call")
+}
+
+#[no_mangle]
+pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_accept_incoming_call(
+    context: *mut dc_context_t,
+    msg_id: u32,
+    accept_call_info: *const libc::c_char,
+) -> libc::c_int {
+    if context.is_null() || msg_id == 0 {
+        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_accept_incoming_call()");
+        return 0;
+    }
+    let ctx = &*context;
+    let msg_id = MsgId::new(msg_id);
+    let accept_call_info = to_string_lossy(accept_call_info);
+
+    block_on(ctx.accept_incoming_call(msg_id, accept_call_info))
+        .context("Failed to accept call")
+        .is_ok() as libc::c_int
+}
+
+#[no_mangle]
+pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_end_call(context: *mut dc_context_t, msg_id: u32) -> libc::c_int {
+    if context.is_null() || msg_id == 0 {
+        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_end_call()");
+        return 0;
+    }
+    let ctx = &*context;
+    let msg_id = MsgId::new(msg_id);
+
+    block_on(ctx.end_call(msg_id))
+        .context("Failed to end call")
+        .log_err(ctx)
+        .is_ok() as libc::c_int
+}
+
 #[no_mangle]
 pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_set_draft(
    context: *mut dc_context_t,
@@ -1659,7 +1720,7 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_get_chat(context: *mut dc_context_t, chat_id: u32) -
 #[no_mangle]
 pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_create_group_chat(
    context: *mut dc_context_t,
-    protect: libc::c_int,
+    _protect: libc::c_int,
    name: *const libc::c_char,
 ) -> u32 {
    if context.is_null() || name.is_null() {
@@ -1667,22 +1728,12 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_create_group_chat(
        return 0;
    }
    let ctx = &*context;
-    let Some(protect) = ProtectionStatus::from_i32(protect)
-        .context("Bad protect-value for dc_create_group_chat()")
-        .log_err(ctx)
-        .ok()
-    else {
-        return 0;
-    };

-    block_on(async move {
-        chat::create_group_chat(ctx, protect, &to_string_lossy(name))
-            .await
-            .context("Failed to create group chat")
-            .log_err(ctx)
-            .map(|id| id.to_u32())
-            .unwrap_or(0)
-    })
+    block_on(chat::create_group(ctx, &to_string_lossy(name)))
+        .context("Failed to create group chat")
+        .log_err(ctx)
+        .map(|id| id.to_u32())
+        .unwrap_or(0)
 }

 #[no_mangle]
@@ -3144,13 +3195,8 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_chat_can_send(chat: *mut dc_chat_t) -> libc::c_int {
 }

 #[no_mangle]
-pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_chat_is_protected(chat: *mut dc_chat_t) -> libc::c_int {
-    if chat.is_null() {
-        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_chat_is_protected()");
-        return 0;
-    }
-    let ffi_chat = &*chat;
-    ffi_chat.chat.is_protected() as libc::c_int
+pub extern "C" fn dc_chat_is_protected(_chat: *mut dc_chat_t) -> libc::c_int {
+    0
 }

 #[no_mangle]
@@ -3165,16 +3211,6 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_chat_is_encrypted(chat: *mut dc_chat_t) -> libc::c_i
        .unwrap_or_log_default(&ffi_chat.context, "Failed dc_chat_is_encrypted") as libc::c_int
 }

-#[no_mangle]
-pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_chat_is_protection_broken(chat: *mut dc_chat_t) -> libc::c_int {
-    if chat.is_null() {
-        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_chat_is_protection_broken()");
-        return 0;
-    }
-    let ffi_chat = &*chat;
-    ffi_chat.chat.is_protection_broken() as libc::c_int
-}
-
 #[no_mangle]
 pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_chat_is_sending_locations(chat: *mut dc_chat_t) -> libc::c_int {
    if chat.is_null() {
@@ -3783,31 +3819,6 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_msg_has_html(msg: *mut dc_msg_t) -> libc::c_int {
    ffi_msg.message.has_html().into()
 }

-#[no_mangle]
-pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_msg_get_videochat_url(msg: *mut dc_msg_t) -> *mut libc::c_char {
-    if msg.is_null() {
-        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_msg_get_videochat_url()");
-        return "".strdup();
-    }
-    let ffi_msg = &*msg;
-
-    ffi_msg
-        .message
-        .get_videochat_url()
-        .unwrap_or_default()
-        .strdup()
-}
-
-#[no_mangle]
-pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_msg_get_videochat_type(msg: *mut dc_msg_t) -> libc::c_int {
-    if msg.is_null() {
-        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_msg_get_videochat_type()");
-        return 0;
-    }
-    let ffi_msg = &*msg;
-    ffi_msg.message.get_videochat_type().unwrap_or_default() as i32
-}
-
 #[no_mangle]
 pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_msg_get_setupcodebegin(msg: *mut dc_msg_t) -> *mut libc::c_char {
    if msg.is_null() {
@@ -4229,7 +4240,17 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_contact_get_color(contact: *mut dc_contact_t) -> u32
        return 0;
    }
    let ffi_contact = &*contact;
-    ffi_contact.contact.get_color()
+    let ctx = &*ffi_contact.context;
+    block_on(async move {
+        ffi_contact
+            .contact
+            // We don't want any UIs displaying gray self-color.
+            .get_or_gen_color(ctx)
+            .await
+            .context("Contact::get_color()")
+            .log_err(ctx)
+            .unwrap_or(0)
+    })
 }

 #[no_mangle]
@@ -4634,13 +4655,9 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_provider_new_from_email(

    let ctx = &*context;

-    match block_on(provider::get_provider_info_by_addr(
-        ctx,
-        addr.as_str(),
-        true,
-    ))
-    .log_err(ctx)
-    .unwrap_or_default()
+    match provider::get_provider_info_by_addr(addr.as_str())
+        .log_err(ctx)
+        .unwrap_or_default()
    {
        Some(provider) => provider,
        None => ptr::null_mut(),
@@ -4659,25 +4676,13 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_provider_new_from_email_with_dns(
    let addr = to_string_lossy(addr);

    let ctx = &*context;
-    let proxy_enabled = block_on(ctx.get_config_bool(config::Config::ProxyEnabled))
-        .context("Can't get config")
-        .log_err(ctx);

-    match proxy_enabled {
-        Ok(proxy_enabled) => {
-            match block_on(provider::get_provider_info_by_addr(
-                ctx,
-                addr.as_str(),
-                proxy_enabled,
-            ))
-            .log_err(ctx)
-            .unwrap_or_default()
-            {
-                Some(provider) => provider,
-                None => ptr::null_mut(),
-            }
-        }
-        Err(_) => ptr::null_mut(),
+    match provider::get_provider_info_by_addr(addr.as_str())
+        .log_err(ctx)
+        .unwrap_or_default()
+    {
+        Some(provider) => provider,
+        None => ptr::null_mut(),
    }
 }

@@ -5022,6 +5027,17 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_accounts_background_fetch(
    1
 }

+#[no_mangle]
+pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_accounts_stop_background_fetch(accounts: *mut dc_accounts_t) {
+    if accounts.is_null() {
+        eprintln!("ignoring careless call to dc_accounts_stop_background_fetch()");
+        return;
+    }
+
+    let accounts = &*accounts;
+    block_on(accounts.read()).stop_background_fetch();
+}
+
 #[no_mangle]
 pub unsafe extern "C" fn dc_accounts_set_push_device_token(
    accounts: *mut dc_accounts_t,
--- a/deltachat-ffi/src/lot.rs
+++ b/deltachat-ffi/src/lot.rs
@@ -45,21 +45,23 @@ impl Lot {
            Self::Qr(qr) => match qr {
                Qr::AskVerifyContact { .. } => None,
                Qr::AskVerifyGroup { grpname, .. } => Some(Cow::Borrowed(grpname)),
+                Qr::AskJoinBroadcast { name, .. } => Some(Cow::Borrowed(name)),
                Qr::FprOk { .. } => None,
                Qr::FprMismatch { .. } => None,
                Qr::FprWithoutAddr { fingerprint, .. } => Some(Cow::Borrowed(fingerprint)),
                Qr::Account { domain } => Some(Cow::Borrowed(domain)),
                Qr::Backup2 { .. } => None,
                Qr::BackupTooNew { .. } => None,
-                Qr::WebrtcInstance { domain, .. } => Some(Cow::Borrowed(domain)),
                Qr::Proxy { host, port, .. } => Some(Cow::Owned(format!("{host}:{port}"))),
                Qr::Addr { draft, .. } => draft.as_deref().map(Cow::Borrowed),
                Qr::Url { url } => Some(Cow::Borrowed(url)),
                Qr::Text { text } => Some(Cow::Borrowed(text)),
                Qr::WithdrawVerifyContact { .. } => None,
                Qr::WithdrawVerifyGroup { grpname, .. } => Some(Cow::Borrowed(grpname)),
+                Qr::WithdrawJoinBroadcast { name, .. } => Some(Cow::Borrowed(name)),
                Qr::ReviveVerifyContact { .. } => None,
                Qr::ReviveVerifyGroup { grpname, .. } => Some(Cow::Borrowed(grpname)),
+                Qr::ReviveJoinBroadcast { name, .. } => Some(Cow::Borrowed(name)),
                Qr::Login { address, .. } => Some(Cow::Borrowed(address)),
            },
            Self::Error(err) => Some(Cow::Borrowed(err)),
@@ -99,21 +101,23 @@ impl Lot {
            Self::Qr(qr) => match qr {
                Qr::AskVerifyContact { .. } => LotState::QrAskVerifyContact,
                Qr::AskVerifyGroup { .. } => LotState::QrAskVerifyGroup,
+                Qr::AskJoinBroadcast { .. } => LotState::QrAskJoinBroadcast,
                Qr::FprOk { .. } => LotState::QrFprOk,
                Qr::FprMismatch { .. } => LotState::QrFprMismatch,
                Qr::FprWithoutAddr { .. } => LotState::QrFprWithoutAddr,
                Qr::Account { .. } => LotState::QrAccount,
                Qr::Backup2 { .. } => LotState::QrBackup2,
                Qr::BackupTooNew { .. } => LotState::QrBackupTooNew,
-                Qr::WebrtcInstance { .. } => LotState::QrWebrtcInstance,
                Qr::Proxy { .. } => LotState::QrProxy,
                Qr::Addr { .. } => LotState::QrAddr,
                Qr::Url { .. } => LotState::QrUrl,
                Qr::Text { .. } => LotState::QrText,
                Qr::WithdrawVerifyContact { .. } => LotState::QrWithdrawVerifyContact,
                Qr::WithdrawVerifyGroup { .. } => LotState::QrWithdrawVerifyGroup,
+                Qr::WithdrawJoinBroadcast { .. } => LotState::QrWithdrawJoinBroadcast,
                Qr::ReviveVerifyContact { .. } => LotState::QrReviveVerifyContact,
                Qr::ReviveVerifyGroup { .. } => LotState::QrReviveVerifyGroup,
+                Qr::ReviveJoinBroadcast { .. } => LotState::QrReviveJoinBroadcast,
                Qr::Login { .. } => LotState::QrLogin,
            },
            Self::Error(_err) => LotState::QrError,
@@ -126,21 +130,23 @@ impl Lot {
            Self::Qr(qr) => match qr {
                Qr::AskVerifyContact { contact_id, .. } => contact_id.to_u32(),
                Qr::AskVerifyGroup { .. } => Default::default(),
+                Qr::AskJoinBroadcast { .. } => Default::default(),
                Qr::FprOk { contact_id } => contact_id.to_u32(),
                Qr::FprMismatch { contact_id } => contact_id.unwrap_or_default().to_u32(),
                Qr::FprWithoutAddr { .. } => Default::default(),
                Qr::Account { .. } => Default::default(),
                Qr::Backup2 { .. } => Default::default(),
                Qr::BackupTooNew { .. } => Default::default(),
-                Qr::WebrtcInstance { .. } => Default::default(),
                Qr::Proxy { .. } => Default::default(),
                Qr::Addr { contact_id, .. } => contact_id.to_u32(),
                Qr::Url { .. } => Default::default(),
                Qr::Text { .. } => Default::default(),
                Qr::WithdrawVerifyContact { contact_id, .. } => contact_id.to_u32(),
-                Qr::WithdrawVerifyGroup { .. } => Default::default(),
+                Qr::WithdrawVerifyGroup { .. } | Qr::WithdrawJoinBroadcast { .. } => {
+                    Default::default()
+                }
                Qr::ReviveVerifyContact { contact_id, .. } => contact_id.to_u32(),
-                Qr::ReviveVerifyGroup { .. } => Default::default(),
+                Qr::ReviveVerifyGroup { .. } | Qr::ReviveJoinBroadcast { .. } => Default::default(),
                Qr::Login { .. } => Default::default(),
            },
            Self::Error(_) => Default::default(),
@@ -169,6 +175,9 @@ pub enum LotState {
    /// text1=groupname
    QrAskVerifyGroup = 202,

+    /// text1=broadcast_name
+    QrAskJoinBroadcast = 204,
+
    /// id=contact
    QrFprOk = 210,

@@ -185,9 +194,6 @@ pub enum LotState {

    QrBackupTooNew = 255,

-    /// text1=domain, text2=instance pattern
-    QrWebrtcInstance = 260,
-
    /// text1=address, text2=protocol
    QrProxy = 271,

@@ -207,11 +213,15 @@ pub enum LotState {

    /// text1=groupname
    QrWithdrawVerifyGroup = 502,
+    /// text1=broadcast channel name
+    QrWithdrawJoinBroadcast = 504,

    QrReviveVerifyContact = 510,

    /// text1=groupname
    QrReviveVerifyGroup = 512,
+    /// text1=groupname
+    QrReviveJoinBroadcast = 514,

    /// text1=email_address
    QrLogin = 520,
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat-jsonrpc"
-version = "2.6.0"
+version = "2.29.0"
 description = "DeltaChat JSON-RPC API"
 edition = "2021"
 license = "MPL-2.0"
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api.rs
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ use std::{collections::HashMap, str::FromStr};
 use anyhow::{anyhow, bail, ensure, Context, Result};
 pub use deltachat::accounts::Accounts;
 use deltachat::blob::BlobObject;
+use deltachat::calls::ice_servers;
 use deltachat::chat::{
    self, add_contact_to_chat, forward_msgs, get_chat_media, get_chat_msgs, get_chat_msgs_ex,
    marknoticed_chat, remove_contact_from_chat, Chat, ChatId, ChatItem, MessageListOptions,
-    ProtectionStatus,
 };
 use deltachat::chatlist::Chatlist;
 use deltachat::config::Config;
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ use deltachat::context::get_info;
 use deltachat::ephemeral::Timer;
 use deltachat::imex;
 use deltachat::location;
-use deltachat::message::get_msg_read_receipts;
 use deltachat::message::{
-    self, delete_msgs_ex, markseen_msgs, Message, MessageState, MsgId, Viewtype,
+    self, delete_msgs_ex, get_existing_msg_ids, get_msg_read_receipts, markseen_msgs, Message,
+    MessageState, MsgId, Viewtype,
 };
 use deltachat::peer_channels::{
    leave_webxdc_realtime, send_webxdc_realtime_advertisement, send_webxdc_realtime_data,
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ use deltachat::qr_code_generator::{generate_backup_qr, get_securejoin_qr_svg};
 use deltachat::reaction::{get_msg_reactions, send_reaction};
 use deltachat::securejoin;
 use deltachat::stock_str::StockMessage;
+use deltachat::storage_usage::get_storage_usage;
 use deltachat::webxdc::StatusUpdateSerial;
 use deltachat::EventEmitter;
 use sanitize_filename::is_sanitized;
@@ -47,25 +48,27 @@ pub mod types;

 use num_traits::FromPrimitive;
 use types::account::Account;
+use types::calls::JsonrpcCallInfo;
 use types::chat::FullChat;
 use types::contact::{ContactObject, VcardContact};
 use types::events::Event;
 use types::http::HttpResponse;
 use types::message::{MessageData, MessageObject, MessageReadReceipt};
+use types::notify_state::JsonrpcNotifyState;
 use types::provider_info::ProviderInfo;
-use types::reactions::JSONRPCReactions;
+use types::reactions::JsonrpcReactions;
 use types::webxdc::WebxdcMessageInfo;

 use self::types::message::{MessageInfo, MessageLoadResult};
 use self::types::{
-    chat::{BasicChat, JSONRPCChatVisibility, MuteDuration},
+    chat::{BasicChat, JsonrpcChatVisibility, MuteDuration},
    location::JsonrpcLocation,
    message::{
-        JSONRPCMessageListItem, MessageNotificationInfo, MessageSearchResult, MessageViewtype,
+        JsonrpcMessageListItem, MessageNotificationInfo, MessageSearchResult, MessageViewtype,
    },
 };
 use crate::api::types::chat_list::{get_chat_list_item_by_id, ChatListItemFetchResult};
-use crate::api::types::qr::QrObject;
+use crate::api::types::qr::{QrObject, SecurejoinSource, SecurejoinUiPath};

 #[derive(Debug)]
 struct AccountState {
@@ -91,7 +94,8 @@ pub struct CommandApi {

    /// Receiver side of the event channel.
    ///
-    /// Events from it can be received by calling `get_next_event` method.
+    /// Events from it can be received by calling
+    /// [`CommandApi::get_next_event`] method.
    event_emitter: Arc<EventEmitter>,

    states: Arc<Mutex<BTreeMap<u32, AccountState>>>,
@@ -117,14 +121,14 @@ impl CommandApi {
        }
    }

+    async fn get_context_opt(&self, id: u32) -> Option<deltachat::context::Context> {
+        self.accounts.read().await.get_account(id)
+    }
+
    async fn get_context(&self, id: u32) -> Result<deltachat::context::Context> {
-        let sc = self
-            .accounts
-            .read()
+        self.get_context_opt(id)
            .await
-            .get_account(id)
-            .ok_or_else(|| anyhow!("account with id {} not found", id))?;
-        Ok(sc)
+            .ok_or_else(|| anyhow!("account with id {id} not found"))
    }

    async fn with_state<F, T>(&self, id: u32, with_state: F) -> T
@@ -173,7 +177,15 @@ impl CommandApi {
        get_info()
    }

-    /// Get the next event.
+    /// Get the next event, and remove it from the event queue.
+    ///
+    /// If no events have happened since the last `get_next_event`
+    /// (i.e. if the event queue is empty), the response will be returned
+    /// only when a new event fires.
+    ///
+    /// Note that if you are using the `BaseDeltaChat` JavaScript class
+    /// or the `Rpc` Python class, this function will be invoked
+    /// by those classes internally and should not be used manually.
    async fn get_next_event(&self) -> Result<Event> {
        self.event_emitter
            .recv()
@@ -262,7 +274,7 @@ impl CommandApi {
    /// The `AccountsBackgroundFetchDone` event is emitted at the end even in case of timeout.
    /// Process all events until you get this one and you can safely return to the background
    /// without forgetting to create notifications caused by timing race conditions.
-    async fn accounts_background_fetch(&self, timeout_in_seconds: f64) -> Result<()> {
+    async fn background_fetch(&self, timeout_in_seconds: f64) -> Result<()> {
        let future = {
            let lock = self.accounts.read().await;
            lock.background_fetch(std::time::Duration::from_secs_f64(timeout_in_seconds))
@@ -272,6 +284,11 @@ impl CommandApi {
        Ok(())
    }

+    async fn stop_background_fetch(&self) -> Result<()> {
+        self.accounts.read().await.stop_background_fetch();
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
    // ---------------------------------------------
    // Methods that work on individual accounts
    // ---------------------------------------------
@@ -297,12 +314,17 @@ impl CommandApi {
            Ok(Account::from_context(&ctx, account_id).await?)
        } else {
            Err(anyhow!(
-                "account with id {} doesn't exist anymore",
-                account_id
+                "account with id {account_id} doesn't exist anymore"
            ))
        }
    }

+    /// Get the current push notification state.
+    async fn get_push_state(&self, account_id: u32) -> Result<JsonrpcNotifyState> {
+        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
+        Ok(ctx.push_state().await.into())
+    }
+
    /// Get the combined filesize of an account in bytes
    async fn get_account_file_size(&self, account_id: u32) -> Result<u64> {
        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
@@ -326,21 +348,10 @@ impl CommandApi {
    /// instead of the domain.
    async fn get_provider_info(
        &self,
-        account_id: u32,
+        _account_id: u32,
        email: String,
    ) -> Result<Option<ProviderInfo>> {
-        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
-
-        let proxy_enabled = ctx
-            .get_config_bool(deltachat::config::Config::ProxyEnabled)
-            .await?;
-
-        let provider_info = get_provider_info(
-            &ctx,
-            email.split('@').next_back().unwrap_or(""),
-            proxy_enabled,
-        )
-        .await;
+        let provider_info = get_provider_info(email.split('@').next_back().unwrap_or(""));
        Ok(ProviderInfo::from_dc_type(provider_info))
    }

@@ -356,6 +367,13 @@ impl CommandApi {
        ctx.get_info().await
    }

+    /// Get storage usage report as formatted string
+    async fn get_storage_usage_report_string(&self, account_id: u32) -> Result<String> {
+        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
+        let storage_usage = get_storage_usage(&ctx).await?;
+        Ok(storage_usage.to_string())
+    }
+
    /// Get the blob dir.
    async fn get_blob_dir(&self, account_id: u32) -> Result<Option<String>> {
        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
@@ -383,11 +401,6 @@ impl CommandApi {
        Ok(BlobObject::create_and_deduplicate(&ctx, file, file)?.to_abs_path())
    }

-    async fn draft_self_report(&self, account_id: u32) -> Result<u32> {
-        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
-        Ok(ctx.draft_self_report().await?.to_u32())
-    }
-
    /// Sets the given configuration key.
    async fn set_config(&self, account_id: u32, key: String, value: Option<String>) -> Result<()> {
        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
@@ -886,6 +899,38 @@ impl CommandApi {
        Ok(chat_id.to_u32())
    }

+    /// Like `secure_join()`, but allows to pass a source and a UI-path.
+    /// You only need this if your UI has an option to send statistics
+    /// to Delta Chat's developers.
+    ///
+    /// **source**: The source where the QR code came from.
+    /// E.g. a link that was clicked inside or outside Delta Chat,
+    /// the "Paste from Clipboard" action,
+    /// the "Load QR code as image" action,
+    /// or a QR code scan.
+    ///
+    /// **uipath**: Which UI path did the user use to arrive at the QR code screen.
+    /// If the SecurejoinSource was ExternalLink or InternalLink,
+    /// pass `None` here, because the QR code screen wasn't even opened.
+    /// ```
+    async fn secure_join_with_ux_info(
+        &self,
+        account_id: u32,
+        qr: String,
+        source: Option<SecurejoinSource>,
+        uipath: Option<SecurejoinUiPath>,
+    ) -> Result<u32> {
+        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
+        let chat_id = securejoin::join_securejoin_with_ux_info(
+            &ctx,
+            &qr,
+            source.map(Into::into),
+            uipath.map(Into::into),
+        )
+        .await?;
+        Ok(chat_id.to_u32())
+    }
+
    async fn leave_group(&self, account_id: u32, chat_id: u32) -> Result<()> {
        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
        remove_contact_from_chat(&ctx, ChatId::new(chat_id), ContactId::SELF).await
@@ -969,17 +1014,16 @@ impl CommandApi {
    /// To check, if a chat is still unpromoted, you can look at the `is_unpromoted` property of `BasicChat` or `FullChat`.
    /// This may be useful if you want to show some help for just created groups.
    ///
-    /// @param protect If set to 1 the function creates group with protection initially enabled.
-    ///     Only verified members are allowed in these groups
-    async fn create_group_chat(&self, account_id: u32, name: String, protect: bool) -> Result<u32> {
+    /// `protect` argument is deprecated as of 2025-10-22 and is left for compatibility.
+    /// Pass `false` here.
+    async fn create_group_chat(
+        &self,
+        account_id: u32,
+        name: String,
+        _protect: bool,
+    ) -> Result<u32> {
        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
-        let protect = match protect {
-            true => ProtectionStatus::Protected,
-            false => ProtectionStatus::Unprotected,
-        };
-        chat::create_group_ex(&ctx, Some(protect), &name)
-            .await
-            .map(|id| id.to_u32())
+        chat::create_group(&ctx, &name).await.map(|id| id.to_u32())
    }

    /// Create a new unencrypted group chat.
@@ -988,7 +1032,7 @@ impl CommandApi {
    /// address-contacts.
    async fn create_group_chat_unencrypted(&self, account_id: u32, name: String) -> Result<u32> {
        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
-        chat::create_group_ex(&ctx, None, &name)
+        chat::create_group_unencrypted(&ctx, &name)
            .await
            .map(|id| id.to_u32())
    }
@@ -999,7 +1043,7 @@ impl CommandApi {
            .await
    }

-    /// Create a new **broadcast channel**
+    /// Create a new, outgoing **broadcast channel**
    /// (called "Channel" in the UI).
    ///
    /// Broadcast channels are similar to groups on the sending device,
@@ -1060,7 +1104,7 @@ impl CommandApi {
        &self,
        account_id: u32,
        chat_id: u32,
-        visibility: JSONRPCChatVisibility,
+        visibility: JsonrpcChatVisibility,
    ) -> Result<()> {
        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;

@@ -1227,8 +1271,10 @@ impl CommandApi {
    }

    /// Returns all messages of a particular chat.
-    /// If `add_daymarker` is `true`, it will return them as
-    /// `DC_MSG_ID_DAYMARKER`, e.g. [1234, 1237, 9, 1239].
+    ///
+    /// * `add_daymarker` - If `true`, add day markers as `DC_MSG_ID_DAYMARKER` to the result,
+    ///   e.g. [1234, 1237, 9, 1239]. The day marker timestamp is the midnight one for the
+    ///   corresponding (following) day in the local timezone.
    async fn get_message_ids(
        &self,
        account_id: u32,
@@ -1257,13 +1303,31 @@ impl CommandApi {
            .collect())
    }

+    /// Checks if the messages with given IDs exist.
+    ///
+    /// Returns IDs of existing messages.
+    async fn get_existing_msg_ids(&self, account_id: u32, msg_ids: Vec<u32>) -> Result<Vec<u32>> {
+        if let Some(context) = self.get_context_opt(account_id).await {
+            let msg_ids: Vec<MsgId> = msg_ids.into_iter().map(MsgId::new).collect();
+            let existing_msg_ids = get_existing_msg_ids(&context, &msg_ids).await?;
+            Ok(existing_msg_ids
+                .into_iter()
+                .map(|msg_id| msg_id.to_u32())
+                .collect())
+        } else {
+            // Account does not exist, so messages do not exist either,
+            // but this is not an error.
+            Ok(Vec::new())
+        }
+    }
+
    async fn get_message_list_items(
        &self,
        account_id: u32,
        chat_id: u32,
        info_only: bool,
        add_daymarker: bool,
-    ) -> Result<Vec<JSONRPCMessageListItem>> {
+    ) -> Result<Vec<JsonrpcMessageListItem>> {
        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
        let msg = get_chat_msgs_ex(
            &ctx,
@@ -1277,7 +1341,7 @@ impl CommandApi {
        Ok(msg
            .iter()
            .map(|chat_item| (*chat_item).into())
-            .collect::<Vec<JSONRPCMessageListItem>>())
+            .collect::<Vec<JsonrpcMessageListItem>>())
    }

    async fn get_message(&self, account_id: u32, msg_id: u32) -> Result<MessageObject> {
@@ -1471,7 +1535,14 @@ impl CommandApi {

    /// Add a single contact as a result of an explicit user action.
    ///
-    /// Returns contact id of the created or existing contact
+    /// This will always create or look up an address-contact,
+    /// i.e. a contact identified by an email address,
+    /// with all messages sent to and from this contact being unencrypted.
+    /// If the user just clicked on an email address,
+    /// you should first check [`Self::lookup_contact_id_by_addr`]/`lookupContactIdByAddr.`,
+    /// and only if there is no contact yet, call this function here.
+    ///
+    /// Returns contact id of the created or existing contact.
    async fn create_contact(
        &self,
        account_id: u32,
@@ -1621,9 +1692,19 @@ impl CommandApi {
        Contact::get_encrinfo(&ctx, ContactId::new(contact_id)).await
    }

-    /// Check if an e-mail address belongs to a known and unblocked contact.
+    /// Looks up a known and unblocked contact with a given e-mail address.
    /// To get a list of all known and unblocked contacts, use contacts_get_contacts().
    ///
+    /// **POTENTIAL SECURITY ISSUE**: If there are multiple contacts with this address
+    /// (e.g. an address-contact and a key-contact),
+    /// this looks up the most recently seen contact,
+    /// i.e. which contact is returned depends on which contact last sent a message.
+    /// If the user just clicked on a mailto: link, then this is the best thing you can do.
+    /// But **DO NOT** internally represent contacts by their email address
+    /// and do not use this function to look them up;
+    /// otherwise this function will sometimes look up the wrong contact.
+    /// Instead, you should internally represent contacts by their ids.
+    ///
    /// To validate an e-mail address independently of the contact database
    /// use check_email_validity().
    async fn lookup_contact_id_by_addr(
@@ -1779,13 +1860,13 @@ impl CommandApi {

    /// Offers a backup for remote devices to retrieve.
    ///
-    /// Can be cancelled by stopping the ongoing process.  Success or failure can be tracked
+    /// Can be canceled by stopping the ongoing process.  Success or failure can be tracked
    /// via the `ImexProgress` event which should either reach `1000` for success or `0` for
    /// failure.
    ///
    /// This **stops IO** while it is running.
    ///
-    /// Returns once a remote device has retrieved the backup, or is cancelled.
+    /// Returns once a remote device has retrieved the backup, or is canceled.
    async fn provide_backup(&self, account_id: u32) -> Result<()> {
        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;

@@ -1851,7 +1932,7 @@ impl CommandApi {
    /// This retrieves the backup from a remote device over the network and imports it into
    /// the current device.
    ///
-    /// Can be cancelled by stopping the ongoing process.
+    /// Can be canceled by stopping the ongoing process.
    ///
    /// Do not forget to call start_io on the account after a successful import,
    /// otherwise it will not connect to the email server.
@@ -1889,7 +1970,7 @@ impl CommandApi {
    /// If the connectivity changes, a #DC_EVENT_CONNECTIVITY_CHANGED will be emitted.
    async fn get_connectivity(&self, account_id: u32) -> Result<u32> {
        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
-        Ok(ctx.get_connectivity().await as u32)
+        Ok(ctx.get_connectivity() as u32)
    }

    /// Get an overview of the current connectivity, and possibly more statistics.
@@ -1972,6 +2053,11 @@ impl CommandApi {
        Ok(())
    }

+    /// Leaves the gossip of the webxdc with the given message id.
+    ///
+    /// NB: When this is called before closing a webxdc app in UIs, it must be guaranteed that
+    /// `send_webxdc_realtime_*()` functions aren't called for the given `instance_message_id`
+    /// anymore until the app is open again.
    async fn leave_webxdc_realtime(&self, account_id: u32, instance_message_id: u32) -> Result<()> {
        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
        leave_webxdc_realtime(&ctx, MsgId::new(instance_message_id)).await
@@ -2049,6 +2135,53 @@ impl CommandApi {
            .map(|msg_id| msg_id.to_u32()))
    }

+    /// Starts an outgoing call.
+    async fn place_outgoing_call(
+        &self,
+        account_id: u32,
+        chat_id: u32,
+        place_call_info: String,
+    ) -> Result<u32> {
+        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
+        let msg_id = ctx
+            .place_outgoing_call(ChatId::new(chat_id), place_call_info)
+            .await?;
+        Ok(msg_id.to_u32())
+    }
+
+    /// Accepts an incoming call.
+    async fn accept_incoming_call(
+        &self,
+        account_id: u32,
+        msg_id: u32,
+        accept_call_info: String,
+    ) -> Result<()> {
+        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
+        ctx.accept_incoming_call(MsgId::new(msg_id), accept_call_info)
+            .await?;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    /// Ends incoming or outgoing call.
+    async fn end_call(&self, account_id: u32, msg_id: u32) -> Result<()> {
+        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
+        ctx.end_call(MsgId::new(msg_id)).await?;
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    /// Returns information about the call.
+    async fn call_info(&self, account_id: u32, msg_id: u32) -> Result<JsonrpcCallInfo> {
+        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
+        let call_info = JsonrpcCallInfo::from_msg_id(&ctx, MsgId::new(msg_id)).await?;
+        Ok(call_info)
+    }
+
+    /// Returns JSON with ICE servers, to be used for WebRTC video calls.
+    async fn ice_servers(&self, account_id: u32) -> Result<String> {
+        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
+        ice_servers(&ctx).await
+    }
+
    /// Makes an HTTP GET request and returns a response.
    ///
    /// `url` is the HTTP or HTTPS URL.
@@ -2129,7 +2262,7 @@ impl CommandApi {
        &self,
        account_id: u32,
        message_id: u32,
-    ) -> Result<Option<JSONRPCReactions>> {
+    ) -> Result<Option<JsonrpcReactions>> {
        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
        let reactions = get_msg_reactions(&ctx, MsgId::new(message_id)).await?;
        if reactions.is_empty() {
@@ -2200,13 +2333,6 @@ impl CommandApi {
        }
    }

