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2026.07.14

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@drweb86 drweb86 released this 14 Jul 20:03

Changes

  • Update some libraries.
  • Warning if Tesseract is missing during OCR.

Bug Fixes

  • It was not possible to see OCR capabilities during all area selection and small text selection.

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2026.06.14

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@drweb86 drweb86 released this 13 Jun 17:50

New Features

  • Each release might have different cat icon.
  • Shape extensibility model (preview). It is possible to define own shapes, and have them separately under application or user special folders.
  • OCR (Optical Character Recognition): When a selection area is active, floating action buttons now appear — Copy, Delete, and Extract Text. Clicking Extract Text opens the OCR window.
    • Windows: Uses the built-in Windows OCR engine (Windows.Media.Ocr), available on Windows 10 and 11. No additional software required.
    • Windows & Linux: Tesseract OCR is supported if installed and available in the system PATH.
    • The engine preference and selected languages are remembered between sessions.
    • Multiple OCR languages can be selected simultaneously.
    • Recognized text is displayed in an editable text box for easy copying and minor corrections.
    • A random cat appears in the OCR window, because why not.

Bug Fixes

  • Localize the Desktop/Menu icons.

Changes

  • Update some libraries.
  • Artifact names became better.

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2026.04.30.2

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@drweb86 drweb86 released this 30 Apr 20:51

New Features

  • Added 18 new languages: Amharic, Burmese, Dutch, Filipino, Gujarati,
    Hausa, Kannada, Khmer, Nepali, Odia, Pashto, Persian, Polish,
    Punjabi, Sinhala, Swahili, Thai, Yoruba.
  • Added 16 more languages: Azerbaijani, Cebuano, Czech, Greek, Hebrew,
    Hungarian, Igbo, Kazakh, Malay, Romanian, Serbian, Sindhi, Somali,
    Swedish, Uzbek, Zulu.
  • Setup is multilanguage (Polish, Dutch, Thai, Persian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian,
    Romanian, Serbian, Swedish; others fall back to English).
  • Cat watching under mouse idle. Cats with scissors for cuts.
  • Cut out area became catified.

Bug Fixes

  • High CPU usage on close. Global hot key service was not disposed, that triggered app not being properly shutdown and causing 100% CPU usage.
    You need to restart the Windows before installing the update.
  • Stabilization for Ubuntu.

Changes

  • Update some libraries.

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2026.04.31

2026.04.31 Pre-release
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@drweb86 drweb86 released this 30 Apr 20:31

New Features

  • Added 18 new languages: Amharic, Burmese, Dutch, Filipino, Gujarati,
    Hausa, Kannada, Khmer, Nepali, Odia, Pashto, Persian, Polish,
    Punjabi, Sinhala, Swahili, Thai, Yoruba.
  • Added 16 more languages: Azerbaijani, Cebuano, Czech, Greek, Hebrew,
    Hungarian, Igbo, Kazakh, Malay, Romanian, Serbian, Sindhi, Somali,
    Swedish, Uzbek, Zulu.
  • Setup is multilanguage (Polish, Dutch, Thai, Persian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian,
    Romanian, Serbian, Swedish; others fall back to English).
  • Cat watching under mouse idle. Cats with scissors for cuts.
  • Cut out area became catified.

Bug Fixes

  • High CPU usage on close. Global hot key service was not disposed, that triggered app not being properly shutdown and causing 100% CPU usage.
    You need to restart the Windows before installing the update.
  • Stabilization for Ubuntu.

Changes

  • Update some libraries.

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2026.04.23

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@drweb86 drweb86 released this 23 Apr 18:58

New Features

  • [Windows, Ubuntu] Print Screen key now triggers the screenshot function globally, even when the app is in the background or minimized.
  • Options menu (under the app menu, below License) with a checkbox to enable or disable the Print Screen hotkey. Enabled by default.

Bug Fixes

  • Scrollbar was reset during double click on figure.

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2026.04.20

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@drweb86 drweb86 released this 18 Apr 23:21

Changes

  • Upgrade Avalonia to v12.

New Features

  • [Ubuntu] deb packages and repository are created.
    If you have it installed via script, you have now Apt-get way.
  • Increase security of supply chain. Windows Setup and binaries are created at server via Github Actions.

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2026.04.08

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@drweb86 drweb86 released this 08 Apr 18:35

Bug Fixes

  • Delete button is not visible.

New Features

  • Add idle cat with lazer eyes, 2 variations shown randomly.

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2026.04.06

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@drweb86 drweb86 released this 06 Apr 12:55

New Features

  • Enable mouse wheel for scroll images in projects area.
  • During saving, png file is nearby saved, so user could use it in explorer in any app he would like, as well as do search.
  • Unhandled Exceptions handling.
  • Escape closes screenshot selection window.
  • More languages.
  • Scrollbars for large screenshots.

Changes

  • Update checker is collapsed by default and looks beautifully.
  • Projects are collapsed when click on Projects.
  • Improve perfomance during adding new image.
  • Screenshot preview screen became of same size as screen.
  • Icon was updated to less ugly yet somewhat funny.

Bug Fixes

  • After making trims, if i select all area and copy - initial image is copied.
  • On deletion or import of image, selection area was not cleared.

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2026.02.25

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@drweb86 drweb86 released this 25 Feb 16:16

Changes

  • Dark theme is enforced.
  • Installer required windows version removed for win-get support.

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2026.02.17

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@drweb86 drweb86 released this 17 Feb 22:53

New Features

  • Properties of text.
  • Properties of arrow.
  • Properties of markdown region.
  • Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V works for shapes.
  • Drag and Drop for images into app.

Changes

  • During saving preview or export, any selected shape gets unselected.
  • Add export to toolbar near import to toolbar.
  • Blue selection is removed.

Bug Fixes

  • Pasting of screenshot did not work for Windows.
  • During export of figures that are outside of backgrouind image - they were trimmed.

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