v14.1 [Jul 20, 2022]
- Added Polish language support (by @RikoDEV).
- OCR improvements:
- OCR window layout changes.
- Added OCR help button near languages option which opens the OCR help page, so users can see how to install more OCR languages.
- Sort OCR languages alphabetically.
- Remove spaces between words in CJK languages.
- Reverse order of words in RTL languages.
- Added single line option.
- After OCR automatically select result textbox.
- Added new OCR service links:
- Google Images.
- DuckDuckGo.
- DeepL.
- Added copy all button.
- Added input parameter support to custom uploader parse functions:
- {json:input|jsonPath}.
- {xml:input|xpath}.
- {regex:input|pattern|group}.
- Don't show notification window in Alt Tab menu.
- Support portable dev build update.
v13.7 [Dec 30, 2021]
- Added "Main window" tab to "Application settings" window and moved related settings from main window right click menu to there.
- Added "Thumbnail click action" option to "Main window" tab:.
- Default.
- Select (double click opens the file).
- Open image viewer.
- Open file.
- Open folder.
- Open URL.
- Edit image.
- For screen recordings, get window info to be able to use in file naming and history tags, so that way it is now easier to search for videos in history window.
- Added "Sub folder pattern for window" option to "Application settings -> Paths", so that way %pn (process name) and %t (window title) formats can be used for screenshots folder.
- Added "Auto copy image to clipboard" option to image editor.
- System admins can now configure certain ShareX settings via registry. These settings should reside in either HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ShareX key or HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\ShareX key. Please note HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE has priority over HKEY_CURRENT_USER while reading the settings.*.
- DisableUpdateCheck (REG_DWORD) registry value disables update checks.
- DisableUpload (REG_DWORD) registry value disables uploads application wide (by @Erik3003).
- PersonalPath (REG_SZ) registry value overrides personal path of ShareX, which is by default "Documents\ShareX" folder.
- Added "Borderless window" tool. Some games such as Minecraft don’t let you take screenshots (screenshots looks black) while running in exclusive fullscreen mode and there is no in-game setting for fullscreen borderless too. Therefore, we wrote this tool to let us make the game fullscreen borderless and allow us to take screenshots from it.
- Support drag n drop file to "Video converter" window.
- Added region capture click action for "Capture last region".
- Added "Stop screen recording" hotkey.
- Added "Toggle tray menu" hotkey.
- Color picker dialog now remembers color palette mode selection.
- Swapped move/resize hotkeys behavior in region capture so arrow keys now move shapes instead of resizing them.
- Removed debug, donate, twitter, discord and about buttons from tray menu to keep it more compact.
- Added default printer override option (by @tajetaje).
- Added "Show stats" button to history window.
- Added "Process names" to history stats, which let you see from which applications you took your screenshots most.
- Visual improvements in "Image history" window.
- Added "Replace color" image effect.
- In "Application settings" window, moved "Retry" tab contents to "Upload" tab, and moved "Results" tab contents to "Clipboard formats" tab.
- Added external site dropdown menu for OCR window (by @IAmVisco).
- Added "Append file name to URL" option for ownCloud / Nextcloud (by @EmilyLove26).
- GitHub releases assets now include ".sha256" checksum files for setup and portable.
- Hotkey descriptions in "Hotkey settings" now have task-specific icons. Same for task dropdown in hotkey task settings..
- YouTube video title, description and visibility can now be set before upload through new "Video options" dialog.
- Text uploads using ShareX browser extension now respects file naming settings.
v13.5 [May 14, 2021]
- In task settings window, moved toast notification and sound settings from advanced tab to newly added notifications tab.
- Added drag and drop file support to toast notification (by @Craftplacer).
- Added “Copy file” and “Copy file path” notification click actions.
- UI improvements to hotkey settings window.
- Added option to automatically cleanup old backup and log files.
- Removed “Test” tab from custom uploader settings window. It is now a separate window which can be used in different places.
- Removed “Response” tab from custom uploader settings window. Both request and response contents are now in the same panel with scroll bar. You can maximize window to see all contents directly.
- Added inspect window tool.
- Added “Auto fill background” option to image combiner tool.
- Added rotate flip option to “Image” image effect.
- Added dash style option to “Border” image effect.
- Updated Zero Width Shortener API to v2, which now supports custom hosting.
- Actions now use $ prefix instead of % for input and output. New prefix will not add quotes around file path to give more control to user.
- Created example actions web page: https://getsharex.com/actions.