-    async fn send_videochat_invitation(&self, account_id: u32, chat_id: u32) -> Result<u32> {
-        let ctx = self.get_context(account_id).await?;
-        chat::send_videochat_invitation(&ctx, ChatId::new(chat_id))
-            .await
-            .map(|msg_id| msg_id.to_u32())
-    }
-
    // ---------------------------------------------
    //           misc prototyping functions
    //       that might get removed later again
@@ -2237,8 +2363,7 @@ impl CommandApi {
        let message = Message::load_from_db(&ctx, MsgId::new(msg_id)).await?;
        ensure!(
            message.get_viewtype() == Viewtype::Sticker,
-            "message {} is not a sticker",
-            msg_id
+            "message {msg_id} is not a sticker"
        );
        let account_folder = ctx
            .get_dbfile()
@@ -2458,10 +2583,7 @@ impl CommandApi {
                .to_u32();
            Ok(msg_id)
        } else {
-            Err(anyhow!(
-                "chat with id {} doesn't have draft message",
-                chat_id
-            ))
+            Err(anyhow!("chat with id {chat_id} doesn't have draft message"))
        }
    }
 }
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/account.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/account.rs
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ impl Account {
            let addr = ctx.get_config(Config::Addr).await?;
            let profile_image = ctx.get_config(Config::Selfavatar).await?;
            let color = color_int_to_hex_string(
-                Contact::get_by_id(ctx, ContactId::SELF).await?.get_color(),
+                Contact::get_by_id(ctx, ContactId::SELF)
+                    .await?
+                    .get_or_gen_color(ctx)
+                    .await?,
            );
            let private_tag = ctx.get_config(Config::PrivateTag).await?;
            Ok(Account::Configured {
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/calls.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/calls.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+use anyhow::{Context as _, Result};
+
+use deltachat::calls::{call_state, sdp_has_video, CallState};
+use deltachat::context::Context;
+use deltachat::message::MsgId;
+use serde::Serialize;
+use typescript_type_def::TypeDef;
+
+#[derive(Serialize, TypeDef, schemars::JsonSchema)]
+#[serde(rename = "CallInfo", rename_all = "camelCase")]
+pub struct JsonrpcCallInfo {
+    /// SDP offer.
+    ///
+    /// Can be used to manually answer the call
+    /// even if incoming call event was missed.
+    pub sdp_offer: String,
+
+    /// True if SDP offer has a video.
+    pub has_video: bool,
+
+    /// Call state.
+    ///
+    /// For example, if the call is accepted, active, canceled, declined etc.
+    pub state: JsonrpcCallState,
+}
+
+impl JsonrpcCallInfo {
+    pub async fn from_msg_id(context: &Context, msg_id: MsgId) -> Result<JsonrpcCallInfo> {
+        let call_info = context.load_call_by_id(msg_id).await?.with_context(|| {
+            format!("Attempting to get call state of non-call message {msg_id}")
+        })?;
+        let sdp_offer = call_info.place_call_info.clone();
+        let has_video = sdp_has_video(&sdp_offer).unwrap_or_default();
+        let state = JsonrpcCallState::from_msg_id(context, msg_id).await?;
+
+        Ok(JsonrpcCallInfo {
+            sdp_offer,
+            has_video,
+            state,
+        })
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Serialize, TypeDef, schemars::JsonSchema)]
+#[serde(rename = "CallState", tag = "kind")]
+pub enum JsonrpcCallState {
+    /// Fresh incoming or outgoing call that is still ringing.
+    ///
+    /// There is no separate state for outgoing call
+    /// that has been dialled but not ringing on the other side yet
+    /// as we don't know whether the other side received our call.
+    Alerting,
+
+    /// Active call.
+    Active,
+
+    /// Completed call that was once active
+    /// and then was terminated for any reason.
+    Completed {
+        /// Call duration in seconds.
+        duration: i64,
+    },
+
+    /// Incoming call that was not picked up within a timeout
+    /// or was explicitly ended by the caller before we picked up.
+    Missed,
+
+    /// Incoming call that was explicitly ended on our side
+    /// before picking up or outgoing call
+    /// that was declined before the timeout.
+    Declined,
+
+    /// Outgoing call that has been canceled on our side
+    /// before receiving a response.
+    ///
+    /// Incoming calls cannot be canceled,
+    /// on the receiver side canceled calls
+    /// usually result in missed calls.
+    Canceled,
+}
+
+impl JsonrpcCallState {
+    pub async fn from_msg_id(context: &Context, msg_id: MsgId) -> Result<JsonrpcCallState> {
+        let call_state = call_state(context, msg_id).await?;
+
+        let jsonrpc_call_state = match call_state {
+            CallState::Alerting => JsonrpcCallState::Alerting,
+            CallState::Active => JsonrpcCallState::Active,
+            CallState::Completed { duration } => JsonrpcCallState::Completed { duration },
+            CallState::Missed => JsonrpcCallState::Missed,
+            CallState::Declined => JsonrpcCallState::Declined,
+            CallState::Canceled => JsonrpcCallState::Canceled,
+        };
+
+        Ok(jsonrpc_call_state)
+    }
+}
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/chat.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/chat.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ use deltachat::chat::{Chat, ChatId};
 use deltachat::constants::Chattype;
 use deltachat::contact::{Contact, ContactId};
 use deltachat::context::Context;
-use num_traits::cast::ToPrimitive;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use typescript_type_def::TypeDef;

@@ -19,18 +18,6 @@ pub struct FullChat {
    id: u32,
    name: String,

-    /// True if the chat is protected.
-    ///
-    /// Only verified contacts
-    /// as determined by [`ContactObject::is_verified`] / `Contact.isVerified`
-    /// can be added to protected chats.
-    ///
-    /// Protected chats are created using [`create_group_chat`] / `createGroupChat()`
-    /// by setting the 'protect' parameter to true.
-    ///
-    /// [`create_group_chat`]: crate::api::CommandApi::create_group_chat
-    is_protected: bool,
-
    /// True if the chat is encrypted.
    /// This means that all messages in the chat are encrypted,
    /// and all contacts in the chat are "key-contacts",
@@ -58,7 +45,7 @@ pub struct FullChat {
    archived: bool,
    pinned: bool,
    // subtitle  - will be moved to frontend because it uses translation functions
-    chat_type: u32,
+    chat_type: JsonrpcChatType,
    is_unpromoted: bool,
    is_self_talk: bool,
    contacts: Vec<ContactObject>,
@@ -71,8 +58,15 @@ pub struct FullChat {
    fresh_message_counter: usize,
    // is_group - please check over chat.type in frontend instead
    is_contact_request: bool,
-    is_protection_broken: bool, // deprecated 2025-07
+
    is_device_chat: bool,
+    /// Note that this is different from
+    /// [`ChatListItem::is_self_in_group`](`crate::api::types::chat_list::ChatListItemFetchResult::ChatListItem::is_self_in_group`).
+    /// This property should only be accessed
+    /// when [`FullChat::chat_type`] is [`Chattype::Group`].
+    //
+    // We could utilize [`Chat::is_self_in_chat`],
+    // but that would be an extra DB query.
    self_in_group: bool,
    is_muted: bool,
    ephemeral_timer: u32, //TODO look if there are more important properties in newer core versions
@@ -131,12 +125,11 @@ impl FullChat {
        Ok(FullChat {
            id: chat_id,
            name: chat.name.clone(),
-            is_protected: chat.is_protected(),
            is_encrypted: chat.is_encrypted(context).await?,
            profile_image, //BLOBS ?
            archived: chat.get_visibility() == chat::ChatVisibility::Archived,
            pinned: chat.get_visibility() == chat::ChatVisibility::Pinned,
-            chat_type: chat.get_type().to_u32().context("unknown chat type id")?,
+            chat_type: chat.get_type().into(),
            is_unpromoted: chat.is_unpromoted(),
            is_self_talk: chat.is_self_talk(),
            contacts,
@@ -145,7 +138,6 @@ impl FullChat {
            color,
            fresh_message_counter,
            is_contact_request: chat.is_contact_request(),
-            is_protection_broken: chat.is_protection_broken(),
            is_device_chat: chat.is_device_talk(),
            self_in_group: contact_ids.contains(&ContactId::SELF),
            is_muted: chat.is_muted(),
@@ -173,18 +165,6 @@ pub struct BasicChat {
    id: u32,
    name: String,

-    /// True if the chat is protected.
-    ///
-    /// UI should display a green checkmark
-    /// in the chat title,
-    /// in the chat profile title and
-    /// in the chatlist item
-    /// if chat protection is enabled.
-    /// UI should also display a green checkmark
-    /// in the contact profile
-    /// if 1:1 chat with this contact exists and is protected.
-    is_protected: bool,
-
    /// True if the chat is encrypted.
    /// This means that all messages in the chat are encrypted,
    /// and all contacts in the chat are "key-contacts",
@@ -211,12 +191,12 @@ pub struct BasicChat {
    profile_image: Option<String>, //BLOBS ?
    archived: bool,
    pinned: bool,
-    chat_type: u32,
+    chat_type: JsonrpcChatType,
    is_unpromoted: bool,
    is_self_talk: bool,
    color: String,
    is_contact_request: bool,
-    is_protection_broken: bool,
+
    is_device_chat: bool,
    is_muted: bool,
 }
@@ -235,17 +215,15 @@ impl BasicChat {
        Ok(BasicChat {
            id: chat_id,
            name: chat.name.clone(),
-            is_protected: chat.is_protected(),
            is_encrypted: chat.is_encrypted(context).await?,
            profile_image, //BLOBS ?
            archived: chat.get_visibility() == chat::ChatVisibility::Archived,
            pinned: chat.get_visibility() == chat::ChatVisibility::Pinned,
-            chat_type: chat.get_type().to_u32().context("unknown chat type id")?,
+            chat_type: chat.get_type().into(),
            is_unpromoted: chat.is_unpromoted(),
            is_self_talk: chat.is_self_talk(),
            color,
            is_contact_request: chat.is_contact_request(),
-            is_protection_broken: chat.is_protection_broken(),
            is_device_chat: chat.is_device_talk(),
            is_muted: chat.is_muted(),
        })
@@ -280,18 +258,52 @@ impl MuteDuration {

 #[derive(Clone, Serialize, Deserialize, TypeDef, schemars::JsonSchema)]
 #[serde(rename = "ChatVisibility")]
-pub enum JSONRPCChatVisibility {
+pub enum JsonrpcChatVisibility {
    Normal,
    Archived,
    Pinned,
 }

-impl JSONRPCChatVisibility {
+impl JsonrpcChatVisibility {
    pub fn into_core_type(self) -> ChatVisibility {
        match self {
-            JSONRPCChatVisibility::Normal => ChatVisibility::Normal,
-            JSONRPCChatVisibility::Archived => ChatVisibility::Archived,
-            JSONRPCChatVisibility::Pinned => ChatVisibility::Pinned,
+            JsonrpcChatVisibility::Normal => ChatVisibility::Normal,
+            JsonrpcChatVisibility::Archived => ChatVisibility::Archived,
+            JsonrpcChatVisibility::Pinned => ChatVisibility::Pinned,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Serialize, Deserialize, PartialEq, TypeDef, schemars::JsonSchema)]
+#[serde(rename = "ChatType")]
+pub enum JsonrpcChatType {
+    Single,
+    Group,
+    Mailinglist,
+    OutBroadcast,
+    InBroadcast,
+}
+
+impl From<Chattype> for JsonrpcChatType {
+    fn from(chattype: Chattype) -> Self {
+        match chattype {
+            Chattype::Single => JsonrpcChatType::Single,
+            Chattype::Group => JsonrpcChatType::Group,
+            Chattype::Mailinglist => JsonrpcChatType::Mailinglist,
+            Chattype::OutBroadcast => JsonrpcChatType::OutBroadcast,
+            Chattype::InBroadcast => JsonrpcChatType::InBroadcast,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl From<JsonrpcChatType> for Chattype {
+    fn from(chattype: JsonrpcChatType) -> Self {
+        match chattype {
+            JsonrpcChatType::Single => Chattype::Single,
+            JsonrpcChatType::Group => Chattype::Group,
+            JsonrpcChatType::Mailinglist => Chattype::Mailinglist,
+            JsonrpcChatType::OutBroadcast => Chattype::OutBroadcast,
+            JsonrpcChatType::InBroadcast => Chattype::InBroadcast,
        }
    }
 }
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/chat_list.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/chat_list.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ use anyhow::{Context, Result};
 use deltachat::chat::{Chat, ChatId};
 use deltachat::chatlist::get_last_message_for_chat;
 use deltachat::constants::*;
-use deltachat::contact::{Contact, ContactId};
+use deltachat::contact::Contact;
 use deltachat::{
    chat::{get_chat_contacts, ChatVisibility},
    chatlist::Chatlist,
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ use num_traits::cast::ToPrimitive;
 use serde::Serialize;
 use typescript_type_def::TypeDef;

+use super::chat::JsonrpcChatType;
 use super::color_int_to_hex_string;
 use super::message::MessageViewtype;

@@ -23,14 +24,13 @@ pub enum ChatListItemFetchResult {
        name: String,
        avatar_path: Option<String>,
        color: String,
-        chat_type: u32,
+        chat_type: JsonrpcChatType,
        last_updated: Option<i64>,
        summary_text1: String,
        summary_text2: String,
        summary_status: u32,
        /// showing preview if last chat message is image
        summary_preview_image: Option<String>,
-        is_protected: bool,

        /// True if the chat is encrypted.
        /// This means that all messages in the chat are encrypted,
@@ -127,11 +127,8 @@ pub(crate) async fn get_chat_list_item_by_id(
        None => (None, None),
    };

-    let chat_contacts = get_chat_contacts(ctx, chat_id).await?;
-
-    let self_in_group = chat_contacts.contains(&ContactId::SELF);
-
    let (dm_chat_contact, was_seen_recently) = if chat.get_type() == Chattype::Single {
+        let chat_contacts = get_chat_contacts(ctx, chat_id).await?;
        let contact = chat_contacts.first();
        let was_seen_recently = match contact {
            Some(contact) => Contact::get_by_id(ctx, *contact)
@@ -155,19 +152,18 @@ pub(crate) async fn get_chat_list_item_by_id(
        name: chat.get_name().to_owned(),
        avatar_path,
        color,
-        chat_type: chat.get_type().to_u32().context("unknown chat type id")?,
+        chat_type: chat.get_type().into(),
        last_updated,
        summary_text1,
        summary_text2,
        summary_status: summary.state.to_u32().expect("impossible"), // idea and a function to transform the constant to strings? or return string enum
        summary_preview_image,
-        is_protected: chat.is_protected(),
        is_encrypted: chat.is_encrypted(ctx).await?,
        is_group: chat.get_type() == Chattype::Group,
        fresh_message_counter,
        is_self_talk: chat.is_self_talk(),
        is_device_talk: chat.is_device_talk(),
-        is_self_in_group: self_in_group,
+        is_self_in_group: chat.is_self_in_chat(ctx).await?,
        is_sending_location: chat.is_sending_locations(),
        is_archived: visibility == ChatVisibility::Archived,
        is_pinned: visibility == ChatVisibility::Pinned,
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/contact.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/contact.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 use anyhow::Result;
-use deltachat::color;
 use deltachat::context::Context;
+use deltachat::key::{DcKey, SignedPublicKey};
 use serde::Serialize;
 use typescript_type_def::TypeDef;

@@ -38,12 +38,6 @@ pub struct ContactObject {
    /// See [`Self::verifier_id`]/`Contact.verifierId` for a guidance how to display these information.
    is_verified: bool,

-    /// True if the contact profile title should have a green checkmark.
-    ///
-    /// This indicates whether 1:1 chat has a green checkmark
-    /// or will have a green checkmark if created.
-    is_profile_verified: bool,
-
    /// The contact ID that verified a contact.
    ///
    /// As verifier may be unknown,
@@ -87,7 +81,6 @@ impl ContactObject {
            None => None,
        };
        let is_verified = contact.is_verified(context).await?;
-        let is_profile_verified = contact.is_profile_verified(context).await?;

        let verifier_id = contact
            .get_verifier_id(context)
@@ -109,7 +102,6 @@ impl ContactObject {
            is_key_contact: contact.is_key_contact(),
            e2ee_avail: contact.e2ee_avail(context).await?,
            is_verified,
-            is_profile_verified,
            verifier_id,
            last_seen: contact.last_seen(),
            was_seen_recently: contact.was_seen_recently(),
@@ -138,7 +130,13 @@ pub struct VcardContact {
 impl From<deltachat_contact_tools::VcardContact> for VcardContact {
    fn from(vc: deltachat_contact_tools::VcardContact) -> Self {
        let display_name = vc.display_name().to_string();
-        let color = color::str_to_color(&vc.addr.to_lowercase());
+        let is_self = false;
+        let fpr = vc.key.as_deref().and_then(|k| {
+            SignedPublicKey::from_base64(k)
+                .ok()
+                .map(|k| k.dc_fingerprint())
+        });
+        let color = deltachat::contact::get_color(is_self, &vc.addr, &fpr);
        Self {
            addr: vc.addr,
            display_name,
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/events.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/events.rs
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ use deltachat::{Event as CoreEvent, EventType as CoreEventType};
 use serde::Serialize;
 use typescript_type_def::TypeDef;

+use super::chat::JsonrpcChatType;
+
 #[derive(Serialize, TypeDef, schemars::JsonSchema)]
 #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
 pub struct Event {
@@ -293,8 +295,8 @@ pub enum EventType {
    #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
    ImexFileWritten { path: String },

-    /// Progress information of a secure-join handshake from the view of the inviter
-    /// (Alice, the person who shows the QR code).
+    /// Progress event sent when SecureJoin protocol has finished
+    /// from the view of the inviter (Alice, the person who shows the QR code).
    ///
    /// These events are typically sent after a joiner has scanned the QR code
    /// generated by getChatSecurejoinQrCodeSvg().
@@ -303,11 +305,14 @@ pub enum EventType {
        /// ID of the contact that wants to join.
        contact_id: u32,

-        /// Progress as:
-        /// 300=vg-/vc-request received, typically shown as "bob@addr joins".
-        /// 600=vg-/vc-request-with-auth received, vg-member-added/vc-contact-confirm sent, typically shown as "bob@addr verified".
-        /// 800=contact added to chat, shown as "bob@addr securely joined GROUP". Only for the verified-group-protocol.
-        /// 1000=Protocol finished for this contact.
+        /// The type of the joined chat.
+        /// This can take the same values
+        /// as `BasicChat.chatType` ([`crate::api::types::chat::BasicChat::chat_type`]).
+        chat_type: JsonrpcChatType,
+        /// ID of the chat in case of success.
+        chat_id: u32,
+
+        /// Progress, always 1000.
        progress: usize,
    },

@@ -416,6 +421,45 @@ pub enum EventType {
        /// Number of events skipped.
        n: u64,
    },
+
+    /// Incoming call.
+    IncomingCall {
+        /// ID of the info message referring to the call.
+        msg_id: u32,
+        /// ID of the chat which the message belongs to.
+        chat_id: u32,
+        /// User-defined info as passed to place_outgoing_call()
+        place_call_info: String,
+        /// True if incoming call is a video call.
+        has_video: bool,
+    },
+
+    /// Incoming call accepted.
+    /// This is esp. interesting to stop ringing on other devices.
+    IncomingCallAccepted {
+        /// ID of the info message referring to the call.
+        msg_id: u32,
+        /// ID of the chat which the message belongs to.
+        chat_id: u32,
+    },
+
+    /// Outgoing call accepted.
+    OutgoingCallAccepted {
+        /// ID of the info message referring to the call.
+        msg_id: u32,
+        /// ID of the chat which the message belongs to.
+        chat_id: u32,
+        /// User-defined info passed to dc_accept_incoming_call(
+        accept_call_info: String,
+    },
+
+    /// Call ended.
+    CallEnded {
+        /// ID of the info message referring to the call.
+        msg_id: u32,
+        /// ID of the chat which the message belongs to.
+        chat_id: u32,
+    },
 }

 impl From<CoreEventType> for EventType {
@@ -522,9 +566,13 @@ impl From<CoreEventType> for EventType {
            },
            CoreEventType::SecurejoinInviterProgress {
                contact_id,
+                chat_type,
+                chat_id,
                progress,
            } => SecurejoinInviterProgress {
                contact_id: contact_id.to_u32(),
+                chat_type: chat_type.into(),
+                chat_id: chat_id.to_u32(),
                progress,
            },
            CoreEventType::SecurejoinJoinerProgress {
@@ -566,6 +614,34 @@ impl From<CoreEventType> for EventType {
            CoreEventType::EventChannelOverflow { n } => EventChannelOverflow { n },
            CoreEventType::AccountsChanged => AccountsChanged,
            CoreEventType::AccountsItemChanged => AccountsItemChanged,
+            CoreEventType::IncomingCall {
+                msg_id,
+                chat_id,
+                place_call_info,
+                has_video,
+            } => IncomingCall {
+                msg_id: msg_id.to_u32(),
+                chat_id: chat_id.to_u32(),
+                place_call_info,
+                has_video,
+            },
+            CoreEventType::IncomingCallAccepted { msg_id, chat_id } => IncomingCallAccepted {
+                msg_id: msg_id.to_u32(),
+                chat_id: chat_id.to_u32(),
+            },
+            CoreEventType::OutgoingCallAccepted {
+                msg_id,
+                chat_id,
+                accept_call_info,
+            } => OutgoingCallAccepted {
+                msg_id: msg_id.to_u32(),
+                chat_id: chat_id.to_u32(),
+                accept_call_info,
+            },
+            CoreEventType::CallEnded { msg_id, chat_id } => CallEnded {
+                msg_id: msg_id.to_u32(),
+                chat_id: chat_id.to_u32(),
+            },
            #[allow(unreachable_patterns)]
            #[cfg(test)]
            _ => unreachable!("This is just to silence a rust_analyzer false-positive"),
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/message.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/message.rs
@@ -16,9 +16,10 @@ use num_traits::cast::ToPrimitive;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use typescript_type_def::TypeDef;

+use super::chat::JsonrpcChatType;
 use super::color_int_to_hex_string;
 use super::contact::ContactObject;
-use super::reactions::JSONRPCReactions;
+use super::reactions::JsonrpcReactions;

 #[derive(Serialize, TypeDef, schemars::JsonSchema)]
 #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase", tag = "kind")]
@@ -84,9 +85,6 @@ pub struct MessageObject {
    dimensions_height: i32,
    dimensions_width: i32,

-    videochat_type: Option<u32>,
-    videochat_url: Option<String>,
-
    override_sender_name: Option<String>,
    sender: ContactObject,

@@ -105,7 +103,7 @@ pub struct MessageObject {

    saved_message_id: Option<u32>,

-    reactions: Option<JSONRPCReactions>,
+    reactions: Option<JsonrpcReactions>,

    vcard_contact: Option<VcardContact>,
 }
@@ -239,15 +237,6 @@ impl MessageObject {
            dimensions_height: message.get_height(),
            dimensions_width: message.get_width(),

-            videochat_type: match message.get_videochat_type() {
-                Some(vct) => Some(
-                    vct.to_u32()
-                        .context("videochat type conversion to number failed")?,
-                ),
-                None => None,
-            },
-            videochat_url: message.get_videochat_url(),
-
            override_sender_name,
            sender,

@@ -321,8 +310,8 @@ pub enum MessageViewtype {
    /// Message containing any file, eg. a PDF.
    File,

-    /// Message is an invitation to a videochat.
-    VideochatInvitation,
+    /// Message is a call.
+    Call,

    /// Message is an webxdc instance.
    Webxdc,
@@ -345,7 +334,7 @@ impl From<Viewtype> for MessageViewtype {
            Viewtype::Voice => MessageViewtype::Voice,
            Viewtype::Video => MessageViewtype::Video,
            Viewtype::File => MessageViewtype::File,
-            Viewtype::VideochatInvitation => MessageViewtype::VideochatInvitation,
+            Viewtype::Call => MessageViewtype::Call,
            Viewtype::Webxdc => MessageViewtype::Webxdc,
            Viewtype::Vcard => MessageViewtype::Vcard,
        }
@@ -364,7 +353,7 @@ impl From<MessageViewtype> for Viewtype {
            MessageViewtype::Voice => Viewtype::Voice,
            MessageViewtype::Video => Viewtype::Video,
            MessageViewtype::File => Viewtype::File,
-            MessageViewtype::VideochatInvitation => Viewtype::VideochatInvitation,
+            MessageViewtype::Call => Viewtype::Call,
            MessageViewtype::Webxdc => Viewtype::Webxdc,
            MessageViewtype::Vcard => Viewtype::Vcard,
        }
@@ -437,6 +426,9 @@ pub enum SystemMessageType {

    /// This message contains a users iroh node address.
    IrohNodeAddr,
+
+    CallAccepted,
+    CallEnded,
 }

 impl From<deltachat::mimeparser::SystemMessage> for SystemMessageType {
@@ -463,6 +455,8 @@ impl From<deltachat::mimeparser::SystemMessage> for SystemMessageType {
            SystemMessage::IrohNodeAddr => SystemMessageType::IrohNodeAddr,
            SystemMessage::SecurejoinWait => SystemMessageType::SecurejoinWait,
            SystemMessage::SecurejoinWaitTimeout => SystemMessageType::SecurejoinWaitTimeout,
+            SystemMessage::CallAccepted => SystemMessageType::CallAccepted,
+            SystemMessage::CallEnded => SystemMessageType::CallEnded,
        }
    }
 }
@@ -538,8 +532,7 @@ pub struct MessageSearchResult {
    chat_profile_image: Option<String>,
    chat_color: String,
    chat_name: String,
-    chat_type: u32,
-    is_chat_protected: bool,
+    chat_type: JsonrpcChatType,
    is_chat_contact_request: bool,
    is_chat_archived: bool,
    message: String,
@@ -577,9 +570,8 @@ impl MessageSearchResult {
            chat_id: chat.id.to_u32(),
            chat_name: chat.get_name().to_owned(),
            chat_color,
-            chat_type: chat.get_type().to_u32().context("unknown chat type id")?,
+            chat_type: chat.get_type().into(),
            chat_profile_image,
-            is_chat_protected: chat.is_protected(),
            is_chat_contact_request: chat.is_contact_request(),
            is_chat_archived: chat.get_visibility() == ChatVisibility::Archived,
            message: message.get_text(),
@@ -590,7 +582,7 @@ impl MessageSearchResult {

 #[derive(Serialize, TypeDef, schemars::JsonSchema)]
 #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase", rename = "MessageListItem", tag = "kind")]
-pub enum JSONRPCMessageListItem {
+pub enum JsonrpcMessageListItem {
    Message {
        msg_id: u32,
    },
@@ -603,13 +595,13 @@ pub enum JSONRPCMessageListItem {
    },
 }

-impl From<ChatItem> for JSONRPCMessageListItem {
+impl From<ChatItem> for JsonrpcMessageListItem {
    fn from(item: ChatItem) -> Self {
        match item {
-            ChatItem::Message { msg_id } => JSONRPCMessageListItem::Message {
+            ChatItem::Message { msg_id } => JsonrpcMessageListItem::Message {
                msg_id: msg_id.to_u32(),
            },
-            ChatItem::DayMarker { timestamp } => JSONRPCMessageListItem::DayMarker { timestamp },
+            ChatItem::DayMarker { timestamp } => JsonrpcMessageListItem::DayMarker { timestamp },
        }
    }
 }
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/mod.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/mod.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 pub mod account;
+pub mod calls;
 pub mod chat;
 pub mod chat_list;
 pub mod contact;
@@ -7,6 +8,7 @@ pub mod http;
 pub mod location;
 pub mod login_param;
 pub mod message;
+pub mod notify_state;
 pub mod provider_info;
 pub mod qr;
 pub mod reactions;
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/notify_state.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/notify_state.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+use deltachat::push::NotifyState;
+use serde::Serialize;
+use typescript_type_def::TypeDef;
+
+#[derive(Serialize, TypeDef, schemars::JsonSchema)]
+#[serde(rename = "NotifyState")]
+pub enum JsonrpcNotifyState {
+    /// Not subscribed to push notifications.
+    NotConnected,
+
+    /// Subscribed to heartbeat push notifications.
+    Heartbeat,
+
+    /// Subscribed to push notifications for new messages.
+    Connected,
+}
+
+impl From<NotifyState> for JsonrpcNotifyState {
+    fn from(state: NotifyState) -> Self {
+        match state {
+            NotifyState::NotConnected => Self::NotConnected,
+            NotifyState::Heartbeat => Self::Heartbeat,
+            NotifyState::Connected => Self::Connected,
+        }
+    }
+}
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/qr.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/qr.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 use deltachat::qr::Qr;
+use serde::Deserialize;
 use serde::Serialize;
 use typescript_type_def::TypeDef;

@@ -34,6 +35,26 @@ pub enum QrObject {
        /// Authentication code.
        authcode: String,
    },
+    /// Ask the user whether to join the broadcast channel.
+    AskJoinBroadcast {
+        /// The user-visible name of this broadcast channel
+        name: String,
+        /// A string of random characters,
+        /// uniquely identifying this broadcast channel across all databases/clients.
+        /// Called `grpid` for historic reasons:
+        /// The id of multi-user chats is always called `grpid` in the database
+        /// because groups were once the only multi-user chats.
+        grpid: String,
+        /// ID of the contact who owns the broadcast channel and created the QR code.
+        contact_id: u32,
+        /// Fingerprint of the broadcast channel owner's key as scanned from the QR code.
+        fingerprint: String,
+
+        /// Invite number.
+        invitenumber: String,
+        /// Authentication code.
+        authcode: String,
+    },
    /// Contact fingerprint is verified.
    ///
    /// Ask the user if they want to start chatting.
@@ -136,6 +157,21 @@ pub enum QrObject {
        /// Authentication code.
        authcode: String,
    },
+    /// Ask the user if they want to withdraw their own broadcast channel invite QR code.
+    WithdrawJoinBroadcast {
+        /// Broadcast name.
+        name: String,
+        /// ID, uniquely identifying this chat. Called grpid for historic reasons.
+        grpid: String,
+        /// Contact ID. Always `ContactId::SELF`.
+        contact_id: u32,
+        /// Fingerprint of the contact key as scanned from the QR code.
+        fingerprint: String,
+        /// Invite number.
+        invitenumber: String,
+        /// Authentication code.
+        authcode: String,
+    },
    /// Ask the user if they want to revive their own QR code.
    ReviveVerifyContact {
        /// Contact ID.
@@ -162,6 +198,21 @@ pub enum QrObject {
        /// Authentication code.
        authcode: String,
    },
+    /// Ask the user if they want to revive their own broadcast channel invite QR code.
+    ReviveJoinBroadcast {
+        /// Broadcast name.
+        name: String,
+        /// Globally unique chat ID. Called grpid for historic reasons.
+        grpid: String,
+        /// Contact ID. Always `ContactId::SELF`.
+        contact_id: u32,
+        /// Fingerprint of the contact key as scanned from the QR code.
+        fingerprint: String,
+        /// Invite number.
+        invitenumber: String,
+        /// Authentication code.
+        authcode: String,
+    },
    /// `dclogin:` scheme parameters.
    ///
    /// Ask the user if they want to login with the email address.
@@ -207,6 +258,25 @@ impl From<Qr> for QrObject {
                    authcode,
                }
            }
+            Qr::AskJoinBroadcast {
+                name,
+                grpid,
+                contact_id,
+                fingerprint,
+                authcode,
+                invitenumber,
+            } => {
+                let contact_id = contact_id.to_u32();
+                let fingerprint = fingerprint.to_string();
+                QrObject::AskJoinBroadcast {
+                    name,
+                    grpid,
+                    contact_id,
+                    fingerprint,
+                    authcode,
+                    invitenumber,
+                }
+            }
            Qr::FprOk { contact_id } => {
                let contact_id = contact_id.to_u32();
                QrObject::FprOk { contact_id }
@@ -225,13 +295,6 @@ impl From<Qr> for QrObject {
                auth_token,
            },
            Qr::BackupTooNew {} => QrObject::BackupTooNew {},
-            Qr::WebrtcInstance {
-                domain,
-                instance_pattern,
-            } => QrObject::WebrtcInstance {
-                domain,
-                instance_pattern,
-            },
            Qr::Proxy { url, host, port } => QrObject::Proxy { url, host, port },
            Qr::Addr { contact_id, draft } => {
                let contact_id = contact_id.to_u32();
@@ -273,6 +336,25 @@ impl From<Qr> for QrObject {
                    authcode,
                }
            }
+            Qr::WithdrawJoinBroadcast {
+                name,
+                grpid,
+                contact_id,
+                fingerprint,
+                invitenumber,
+                authcode,
+            } => {
+                let contact_id = contact_id.to_u32();
+                let fingerprint = fingerprint.to_string();
+                QrObject::WithdrawJoinBroadcast {
+                    name,
+                    grpid,
+                    contact_id,
+                    fingerprint,
+                    invitenumber,
+                    authcode,
+                }
+            }
            Qr::ReviveVerifyContact {
                contact_id,
                fingerprint,
@@ -307,7 +389,76 @@ impl From<Qr> for QrObject {
                    authcode,
                }
            }
+            Qr::ReviveJoinBroadcast {
+                name,
+                grpid,
+                contact_id,
+                fingerprint,
+                invitenumber,
+                authcode,
+            } => {
+                let contact_id = contact_id.to_u32();
+                let fingerprint = fingerprint.to_string();
+                QrObject::ReviveJoinBroadcast {
+                    name,
+                    grpid,
+                    contact_id,
+                    fingerprint,
+                    invitenumber,
+                    authcode,
+                }
+            }
            Qr::Login { address, .. } => QrObject::Login { address },
        }
    }
 }
+
+#[derive(Deserialize, TypeDef, schemars::JsonSchema)]
+pub enum SecurejoinSource {
+    /// Because of some problem, it is unknown where the QR code came from.
+    Unknown,
+    /// The user opened a link somewhere outside Delta Chat
+    ExternalLink,
+    /// The user clicked on a link in a message inside Delta Chat
+    InternalLink,
+    /// The user clicked "Paste from Clipboard" in the QR scan activity
+    Clipboard,
+    /// The user clicked "Load QR code as image" in the QR scan activity
+    ImageLoaded,
+    /// The user scanned a QR code
+    Scan,
+}
+
+#[derive(Deserialize, TypeDef, schemars::JsonSchema)]
+pub enum SecurejoinUiPath {
+    /// The UI path is unknown, or the user didn't open the QR code screen at all.
+    Unknown,
+    /// The user directly clicked on the QR icon in the main screen
+    QrIcon,
+    /// The user first clicked on the `+` button in the main screen,
+    /// and then on "New Contact"
+    NewContact,
+}
+
+impl From<SecurejoinSource> for deltachat::SecurejoinSource {
+    fn from(value: SecurejoinSource) -> Self {
+        match value {
+            SecurejoinSource::Unknown => deltachat::SecurejoinSource::Unknown,
+            SecurejoinSource::ExternalLink => deltachat::SecurejoinSource::ExternalLink,
+            SecurejoinSource::InternalLink => deltachat::SecurejoinSource::InternalLink,
+            SecurejoinSource::Clipboard => deltachat::SecurejoinSource::Clipboard,
+            SecurejoinSource::ImageLoaded => deltachat::SecurejoinSource::ImageLoaded,
+            SecurejoinSource::Scan => deltachat::SecurejoinSource::Scan,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl From<SecurejoinUiPath> for deltachat::SecurejoinUiPath {
+    fn from(value: SecurejoinUiPath) -> Self {
+        match value {
+            SecurejoinUiPath::Unknown => deltachat::SecurejoinUiPath::Unknown,
+            SecurejoinUiPath::QrIcon => deltachat::SecurejoinUiPath::QrIcon,
+            SecurejoinUiPath::NewContact => deltachat::SecurejoinUiPath::NewContact,
+        }
+    }
+}
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/reactions.rs
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/src/api/types/reactions.rs
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ use typescript_type_def::TypeDef;
 /// A single reaction emoji.
 #[derive(Serialize, TypeDef, schemars::JsonSchema)]
 #[serde(rename = "Reaction", rename_all = "camelCase")]
-pub struct JSONRPCReaction {
+pub struct JsonrpcReaction {
    /// Emoji.
    emoji: String,

