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Chirp. A real-time messaging backend you can build on.

github.com/philipplackner/chirp-api

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Updates

November 2025

Migrate to Jackson 3 Nov 10

September 2025

Update README.md Sep 17
Add link to Kotlin Spring Boot resources Sep 11
Enhance README with architecture and mobile views Sep 11
Update README.md to include system architecture and technology stack … Sep 11
Add images to README.md Sep 11

August 2025

Remove restricted package name for Android push notifications Aug 19
Change status code for unverified email to forbidde Aug 18
Fix issue that deleting a message didn't properly evict the messages … Aug 15
Fix issue that newly created chats weren't added to websocket hashmaps Aug 6
Bump IP limits Aug 6
Fix bug that caused StaleObjectException when sending chat messages Aug 5
Fix chirp:// URLs in emails Aug 5
Send real emails in prod Aug 5
Provide test URLs in emails for deep links with chirp:// scheme Aug 5
Merge pull request #3 from philipplackner/api-key-auth Aug 5
Set up API Key auth Aug 5
Merge pull request #2 from philipplackner/deployment/1-ubuntu-vps/2-u… Aug 4
Set up deploy.yml script Aug 4
Merge pull request #1 from philipplackner/deployment/1-ubuntu-vps/1-p… Aug 4