By Graham K. Rogers

Although it was apparently withdrawn from the iTunes app store a few days ago, WhatsApp Messenger has reappeared with an update to version 2.6.9.

The fixes reported are to the Japanese and Chinese keyboards, as well as various other (unspecified) other performance and crash fixes. The app information also tells users that there are new Wallpapers available in the Settings for the app. The app has also be changed so that the Group Chat button is now always displayed.

Graham K. Rogers teaches at the Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University in Thailand. He wrote in the Bangkok Post, Database supplement on IT subjects. For the last seven years of Database he wrote a column on Apple and Macs.