@@ -22,14 +22,14 @@ pub struct JSONRPCReaction {
 /// Structure representing all reactions to a particular message.
 #[derive(Serialize, TypeDef, schemars::JsonSchema)]
 #[serde(rename = "Reactions", rename_all = "camelCase")]
-pub struct JSONRPCReactions {
+pub struct JsonrpcReactions {
    /// Map from a contact to it's reaction to message.
    reactions_by_contact: BTreeMap<u32, Vec<String>>,
    /// Unique reactions and their count, sorted in descending order.
-    reactions: Vec<JSONRPCReaction>,
+    reactions: Vec<JsonrpcReaction>,
 }

-impl From<Reactions> for JSONRPCReactions {
+impl From<Reactions> for JsonrpcReactions {
    fn from(reactions: Reactions) -> Self {
        let mut reactions_by_contact: BTreeMap<u32, Vec<String>> = BTreeMap::new();

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ impl From<Reactions> for JSONRPCReactions {
                false
            };

-            let reaction = JSONRPCReaction {
+            let reaction = JsonrpcReaction {
                emoji,
                count,
                is_from_self,
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ impl From<Reactions> for JSONRPCReactions {
            reactions_v.push(reaction)
        }

-        JSONRPCReactions {
+        JsonrpcReactions {
            reactions_by_contact,
            reactions: reactions_v,
        }
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/package.json
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/package.json
@@ -54,5 +54,5 @@
  },
  "type": "module",
  "types": "dist/deltachat.d.ts",
-  "version": "2.6.0"
+  "version": "2.29.0"
 }
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/scripts/generate-constants.js
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/scripts/generate-constants.js
@@ -40,15 +40,35 @@ const constants = data
      key.startsWith("DC_DOWNLOAD") ||
      key.startsWith("DC_INFO_") ||
      (key.startsWith("DC_MSG") && !key.startsWith("DC_MSG_ID")) ||
-      key.startsWith("DC_QR_")
+      key.startsWith("DC_QR_") ||
+      key.startsWith("DC_CERTCK_") ||
+      key.startsWith("DC_SOCKET_") ||
+      key.startsWith("DC_LP_AUTH_") ||
+      key.startsWith("DC_PUSH_") ||
+      key.startsWith("DC_TEXT1_") ||
+      key.startsWith("DC_CHAT_TYPE")
    );
  })
  .map((row) => {
-    return `  ${row.key}: ${row.value}`;
+    return `  export const ${row.key} = ${row.value};`;
  })
-  .join(",\n");
+  .join("\n");

 writeFileSync(
  resolve(__dirname, "../generated/constants.ts"),
-  `// Generated!\n\nexport enum C {\n${constants.replace(/:/g, " =")},\n}\n`,
+  `// Generated!
+
+export namespace C {
+${constants}
+  /** @deprecated 10-8-2025 compare string directly with \`== "Group"\` */
+  export const DC_CHAT_TYPE_GROUP = "Group";
+  /** @deprecated 10-8-2025 compare string directly with \`== "InBroadcast"\`*/
+  export const DC_CHAT_TYPE_IN_BROADCAST = "InBroadcast";
+  /** @deprecated 10-8-2025 compare string directly with \`== "Mailinglist"\` */
+  export const DC_CHAT_TYPE_MAILINGLIST = "Mailinglist";
+  /** @deprecated 10-8-2025 compare string directly with \`== "OutBroadcast"\` */
+  export const DC_CHAT_TYPE_OUT_BROADCAST = "OutBroadcast";
+  /** @deprecated 10-8-2025 compare string directly with \`== "Single"\` */
+  export const DC_CHAT_TYPE_SINGLE = "Single";
+}\n`,
 );
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/src/client.ts
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/src/client.ts
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ export class BaseDeltaChat<
  Transport extends BaseTransport<any>,
 > extends TinyEmitter<Events> {
  rpc: RawClient;
-  account?: T.Account;
  private contextEmitters: { [key: number]: TinyEmitter<ContextEvents> } = {};

  //@ts-ignore
@@ -36,6 +35,10 @@ export class BaseDeltaChat<

  constructor(
    public transport: Transport,
+    /**
+     * Whether to start calling {@linkcode RawClient.getNextEvent}
+     * and emitting the respective events on this class.
+     */
    startEventLoop: boolean,
  ) {
    super();
@@ -45,6 +48,9 @@ export class BaseDeltaChat<
    }
  }

+  /**
+   * @see the constructor's `startEventLoop`
+   */
  async eventLoop(): Promise<void> {
    while (true) {
      const event = await this.rpc.getNextEvent();
@@ -63,10 +69,17 @@ export class BaseDeltaChat<
    }
  }

+  /**
+   * @deprecated use {@linkcode BaseDeltaChat.rpc.getAllAccounts} instead.
+   */
  async listAccounts(): Promise<T.Account[]> {
    return await this.rpc.getAllAccounts();
  }

+  /**
+   * A convenience function to listen on events binned by `account_id`
+   * (see {@linkcode RawClient.getAllAccounts}).
+   */
  getContextEvents(account_id: number) {
    if (this.contextEmitters[account_id]) {
      return this.contextEmitters[account_id];
--- a/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/test/online.ts
+++ b/deltachat-jsonrpc/typescript/test/online.ts
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ describe("online tests", function () {
    await dc.rpc.setConfig(accountId1, "addr", account1.email);
    await dc.rpc.setConfig(accountId1, "mail_pw", account1.password);
    await dc.rpc.configure(accountId1);
+    await waitForEvent(dc, "ImapInboxIdle", accountId1);

    accountId2 = await dc.rpc.addAccount();
    await dc.rpc.batchSetConfig(accountId2, {
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ describe("online tests", function () {
      mail_pw: account2.password,
    });
    await dc.rpc.configure(accountId2);
+    await waitForEvent(dc, "ImapInboxIdle", accountId2);
    accountsConfigured = true;
  });

--- a/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-repl/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat-repl"
-version = "2.6.0"
+version = "2.29.0"
 license = "MPL-2.0"
 edition = "2021"
 repository = "https://github.com/chatmail/core"
--- a/deltachat-repl/src/cmdline.rs
+++ b/deltachat-repl/src/cmdline.rs
@@ -6,9 +6,7 @@ use std::str::FromStr;
 use std::time::Duration;

 use anyhow::{bail, ensure, Result};
-use deltachat::chat::{
-    self, Chat, ChatId, ChatItem, ChatVisibility, MuteDuration, ProtectionStatus,
-};
+use deltachat::chat::{self, Chat, ChatId, ChatItem, ChatVisibility, MuteDuration};
 use deltachat::chatlist::*;
 use deltachat::constants::*;
 use deltachat::contact::*;
@@ -72,11 +70,6 @@ async fn reset_tables(context: &Context, bits: i32) {
            .await
            .unwrap();
        context.sql().config_cache().write().await.clear();
-        context
-            .sql()
-            .execute("DELETE FROM leftgrps;", ())
-            .await
-            .unwrap();
        println!("(8) Rest but server config reset.");
    }

@@ -210,13 +203,7 @@ async fn log_msg(context: &Context, prefix: impl AsRef<str>, msg: &Message) {
        } else {
            ""
        },
-        if msg.get_viewtype() == Viewtype::VideochatInvitation {
-            format!(
-                "[VIDEOCHAT-INVITATION: {}, type={}]",
-                msg.get_videochat_url().unwrap_or_default(),
-                msg.get_videochat_type().unwrap_or_default()
-            )
-        } else if msg.get_viewtype() == Viewtype::Webxdc {
+        if msg.get_viewtype() == Viewtype::Webxdc {
            match msg.get_webxdc_info(context).await {
                Ok(info) => format!(
                    "[WEBXDC: {}, icon={}, document={}, summary={}, source_code_url={}]",
@@ -353,7 +340,6 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu
                 createchat <contact-id>\n\
                 creategroup <name>\n\
                 createbroadcast <name>\n\
-                 createprotected <name>\n\
                 addmember <contact-id>\n\
                 removemember <contact-id>\n\
                 groupname <name>\n\
@@ -364,6 +350,7 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu
                 dellocations\n\
                 getlocations [<contact-id>]\n\
                 send <text>\n\
+                 send-sync <text>\n\
                 sendempty\n\
                 sendimage <file> [<text>]\n\
                 sendsticker <file> [<text>]\n\
@@ -371,7 +358,6 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu
                 sendhtml <file for html-part> [<text for plain-part>]\n\
                 sendsyncmsg\n\
                 sendupdate <msg-id> <json status update>\n\
-                 videochat\n\
                 draft [<text>]\n\
                 devicemsg <text>\n\
                 listmedia\n\
@@ -403,6 +389,8 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu
                 block <contact-id>\n\
                 unblock <contact-id>\n\
                 listblocked\n\
+                 import-vcard <file>\n\
+                 make-vcard <file> <contact-id> [contact-id ...]\n\
                 ======================================Misc.==\n\
                 getqr [<chat-id>]\n\
                 getqrsvg [<chat-id>]\n\
@@ -423,7 +411,7 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu
            Ok(setup_code) => {
                println!("Setup code for the transferred setup message: {setup_code}",)
            }
-            Err(err) => bail!("Failed to generate setup code: {}", err),
+            Err(err) => bail!("Failed to generate setup code: {err}"),
        },
        "get-setupcodebegin" => {
            ensure!(!arg1.is_empty(), "Argument <msg-id> missing.");
@@ -437,7 +425,7 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu
                    setupcodebegin.unwrap_or_default(),
                );
            } else {
-                bail!("{} is no setup message.", msg_id,);
+                bail!("{msg_id} is no setup message.",);
            }
        }
        "continue-key-transfer" => {
@@ -532,7 +520,7 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu
                    println!("Report written to: {file:#?}");
                }
                Err(err) => {
-                    bail!("Failed to get connectivity html: {}", err);
+                    bail!("Failed to get connectivity html: {err}");
                }
            }
        }
@@ -567,7 +555,7 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu
                for i in (0..cnt).rev() {
                    let chat = Chat::load_from_db(&context, chatlist.get_chat_id(i)?).await?;
                    println!(
-                        "{}#{}: {} [{} fresh] {}{}{}{}",
+                        "{}#{}: {} [{} fresh] {}{}{}",
                        chat_prefix(&chat),
                        chat.get_id(),
                        chat.get_name(),
@@ -578,7 +566,6 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu
                            ChatVisibility::Archived => "📦",
                            ChatVisibility::Pinned => "📌",
                        },
-                        if chat.is_protected() { "🛡️" } else { "" },
                        if chat.is_contact_request() {
                            "🆕"
                        } else {
@@ -693,7 +680,7 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu
                format!("{} member(s)", members.len())
            };
            println!(
-                "{}#{}: {} [{}]{}{}{} {}",
+                "{}#{}: {} [{}]{}{}{}",
                chat_prefix(sel_chat),
                sel_chat.get_id(),
                sel_chat.get_name(),
@@ -711,11 +698,6 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu
                    },
                    _ => "".to_string(),
                },
-                if sel_chat.is_protected() {
-                    "🛡️"
-                } else {
-                    ""
-                },
            );
            log_msglist(&context, &msglist).await?;
            if let Some(draft) = sel_chat.get_id().get_draft(&context).await? {
@@ -744,8 +726,7 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu
        }
        "creategroup" => {
            ensure!(!arg1.is_empty(), "Argument <name> missing.");
-            let chat_id =
-                chat::create_group_chat(&context, ProtectionStatus::Unprotected, arg1).await?;
+            let chat_id = chat::create_group(&context, arg1).await?;

            println!("Group#{chat_id} created successfully.");
        }
@@ -755,13 +736,6 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu

            println!("Broadcast#{chat_id} created successfully.");
        }
-        "createprotected" => {
-            ensure!(!arg1.is_empty(), "Argument <name> missing.");
-            let chat_id =
-                chat::create_group_chat(&context, ProtectionStatus::Protected, arg1).await?;
-
-            println!("Group#{chat_id} created and protected successfully.");
-        }
        "addmember" => {
            ensure!(sel_chat.is_some(), "No chat selected");
            ensure!(!arg1.is_empty(), "Argument <contact-id> missing.");
@@ -913,6 +887,23 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu

            chat::send_text_msg(&context, sel_chat.as_ref().unwrap().get_id(), msg).await?;
        }
+        "send-sync" => {
+            ensure!(sel_chat.is_some(), "No chat selected.");
+            ensure!(!arg1.is_empty(), "No message text given.");
+
+            // Send message over a dedicated SMTP connection
+            // and measure time.
+            //
+            // This can be used to benchmark SMTP connection establishment.
+            let time_start = std::time::Instant::now();
+
+            let msg = format!("{arg1} {arg2}");
+            let mut msg = Message::new_text(msg);
+            chat::send_msg_sync(&context, sel_chat.as_ref().unwrap().get_id(), &mut msg).await?;
+
+            let time_needed = time_start.elapsed();
+            println!("Sent message in {time_needed:?}.");
+        }
        "sendempty" => {
            ensure!(sel_chat.is_some(), "No chat selected.");
            chat::send_text_msg(&context, sel_chat.as_ref().unwrap().get_id(), "".into()).await?;
@@ -960,10 +951,6 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu
            let msg_id = MsgId::new(arg1.parse()?);
            context.send_webxdc_status_update(msg_id, arg2).await?;
        }
-        "videochat" => {
-            ensure!(sel_chat.is_some(), "No chat selected.");
-            chat::send_videochat_invitation(&context, sel_chat.as_ref().unwrap().get_id()).await?;
-        }
        "listmsgs" => {
            ensure!(!arg1.is_empty(), "Argument <query> missing.");

@@ -1218,6 +1205,24 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu
            log_contactlist(&context, &contacts).await?;
            println!("{} blocked contacts.", contacts.len());
        }
+        "import-vcard" => {
+            ensure!(!arg1.is_empty(), "Argument <file> missing.");
+            let vcard_content = fs::read_to_string(&arg1.to_string()).await?;
+            let contacts = import_vcard(&context, &vcard_content).await?;
+            println!("vCard contacts imported:");
+            log_contactlist(&context, &contacts).await?;
+        }
+        "make-vcard" => {
+            ensure!(!arg1.is_empty(), "Argument <file> missing.");
+            ensure!(!arg2.is_empty(), "Argument <contact-id> missing.");
+            let mut contact_ids = vec![];
+            for x in arg2.split_whitespace() {
+                contact_ids.push(ContactId::new(x.parse()?))
+            }
+            let vcard_content = make_vcard(&context, &contact_ids).await?;
+            fs::write(&arg1.to_string(), vcard_content).await?;
+            println!("vCard written to: {arg1}");
+        }
        "checkqr" => {
            ensure!(!arg1.is_empty(), "Argument <qr-content> missing.");
            let qr = check_qr(&context, arg1).await?;
@@ -1239,10 +1244,7 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu
        }
        "providerinfo" => {
            ensure!(!arg1.is_empty(), "Argument <addr> missing.");
-            let proxy_enabled = context
-                .get_config_bool(config::Config::ProxyEnabled)
-                .await?;
-            match provider::get_provider_info(&context, arg1, proxy_enabled).await {
+            match provider::get_provider_info(arg1) {
                Some(info) => {
                    println!("Information for provider belonging to {arg1}:");
                    println!("status: {}", info.status as u32);
@@ -1278,7 +1280,7 @@ pub async fn cmdline(context: Context, line: &str, chat_id: &mut ChatId) -> Resu
            );
        }
        "" => (),
-        _ => bail!("Unknown command: \"{}\" type ? for help.", arg0),
+        _ => bail!("Unknown command: \"{arg0}\" type ? for help."),
    }

    Ok(())
--- a/deltachat-repl/src/main.rs
+++ b/deltachat-repl/src/main.rs
@@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ const CHAT_COMMANDS: [&str; 39] = [
    "dellocations",
    "getlocations",
    "send",
+    "send-sync",
    "sendempty",
    "sendimage",
    "sendsticker",
@@ -206,7 +207,6 @@ const CHAT_COMMANDS: [&str; 39] = [
    "sendhtml",
    "sendsyncmsg",
    "sendupdate",
-    "videochat",
    "draft",
    "devicemsg",
    "listmedia",
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ const MESSAGE_COMMANDS: [&str; 10] = [
    "delmsg",
    "react",
 ];
-const CONTACT_COMMANDS: [&str; 7] = [
+const CONTACT_COMMANDS: [&str; 9] = [
    "listcontacts",
    "addcontact",
    "contactinfo",
@@ -240,6 +240,8 @@ const CONTACT_COMMANDS: [&str; 7] = [
    "block",
    "unblock",
    "listblocked",
+    "import-vcard",
+    "make-vcard",
 ];
 const MISC_COMMANDS: [&str; 14] = [
    "getqr",
@@ -465,7 +467,7 @@ async fn handle_cmd(
                    println!("QR code svg written to: {file:#?}");
                }
                Err(err) => {
-                    bail!("Failed to get QR code svg: {}", err);
+                    bail!("Failed to get QR code svg: {err}");
                }
            }
        }
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/pyproject.toml
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,29 +1,28 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=45"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=77"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"

 [project]
 name = "deltachat-rpc-client"
-version = "2.6.0"
+version = "2.29.0"
+license = "MPL-2.0"
 description = "Python client for Delta Chat core JSON-RPC interface"
 classifiers = [
    "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
-    "License :: OSI Approved :: Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL 2.0)",
    "Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux",
    "Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X",
    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
-    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14",
    "Topic :: Communications :: Chat",
    "Topic :: Communications :: Email"
 ]
 readme = "README.md"
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
+requires-python = ">=3.10"

 [tool.setuptools.package-data]
 deltachat_rpc_client = [
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/account.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/account.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@

 from __future__ import annotations

+import json
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Optional, Union
 from warnings import warn
@@ -124,6 +125,15 @@ class Account:
        """Add a new transport."""
        yield self._rpc.add_or_update_transport.future(self.id, params)

+    @futuremethod
+    def add_transport_from_qr(self, qr: str):
+        """Add a new transport using a QR code."""
+        yield self._rpc.add_transport_from_qr.future(self.id, qr)
+
+    def delete_transport(self, addr: str):
+        """Delete a transport."""
+        self._rpc.delete_transport(self.id, addr)
+
    @futuremethod
    def list_transports(self):
        """Return the list of all email accounts that are used as a transport in the current profile."""
@@ -185,7 +195,21 @@ class Account:
        return Contact(self, contact_id)

    def get_contact_by_addr(self, address: str) -> Optional[Contact]:
-        """Check if an e-mail address belongs to a known and unblocked contact."""
+        """Looks up a known and unblocked contact with a given e-mail address.
+        To get a list of all known and unblocked contacts, use contacts_get_contacts().
+
+        **POTENTIAL SECURITY ISSUE**: If there are multiple contacts with this address
+        (e.g. an address-contact and a key-contact),
+        this looks up the most recently seen contact,
+        i.e. which contact is returned depends on which contact last sent a message.
+        If the user just clicked on a mailto: link, then this is the best thing you can do.
+        But **DO NOT** internally represent contacts by their email address
+        and do not use this function to look them up;
+        otherwise this function will sometimes look up the wrong contact.
+        Instead, you should internally represent contacts by their ids.
+
+        To validate an e-mail address independently of the contact database
+        use check_email_validity()."""
        contact_id = self._rpc.lookup_contact_id_by_addr(self.id, address)
        return contact_id and Contact(self, contact_id)

@@ -285,7 +309,7 @@ class Account:
            chats.append(AttrDict(item))
        return chats

-    def create_group(self, name: str, protect: bool = False) -> Chat:
+    def create_group(self, name: str) -> Chat:
        """Create a new group chat.

        After creation,
@@ -302,15 +326,11 @@ class Account:
        To check, if a chat is still unpromoted, you can look at the `is_unpromoted` property of a chat
        (see `get_full_snapshot()` / `get_basic_snapshot()`).
        This may be useful if you want to show some help for just created groups.
-
-        :param protect: If set to 1 the function creates group with protection initially enabled.
-                        Only verified members are allowed in these groups
-                        and end-to-end-encryption is always enabled.
        """
-        return Chat(self, self._rpc.create_group_chat(self.id, name, protect))
+        return Chat(self, self._rpc.create_group_chat(self.id, name, False))

    def create_broadcast(self, name: str) -> Chat:
-        """Create a new **broadcast channel**
+        """Create a new, outgoing **broadcast channel**
        (called "Channel" in the UI).

        Broadcast channels are similar to groups on the sending device,
@@ -383,9 +403,10 @@ class Account:
        next_msg_ids = self._rpc.get_next_msgs(self.id)
        return [Message(self, msg_id) for msg_id in next_msg_ids]

+    @futuremethod
    def wait_next_messages(self) -> list[Message]:
        """Wait for new messages and return a list of them."""
-        next_msg_ids = self._rpc.wait_next_msgs(self.id)
+        next_msg_ids = yield self._rpc.wait_next_msgs.future(self.id)
        return [Message(self, msg_id) for msg_id in next_msg_ids]

    def wait_for_incoming_msg_event(self):
@@ -400,12 +421,21 @@ class Account:
        """Wait for messages noticed event and return it."""
        return self.wait_for_event(EventType.MSGS_NOTICED)

+    def wait_for_msg(self, event_type) -> Message:
+        """Wait for an event about the message.
+
+        Consumes all events before the matching event.
+        Returns a message corresponding to the msg_id field of the event.
+        """
+        event = self.wait_for_event(event_type)
+        return self.get_message_by_id(event.msg_id)
+
    def wait_for_incoming_msg(self):
        """Wait for incoming message and return it.

        Consumes all events before the next incoming message event.
        """
-        return self.get_message_by_id(self.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id)
+        return self.wait_for_msg(EventType.INCOMING_MSG)

    def wait_for_securejoin_inviter_success(self):
        """Wait until SecureJoin process finishes successfully on the inviter side."""
@@ -456,3 +486,8 @@ class Account:
    def initiate_autocrypt_key_transfer(self) -> None:
        """Send Autocrypt Setup Message."""
        return self._rpc.initiate_autocrypt_key_transfer(self.id)
+
+    def ice_servers(self) -> list:
+        """Return ICE servers for WebRTC configuration."""
+        ice_servers_json = self._rpc.ice_servers(self.id)
+        return json.loads(ice_servers_json)
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/chat.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/chat.py
@@ -168,6 +168,11 @@ class Chat:
        msg_id = self._rpc.send_sticker(self.account.id, self.id, path)
        return Message(self.account, msg_id)

+    def resend_messages(self, messages: list[Message]) -> None:
+        """Resend a list of messages to this chat."""
+        msg_ids = [msg.id for msg in messages]
+        self._rpc.resend_messages(self.account.id, msg_ids)
+
    def forward_messages(self, messages: list[Message]) -> None:
        """Forward a list of messages to this chat."""
        msg_ids = [msg.id for msg in messages]
@@ -289,3 +294,8 @@ class Chat:
            f.write(vcard.encode())
            f.flush()
            self._rpc.send_msg(self.account.id, self.id, {"viewtype": ViewType.VCARD, "file": f.name})
+
+    def place_outgoing_call(self, place_call_info: str) -> Message:
+        """Starts an outgoing call."""
+        msg_id = self._rpc.place_outgoing_call(self.account.id, self.id, place_call_info)
+        return Message(self.account, msg_id)
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/client.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/client.py
@@ -83,11 +83,10 @@ class Client:

    def configure(self, email: str, password: str, **kwargs) -> None:
        """Configure the client."""
-        self.account.set_config("addr", email)
-        self.account.set_config("mail_pw", password)
        for key, value in kwargs.items():
            self.account.set_config(key, value)
-        self.account.configure()
+        params = {"addr": email, "password": password}
+        self.account.add_or_update_transport(params)
        self.logger.debug("Account configured")

    def run_forever(self) -> None:
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/const.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/const.py
@@ -73,6 +73,10 @@ class EventType(str, Enum):
    CHATLIST_ITEM_CHANGED = "ChatlistItemChanged"
    ACCOUNTS_CHANGED = "AccountsChanged"
    ACCOUNTS_ITEM_CHANGED = "AccountsItemChanged"
+    INCOMING_CALL = "IncomingCall"
+    INCOMING_CALL_ACCEPTED = "IncomingCallAccepted"
+    OUTGOING_CALL_ACCEPTED = "OutgoingCallAccepted"
+    CALL_ENDED = "CallEnded"
    CONFIG_SYNCED = "ConfigSynced"
    WEBXDC_REALTIME_DATA = "WebxdcRealtimeData"
    WEBXDC_REALTIME_ADVERTISEMENT_RECEIVED = "WebxdcRealtimeAdvertisementReceived"
@@ -87,19 +91,17 @@ class ChatId(IntEnum):
    LAST_SPECIAL = 9


-class ChatType(IntEnum):
+class ChatType(str, Enum):
    """Chat type."""

-    UNDEFINED = 0
-
-    SINGLE = 100
+    SINGLE = "Single"
    """1:1 chat, i.e. a direct chat with a single contact"""

-    GROUP = 120
+    GROUP = "Group"

-    MAILINGLIST = 140
+    MAILINGLIST = "Mailinglist"

-    OUT_BROADCAST = 160
+    OUT_BROADCAST = "OutBroadcast"
    """Outgoing broadcast channel, called "Channel" in the UI.

    The user can send into this channel,
@@ -111,7 +113,7 @@ class ChatType(IntEnum):
    which would make it hard to grep for it.
    """

-    IN_BROADCAST = 165
+    IN_BROADCAST = "InBroadcast"
    """Incoming broadcast channel, called "Channel" in the UI.

    This channel is read-only,
@@ -156,7 +158,6 @@ class ViewType(str, Enum):
    VOICE = "Voice"
    VIDEO = "Video"
    FILE = "File"
-    VIDEOCHAT_INVITATION = "VideochatInvitation"
    WEBXDC = "Webxdc"
    VCARD = "Vcard"

@@ -275,11 +276,3 @@ class SocketSecurity(IntEnum):
    SSL = 1
    STARTTLS = 2
    PLAIN = 3
-
-
-class VideochatType(IntEnum):
-    """Video chat URL type."""
-
-    UNKNOWN = 0
-    BASICWEBRTC = 1
-    JITSI = 2
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/deltachat.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/deltachat.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from __future__ import annotations

 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING

-from ._utils import AttrDict
+from ._utils import AttrDict, futuremethod
 from .account import Account

 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -39,6 +39,15 @@ class DeltaChat:
        """Stop the I/O of all accounts."""
        self.rpc.stop_io_for_all_accounts()

+    @futuremethod
+    def background_fetch(self, timeout_in_seconds: int) -> None:
+        """Run background fetch for all accounts."""
+        yield self.rpc.background_fetch.future(timeout_in_seconds)
+
+    def stop_background_fetch(self) -> None:
+        """Stop ongoing background fetch."""
+        self.rpc.stop_background_fetch()
+
    def maybe_network(self) -> None:
        """Indicate that the network conditions might have changed."""
        self.rpc.maybe_network()
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/message.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/message.py
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ class Message:
        """Mark the message as seen."""
        self._rpc.markseen_msgs(self.account.id, [self.id])

+    def exists(self) -> bool:
+        """Return True if the message exists."""
+        return bool(self._rpc.get_existing_msg_ids(self.account.id, [self.id]))
+
    def continue_autocrypt_key_transfer(self, setup_code: str) -> None:
        """Continue the Autocrypt Setup Message key transfer.

@@ -93,6 +97,17 @@ class Message:
            if event.kind == EventType.MSG_DELIVERED and event.msg_id == self.id:
                break

+    def resend(self) -> None:
+        """Resend messages and make information available for newly added chat members.
+        Resending sends out the original message, however, recipients and webxdc-status may differ.
+        Clients that already have the original message can still ignore the resent message as
+        they have tracked the state by dedicated updates.
+
+        Some messages cannot be resent, eg. info-messages, drafts, already pending messages,
+        or messages that are not sent by SELF.
+        """
+        self._rpc.resend_messages(self.account.id, [self.id])
+
    @futuremethod
    def send_webxdc_realtime_advertisement(self):
        """Send an advertisement to join the realtime channel."""
@@ -102,3 +117,15 @@ class Message:
    def send_webxdc_realtime_data(self, data) -> None:
        """Send data to the realtime channel."""
        yield self._rpc.send_webxdc_realtime_data.future(self.account.id, self.id, list(data))
+
+    def accept_incoming_call(self, accept_call_info):
+        """Accepts an incoming call."""
+        self._rpc.accept_incoming_call(self.account.id, self.id, accept_call_info)
+
+    def end_call(self):
+        """Ends incoming or outgoing call."""
+        self._rpc.end_call(self.account.id, self.id)
+
+    def get_call_info(self) -> AttrDict:
+        """Return information about the call."""
+        return AttrDict(self._rpc.call_info(self.account.id, self.id))
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/pytestplugin.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/pytestplugin.py
@@ -28,9 +28,7 @@ class ACFactory:

    def get_unconfigured_account(self) -> Account:
        """Create a new unconfigured account."""
-        account = self.deltachat.add_account()
-        account.set_config("verified_one_on_one_chats", "1")
-        return account
+        return self.deltachat.add_account()

    def get_unconfigured_bot(self) -> Bot:
        """Create a new unconfigured bot."""
@@ -42,13 +40,17 @@ class ACFactory:
        username = "ci-" + "".join(random.choice("2345789acdefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyz") for i in range(6))
        return f"{username}@{domain}", f"{username}${username}"

+    def get_account_qr(self):
+        """Return "dcaccount:" QR code for testing chatmail relay."""
+        domain = os.getenv("CHATMAIL_DOMAIN")
+        return f"dcaccount:{domain}"
+
    @futuremethod
    def new_configured_account(self):
        """Create a new configured account."""
-        addr, password = self.get_credentials()
        account = self.get_unconfigured_account()
-        params = {"addr": addr, "password": password}
-        yield account.add_or_update_transport.future(params)
+        qr = self.get_account_qr()
+        yield account.add_transport_from_qr.future(qr)

        assert account.is_configured()
        return account
@@ -75,11 +77,12 @@ class ACFactory:
    def resetup_account(self, ac: Account) -> Account:
        """Resetup account from scratch, losing the encryption key."""
        ac.stop_io()
-        ac_clone = self.get_unconfigured_account()
-        for i in ["addr", "mail_pw"]:
-            ac_clone.set_config(i, ac.get_config(i))
+        transports = ac.list_transports()
        ac.remove()
-        ac_clone.configure()
+        ac_clone = self.get_unconfigured_account()
+        for transport in transports:
+            ac_clone.add_or_update_transport(transport)
+        ac_clone.bring_online()
        return ac_clone

    def get_accepted_chat(self, ac1: Account, ac2: Account) -> Chat:
@@ -138,9 +141,15 @@ def rpc(tmp_path) -> AsyncGenerator:


@pytest.fixture
-def acfactory(rpc) -> AsyncGenerator:
+def dc(rpc) -> DeltaChat:
+    """Return account manager."""
+    return DeltaChat(rpc)
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def acfactory(dc) -> AsyncGenerator:
    """Return account factory fixture."""
-    return ACFactory(DeltaChat(rpc))
+    return ACFactory(dc)


@pytest.fixture
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/rpc.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/src/deltachat_rpc_client/rpc.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import os
 import subprocess
 import sys
 from queue import Empty, Queue
-from threading import Event, Thread
+from threading import Thread
 from typing import Any, Iterator, Optional


@@ -17,25 +17,6 @@ class JsonRpcError(Exception):
    """JSON-RPC error."""