- Added “UseAlternativeClipboardGetImage” option to application settings advanced tab, which lets getting image from clipboard with alpha channel.
- Added ability to use roman numerals in step annotation tool (by @EdwardSierra).
- Support lowercase step letters and roman numerals.
- Added Vault.ooo file uploader (by @shjonas).
- When hotkeys are disabled, show enable hotkeys button in hotkey settings window.
- ShareX uninstaller will now prompt to close ShareX on behalf of the user if it is currently running.
v13.4 [Dec 17, 2020]
- Added thumbnail size option to main window right click menu.
- Added Nord dark & light themes (by @botatooo).
- Added Dracula theme.
- Visual improvements to setting windows navigation bars.
- Added border style option to annotations (solid, dash, dot, dash dot, dash dot dot).
- Added tile option to “Image” image effect.
- Support drag n drop .sxie files to image effects window.
- Added CMYK support to screen color picker name format.
- Added title option to Gfycat uploader.
v13.1.0 [Mar 3, 2020]
- Added “Theme” tab to the Application settings window.
- If “Use custom theme” option is enabled then you can select “Dark” or “Light” theme presets from dropdown menu or make your own custom theme.
- If you only want the main window to have custom theme then you can uncheck “Apply custom theme to all windows” option to disable automatic theming of other windows.
- Thumbnail view in main window now supports multi selection by holding Ctrl / Shift and selecting thumbnails.
- Thumbnail view now supports key shortcuts, previously only available in list view.
- Added thumbnail title location option to main window right click menu.
- Added “Run action” sub menu to main window task right click menu.
- Step annotation tool can now have a tail, which can be shown by dragging the resize node.
- Added week of year pattern for file naming: %wy.
- Added random emoji pattern for file naming: %remoji{10}.
- Added URLEncodeIgnoreEmoji option to Application settings Advanced tab which is needed when using emojis in file name. Currently this is only supported in Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage uploaders.
- Added Persian language support (by @pourmand1376).
- Added “Particles” image effect. For example, it can be used to add snowflakes to screenshots.
- Removed random position option from image watermark because “Particles” image effect can be used for the same purpose.
- Added multi color gradient support to border & background image effects.
- Preview image in image effects window now resizes automatically to fill empty area.
- Added social media buttons to bottom left of main window, such as Twitter and Discord.
- Added “Video converter” tool, which supports encoding using these encoders:.
- H.264 / x264.
- H.265 / x265.
- VP8 (WebM).
- VP9 (WebM).
- MPEG-4 / Xvid.
- GIF.
- WebP.
- APNG.
- Added “Image splitter” tool, which can be used for instance, to make giant emojis for Discord.
- Added color name label to color picker tool.
- Support special folder variables in “Actions” file paths, for example: %ProgramFiles%.
- Added Opus as an option for FFmpeg audio codec (by @Scrxtchy).
- Added VP9 (WebM) encoding support to screen recording.
- In “Export / Import” tab added “Settings” and “History” checkboxes to let users select what they want to export.
- History is now stored as JSON instead of XML, XML history file will be automatically migrated to JSON history file on startup.
- Screen recording encoding progress percentage is now available in tray icon tooltip.
- History window now supports mass copying (by @C03).
- Added screen color picker support to color dialogs in region capture.
- In QR code window, decode result links are now clickable.
- In file exists window support Enter and Esc inputs.
- Removed Google URL sharing service.
v13.0.1 [Jul 24, 2019]
- Added thumbnail view mode to main window.
- Added “Switch to list view” button to right click menu which can be used to return to list view.
- Clicking on image file thumbnails shows fullscreen image preview.
- For non-image files, file icon will be shown instead and clicking on them opens the file.
- Clicking on thumbnail title will open URL or file path, depending on which one exists.
- Added “Hide thumbnail title” button to right click menu to be able to have compact thumbnail view.
- Colored glows at the top of thumbnails are status indicators; green means task is running, blue means task is done and red means upload failed.
- File thumbnails can be dragged to copy file to Windows Explorer or another application.
- Added dark theme support which is enabled by default.
- If you do not like the dark theme then you can return back to light theme by unchecking “Use dark theme” option from application settings window.
- “Use dark theme” option only enables dark mode in main window and tray menu. If you would like all windows to use dark theme then check “Experimental dark theme” option in application settings window. The reason why we decided not to enable this option by default is because this option works by changing color properties of each control to dark theme colors but most controls in Windows Forms look bad when their color properties are changed or do not completely support changing the control colors.
