# wechat-android-history-versions: an archive of WeChat APKs > This repository is not a tool and not a mod. It is a table of official WeChat for Android download URLs, one row per published build, collected from the vendor's own download directory, with a script directory and a version.json that keep the list current. Its value is narrow and real: it lets you get an older Android build of the app from the official CDN. **DJB-Developer/wechat-android-history-versions** — 微信Android 微信安卓版 微信安卓 历史版本 官方下载地址 - Repository: https://github.com/DJB-Developer/wechat-android-history-versions - Stars: 795 · Forks: 63 - Language: JavaScript - License: not declared - Published: 2026-10-20 · Updated: 2026-10-20 · Language: en - Canonical page: https://hysenlabs.com/projects/djb-developer-wechat-android-history-versions ## A table of links, nothing more The repository description says it plainly: WeChat for Android historical versions, the official download addresses for the WeChat Android client, with all download links coming from the official site. That is the entire product. There is no code that patches the application, no unlocked or modified build, no account tooling, and no circumvention of anything. The repository is a curated index of URLs that the vendor publishes for its own releases, which the vendor stops advertising but leaves reachable on its download host. The README is short by design. It points at the WeChat FAQ page, repeats that the links are official download addresses, links to the vendor's own changelog page for the per version release notes, and then presents the archive itself as a table with three columns: the software version, the release date, and the download address. The table is long. It runs back through many releases with a row for each build, and the entries are the raw download URLs on the vendor's CDN rather than redirect pages. The top level of the repository matches the shape of the content. There is a README.md, a scripts directory, a version.json file, a .github directory, and a .gitignore. The primary language recorded for the repository is JavaScript, which is the scripting that keeps the table in step with the vendor's releases, and the release tags follow the pattern of the app version plus the release date. So the useful way to think about this project is as a data set with a maintenance script attached, and the interesting engineering is in the maintenance, not in the data. ## How the release tags track the app versions The release tags give the archive a version history of its own. The recent ones are v8.0.79_20261009, published on 2026-10-09, v8.0.79_20260930 on 2026-09-30, and v8.0.78_20260914 on 2026-09-14. Two things are encoded there. The first is the WeChat version itself, 8.0.79 and 8.0.78, which is the number the user sees in the app. The second is the date of that build, which is not the same as the date the version first shipped. The 8.0.79 line has two separate build dates in the recent tags, 2026-09-30 and 2026-10-09, which matches what the download table shows, where the same app version appears with two different build identifiers on the same release date. That is a useful piece of information that the store listing does not give you. The app version stays the same while the build underneath it changes, and the table keeps both. The cadence of the archive is also readable from the dates in the table. Reading down the release dates, the 2026 entries run 2026-09-30, 2026-09-09, 2026-08-21, 2026-07-08, 2026-06-08, 2026-05-15, 2026-04-21, 2026-03-30, 2026-02-09, and 2026-01-20, and the 2025 entries run 2025-12-30, 2025-12-02, 2025-11-07, 2025-09-29, 2025-09-09, 2025-08-11, and 2025-07-02. That is roughly one build every three to four weeks, with an occasional longer gap around the end of the year. One gap is worth noting, because it is the kind of thing that sends people looking for a version that is not there. The sequence in the table runs 8.0.79, 8.0.78, 8.0.77, 8.0.76, and then 8.0.74. There is no 8.0.75 in the listing, so if you are looking for that one, this archive will not have it. ## Reading the file names Each download address is a raw file name on the vendor's download host, and the naming is consistent enough to be decoded by eye. A typical entry looks like weixin8079android3200_0x28004f30_arm64_1.apk, and the same name appears in the release row for WeChat 8.0.79 for Android dated 2026-09-30. The pieces are visible in the string. The weixin prefix and the 8079 that follows are the app version, matching the 8.0.79 in the table. The android3200 segment is a number that tracks the Android platform level the build targets. The 0x28004f30 part is a build identifier in hexadecimal form, and it is the part that distinguishes two builds of the same app version. The arm64 token is the CPU architecture. A trailing variant digit marks which of a set a file is. The variant marker matters more than it looks. For 8.0.79 there are two rows on the same date, one ending in _arm64_1.apk with the build 0x28004f30 and one ending in _arm64.apk with a different build number. For 8.0.78 there are two rows with 0x28004e32 and 0x28004e30, and for 8.0.72 there are three, 0x28004835, 0x28004834, and 0x28004833. The plain reading of that pattern is that when the vendor publishes more than one build for the same app version, the files are distinguished by build identifier rather than by version, and the trailing number marks which of the set a given file is. If you need a specific build rather than a specific marketing version, the build identifier is what identifies it. Every entry in the visible part of the table is arm64, which is a real constraint: there is no x86 build listed, so an emulator that runs x86 images is not covered by these links, and the archive only serves modern ARM devices. ## The scripts directory and version.json are the maintenance half A table of links is only as good as the process that keeps it current, and that is what the scripts directory and the version.json file are for. The repository layout is deliberately tiny. Apart