diff --git a/apps/ios/SimpleXChat/ChatTypes.swift b/apps/ios/SimpleXChat/ChatTypes.swift
index dc672adda1..919f83d108 100644
--- a/apps/ios/SimpleXChat/ChatTypes.swift
+++ b/apps/ios/SimpleXChat/ChatTypes.swift
@@ -5143,6 +5143,10 @@ public enum SimplexLinkType: String, Decodable, Hashable {
 
 public struct SimplexNameInfo: Decodable, Equatable, Hashable {
     public var nameType: SimplexNameType
+    public var nameDomain: SimplexNameDomain
+}
+
+public struct SimplexNameDomain: Decodable, Equatable, Hashable {
     public var nameTLD: SimplexTLD
     public var domain: String
     public var subDomain: [String]
diff --git a/apps/multiplatform/common/src/commonMain/kotlin/chat/simplex/common/model/ChatModel.kt b/apps/multiplatform/common/src/commonMain/kotlin/chat/simplex/common/model/ChatModel.kt
index 22b64ec92e..f3abc6801e 100644
--- a/apps/multiplatform/common/src/commonMain/kotlin/chat/simplex/common/model/ChatModel.kt
+++ b/apps/multiplatform/common/src/commonMain/kotlin/chat/simplex/common/model/ChatModel.kt
@@ -4764,6 +4764,11 @@ enum class SimplexLinkType(val linkType: String) {
 @Serializable
 data class SimplexNameInfo(
   val nameType: SimplexNameType,
+  val nameDomain: SimplexNameDomain
+)
+
+@Serializable
+data class SimplexNameDomain(
   val nameTLD: SimplexTLD,
   val domain: String,
   val subDomain: List<String>
diff --git a/apps/multiplatform/common/src/commonMain/kotlin/chat/simplex/common/views/chat/TextSelection.kt b/apps/multiplatform/common/src/commonMain/kotlin/chat/simplex/common/views/chat/TextSelection.kt
index d85488cefc..db31c05dce 100644
--- a/apps/multiplatform/common/src/commonMain/kotlin/chat/simplex/common/views/chat/TextSelection.kt
+++ b/apps/multiplatform/common/src/commonMain/kotlin/chat/simplex/common/views/chat/TextSelection.kt
@@ -217,6 +217,9 @@ class SelectionManager {
         val hi = maxOf(r.startIndex, r.endIndex)
         return (lo..hi).mapNotNull { idx ->
             val ci = items.getOrNull(idx)?.newest()?.item ?: return@mapNotNull null
+            // Only real messages are copyable. Event/info items (e.g. "connected", calls, e2ee info)
+            // have no msgContent and are never highlighted as selected, so they must never be copied.
+            if (ci.content.msgContent == null) return@mapNotNull null
             if (ci.meta.itemDeleted != null && (!revealedItems.contains(ci.id) || ci.isDeletedContent)) return@mapNotNull null
             val sel = selectedRange(range, idx) ?: return@mapNotNull null
             selectedItemCopiedText(ci, sel, linkMode)
diff --git a/bots/api/TYPES.md b/bots/api/TYPES.md
index 0347f25e6d..ac7da8e3e5 100644
--- a/bots/api/TYPES.md
+++ b/bots/api/TYPES.md
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ This file is generated automatically.
 - [SecurityCode](#securitycode)
 - [SimplePreference](#simplepreference)
 - [SimplexLinkType](#simplexlinktype)
+- [SimplexNameDomain](#simplexnamedomain)
 - [SimplexNameInfo](#simplexnameinfo)
 - [SimplexNameType](#simplexnametype)
 - [SimplexTLD](#simplextld)
@@ -3445,15 +3446,23 @@ A_QUEUE:
 - "relay"
 
 
+---
+
+## SimplexNameDomain
+
+**Record type**:
+- nameTLD: [SimplexTLD](#simplextld)
+- domain: string
+- subDomain: [string]
+
+
 ---
 
