onionshare/CHANGELOG.md

OnionShare Changelog

2.1

• New feature: Auto-start timer, which allows scheduling when the server starts
• Renamed CLI argument --debug to --verbose
• Make Tor connection timeout configurable as a CLI argument
• Updated various dependencies, including to fix third-party security issues in urllib3, jinja2, and jQuery
• Update Tor to 0.3.5.8
• New translations: [TODO: include final list]

2.0

• New feature: Receiver mode allows you to receive files with OnionShare, instead of only sending files
• New feature: Support for next generation onion services
• New feature: macOS sandbox is enabled
• New feature: Public mode feature, for public uses of OnionShare, which when enabled turns off slugs in the URL and removes the limit on how many 404 requests can be made
• New feature: If you're sharing a single file, don't zip it up
• New feature: Full support for meek_lite (Azure) bridges
• New feature: Allow selecting your language from a dropdown
• New translations: Bengali (বাংলা), Catalan (Català), Danish (Dansk), French (Français), Greek (Ελληνικά), Italian (Italiano), Japanese (日本語), Persian (فارسی), Portuguese Brazil (Português Brasil), Russian (Русский), Spanish (Español), Swedish (Svenska)
• Several bugfixes
• Invisible to users, but this version includes some major refactoring of the codebase, and a robust set of unit tests which makes OnionShare easier to maintain going forward

1.3.2

• Bug fix: In debug mode, stop saving flask debug log in /tmp, where all users can access it

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

• 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