- Added dark title bar support for Windows 10 17763 or higher (by @sylveon).
- Moved “Use white ShareX icon” option to application settings general tab.
- Added image size label to fullscreen image viewer.
- Added select & move annotation tool (by @Danielku15).
- Added “Switch to drawing tool after shape selection” and “Switch to selection tool after shape drawing” annotation options (by @Danielku15).
- Added magnify annotation tool.
- Added Zero Width Shortener URL shortener.
- Support video uploads to Imgur (Because Imgur is recognised as an image destination, to be able to upload video files to Imgur you must configure ShareX to upload mp4 files to Imgur from “Task settings window -> Uploader filters tab”).
- Support audio in Gfycat video uploads.
- Support custom uploader syntax in FTP URL path.
- Added “Response info” tab to custom uploader settings window.
- Show update message box when about window update checker label is clicked instead of immediately downloading the update.
- If upload is stopped or failed when early copy URL option is enabled then clear the clipboard.
- Added expiration support to Teknik file and text uploaders.
- Added Intel Quick Sync encoding support to screen recording, provides hardware H.264 encoding on Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs and up and hardware H.265 encoding on Skylake CPUs and up via a dedicated die on the processor chip (by @sylveon).
- Added option to disable notification toast windows when active window is fullscreen (Task settings window -> Advanced tab -> DisableNotificationsOnFullscreen).
- Added option to disable hotkeys when active window is fullscreen (Application settings window -> Advanced tab -> DisableHotkeysOnFullscreen).
- Show balloon tip warning when application settings fail to save (Main reason we added this notification was because anti-virus software or the controlled folder access feature in Windows 10 tend to block ShareX from saving settings without users being aware).
- Added “Set public-read ACL on file” option to Google Cloud Storage (by @lucario).
- Support wildcard characters in history window filename filter and image history window search.
- Added random non ambiguous alphanumeric character support for file naming, example usage: %rna{8}.
- Added “Show stats” button to history window which shows statistics calculated from history.
- Added refresh button to image effects window.
- Added slice image effect.
- Added random position option to image watermark effect.
v12.4.1 [Feb 20, 2019]
Bug fixes.
v12.3.1 [Sep 16, 2018]
- Added two pass encoding option to screen recording; basically it records lossless with highest performance option then after recording is done, it applies your encoding options. That way you can select slow encoding option for low file size output without sacrificing recording performance.
- Added WebP encoding support to screen recording.
- Added APNG encoding support to screen recording.
- Added AMF encoding support to screen recording (by @sylveon).
- Removed screen record CLI option because task actions already have same functionality and with new two pass encoding option it was not that required anymore.
- Added Kutt URL shortener support.
- Added Backblaze B2 file uploader support (by @tinybarks).
- Added Mexican Spanish language support (by @absay).
- Save buttons in image editor will use task settings to generate name if file name is not supplied yet, that way user can save without use “Save as…” dialog first.
- Added URL filtering support to history window.
- Added search support to image history window.
- Moved image history settings from toolbar to its own settings window.
- Show total and filtered item count in image history window title bar.
- When a task is using OCR, save result to a text file with same name (by @YueLinHo).
- Added “Use light resize nodes” option to region capture options menu which makes resize nodes transparent.
- Changes to personal path detection, you can find detailed info about how ShareX decides about personal path in here.
- Modified default file name pattern to use random alphanumeric: %pn_%ra{10} for new installations. If you want previous date time file naming then you can replace it with: %pn_%y-%mo-%d_%h-%mi-%s.
- Support name pattern in custom capture path.
- When using %pn (process name) name pattern empty spaces will be replaced with underscore.
- Added starting step number option to step drawing tool (by @Fyers).
- In image editor text input window, properly handle enter key with CJK input (by @tinybarks).
- In custom uploader regex syntax | character will be used as group separator instead of , to be consistent with other syntaxes, for backward compatibility , character is still going to be supported for some time.
- Removed support for old implicit custom uploader regex syntax such as $1,1$ now regex syntax must be declared explicitly like this $regex:1|1$.
- Added select syntax to custom uploader parser which shows window for user to select single option; example syntax: $select:domain1.com|domain2.com$.
- Added prompt syntax to custom uploader parser which shows input dialog for user to type text; example syntaxes: $prompt$ $prompt:title$ $prompt:title|default value$.
- Added base64 syntax to custom uploader parser, example syntax for authorization header: Basic $base64:username:password$.
