RPM clients, on the latest stable version, believe that they are outdated, when they are not.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

Using a supported version?

• I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates.
• I am using Signal-Desktop as provided by the Signal team, not a 3rd-party package.

Overall summary

I cannot send messages, because Signal believes that the most recent, stable version is deprecated, with repos.fyralabs.com/terra43/signal-desktop-0:8.3.0-1.fc43.x86_64.rpm. Although this functions with:

          ID: org.signal.Signal
         Ref: app/org.signal.Signal/x86_64/beta
        Arch: x86_64
      Branch: beta
     Version: 8.4.0~beta.2
     License: AGPL-3.0-only
      Origin: flathub-beta
  Collection: org.flathub.Beta
Installation: system
   Installed: 528.1 MB
     Runtime: org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/25.08
         Sdk: org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/25.08

      Commit: ef700ffda8dbc6be600f552f7e7d6fe5d53f20d6c926bd7703afc592308f726d
      Parent: 64827715d4a2766687f7443cb3d443d485028dfb4213349c04d5b8387518f8fe
     Subject: signal-desktop-beta: Update signal-desktop-beta.deb to 8.4.0~beta.2 (77896232b2d8)
        Date: 2026-03-20 17:53:01 +0000

…and this form states “I am using Signal-Desktop as provided by the Signal team, not a 3rd-party package”, considering that it also states “If you're using a 3rd-party package, please report it to them first”, and terrapkg/packages/issues/10774#issuecomment-4115741489 states “This is probably a signal issue, you might want to report this issue to upstream. As you may have noticed, our package is already on the latest version”, I have reported this here.

Steps to reproduce

1. #!/usr/bin/env sh
   run0 dnf5 install --nogpgcheck --repofrompath 'terra,https://repos.fyralabs.com/terra$releasever' terra-release && \
   run0 dnf5 install --refresh -y signal-desktop && \
   signal-desktop

2. Authenticate.

3. Visit any chat.

4. Attempt to send any message.

Expected result

I should be able to send messages.

Actual result

Please include all error messages!

StdOut returns:

RokeJulianLockhart@Beedell:~$ signal-desktop
NODE_ENV production
NODE_CONFIG_DIR /usr/lib64/signal-desktop/resources/app.asar/config
NODE_CONFIG {}
ALLOW_CONFIG_MUTATIONS undefined
HOSTNAME Beedell.RokeJulianLockhart.desktop.SSV2AY
NODE_APP_INSTANCE undefined
SUPPRESS_NO_CONFIG_WARNING undefined
SIGNAL_ENABLE_HTTP undefined
userData: /home/RokeJulianLockhart/.config/Signal
[54232:0324/150003.776983:ERROR:dbus/object_proxy.cc:573] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager.StartTransientUnit: object_path= /org/freedesktop/systemd1: org.freedesktop.systemd1.UnitExists: Unit app-org.chromium.Chromium-54232.scope was already loaded or has a fragment file.
(node:54232) [DEP0180] DeprecationWarning: fs.Stats constructor is deprecated.
(Use `signal-desktop --trace-deprecation ...` to show where the warning was created)
[54232:0324/150003.894369:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/host/wayland_wp_color_manager.cc:296] Unable to set image transfer function.
[54232:0324/150003.894379:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/host/wayland_wp_color_manager.cc:214] Failed to populate image description for color space {primaries:BT709, transfer:SRGB, matrix:RGB, range:FULL}
[54232:0324/150004.462087:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/host/wayland_wp_color_manager.cc:296] Unable to set image transfer function.
[54232:0324/150004.462098:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/host/wayland_wp_color_manager.cc:214] Failed to populate image description for color space {primaries:BT709, transfer:SRGB, matrix:RGB, range:FULL}
[54232:0324/150004.462104:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/host/wayland_wp_color_management_surface.cc:63] Failed to get image description for color space.
[54232:0324/150011.317054:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/host/wayland_wp_color_manager.cc:296] Unable to set image transfer function.
[54232:0324/150011.317067:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/host/wayland_wp_color_manager.cc:214] Failed to populate image description for color space {primaries:BT709, transfer:SRGB, matrix:RGB, range:FULL}
[54232:0324/150011.569284:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/host/wayland_wp_color_manager.cc:296] Unable to set image transfer function.
[54232:0324/150011.569295:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/host/wayland_wp_color_manager.cc:214] Failed to populate image description for color space {primaries:BT709, transfer:SRGB, matrix:RGB, range:FULL}
[54232:0324/150011.569302:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/host/wayland_wp_color_management_surface.cc:63] Failed to get image description for color space.
[54232:0324/150011.569343:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/host/wayland_wp_color_manager.cc:296] Unable to set image transfer function.
[54232:0324/150011.569348:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/wayland/host/wayland_wp_color_manager.cc:214] Failed to populate image description for color space {primaries:BT709, transfer:SRGB, matrix:RGB, range:FULL}

Screenshots

The user observes:

Signal version

8.3.0-1.fc43.x86_64

Operating system

fedora-release-identity-kde-desktop-43

Version of Signal on your phone

versionCode=167001

Link to debug log

Immediately after the bug has happened, submit a debug log, via “View” → “Debug Log”, then copy that URI here.

debuglogs.org/desktop/8.3.0/99f83b36b4bb2d8282c497358882aa20898f34c5a2e9445a1960968bdfbdff74.gz

In most cases, a log from your other devices is also useful.

debuglogs.org/android/8.4.1/6f8c65e40649650917ffd641a2fc5043d5960ee7545e42a958a8d60faaaf5c9f

[GildedRoach]

I have tracked down why this happens and it is an issue with how RPM handles SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, it will not be correct unless a new changelog with a new date is created every single time Signal is updated which may not be the case for several reasons (such as COPRs). In this case, the date RPM was setting was considered expired by the Signal client.

It can be overridden at build time by exporting the correct date value, though it's a bit of a suboptimal workaround.