0.9 Release Candidate Release Notes

Thanks to all the testers and contributors that helped make version 0.9! We are very excited to have improved many
bugs and added new features in version 0.9.

This first release candidate will serve as a beta release for 1 week and then be officially released with any fixes.

Known Issues

• Fractional scaling issues are not resolved. We are working with Qt upstream on this issue.

Beta Notes

• This is intended to be the last release candidate before the 0.9 release. Thanks to all the 0.9RC1 beta testers!

New Features

• Improved MacOS support. MacOS is now officially supported and we will resolve any reported issues on this platform.

• Thanks to SignPath we are able to offer digitally signed windows releases.

• Improved Wayland support

  • Behind the scenes we configure flameshot to automatically run on xcb. This significantly improves the
    wayland experience. This resolves issues with multimonitor setups and copying to the clipboard

• New option to allow the the clipboard image to be a jpeg instead of a png. This may reduce bandwidth when pasting the
  image into chat or email clients

• New global shortcut menu. All actions hotkeys are fully customizable.

• Ability to take "symmetric" selections by holding down the Shift key while resizing the selection.

• The rectangle tool will now round the corners of the rectangles based on the current thickness

• All imgur uploads are now tracked in the "Upload History" menu. This makes it much easier to delete of images off imgur
  or find the upload link later.

• Added "check for new release" feature. This allows users on MacOS / Windows / and AppImages to easily check for updated versions.

• New option for setting a "fixed save path". When this is enabled a user will no longer need to set the path for images
  that are saved.

Fixes

• Under certain circumstance the circle count could get set to the wrong number with large numbers of undo / redo. This
  has been fixed.

• Close after capture has been removed. This feature was not well implemented and lead to numerous bugs.

0.9 Release Candidate Release Notes

Thanks to all the testers and contributors that helped make version 0.9! We are very excited to have improved many
bugs and added new features in version 0.9.

This first release candidate will serve as a beta release for 1 week and then be officially released with any fixes.

Known Issues

• Fractional scaling issues are not resolved. We are working with Qt upstream on this issue.

New Features

• Improved MacOS support. MacOS is now officially supported and we will resolve any reported issues on this platform.

• Thanks to SignPath we are able to offer digitally signed windows releases.

• Improved Wayland support

  • Behind the scenes we configure flameshot to automatically run on xcb. This significantly improves the
    wayland experience. This resolves issues with multimonitor setups and copying to the clipboard

• New option to allow the the clipboard image to be a jpeg instead of a png. This may reduce bandwidth when pasting the
  image into chat or email clients

• New global shortcut menu. All actions hotkeys are fully customizable.

• Ability to take "symmetric" selections by holding down the Shift key while resizing the selection.

• The rectangle tool will now round the corners of the rectangles based on the current thickness

• All imgur uploads are now tracked in the "Upload History" menu. This makes it much easier to delete of images off imgur
  or find the upload link later.

• Added "check for new release" feature. This allows users on MacOS / Windows / and AppImages to easily check for updated versions.

• New option for setting a "fixed save path". When this is enabled a user will no longer need to set the path for images
  that are saved.

Fixes

• Under certain circumstance the circle count could get set to the wrong number with large numbers of undo / redo. This
  has been fixed.

• Close after capture has been removed. This feature was not well implemented and lead to numerous bugs.

• Fixed Icon Regression

• Staged documentation for signed windows binaries

• Adjusted releasing info for flatpak, snapcraft, rpm, deb

• Snaps are now available on snapcraft so not posted here: https://snapcraft.io/flameshot

• Flatpak is hosted on flathub so not posted here: https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.flameshot.Flameshot

• Current Windows Binaries are not signed but once they are available it will be uploaded here.

• Renamed assets to match DBUS name for flathub support

• Fixed issue where theme was not applied to widgets

• Fixed issue where pixelate tool did not properly apply pixel size and was not symmetric horizontally and vertically

• Fixed visual artifact in pin to desktop in appimage release

• Fixed issue where CTRL + S did not save active text in text tool

• Imgur tool now opens in the center of the screen

• Translation Updates

  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • German
  • Korean
  • Basque

• Fixed Snap Packaging
• Small bug fixes

Release Notes

• Fixed ubuntu 18.04 packaging
• Auto contrast on circle counter

0.8 Release Notes

Thanks to all the testers and contributors that helped make version 0.8! We are very excited to have improved many bugs and added new features in version 0.8.