from the usual GitHub configuration and the ignore file, there are the README with the table, a scripts directory, and version.json. Nothing else is checked in, which is consistent with the design where the artefact is a document and the tooling is a thin layer on top of it. The version.json file is the machine readable counterpart to the table. Where the README is a human readable index, a JSON file is something a script can consume, and a build system or a CI job can point at it to find the download address for a specific WeChat version without parsing Markdown. The scripts directory, written in JavaScript, is what regenerates or updates the entries. The release tags give a clue to the flow, because each tag combines the app version and a build date, which is exactly the shape of an entry in the table. The likely shape of the loop is to discover the newly published build on the vendor's download host, resolve the download address for it, update the table and the JSON, and tag the result. The commits and the tags move together and quickly. The last push to the repository was on 2026-10-09, the same day as the most recent release tag, and the three most recent tags cover three builds published within a month of each other. That cadence is what you want from an archive whose value is coverage of the recent past. The repository is not archived, and the licence field is recorded as unknown, which is worth noting if you plan to reuse the data. The table reproduces download addresses that the vendor publishes, and the licence status of the collection itself is not stated in the files shown here. ## The sibling archives for other platforms The README links two companion projects that cover the desktop clients, and together the three form a family rather than a one off. There is a WeChat Windows historical versions project, and a WeChat Mac historical versions project. Each follows the same idea, which is that the vendor publishes per build download addresses for its desktop clients as well, and those addresses stay online after the release stops being advertised. The same reasoning applies to the changelog link. The vendor publishes per version release notes, and the README points at that changelog rather than duplicating it. So the archive tells you which build exists and when it was published, and the vendor's own changelog tells you what changed in it. That division of labour is the sensible one, because copying release notes into the repository would create a second copy that goes stale. For anyone who wants to build a matrix of a client across platforms and versions, the three repositories give them a consistent set of sources to pull from. What none of these archives do is verify anything. There is no checksum recorded for the downloaded file, no signature information, and no statement about whether the vendor still honours the address. The links are the vendor's own, which is a meaningful guarantee in one direction, since a link on the vendor's download host is not a third party mirror, but it is not a verification mechanism in the other direction. ## Conclusion The wechat-android-history-versions archive fits a developer or researcher who needs a specific older WeChat for Android build, for example to reproduce a behaviour on a version that has since changed, and who is willing to install an APK outside the Play Store. It does not fit anyone looking for modified, unlocked, or repackaged builds, since every link in it points at the vendor's own download host. Verify first that the version you need is actually listed, since the table skips some releases, that the architecture in the file name matches your device, since the entries are arm64, and that the build identifier in the name is the one you expect, because two files are often published for the same release date with different build numbers. ## FAQ ### What is the wechat-android-history-versions repository? It is a table of official WeChat for Android download addresses, one row per published build, with the app version, the release date, and the direct link. The README states that all the download links come from the vendor's own site, and it points at the vendor's changelog for the release notes. ### Does this repository contain modified or unlocked WeChat builds? No. The project is an index of the vendor's own download addresses for its own releases. There is no patched application, no account tooling, and no circumvention of anything; the value is that the addresses for older builds remain online after a release stops being advertised. ### How do I find a specific WeChat for Android version? Use the table in the README, which lists the software version, the release date, and the download address for each build. The release tags combine the same two values, for example v8.0.79_20261009, so the tag list is a quick index of the app versions and their build dates. ### What do the numbers in the APK file names mean? The names encode the app version, an Android platform level number, a build identifier in hexadecimal form, the arm64 architecture, and a trailing variant number. When the vendor publishes more than one build for the same app version, the build identifier is what tells them apart, and the trailing number marks the variant. ### Are there archives for the desktop versions of WeChat? The README links two companion projects, one for the WeChat Windows historical versions and one for the WeChat Mac historical versions. ## Sources - [DJB-Developer/wechat-android-history-versions on GitHub](https://github.com/DJB-Developer/wechat-android-history-versions) - [Issues](https://github.com/DJB-Developer/wechat-android-history-versions/issues) - [README](https://github.com/DJB-Developer/wechat-android-history-versions/blob/main/README.md) - [Releases](https://github.com/DJB-Developer/wechat-android-history-versions/releases) --- Hysen Labs editorial analysis, written from the project's own repository and release notes. Cite the canonical page: https://hysenlabs.com/projects/djb-developer-wechat-android-history-versions