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5.8.6 Free OpenSource
BeeBEEP project activities
Here you can read all the latest BeeBEEP project updates.
Last updated: Jul 22nd, 2026 - 06:42 (next update at 07:17)
https://sourceforge.net/p/beebeep/activity/feed
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Anonymous - Saturday, 18 July 2026 - 17:32Would also be cool if there was a flatpak for BeeBeep.
Unfortunately there's only a Snap and a Flatpak would pretty much cover all other distributions. -
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Anonymous - Thursday, 16 July 2026 - 15:24Read-only messages to groups -
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Anonymous - Wednesday, 15 July 2026 - 23:21After continued testing, I have determined that kernel: atomic remove_fb failed with -22 is NOT caused by this issue; however, the information above provided from the QObject Class documentation does seem to indicate this would be a worthy issue to resolve! -
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Anonymous - Tuesday, 14 July 2026 - 15:17Awesome! Love the app and appreciate the quick response. -
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Marco Mastroddi - Monday, 13 July 2026 - 09:15Added the option "ShowMessageDatestamp" for the chat messages -
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Marco Mastroddi - Saturday, 11 July 2026 - 09:55That is a great point, and it's actually a fantastic idea! To be honest, I just started working on an AppImage solution right after reading your post.
You hit the nail on the head: since the main goal of BeeBEEP is to work completely offline in a local network, requiring an internet connection just...[ Read more ] -
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Marco Mastroddi - Saturday, 11 July 2026 - 09:35Hello! I will add it to the TODO list.
Thank you very much! Tip: if you close BeeBEEP every day, the next day you will find with time only the messages of that day and with date all the past ones. -
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Anonymous - Friday, 10 July 2026 - 00:18AppImage support -
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Anonymous - Wednesday, 08 July 2026 - 15:17Add option to show date for every message -
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Marco Mastroddi - Saturday, 04 July 2026 - 12:23 -
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Marco Mastroddi - Saturday, 04 July 2026 - 11:46There is a testing version cor apple M series...
https://sourceforge.net/projects/beebeep/files/MacOSX/TEST/beebeep-5.9.1-2-arm64.dmg/download -
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Anonymous - Saturday, 04 July 2026 - 08:38MacOSx compatibility on Apple Silicon based hardware -
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Marco Mastroddi - Tuesday, 16 June 2026 - 12:16Ported to Windows with Qt 5.15 and MSVC 2019 -
[ BeeBEEP beta test version released ]
BeeBEEP (Free Office Messenger) - Sunday, 14 June 2026 - 10:49Please help me test BeeBEEP beta.
Try the new features.
Open a ticket if you need information or find bugs.
Thank you very much.Read the installation instructions ...
Open new ticket ...
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Marco Mastroddi - Sunday, 14 June 2026 - 10:47The scripts now works with Debian 12 and 13 and it is fully compliant with debian requirements. -
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BeeBEEP (Free Office Messenger) - Saturday, 13 June 2026 - 12:34Please help me test BeeBEEP beta.
Try the new features.
Open a ticket if you need information or find bugs.
Thank you very much.Read the installation instructions ...
Open new ticket ...
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Marco Mastroddi - Saturday, 13 June 2026 - 11:30Added script to make debian 13 package (lintian ok) -
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Anonymous - Friday, 12 June 2026 - 18:38Please try the 5.9.1 for arm64 version...
https://sourceforge.net/projects/beebeep/files/MacOSX/TEST/ - Marco Mastroddi modified a comment on ticket #1160
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Marco Mastroddi - Friday, 12 June 2026 - 10:24 -
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Marco Mastroddi - Friday, 12 June 2026 - 10:24Here is the English version, formatted and ready to be pasted directly into your support ticket: The reason you cannot connect is that BeeBEEP relies on network broadcasting to discover other users.
By default, routers block broadcast traffic between different subnets (e.g., from 192.168.0.x to...[ Read more ] -
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Marco Mastroddi - Friday, 12 June 2026 - 10:21Le fait que vous apparaissiez souvent "hors ligne" dans BeeBEEP est généralement lié à une déconnexion temporaire du réseau ou à un blocage des paquets de communication.
BeeBEEP étant un logiciel sans serveur (peer-to-peer), il dépend entièrement de la stabilité de votre réseau local.
Voici les...[ Read more ] -
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Marco Mastroddi - Friday, 12 June 2026 - 09:51Updated script to deploy and notarize apple arm64 bundle -
[ BeeBEEP beta test version released ]
BeeBEEP (Free Office Messenger) - Friday, 12 June 2026 - 09:49Please help me test BeeBEEP beta.
Try the new features.
Open a ticket if you need information or find bugs.
Thank you very much.Read the installation instructions ...
Open new ticket ...
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Panos (Panagiotis Papazoglou) - Friday, 12 June 2026 - 09:42Hallo.
It is from the cog before the search user field on the bottom...
Sorting mode...
> By user name :) -
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Marco Mastroddi - Thursday, 11 June 2026 - 18:53Not yet :-) -
[ BeeBEEP beta test version released ]
BeeBEEP (Free Office Messenger) - Thursday, 11 June 2026 - 18:52Please help me test BeeBEEP beta.
