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OnionShare Changelog

1.3.1

  • Updated Tor to 0.2.3.10
  • Windows and Mac binaries are now distributed with licenses for tor and obfs4

1.3

  • Major UI redesign, introducing many UX improvements
  • Client-side web interfact redesigned
  • New feature: Support for meek_lite pluggable transports (Amazon and Azure) - not yet ready for Windows or Mac, sorry
  • New feature: Support for custom obfs4 and meek_lite bridges (again, meek_lite not available on Windows/Mac yet)
  • New feature: ability to cancel share before it starts
  • Bug fix: the UpdateChecker no longer blocks the UI when checking
  • Bug fix: simultaneous downloads (broken in 1.2)
  • Update Tor to 0.2.3.9
  • Improved support for BSD
  • Updated French and Danish translations
  • Minor build script and build documentation fixes
  • Add flake8 tests

1.2

  • New feature: Support for Tor bridges, including obfs4proxy
  • New feature: Ability to use a persistent URL
  • New feature: Auto-stop timer, to stop OnionShare at a specified time
  • New feature: Get notification when Tor connection dies
  • Updated versions of python, Qt, tor, and other dependencies that are bundled
  • Added ability to supply a custom settings file as a command line arg
  • Added support for FreeBSD
  • Fixed small user interface issues
  • Fixed minor bugs
  • New translations for Dutch

1.1

  • OnionShare connects to Tor itself now, so opening Tor Browser in the background isn't required
  • In Windows and macOS, OnionShare alerts users about updates
  • Removed the menu bar, and adding a Settings button
  • Added desktop notifications, and a system tray icon
  • Ability to add multiple files and folders with a single "Add" button
  • Ability to delete multiple files and folders at once with the "Delete" button
  • Hardened some response headers sent from the web server
  • Minor clarity improvements to the contents of the share's web page
  • Alert the user rather than share an empty archive if a file was unreadable
  • Prettier progress bars

1.0

  • Fixed long-standing macOS X bug that caused OnionShare to crash on older Macs (!)
  • Added settings dialog to configure connecting to Tor, including support for system Tor
  • Added support for stealth onion services (advanced option)
  • Added support for Whonix
  • Improved AppArmor profiles
  • Added progress bar for zipping up files
  • Improved the look of download progress bars
  • Allows developers to launch OnionShare from source tree, without building a package
  • Deleted legacy code, and made OnionShare purely use ephemeral Tor onion services
  • Switched to EFF's diceware wordlist for slugs

0.9.2 (Linux only)

  • Looks for TOR_CONTROL_PORT environment variable, to help Tails integration
  • Change how OnionShare checks to see if it's installed system-wide, to help Subgraph OS integration

0.9.1

  • Added Nautilus extension, so you can right-click on a file and choose "Share via OnionShare", thanks to Subgraph developers
  • Switch to using the term "onion service" rather than "hidden service"
  • Fix CVE-2016-5026, minor security issue related to use of /tmp directory
  • Switch from PyInstaller to cx_Freeze for Windows and OSX packaging
  • Support CLI in Windows and OSX

0.9

  • Slugs are now shorter and human-readable, with rate limiting to prevent URL guessing
  • Uses a new slug each time the server restarts
  • "Stop sharing automatically" enforces only one download
  • Users get asked if they're sure they want to close OnionShare while server is running
  • Added estimated time remaining progress indicator
  • Fixed frozen window while waiting for hidden service to start
  • Displays version number in both GUI and CLI
  • Closing window causes downloads to stop immediately
  • Web server listens in ports 17600-17650, for future Tails support
  • Updated translations
  • Ported from Python 2 to Python 3 and from Qt4 to Qt5
  • Ported from py2app and py2exe to PyInstaller

0.8.1

  • Fixed crash in Windows 7
  • Fixed crash related to non-ephemeral hidden services in Linux
  • Fixed minor bugs

0.8

  • Add support for ephemeral hidden services
  • Stopped leaking sender's locale on download page
  • Add support for Tor Messenger as provider of Tor service
  • Minor bugfixes, code cleanup, and refactoring

0.7.1

  • Fixed critical bug in OS X binaries that caused crashes on some computers
  • Added Security Design document
  • Minor bug fix with Windows code signing timestamp server
  • Linux version uses HS dir that is allowed by Tor Browser Launcher's AppArmor profiles

0.7

  • Added code signing for Mac OS X
  • Does not disable existing hidden services
  • Uses allowZip64 to allow compressing files >5gb
  • Sets HS dir to be in /var/lib/tor in Tails, to obey AppArmor rules
  • Misc. minor code cleanup

0.6

  • Brand new drag-and-drop GUI with ability to start and stop server
  • Much cleaner code split into several files
  • Support for sharing multiple files and folders at once, and automatically zips files before sharing
  • Redesigned receiver HTML interface
  • Waits for hidden service to be available before displaying URL
  • Cleans up hidden service directory on exit
  • Continuous integration with Travis
  • Support for multiple downloads at once
  • Fixed unicode-related filename and display bugs
  • Warns that large files could take hours to send
  • New translations
  • Several misc. bugfixes
  • Added code signing for Windows with Authenticode

0.5

  • Removed webkit GUI altogether, and refactored GUI with native Qt widget
  • In Tails, launches separate process as root for Tor control port and firewall stuff, everything else runs as amnesia
  • Fixed itsdangerous dependency bug in Debian Wheezy and Tails
  • Guesses content type of file, responds in HTTP header

0.4

0.3

  • Built a simple, featureful cross-platform GUI
  • Graphical installers for Windows and OSX
  • Packaged for Linux in .deb, .rpm, with desktop launcher
  • Installable in Tails 1.1+, with simple "install" script
  • Automatically copies URL to clipboard
  • Automatically closes when download is done by default
  • Shows download progress
  • Limited suite of tests
  • If a localized string doesn't exist, falls back to English
  • New translations: Dutch, Portuguese, German, Russian, and updated translations: Norwegian, Spanish, French, Italian