CHANGELOG.md

OnionShare Changelog

2.6.1

• Release updates: Automate builds with CI, make just 64-bit Windows release, make a single universal2 release for both Intel and Apple Silicon macOS
• Upgrade dependencies, including Tor, meek, and snowflake
• Bug fix: Restore the primary_action mode settings in a tab after OnionShare reconnects to Tor
• Bug fix: Fix issue with auto-connecting to Tor with persistent tabs open
• Bug fix: Fix packaging issue where Windows version of OnionShare conflicts with Windows version of Dangerzone
• Bug fix: Fix 'Use a bridge' checkbox state change
• Bug fix: Raise error from waitress if not shutdown

2.6

• Major feature: a new 'Quickstart' screen, which enables toggling on or off an animated automatic connection to Tor. This allows configuring network settings prior to automatic connection.
• Major feature: Censorship circumvention. Use new features in the upstream Tor API to try to automatically obtain bridges depending on the user's location.
• New feature: automatically fetch the built-in bridges from the upstream Tor API rather than hardcode them in each release of OnionShare.
• New feature: keyboard shortcuts to access various modes and menus, and accessibility hints
• Bug fix: Temporary Directory for serving the OnionShare web pages was broken on Windows
• Packaging: Packaging is more automated, and Linux Snapcraft releases are available for amd64, arm64, and armhf
• Miscellaneous: Many dependency updates and web page theming improvements

2.5

• Security fix: Sanitize the path parameter in History item widget to be plain text
• Security fix: Use microseconds in Receive mode directory creation to avoid potential DoS
• Security fix: Several hardening improvements for session and username management in Chat mode, to prevent impersonation and other issues
• Major feature: Obtain bridges from Moat / BridgeDB (over a domain-fronted Meek client)
• Major feature: Snowflake bridge support
• New feature: Tor connection settings, as well as general settings, are now Tabs rather than dialogs
• New feature: User can customize the Content-Security-Policy header in Website mode
• New feature: Built-in bridges are automatically updated from Tor's API when the user has chosen to use them
• Switch to using our stem fork called cepa, which is now published on Pypi so we can build it in releases
• Various bug fixes

2.4

• Major feature: Private keys (v3 onion client authentication) replaces passwords and HTTP basic auth
• Updated Tor to 0.4.6.7 on all platforms
• Various bug fixes

2.3.3

• New feature: Setting for light or dark theme
• Updated Tor to 0.4.6.7 for Linux, 0.4.5.10 for Windows and macOS
• Various bug fixes

2.3.2

• New feature: Custom titles can be set for OnionShare's various modes
• New feature: Receive mode supports notification webhooks
• New feature: Receive mode supports submitting messages as well as files
• New feature: New ASCII art banner and prettier verbose output
• New feature: Partial support for range requests (pausing and resuming in HTTP)
• Updated Tor to 0.4.5.7
• Updated built-in obfs4 bridges
• Various bug fixes

2.3.1

• Bugfix: Fix chat mode
• Bugfix: Fix --persistent in onionshare-cli
• Bugfix: Fix checking for updates in Windows and macOS

2.3

• Major new feature: Multiple tabs, including better support for persistent services, faster Tor connections
• New feature: Chat anonymously mode
• New feature: All new design
• New feature: Ability to display QR codes of OnionShare addresses
• New feature: Web apps have responsive design and look better on mobile
• New feature: Flatpak and Snapcraft packaging for Linux
• Several bug fixes

2.2

• New feature: Website mode, which allows publishing a static HTML website as an onion service
• Allow individual files to be viewed or downloaded in Share mode, including the ability to browse into subdirectories and use breadcrumbs to navigate back
• Show a counter when individual files or pages are viewed
• Better History items including colors and status codes to differentiate between successful and failed requests
• Swap out the random /slug suffix for HTTP basic authentication (when in non-public mode)
• Hide the Tor connection settings if the ONIONSHARE_HIDE_TOR_SETTINGS environment variable is set (Tails compatibility)
• Remove the NoScript XSS warning in Receive Mode now that the NoScript/Tor Browser bug is fixed. The ajax upload method still exists when javascript is enabled.
• Better support for DragonFly BSD
• Updated various dependencies, including Flask, Werkzeug, urllib3, requests, and PyQt5
• Updated Tor to 0.4.1.5
• Other minor bug fixes
• New translations:
  • Arabic (العربية)
  • Dutch (Nederlands)
  • Persian (فارسی)
  • Romanian (Română)
  • Serbian latin (Srpska (latinica))
• Removed translations with fewer than 90% of strings translated:
  • Finnish (Suomi)

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 fixing third-party security issues in urllib3, Jinja2, and jQuery
• Updated Tor to 0.3.5.8
• New translations:
  • Traditional Chinese (正體中文 (繁體)),
  • Simplified Chinese (中文 (简体))
  • Finnish (Suomi)
  • German (Deutsch)
  • Icelandic (Íslenska)
  • Irish (Gaeilge)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (Norsk bokmål)
  • Polish (Polski)
  • Portuguese Portugal (Português (Portugal))
  • Telugu (తెలుగు)
  • Turkish (Türkçe)
  • Ukrainian (Українська)
• Removed translations with fewer than 90% of strings translated:
  • Bengali (বাংলা)
  • Persian (فارسی)

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, 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

• Bugfix: 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 interface redesigned
• New feature: Support for meek_lite pluggable transports (Amazon and Azure) - not yet ready for Windows or macOS, sorry
• New feature: Support for custom obfs4 and meek_lite bridges (again, meek_lite not available on Windows/macOS yet)
• New feature: Ability to cancel share before it starts
• Bugfix: The UpdateChecker no longer blocks the UI when checking
• Bugfix: Simultaneous downloads (broken in 1.2)
• Updated Tor to 0.2.3.9
• Improved support for BSD
• Updated French and Danish translations
• Minor build script and build documentation fixes
• Flake8 tests added

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 Dutch translations

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 bugfix 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 compresses 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 Bokmål, Spanish, French, Italian