Try the new features.
Open a ticket if you need information or find bugs.
Thank you very much.Read the installation instructions ...
Open new ticket ...
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Marco Mastroddi - Thursday, 11 June 2026 - 18:52You can test the ARM version here (please download the 5.9.1 file): https://sourceforge.net/projects/beebeep/files/MacOSX/TEST/ -
[ BeeBEEP beta test version released ]
BeeBEEP (Free Office Messenger) - Thursday, 11 June 2026 - 18:52Please help me test BeeBEEP beta.
Try the new features.
Open a ticket if you need information or find bugs.
Thank you very much.Read the installation instructions ...
Open new ticket ...
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Anonymous - Wednesday, 10 June 2026 - 11:34alphabetical order -
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Anonymous - Tuesday, 09 June 2026 - 17:40Mode hors ligne -
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Abelardo A.M. - Friday, 29 May 2026 - 08:40Gracias por su comentario, tiempo y dedicación.
Saludos. -
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Anonymous - Wednesday, 27 May 2026 - 08:34subnet connect error - Marco Mastroddi modified a comment on ticket #1159
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Marco Mastroddi - Tuesday, 26 May 2026 - 19:42 - Marco Mastroddi modified a comment on ticket #1159
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Marco Mastroddi - Tuesday, 26 May 2026 - 19:39Thank you very much for your detailed, rigorous, and well-structured analysis.
It is a pleasure to read such a clear technical explanation regarding IP addressing and subnetting.
Your observations are absolutely correct, and you hit the nail on the head regarding some historical limitations of the...[ Read more ] -
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Abelardo A.M. - Monday, 25 May 2026 - 12:47Beehosts.ini y otras cuestiones. -
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Marco Mastroddi - Friday, 22 May 2026 - 17:52Greek translation updated thanks to Panagiotis Papazoglou -
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Marco Mastroddi - Friday, 22 May 2026 - 17:44Added some Apple M1 fixes. -
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Marco Mastroddi - Thursday, 21 May 2026 - 10:00Yes, the first beta will be ready next week... -
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Anonymous - Thursday, 21 May 2026 - 09:43Apple silicon -
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Marco Mastroddi - Tuesday, 19 May 2026 - 15:16Added box with user name color.
Removed colors in the nickname linedit. -
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Panos (Panagiotis Papazoglou) - Wednesday, 13 May 2026 - 11:18Custom color for specific user -
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Panos (Panagiotis Papazoglou) - Wednesday, 13 May 2026 - 11:11Workgroups remain in list even with no members -
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Panos (Panagiotis Papazoglou) - Wednesday, 13 May 2026 - 11:05URL as link with non latin characters -
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Marco Mastroddi - Wednesday, 13 May 2026 - 07:01Please use "send code" option to preserve messages... -
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Fred Leonard - Wednesday, 13 May 2026 - 04:05bad bug, rendering it unusable. -
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Marco Mastroddi - Monday, 11 May 2026 - 18:21Hello, can you send the log to me by email? https://www.beebeep.net/faq#faq8 thank you! -
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Anonymous - Monday, 11 May 2026 - 15:22Disconnect -
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Marco Mastroddi - Wednesday, 06 May 2026 - 14:59All chats are automatically saved in a single file named beebeep.dat and are listed in the tab you mentioned.
If the auto-save option is disabled, the list should be empty (or will only display previously saved chats).
When you save a chat "manually," you choose the location to store it as a...[ Read more ] -
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Anonymous - Wednesday, 06 May 2026 - 14:54When I save a chat, it does not go to the saved chat tab.
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Anonymous - Saturday, 18 April 2026 - 14:48Regarding the point that this issue does not appear to impact BeeBEEP functionality, it does appear to cause a kernel: atomic remove_fb failed with -22 and trace in my case.
This kernel issue occurs repeatedly but only after I have started BeeBEEP.
I suspect somewhere in the BeeBEEP source code, the...[ Read more ] -
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Marco Mastroddi - Friday, 17 April 2026 - 16:48Hello! From your log I read: Faulting module name: DbgHelp.dll_unloaded, The most common cause is a corrupted dbghelp.dll file in the Windows directory.
Open Command Prompt as Administrator.
Type sfc /scannow and press Enter. -
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Marco Mastroddi - Friday, 17 April 2026 - 16:45I think you can create a NEW Group for your topic with the recipient and send messages to that group. -
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Anonymous - Friday, 17 April 2026 - 08:07Bee Beep Crash issue -
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Anonymous - Friday, 17 April 2026 - 07:49This is still an issue with version 5.8.6-1556-p95-qt5-64bit on Manjaro Linux 26.0.4.
It is interesting that the BeeBEEP version string indicates qt5 but I find this in the QObject Class documentation: Starting from Qt 6.10, setting a negative interval will result in a run-time warning and the value...[ Read more ] -
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Marco Mastroddi - Thursday, 16 April 2026 - 13:12Hello, you can change beep.wav in the installation folder with the sound you want.
The volume depends from your system preferences...
Maybe in the beebeep.ini is there an option to set notification longer.