- Added custom uploader syntax support to arguments and headers as well.
- Note: If you would like to use $ or \ characters in any of syntax supported sections then you must escape them with \. Like this: \$ \\.
- Use a cryptographically stronger random value generator, for example while generating random file name (by @tinybarks).
- Added option to automatically select last completed task in main window (Application settings -> Advanced tab -> AutoSelectLastCompletedTask).
- Add upload log button to debug log window (by @sylveon).
- Remember column widths of main window task list.
- Full screen image viewer will now show on active monitor (by @Fyers).
- Allow toast notification to have image preview even when image isn’t saved as file (by @sylveon).
- Added support for extensionless uploads on Google Cloud Storage (by @sylveon).
- Added expiry time option to ownCloud / Nextcloud (by @jdon).
- Added Imgur album paging to support listing more than 50 albums on album list.
- FTPS upload was accepting SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 previously, now instead it will accept TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2.
- Improved reliability of ShareX auto start on Microsoft Store installations (by @sylveon).
- ShareX will automatically start after Microsoft Store finished updating ShareX (by @sylveon).
- Now Windows shutdown will wait for ShareX to save settings instead of closing it before ShareX have time to save settings (by @sylveon).
- Clipboard content viewer now will cache content and upload it instead of what is in clipboard when “OK” button is pressed (by @CookieMichal).
- Bidirectional control characters from file name will be removed before uploads.
- “Install dev build” button now always visible in application settings window.
v12.2.0 [Jun 24, 2018]
- Added new image editor / region capture keybinds.
- Holding Ctrl will ignore shape intersection; that way you can, for example draw a rectangle inside another rectangle without selecting it.
- Added draggable custom scroll bar to the image editor, which automatically hides when the image is fully inside the window (by @L1Q).
- Added gradient text color support to image editor “Text (Outline)” tool.
- Added confirmation message box for unsaved changes when user closes the image editor by pressing title bar close button, Esc key or Right click.
- When pasting image, inserting image file or inserting image from screen, show insert image dialog which allows automatically expanding canvas to bottom or right side and inserting image there.
- Allow to hide or show magnifier with mouse wheel, for example you can Mouse wheel down until magnifier disappear and Mouse wheel up to show it back.
- Image editor will stop rendering when it’s out of focus to reduce unnecessary CPU usage.
- Added Enter and Esc key support to image editor dialogs.
- Added recent colors support to color picker which remembers last used 32 colors for quick selection.
- Screen color picker now shows current color sample in a rectangle next to its value.
- Added screen color picker support to image editor color picker.
- Added Ukrainian language support (by @6c6c6).
- Added Indonesian language support (by @Nicedward).
- Added show “Edit with ShareX” button in Windows Explorer context menu option to “Application settings window -> Integration tab”.
- Added support to escape custom uploader argument and header patterns with \.
- Support referrer and user-agent headers in custom uploaders.
- Added Cloudflare DNS to DNS changer tool.
- Added Firebase Dynamic Links URL shortener (by @matthewburnett).
- Added YouTube file uploader (by @SupSuper).
- Added Google Cloud Storage file uploader (by @matthewburnett).
- Updated OneDrive uploader to Microsoft Graph API, this change allows using OneDrive for Business and uploading higher size files (by @SupSuper).
- Added Wasabi endpoint to Amazon S3 endpoints list.
- Added Azure Storage custom upload path support (by @Lego6245).
- Added Azure Storage $root container support (by @Lego6245).
- Container name won’t be appended to Azure Storage custom domain automatically anymore, can be added manually to custom domain section if needed.
- Removed auto container creation from Azure Storage upload to decrease upload time.
- Added URL preview to Azure Storage tab to make configuring easier.
- Removed GitHub gist anonymous upload support because it is deprecated.
- Removed Google URL shortener because it is deprecated.
- Removed Dropfile, Pastee and CoinURL.
- Added after capture task “Scan QR code” (requires image to be saved as file).
- Added “Ask for confirmation when aborting screen recording” option (by @stuntguy3000).
- Added upload image button to image effects window.
- Added selective color image effect which allows making two color images.
- Added color option to canvas image effect.
- Added sides option to auto crop image effect.
- High DPI improvements for UI (by @SupSuper).
- When ShareX is updating, setup will be run with \UPDATE parameter which makes sure that the setup will not apply initial tasks again such as creating desktop shortcut or context menu entries (by @sylveon).
- Added option to replace non-unreserved characters by underscores (by @sylveon).
