onionshare/CHANGELOG.md

OnionShare Changelog

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

• 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

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