 ## SimplexNameInfo
 
 **Record type**:
 - nameType: [SimplexNameType](#simplexnametype)
-- nameTLD: [SimplexTLD](#simplextld)
-- domain: string
-- subDomain: [string]
+- nameDomain: [SimplexNameDomain](#simplexnamedomain)
 
 
 ---
diff --git a/bots/src/API/Docs/Types.hs b/bots/src/API/Docs/Types.hs
index 0f9e198cc1..c759a7453c 100644
--- a/bots/src/API/Docs/Types.hs
+++ b/bots/src/API/Docs/Types.hs
@@ -345,6 +345,7 @@ chatTypesDocsData =
     (sti @SecurityCode, STRecord, "", [], "", ""),
     (sti @SimplePreference, STRecord, "", [], "", ""),
     (sti @SimplexLinkType, STEnum, "XL", [], "", ""),
+    (sti @SimplexNameDomain, STRecord, "", [], "", ""),
     (sti @SimplexNameInfo, STRecord, "", [], "", ""),
     (sti @SimplexNameType, STEnum, "NT", [], "", ""),
     (sti @SimplexTLD, STEnum, "TLD", [], "", ""),
@@ -561,6 +562,7 @@ deriving instance Generic RelayStatus
 deriving instance Generic ReportReason
 deriving instance Generic SecurityCode
 deriving instance Generic SimplexLinkType
+deriving instance Generic SimplexNameDomain
 deriving instance Generic SimplexNameInfo
 deriving instance Generic SimplexNameType
 deriving instance Generic SimplexTLD
diff --git a/cabal.project b/cabal.project
index a917c35c97..27f82d85bd 100644
--- a/cabal.project
+++ b/cabal.project
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ constraints: zip +disable-bzip2 +disable-zstd
 source-repository-package
     type: git
     location: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq.git
-    tag: 04960864c4ec958c21c20e2a7d618524138b2e72
+    tag: 61ee188ee0839c34de16bc17934f04ebc7fd4873
 
 source-repository-package
     type: git
diff --git a/packages/simplex-chat-client/types/typescript/src/types.ts b/packages/simplex-chat-client/types/typescript/src/types.ts
index 052255eb1e..851b4a4497 100644
--- a/packages/simplex-chat-client/types/typescript/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/simplex-chat-client/types/typescript/src/types.ts
@@ -3850,13 +3850,17 @@ export enum SimplexLinkType {
   Relay = "relay",
 }
 
-export interface SimplexNameInfo {
-  nameType: SimplexNameType
+export interface SimplexNameDomain {
   nameTLD: SimplexTLD
   domain: string
   subDomain: string[]
 }
 
+export interface SimplexNameInfo {
+  nameType: SimplexNameType
+  nameDomain: SimplexNameDomain
+}
+
 export enum SimplexNameType {
   PublicGroup = "publicGroup",
   Contact = "contact",
diff --git a/packages/simplex-chat-python/src/simplex_chat/types/_types.py b/packages/simplex-chat-python/src/simplex_chat/types/_types.py
index 2897591b33..fdde144307 100644
--- a/packages/simplex-chat-python/src/simplex_chat/types/_types.py
+++ b/packages/simplex-chat-python/src/simplex_chat/types/_types.py
@@ -2689,12 +2689,15 @@ class SimplePreference(TypedDict):
 
 SimplexLinkType = Literal["contact", "invitation", "group", "channel", "relay"]
 
-class SimplexNameInfo(TypedDict):
-    nameType: "SimplexNameType"
+class SimplexNameDomain(TypedDict):
     nameTLD: "SimplexTLD"
     domain: str
     subDomain: list[str]
 
+class SimplexNameInfo(TypedDict):
+    nameType: "SimplexNameType"
+    nameDomain: "SimplexNameDomain"
+
 SimplexNameType = Literal["publicGroup", "contact"]
 
