- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Fixed crash in Windows 7
- Fixed crash related to non-ephemeral hidden services in Linux
- Fixed minor bugs
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Fixed critical XSS bug that could deanonymize user: https://micahflee.com/2014/07/security-advisory-upgrade-to-onionshare-0-4-immediately/
- Added CSP headers in GUI to prevent any future XSS bugs from working
- Hash urandom data before using it, to avoid leaking state of entropy
- Constant time compare the slug to avoid timing attacks
- Cleaned up Tails firewall code
- 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