-class RpcFuture:
-    """RPC future waiting for RPC call result."""
-
-    def __init__(self, rpc: "Rpc", request_id: int, event: Event):
-        self.rpc = rpc
-        self.request_id = request_id
-        self.event = event
-
-    def __call__(self):
-        """Wait for the future to return the result."""
-        self.event.wait()
-        response = self.rpc.request_results.pop(self.request_id)
-        if "error" in response:
-            raise JsonRpcError(response["error"])
-        if "result" in response:
-            return response["result"]
-        return None
-
-
 class RpcMethod:
    """RPC method."""

@@ -57,17 +38,23 @@ class RpcMethod:
            "params": args,
            "id": request_id,
        }
-        event = Event()
-        self.rpc.request_events[request_id] = event
+        self.rpc.request_results[request_id] = queue = Queue()
        self.rpc.request_queue.put(request)

-        return RpcFuture(self.rpc, request_id, event)
+        def rpc_future():
+            """Wait for the request to receive a result."""
+            response = queue.get()
+            if "error" in response:
+                raise JsonRpcError(response["error"])
+            return response.get("result", None)
+
+        return rpc_future


 class Rpc:
    """RPC client."""

-    def __init__(self, accounts_dir: Optional[str] = None, **kwargs):
+    def __init__(self, accounts_dir: Optional[str] = None, rpc_server_path="deltachat-rpc-server", **kwargs):
        """Initialize RPC client.

        The given arguments will be passed to subprocess.Popen().
@@ -79,13 +66,12 @@ class Rpc:
            }

        self._kwargs = kwargs
+        self.rpc_server_path = rpc_server_path
        self.process: subprocess.Popen
        self.id_iterator: Iterator[int]
        self.event_queues: dict[int, Queue]
-        # Map from request ID to `threading.Event`.
-        self.request_events: dict[int, Event]
-        # Map from request ID to the result.
-        self.request_results: dict[int, Any]
+        # Map from request ID to a Queue which provides a single result
+        self.request_results: dict[int, Queue]
        self.request_queue: Queue[Any]
        self.closing: bool
        self.reader_thread: Thread
@@ -94,27 +80,18 @@ class Rpc:

    def start(self) -> None:
        """Start RPC server subprocess."""
+        popen_kwargs = {"stdin": subprocess.PIPE, "stdout": subprocess.PIPE}
        if sys.version_info >= (3, 11):
-            self.process = subprocess.Popen(
-                "deltachat-rpc-server",
-                stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
-                stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
-                # Prevent subprocess from capturing SIGINT.
-                process_group=0,
-                **self._kwargs,
-            )
+            # Prevent subprocess from capturing SIGINT.
+            popen_kwargs["process_group"] = 0
        else:
-            self.process = subprocess.Popen(
-                "deltachat-rpc-server",
-                stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
-                stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
-                # `process_group` is not supported before Python 3.11.
-                preexec_fn=os.setpgrp,  # noqa: PLW1509
-                **self._kwargs,
-            )
+            # `process_group` is not supported before Python 3.11.
+            popen_kwargs["preexec_fn"] = os.setpgrp  # noqa: PLW1509
+
+        popen_kwargs.update(self._kwargs)
+        self.process = subprocess.Popen(self.rpc_server_path, **popen_kwargs)
        self.id_iterator = itertools.count(start=1)
        self.event_queues = {}
-        self.request_events = {}
        self.request_results = {}
        self.request_queue = Queue()
        self.closing = False
@@ -149,9 +126,7 @@ class Rpc:
                response = json.loads(line)
                if "id" in response:
                    response_id = response["id"]
-                    event = self.request_events.pop(response_id)
-                    self.request_results[response_id] = response
-                    event.set()
+                    self.request_results.pop(response_id).put(response)
                else:
                    logging.warning("Got a response without ID: %s", response)
        except Exception:
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/conftest.py
@@ -85,11 +85,11 @@ class DirectImap:

    def get_all_messages(self) -> list[MailMessage]:
        assert not self._idling
-        return list(self.conn.fetch())
+        return list(self.conn.fetch(mark_seen=False))

    def get_unread_messages(self) -> list[str]:
        assert not self._idling
-        return [msg.uid for msg in self.conn.fetch(AND(seen=False))]
+        return [msg.uid for msg in self.conn.fetch(AND(seen=False), mark_seen=False)]

    def mark_all_read(self):
        messages = self.get_unread_messages()
@@ -173,7 +173,6 @@ class DirectImap:
 class IdleManager:
    def __init__(self, direct_imap) -> None:
        self.direct_imap = direct_imap
-        self.log = direct_imap.account.log
        # fetch latest messages before starting idle so that it only
        # returns messages that arrive anew
        self.direct_imap.conn.fetch("1:*")
@@ -181,14 +180,11 @@ class IdleManager:

    def check(self, timeout=None) -> list[bytes]:
        """(blocking) wait for next idle message from server."""
-        self.log("imap-direct: calling idle_check")
-        res = self.direct_imap.conn.idle.poll(timeout=timeout)
-        self.log(f"imap-direct: idle_check returned {res!r}")
-        return res
+        return self.direct_imap.conn.idle.poll(timeout=timeout)

-    def wait_for_new_message(self, timeout=None) -> bytes:
+    def wait_for_new_message(self) -> bytes:
        while True:
-            for item in self.check(timeout=timeout):
+            for item in self.check():
                if b"EXISTS" in item or b"RECENT" in item:
                    return item

@@ -196,10 +192,8 @@ class IdleManager:
        """Return first message with SEEN flag from a running idle-stream."""
        while True:
            for item in self.check(timeout=timeout):
-                if FETCH in item:
-                    self.log(str(item))
-                    if FLAGS in item and rb"\Seen" in item:
-                        return int(item.split(b" ")[1])
+                if FETCH in item and FLAGS in item and rb"\Seen" in item:
+                    return int(item.split(b" ")[1])

    def done(self):
        """send idle-done to server if we are currently in idle mode."""
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_calls.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_calls.py
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+from deltachat_rpc_client import EventType, Message
+
+
+def test_calls(acfactory) -> None:
+    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+
+    place_call_info = "offer"
+    accept_call_info = "answer"
+
+    alice_contact_bob = alice.create_contact(bob, "Bob")
+    alice_chat_bob = alice_contact_bob.create_chat()
+    bob.create_chat(alice)  # Accept the chat so incoming call causes a notification.
+    outgoing_call_message = alice_chat_bob.place_outgoing_call(place_call_info)
+    assert outgoing_call_message.get_call_info().state.kind == "Alerting"
+
+    incoming_call_event = bob.wait_for_event(EventType.INCOMING_CALL)
+    assert incoming_call_event.place_call_info == place_call_info
+    assert not incoming_call_event.has_video  # Cannot be parsed as SDP, so false by default
+    incoming_call_message = Message(bob, incoming_call_event.msg_id)
+    assert incoming_call_message.get_call_info().state.kind == "Alerting"
+    assert not incoming_call_message.get_call_info().has_video
+
+    incoming_call_message.accept_incoming_call(accept_call_info)
+    assert incoming_call_message.get_call_info().sdp_offer == place_call_info
+    assert incoming_call_message.get_call_info().state.kind == "Active"
+    outgoing_call_accepted_event = alice.wait_for_event(EventType.OUTGOING_CALL_ACCEPTED)
+    assert outgoing_call_accepted_event.accept_call_info == accept_call_info
+    assert outgoing_call_message.get_call_info().state.kind == "Active"
+
+    outgoing_call_message.end_call()
+    assert outgoing_call_message.get_call_info().state.kind == "Completed"
+
+    end_call_event = bob.wait_for_event(EventType.CALL_ENDED)
+    assert end_call_event.msg_id == outgoing_call_message.id
+    assert incoming_call_message.get_call_info().state.kind == "Completed"
+
+
+def test_video_call(acfactory) -> None:
+    # Example from <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9143/>
+    # with `s= ` replaced with `s=-`.
+    #
+    # `s=` cannot be empty according to RFC 3264,
+    # so it is more clear as `s=-`.
+    place_call_info = """v=0\r
+o=alice 2890844526 2890844526 IN IP6 2001:db8::3\r
+s=-\r
+c=IN IP6 2001:db8::3\r
+t=0 0\r
+a=group:BUNDLE foo bar\r
+\r
+m=audio 10000 RTP/AVP 0 8 97\r
+b=AS:200\r
+a=mid:foo\r
+a=rtcp-mux\r
+a=rtpmap:0 PCMU/8000\r
+a=rtpmap:8 PCMA/8000\r
+a=rtpmap:97 iLBC/8000\r
+a=extmap:1 urn:ietf:params:rtp-hdrext:sdes:mid\r
+\r
+m=video 10002 RTP/AVP 31 32\r
+b=AS:1000\r
+a=mid:bar\r
+a=rtcp-mux\r
+a=rtpmap:31 H261/90000\r
+a=rtpmap:32 MPV/90000\r
+a=extmap:1 urn:ietf:params:rtp-hdrext:sdes:mid\r
+"""
+
+    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+
+    bob.create_chat(alice)  # Accept the chat so incoming call causes a notification.
+    alice_contact_bob = alice.create_contact(bob, "Bob")
+    alice_chat_bob = alice_contact_bob.create_chat()
+    alice_chat_bob.place_outgoing_call(place_call_info)
+
+    incoming_call_event = bob.wait_for_event(EventType.INCOMING_CALL)
+    assert incoming_call_event.place_call_info == place_call_info
+    assert incoming_call_event.has_video
+
+    incoming_call_message = Message(bob, incoming_call_event.msg_id)
+    assert incoming_call_message.get_call_info().has_video
+
+
+def test_ice_servers(acfactory) -> None:
+    alice = acfactory.get_online_account()
+
+    ice_servers = alice.ice_servers()
+    assert len(ice_servers) == 1
+
+
+def test_no_contact_request_call(acfactory) -> None:
+    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+
+    alice_chat_bob = alice.create_chat(bob)
+    alice_chat_bob.place_outgoing_call("offer")
+    alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello!")
+
+    # Notification for "Hello!" message should arrive
+    # without the call ringing.
+    while True:
+        event = bob.wait_for_event()
+
+        # There should be no incoming call notification.
+        assert event.kind != EventType.INCOMING_CALL
+
+        if event.kind == EventType.MSGS_CHANGED:
+            msg = bob.get_message_by_id(event.msg_id)
+            if msg.get_snapshot().text == "Hello!":
+                break
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_chatlist_events.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_chatlist_events.py
@@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ def test_imap_sync_seen_msgs(acfactory: ACFactory) -> None:
    """
    alice, alice_second_device, bob, alice_chat_bob = get_multi_account_test_setup(acfactory)

+    bob.create_chat(alice)
+
    alice_chat_bob.send_text("hello")

    msg = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg()
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_folders.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_folders.py
@@ -0,0 +1,538 @@
+import logging
+import re
+import time
+
+import pytest
+from imap_tools import AND, U
+
+from deltachat_rpc_client import Contact, EventType, Message
+
+
+def test_move_works(acfactory):
+    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+    ac2.set_config("mvbox_move", "1")
+    ac2.bring_online()
+
+    chat = ac1.create_chat(ac2)
+    chat.send_text("message1")
+
+    # Message is moved to the movebox
+    ac2.wait_for_event(EventType.IMAP_MESSAGE_MOVED)
+
+    # Message is downloaded
+    msg = ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
+    assert msg.text == "message1"
+
+
+def test_move_avoids_loop(acfactory, direct_imap):
+    """Test that the message is only moved from INBOX to DeltaChat.
+
+    This is to avoid busy loop if moved message reappears in the Inbox
+    or some scanned folder later.
+    For example, this happens on servers that alias `INBOX.DeltaChat` to `DeltaChat` folder,
+    so the message moved to `DeltaChat` appears as a new message in the `INBOX.DeltaChat` folder.
+    We do not want to move this message from `INBOX.DeltaChat` to `DeltaChat` again.
+    """
+    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+    ac2.set_config("mvbox_move", "1")
+    ac2.set_config("delete_server_after", "0")
+    ac2.bring_online()
+
+    # Create INBOX.DeltaChat folder and make sure
+    # it is detected by full folder scan.
+    ac2_direct_imap = direct_imap(ac2)
+    ac2_direct_imap.create_folder("INBOX.DeltaChat")
+    ac2.stop_io()
+    ac2.start_io()
+
+    while True:
+        event = ac2.wait_for_event()
+        # Wait until the end of folder scan.
+        if event.kind == EventType.INFO and "Found folders:" in event.msg:
+            break
+
+    ac1_chat = acfactory.get_accepted_chat(ac1, ac2)
+    ac1_chat.send_text("Message 1")
+
+    # Message is moved to the DeltaChat folder and downloaded.
+    ac2_msg1 = ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
+    assert ac2_msg1.text == "Message 1"
+
+    # Move the message to the INBOX.DeltaChat again.
+    # We assume that test server uses "." as the delimiter.
+    ac2_direct_imap.select_folder("DeltaChat")
+    ac2_direct_imap.conn.move(["*"], "INBOX.DeltaChat")
+
+    ac1_chat.send_text("Message 2")
+    ac2_msg2 = ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
+    assert ac2_msg2.text == "Message 2"
+
+    # Stop and start I/O to trigger folder scan.
+    ac2.stop_io()
+    ac2.start_io()
+    while True:
+        event = ac2.wait_for_event()
+        # Wait until the end of folder scan.
+        if event.kind == EventType.INFO and "Found folders:" in event.msg:
+            break
+
+    # Check that Message 1 is still in the INBOX.DeltaChat folder
+    # and Message 2 is in the DeltaChat folder.
+    ac2_direct_imap.select_folder("INBOX")
+    assert len(ac2_direct_imap.get_all_messages()) == 0
+    ac2_direct_imap.select_folder("DeltaChat")
+    assert len(ac2_direct_imap.get_all_messages()) == 1
+    ac2_direct_imap.select_folder("INBOX.DeltaChat")
+    assert len(ac2_direct_imap.get_all_messages()) == 1
+
+
+def test_reactions_for_a_reordering_move(acfactory, direct_imap):
+    """When a batch of messages is moved from Inbox to DeltaChat folder with a single MOVE command,
+    their UIDs may be reordered (e.g. Gmail is known for that) which led to that messages were
+    processed by receive_imf in the wrong order, and, particularly, reactions were processed before
+    messages they refer to and thus dropped.
+    """
+    (ac1,) = acfactory.get_online_accounts(1)
+
+    addr, password = acfactory.get_credentials()
+    ac2 = acfactory.get_unconfigured_account()
+    ac2.add_or_update_transport({"addr": addr, "password": password})
+    ac2.set_config("mvbox_move", "1")
+    assert ac2.is_configured()
+
+    ac2.bring_online()
+    chat1 = acfactory.get_accepted_chat(ac1, ac2)
+    ac2.stop_io()
+
+    logging.info("sending message + reaction from ac1 to ac2")
+    msg1 = chat1.send_text("hi")
+    msg1.wait_until_delivered()
+    # It's is sad, but messages must differ in their INTERNALDATEs to be processed in the correct
+    # order by DC, and most (if not all) mail servers provide only seconds precision.
+    time.sleep(1.1)
+    react_str = "\N{THUMBS UP SIGN}"
+    msg1.send_reaction(react_str).wait_until_delivered()
+
+    logging.info("moving messages to ac2's DeltaChat folder in the reverse order")
+    ac2_direct_imap = direct_imap(ac2)
+    ac2_direct_imap.connect()
+    for uid in sorted([m.uid for m in ac2_direct_imap.get_all_messages()], reverse=True):
+        ac2_direct_imap.conn.move(uid, "DeltaChat")
+
+    logging.info("receiving messages by ac2")
+    ac2.start_io()
+    msg2 = Message(ac2, ac2.wait_for_reactions_changed().msg_id)
+    assert msg2.get_snapshot().text == msg1.get_snapshot().text
+    reactions = msg2.get_reactions()
+    contacts = [Contact(ac2, int(i)) for i in reactions.reactions_by_contact]
+    assert len(contacts) == 1
+    assert contacts[0].get_snapshot().address == ac1.get_config("addr")
+    assert list(reactions.reactions_by_contact.values())[0] == [react_str]
+
+
+def test_delete_deltachat_folder(acfactory, direct_imap):
+    """Test that DeltaChat folder is recreated if user deletes it manually."""
+    ac1 = acfactory.new_configured_account()
+    ac1.set_config("mvbox_move", "1")
+    ac1.bring_online()
+
+    ac1_direct_imap = direct_imap(ac1)
+    ac1_direct_imap.conn.folder.delete("DeltaChat")
+    assert "DeltaChat" not in ac1_direct_imap.list_folders()
+
+    # Wait until new folder is created and UIDVALIDITY is updated.
+    while True:
+        event = ac1.wait_for_event()
+        if event.kind == EventType.INFO and "transport 1: UID validity for folder DeltaChat changed from " in event.msg:
+            break
+
+    ac2 = acfactory.get_online_account()
+    ac2.create_chat(ac1).send_text("hello")
+    msg = ac1.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
+    assert msg.text == "hello"
+
+    assert "DeltaChat" in ac1_direct_imap.list_folders()
+
+
+def test_dont_show_emails(acfactory, direct_imap, log):
+    """Most mailboxes have a "Drafts" folder where constantly new emails appear but we don't actually want to show them.
+    So: If it's outgoing AND there is no Received header, then ignore the email.
+
+    If the draft email is sent out and received later (i.e. it's in "Inbox"), it must be shown.
+
+    Also, test that unknown emails in the Spam folder are not shown."""
+    ac1 = acfactory.new_configured_account()
+    ac1.stop_io()
+    ac1.set_config("show_emails", "2")
+
+    ac1.create_contact("alice@example.org").create_chat()
+
+    ac1_direct_imap = direct_imap(ac1)
+    ac1_direct_imap.create_folder("Drafts")
+    ac1_direct_imap.create_folder("Spam")
+    ac1_direct_imap.create_folder("Junk")
+
+    # Learn UID validity for all folders.
+    ac1.set_config("scan_all_folders_debounce_secs", "0")
+    ac1.start_io()
+    ac1.wait_for_event(EventType.IMAP_INBOX_IDLE)
+    ac1.stop_io()
+
+    ac1_direct_imap.append(
+        "Drafts",
+        """
+        From: ac1 <{}>
+        Subject: subj
+        To: alice@example.org
+        Message-ID: <aepiors@example.org>
+        Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
+
+        message in Drafts received later
+    """.format(
+            ac1.get_config("configured_addr"),
+        ),
+    )
+    ac1_direct_imap.append(
+        "Spam",
+        """
+        From: unknown.address@junk.org
+        Subject: subj
+        To: {}
+        Message-ID: <spam.message@junk.org>
+        Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
+
+        Unknown message in Spam
+    """.format(
+            ac1.get_config("configured_addr"),
+        ),
+    )
+    ac1_direct_imap.append(
+        "Spam",
+        """
+        From: unknown.address@junk.org, unkwnown.add@junk.org
+        Subject: subj
+        To: {}
+        Message-ID: <spam.message2@junk.org>
+        Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
+
+        Unknown & malformed message in Spam
+    """.format(
+            ac1.get_config("configured_addr"),
+        ),
+    )
+    ac1_direct_imap.append(
+        "Spam",
+        """
+        From: delta<address: inbox@nhroy.com>
+        Subject: subj
+        To: {}
+        Message-ID: <spam.message99@junk.org>
+        Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
+
+        Unknown & malformed message in Spam
+    """.format(
+            ac1.get_config("configured_addr"),
+        ),
+    )
+    ac1_direct_imap.append(
+        "Spam",
+        """
+        From: alice@example.org
+        Subject: subj
+        To: {}
+        Message-ID: <spam.message3@junk.org>
+        Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
+
+        Actually interesting message in Spam
+    """.format(
+            ac1.get_config("configured_addr"),
+        ),
+    )
+    ac1_direct_imap.append(
+        "Junk",
+        """
+        From: unknown.address@junk.org
+        Subject: subj
+        To: {}
+        Message-ID: <spam.message@junk.org>
+        Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
+
+        Unknown message in Junk
+    """.format(
+            ac1.get_config("configured_addr"),
+        ),
+    )
+
+    ac1.set_config("scan_all_folders_debounce_secs", "0")
+    log.section("All prepared, now let DC find the message")
+    ac1.start_io()
+
+    # Wait until each folder was scanned, this is necessary for this test to test what it should test:
+    ac1.wait_for_event(EventType.IMAP_INBOX_IDLE)
+
+    fresh_msgs = list(ac1.get_fresh_messages())
+    msg = fresh_msgs[0].get_snapshot()
+    chat_msgs = msg.chat.get_messages()
+    assert len(chat_msgs) == 1
+    assert msg.text == "subj – Actually interesting message in Spam"
+
+    assert not any("unknown.address" in c.get_full_snapshot().name for c in ac1.get_chatlist())
+    ac1_direct_imap.select_folder("Spam")
+    assert ac1_direct_imap.get_uid_by_message_id("spam.message@junk.org")
+
+    ac1.stop_io()
+    log.section("'Send out' the draft by moving it to Inbox, and wait for DC to display it this time")
+    ac1_direct_imap.select_folder("Drafts")
+    uid = ac1_direct_imap.get_uid_by_message_id("aepiors@example.org")
+    ac1_direct_imap.conn.move(uid, "Inbox")
+
+    ac1.start_io()
+    event = ac1.wait_for_event(EventType.MSGS_CHANGED)
+    msg2 = Message(ac1, event.msg_id).get_snapshot()
+
+    assert msg2.text == "subj – message in Drafts received later"
+    assert len(msg.chat.get_messages()) == 2
+
+
+def test_move_works_on_self_sent(acfactory):
+    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+
+    # Enable movebox and wait until it is created.
+    ac1.set_config("mvbox_move", "1")
+    ac1.set_config("bcc_self", "1")
+    ac1.bring_online()
+
+    chat = ac1.create_chat(ac2)
+    chat.send_text("message1")
+    ac1.wait_for_event(EventType.IMAP_MESSAGE_MOVED)
+    chat.send_text("message2")
+    ac1.wait_for_event(EventType.IMAP_MESSAGE_MOVED)
+    chat.send_text("message3")
+    ac1.wait_for_event(EventType.IMAP_MESSAGE_MOVED)
+
+
+def test_moved_markseen(acfactory, direct_imap):
+    """Test that message already moved to DeltaChat folder is marked as seen."""
+    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+    ac2.set_config("mvbox_move", "1")
+    ac2.set_config("delete_server_after", "0")
+    ac2.set_config("sync_msgs", "0")  # Do not send a sync message when accepting a contact request.
+    ac2.bring_online()
+
+    ac2.stop_io()
+    ac2_direct_imap = direct_imap(ac2)
+    with ac2_direct_imap.idle() as idle2:
+        ac1.create_chat(ac2).send_text("Hello!")
+        idle2.wait_for_new_message()
+
+    # Emulate moving of the message to DeltaChat folder by Sieve rule.
+    ac2_direct_imap.conn.move(["*"], "DeltaChat")
+    ac2_direct_imap.select_folder("DeltaChat")
+    assert len(list(ac2_direct_imap.conn.fetch("*", mark_seen=False))) == 1
+
+    with ac2_direct_imap.idle() as idle2:
+        ac2.start_io()
+
+        ev = ac2.wait_for_event(EventType.MSGS_CHANGED)
+        msg = ac2.get_message_by_id(ev.msg_id)
+        assert msg.get_snapshot().text == "Messages are end-to-end encrypted."
+
+        ev = ac2.wait_for_event(EventType.INCOMING_MSG)
+        msg = ac2.get_message_by_id(ev.msg_id)
+        chat = ac2.get_chat_by_id(ev.chat_id)
+
+        # Accept the contact request.
+        chat.accept()
+        msg.mark_seen()
+        idle2.wait_for_seen()
+
+    assert len(list(ac2_direct_imap.conn.fetch(AND(seen=True, uid=U(1, "*")), mark_seen=False))) == 1
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("mvbox_move", [True, False])
+def test_markseen_message_and_mdn(acfactory, direct_imap, mvbox_move):
+    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+
+    for ac in ac1, ac2:
+        ac.set_config("delete_server_after", "0")
+        if mvbox_move:
+            ac.set_config("mvbox_move", "1")
+            ac.bring_online()
+
+    # Do not send BCC to self, we only want to test MDN on ac1.
+    ac1.set_config("bcc_self", "0")
+
+    acfactory.get_accepted_chat(ac1, ac2).send_text("hi")
+    msg = ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg()
+    msg.mark_seen()
+
+    if mvbox_move:
+        rex = re.compile("Marked messages [0-9]+ in folder DeltaChat as seen.")
+    else:
+        rex = re.compile("Marked messages [0-9]+ in folder INBOX as seen.")
+
+    for ac in ac1, ac2:
+        while True:
+            event = ac.wait_for_event()
+            if event.kind == EventType.INFO and rex.search(event.msg):
+                break
+
+    folder = "mvbox" if mvbox_move else "inbox"
+    ac1_direct_imap = direct_imap(ac1)
+    ac2_direct_imap = direct_imap(ac2)
+
+    ac1_direct_imap.select_config_folder(folder)
+    ac2_direct_imap.select_config_folder(folder)
+
+    # Check that the mdn is marked as seen
+    assert len(list(ac1_direct_imap.conn.fetch(AND(seen=True), mark_seen=False))) == 1
+    # Check original message is marked as seen
+    assert len(list(ac2_direct_imap.conn.fetch(AND(seen=True), mark_seen=False))) == 1
+
+
+def test_mvbox_and_trash(acfactory, direct_imap, log):
+    log.section("ac1: start with mvbox")
+    ac1 = acfactory.get_online_account()
+    ac1.set_config("mvbox_move", "1")
+    ac1.bring_online()
+
+    log.section("ac2: start without a mvbox")
+    ac2 = acfactory.get_online_account()
+
+    log.section("ac1: create trash")
+    ac1_direct_imap = direct_imap(ac1)
+    ac1_direct_imap.create_folder("Trash")
+    ac1.set_config("scan_all_folders_debounce_secs", "0")
+    ac1.stop_io()
+    ac1.start_io()
+
+    log.section("ac1: send message and wait for ac2 to receive it")
+    acfactory.get_accepted_chat(ac1, ac2).send_text("message1")
+    assert ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot().text == "message1"
+
+    assert ac1.get_config("configured_mvbox_folder") == "DeltaChat"
+    while ac1.get_config("configured_trash_folder") != "Trash":
+        ac1.wait_for_event(EventType.CONNECTIVITY_CHANGED)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("folder", "move", "expected_destination"),
+    [
+        (
+            "xyz",
+            False,
+            "xyz",
+        ),  # Test that emails aren't found in a random folder
+        (
+            "xyz",
+            True,
+            "xyz",
+        ),  # ...emails are found in a random folder and downloaded without moving
+        (
+            "Spam",
+            False,
+            "INBOX",
+        ),  # ...emails are moved from the spam folder to the Inbox
+    ],
+)
+# Testrun.org does not support the CREATE-SPECIAL-USE capability, which means that we can't create a folder with
+# the "\Junk" flag (see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6154). So, we can't test spam folder detection by flag.
+def test_scan_folders(acfactory, log, direct_imap, folder, move, expected_destination):
+    """Delta Chat periodically scans all folders for new messages to make sure we don't miss any."""
+    variant = folder + "-" + str(move) + "-" + expected_destination
+    log.section("Testing variant " + variant)
+    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+    ac1.set_config("delete_server_after", "0")
+    if move:
+        ac1.set_config("mvbox_move", "1")
+        ac1.bring_online()
+
+    ac1.stop_io()
+    ac1_direct_imap = direct_imap(ac1)
+    ac1_direct_imap.create_folder(folder)
+
+    # Wait until each folder was selected once and we are IDLEing:
+    ac1.start_io()
+    ac1.bring_online()
+
+    ac1.stop_io()
+    assert folder in ac1_direct_imap.list_folders()
+
+    log.section("Send a message from ac2 to ac1 and manually move it to `folder`")
+    ac1_direct_imap.select_config_folder("inbox")
+    with ac1_direct_imap.idle() as idle1:
+        acfactory.get_accepted_chat(ac2, ac1).send_text("hello")
+        idle1.wait_for_new_message()
+    ac1_direct_imap.conn.move(["*"], folder)  # "*" means "biggest UID in mailbox"
+
+    log.section("start_io() and see if DeltaChat finds the message (" + variant + ")")
+    ac1.set_config("scan_all_folders_debounce_secs", "0")
+    ac1.start_io()
+    chat = ac1.create_chat(ac2)
+    n_msgs = 1  # "Messages are end-to-end encrypted."
+    if folder == "Spam":
+        msg = ac1.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
+        assert msg.text == "hello"
+        n_msgs += 1
+    else:
+        ac1.wait_for_event(EventType.IMAP_INBOX_IDLE)
+    assert len(chat.get_messages()) == n_msgs
+
+    # The message has reached its destination.
+    ac1_direct_imap.select_folder(expected_destination)
+    assert len(ac1_direct_imap.get_all_messages()) == 1
+    if folder != expected_destination:
+        ac1_direct_imap.select_folder(folder)
+        assert len(ac1_direct_imap.get_all_messages()) == 0
+
+
+def test_trash_multiple_messages(acfactory, direct_imap, log):
+    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+    ac2.stop_io()
+
+    # Create the Trash folder on IMAP server and configure deletion to it. There was a bug that if
+    # Trash wasn't configured initially, it can't be configured later, let's check this.
+    log.section("Creating trash folder")
+    ac2_direct_imap = direct_imap(ac2)
+    ac2_direct_imap.create_folder("Trash")
+    ac2.set_config("delete_server_after", "0")
+    ac2.set_config("sync_msgs", "0")
+    ac2.set_config("delete_to_trash", "1")
+
+    log.section("Check that Trash can be configured initially as well")
+    ac3 = ac2.clone()
+    ac3.bring_online()
+    assert ac3.get_config("configured_trash_folder")
+    ac3.stop_io()
+
+    ac2.start_io()
+    chat12 = acfactory.get_accepted_chat(ac1, ac2)
+
+    log.section("ac1: sending 3 messages")
+    texts = ["first", "second", "third"]
+    for text in texts:
+        chat12.send_text(text)
+
+    log.section("ac2: waiting for all messages on the other side")
+    to_delete = []
+    for text in texts:
+        msg = ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
+        assert msg.text in texts
+        if text != "second":
+            to_delete.append(msg)
+    # ac2 has received some messages, this is impossible w/o the trash folder configured, let's
+    # check the configuration.
+    assert ac2.get_config("configured_trash_folder") == "Trash"
+
+    log.section("ac2: deleting all messages except second")
+    assert len(to_delete) == len(texts) - 1
+    ac2.delete_messages(to_delete)
+
+    log.section("ac2: test that only one message is left")
+    while 1:
+        ac2.wait_for_event(EventType.IMAP_MESSAGE_MOVED)
+        ac2_direct_imap.select_config_folder("inbox")
+        nr_msgs = len(ac2_direct_imap.get_all_messages())
+        assert nr_msgs > 0
+        if nr_msgs == 1:
+            break
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_iroh_webxdc.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_iroh_webxdc.py
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ def test_realtime_sequentially(acfactory, path_to_webxdc):

    # share a webxdc app between ac1 and ac2
    ac1_webxdc_msg = acfactory.send_message(from_account=ac1, to_account=ac2, text="play", file=path_to_webxdc)
-    ac2_webxdc_msg = ac2.get_message_by_id(ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id)
+    ac2_webxdc_msg = ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg()
    snapshot = ac2_webxdc_msg.get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.text == "play"