 SimplexTLD = Literal["simplex", "testing", "web"]
diff --git a/plans/2026-05-20-fix-copy-non-msg-items.md b/plans/2026-05-20-fix-copy-non-msg-items.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4f0c554357
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plans/2026-05-20-fix-copy-non-msg-items.md
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# Desktop: text selection copies non-message event items
+
+Branch: `nd/fix-copy-non-msg-items` · code commit `a536452ca` · PR [#6993](https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/pull/6993).
+
+## 1. Problem statement
+
+The Desktop "select text in messages" feature (PR [#6725](https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/pull/6725)) lets the user drag a selection across several message bubbles and copy it. When the selection spans a chat event/info item — a "connected" event, a member "joined"/"left" event, a call event, an e2ee-info line, a feature-change line — the copied text includes that item's text, even though the item is never shown highlighted as part of the selection.
+
+Expected: only real message text is copied. Observed: event/info text such as "connected" is appended into the clipboard between the selected messages.
+
+### Privacy note
+
+Event/info item text is produced from localized string resources (`generalGetString`, `RcvConnEvent.text`, etc.) — it is rendered in the language the user has chosen for the app, whereas real message text is not. A user who selects and copies a long span of messages carelessly, then pastes it into another chat or app, can therefore leak their chosen interface language through the event lines mixed into the paste. For a privacy-focused messenger this is a metadata leak, not only a cosmetic bug.
+
+## 2. Root cause
+
+`SelectionManager.getSelectedCopiedText` (`TextSelection.kt`) builds the copied string by iterating every merged-item index between the selection bounds and emitting each item's text:
+
+```kotlin
+return (lo..hi).mapNotNull { idx ->
+    val ci = items.getOrNull(idx)?.newest()?.item ?: return@mapNotNull null
+    if (ci.meta.itemDeleted != null && ...) return@mapNotNull null
+    val sel = selectedRange(range, idx) ?: return@mapNotNull null
+    selectedItemCopiedText(ci, sel, linkMode)
+}
+```
+
+For an *interior* item in a multi-item selection, `selectedRange` returns `0 until Int.MAX_VALUE` — the whole item is treated as selected — so its text is emitted unconditionally. The only items previously skipped were deleted ones.
+
+Anchor/focus character tracking (`setupItemSelection`) is wired up only for real message views (`FramedItemView`, `EmojiItemView`); event/info items never register offsets and never compute a highlight range. So an event item caught between two selected messages is invisible to the highlight but fully visible to `getSelectedCopiedText`. The copy logic and the on-screen selection disagreed.
+
+The distinguishing property: a real message has `ci.content.msgContent != null`; every event/info `CIContent` variant returns `msgContent == null`.
+
+## 3. Solution summary
+
+`apps/multiplatform/common/src/commonMain/kotlin/chat/simplex/common/views/chat/TextSelection.kt` — one guard, +3 lines.
+
+In `getSelectedCopiedText`, skip any item whose `content.msgContent` is null, alongside the existing deleted-item filter:
+
+```kotlin
+if (ci.content.msgContent == null) return@mapNotNull null
+```
+
+Only real messages now contribute copied text — which is exactly the set of items that are selectable and highlighted, so the clipboard matches the visible selection. `content.msgContent` is the existing model property used elsewhere to tell a real message apart from an event/info item.
+
+## 4. Alternatives considered (and rejected)
+
+- **Special-case only "connected" events.** Matches the literal report but leaves the identical bug for every other event/info item (joined/left, calls, e2ee info, feature changes) — same class, same language leak.
+- **Make event items non-selectable / consume the drag.** Larger change to the selection gesture; event items are already non-anchorable, and the bug is purely in the copy aggregation, not in the gesture.