- If pre-release updates checkbox is checked then dev build install button will show up.
- Added upload file and edit image context menu buttons to history and image history windows.
- Added hotkey repeat limit option (Application settings -> Advanced tab).
v12.1.1 [Dec 24, 2017]
- Bug fixes.
v12.0.0 [Nov 28, 2017]
May contain unspecified improvements or bug fixes.
v11.9.1 [Aug 7, 2017]
- Added “News” button to main window which will show new updates or announcements.
- Added “Crop” tool, which is not available when in region capture mode.
- Added “Image (Screen)” tool, which allows to duplicate area from the screen to move to a different position.
- Added disable animations option to region capture options menu.
- Region animation speed is now slightly faster
Changed toolbar highlight animation to not look like a progress bar.
- In region capture when using multi region, non active regions will use static ant border instead of blinking border.
- Tray icon progress animation changes.
- FTP settings UI remade to be more user friendly.
- Color picker will show old color where possible (for example if opened in image annotation window) under current color.
- In color picker if transparent button is pressed when alpha is 0, then alpha will be set to 255 which will allow quick toggling between 0 and 255.
- In region capture if an element is resized to be too small and resize nodes start overlapping, ShareX will now hide some of those resize nodes to allow for more precise control.
- Changes to default annotation settings.
- In order to increase image annotation performance some tools are now using lower quality rendering during annotation, but higher quality for final output.
- Added curved edge support to torn edges image effect.
- Added Screen recording (GIF) default hotkey Ctrl + Shift + Print Screen for new installations.
- Added configurable environments support for Azure storage (by @nta).
- Added infinity expire time option to Plik file uploader (by @maxibanki).
- PNG bit depth is now configurable through task settings. Automatic detection will scan the image and apply best option for lower file size without quality loss.
- Now it is possible to drag n drop file from ShareX main window task list to Discord client.
v11.8.0 [Jul 4, 2017]
- Added “News” button to main window which will show new updates or announcements.
- Added “Crop” tool, which is not available when in region capture mode.
- Added “Image (Screen)” tool, which allows to duplicate area from the screen to move to a different position.
- Added disable animations option to region capture options menu.
- Region animation speed is now slightly faster
Changed toolbar highlight animation to not look like a progress bar.
- In region capture when using multi region, non active regions will use static ant border instead of blinking border.
- Tray icon progress animation changes.
- FTP settings UI remade to be more user friendly.
- Color picker will show old color where possible (for example if opened in image annotation window) under current color.
- In color picker if transparent button is pressed when alpha is 0, then alpha will be set to 255 which will allow quick toggling between 0 and 255.
- In region capture if an element is resized to be too small and resize nodes start overlapping, ShareX will now hide some of those resize nodes to allow for more precise control.
- Changes to default annotation settings.
- In order to increase image annotation performance some tools are now using lower quality rendering during annotation, but higher quality for final output.
- Added curved edge support to torn edges image effect.
- Added Screen recording (GIF) default hotkey Ctrl + Shift + Print Screen for new installations.
- Added configurable environments support for Azure storage (by @nta).
- Added infinity expire time option to Plik file uploader (by @maxibanki).
- PNG bit depth is now configurable through task settings. Automatic detection will scan the image and apply best option for lower file size without quality loss.
- Now it is possible to drag n drop file from ShareX main window task list to Discord client.