@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ def test_realtime_sequentially(acfactory, path_to_webxdc):
    acfactory.send_message(from_account=ac1, to_account=ac2, text="ping1")

    log("waiting for incoming message on ac2")
-    snapshot = ac2.get_message_by_id(ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.text == "ping1"

    log("sending ac2 -> ac1 realtime advertisement and additional message")
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ def test_realtime_sequentially(acfactory, path_to_webxdc):
    acfactory.send_message(from_account=ac2, to_account=ac1, text="ping2")

    log("waiting for incoming message on ac1")
-    snapshot = ac1.get_message_by_id(ac1.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = ac1.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.text == "ping2"

    log("sending realtime data ac1 -> ac2")
@@ -214,7 +214,9 @@ def test_advertisement_after_chatting(acfactory, path_to_webxdc):
    ac1_ac2_chat = ac1.create_chat(ac2)
    ac1_webxdc_msg = ac1_ac2_chat.send_message(text="WebXDC", file=path_to_webxdc)
    ac2_webxdc_msg = ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg()
-    assert ac2_webxdc_msg.get_snapshot().text == "WebXDC"
+    ac2_webxdc_msg_snapshot = ac2_webxdc_msg.get_snapshot()
+    assert ac2_webxdc_msg_snapshot.text == "WebXDC"
+    ac2_webxdc_msg_snapshot.chat.accept()

    ac1_ac2_chat.send_text("Hello!")
    ac2_hello_msg = ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg()
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_key_transfer.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_key_transfer.py
@@ -18,9 +18,7 @@ def test_autocrypt_setup_message_key_transfer(acfactory):
    alice1 = acfactory.get_online_account()

    alice2 = acfactory.get_unconfigured_account()
-    alice2.set_config("addr", alice1.get_config("addr"))
-    alice2.set_config("mail_pw", alice1.get_config("mail_pw"))
-    alice2.configure()
+    alice2.add_or_update_transport({"addr": alice1.get_config("addr"), "password": alice1.get_config("mail_pw")})
    alice2.bring_online()

    setup_code = alice1.initiate_autocrypt_key_transfer()
@@ -37,9 +35,7 @@ def test_ac_setup_message_twice(acfactory):
    alice1 = acfactory.get_online_account()

    alice2 = acfactory.get_unconfigured_account()
-    alice2.set_config("addr", alice1.get_config("addr"))
-    alice2.set_config("mail_pw", alice1.get_config("mail_pw"))
-    alice2.configure()
+    alice2.add_or_update_transport({"addr": alice1.get_config("addr"), "password": alice1.get_config("mail_pw")})
    alice2.bring_online()

    # Send the first Autocrypt Setup Message and ignore it.
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_multidevice.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_multidevice.py
@@ -4,6 +4,41 @@ from deltachat_rpc_client import EventType
 from deltachat_rpc_client.const import MessageState


+def test_bcc_self_delete_server_after_defaults(acfactory):
+    """Test default values for bcc_self and delete_server_after."""
+    ac = acfactory.get_online_account()
+
+    # Initially after getting online
+    # the setting bcc_self is set to 0 because there is only one device
+    # and delete_server_after is "1", meaning immediate deletion.
+    assert ac.get_config("bcc_self") == "0"
+    assert ac.get_config("delete_server_after") == "1"
+
+    # Setup a second device.
+    ac_clone = ac.clone()
+    ac_clone.bring_online()
+
+    # Second device setup
+    # enables bcc_self and changes default delete_server_after.
+    assert ac.get_config("bcc_self") == "1"
+    assert ac.get_config("delete_server_after") == "0"
+
+    assert ac_clone.get_config("bcc_self") == "1"
+    assert ac_clone.get_config("delete_server_after") == "0"
+
+    # Manually disabling bcc_self
+    # also restores the default for delete_server_after.
+    ac.set_config("bcc_self", "0")
+    assert ac.get_config("bcc_self") == "0"
+    assert ac.get_config("delete_server_after") == "1"
+
+    # Cloning the account again enables bcc_self
+    # even though it was manually disabled.
+    ac_clone = ac.clone()
+    assert ac.get_config("bcc_self") == "1"
+    assert ac.get_config("delete_server_after") == "0"
+
+
 def test_one_account_send_bcc_setting(acfactory, log, direct_imap):
    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
    ac1_clone = ac1.clone()
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_multitransport.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_multitransport.py
@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+import pytest
+
+from deltachat_rpc_client.rpc import JsonRpcError
+
+
+def test_add_second_address(acfactory) -> None:
+    account = acfactory.new_configured_account()
+    assert len(account.list_transports()) == 1
+
+    # When the first transport is created,
+    # mvbox_move and only_fetch_mvbox should be disabled.
+    assert account.get_config("mvbox_move") == "0"
+    assert account.get_config("only_fetch_mvbox") == "0"
+    assert account.get_config("show_emails") == "2"
+
+    qr = acfactory.get_account_qr()
+    account.add_transport_from_qr(qr)
+    assert len(account.list_transports()) == 2
+
+    account.add_transport_from_qr(qr)
+    assert len(account.list_transports()) == 3
+
+    first_addr = account.list_transports()[0]["addr"]
+    second_addr = account.list_transports()[1]["addr"]
+
+    # Cannot delete the first address.
+    with pytest.raises(JsonRpcError):
+        account.delete_transport(first_addr)
+
+    account.delete_transport(second_addr)
+    assert len(account.list_transports()) == 2
+
+    # Enabling mvbox_move or only_fetch_mvbox
+    # is not allowed when multi-transport is enabled.
+    for option in ["mvbox_move", "only_fetch_mvbox"]:
+        with pytest.raises(JsonRpcError):
+            account.set_config(option, "1")
+
+    with pytest.raises(JsonRpcError):
+        account.set_config("show_emails", "0")
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("key", ["mvbox_move", "only_fetch_mvbox"])
+def test_no_second_transport_with_mvbox(acfactory, key) -> None:
+    """Test that second transport cannot be configured if mvbox is used."""
+    account = acfactory.new_configured_account()
+    assert len(account.list_transports()) == 1
+
+    assert account.get_config("mvbox_move") == "0"
+    assert account.get_config("only_fetch_mvbox") == "0"
+
+    qr = acfactory.get_account_qr()
+    account.set_config(key, "1")
+
+    with pytest.raises(JsonRpcError):
+        account.add_transport_from_qr(qr)
+
+
+def test_no_second_transport_without_classic_emails(acfactory) -> None:
+    """Test that second transport cannot be configured if classic emails are not fetched."""
+    account = acfactory.new_configured_account()
+    assert len(account.list_transports()) == 1
+
+    assert account.get_config("show_emails") == "2"
+
+    qr = acfactory.get_account_qr()
+    account.set_config("show_emails", "0")
+
+    with pytest.raises(JsonRpcError):
+        account.add_transport_from_qr(qr)
+
+
+def test_change_address(acfactory) -> None:
+    """Test Alice configuring a second transport and setting it as a primary one."""
+    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+
+    bob_addr = bob.get_config("configured_addr")
+    bob.create_chat(alice)
+
+    alice_chat_bob = alice.create_chat(bob)
+    alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello!")
+
+    msg1 = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
+    sender_addr1 = msg1.sender.get_snapshot().address
+
+    alice.stop_io()
+    old_alice_addr = alice.get_config("configured_addr")
+    alice_vcard = alice.self_contact.make_vcard()
+    assert old_alice_addr in alice_vcard
+    qr = acfactory.get_account_qr()
+    alice.add_transport_from_qr(qr)
+    new_alice_addr = alice.list_transports()[1]["addr"]
+    with pytest.raises(JsonRpcError):
+        # Cannot use the address that is not
+        # configured for any transport.
+        alice.set_config("configured_addr", bob_addr)
+
+    # Load old address so it is cached.
+    assert alice.get_config("configured_addr") == old_alice_addr
+    alice.set_config("configured_addr", new_alice_addr)
+    # Make sure that setting `configured_addr` invalidated the cache.
+    assert alice.get_config("configured_addr") == new_alice_addr
+
+    alice_vcard = alice.self_contact.make_vcard()
+    assert old_alice_addr not in alice_vcard
+    assert new_alice_addr in alice_vcard
+    with pytest.raises(JsonRpcError):
+        alice.delete_transport(new_alice_addr)
+    alice.start_io()
+
+    alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello again!")
+
+    msg2 = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
+    sender_addr2 = msg2.sender.get_snapshot().address
+
+    assert msg1.sender == msg2.sender
+    assert sender_addr1 != sender_addr2
+    assert sender_addr1 == old_alice_addr
+    assert sender_addr2 == new_alice_addr
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("is_chatmail", ["0", "1"])
+def test_mvbox_move_first_transport(acfactory, is_chatmail) -> None:
+    """Test that mvbox_move is disabled by default even for non-chatmail accounts.
+    Disabling mvbox_move is required to be able to setup a second transport.
+    """
+    account = acfactory.get_unconfigured_account()
+
+    account.set_config("fix_is_chatmail", "1")
+    account.set_config("is_chatmail", is_chatmail)
+
+    # The default value when the setting is unset is "1".
+    # This is not changed for compatibility with old databases
+    # imported from backups.
+    assert account.get_config("mvbox_move") == "1"
+
+    qr = acfactory.get_account_qr()
+    account.add_transport_from_qr(qr)
+
+    # Once the first transport is set up,
+    # mvbox_move is disabled.
+    assert account.get_config("mvbox_move") == "0"
+    assert account.get_config("is_chatmail") == is_chatmail
+
+
+def test_reconfigure_transport(acfactory) -> None:
+    """Test that reconfiguring the transport works
+    even if settings not supported for multi-transport
+    like mvbox_move are enabled."""
+    account = acfactory.get_online_account()
+    account.set_config("mvbox_move", "1")
+
+    [transport] = account.list_transports()
+    account.add_or_update_transport(transport)
+
+    # Reconfiguring the transport should not reset
+    # the settings as if when configuring the first transport.
+    assert account.get_config("mvbox_move") == "1"
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_rpc_virtual.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_rpc_virtual.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import subprocess
+import sys
+from platform import system  # noqa
+
+import pytest
+
+from deltachat_rpc_client import DeltaChat, Rpc
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif("system() == 'Windows'")
+def test_install_venv_and_use_other_core(tmp_path):
+    venv = tmp_path.joinpath("venv1")
+    subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, "-m", "venv", venv])
+    python = venv / "bin" / "python"
+    subprocess.check_call([python, "-m", "pip", "install", "deltachat-rpc-server==2.20.0"])
+    rpc = Rpc(accounts_dir=tmp_path.joinpath("accounts"), rpc_server_path=venv.joinpath("bin", "deltachat-rpc-server"))
+
+    with rpc:
+        dc = DeltaChat(rpc)
+        assert dc.rpc.get_system_info()["deltachat_core_version"] == "v2.20.0"
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_securejoin.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_securejoin.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import logging
 import pytest

 from deltachat_rpc_client import Chat, EventType, SpecialContactId
+from deltachat_rpc_client.const import ChatType
 from deltachat_rpc_client.rpc import JsonRpcError


@@ -58,8 +59,7 @@ def test_qr_setup_contact_svg(acfactory) -> None:
    assert "Alice" in svg


-@pytest.mark.parametrize("protect", [True, False])
-def test_qr_securejoin(acfactory, protect):
+def test_qr_securejoin(acfactory):
    alice, bob, fiona = acfactory.get_online_accounts(3)

    # Setup second device for Alice
@@ -67,8 +67,7 @@ def test_qr_securejoin(acfactory, protect):
    alice2 = alice.clone()

    logging.info("Alice creates a group")
-    alice_chat = alice.create_group("Group", protect=protect)
-    assert alice_chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected == protect
+    alice_chat = alice.create_group("Group")

    logging.info("Bob joins the group")
    qr_code = alice_chat.get_qr_code()
@@ -87,9 +86,8 @@ def test_qr_securejoin(acfactory, protect):
    alice_contact_bob_snapshot = alice_contact_bob.get_snapshot()
    assert alice_contact_bob_snapshot.is_verified

-    snapshot = bob.get_message_by_id(bob.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.text == "Member Me added by {}.".format(alice.get_config("addr"))
-    assert snapshot.chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected == protect

    # Test that Bob verified Alice's profile.
    bob_contact_alice = bob.create_contact(alice)
@@ -112,6 +110,143 @@ def test_qr_securejoin(acfactory, protect):
    fiona.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()


+@pytest.mark.parametrize("all_devices_online", [True, False])
+def test_qr_securejoin_broadcast(acfactory, all_devices_online):
+    alice, bob, fiona = acfactory.get_online_accounts(3)
+
+    alice2 = alice.clone()
+    bob2 = bob.clone()
+
+    if all_devices_online:
+        alice2.start_io()
+        bob2.start_io()
+
+    logging.info("===================== Alice creates a broadcast =====================")
+    alice_chat = alice.create_broadcast("Broadcast channel!")
+    snapshot = alice_chat.get_basic_snapshot()
+    assert not snapshot.is_unpromoted  # Broadcast channels are never unpromoted
+
+    logging.info("===================== Bob joins the broadcast =====================")
+
+    qr_code = alice_chat.get_qr_code()
+    bob.secure_join(qr_code)
+    alice.wait_for_securejoin_inviter_success()
+    bob.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
+    alice_chat.send_text("Hello everyone!")
+
+    def get_broadcast(ac):
+        chat = ac.get_chatlist(query="Broadcast channel!")[0]
+        assert chat.get_basic_snapshot().name == "Broadcast channel!"
+        return chat
+
+    def wait_for_broadcast_messages(ac):
+        snapshot1 = ac.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
+        assert snapshot1.text == "You joined the channel."
+
+        snapshot2 = ac.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
+        assert snapshot2.text == "Hello everyone!"
+
+        chat = get_broadcast(ac)
+        assert snapshot1.chat_id == chat.id
+        assert snapshot2.chat_id == chat.id
+
+    def check_account(ac, contact, inviter_side, please_wait_info_msg=False):
+        # Check that the chat partner is verified.
+        contact_snapshot = contact.get_snapshot()
+        assert contact_snapshot.is_verified
+
+        chat = get_broadcast(ac)
+        chat_msgs = chat.get_messages()
+
+        encrypted_msg = chat_msgs.pop(0).get_snapshot()
+        assert encrypted_msg.text == "Messages are end-to-end encrypted."
+        assert encrypted_msg.is_info
+
+        if please_wait_info_msg:
+            first_msg = chat_msgs.pop(0).get_snapshot()
+            assert "invited you to join this channel" in first_msg.text
+            assert first_msg.is_info
+
+        member_added_msg = chat_msgs.pop(0).get_snapshot()
+        if inviter_side:
+            assert member_added_msg.text == f"Member {contact_snapshot.display_name} added."
+        else:
+            assert member_added_msg.text == "You joined the channel."
+        assert member_added_msg.is_info
+
+        hello_msg = chat_msgs.pop(0).get_snapshot()
+        assert hello_msg.text == "Hello everyone!"
+        assert not hello_msg.is_info
+        assert hello_msg.show_padlock
+        assert hello_msg.error is None
+
+        assert len(chat_msgs) == 0
+
+        chat_snapshot = chat.get_full_snapshot()
+        assert chat_snapshot.is_encrypted
+        assert chat_snapshot.name == "Broadcast channel!"
+        if inviter_side:
+            assert chat_snapshot.chat_type == ChatType.OUT_BROADCAST
+        else:
+            assert chat_snapshot.chat_type == ChatType.IN_BROADCAST
+        assert chat_snapshot.can_send == inviter_side
+
+        chat_contacts = chat_snapshot.contact_ids
+        assert contact.id in chat_contacts
+        if inviter_side:
+            assert len(chat_contacts) == 1
+        else:
+            assert len(chat_contacts) == 2
+            assert SpecialContactId.SELF in chat_contacts
+            assert chat_snapshot.self_in_group
+
+    wait_for_broadcast_messages(bob)
+
+    check_account(alice, alice.create_contact(bob), inviter_side=True)
+    check_account(bob, bob.create_contact(alice), inviter_side=False, please_wait_info_msg=True)
+
+    logging.info("===================== Test Alice's second device =====================")
+
+    # Start second Alice device, if it wasn't started already.
+    alice2.start_io()
+
+    while True:
+        msg_id = alice2.wait_for_msgs_changed_event().msg_id
+        if msg_id:
+            snapshot = alice2.get_message_by_id(msg_id).get_snapshot()
+            if snapshot.text == "Hello everyone!":
+                break
+
+    check_account(alice2, alice2.create_contact(bob), inviter_side=True)
+
+    logging.info("===================== Test Bob's second device =====================")
+
+    # Start second Bob device, if it wasn't started already.
+    bob2.start_io()
+    bob2.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
+    wait_for_broadcast_messages(bob2)
+    check_account(bob2, bob2.create_contact(alice), inviter_side=False)
+
+    # The QR code token is synced, so alice2 must be able to handle join requests.
+    logging.info("===================== Fiona joins the group via alice2 =====================")
+    alice.stop_io()
+    fiona.secure_join(qr_code)
+    alice2.wait_for_securejoin_inviter_success()
+    fiona.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
+
+    snapshot = fiona.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
+    assert snapshot.text == "You joined the channel."
+
+    get_broadcast(alice2).get_messages()[2].resend()
+    snapshot = fiona.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
+    assert snapshot.text == "Hello everyone!"
+
+    check_account(fiona, fiona.create_contact(alice), inviter_side=False, please_wait_info_msg=True)
+
+    # For Bob, the channel must not have changed:
+    check_account(bob, bob.create_contact(alice), inviter_side=False, please_wait_info_msg=True)
+
+
 def test_qr_securejoin_contact_request(acfactory) -> None:
    """Alice invites Bob to a group when Bob's chat with Alice is in a contact request mode."""
    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
@@ -120,13 +255,13 @@ def test_qr_securejoin_contact_request(acfactory) -> None:
    alice_chat_bob = alice_contact_bob.create_chat()
    alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello!")

-    snapshot = bob.get_message_by_id(bob.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.text == "Hello!"
    bob_chat_alice = snapshot.chat
    assert bob_chat_alice.get_basic_snapshot().is_contact_request

-    alice_chat = alice.create_group("Verified group", protect=True)
-    logging.info("Bob joins verified group")
+    alice_chat = alice.create_group("Group")
+    logging.info("Bob joins the group")
    qr_code = alice_chat.get_qr_code()
    bob.secure_join(qr_code)
    while True:
@@ -150,8 +285,8 @@ def test_qr_readreceipt(acfactory) -> None:
    for joiner in [bob, charlie]:
        joiner.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()

-    logging.info("Alice creates a verified group")
-    group = alice.create_group("Group", protect=True)
+    logging.info("Alice creates a group")
+    group = alice.create_group("Group")

    alice_contact_bob = alice.create_contact(bob, "Bob")
    alice_contact_charlie = alice.create_contact(charlie, "Charlie")
@@ -164,8 +299,7 @@ def test_qr_readreceipt(acfactory) -> None:

    logging.info("Bob and Charlie receive a group")

-    bob_msg_id = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id
-    bob_message = bob.get_message_by_id(bob_msg_id)
+    bob_message = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg()
    bob_snapshot = bob_message.get_snapshot()
    assert bob_snapshot.text == "Hello"

@@ -176,8 +310,7 @@ def test_qr_readreceipt(acfactory) -> None:

    bob_out_message = bob_snapshot.chat.send_message(text="Hi from Bob!")

-    charlie_msg_id = charlie.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id
-    charlie_message = charlie.get_message_by_id(charlie_msg_id)
+    charlie_message = charlie.wait_for_incoming_msg()
    charlie_snapshot = charlie_message.get_snapshot()
    assert charlie_snapshot.text == "Hi from Bob!"

@@ -216,11 +349,10 @@ def test_verified_group_member_added_recovery(acfactory) -> None:
    """Tests verified group recovery by reverifying then removing and adding a member back."""
    ac1, ac2, ac3 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(3)

-    logging.info("ac1 creates verified group")
-    chat = ac1.create_group("Verified group", protect=True)
-    assert chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected
+    logging.info("ac1 creates a group")
+    chat = ac1.create_group("Group")

-    logging.info("ac2 joins verified group")
+    logging.info("ac2 joins the group")
    qr_code = chat.get_qr_code()
    ac2.secure_join(qr_code)
    ac2.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()
@@ -253,7 +385,7 @@ def test_verified_group_member_added_recovery(acfactory) -> None:
    ac3_contact_ac2 = ac3.create_contact(ac2)
    ac3_chat.remove_contact(ac3_contact_ac2_old)

-    snapshot = ac1.get_message_by_id(ac1.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = ac1.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
    assert "removed" in snapshot.text

    ac3_chat.add_contact(ac3_contact_ac2)
@@ -266,25 +398,26 @@ def test_verified_group_member_added_recovery(acfactory) -> None:
    logging.info("ac2 got event message: %s", snapshot.text)
    assert "added" in snapshot.text

-    snapshot = ac1.get_message_by_id(ac1.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = ac1.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
    assert "added" in snapshot.text

    chat = Chat(ac2, chat_id)
    chat.send_text("Works again!")

-    msg_id = ac3.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id
-    message = ac3.get_message_by_id(msg_id)
+    message = ac3.wait_for_incoming_msg()
    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.text == "Works again!"

-    snapshot = ac1.get_message_by_id(ac1.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = ac1.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.text == "Works again!"

    ac1_contact_ac2 = ac1.create_contact(ac2)
    ac1_contact_ac3 = ac1.create_contact(ac3)
    ac1_contact_ac2_snapshot = ac1_contact_ac2.get_snapshot()
-    assert ac1_contact_ac2_snapshot.is_verified
-    assert ac1_contact_ac2_snapshot.verifier_id == ac1_contact_ac3.id
+    # Until we reset verifications and then send the _verified header,
+    # verification is not gossiped here:
+    assert not ac1_contact_ac2_snapshot.is_verified
+    assert ac1_contact_ac2_snapshot.verifier_id != ac1_contact_ac3.id


 def test_qr_join_chat_with_pending_bobstate_issue4894(acfactory):
@@ -302,8 +435,8 @@ def test_qr_join_chat_with_pending_bobstate_issue4894(acfactory):
    # we first create a fully joined verified group, and then start
    # joining a second time but interrupt it, to create pending bob state

-    logging.info("ac1: create verified group that ac2 fully joins")
-    ch1 = ac1.create_group("Group", protect=True)
+    logging.info("ac1: create a group that ac2 fully joins")
+    ch1 = ac1.create_group("Group")
    qr_code = ch1.get_qr_code()
    ac2.secure_join(qr_code)
    ac1.wait_for_securejoin_inviter_success()
@@ -311,9 +444,8 @@ def test_qr_join_chat_with_pending_bobstate_issue4894(acfactory):
    # ensure ac1 can write and ac2 receives messages in verified chat
    ch1.send_text("ac1 says hello")
    while 1:
-        snapshot = ac2.get_message_by_id(ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
+        snapshot = ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
        if snapshot.text == "ac1 says hello":
-            assert snapshot.chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected
            break

    logging.info("ac1: let ac2 join again but shutoff ac1 in the middle of securejoin")
@@ -327,15 +459,14 @@ def test_qr_join_chat_with_pending_bobstate_issue4894(acfactory):
    assert ac2.create_contact(ac3).get_snapshot().is_verified

    logging.info("ac3: create a verified group VG with ac2")
-    vg = ac3.create_group("ac3-created", protect=True)
+    vg = ac3.create_group("ac3-created")
    vg.add_contact(ac3.create_contact(ac2))

    # ensure ac2 receives message in VG
    vg.send_text("hello")
    while 1:
-        msg = ac2.get_message_by_id(ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
+        msg = ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
        if msg.text == "hello":
-            assert msg.chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected
            break

    logging.info("ac3: create a join-code for group VG and let ac4 join, check that ac2 got it")
@@ -359,7 +490,7 @@ def test_qr_new_group_unblocked(acfactory):
    """

    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
-    ac1_chat = ac1.create_group("Group for joining", protect=True)
+    ac1_chat = ac1.create_group("Group for joining")
    qr_code = ac1_chat.get_qr_code()
    ac2.secure_join(qr_code)

@@ -371,7 +502,7 @@ def test_qr_new_group_unblocked(acfactory):
    ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event()

    ac1_new_chat.send_text("Hello!")
-    ac2_msg = ac2.get_message_by_id(ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
+    ac2_msg = ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
    assert ac2_msg.text == "Hello!"
    assert ac2_msg.chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_contact_request

@@ -384,8 +515,7 @@ def test_aeap_flow_verified(acfactory):
    addr, password = acfactory.get_credentials()

    logging.info("ac1: create verified-group QR, ac2 scans and joins")
-    chat = ac1.create_group("hello", protect=True)
-    assert chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected
+    chat = ac1.create_group("hello")
    qr_code = chat.get_qr_code()
    logging.info("ac2: start QR-code based join-group protocol")
    ac2.secure_join(qr_code)
@@ -397,7 +527,7 @@ def test_aeap_flow_verified(acfactory):

    logging.info("receiving first message")
    ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event()  # member added message
-    msg_in_1 = ac2.get_message_by_id(ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
+    msg_in_1 = ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
    assert msg_in_1.text == msg_out.text

    logging.info("changing email account")
@@ -411,7 +541,7 @@ def test_aeap_flow_verified(acfactory):
    msg_out = chat.send_text("changed address").get_snapshot()

    logging.info("receiving second message")
-    msg_in_2 = ac2.get_message_by_id(ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id)
+    msg_in_2 = ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg()
    msg_in_2_snapshot = msg_in_2.get_snapshot()
    assert msg_in_2_snapshot.text == msg_out.text
    assert msg_in_2_snapshot.chat.id == msg_in_1.chat.id
@@ -439,33 +569,35 @@ def test_gossip_verification(acfactory) -> None:

    logging.info("Bob creates an Autocrypt group")
    bob_group_chat = bob.create_group("Autocrypt Group")
-    assert not bob_group_chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected
    bob_group_chat.add_contact(bob_contact_alice)
    bob_group_chat.add_contact(bob_contact_carol)
    bob_group_chat.send_message(text="Hello Autocrypt group")

-    snapshot = carol.get_message_by_id(carol.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = carol.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.text == "Hello Autocrypt group"
    assert snapshot.show_padlock

-    # Autocrypt group does not propagate verification.
+    # Group propagates verification using Autocrypt-Gossip header.
    carol_contact_alice_snapshot = carol_contact_alice.get_snapshot()
+    # Until we reset verifications and then send the _verified header,
+    # verification is not gossiped here:
    assert not carol_contact_alice_snapshot.is_verified

    logging.info("Bob creates a Securejoin group")
-    bob_group_chat = bob.create_group("Securejoin Group", protect=True)
-    assert bob_group_chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected
+    bob_group_chat = bob.create_group("Securejoin Group")
    bob_group_chat.add_contact(bob_contact_alice)
    bob_group_chat.add_contact(bob_contact_carol)
    bob_group_chat.send_message(text="Hello Securejoin group")

-    snapshot = carol.get_message_by_id(carol.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = carol.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.text == "Hello Securejoin group"
    assert snapshot.show_padlock

    # Securejoin propagates verification.
    carol_contact_alice_snapshot = carol_contact_alice.get_snapshot()
-    assert carol_contact_alice_snapshot.is_verified
+    # Until we reset verifications and then send the _verified header,
+    # verification is not gossiped here:
+    assert not carol_contact_alice_snapshot.is_verified


 def test_securejoin_after_contact_resetup(acfactory) -> None:
@@ -477,7 +609,7 @@ def test_securejoin_after_contact_resetup(acfactory) -> None:
    ac1, ac2, ac3 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(3)

    # ac3 creates protected group with ac1.
-    ac3_chat = ac3.create_group("Verified group", protect=True)
+    ac3_chat = ac3.create_group("Group")

    # ac1 joins ac3 group.
    ac3_qr_code = ac3_chat.get_qr_code()
@@ -485,7 +617,7 @@ def test_securejoin_after_contact_resetup(acfactory) -> None:
    ac1.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()

    # ac1 waits for member added message and creates a QR code.
-    snapshot = ac1.get_message_by_id(ac1.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = ac1.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.text == "Member Me added by {}.".format(ac3.get_config("addr"))
    ac1_qr_code = snapshot.chat.get_qr_code()

@@ -522,10 +654,9 @@ def test_securejoin_after_contact_resetup(acfactory) -> None:

    # Wait for member added.
    logging.info("ac2 waits for member added message")
-    snapshot = ac2.get_message_by_id(ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.is_info
    ac2_chat = snapshot.chat
-    assert ac2_chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected
    assert len(ac2_chat.get_contacts()) == 3

    # ac1 is still "not verified" for ac2 due to inconsistent state.
@@ -535,9 +666,8 @@ def test_securejoin_after_contact_resetup(acfactory) -> None:
 def test_withdraw_securejoin_qr(acfactory):
    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)

-    logging.info("Alice creates a verified group")
-    alice_chat = alice.create_group("Verified group", protect=True)
-    assert alice_chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected
+    logging.info("Alice creates a group")
+    alice_chat = alice.create_group("Group")
    logging.info("Bob joins verified group")

    qr_code = alice_chat.get_qr_code()
@@ -546,9 +676,8 @@ def test_withdraw_securejoin_qr(acfactory):

    alice.clear_all_events()

-    snapshot = bob.get_message_by_id(bob.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.text == "Member Me added by {}.".format(alice.get_config("addr"))
-    assert snapshot.chat.get_basic_snapshot().is_protected
    bob_chat.leave()

    snapshot = alice.get_message_by_id(alice.wait_for_msgs_changed_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_something.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_something.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from unittest.mock import MagicMock
 import pytest

 from deltachat_rpc_client import Contact, EventType, Message, events
-from deltachat_rpc_client.const import ChatType, DownloadState, MessageState
+from deltachat_rpc_client.const import DownloadState, MessageState
 from deltachat_rpc_client.pytestplugin import E2EE_INFO_MSGS
 from deltachat_rpc_client.rpc import JsonRpcError

@@ -171,7 +171,10 @@ def test_account(acfactory) -> None:
    assert alice.get_size()
    assert alice.is_configured()
    assert not alice.get_avatar()
-    assert alice.get_contact_by_addr(bob_addr) is None  # There is no address-contact, only key-contact
+    # get_contact_by_addr() can lookup a key contact by address:
+    bob_contact = alice.get_contact_by_addr(bob_addr).get_snapshot()
+    assert bob_contact.display_name == "Bob"
+    assert bob_contact.is_key_contact
    assert alice.get_contacts()
    assert alice.get_contacts(snapshot=True)
    assert alice.self_contact
@@ -249,6 +252,7 @@ def test_chat(acfactory) -> None:
    bob_chat_alice.get_encryption_info()

    group = alice.create_group("test group")
+    to_resend = group.send_text("will be resent")
    group.add_contact(alice_contact_bob)
    group.get_qr_code()

@@ -260,6 +264,7 @@ def test_chat(acfactory) -> None:

    msg = group.send_message(text="hi")
    assert (msg.get_snapshot()).text == "hi"
+    group.resend_messages([to_resend])
    group.forward_messages([msg])

    group.set_draft(text="test draft")
@@ -326,6 +331,34 @@ def test_message(acfactory) -> None:
    assert reactions == snapshot.reactions


+def test_receive_imf_failure(acfactory) -> None:
+    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+    alice_contact_bob = alice.create_contact(bob, "Bob")
+    alice_chat_bob = alice_contact_bob.create_chat()
+
+    bob.set_config("fail_on_receiving_full_msg", "1")
+    alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello!")
+    event = bob.wait_for_event(EventType.MSGS_CHANGED)
+    assert event.chat_id == bob.get_device_chat().id
+    msg_id = event.msg_id
+    message = bob.get_message_by_id(msg_id)
+    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
+    assert (
+        snapshot.text == "❌ Failed to receive a message:"
+        " Condition failed: `!context.get_config_bool(Config::FailOnReceivingFullMsg).await?`."
+        " Please report this bug to delta@merlinux.eu or https://support.delta.chat/."
+    )
+
+    # The failed message doesn't break the IMAP loop.
+    bob.set_config("fail_on_receiving_full_msg", "0")
+    alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello again!")
+    message = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg()
+    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
+    assert snapshot.text == "Hello again!"
+    assert snapshot.download_state == DownloadState.DONE
+    assert snapshot.error is None
+
+
 def test_selfavatar_sync(acfactory, data, log) -> None:
    alice = acfactory.get_online_account()

@@ -388,10 +421,7 @@ def test_is_bot(acfactory) -> None:
    alice.set_config("bot", "1")
    alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello!")

-    event = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg_event()
-    message = bob.get_message_by_id(event.msg_id)
-    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.chat_id == event.chat_id
+    snapshot = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.text == "Hello!"
    assert snapshot.is_bot

@@ -437,7 +467,7 @@ def test_bot(acfactory) -> None:


 def test_wait_next_messages(acfactory) -> None:
-    alice = acfactory.new_configured_account()
+    alice = acfactory.get_online_account()

    # Create a bot account so it does not receive device messages in the beginning.
    addr, password = acfactory.get_credentials()
@@ -445,26 +475,26 @@ def test_wait_next_messages(acfactory) -> None:
    bot.set_config("bot", "1")
    bot.add_or_update_transport({"addr": addr, "password": password})
    assert bot.is_configured()
+    bot.bring_online()

    # There are no old messages and the call returns immediately.
    assert not bot.wait_next_messages()

-    with concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=1) as executor:
-        # Bot starts waiting for messages.
-        next_messages_task = executor.submit(bot.wait_next_messages)
+    # Bot starts waiting for messages.
+    next_messages_task = bot.wait_next_messages.future()

-        alice_contact_bot = alice.create_contact(bot, "Bot")
-        alice_chat_bot = alice_contact_bot.create_chat()
-        alice_chat_bot.send_text("Hello!")
+    alice_contact_bot = alice.create_contact(bot, "Bot")
+    alice_chat_bot = alice_contact_bot.create_chat()
+    alice_chat_bot.send_text("Hello!")