+- **Filter at the call site (`onCopySelection`).** Duplicates the message/non-message distinction outside the one function that owns copied-text assembly; `getSelectedCopiedText` is the correct single source.
diff --git a/plans/2026-05-29-fix-space-in-interface.md b/plans/2026-05-29-fix-space-in-interface.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e3d8ba7cc4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plans/2026-05-29-fix-space-in-interface.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Fix `/start remote host` parser when iface name contains a space
+
+## Problem
+
+Picking a non-default interface (e.g. Windows `Ethernet 2`) on the "Link a mobile" screen and refreshing the QR code returns `error chat: error chat commandError Failed reading: empty`. The desktop UI sends `/start remote host new addr=… iface="Ethernet 2" port=…`; the chat backend rejects it as an unparseable command. Without a workaround the user can't pin a specific local interface for the mobile-link controller.
+
+## Cause
+
+`rcCtrlAddressP` parses the iface value with `jsonP <|> text1P` (`src/Simplex/Chat/Library/Commands.hs:5549`). `jsonP` calls `A.takeByteString`, consuming *all* remaining input, then runs `eitherDecodeStrict'`. When `port=…` follows `iface=…` the strict decode fails because the JSON value `"Ethernet 2"` has trailing junk after it, so attoparsec backtracks to `text1P` (`takeTill (== ' ')`). `text1P` stops at the first space — inside the JSON quotes — leaving `2" port=12345` which nothing downstream can consume, `A.endOfInput` fails, the whole `A.choice` exhausts and surfaces attoparsec's `empty` message. With an iface name that has no space (`"lo"`) the bug is invisible: text1P swallows the full quoted token and the rest parses, but the interface name is stored with literal quotes so the iface preference silently never matches a real adapter anyway.
+
+## Fix
+
+Replace `jsonP` with a bounded `quotedP` that consumes only the bytes between `"…"` and leaves trailing fields for the next parser. `text1P` is kept as the unquoted fallback. Two-line change in `Commands.hs` plus a pure regression test in `tests/RemoteTests.hs` that asserts `parseChatCommand` of `/start remote host new addr=192.168.1.5 iface="Ethernet 2" port=12345` produces `RCCtrlAddress _ "Ethernet 2"` with port `12345`.
diff --git a/scripts/nix/sha256map.nix b/scripts/nix/sha256map.nix
index 8bdc81fee3..5ce5bca19a 100644
--- a/scripts/nix/sha256map.nix
+++ b/scripts/nix/sha256map.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq.git"."04960864c4ec958c21c20e2a7d618524138b2e72" = "0bxirnczwxjdm8jdvqalf0jvllvpmvbxwvjcz6aq9z7k7rx8ijai";
+  "https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq.git"."61ee188ee0839c34de16bc17934f04ebc7fd4873" = "0ap5khdfwzi9gzc96y916hngmbl3c4ivkbf33anmv2r8n15bkkp0";
   "https://github.com/simplex-chat/hs-socks.git"."a30cc7a79a08d8108316094f8f2f82a0c5e1ac51" = "0yasvnr7g91k76mjkamvzab2kvlb1g5pspjyjn2fr6v83swjhj38";
   "https://github.com/simplex-chat/direct-sqlcipher.git"."f814ee68b16a9447fbb467ccc8f29bdd3546bfd9" = "1ql13f4kfwkbaq7nygkxgw84213i0zm7c1a8hwvramayxl38dq5d";
   "https://github.com/simplex-chat/sqlcipher-simple.git"."a46bd361a19376c5211f1058908fc0ae6bf42446" = "1z0r78d8f0812kxbgsm735qf6xx8lvaz27k1a0b4a2m0sshpd5gl";
diff --git a/src/Simplex/Chat/Library/Commands.hs b/src/Simplex/Chat/Library/Commands.hs
index c0b2322a3c..4342a8821e 100644
--- a/src/Simplex/Chat/Library/Commands.hs
+++ b/src/Simplex/Chat/Library/Commands.hs
@@ -5550,7 +5550,8 @@ chatCommandP =
         addressAA = AddressSettings False <$> (Just . AutoAccept <$> (" incognito=" *> onOffP <|> pure False)) <*> autoReply
         businessAA = " business" *> (AddressSettings True (Just $ AutoAccept False) <$> autoReply)
         autoReply = optional (A.space *> msgContentP)
-    rcCtrlAddressP = RCCtrlAddress <$> ("addr=" *> strP) <*> (" iface=" *> (jsonP <|> text1P))
+    rcCtrlAddressP = RCCtrlAddress <$> ("addr=" *> strP) <*> (" iface=" *> (quotedP <|> text1P))
+    quotedP = safeDecodeUtf8 <$> (A.char '"' *> A.takeTill (== '"') <* A.char '"')
     text1P = safeDecodeUtf8 <$> A.takeTill (== ' ')
     char_ = optional . A.char
 