v11.7.0 [Apr 15, 2017]
ShareX 11.7.0 - 2017-04-14
We now have a Discord server: https://discord.gg/E4R3Qa9
Added Traditional Chinese translation (by @alantsai)
Implemented new Gfycat API with user account upload support (by @Dinnerbone)
Added Plik file uploader support (by @maxibanki)
All capture methods are now able to detect the active window automatically. If the active window region is equal to or bigger than the capture region, it is used for the %t (Window title) and %pn (Process name) naming syntax. For example; if you are taking a fullscreen capture and active window is maximized or fullscreen, then it will be automatically used for file naming
ShareX annotation mode is now enabled by default for new installations and will be used instead of Greenshot image editor
If a ShareX annotation is opened by an “After capture” task, then the following task buttons will now be available in the toolbar:
Apply changes & continue task Enter
Continue task Space / Right click
Cancel task Esc
The ShareX annotation window now uses a dark background around the image and shows checkers only behind the image
Added animation to region & shape selection border
Added animation under annotation toolbar on startup to make it more noticeable, because there is a lot of people still don’t know there is toolbar in region capture and it is possible to annotate using it
Reimplemented Amazon S3 from scratch to not use Amazon SDK libraries and allow more customization
Added custom endpoint/region support to Amazon S3 so other services which are compatible with Amazon S3 API with v4 signature can be used
Added a path style request option to Amazon S3 to support some custom services which require it
Added “Google image search” to the main window task list right click menu and as a URL sharing destination
Removed Dropbox public folder support because as of March 15, 2017 public folders have been disabled by Dropbox but shareable links can still be used
Removed Dropbox shortened URL option because it is not supported in Dropbox API v2; ShareX now uses fully API v2 endpoints because API v1 is going to be deprecated soon
Added Dropbox “Use direct link” option as check box which is usable with shareable links
Added custom domain support for GitHub Enterprise Gist anonymous uploads (by @maxibanki)
Add content type header to Azure Storage uploads so the browser can show content without requiring to download it (by @Scrxtchy)
Drag & dropping files from image history are now allowed
Added “Reset settings” button to “Application settings -> Export / Import tab”
HTTPS endpoints in Pastebin are now being used
v11.5.0 [Jan 26, 2017]
- Region capture related changes: Added drop shadow support, replaced rounded rectangle shapes with corner radius option to rectangle shapes, added capture last region button to capture menu, added edit menu to toolbar (Undo Ctrl + Z, Delete Del, Delete all Shift + Del, Bring to front Home, Bring forward Page up, Send backward Page down, Send to back End), annotation options will be reset to new defaults, changed visual of arrow cap.
- Added customizable actions toolbar which is accessable from tray menu.
- Added toggle actions toolbar and exit ShareX hotkeys.
- Added ShareX custom uploader extension .sxcu support. Users can now simply double click .sxcu files. ShareX can activate custom uploader and select proper destinations automatically. Users won’t need any manual configuration to use custom uploaders.
- Added “Destination type” option to custom uploader tab which is used when user double clicks .sxcu files so ShareX can know which destination to set custom uploader as active.
- Added H.264 NVENC & HEVC (H.265) NVENC encoder support (NVENC supported GPU, latest NVIDIA driver and up to date FFmpeg is required).
- Added HTTPS result link option for Imgur.
- Added Pastie text uploader.
- Added “OCR image” button to main window right click task menu.
- Added “Combine images” button to main window right click task menu which is only visible when two or more image files are selected.
- Check if file exists before screen recording and show file exists window if necessary.
- Added Nextcloud support to ownCloud file uploader.
- Changed Dropbox default settings for new users, moved upload path to outside public folder and enabled shareable URL option in preparation for Dropbox to disable public folders on March 15, 2017.
- Polr API v2 support which will be active by default, from settings API v1 can be enabled back.
- Removed Automate tool and moved it to its own GitHub page.
- Added resize if smaller option to resize image effect.
- Updated Amazon S3 to include new endpoints.
- On upload errors include request URL in error message.
v11.4.1 [Nov 9, 2016]
Region capture related changes:
Added tools toolbar which will show up at top of the active monitor
Removed right click tools menu because the newly added toolbar is more user friendly
Right click will now cancel capture or remove the object under the cursor by default
Tips will also be hidden by default
Added center node to line and arrow tools to allow drawing curved lines
Added destination filtering by file extension to be able to upload specific file types to the destination of choice (Task settings window -> Uploader filters tab)
Hidden background UWP applications not included in the window list and region capture hover areas
Added file path parameter support to -ImageEditor CLI command
v11.3.0 [Sep 30, 2016]
Added speech balloon drawing tool which works similar to text drawing tool but have moveable tail
Added image drawing tool so now you can select image from file dialog
Added support to paste image or text using Ctrl V key
Allow region capture right click menu to be closed by right clicking inside region capture window
Using rounded cap for line/arrow drawing
All region capture related tasks (screen color picker, ruler, screen record region selection etc.) will use currently configured region capture options such as magnifier, crosshair, snap size etc.