-        next_messages = next_messages_task.result()
+    next_messages = next_messages_task()

-        if len(next_messages) == E2EE_INFO_MSGS:
-            next_messages += bot.wait_next_messages()
+    if len(next_messages) == E2EE_INFO_MSGS:
+        next_messages += bot.wait_next_messages()

-        assert len(next_messages) == 1 + E2EE_INFO_MSGS
-        snapshot = next_messages[0 + E2EE_INFO_MSGS].get_snapshot()
-        assert snapshot.text == "Hello!"
+    assert len(next_messages) == 1 + E2EE_INFO_MSGS
+    snapshot = next_messages[0 + E2EE_INFO_MSGS].get_snapshot()
+    assert snapshot.text == "Hello!"


 def test_import_export_backup(acfactory, tmp_path) -> None:
@@ -484,7 +514,7 @@ def test_import_export_keys(acfactory, tmp_path) -> None:
    alice_chat_bob = alice.create_chat(bob)
    alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello Bob!")

-    snapshot = bob.get_message_by_id(bob.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.text == "Hello Bob!"

    # Alice resetups account, but keeps the key.
@@ -496,7 +526,7 @@ def test_import_export_keys(acfactory, tmp_path) -> None:

    snapshot.chat.accept()
    snapshot.chat.send_text("Hello Alice!")
-    snapshot = alice.get_message_by_id(alice.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = alice.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.text == "Hello Alice!"
    assert snapshot.show_padlock

@@ -519,8 +549,11 @@ def test_provider_info(rpc) -> None:
    assert provider_info is None

    # Test MX record resolution.
+    # This previously resulted in Gmail provider
+    # because MX record pointed to google.com domain,
+    # but MX record resolution has been removed.
    provider_info = rpc.get_provider_info(account_id, "github.com")
-    assert provider_info["id"] == "gmail"
+    assert provider_info is None

    # Disable MX record resolution.
    rpc.set_config(account_id, "proxy_enabled", "1")
@@ -538,18 +571,13 @@ def test_mdn_doesnt_break_autocrypt(acfactory) -> None:

    # Alice sends a message to Bob.
    alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello Bob!")
-    event = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg_event()
-    msg_id = event.msg_id
-    message = bob.get_message_by_id(msg_id)
-    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()

    # Bob sends a message to Alice.
    bob_chat_alice = snapshot.chat
    bob_chat_alice.accept()
    bob_chat_alice.send_text("Hello Alice!")
-    event = alice.wait_for_incoming_msg_event()
-    msg_id = event.msg_id
-    message = alice.get_message_by_id(msg_id)
+    message = alice.wait_for_incoming_msg()
    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.show_padlock

@@ -559,10 +587,7 @@ def test_mdn_doesnt_break_autocrypt(acfactory) -> None:

    # Bob sends a message to Alice, it should also be encrypted.
    bob_chat_alice.send_text("Hi Alice!")
-    event = alice.wait_for_incoming_msg_event()
-    msg_id = event.msg_id
-    message = alice.get_message_by_id(msg_id)
-    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = alice.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.show_padlock


@@ -620,50 +645,6 @@ def test_reaction_to_partially_fetched_msg(acfactory, tmp_path):
    assert list(reactions.reactions_by_contact.values())[0] == [react_str]


-def test_reactions_for_a_reordering_move(acfactory, direct_imap):
-    """When a batch of messages is moved from Inbox to DeltaChat folder with a single MOVE command,
-    their UIDs may be reordered (e.g. Gmail is known for that) which led to that messages were
-    processed by receive_imf in the wrong order, and, particularly, reactions were processed before
-    messages they refer to and thus dropped.
-    """
-    (ac1,) = acfactory.get_online_accounts(1)
-
-    addr, password = acfactory.get_credentials()
-    ac2 = acfactory.get_unconfigured_account()
-    ac2.add_or_update_transport({"addr": addr, "password": password})
-    ac2.set_config("mvbox_move", "1")
-    assert ac2.is_configured()
-
-    ac2.bring_online()
-    chat1 = acfactory.get_accepted_chat(ac1, ac2)
-    ac2.stop_io()
-
-    logging.info("sending message + reaction from ac1 to ac2")
-    msg1 = chat1.send_text("hi")
-    msg1.wait_until_delivered()
-    # It's is sad, but messages must differ in their INTERNALDATEs to be processed in the correct
-    # order by DC, and most (if not all) mail servers provide only seconds precision.
-    time.sleep(1.1)
-    react_str = "\N{THUMBS UP SIGN}"
-    msg1.send_reaction(react_str).wait_until_delivered()
-
-    logging.info("moving messages to ac2's DeltaChat folder in the reverse order")
-    ac2_direct_imap = direct_imap(ac2)
-    ac2_direct_imap.connect()
-    for uid in sorted([m.uid for m in ac2_direct_imap.get_all_messages()], reverse=True):
-        ac2_direct_imap.conn.move(uid, "DeltaChat")
-
-    logging.info("receiving messages by ac2")
-    ac2.start_io()
-    msg2 = Message(ac2, ac2.wait_for_reactions_changed().msg_id)
-    assert msg2.get_snapshot().text == msg1.get_snapshot().text
-    reactions = msg2.get_reactions()
-    contacts = [Contact(ac2, int(i)) for i in reactions.reactions_by_contact]
-    assert len(contacts) == 1
-    assert contacts[0].get_snapshot().address == ac1.get_config("addr")
-    assert list(reactions.reactions_by_contact.values())[0] == [react_str]
-
-
@pytest.mark.parametrize("n_accounts", [3, 2])
 def test_download_limit_chat_assignment(acfactory, tmp_path, n_accounts):
    download_limit = 300000
@@ -675,17 +656,15 @@ def test_download_limit_chat_assignment(acfactory, tmp_path, n_accounts):
    for account in others:
        chat = account.create_chat(alice)
        chat.send_text("Hello Alice!")
-        assert alice.get_message_by_id(alice.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot().text == "Hello Alice!"
+        assert alice.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot().text == "Hello Alice!"

        contact = alice.create_contact(account)
        alice_group.add_contact(contact)

-    if n_accounts == 2:
-        bob_chat_alice = bob.create_chat(alice)
    bob.set_config("download_limit", str(download_limit))

    alice_group.send_text("hi")
-    snapshot = bob.get_message_by_id(bob.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
+    snapshot = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.text == "hi"
    bob_group = snapshot.chat

@@ -695,17 +674,9 @@ def test_download_limit_chat_assignment(acfactory, tmp_path, n_accounts):
    for i in range(10):
        logging.info("Sending message %s", i)
        alice_group.send_file(str(path))
-        snapshot = bob.get_message_by_id(bob.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id).get_snapshot()
+        snapshot = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
        assert snapshot.download_state == DownloadState.AVAILABLE
-        if n_accounts > 2:
-            assert snapshot.chat == bob_group
-        else:
-            # Group contains only Alice and Bob,
-            # so partially downloaded messages are
-            # hard to distinguish from private replies to group messages.
-            #
-            # Message may be a private reply, so we assign it to 1:1 chat with Alice.
-            assert snapshot.chat == bob_chat_alice
+        assert snapshot.chat == bob_group


 def test_markseen_contact_request(acfactory):
@@ -722,8 +693,8 @@ def test_markseen_contact_request(acfactory):
    alice_chat_bob = alice.create_chat(bob)
    alice_chat_bob.send_text("Hello Bob!")

-    message = bob.get_message_by_id(bob.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id)
-    message2 = bob2.get_message_by_id(bob2.wait_for_incoming_msg_event().msg_id)
+    message = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg()
+    message2 = bob2.wait_for_incoming_msg()
    assert message2.get_snapshot().state == MessageState.IN_FRESH

    message.mark_seen()
@@ -745,7 +716,7 @@ def test_read_receipt(acfactory):
    msg = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg()
    msg.mark_seen()

-    read_msg = alice.get_message_by_id(alice.wait_for_event(EventType.MSG_READ).msg_id)
+    read_msg = alice.wait_for_msg(EventType.MSG_READ)
    read_receipts = read_msg.get_read_receipts()
    assert len(read_receipts) == 1
    assert read_receipts[0].contact_id == alice_contact_bob.id
@@ -762,7 +733,7 @@ def test_configured_imap_certificate_checks(acfactory):
    alice = acfactory.new_configured_account()

    # Certificate checks should be configured (not None)
-    assert "cert_automatic" in alice.get_info().used_account_settings
+    assert "cert_strict" in alice.get_info().used_account_settings

    # "cert_old_automatic" is the value old Delta Chat core versions used
    # to mean user entered "imap_certificate_checks=0" (Automatic)
@@ -834,10 +805,12 @@ def test_rename_group(acfactory):
    bob_msg = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg()
    bob_chat = bob_msg.get_snapshot().chat
    assert bob_chat.get_basic_snapshot().name == "Test group"
+    bob.wait_for_event(EventType.CHATLIST_ITEM_CHANGED)

    for name in ["Baz", "Foo bar", "Xyzzy"]:
        alice_group.set_name(name)
-        bob.wait_for_incoming_msg_event()
+        bob.wait_for_event(EventType.CHATLIST_ITEM_CHANGED)
+        bob.wait_for_event(EventType.CHATLIST_ITEM_CHANGED)
        assert bob_chat.get_basic_snapshot().name == name


@@ -849,58 +822,193 @@ def test_get_all_accounts_deadlock(rpc):
        all_accounts()


-def test_delete_deltachat_folder(acfactory, direct_imap):
-    """Test that DeltaChat folder is recreated if user deletes it manually."""
-    ac1 = acfactory.new_configured_account()
-    ac1.set_config("mvbox_move", "1")
-    ac1.bring_online()
-
-    ac1_direct_imap = direct_imap(ac1)
-    ac1_direct_imap.conn.folder.delete("DeltaChat")
-    assert "DeltaChat" not in ac1_direct_imap.list_folders()
-
-    # Wait until new folder is created and UIDVALIDITY is updated.
-    while True:
-        event = ac1.wait_for_event()
-        if event.kind == EventType.INFO and "uid/validity change folder DeltaChat" in event.msg:
-            break
-
-    ac2 = acfactory.get_online_account()
-    ac2.create_chat(ac1).send_text("hello")
-    msg = ac1.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
-    assert msg.text == "hello"
-
-    assert "DeltaChat" in ac1_direct_imap.list_folders()
-
-
-def test_broadcast(acfactory):
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("all_devices_online", [True, False])
+def test_leave_broadcast(acfactory, all_devices_online):
    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)

-    alice_chat = alice.create_broadcast("My great channel")
-    snapshot = alice_chat.get_basic_snapshot()
-    assert snapshot.name == "My great channel"
-    assert snapshot.is_unpromoted
-    assert snapshot.is_encrypted
-    assert snapshot.chat_type == ChatType.OUT_BROADCAST
+    bob2 = bob.clone()

-    alice_contact_bob = alice.create_contact(bob, "Bob")
-    alice_chat.add_contact(alice_contact_bob)
+    if all_devices_online:
+        bob2.start_io()

-    alice_msg = alice_chat.send_message(text="hello").get_snapshot()
-    assert alice_msg.text == "hello"
-    assert alice_msg.show_padlock
+    logging.info("===================== Alice creates a broadcast =====================")
+    alice_chat = alice.create_broadcast("Broadcast channel!")

-    bob_msg = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg().get_snapshot()
-    assert bob_msg.text == "hello"
-    assert bob_msg.show_padlock
-    assert bob_msg.error is None
+    logging.info("===================== Bob joins the broadcast =====================")
+    qr_code = alice_chat.get_qr_code()
+    bob.secure_join(qr_code)
+    alice.wait_for_securejoin_inviter_success()
+    bob.wait_for_securejoin_joiner_success()

-    bob_chat = bob.get_chat_by_id(bob_msg.chat_id)
-    bob_chat_snapshot = bob_chat.get_basic_snapshot()
-    assert bob_chat_snapshot.name == "My great channel"
-    assert not bob_chat_snapshot.is_unpromoted
-    assert bob_chat_snapshot.is_encrypted
-    assert bob_chat_snapshot.chat_type == ChatType.IN_BROADCAST
-    assert bob_chat_snapshot.is_contact_request
+    alice_bob_contact = alice.create_contact(bob)
+    alice_contacts = alice_chat.get_contacts()
+    assert len(alice_contacts) == 1  # 1 recipient
+    assert alice_contacts[0].id == alice_bob_contact.id

-    assert not bob_chat.can_send()
+    member_added_msg = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg()
+    assert member_added_msg.get_snapshot().text == "You joined the channel."
+
+    def get_broadcast(ac):
+        chat = ac.get_chatlist(query="Broadcast channel!")[0]
+        assert chat.get_basic_snapshot().name == "Broadcast channel!"
+        return chat
+
+    def check_account(ac, contact, inviter_side, please_wait_info_msg=False):
+        chat = get_broadcast(ac)
+        contact_snapshot = contact.get_snapshot()
+        chat_msgs = chat.get_messages()
+
+        encrypted_msg = chat_msgs.pop(0).get_snapshot()
+        assert encrypted_msg.text == "Messages are end-to-end encrypted."
+        assert encrypted_msg.is_info
+
+        if please_wait_info_msg:
+            first_msg = chat_msgs.pop(0).get_snapshot()
+            assert "invited you to join this channel" in first_msg.text
+            assert first_msg.is_info
+
+        member_added_msg = chat_msgs.pop(0).get_snapshot()
+        if inviter_side:
+            assert member_added_msg.text == f"Member {contact_snapshot.display_name} added."
+        else:
+            assert member_added_msg.text == "You joined the channel."
+        assert member_added_msg.is_info
+
+        if not inviter_side:
+            leave_msg = chat_msgs.pop(0).get_snapshot()
+            assert leave_msg.text == "You left the channel."
+
+        assert len(chat_msgs) == 0
+
+        chat_snapshot = chat.get_full_snapshot()
+
+        # On Alice's side, SELF is not in the list of contact ids
+        # because OutBroadcast chats never contain SELF in the list.
+        # On Bob's side, SELF is not in the list because he left.
+        if inviter_side:
+            assert len(chat_snapshot.contact_ids) == 0
+        else:
+            assert chat_snapshot.contact_ids == [contact.id]
+
+    logging.info("===================== Bob leaves the broadcast =====================")
+    bob_chat = get_broadcast(bob)
+    assert bob_chat.get_full_snapshot().self_in_group
+    assert len(bob_chat.get_contacts()) == 2  # Alice and Bob
+
+    bob_chat.leave()
+    assert not bob_chat.get_full_snapshot().self_in_group
+    # After Bob left, only Alice will be left in Bob's memberlist
+    assert len(bob_chat.get_contacts()) == 1
+
+    check_account(bob, bob.create_contact(alice), inviter_side=False, please_wait_info_msg=True)
+
+    logging.info("===================== Test Alice's device =====================")
+    while len(alice_chat.get_contacts()) != 0:  # After Bob left, there will be 0 recipients
+        alice.wait_for_event(EventType.CHAT_MODIFIED)
+
+    check_account(alice, alice.create_contact(bob), inviter_side=True)
+
+    logging.info("===================== Test Bob's second device =====================")
+    # Start second Bob device, if it wasn't started already.
+    bob2.start_io()
+
+    member_added_msg = bob2.wait_for_incoming_msg()
+    assert member_added_msg.get_snapshot().text == "You joined the channel."
+
+    bob2_chat = get_broadcast(bob2)
+
+    # After Bob left, only Alice will be left in Bob's memberlist
+    while len(bob2_chat.get_contacts()) != 1:
+        bob2.wait_for_event(EventType.CHAT_MODIFIED)
+
+    check_account(bob2, bob2.create_contact(alice), inviter_side=False)
+
+
+def test_immediate_autodelete(acfactory, direct_imap, log):
+    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+
+    # "1" means delete immediately, while "0" means do not delete
+    ac2.set_config("delete_server_after", "1")
+
+    log.section("ac1: create chat with ac2")
+    chat1 = ac1.create_chat(ac2)
+    ac2.create_chat(ac1)
+
+    log.section("ac1: send message to ac2")
+    sent_msg = chat1.send_text("hello")
+
+    msg = ac2.wait_for_incoming_msg()
+    assert msg.get_snapshot().text == "hello"
+
+    log.section("ac2: wait for close/expunge on autodelete")
+    ac2.wait_for_event(EventType.IMAP_MESSAGE_DELETED)
+    while True:
+        event = ac2.wait_for_event()
+        if event.kind == EventType.INFO and "Close/expunge succeeded." in event.msg:
+            break
+
+    log.section("ac2: check that message was autodeleted on server")
+    ac2_direct_imap = direct_imap(ac2)
+    assert len(ac2_direct_imap.get_all_messages()) == 0
+
+    log.section("ac2: Mark deleted message as seen and check that read receipt arrives")
+    msg.mark_seen()
+    ev = ac1.wait_for_event(EventType.MSG_READ)
+    assert ev.chat_id == chat1.id
+    assert ev.msg_id == sent_msg.id
+
+
+def test_background_fetch(acfactory, dc):
+    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+    ac1.stop_io()
+
+    ac1_chat = ac1.create_chat(ac2)
+
+    ac2_chat = ac2.create_chat(ac1)
+    ac2_chat.send_text("Hello!")
+
+    while True:
+        dc.background_fetch(300)
+        messages = ac1_chat.get_messages()
+        snapshot = messages[-1].get_snapshot()
+        if snapshot.text == "Hello!":
+            break
+
+    # Stopping background fetch immediately after starting
+    # does not result in any errors.
+    background_fetch_future = dc.background_fetch.future(300)
+    dc.stop_background_fetch()
+    background_fetch_future()
+
+    # Starting background fetch with zero timeout is ok,
+    # it should terminate immediately.
+    dc.background_fetch(0)
+
+    # Background fetch can still be used to send and receive messages.
+    ac2_chat.send_text("Hello again!")
+
+    while True:
+        dc.background_fetch(300)
+        messages = ac1_chat.get_messages()
+        snapshot = messages[-1].get_snapshot()
+        if snapshot.text == "Hello again!":
+            break
+
+
+def test_message_exists(acfactory):
+    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+    chat = ac1.create_chat(ac2)
+    message1 = chat.send_text("Hello!")
+    message2 = chat.send_text("Hello again!")
+    assert message1.exists()
+    assert message2.exists()
+
+    ac1.delete_messages([message1])
+    assert not message1.exists()
+    assert message2.exists()
+
+    # There is no error when checking if
+    # the message exists for deleted account.
+    ac1.remove()
+    assert not message1.exists()
+    assert not message2.exists()
--- a/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_vcard.py
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-client/tests/test_vcard.py
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 def test_vcard(acfactory) -> None:
-    alice, bob = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
+    alice, bob, fiona = acfactory.get_online_accounts(3)

+    bob.create_chat(alice)
    alice_contact_bob = alice.create_contact(bob, "Bob")
    alice_contact_charlie = alice.create_contact("charlie@example.org", "Charlie")
+    alice_contact_charlie_snapshot = alice_contact_charlie.get_snapshot()
+    alice_contact_fiona = alice.create_contact(fiona, "Fiona")
+    alice_contact_fiona_snapshot = alice_contact_fiona.get_snapshot()

    alice_chat_bob = alice_contact_bob.create_chat()
    alice_chat_bob.send_contact(alice_contact_charlie)
@@ -12,3 +16,12 @@ def test_vcard(acfactory) -> None:
    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
    assert snapshot.vcard_contact
    assert snapshot.vcard_contact.addr == "charlie@example.org"
+    assert snapshot.vcard_contact.color == alice_contact_charlie_snapshot.color
+
+    alice_chat_bob.send_contact(alice_contact_fiona)
+    event = bob.wait_for_incoming_msg_event()
+    message = bob.get_message_by_id(event.msg_id)
+    snapshot = message.get_snapshot()
+    assert snapshot.vcard_contact
+    assert snapshot.vcard_contact.key
+    assert snapshot.vcard_contact.color == alice_contact_fiona_snapshot.color
--- a/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-server/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat-rpc-server"
-version = "2.6.0"
+version = "2.29.0"
 description = "DeltaChat JSON-RPC server"
 edition = "2021"
 readme = "README.md"
--- a/deltachat-rpc-server/npm-package/package.json
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-server/npm-package/package.json
@@ -15,5 +15,5 @@
  },
  "type": "module",
  "types": "index.d.ts",
-  "version": "2.6.0"
+  "version": "2.29.0"
 }
--- a/deltachat-rpc-server/src/main.rs
+++ b/deltachat-rpc-server/src/main.rs
@@ -41,22 +41,22 @@ async fn main_impl() -> Result<()> {
    if let Some(first_arg) = args.next() {
        if first_arg.to_str() == Some("--version") {
            if let Some(arg) = args.next() {
-                return Err(anyhow!("Unrecognized argument {:?}", arg));
+                return Err(anyhow!("Unrecognized argument {arg:?}"));
            }
            eprintln!("{}", &*DC_VERSION_STR);
            return Ok(());
        } else if first_arg.to_str() == Some("--openrpc") {
            if let Some(arg) = args.next() {
-                return Err(anyhow!("Unrecognized argument {:?}", arg));
+                return Err(anyhow!("Unrecognized argument {arg:?}"));
            }
            println!("{}", CommandApi::openrpc_specification()?);
            return Ok(());
        } else {
-            return Err(anyhow!("Unrecognized option {:?}", first_arg));
+            return Err(anyhow!("Unrecognized option {first_arg:?}"));
        }
    }
    if let Some(arg) = args.next() {
-        return Err(anyhow!("Unrecognized argument {:?}", arg));
+        return Err(anyhow!("Unrecognized argument {arg:?}"));
    }

    // Install signal handlers early so that the shutdown is graceful starting from here.
--- a/deltachat-time/src/lib.rs
+++ b/deltachat-time/src/lib.rs
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ impl SystemTimeTools {
    pub fn shift(duration: Duration) {
        *SYSTEM_TIME_SHIFT.write().unwrap() += duration;
    }
+
+    /// Simulates the system clock being rewound by `duration`.
+    pub fn shift_back(duration: Duration) {
+        *SYSTEM_TIME_SHIFT.write().unwrap() -= duration;
+    }
 }

 #[cfg(test)]
--- a/deny.toml
+++ b/deny.toml
@@ -36,18 +36,16 @@ skip = [
     { name = "rand_chacha", version = "0.3.1" },
     { name = "rand_core", version = "0.6.4" },
     { name = "rand", version = "0.8.5" },
-     { name = "redox_syscall", version = "0.3.5" },
-     { name = "redox_syscall", version = "0.4.1" },
-     { name = "regex-automata", version = "0.1.10" },
-     { name = "regex-syntax", version = "0.6.29" },
     { name = "rustix", version = "0.38.44" },
     { name = "serdect", version = "0.2.0" },
+     { name = "socket2", version = "0.5.9" },
     { name = "spin", version = "0.9.8" },
     { name = "strum_macros", version = "0.26.2" },
     { name = "strum", version = "0.26.2" },
     { name = "syn", version = "1.0.109" },
     { name = "thiserror-impl", version = "1.0.69" },
     { name = "thiserror", version = "1.0.69" },
+     { name = "toml_datetime", version = "0.6.11" },
     { name = "wasi", version = "0.11.0+wasi-snapshot-preview1" },
     { name = "windows" },
     { name = "windows_aarch64_gnullvm" },
@@ -65,7 +63,6 @@ skip = [
     { name = "windows_x86_64_gnu" },
     { name = "windows_x86_64_gnullvm" },
     { name = "windows_x86_64_msvc" },
-     { name = "zerocopy", version = "0.7.32" },
 ]


--- a/flake.lock
+++ b/flake.lock
@@ -47,11 +47,11 @@
        "rust-analyzer-src": "rust-analyzer-src"
      },
      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1747291057,
-        "narHash": "sha256-9Wir6aLJAeJKqdoQUiwfKdBn7SyNXTJGRSscRyVOo2Y=",
+        "lastModified": 1763361733,
+        "narHash": "sha256-ka7dpwH3HIXCyD2wl5F7cPLeRbqZoY2ullALsvxdPt8=",
        "owner": "nix-community",
        "repo": "fenix",
-        "rev": "76ffc1b7b3ec8078fe01794628b6abff35cbda8f",
+        "rev": "6c8d48e3b0ae371b19ac1485744687b788e80193",
        "type": "github"
      },
      "original": {
@@ -147,11 +147,11 @@
    },
    "nixpkgs_2": {
      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1747179050,
-        "narHash": "sha256-qhFMmDkeJX9KJwr5H32f1r7Prs7XbQWtO0h3V0a0rFY=",
+        "lastModified": 1762977756,
+        "narHash": "sha256-4PqRErxfe+2toFJFgcRKZ0UI9NSIOJa+7RXVtBhy4KE=",
        "owner": "nixos",
        "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "rev": "adaa24fbf46737f3f1b5497bf64bae750f82942e",
+        "rev": "c5ae371f1a6a7fd27823bc500d9390b38c05fa55",
        "type": "github"
      },
      "original": {
@@ -202,11 +202,11 @@
    "rust-analyzer-src": {
      "flake": false,
      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1746889290,
-        "narHash": "sha256-h3LQYZgyv2l3U7r+mcsrEOGRldaK0zJFwAAva4hV/6g=",
+        "lastModified": 1762860488,
+        "narHash": "sha256-rMfWMCOo/pPefM2We0iMBLi2kLBAnYoB9thi4qS7uk4=",
        "owner": "rust-lang",
        "repo": "rust-analyzer",
-        "rev": "2bafe9d96c6734aacfd49e115f6cf61e7adc68bc",
+        "rev": "2efc80078029894eec0699f62ec8d5c1a56af763",
        "type": "github"
      },
      "original": {
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  description = "Delta Chat core";
+  description = "Chatmail core";
  inputs = {
    fenix.url = "github:nix-community/fenix";
    flake-utils.url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
@@ -14,7 +14,15 @@
        pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system};
        inherit (pkgs.stdenv) isDarwin;
        fenixPkgs = fenix.packages.${system};
-        naersk' = pkgs.callPackage naersk { };
+        fenixToolchain = fenixPkgs.combine [
+          fenixPkgs.stable.rustc
+          fenixPkgs.stable.cargo
+          fenixPkgs.stable.rust-std
+        ];
+        naersk' = pkgs.callPackage naersk {
+          cargo = fenixToolchain;
+          rustc = fenixToolchain;
+        };
        manifest = (pkgs.lib.importTOML ./Cargo.toml).package;
        androidSdk = android.sdk.${system} (sdkPkgs:
          builtins.attrValues {
@@ -34,7 +42,6 @@
            ./Cargo.lock
            ./Cargo.toml
            ./CMakeLists.txt
-            ./CONTRIBUTING.md
            ./deltachat_derive
            ./deltachat-contact-tools
            ./deltachat-ffi
@@ -98,9 +105,6 @@
            nativeBuildInputs = [
              pkgs.perl # Needed to build vendored OpenSSL.
            ];
-            buildInputs = pkgs.lib.optionals isDarwin [
-              pkgs.darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.SystemConfiguration
-            ];
            auditable = false; # Avoid cargo-auditable failures.
            doCheck = false; # Disable test as it requires network access.
          };
@@ -240,6 +244,9 @@
            auditable = false; # Avoid cargo-auditable failures.
            doCheck = false; # Disable test as it requires network access.

+            CARGO_TARGET_X86_64_APPLE_DARWIN_RUSTFLAGS = "-Clink-args=-L${pkgsCross.libiconv}/lib";
+            CARGO_TARGET_AARCH64_APPLE_DARWIN_RUSTFLAGS = "-Clink-args=-L${pkgsCross.libiconv}/lib";
+
            CARGO_BUILD_TARGET = rustTarget;
            TARGET_CC = "${pkgsCross.stdenv.cc}/bin/${pkgsCross.stdenv.cc.targetPrefix}cc";
            CARGO_BUILD_RUSTFLAGS = [
@@ -471,6 +478,12 @@
              };

            libdeltachat =
+              let
+                rustPlatform = (pkgs.makeRustPlatform {
+                  cargo = fenixToolchain;
+                  rustc = fenixToolchain;
+                });
+              in
              pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
                pname = "libdeltachat";
                version = manifest.version;
@@ -480,14 +493,9 @@
                nativeBuildInputs = [
                  pkgs.perl # Needed to build vendored OpenSSL.
                  pkgs.cmake
-                  pkgs.rustPlatform.cargoSetupHook
-                  pkgs.cargo
-                ];
-                buildInputs = pkgs.lib.optionals isDarwin [
-                  pkgs.darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.CoreFoundation
-                  pkgs.darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.Security
-                  pkgs.darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks.SystemConfiguration
-                  pkgs.libiconv
+                  rustPlatform.cargoSetupHook
+                  fenixPkgs.stable.rustc
+                  fenixPkgs.stable.cargo
                ];

                postInstall = ''
@@ -587,6 +595,7 @@
              (python3.withPackages (pypkgs: with pypkgs; [
                tox
              ]))
+              nodejs
            ];
          };
      }
--- a/fuzz/Cargo.toml
+++ b/fuzz/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ edition = "2021"
 license = "MPL-2.0"

 [dev-dependencies]
-bolero = "0.13.3"
+bolero = "0.13.4"

 [dependencies]
 mailparse = { workspace = true }
--- a/python/examples/test_examples.py
+++ b/python/examples/test_examples.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ def datadir():
    return None


+@pytest.mark.skip("The test is flaky in CI and crashes the interpreter as of 2025-11-12")
 def test_echo_quit_plugin(acfactory, lp):
    lp.sec("creating one echo_and_quit bot")
    botproc = acfactory.run_bot_process(echo_and_quit)
--- a/python/pyproject.toml
+++ b/python/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=45", "wheel", "cffi>=1.0.0", "pkgconfig"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=77", "wheel", "cffi>=1.0.0", "pkgconfig"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"

 [project]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "2.6.0"
+version = "2.29.0"
+license = "MPL-2.0"
 description = "Python bindings for the Delta Chat Core library using CFFI against the Rust-implemented libdeltachat"
 readme = "README.rst"
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
 authors = [
    { name = "holger krekel, Floris Bruynooghe, Bjoern Petersen and contributors" },
 ]
 classifiers = [
    "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
-    "License :: OSI Approved :: Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL 2.0)",
    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
    "Topic :: Communications :: Chat",
    "Topic :: Communications :: Email",
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ classifiers = [
 dependencies = [
    "cffi>=1.0.0",
    "imap-tools",
-    "importlib_metadata;python_version<'3.8'",
    "pluggy",
    "requests",
 ]
--- a/python/src/deltachat/account.py
+++ b/python/src/deltachat/account.py
@@ -330,7 +330,21 @@ class Account:
        return bool(lib.dc_delete_contact(self._dc_context, contact_id))

    def get_contact_by_addr(self, email: str) -> Optional[Contact]:
-        """get a contact for the email address or None if it's blocked or doesn't exist."""
+        """Looks up a known and unblocked contact with a given e-mail address.
+        To get a list of all known and unblocked contacts, use contacts_get_contacts().
+
+        **POTENTIAL SECURITY ISSUE**: If there are multiple contacts with this address
+        (e.g. an address-contact and a key-contact),
+        this looks up the most recently seen contact,
+        i.e. which contact is returned depends on which contact last sent a message.
+        If the user just clicked on a mailto: link, then this is the best thing you can do.
+        But **DO NOT** internally represent contacts by their email address
+        and do not use this function to look them up;
+        otherwise this function will sometimes look up the wrong contact.
+        Instead, you should internally represent contacts by their ids.
+
+        To validate an e-mail address independently of the contact database
+        use check_email_validity()."""
        _, addr = parseaddr(email)
        addr = as_dc_charpointer(addr)
        contact_id = lib.dc_lookup_contact_id_by_addr(self._dc_context, addr)
@@ -390,18 +404,16 @@ class Account:
        self,
        name: str,
        contacts: Optional[List[Contact]] = None,
-        verified: bool = False,
    ) -> Chat:
        """create a new group chat object.

        Chats are unpromoted until the first message is sent.

        :param contacts: list of contacts to add
-        :param verified: if true only verified contacts can be added.
        :returns: a :class:`deltachat.chat.Chat` object.
        """
        bytes_name = name.encode("utf8")
-        chat_id = lib.dc_create_group_chat(self._dc_context, int(verified), bytes_name)
+        chat_id = lib.dc_create_group_chat(self._dc_context, 0, bytes_name)
        chat = Chat(self, chat_id)
        if contacts is not None:
            for contact in contacts:
--- a/python/src/deltachat/chat.py
+++ b/python/src/deltachat/chat.py
@@ -142,13 +142,6 @@ class Chat:
        """
        return bool(lib.dc_chat_can_send(self._dc_chat))

-    def is_protected(self) -> bool:
-        """return True if this chat is a protected chat.
-
-        :returns: True if chat is protected, False otherwise.
-        """
-        return bool(lib.dc_chat_is_protected(self._dc_chat))
-
    def get_name(self) -> Optional[str]:
        """return name of this chat.