diff --git a/tests/MarkdownTests.hs b/tests/MarkdownTests.hs
index 1db400c62a..efa010ceb1 100644
--- a/tests/MarkdownTests.hs
+++ b/tests/MarkdownTests.hs
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import Data.Text (Text)
 import qualified Data.Text as T
 import Data.Text.Encoding (encodeUtf8)
 import Simplex.Chat.Markdown
-import Simplex.Messaging.Agent.Protocol (SimplexNameInfo (..), SimplexNameType (..), SimplexTLD (..))
+import Simplex.Messaging.Agent.Protocol (SimplexNameDomain (..), SimplexNameInfo (..), SimplexNameType (..), SimplexTLD (..))
 import Simplex.Messaging.Encoding.String
 import Simplex.Messaging.Util ((<$$>))
 import System.Console.ANSI.Types
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ command' :: Text -> Text -> FormattedText
 command' = FormattedText . Just . Command
 
 sname :: SimplexNameType -> SimplexTLD -> Text -> [Text] -> Text -> Markdown
-sname nt ns dom sub txt = markdown (SimplexName $ SimplexNameInfo nt ns dom sub) (pfx <> txt)
+sname nt ns dom sub txt = markdown (SimplexName $ SimplexNameInfo nt (SimplexNameDomain ns dom sub)) (pfx <> txt)
   where
     pfx = case nt of NTPublicGroup -> "#"; NTContact -> "@"
 
diff --git a/tests/RemoteTests.hs b/tests/RemoteTests.hs
index 51f4324bf0..e96d531805 100644
--- a/tests/RemoteTests.hs
+++ b/tests/RemoteTests.hs
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ import qualified Data.ByteString as B
 import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 as LB
 import Data.List (find, isPrefixOf)
 import qualified Data.Map.Strict as M
-import Simplex.Chat.Controller (ChatConfig (..), versionNumber)
+import Simplex.Chat.Controller (ChatCommand (..), ChatConfig (..), versionNumber)
+import Simplex.Chat.Library.Commands (parseChatCommand)
 import qualified Simplex.Chat.Controller as Controller
 import Simplex.Chat.Mobile.File
 import Simplex.Chat.Remote (remoteFilesFolder)
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ import Simplex.Chat.Remote.Types
 import Simplex.Messaging.Crypto.File (CryptoFileArgs (..))
 import Simplex.Messaging.Encoding.String (strEncode)
 import Simplex.Messaging.Util
+import Simplex.RemoteControl.Types (RCCtrlAddress (..))
 import System.FilePath ((</>))
 import Test.Hspec hiding (it)
 import UnliftIO
@@ -32,6 +34,12 @@ import UnliftIO.Directory
 
 remoteTests :: SpecWith TestParams
 remoteTests = describe "Remote" $ do
+  describe "/start remote host parser" $ do
+    it "parses iface name with a space followed by port=" $ \_ ->
+      parseChatCommand "/start remote host new addr=192.168.1.5 iface=\"Ethernet 2\" port=12345"
+        `shouldSatisfy` \case
+          Right (StartRemoteHost Nothing (Just (RCCtrlAddress _ "Ethernet 2")) (Just 12345)) -> True
+          _ -> False
   xdescribe "No compression" $ aroundWith (. ((False, False),)) runRemoteTests
   xdescribe "Mobile offers compression" $ aroundWith (. ((True, False),)) runRemoteTests
   xdescribe "Desktop offers compression" $ aroundWith (. ((False, True),)) runRemoteTests