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Anonymous - Thursday, 16 April 2026 - 10:16Also is there a way to keep the notification up longer? -
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Anonymous - Thursday, 16 April 2026 - 09:57Beep Volume -
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Anonymous - Wednesday, 15 April 2026 - 15:55Message to same user in different box or save message -
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Anonymous - Monday, 13 April 2026 - 16:32After nearly a month everthing is working again... -
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Anonymous - Tuesday, 07 April 2026 - 09:09Please follow the guide in https://www.beebeep.net/faq#faq21 -
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Anonymous - Tuesday, 07 April 2026 - 08:57I am still having this happen -
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Anonymous - Wednesday, 01 April 2026 - 21:35is the project abandoned? -
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Anonymous - Thursday, 19 March 2026 - 14:25Not finding other users -
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Anonymous - Wednesday, 11 March 2026 - 08:28Usage Programmatically -
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Panos (Panagiotis Papazoglou) - Friday, 06 March 2026 - 10:38Add dark shadow around the text? -
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Anonymous - Tuesday, 03 March 2026 - 12:06I am offline for all users - All users are offline to me - with time one after another comes online for me -
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Panos (Panagiotis Papazoglou) - Friday, 27 February 2026 - 13:51Tooltip with a missing argument in Help call icon -
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Aleks - Friday, 20 February 2026 - 09:45History share -
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Marco Mastroddi - Tuesday, 17 February 2026 - 12:18Greek translation updated thanks to Panagiotis Papazoglou. -
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Panos (Panagiotis Papazoglou) - Tuesday, 17 February 2026 - 08:17The month of the date is written in nominative -
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Panos (Panagiotis Papazoglou) - Tuesday, 17 February 2026 - 07:32Location info in profile is temporarly saved -
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Anonymous - Sunday, 15 February 2026 - 13:47new user adding help -
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Anonymous - Thursday, 12 February 2026 - 07:32unable to send file in chat -
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Panos (Panagiotis Papazoglou) - Tuesday, 10 February 2026 - 15:20Well for Greek alphabet, I can't figure out the login behind the conversion.
However, there is an ISO standard that we use in order to convert the greek characters in latin ones for passports and so on.
You can find an official converter here.
This kind of conversion might be useful but it is not a...[ Read more ] -
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Marco Mastroddi - Tuesday, 10 February 2026 - 14:04Hello! That plugin uses latin1 chatacters like 'a' and transfrom it in '4', 'z' in '2' and so ...
To use also unicode characters, like for example Greek ones, I need to know how to convert letters in numbers... -
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Panos (Panagiotis Papazoglou) - Monday, 09 February 2026 - 15:36Number Text Marker plugin does not support Unicode characters -
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Marco Mastroddi - Saturday, 07 February 2026 - 10:15It is a good news.
Maybe there are some corrupted files in the installed app.
You cam copy the dll from portable to installed folder (only dll or exe) and see if it works... -
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Panos (Panagiotis Papazoglou) - Saturday, 07 February 2026 - 09:50Following the text from the dump file, I replaced the file msvcp140.dll with the old one: msvcp100.dll and everything is back to normal. -
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Panos (Panagiotis Papazoglou) - Friday, 06 February 2026 - 11:48Today I found a dump file having this text inside: {"app_crashes":[{"app_name":"beebeep.exe", "app_time_stamp":"0x63EA4042", "app_version":"0.0.0.0", "architecture":0, "count":3, "exception_code":"0xC0000005", "exception_offset":"0x1C559", "friendly_app_name":"beebeep.exe",...[ Read more ] -
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Anonymous - Wednesday, 04 February 2026 - 05:10Повтор сообщений -
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Panos (Panagiotis Papazoglou) - Tuesday, 03 February 2026 - 11:45Besides the Send file and Send folder button, the same behavior occurs when: 1 - When I try to save the log by pressing the respective button 2 - When I try to browse the folder in the Plugin Manager window 3 - When I try to browse the path in the Select language window 4 - When I try to select the...[ Read more ] -
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Panos (Panagiotis Papazoglou) - Tuesday, 03 February 2026 - 11:44Besides the Send file and Send folder button, the same behavior occurs when: 1 - When I try to save the log by pressing the respective button 2 - When I try to browse the folder in the Plugin Manager window 3 - When I try to browse the path in the Select language window 4 - When I try to select the...[ Read more ] -
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Anonymous - Friday, 30 January 2026 - 14:17I am using Windows 11 and as antivirus I am using the Defender.
There is no message in the Defender for BeeBEEP.
I tried to check if the portable version can work and it works properly until the installed version is fixed.
It happened suddenly and 10 minutes ago a second PC that I have in the same...[ Read more ] -
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Panos (Panagiotis Papazoglou) - Friday, 30 January 2026 - 14:10The anonymous is me.
Forgot to login :-) -
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Marco Mastroddi - Friday, 30 January 2026 - 13:36Hello! Can you please check the log of your antivirus if you use Windows... -
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Panos (Panagiotis Papazoglou) - Friday, 30 January 2026 - 13:01BeeBEEP terminates when I press the Send File button in chat window
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