--- a/python/src/deltachat/message.py
+++ b/python/src/deltachat/message.py
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ from typing import Optional, Union
 from . import const, props
 from .capi import ffi, lib
 from .cutil import as_dc_charpointer, from_dc_charpointer, from_optional_dc_charpointer
-from .reactions import Reactions


 class Message:
@@ -164,17 +163,6 @@ class Message:
            ),
        )

-    def send_reaction(self, reaction: str):
-        """Send a reaction to message and return the resulting Message instance."""
-        msg_id = lib.dc_send_reaction(self.account._dc_context, self.id, as_dc_charpointer(reaction))
-        if msg_id == 0:
-            raise ValueError("reaction could not be send")
-        return Message.from_db(self.account, msg_id)
-
-    def get_reactions(self) -> Reactions:
-        """Get :class:`deltachat.reactions.Reactions` to the message."""
-        return Reactions.from_msg(self)
-
    def is_system_message(self):
        """return True if this message is a system/info message."""
        return bool(lib.dc_msg_is_info(self._dc_msg))
@@ -447,10 +435,6 @@ class Message:
        """return True if it's a video message."""
        return self._view_type == const.DC_MSG_VIDEO

-    def is_videochat_invitation(self):
-        """return True if it's a videochat invitation message."""
-        return self._view_type == const.DC_MSG_VIDEOCHAT_INVITATION
-
    def is_webxdc(self):
        """return True if it's a Webxdc message."""
        return self._view_type == const.DC_MSG_WEBXDC
@@ -491,7 +475,6 @@ _view_type_mapping = {
    "video": const.DC_MSG_VIDEO,
    "file": const.DC_MSG_FILE,
    "sticker": const.DC_MSG_STICKER,
-    "videochat": const.DC_MSG_VIDEOCHAT_INVITATION,
    "webxdc": const.DC_MSG_WEBXDC,
 }

--- a/python/src/deltachat/reactions.py
+++ b/python/src/deltachat/reactions.py
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-"""The Reactions object."""
-
-from .capi import ffi, lib
-from .cutil import from_dc_charpointer, iter_array
-
-
-class Reactions:
-    """Reactions object.
-
-    You obtain instances of it through :class:`deltachat.message.Message`.
-    """
-
-    def __init__(self, account, dc_reactions) -> None:
-        assert isinstance(account._dc_context, ffi.CData)
-        assert isinstance(dc_reactions, ffi.CData)
-        assert dc_reactions != ffi.NULL
-        self.account = account
-        self._dc_reactions = dc_reactions
-
-    def __repr__(self) -> str:
-        return f"<Reactions dc_reactions={self._dc_reactions}>"
-
-    @classmethod
-    def from_msg(cls, msg):
-        assert msg.id > 0
-        return cls(
-            msg.account,
-            ffi.gc(lib.dc_get_msg_reactions(msg.account._dc_context, msg.id), lib.dc_reactions_unref),
-        )
-
-    def get_contacts(self) -> list:
-        """Get list of contacts reacted to the message.
-
-        :returns: list of :class:`deltachat.contact.Contact` objects for this reaction.
-        """
-        from .contact import Contact
-
-        dc_array = ffi.gc(lib.dc_reactions_get_contacts(self._dc_reactions), lib.dc_array_unref)
-        return list(iter_array(dc_array, lambda x: Contact(self.account, x)))
-
-    def get_by_contact(self, contact) -> str:
-        """Get a string containing space-separated reactions of a single :class:`deltachat.contact.Contact`."""
-        return from_dc_charpointer(lib.dc_reactions_get_by_contact_id(self._dc_reactions, contact.id))
--- a/python/src/deltachat/testplugin.py
+++ b/python/src/deltachat/testplugin.py
@@ -523,7 +523,6 @@ class ACFactory:
        assert "addr" in configdict and "mail_pw" in configdict, configdict
        configdict.setdefault("bcc_self", False)
        configdict.setdefault("mvbox_move", False)
-        configdict.setdefault("sentbox_watch", False)
        configdict.setdefault("sync_msgs", False)
        configdict.setdefault("delete_server_after", 0)
        ac.update_config(configdict)
@@ -604,20 +603,6 @@ class ACFactory:
        ac2.create_chat(ac1)
        return ac1.create_chat(ac2)

-    def get_protected_chat(self, ac1: Account, ac2: Account):
-        chat = ac1.create_group_chat("Protected Group", verified=True)
-        qr = chat.get_join_qr()
-        ac2.qr_join_chat(qr)
-        ac2._evtracker.wait_securejoin_joiner_progress(1000)
-        ev = ac2._evtracker.get_matching("DC_EVENT_MSGS_CHANGED")
-        msg = ac2.get_message_by_id(ev.data2)
-        assert msg is not None
-        assert msg.text == "Messages are end-to-end encrypted."
-        msg = ac2._evtracker.wait_next_incoming_message()
-        assert msg is not None
-        assert "Member Me " in msg.text and " added by " in msg.text
-        return chat
-
    def introduce_each_other(self, accounts, sending=True):
        to_wait = []
        for i, acc in enumerate(accounts):
--- a/python/tests/test_0_complex_or_slow.py
+++ b/python/tests/test_0_complex_or_slow.py
@@ -116,10 +116,8 @@ class TestGroupStressTests:

 def test_qr_verified_group_and_chatting(acfactory, lp):
    ac1, ac2, ac3 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(3)
-    ac1_addr = ac1.get_self_contact().addr
    lp.sec("ac1: create verified-group QR, ac2 scans and joins")
-    chat1 = ac1.create_group_chat("hello", verified=True)
-    assert chat1.is_protected()
+    chat1 = ac1.create_group_chat("hello")
    qr = chat1.get_join_qr()
    lp.sec("ac2: start QR-code based join-group protocol")
    chat2 = ac2.qr_join_chat(qr)
@@ -142,7 +140,6 @@ def test_qr_verified_group_and_chatting(acfactory, lp):
    lp.sec("ac2: read message and check that it's a verified chat")
    msg = ac2._evtracker.wait_next_incoming_message()
    assert msg.text == "hello"
-    assert msg.chat.is_protected()
    assert msg.is_encrypted()

    lp.sec("ac2: Check that ac2 verified ac1")
@@ -173,8 +170,12 @@ def test_qr_verified_group_and_chatting(acfactory, lp):
    lp.sec("ac2: Check that ac1 verified ac3 for ac2")
    ac2_ac1_contact = ac2.get_contacts()[0]
    assert ac2.get_self_contact().get_verifier(ac2_ac1_contact).id == dc.const.DC_CONTACT_ID_SELF
-    ac2_ac3_contact = ac2.get_contacts()[1]
-    assert ac2.get_self_contact().get_verifier(ac2_ac3_contact).addr == ac1_addr
+    for ac2_contact in chat2.get_contacts():
+        if ac2_contact == ac2_ac1_contact or ac2_contact.id == dc.const.DC_CONTACT_ID_SELF:
+            continue
+        # Until we reset verifications and then send the _verified header,
+        # verification is not gossiped here:
+        assert ac2.get_self_contact().get_verifier(ac2_contact) is None

    lp.sec("ac2: send message and let ac3 read it")
    chat2.send_text("hi")
@@ -266,8 +267,7 @@ def test_see_new_verified_member_after_going_online(acfactory, tmp_path, lp):
    ac1_offl.stop_io()

    lp.sec("ac1: create verified-group QR, ac2 scans and joins")
-    chat = ac1.create_group_chat("hello", verified=True)
-    assert chat.is_protected()
+    chat = ac1.create_group_chat("hello")
    qr = chat.get_join_qr()
    lp.sec("ac2: start QR-code based join-group protocol")
    chat2 = ac2.qr_join_chat(qr)
@@ -321,8 +321,7 @@ def test_use_new_verified_group_after_going_online(acfactory, data, tmp_path, lp
    ac1.set_avatar(avatar_path)

    lp.sec("ac1: create verified-group QR, ac2 scans and joins")
-    chat = ac1.create_group_chat("hello", verified=True)
-    assert chat.is_protected()
+    chat = ac1.create_group_chat("hello")
    qr = chat.get_join_qr()
    lp.sec("ac2: start QR-code based join-group protocol")
    ac2.qr_join_chat(qr)
@@ -336,7 +335,6 @@ def test_use_new_verified_group_after_going_online(acfactory, data, tmp_path, lp
    assert msg_in.is_system_message()
    assert contact.addr == ac1.get_config("addr")
    chat2 = msg_in.chat
-    assert chat2.is_protected()
    assert chat2.get_messages()[0].text == "Messages are end-to-end encrypted."
    assert open(contact.get_profile_image(), "rb").read() == open(avatar_path, "rb").read()

@@ -376,8 +374,7 @@ def test_verified_group_vs_delete_server_after(acfactory, tmp_path, lp):
    ac2_offl.stop_io()

    lp.sec("ac1: create verified-group QR, ac2 scans and joins")
-    chat1 = ac1.create_group_chat("hello", verified=True)
-    assert chat1.is_protected()
+    chat1 = ac1.create_group_chat("hello")
    qr = chat1.get_join_qr()
    lp.sec("ac2: start QR-code based join-group protocol")
    chat2 = ac2.qr_join_chat(qr)
@@ -402,29 +399,20 @@ def test_verified_group_vs_delete_server_after(acfactory, tmp_path, lp):
    assert ac2_offl_ac1_contact.addr == ac1.get_config("addr")
    assert not ac2_offl_ac1_contact.is_verified()
    chat2_offl = msg_in.chat
-    assert not chat2_offl.is_protected()

    lp.sec("ac2: sending message re-gossiping Autocrypt keys")
    chat2.send_text("hi2")

    lp.sec("ac2_offl: receiving message")
-    ev = ac2_offl._evtracker.get_matching("DC_EVENT_INCOMING_MSG|DC_EVENT_MSGS_CHANGED")
-    msg_in = ac2_offl.get_message_by_id(ev.data2)
-    assert msg_in.is_system_message()
-    assert msg_in.text == "Messages are end-to-end encrypted."
-
-    # We need to consume one event that has data2=0
-    ev = ac2_offl._evtracker.get_matching("DC_EVENT_INCOMING_MSG|DC_EVENT_MSGS_CHANGED")
-    assert ev.data2 == 0
-
    ev = ac2_offl._evtracker.get_matching("DC_EVENT_INCOMING_MSG|DC_EVENT_MSGS_CHANGED")
    msg_in = ac2_offl.get_message_by_id(ev.data2)
    assert not msg_in.is_system_message()
    assert msg_in.text == "hi2"
    assert msg_in.chat == chat2_offl
    assert msg_in.get_sender_contact().addr == ac2.get_config("addr")
-    assert msg_in.chat.is_protected()
-    assert ac2_offl_ac1_contact.is_verified()
+    # Until we reset verifications and then send the _verified header,
+    # verification is not gossiped here:
+    assert not ac2_offl_ac1_contact.is_verified()


 def test_deleted_msgs_dont_reappear(acfactory):
--- a/python/tests/test_1_online.py
+++ b/python/tests/test_1_online.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import base64
 from datetime import datetime, timezone

 import pytest
-from imap_tools import AND, U
+from imap_tools import AND

 import deltachat as dc
 from deltachat import account_hookimpl, Message
@@ -160,32 +160,6 @@ def test_html_message(acfactory, lp):
    assert html_text in msg2.html


-def test_videochat_invitation_message(acfactory, lp):
-    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
-    chat = acfactory.get_accepted_chat(ac1, ac2)
-    text = "You are invited to a video chat, click https://meet.jit.si/WxEGad0gGzX to join."
-
-    lp.sec("ac1: prepare and send text message to ac2")
-    msg1 = chat.send_text("message0")
-    assert not msg1.is_videochat_invitation()
-
-    lp.sec("wait for ac2 to receive message")
-    msg2 = ac2._evtracker.wait_next_incoming_message()
-    assert msg2.text == "message0"
-    assert not msg2.is_videochat_invitation()
-
-    lp.sec("ac1: prepare and send videochat invitation to ac2")
-    msg1 = Message.new_empty(ac1, "videochat")
-    msg1.set_text(text)
-    msg1 = chat.send_msg(msg1)
-    assert msg1.is_videochat_invitation()
-
-    lp.sec("wait for ac2 to receive message")
-    msg2 = ac2._evtracker.wait_next_incoming_message()
-    assert msg2.text == text
-    assert msg2.is_videochat_invitation()
-
-
 def test_webxdc_message(acfactory, data, lp):
    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
    chat = acfactory.get_accepted_chat(ac1, ac2)
@@ -295,94 +269,6 @@ def test_enable_mvbox_move(acfactory, lp):
    assert ac2._evtracker.wait_next_incoming_message().text == "message1"


-def test_mvbox_sentbox_threads(acfactory, lp):
-    lp.sec("ac1: start with mvbox thread")
-    ac1 = acfactory.new_online_configuring_account(mvbox_move=True, sentbox_watch=False)
-
-    lp.sec("ac2: start without mvbox/sentbox threads")
-    ac2 = acfactory.new_online_configuring_account(mvbox_move=False, sentbox_watch=False)
-
-    lp.sec("ac2 and ac1: waiting for configuration")
-    acfactory.bring_accounts_online()
-
-    lp.sec("ac1: create and configure sentbox")
-    ac1.direct_imap.create_folder("Sent")
-    ac1.set_config("sentbox_watch", "1")
-
-    lp.sec("ac1: send message and wait for ac2 to receive it")
-    acfactory.get_accepted_chat(ac1, ac2).send_text("message1")
-    assert ac2._evtracker.wait_next_incoming_message().text == "message1"
-
-    assert ac1.get_config("configured_mvbox_folder") == "DeltaChat"
-    while ac1.get_config("configured_sentbox_folder") != "Sent":
-        ac1._evtracker.get_matching("DC_EVENT_CONNECTIVITY_CHANGED")
-
-
-def test_move_works(acfactory):
-    ac1 = acfactory.new_online_configuring_account()
-    ac2 = acfactory.new_online_configuring_account(mvbox_move=True)
-    acfactory.bring_accounts_online()
-    chat = acfactory.get_accepted_chat(ac1, ac2)
-    chat.send_text("message1")
-
-    # Message is moved to the movebox
-    ac2._evtracker.get_matching("DC_EVENT_IMAP_MESSAGE_MOVED")
-
-    # Message is downloaded
-    ev = ac2._evtracker.get_matching("DC_EVENT_INCOMING_MSG")
-    assert ev.data2 > dc.const.DC_CHAT_ID_LAST_SPECIAL
-
-
-def test_move_avoids_loop(acfactory):
-    """Test that the message is only moved once.
-
-    This is to avoid busy loop if moved message reappears in the Inbox
-    or some scanned folder later.
-    For example, this happens on servers that alias `INBOX.DeltaChat` to `DeltaChat` folder,
-    so the message moved to `DeltaChat` appears as a new message in the `INBOX.DeltaChat` folder.
-    We do not want to move this message from `INBOX.DeltaChat` to `DeltaChat` again.
-    """
-    ac1 = acfactory.new_online_configuring_account()
-    ac2 = acfactory.new_online_configuring_account(mvbox_move=True)
-    acfactory.bring_accounts_online()
-    ac1_chat = acfactory.get_accepted_chat(ac1, ac2)
-    ac1_chat.send_text("Message 1")
-
-    # Message is moved to the DeltaChat folder and downloaded.
-    ac2_msg1 = ac2._evtracker.wait_next_incoming_message()
-    assert ac2_msg1.text == "Message 1"
-
-    # Move the message to the INBOX again.
-    ac2.direct_imap.select_folder("DeltaChat")
-    ac2.direct_imap.conn.move(["*"], "INBOX")
-
-    ac1_chat.send_text("Message 2")
-    ac2_msg2 = ac2._evtracker.wait_next_incoming_message()
-    assert ac2_msg2.text == "Message 2"
-
-    # Check that Message 1 is still in the INBOX folder
-    # and Message 2 is in the DeltaChat folder.
-    ac2.direct_imap.select_folder("INBOX")
-    assert len(ac2.direct_imap.get_all_messages()) == 1
-    ac2.direct_imap.select_folder("DeltaChat")
-    assert len(ac2.direct_imap.get_all_messages()) == 1
-
-
-def test_move_works_on_self_sent(acfactory):
-    ac1 = acfactory.new_online_configuring_account(mvbox_move=True)
-    ac2 = acfactory.new_online_configuring_account()
-    acfactory.bring_accounts_online()
-    ac1.set_config("bcc_self", "1")
-
-    chat = acfactory.get_accepted_chat(ac1, ac2)
-    chat.send_text("message1")
-    ac1._evtracker.get_matching("DC_EVENT_IMAP_MESSAGE_MOVED")
-    chat.send_text("message2")
-    ac1._evtracker.get_matching("DC_EVENT_IMAP_MESSAGE_MOVED")
-    chat.send_text("message3")
-    ac1._evtracker.get_matching("DC_EVENT_IMAP_MESSAGE_MOVED")
-
-
 def test_move_sync_msgs(acfactory):
    ac1 = acfactory.new_online_configuring_account(bcc_self=True, sync_msgs=True, fix_is_chatmail=True)
    acfactory.bring_accounts_online()
@@ -432,7 +318,7 @@ def test_forward_messages(acfactory, lp):
    lp.sec("ac2: check new chat has a forwarded message")
    assert chat3.is_promoted()
    messages = chat3.get_messages()
-    assert len(messages) == 2
+    assert len(messages) == 3
    msg = messages[-1]
    assert msg.is_forwarded()
    ac2.delete_messages(messages)
@@ -468,7 +354,7 @@ def test_forward_own_message(acfactory, lp):

 def test_resend_message(acfactory, lp):
    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
-    chat1 = ac1.create_chat(ac2)
+    chat1 = acfactory.get_accepted_chat(ac1, ac2)

    lp.sec("ac1: send message to ac2")
    chat1.send_text("message")
@@ -476,14 +362,19 @@ def test_resend_message(acfactory, lp):
    lp.sec("ac2: receive message")
    msg_in = ac2._evtracker.wait_next_incoming_message()
    assert msg_in.text == "message"
-    chat2 = msg_in.chat
-    chat2_msg_cnt = len(chat2.get_messages())

    lp.sec("ac1: resend message")
    ac1.resend_messages([msg_in])

-    lp.sec("ac2: check that message is deleted")
-    ac2._evtracker.get_matching("DC_EVENT_IMAP_MESSAGE_DELETED")
+    lp.sec("ac1: send another message")
+    chat1.send_text("another message")
+
+    lp.sec("ac2: receive another message")
+    msg_in = ac2._evtracker.wait_next_incoming_message()
+    assert msg_in.text == "another message"
+    chat2 = msg_in.chat
+    chat2_msg_cnt = len(chat2.get_messages())
+
    assert len(chat2.get_messages()) == chat2_msg_cnt


@@ -610,39 +501,6 @@ def test_send_and_receive_message_markseen(acfactory, lp):
        pass  # mark_seen_messages() has generated events before it returns


-def test_moved_markseen(acfactory):
-    """Test that message already moved to DeltaChat folder is marked as seen."""
-    ac1 = acfactory.new_online_configuring_account()
-    ac2 = acfactory.new_online_configuring_account(mvbox_move=True)
-    acfactory.bring_accounts_online()
-
-    ac2.stop_io()
-    with ac2.direct_imap.idle() as idle2:
-        ac1.create_chat(ac2).send_text("Hello!")
-        idle2.wait_for_new_message()
-
-    # Emulate moving of the message to DeltaChat folder by Sieve rule.
-    ac2.direct_imap.conn.move(["*"], "DeltaChat")
-    ac2.direct_imap.select_folder("DeltaChat")
-
-    with ac2.direct_imap.idle() as idle2:
-        ac2.start_io()
-
-        ev = ac2._evtracker.get_matching("DC_EVENT_INCOMING_MSG|DC_EVENT_MSGS_CHANGED")
-        msg = ac2.get_message_by_id(ev.data2)
-        assert msg.text == "Messages are end-to-end encrypted."
-
-        ev = ac2._evtracker.get_matching("DC_EVENT_INCOMING_MSG|DC_EVENT_MSGS_CHANGED")
-        msg = ac2.get_message_by_id(ev.data2)
-
-        # Accept the contact request.
-        msg.chat.accept()
-        ac2.mark_seen_messages([msg])
-        uid = idle2.wait_for_seen()
-
-    assert len(list(ac2.direct_imap.conn.fetch(AND(seen=True, uid=U(uid, "*"))))) == 1
-
-
 def test_message_override_sender_name(acfactory, lp):
    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
    ac1.set_config("displayname", "ac1-default-displayname")
@@ -677,36 +535,6 @@ def test_message_override_sender_name(acfactory, lp):
    assert not msg2.override_sender_name


-@pytest.mark.parametrize("mvbox_move", [True, False])
-def test_markseen_message_and_mdn(acfactory, mvbox_move):
-    # Please only change this test if you are very sure that it will still catch the issues it catches now.
-    # We had so many problems with markseen, if in doubt, rather create another test, it can't harm.
-    ac1 = acfactory.new_online_configuring_account(mvbox_move=mvbox_move)
-    ac2 = acfactory.new_online_configuring_account(mvbox_move=mvbox_move)
-    acfactory.bring_accounts_online()
-    # Do not send BCC to self, we only want to test MDN on ac1.
-    ac1.set_config("bcc_self", "0")
-
-    acfactory.get_accepted_chat(ac1, ac2).send_text("hi")
-    msg = ac2._evtracker.wait_next_incoming_message()
-
-    ac2.mark_seen_messages([msg])
-
-    folder = "mvbox" if mvbox_move else "inbox"
-    for ac in [ac1, ac2]:
-        if mvbox_move:
-            ac._evtracker.get_info_contains("Marked messages [0-9]+ in folder DeltaChat as seen.")
-        else:
-            ac._evtracker.get_info_contains("Marked messages [0-9]+ in folder INBOX as seen.")
-    ac1.direct_imap.select_config_folder(folder)
-    ac2.direct_imap.select_config_folder(folder)
-
-    # Check that the mdn is marked as seen
-    assert len(list(ac1.direct_imap.conn.fetch(AND(seen=True)))) == 1
-    # Check original message is marked as seen
-    assert len(list(ac2.direct_imap.conn.fetch(AND(seen=True)))) == 1
-
-
 def test_reply_privately(acfactory):
    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)

@@ -856,156 +684,6 @@ def test_no_draft_if_cant_send(acfactory):
    assert device_chat.get_draft() is None


-def test_dont_show_emails(acfactory, lp):
-    """Most mailboxes have a "Drafts" folder where constantly new emails appear but we don't actually want to show them.
-    So: If it's outgoing AND there is no Received header AND it's not in the sentbox, then ignore the email.
-
-    If the draft email is sent out later (i.e. moved to "Sent"), it must be shown.
-
-    Also, test that unknown emails in the Spam folder are not shown."""
-    ac1 = acfactory.new_online_configuring_account()
-    ac1.set_config("show_emails", "2")
-    ac1.create_contact("alice@example.org").create_chat()
-
-    acfactory.wait_configured(ac1)
-    ac1.direct_imap.create_folder("Drafts")
-    ac1.direct_imap.create_folder("Sent")
-    ac1.direct_imap.create_folder("Spam")
-    ac1.direct_imap.create_folder("Junk")
-
-    acfactory.bring_accounts_online()
-    ac1.stop_io()
-
-    ac1.direct_imap.append(
-        "Drafts",
-        """
-        From: ac1 <{}>
-        Subject: subj
-        To: alice@example.org
-        Message-ID: <aepiors@example.org>
-        Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
-
-        message in Drafts that is moved to Sent later
-    """.format(
-            ac1.get_config("configured_addr"),
-        ),
-    )
-    ac1.direct_imap.append(
-        "Sent",
-        """
-        From: ac1 <{}>
-        Subject: subj
-        To: alice@example.org
-        Message-ID: <hsabaeni@example.org>
-        Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
-
-        message in Sent
-    """.format(
-            ac1.get_config("configured_addr"),
-        ),
-    )
-    ac1.direct_imap.append(
-        "Spam",
-        """
-        From: unknown.address@junk.org
-        Subject: subj
-        To: {}
-        Message-ID: <spam.message@junk.org>
-        Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
-
-        Unknown message in Spam
-    """.format(
-            ac1.get_config("configured_addr"),
-        ),
-    )
-    ac1.direct_imap.append(
-        "Spam",
-        """
-        From: unknown.address@junk.org, unkwnown.add@junk.org
-        Subject: subj
-        To: {}
-        Message-ID: <spam.message2@junk.org>
-        Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
-
-        Unknown & malformed message in Spam
-    """.format(
-            ac1.get_config("configured_addr"),
-        ),
-    )
-    ac1.direct_imap.append(
-        "Spam",
-        """
-        From: delta<address: inbox@nhroy.com>
-        Subject: subj
-        To: {}
-        Message-ID: <spam.message99@junk.org>
-        Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
-
-        Unknown & malformed message in Spam
-    """.format(
-            ac1.get_config("configured_addr"),
-        ),
-    )
-    ac1.direct_imap.append(
-        "Spam",
-        """
-        From: alice@example.org
-        Subject: subj
-        To: {}
-        Message-ID: <spam.message3@junk.org>
-        Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
-
-        Actually interesting message in Spam
-    """.format(
-            ac1.get_config("configured_addr"),
-        ),
-    )
-    ac1.direct_imap.append(
-        "Junk",
-        """
-        From: unknown.address@junk.org
-        Subject: subj
-        To: {}
-        Message-ID: <spam.message@junk.org>
-        Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
-
-        Unknown message in Junk
-    """.format(
-            ac1.get_config("configured_addr"),
-        ),
-    )
-
-    ac1.set_config("scan_all_folders_debounce_secs", "0")
-    lp.sec("All prepared, now let DC find the message")
-    ac1.start_io()
-
-    msg = ac1._evtracker.wait_next_messages_changed()
-
-    # Wait until each folder was scanned, this is necessary for this test to test what it should test:
-    ac1._evtracker.wait_idle_inbox_ready()
-
-    assert msg.text == "subj – message in Sent"
-    chat_msgs = msg.chat.get_messages()
-    assert len(chat_msgs) == 2
-    assert any(msg.text == "subj – Actually interesting message in Spam" for msg in chat_msgs)
-
-    assert not any("unknown.address" in c.get_name() for c in ac1.get_chats())
-    ac1.direct_imap.select_folder("Spam")
-    assert ac1.direct_imap.get_uid_by_message_id("spam.message@junk.org")
-
-    ac1.stop_io()
-    lp.sec("'Send out' the draft, i.e. move it to the Sent folder, and wait for DC to display it this time")
-    ac1.direct_imap.select_folder("Drafts")
-    uid = ac1.direct_imap.get_uid_by_message_id("aepiors@example.org")
-    ac1.direct_imap.conn.move(uid, "Sent")
-
-    ac1.start_io()
-    msg2 = ac1._evtracker.wait_next_messages_changed()
-
-    assert msg2.text == "subj – message in Drafts that is moved to Sent later"
-    assert len(msg.chat.get_messages()) == 3
-
-
 def test_bot(acfactory, lp):
    """Test that bot messages can be identified as such"""
    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
@@ -1230,7 +908,7 @@ def test_import_export_online_all(acfactory, tmp_path, data, lp):

 def test_qr_email_capitalization(acfactory, lp):
    """Regression test for a bug
-    that resulted in failure to propagate verification via gossip in a verified group
+    that resulted in failure to propagate verification
    when the database already contained the contact with a different email address capitalization.
    """

@@ -1241,24 +919,27 @@ def test_qr_email_capitalization(acfactory, lp):
    lp.sec(f"ac1 creates a contact for ac2 ({ac2_addr_uppercase})")
    ac1.create_contact(ac2_addr_uppercase)

-    lp.sec("ac3 creates a verified group with a QR code")
-    chat = ac3.create_group_chat("hello", verified=True)
+    lp.sec("ac3 creates a group with a QR code")
+    chat = ac3.create_group_chat("hello")
    qr = chat.get_join_qr()

-    lp.sec("ac1 joins a verified group via a QR code")
+    lp.sec("ac1 joins a group via a QR code")
    ac1_chat = ac1.qr_join_chat(qr)
    msg = ac1._evtracker.wait_next_incoming_message()
    assert msg.text == "Member Me added by {}.".format(ac3.get_config("addr"))
    assert len(ac1_chat.get_contacts()) == 2

-    lp.sec("ac2 joins a verified group via a QR code")
+    lp.sec("ac2 joins a group via a QR code")
    ac2.qr_join_chat(qr)
    ac1._evtracker.wait_next_incoming_message()

    # ac1 should see both ac3 and ac2 as verified.
    assert len(ac1_chat.get_contacts()) == 3
+    # Until we reset verifications and then send the _verified header,
+    # the verification of ac2 is not gossiped here:
    for contact in ac1_chat.get_contacts():
-        assert contact.is_verified()
+        is_ac2 = contact.addr == ac2.get_config("addr")
+        assert contact.is_verified() != is_ac2


 def test_set_get_contact_avatar(acfactory, data, lp):
@@ -1525,9 +1206,15 @@ def test_send_receive_locations(acfactory, lp):
    assert locations[0].latitude == 2.0
    assert locations[0].longitude == 3.0
    assert locations[0].accuracy == 0.5
-    assert locations[0].timestamp > now
    assert locations[0].marker is None

+    # Make sure the timestamp is not in the past.
+    # Note that location timestamp has only 1 second precision,
+    # while `now` has a fractional part, so we have to truncate it
+    # first, otherwise `now` may appear to be in the future
+    # even though it is the same second.
+    assert int(locations[0].timestamp.timestamp()) >= int(now.timestamp())
+
    contact = ac2.create_contact(ac1)
    locations2 = chat2.get_locations(contact=contact)
    assert len(locations2) == 1
@@ -1538,38 +1225,6 @@ def test_send_receive_locations(acfactory, lp):
    assert not locations3


-def test_immediate_autodelete(acfactory, lp):
-    ac1 = acfactory.new_online_configuring_account()
-    ac2 = acfactory.new_online_configuring_account()
-    acfactory.bring_accounts_online()
-
-    # "1" means delete immediately, while "0" means do not delete
-    ac2.set_config("delete_server_after", "1")
-
-    lp.sec("ac1: create chat with ac2")
-    chat1 = ac1.create_chat(ac2)
-    ac2.create_chat(ac1)
-
-    lp.sec("ac1: send message to ac2")
-    sent_msg = chat1.send_text("hello")
-
-    msg = ac2._evtracker.wait_next_incoming_message()
-    assert msg.text == "hello"
-
-    lp.sec("ac2: wait for close/expunge on autodelete")
-    ac2._evtracker.get_matching("DC_EVENT_IMAP_MESSAGE_DELETED")
-    ac2._evtracker.get_info_contains("Close/expunge succeeded.")
-
-    lp.sec("ac2: check that message was autodeleted on server")
-    assert len(ac2.direct_imap.get_all_messages()) == 0
-
-    lp.sec("ac2: Mark deleted message as seen and check that read receipt arrives")
-    msg.mark_seen()
-    ev = ac1._evtracker.get_matching("DC_EVENT_MSG_READ")
-    assert ev.data1 == chat1.id
-    assert ev.data2 == sent_msg.id
-
-
 def test_delete_multiple_messages(acfactory, lp):
    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
    chat12 = acfactory.get_accepted_chat(ac1, ac2)
@@ -1602,55 +1257,6 @@ def test_delete_multiple_messages(acfactory, lp):
            break


-def test_trash_multiple_messages(acfactory, lp):
-    ac1, ac2 = acfactory.get_online_accounts(2)
-    ac2.stop_io()
-
-    # Create the Trash folder on IMAP server and configure deletion to it. There was a bug that if
-    # Trash wasn't configured initially, it can't be configured later, let's check this.
-    lp.sec("Creating trash folder")
-    ac2.direct_imap.create_folder("Trash")
-    ac2.set_config("delete_to_trash", "1")
-
-    lp.sec("Check that Trash can be configured initially as well")
-    ac3 = acfactory.new_online_configuring_account(cloned_from=ac2)
-    acfactory.bring_accounts_online()
-    assert ac3.get_config("configured_trash_folder")
-    ac3.stop_io()
-
-    ac2.start_io()
-    chat12 = acfactory.get_accepted_chat(ac1, ac2)
-
-    lp.sec("ac1: sending 3 messages")
-    texts = ["first", "second", "third"]
-    for text in texts:
-        chat12.send_text(text)
-
-    lp.sec("ac2: waiting for all messages on the other side")
-    to_delete = []
-    for text in texts:
-        msg = ac2._evtracker.wait_next_incoming_message()
-        assert msg.text in texts
-        if text != "second":
-            to_delete.append(msg)
-    # ac2 has received some messages, this is impossible w/o the trash folder configured, let's
-    # check the configuration.
-    assert ac2.get_config("configured_trash_folder") == "Trash"
-
-    lp.sec("ac2: deleting all messages except second")
-    assert len(to_delete) == len(texts) - 1
-    ac2.delete_messages(to_delete)
-
-    lp.sec("ac2: test that only one message is left")
-    while 1:
-        ac2._evtracker.get_matching("DC_EVENT_IMAP_MESSAGE_MOVED")
-        ac2.direct_imap.select_config_folder("inbox")
-        nr_msgs = len(ac2.direct_imap.get_all_messages())
-        assert nr_msgs > 0
-        if nr_msgs == 1:
-            break
-
-
 def test_configure_error_msgs_wrong_pw(acfactory):
    (ac1,) = acfactory.get_online_accounts(1)