In text drawing tool, rectangle will be automatically resized according to initial text size so no need to drag rectangle when adding text anymore
Added corner radius setting to text drawing
In text input window, pressing Ctrl Enter will close window
In text input window, if a non-existent font was selected, automatically default to Arial font
Swapped Mouse wheel tool changing keybind with Ctrl Mouse wheel magnifier zoom changing keybind, otherwise people can change tool accidentally; so Mouse wheel will only change magnifier size now which will be less problematic than changing tool accidentally
Change pixel offset mode dynamically depending on pen size to draw line, rounded rectangle etc. aligned to exact pixels to avoid blurry lines
Removed Region capture (Simple annotate) hotkey because now current region capture have all features of old region capture annotate window.
v11.1.0 [Jul 14, 2016]
Region capture related changes:
Tab key or Mouse 4 button will swap between last region tool and last annotation tool
Redesigned Task settings -> Region capture tab to be more user friendly
All mouse actions (except left click) will be configurable from Task settings -> Region capture that way you can get same behavior as old region capture; for example, right click to cancel capture
Removed AnnotationEnabled setting because you can now have full control on each mouse actions
Region capture will remember last used region tool and open with it selected
Last used annotation tool will be also remembered so that way when you swap tools it will select last used annotation tool
When drawing tool is selected cursor will show border color and size, this is also useful to know is current tool is region rectangle or drawing rectangle
Allow drawing info text near cursor when magnifier is not enabled
When creating region you can hold Ctrl key to change position of region
When region is selected Ctrl key will move region instead of Shift for consistency with region create moving
Holding Shift will increase region resize or move speed by 10px
Holding Alt will allow to resize region from bottom right instead of top left
Menu key will open options menu
Double clicking when multi region mode enabled won't close it when there is no region to be captured
When creating region holding Alt key will more accurately and with better performance calculate close regions to snap
Added previous Region capture (Annotation) back as hotkey only which will be called as Region capture (Simple annotate) in hotkey settings
Added puush file uploader
Added Google Drive direct link option (by @mihe)
Added option to remember last drawing mode in Greenshot image editor settings window (by @campbeb)
Scale Greenshot image editor window size when icons are larger than default (by @campbeb)
Added option to maximize the Greenshot image editor window when it is larger than working area (by @campbeb)
In SFTP upload if file with same name is exist, truncate file before uploading
After capture tasks -> Show file in explorer and in other places where folder need to be opened with file, it will use already open Windows Explorer window instead of re opening new one (by @dannoe)
Hotkey settings and quick task menu reset to default buttons will ask for confirmation (by @dannoe)
Implemented Dropbox API v2
Option to use file extension for Hastebin syntax highlighting
v11.0.1 [Jun 10, 2016]
Added annotation support inside region capture. In region capture you can right click to open menu which you can select annotation tool, capture fullscreen/monitor or be able to change region capture options. You can use middle click to cancel capture.
These are the currently available annotation tools:
Region
Rectangle
Rounded rectangle
Ellipse
Drawing
Rectangle
Rounded rectangle
Ellipse
Line
Arrow
Text
Step
Effect
Blur
Pixelate
Highlight
You can change these settings from region capture options menu:
Multi region mode
Show tips
Show position and size info
Show magnifier
Square shape magnifier
Magnifier pixel count
Magnifier pixel size
Show screen wide crosshair
Fixed size region mode
Show FPS
Added option to disable annotation support via "Task settings window -> Region capture tab"
Removed "Region (Annotate)" capture because default region capture has annotation support now
Added "Text capture (OCR)" to capture menu
Also added "Recognize text (OCR)" option to "After capture tasks" menu
Added lithi.io file uploader (by @lithium720)
Added sli.mg image uploader
Added option in "Destination settings, Email tab" to send email to a specific email address without requiring user prompt
Added icons for "After capture tasks" menu and "After upload tasks" menu items; checked items text will now display as bold
Added Copy dropdown button in "Color picker" window with the following items to be able to copy specific color type:
All
RGB
Hexadecimal
CMYK
HSB
Decimal
Position
Added "SaveSettingsAfterTaskCompleted" setting to "Application settings, Advanced tab" and enabled by default, this setting saves all settings after each task completed but only if there is no other active task (so if there are 50 tasks running in same time only after all tasks completed, settings will save) reason for this setting is because in few people while Windows shutdown does not let ShareX to save settings therefore having this option allows to secure settings in this situations
Region capture tips will show in active monitor instead of primary monitor
"Quick task menu" and "After capture window" after capture tasks now can be used in all image related tasks
Before uploading ShareX will check current destination config requirements and if config is not valid then will stop the task, warn user about invalid config and open destination settings window with current upload destination tab selected so user can check config easily