Known Issues

• Wayland support is experimental. In generic packages (Snap, Flatpak, AppImage) there may be extra issues with Wayland.
• In generic packages(Snap, Flatpak, AppImage) due to confinement "Open With External Application" does not work.
• If "close after capture" is enabled, and a user copies the image to clipboard, the image may not actually be in the clipboard. We recommend using the "Save" feature with close after capture.

New Features

• Fix capture after pressing ctrl + S during textarea input (#311)
• Add translation:
  • Japanese (#361)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (#364)
  • Serbian (#376)
  • Dutch (#440)
  • Ukrainian (#464)
  • German (#467)
  • Slovak (#525)
  • Basque
  • Czech
  • Swedish
  • Italian
  • Korean
  • Dutch
• Allow enter key to copy image to clipboard (#362)
• side panel: Add thickness slider (#374)
• Add support for saving as JPG and BMP files. (#436)
• Allow 45 degree adjustment for some tools (#439)
• Add option to close after capture (WARNING: this function is buggy! It may not work well if you are going to copy the image to clipboard! If you encounter problems related to clipboard, please disable this feature in the configuration and try again. This is a known bug, see #557 and #569 .)
• Add a basic launcher panel.
• Add option to auto copy URL after upload (#553)
• Add a circle counter tool.
• Replace the blur tool with pixelate tool.
• Convert buildsystem from QMake to CMake.
• Add launcher action into .desktop file.
• Added Generic Packages (Snap, Flatpak, AppImage)
• Improved Windows support

Preview of New Features

Pixelate

The behavior of the blur tool has been modified so if the "thickness" is 0 or 1, the old blur behavior is preserved. If the thickness is increased past 1 the image will pixelate by the thickness:

Countertool

A popular request has been to add a tool that counts upward. This can be helpful when creating directions.

Sidebar

A button has been added to open the sidebar. This tool was previously only accessible by hitting "Spacebar" which made usage on tablets difficult. This sidebar allows advanced modifications for many tools.

Fixes

• Exit non-zero when aborting with --raw. (#424)
• Enable Pin and Text tool by default. (#443)
• Fix the problem that moving or resizing does not affect screenshot. (#459)
• Fix problem with re-enabling disabled tray icon (#495)
• Fix compilation problem against Qt 5.15.

Please test this release using this issue as starting point / testing ideas: #884

Release Notes:

Features

• The config file location changed to ~/.config/flameshot
• Fix capture after pressing ctrl + S during textarea input (#311)
• Add translation:
  • Japanese (#361)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (#364)
  • Serbian (#376)
  • Dutch (#440)
  • Ukrainian (#464)
  • German (#467)
  • Slovak (#525)
• Allow enter key to copy image to clipboard (#362)
• side panel: Add thickness slider (#374)
• Add support for saving as JPG and BMP files. (#436)
• Allow 45 degree adjustment for some tools (#439)
• Add option to close after capture
• Add a basic launcher panel.
• Add option to auto copy URL after upload (#553)
• Add a circle counter tool.
• Replace the blur tool with pixelate tool.
• Convert buildsystem from QMake to CMake.
• Add launcher action into .desktop file.
• Option to save to file when copied to clipboard.
• Button added for sidebar menu
• Improved Windows support
• Windows Installer
• Flatpak, appimage, snap support

Fixes

• Exit non-zero when aborting with --raw. (#424)
• Enable Pin and Text tool by default. (#443)
• Fix the problem that moving or resizing does not affect screenshot. (#459)
• Fix problem with re-enabling disabled tray icon (#495)
• Fix compilation problem against Qt 5.15.

Features

• Polish, french, georgian, chinese, turkish and rusian translations
• Modal widgets doesn't prevent the start of a new capture
• Improved hidpi support (still needs some work)
• Tool buttons now don't go out of the screen
• Use of native file dialog
• Configurable opacity of the dark area outside the selection
• Autostart app as a configuration option
• Minor fixes