@@ -1774,64 +1380,6 @@ def test_group_quote(acfactory, lp):
    assert received_reply.quote.id == out_msg.id


-@pytest.mark.parametrize(
-    ("folder", "move", "expected_destination"),
-    [
-        (
-            "xyz",
-            False,
-            "xyz",
-        ),  # Test that emails are recognized in a random folder but not moved
-        (
-            "xyz",
-            True,
-            "DeltaChat",
-        ),  # ...emails are found in a random folder and moved to DeltaChat
-        (
-            "Spam",
-            False,
-            "INBOX",
-        ),  # ...emails are moved from the spam folder to the Inbox
-    ],
-)
-# Testrun.org does not support the CREATE-SPECIAL-USE capability, which means that we can't create a folder with
-# the "\Junk" flag (see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6154). So, we can't test spam folder detection by flag.
-def test_scan_folders(acfactory, lp, folder, move, expected_destination):
-    """Delta Chat periodically scans all folders for new messages to make sure we don't miss any."""
-    variant = folder + "-" + str(move) + "-" + expected_destination
-    lp.sec("Testing variant " + variant)
-    ac1 = acfactory.new_online_configuring_account(mvbox_move=move)
-    ac2 = acfactory.new_online_configuring_account()
-
-    acfactory.wait_configured(ac1)
-    ac1.direct_imap.create_folder(folder)
-
-    # Wait until each folder was selected once and we are IDLEing:
-    acfactory.bring_accounts_online()
-    ac1.stop_io()
-    assert folder in ac1.direct_imap.list_folders()
-
-    lp.sec("Send a message to from ac2 to ac1 and manually move it to the mvbox")
-    ac1.direct_imap.select_config_folder("inbox")
-    with ac1.direct_imap.idle() as idle1:
-        acfactory.get_accepted_chat(ac2, ac1).send_text("hello")
-        idle1.wait_for_new_message()
-    ac1.direct_imap.conn.move(["*"], folder)  # "*" means "biggest UID in mailbox"
-
-    lp.sec("start_io() and see if DeltaChat finds the message (" + variant + ")")
-    ac1.set_config("scan_all_folders_debounce_secs", "0")
-    ac1.start_io()
-    msg = ac1._evtracker.wait_next_incoming_message()
-    assert msg.text == "hello"
-
-    # The message has been downloaded, which means it has reached its destination.
-    ac1.direct_imap.select_folder(expected_destination)
-    assert len(ac1.direct_imap.get_all_messages()) == 1
-    if folder != expected_destination:
-        ac1.direct_imap.select_folder(folder)
-        assert len(ac1.direct_imap.get_all_messages()) == 0
-
-
 def test_archived_muted_chat(acfactory, lp):
    """If an archived and muted chat receives a new message, DC_EVENT_MSGS_CHANGED for
    DC_CHAT_ID_ARCHIVED_LINK must be generated if the chat had only seen messages previously.
--- a/python/tests/test_3_offline.py
+++ b/python/tests/test_3_offline.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class TestOfflineAccountBasic:
        d = ac1.get_info()
        assert d["arch"]
        assert d["number_of_chats"] == "0"
-        assert d["bcc_self"] == "1"
+        assert d["bcc_self"] == "0"

    def test_is_not_configured(self, acfactory):
        ac1 = acfactory.get_unconfigured_account()
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ class TestOfflineAccountBasic:
    def test_has_bccself(self, acfactory):
        ac1 = acfactory.get_unconfigured_account()
        assert "bcc_self" in ac1.get_config("sys.config_keys").split()
-        assert ac1.get_config("bcc_self") == "1"
+        assert ac1.get_config("bcc_self") == "0"

    def test_selfcontact_if_unconfigured(self, acfactory):
        ac1 = acfactory.get_unconfigured_account()
@@ -271,10 +271,9 @@ class TestOfflineChat:
        chat.set_name("Homework")
        assert chat.get_messages()[-1].text == "abc homework xyz Homework"

-    @pytest.mark.parametrize("verified", [True, False])
-    def test_group_chat_qr(self, acfactory, ac1, verified):
+    def test_group_chat_qr(self, acfactory, ac1):
        ac2 = acfactory.get_pseudo_configured_account()
-        chat = ac1.create_group_chat(name="title1", verified=verified)
+        chat = ac1.create_group_chat(name="title1")
        assert chat.is_group()
        qr = chat.get_join_qr()
        assert ac2.check_qr(qr).is_ask_verifygroup
@@ -663,4 +662,4 @@ class TestOfflineChat:

        lp.sec("check message count of only system messages (without daymarkers)")
        sysmessages = [x for x in chat.get_messages() if x.is_system_message()]
-        assert len(sysmessages) == 3
+        assert len(sysmessages) == 4
--- a/python/tox.ini
+++ b/python/tox.ini
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ deps =
    pytest
    pytest-timeout
    pytest-xdist
-    pdbpp
    requests
 # urllib3 2.0 does not work in manylinux2014 containers.
 # https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust/issues/4788
@@ -47,7 +46,7 @@ deps =
 commands =
    ruff format --diff setup.py src/deltachat examples/ tests/
    ruff check src/deltachat tests/ examples/
-    rst-lint --encoding 'utf-8' README.rst
+    rst-lint README.rst

 [testenv:mypy]
 deps =
--- a/release-date.in
+++ b/release-date.in
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2025-07-23
+2025-12-01
--- a/scripts/README.md
+++ b/scripts/README.md
@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ and an own build machine.
   i.e. `deltachat-rpc-client` and `deltachat-rpc-server`.

 - `remote_tests_python.sh` rsyncs to a build machine and runs
-  `run-python-test.sh` remotely on the build machine. 
+  JSON-RPC Python tests remotely on the build machine. 

 - `remote_tests_rust.sh` rsyncs to the build machine and runs
-  `run-rust-test.sh` remotely on the build machine. 
+  Rust tests remotely on the build machine. 

 - `run-doxygen.sh` generates C-docs which are then uploaded to https://c.delta.chat/

--- a/scripts/coredeps/install-rust.sh
+++ b/scripts/coredeps/install-rust.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ set -euo pipefail
 #
 # Avoid using rustup here as it depends on reading /proc/self/exe and
 # has problems running under QEMU.
-RUST_VERSION=1.88.0
+RUST_VERSION=1.91.0

 ARCH="$(uname -m)"
 test -f "/lib/libc.musl-$ARCH.so.1" && LIBC=musl || LIBC=gnu
--- a/scripts/remote_tests_python.sh
+++ b/scripts/remote_tests_python.sh
@@ -1,45 +1,32 @@
-#!/bin/bash 
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail

-BUILD_ID=${1:?specify build ID}
-
-SSHTARGET=${SSHTARGET-ci@b1.delta.chat}
-BUILDDIR=ci_builds/$BUILD_ID
+set -x
+if ! test -v SSHTARGET; then
+	echo >&2 SSHTARGET is not set
+	exit 1
+fi
+BUILDDIR=ci_builds/chatmailcore

 echo "--- Copying files to $SSHTARGET:$BUILDDIR"

-set -xe
-
-ssh -oBatchMode=yes -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no  $SSHTARGET mkdir -p "$BUILDDIR"
-git ls-files >.rsynclist 
-# we seem to need .git for setuptools_scm versioning 
-find .git >>.rsynclist
-rsync --delete --files-from=.rsynclist -az ./ "$SSHTARGET:$BUILDDIR"
-
-set +x
+rsync -az --delete --mkpath --files-from=<(git ls-files) ./ "$SSHTARGET:$BUILDDIR"

 echo "--- Running Python tests remotely"

-ssh $SSHTARGET <<_HERE
+ssh -oBatchMode=yes -- "$SSHTARGET" <<_HERE
    set +x -e

    # make sure all processes exit when ssh dies
    shopt -s huponexit

-    export RUSTC_WRAPPER=\`which sccache\`
+    export RUSTC_WRAPPER=\`command -v sccache\`
    cd $BUILDDIR
-    export TARGET=release
    export CHATMAIL_DOMAIN=$CHATMAIL_DOMAIN

-    #we rely on tox/virtualenv being available in the host
-    #rm -rf virtualenv venv
-    #virtualenv -q -p python3.7 venv 
-    #source venv/bin/activate
-    #pip install -q tox virtualenv
+    scripts/make-rpc-testenv.sh
+    . venv/bin/activate

-    set -x
-    which python
-    source \$HOME/venv/bin/activate
-    which python
-
-    bash scripts/run-python-test.sh 
+    cd deltachat-rpc-client
+    pytest -n6 $@
 _HERE
--- a/scripts/remote_tests_rust.sh
+++ b/scripts/remote_tests_rust.sh
@@ -1,29 +1,25 @@
-#!/bin/bash 
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -euo pipefail

-BUILD_ID=${1:?specify build ID}
-
-SSHTARGET=${SSHTARGET-ci@b1.delta.chat}
-BUILDDIR=ci_builds/$BUILD_ID
-
-set -e
+if ! test -v SSHTARGET; then
+        echo >&2 SSHTARGET is not set
+        exit 1
+fi
+BUILDDIR=ci_builds/chatmailcore

 echo "--- Copying files to $SSHTARGET:$BUILDDIR"

-ssh -oBatchMode=yes -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no $SSHTARGET mkdir -p "$BUILDDIR"
-git ls-files >.rsynclist
-rsync --delete --files-from=.rsynclist -az ./ "$SSHTARGET:$BUILDDIR"
+rsync -az --delete --mkpath --files-from=<(git ls-files) ./ "$SSHTARGET:$BUILDDIR"

 echo "--- Running Rust tests remotely"

-ssh $SSHTARGET <<_HERE
+ssh -oBatchMode=yes -- "$SSHTARGET" <<_HERE
    set +x -e
    # make sure all processes exit when ssh dies
    shopt -s huponexit
-    export RUSTC_WRAPPER=\`which sccache\`
+    export RUSTC_WRAPPER=\`command -v sccache\`
    cd $BUILDDIR
-    export TARGET=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
-    export RUSTC_WRAPPER=sccache

-    bash scripts/run-rust-test.sh
+    cargo nextest run
 _HERE

--- a/scripts/run_all.sh
+++ b/scripts/run_all.sh
@@ -31,6 +31,6 @@ unset CHATMAIL_DOMAIN

 # Try to build wheels for a range of interpreters, but don't fail if they are not available.
 # E.g. musllinux_1_1 does not have PyPy interpreters as of 2022-07-10
-tox --workdir "$TOXWORKDIR" -e py38,py39,py310,py311,py312,py313,pypy38,pypy39,pypy310 --skip-missing-interpreters true
+tox --workdir "$TOXWORKDIR" -e py310,py311,py312,py313,pypy310 --skip-missing-interpreters true

 auditwheel repair "$TOXWORKDIR"/wheelhouse/deltachat* -w "$TOXWORKDIR/wheelhouse"
--- a/scripts/update-provider-database.sh
+++ b/scripts/update-provider-database.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ set -euo pipefail
 export TZ=UTC

 # Provider database revision.
-REV=77cbf92a8565fdf1bcaba10fa93c1455c750a1e9
+REV=d041136c19a48b493823b46d472f12b9ee94ae80

 CORE_ROOT="$PWD"
 TMP="$(mktemp -d)"
--- a/spec.md
+++ b/spec.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Chatmail Specification

-Version: 0.36.0
+Version: 0.37.0
 Status:  In-progress 
 Format:  [Semantic Line Breaks](https://sembr.org/)

@@ -582,6 +582,24 @@ and e.g. simply search for the line starting with `EMAIL`
 in order to get the email address.


+# Verifications
+
+Keys obtained using [SecureJoin](https://securejoin.readthedocs.io) protocol
+and corresponding contacts
+are considered "verified".
+
+As an extension to `Autocrypt-Gossip` header,
+chatmail clients can add `_verified=1` attribute
+(underscore marks the attribute as non-critical)
+to indicate that they have the gossiped key
+and the corresponding contact marked as verified.
+
+When receiving such `Autocrypt-Gossip` header
+in a message signed by a verified key,
+chatmail clients mark the gossiped key
+as indirectly verified.
+
+
 # Transitioning to a new e-mail address (AEAP)

 When receiving a message:
--- a/src/accounts.rs
+++ b/src/accounts.rs
@@ -3,8 +3,12 @@
 use std::collections::{BTreeMap, BTreeSet};
 use std::future::Future;
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+use std::sync::Arc;

 use anyhow::{Context as _, Result, bail, ensure};
+use async_channel::{self, Receiver, Sender};
+use futures::FutureExt as _;
+use futures_lite::FutureExt as _;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use tokio::fs;
 use tokio::io::AsyncWriteExt;
@@ -18,7 +22,7 @@ use tokio::time::{Duration, sleep};

 use crate::context::{Context, ContextBuilder};
 use crate::events::{Event, EventEmitter, EventType, Events};
-use crate::log::{info, warn};
+use crate::log::warn;
 use crate::push::PushSubscriber;
 use crate::stock_str::StockStrings;

@@ -41,6 +45,13 @@ pub struct Accounts {

    /// Push notification subscriber shared between accounts.
    push_subscriber: PushSubscriber,
+
+    /// Channel sender to cancel ongoing background_fetch().
+    ///
+    /// If background_fetch() is not running, this is `None`.
+    /// New background_fetch() should not be started if this
+    /// contains `Some`.
+    background_fetch_interrupt_sender: Arc<parking_lot::Mutex<Option<Sender<()>>>>,
 }

 impl Accounts {
@@ -78,7 +89,7 @@ impl Accounts {
        ensure!(dir.exists(), "directory does not exist");

        let config_file = dir.join(CONFIG_NAME);
-        ensure!(config_file.exists(), "{:?} does not exist", config_file);
+        ensure!(config_file.exists(), "{config_file:?} does not exist");

        let config = Config::from_file(config_file, writable).await?;
        let events = Events::new();
@@ -96,6 +107,7 @@ impl Accounts {
            events,
            stockstrings,
            push_subscriber,
+            background_fetch_interrupt_sender: Default::default(),
        })
    }

@@ -352,6 +364,11 @@ impl Accounts {
    ///
    /// This is an auxiliary function and not part of public API.
    /// Use [Accounts::background_fetch] instead.
+    ///
+    /// This function is cancellation-safe.
+    /// It is intended to be cancellable,
+    /// either because of the timeout or because background
+    /// fetch was explicitly cancelled.
    async fn background_fetch_no_timeout(accounts: Vec<Context>, events: Events) {
        let n_accounts = accounts.len();
        events.emit(Event {
@@ -378,14 +395,33 @@ impl Accounts {
    }

    /// Auxiliary function for [Accounts::background_fetch].
+    ///
+    /// Runs `background_fetch` until it finishes
+    /// or until the timeout.
+    ///
+    /// Produces `AccountsBackgroundFetchDone` event in every case
+    /// and clears [`Self::background_fetch_interrupt_sender`]
+    /// so a new background fetch can be started.
+    ///
+    /// This function is not cancellation-safe.
+    /// Cancelling it before it returns may result
+    /// in not being able to run any new background fetch
+    /// if interrupt sender was not cleared.
    async fn background_fetch_with_timeout(
        accounts: Vec<Context>,
        events: Events,
        timeout: std::time::Duration,
+        interrupt_sender: Arc<parking_lot::Mutex<Option<Sender<()>>>>,
+        interrupt_receiver: Option<Receiver<()>>,
    ) {
+        let Some(interrupt_receiver) = interrupt_receiver else {
+            // Nothing to do if we got no interrupt receiver.
+            return;
+        };
        if let Err(_err) = tokio::time::timeout(
            timeout,
-            Self::background_fetch_no_timeout(accounts, events.clone()),
+            Self::background_fetch_no_timeout(accounts, events.clone())
+                .race(interrupt_receiver.recv().map(|_| ())),
        )
        .await
        {
@@ -398,10 +434,16 @@ impl Accounts {
            id: 0,
            typ: EventType::AccountsBackgroundFetchDone,
        });
+        (*interrupt_sender.lock()) = None;
    }

    /// Performs a background fetch for all accounts in parallel with a timeout.
    ///
+    /// Ongoing background fetch can also be cancelled manually
+    /// by calling `stop_background_fetch()`, in which case it will
+    /// return immediately even before the timeout expiration
+    /// or finishing fetching.
+    ///
    /// The `AccountsBackgroundFetchDone` event is emitted at the end,
    /// process all events until you get this one and you can safely return to the background
    /// without forgetting to create notifications caused by timing race conditions.
@@ -414,7 +456,39 @@ impl Accounts {
    ) -> impl Future<Output = ()> + use<> {
        let accounts: Vec<Context> = self.accounts.values().cloned().collect();
        let events = self.events.clone();
-        Self::background_fetch_with_timeout(accounts, events, timeout)
+        let (sender, receiver) = async_channel::bounded(1);
+        let receiver = {
+            let mut lock = self.background_fetch_interrupt_sender.lock();
+            if (*lock).is_some() {
+                // Another background_fetch() is already running,
+                // return immeidately.
+                None
+            } else {
+                *lock = Some(sender);
+                Some(receiver)
+            }
+        };
+        Self::background_fetch_with_timeout(
+            accounts,
+            events,
+            timeout,
+            self.background_fetch_interrupt_sender.clone(),
+            receiver,
+        )
+    }
+
+    /// Interrupts ongoing background_fetch() call,
+    /// making it return early.
+    ///
+    /// This method allows to cancel background_fetch() early,
+    /// e.g. on Android, when `Service.onTimeout` is called.
+    ///
+    /// If there is no ongoing background_fetch(), does nothing.
+    pub fn stop_background_fetch(&self) {
+        let mut lock = self.background_fetch_interrupt_sender.lock();
+        if let Some(sender) = lock.take() {
+            sender.try_send(()).ok();
+        }
    }

    /// Emits a single event.
@@ -604,13 +678,12 @@ impl Config {
        // Convert them to relative paths.
        let mut modified = false;
        for account in &mut config.inner.accounts {
-            if account.dir.is_absolute() {
-                if let Some(old_path_parent) = account.dir.parent() {
-                    if let Ok(new_path) = account.dir.strip_prefix(old_path_parent) {
-                        account.dir = new_path.to_path_buf();
-                        modified = true;
-                    }
-                }
+            if account.dir.is_absolute()
+                && let Some(old_path_parent) = account.dir.parent()
+                && let Ok(new_path) = account.dir.strip_prefix(old_path_parent)
+            {
+                account.dir = new_path.to_path_buf();
+                modified = true;
            }
        }
        if modified && writable {
@@ -724,8 +797,7 @@ impl Config {
        {
            ensure!(
                self.inner.accounts.iter().any(|e| e.id == id),
-                "invalid account id: {}",
-                id
+                "invalid account id: {id}"
            );

            self.inner.selected_account = id;
--- a/src/aheader.rs
+++ b/src/aheader.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ pub enum EncryptPreference {
    #[default]
    NoPreference = 0,
    Mutual = 1,
-    Reset = 20,
 }

 impl fmt::Display for EncryptPreference {
@@ -25,7 +24,6 @@ impl fmt::Display for EncryptPreference {
        match *self {
            EncryptPreference::Mutual => write!(fmt, "mutual"),
            EncryptPreference::NoPreference => write!(fmt, "nopreference"),
-            EncryptPreference::Reset => write!(fmt, "reset"),
        }
    }
 }
@@ -37,7 +35,7 @@ impl FromStr for EncryptPreference {
        match s {
            "mutual" => Ok(EncryptPreference::Mutual),
            "nopreference" => Ok(EncryptPreference::NoPreference),
-            _ => bail!("Cannot parse encryption preference {}", s),
+            _ => bail!("Cannot parse encryption preference {s}"),
        }
    }
 }
@@ -48,21 +46,13 @@ pub struct Aheader {
    pub addr: String,
    pub public_key: SignedPublicKey,
    pub prefer_encrypt: EncryptPreference,
-}

-impl Aheader {
-    /// Creates new autocrypt header
-    pub fn new(
-        addr: String,
-        public_key: SignedPublicKey,
-        prefer_encrypt: EncryptPreference,
-    ) -> Self {
-        Aheader {
-            addr,
-            public_key,
-            prefer_encrypt,
-        }
-    }
+    // Whether `_verified` attribute is present.
+    //
+    // `_verified` attribute is an extension to `Autocrypt-Gossip`
+    // header that is used to tell that the sender
+    // marked this key as verified.
+    pub verified: bool,
 }

 impl fmt::Display for Aheader {
@@ -71,6 +61,11 @@ impl fmt::Display for Aheader {
        if self.prefer_encrypt == EncryptPreference::Mutual {
            write!(fmt, " prefer-encrypt=mutual;")?;
        }
+        // TODO After we reset all existing verifications,
+        // we want to start sending the _verified attribute
+        // if self.verified {
+        //     write!(fmt, " _verified=1;")?;
+        // }

        // adds a whitespace every 78 characters, this allows
        // email crate to wrap the lines according to RFC 5322
@@ -125,6 +120,8 @@ impl FromStr for Aheader {
            .and_then(|raw| raw.parse().ok())
            .unwrap_or_default();

+        let verified = attributes.remove("_verified").is_some();
+
        // Autocrypt-Level0: unknown attributes starting with an underscore can be safely ignored
        // Autocrypt-Level0: unknown attribute, treat the header as invalid
        if attributes.keys().any(|k| !k.starts_with('_')) {
@@ -135,6 +132,7 @@ impl FromStr for Aheader {
            addr,
            public_key,
            prefer_encrypt,
+            verified,
        })
    }
 }
@@ -152,10 +150,11 @@ mod tests {

        assert_eq!(h.addr, "me@mail.com");
        assert_eq!(h.prefer_encrypt, EncryptPreference::Mutual);
+        assert_eq!(h.verified, false);
        Ok(())
    }

-    // EncryptPreference::Reset is an internal value, parser should never return it
+    // Non-standard values of prefer-encrypt such as `reset` are treated as no preference.
    #[test]
    fn test_from_str_reset() -> Result<()> {
        let raw = format!("addr=reset@example.com; prefer-encrypt=reset; keydata={RAWKEY}");
@@ -245,11 +244,12 @@ mod tests {
        assert!(
            format!(
                "{}",
-                Aheader::new(
-                    "test@example.com".to_string(),
-                    SignedPublicKey::from_base64(RAWKEY).unwrap(),
-                    EncryptPreference::Mutual
-                )
+                Aheader {
+                    addr: "test@example.com".to_string(),
+                    public_key: SignedPublicKey::from_base64(RAWKEY).unwrap(),
+                    prefer_encrypt: EncryptPreference::Mutual,
+                    verified: false
+                }
            )
            .contains("prefer-encrypt=mutual;")
        );
@@ -260,11 +260,12 @@ mod tests {
        assert!(
            !format!(
                "{}",
-                Aheader::new(
-                    "test@example.com".to_string(),
-                    SignedPublicKey::from_base64(RAWKEY).unwrap(),
-                    EncryptPreference::NoPreference
-                )
+                Aheader {
+                    addr: "test@example.com".to_string(),
+                    public_key: SignedPublicKey::from_base64(RAWKEY).unwrap(),
+                    prefer_encrypt: EncryptPreference::NoPreference,
+                    verified: false
+                }
            )
            .contains("prefer-encrypt")
        );
@@ -273,13 +274,28 @@ mod tests {
        assert!(
            format!(
                "{}",
-                Aheader::new(
-                    "TeSt@eXaMpLe.cOm".to_string(),
-                    SignedPublicKey::from_base64(RAWKEY).unwrap(),
-                    EncryptPreference::Mutual
-                )
+                Aheader {
+                    addr: "TeSt@eXaMpLe.cOm".to_string(),
+                    public_key: SignedPublicKey::from_base64(RAWKEY).unwrap(),
+                    prefer_encrypt: EncryptPreference::Mutual,
+                    verified: false
+                }
            )
            .contains("test@example.com")
        );
+
+        // We don't send the _verified header yet:
+        assert!(
+            !format!(
+                "{}",
+                Aheader {
+                    addr: "test@example.com".to_string(),
+                    public_key: SignedPublicKey::from_base64(RAWKEY).unwrap(),
+                    prefer_encrypt: EncryptPreference::NoPreference,
+                    verified: true
+                }
+            )
+            .contains("_verified")
+        );
    }
 }
--- a/src/authres.rs
+++ b/src/authres.rs
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ pub(crate) async fn handle_authres(
    let from_domain = match EmailAddress::new(from) {
        Ok(email) => email.domain,
        Err(e) => {
-            return Err(anyhow::format_err!("invalid email {}: {:#}", from, e));
+            return Err(anyhow::format_err!("invalid email {from}: {e:#}"));
        }
    };

@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ Authentication-Results: box.hispanilandia.net; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=adbenitez@
            // The ordering in which the emails are received can matter;
            // the test _should_ pass for every ordering.
            dir.sort_by_key(|d| d.file_name());
-            //rand::seq::SliceRandom::shuffle(&mut dir[..], &mut rand::thread_rng());
+            //rand::seq::SliceRandom::shuffle(&mut dir[..], &mut rand::rng());

            for entry in &dir {
                let mut file = fs::File::open(entry.path()).await?;
--- a/src/blob.rs
+++ b/src/blob.rs
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ use crate::config::Config;
 use crate::constants::{self, MediaQuality};
 use crate::context::Context;
 use crate::events::EventType;
-use crate::log::{LogExt, error, info, warn};
+use crate::log::{LogExt, warn};
 use crate::message::Viewtype;
 use crate::tools::sanitize_filename;

@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ impl<'a> BlobObject<'a> {
            false => name,
        };
        if !BlobObject::is_acceptible_blob_name(name) {
-            return Err(format_err!("not an acceptable blob name: {}", name));
+            return Err(format_err!("not an acceptable blob name: {name}"));
        }
        Ok(BlobObject {
            blobdir: context.get_blobdir(),
@@ -234,8 +234,13 @@ impl<'a> BlobObject<'a> {
    /// If `data` represents an image of known format, this adds the corresponding extension.
    ///
    /// Even though this function is not async, it's OK to call it from an async context.
-    pub(crate) fn store_from_base64(context: &Context, data: &str) -> Result<String> {
-        let buf = base64::engine::general_purpose::STANDARD.decode(data)?;
+    ///
+    /// Returns an error if there is an I/O problem,
+    /// but in case of a failure to decode base64 returns `Ok(None)`.
+    pub(crate) fn store_from_base64(context: &Context, data: &str) -> Result<Option<String>> {
+        let Ok(buf) = base64::engine::general_purpose::STANDARD.decode(data) else {
+            return Ok(None);
+        };
        let name = if let Ok(format) = image::guess_format(&buf) {
            if let Some(ext) = format.extensions_str().first() {
                format!("file.{ext}")
@@ -246,7 +251,7 @@ impl<'a> BlobObject<'a> {
            String::new()
        };
        let blob = BlobObject::create_and_deduplicate_from_bytes(context, &buf, &name)?;
-        Ok(blob.as_name().to_string())
+        Ok(Some(blob.as_name().to_string()))
    }

    /// Recode image to avatar size.
@@ -367,11 +372,12 @@ impl<'a> BlobObject<'a> {
                        || img.get_pixel(x_max, y_max).0[3] == 0)
                {
                    *vt = Viewtype::Image;
+                } else {
+                    // Core doesn't auto-assign `Viewtype::Sticker` to messages and stickers coming
+                    // from UIs shouldn't contain sensitive Exif info.
+                    return Ok(name);
                }
            }
-            if *vt == Viewtype::Sticker && exif.is_none() {
-                return Ok(name);
-            }

            img = match orientation {
                Some(90) => img.rotate90(),
@@ -457,8 +463,7 @@ impl<'a> BlobObject<'a> {
                    {
                        if img_wh < 20 {
                            return Err(format_err!(
-                                "Failed to scale image to below {}B.",
-                                max_bytes,
+                                "Failed to scale image to below {max_bytes}B.",
                            ));
                        }

@@ -537,7 +542,11 @@ fn file_hash(src: &Path) -> Result<blake3::Hash> {
 fn image_metadata(file: &std::fs::File) -> Result<(u64, Option<exif::Exif>)> {
    let len = file.metadata()?.len();
    let mut bufreader = std::io::BufReader::new(file);
-    let exif = exif::Reader::new().read_from_container(&mut bufreader).ok();
+    let exif = exif::Reader::new()
+        .continue_on_error(true)
+        .read_from_container(&mut bufreader)
+        .or_else(|e| e.distill_partial_result(|_errors| {}))
+        .ok();
    Ok((len, exif))
 }

--- a/src/blob/blob_tests.rs
+++ b/src/blob/blob_tests.rs
@@ -173,11 +173,8 @@ async fn test_selfavatar_outside_blobdir() {
        .unwrap();
    let avatar_blob = t.get_config(Config::Selfavatar).await.unwrap().unwrap();
    let avatar_path = Path::new(&avatar_blob);
-    assert!(
-        avatar_blob.ends_with("7dde69e06b5ae6c27520a436bbfd65b.jpg"),
-        "The avatar filename should be its hash, put instead it's {avatar_blob}"
-    );
    let scaled_avatar_size = file_size(avatar_path).await;
+    info!(&t, "Scaled avatar size: {scaled_avatar_size}.");
    assert!(scaled_avatar_size < avatar_bytes.len() as u64);

    check_image_size(avatar_src, 1000, 1000);
@@ -187,6 +184,11 @@ async fn test_selfavatar_outside_blobdir() {
        constants::BALANCED_AVATAR_SIZE,
    );

+    assert!(
+        avatar_blob.ends_with("2a048b6fcd86448032b854ea1ad7608.jpg"),
+        "The avatar filename should be its hash, but instead it's {avatar_blob}"
+    );
+
    let mut blob = BlobObject::create_and_deduplicate(&t, avatar_path, avatar_path).unwrap();
    let viewtype = &mut Viewtype::Image;
    let strict_limits = true;
@@ -334,6 +336,28 @@ async fn test_recode_image_2() {
    assert_correct_rotation(&img_rotated);
 }

+#[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2)]
+async fn test_recode_image_bad_exif() {
+    // `exiftool` reports for this file "Bad offset for IFD0 XResolution", still Exif must be
+    // detected and removed.
+    let bytes = include_bytes!("../../test-data/image/1000x1000-bad-exif.jpg");
+    SendImageCheckMediaquality {
+        viewtype: Viewtype::Image,
+        media_quality_config: "0",
+        bytes,
+        extension: "jpg",
+        has_exif: true,
+        original_width: 1000,
+        original_height: 1000,
+        compressed_width: 1000,
+        compressed_height: 1000,
+        ..Default::default()
+    }
+    .test()
+    .await
+    .unwrap();
+}
+
 #[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2)]
 async fn test_recode_image_balanced_png() {
    let bytes = include_bytes!("../../test-data/image/screenshot.png");
@@ -416,6 +440,28 @@ async fn test_recode_image_balanced_png() {
    .unwrap();
 }

+#[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2)]
+async fn test_sticker_with_exif() {
+    let bytes = include_bytes!("../../test-data/image/logo-exif.png");
+    SendImageCheckMediaquality {
+        viewtype: Viewtype::Sticker,
+        bytes,
+        extension: "png",
+        // TODO: Pretend there's no Exif. Currently `exif` crate doesn't detect Exif in this image,
+        // so the test doesn't check all the logic it should.
+        has_exif: false,
+        original_width: 135,
+        original_height: 135,
+        res_viewtype: Some(Viewtype::Sticker),
+        compressed_width: 135,
+        compressed_height: 135,
+        ..Default::default()
+    }
+    .test()
+    .await
+    .unwrap();
+}
+
 /// Tests that RGBA PNG can be recoded into JPEG
 /// by dropping alpha channel.
 #[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2)]
@@ -485,6 +531,7 @@ struct SendImageCheckMediaquality<'a> {
    pub(crate) original_width: u32,
    pub(crate) original_height: u32,
    pub(crate) orientation: i32,
+    pub(crate) res_viewtype: Option<Viewtype>,
    pub(crate) compressed_width: u32,
    pub(crate) compressed_height: u32,
    pub(crate) set_draft: bool,
@@ -500,6 +547,7 @@ impl SendImageCheckMediaquality<'_> {
        let original_width = self.original_width;
        let original_height = self.original_height;
        let orientation = self.orientation;
+        let res_viewtype = self.res_viewtype.unwrap_or(Viewtype::Image);
        let compressed_width = self.compressed_width;
        let compressed_height = self.compressed_height;
        let set_draft = self.set_draft;
@@ -550,7 +598,7 @@ impl SendImageCheckMediaquality<'_> {
        }

        let bob_msg = bob.recv_msg(&sent).await;
-        assert_eq!(bob_msg.get_viewtype(), Viewtype::Image);
+        assert_eq!(bob_msg.get_viewtype(), res_viewtype);
        assert_eq!(bob_msg.get_width() as u32, compressed_width);
        assert_eq!(bob_msg.get_height() as u32, compressed_height);
        let file_saved = bob
@@ -564,7 +612,7 @@ impl SendImageCheckMediaquality<'_> {
        }

        let (_, exif) = image_metadata(&std::fs::File::open(&file_saved)?)?;
-        assert!(exif.is_none());
+        assert!(res_viewtype != Viewtype::Image || exif.is_none());

        let img = check_image_size(file_saved, compressed_width, compressed_height);

--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More
@@ -1 +1 @@
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