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Canary Mail

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Velocity5.0

AI-powered email client with smart replies, security features, and unified inbox.

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Canary Mail ships maintenance across four platform lines; features have gone quiet since April.

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◆Current state
Canary Mail publishes release notes per platform — Android, iOS, macOS and Windows each on their own version line — and every entry in the current top six is fixes only. The August wave put out iOS 5.22.0 and Mac 5.22.0 within a minute of each other carrying an identical changelog (Advanced View overwriting a custom SMTP username, plus crash fixes), with Android 3.99 alongside them fixing swipe-to-select misfires and PGP key handling. The most recent entries carrying a genuinely new capability are the April 5.19 releases, which let users dismiss unwanted compose suggestions.
◆Where it's heading
This is a mature client in upkeep rather than expansion: across four months of entries, the only line labelled New is a suggestion-dismissal control. Two defect threads recur across platforms — PGP correctness (a key-unavailable fallback on Android, a decryption failure on Windows) and Gmail account-setup crashes — which points at encryption and onboarding as where the real bugs live. iOS and macOS now ship in lockstep with word-for-word identical notes, so those two lines are converging in practice even though the version numbers stay separate.
◆Prediction
After four consecutive maintenance waves the next release is most likely another cross-platform stability pass; these entries do not show enough to say when the PGP or compose surface gets new capability rather than repairs.

◆Recent moves

  1. 7d ago

    Android fixes swipe selection and PGP key-missing fallback

    Android gets a swipe-action fix that stopped swipes triggering email selection, plus a PGP correction so a missing key now surfaces an add-key prompt rather than falling back to raw HTML. Both are repairs, and they land in the same maintenance wave as the iOS and Mac 5.22.0 pair.

  2. 7d ago

    iOS 5.22 stops Advanced View overwriting custom SMTP username

    One concrete fix — Advanced View no longer overwrites a custom SMTP username — wrapped in unspecified crash and reliability work. It ships with an identical Mac changelog a minute later, the lockstep pattern these two platform lines have settled into.

  3. 7d ago

    Mac 5.22 ships the same SMTP and crash fixes as iOS

    The macOS half of the 5.22.0 pair, carrying the same SMTP username fix and the same unspecified stability work as iOS — the notes are word-for-word identical. Treat it as one release across two platforms rather than two distinct shipments.

  4. 1mo ago

    Windows 5.1.56 fixes Gmail setup crash and PGP decryption

    A Windows maintenance release fixing a Gmail account-setup crash, mail viewer closures, email rendering, and a PGP decryption failure. Two of those — Gmail setup and PGP — are the recurring defect threads that show up again on other platforms in this window.

  5. 2mo ago

    Android 3.94 is crash fixes only

    Crash fixes with no specifics named — the thinnest entry in this window. It marks the start of the maintenance-only stretch that runs from late May through the August wave.

  6. 3mo ago

    iOS 5.20: Todoist integration fix and stability

    The iOS counterpart to macOS 5.20, with the same Todoist fix and stability work; maintenance upkeep.