Added Shift C hotkey to main window list to be able to copy selected file
Added tip icon to top right corner of main window to show tips and hotkeys that can be used in main window
Added support to be able to drag file from main window list to Windows Explorer or any other software (Holding Ctrl while dragging will copy URL or file path instead of file)
Added custom region hotkeys for "Screen recording" and "Screen recording (GIF)"
Added "Select region" button for custom region option in "Task settings, Capture tab", this custom region option is used with custom capture hotkeys
Added Text to speech support for capture and task completed sounds in "Task settings -> Advanced tab"
All picture boxes in ShareX will now show image size when hovered with cursor
Added DisableUpload setting to "Application settings, Advanced tab" which can disable uploading in whole application
Added TrayTextMoreInfo setting to "Application settings, Advanced tab" which shows version and build info in tray icon tooltip which can be handy if you are running multiple ShareX build in same time
ShareX now uses system colors in all UI as possible to support custom themes such as Windows high contrast theme correctly
Added image drag & drop support to "Image combiner" tool
Added direct URL support for Streamable
Added tray button click options to "Application settings" window to be able to change which task to execute. If tray primary double click action is None then single primary click action can execute immediately without wait for double click check
Added "Open main window" hotkey
Added settings window to Greenshot Image Editor to be able to change few settings
Location of custom setting file paths will be stored in %LocalAppData%\ShareX\PersonalPath.cfg so that way it will be specific to user account and also allows to change it without requiring to run ShareX as admin. If you already have PersonalPath.cfg where ShareX.exe is then it would still work as usual
v10.9.1 [Mar 25, 2016]
Removed Copy file uploader because service is discontinued
Update Greenshot image editor to 1.2.9 version
Single instance improvements to support multiple file upload from Windows Explorer properly
Added raw URL option to Pastebin and GitHub Gist
Moved Quick task menu’s "Continue" button to top of the menu
Added AcceptInvalidSSLCertificates option to Application settings -> Advanced tab which can be used by people who using self signed certificates
File name pattern will be applied to "Upload from URL" method too
Will not show window/control hover areas anymore in screen color picker.
v10.6.1 [Jan 10, 2016]
In update notification window if user presses the "No" button then ShareX will not check for updates for another 24 hours
If the user has not changed previous default value of a window name pattern setting then it will be reset to the new default value which uses %pn (process name) instead of %t (window title); people who have already modified it won't be affected (you can always customize the file name via Task settings window -> File naming tab)
Alternative clipboard copy method is now disabled by default because a few applications have been causing issues with it e.g. Skype
QR code window will auto detect a URL in the clipboard and show its QR code on startup (by @Scrxtchy)
Support special folder parameters so that for instance, screenshots folder path can be configured as %MyPictures%\Screenshots
v10.3.0 [Oct 3, 2015]
- Added scrolling capture to Capture menu.
- Added image combiner to Tools menu.
- Added temporary button to main window which opens ShareX page on Steam.
- Added edit button near each hotkey in hotkey settings window to make it obvious that task settings of each hotkey is possible to edit.
- Added more name patterns (Task settings -> Upload tab) and categories for context menu of it (by @davidruhmann).
- Added hidden window option to actions (by @atillabyte).
- Added -Task "Hotkey description" CLI command to be able to do upload using CLI with specific task settings.
- Added Changelog button to both update notification message box and about window.
v10.2.5 [Sep 5, 2015]
- Update notification window will be minimized in taskbar and flash instead of showing on screen when new update is available while ShareX is already open
- Windows & Chrome related settings are moved to Application settings -> Integration tab
- FFmpeg recording timer will only start when recording is started instead of FFmpeg is started so that way it will accurately show duration of video
- While recording if something unexpected happened and FFmpeg is not responding to stop command then pressing "Stop" button third time will force close it
- While uploading any file it is now possible to open file from right click menu without having to wait until upload to complete.
v9.9.0 [Apr 12, 2015]
Added transparent rectangle capture (without freezing screen)
Added Korean translation
Added Spanish translation
Image effects window can load image from clipboard
Added vgy.me image uploader
Added custom time zone option for name pattern
v9.4.2 [Nov 3, 2014]
- Added custom text support for text uploading
- Added screen recording abort button which will stop and delete recorded video
v8.4.1 [Nov 20, 2013]
- Added drawings category to image effects for be able to add background, border, checkerboard, image and text (watermark)
- Added image adjustment effects: black & white, polaroid and sepia
- Added image filter effects: edge detect, emboss, gaussian blur, convolution matrix, mean removal, sharpen and smooth
- Added image manipulation effect: crop
- Image effects accessible from Tools menu for be able to load image file (or drag and drop image) and save changes
- Simplified watermark settings
- In task settings be able to choose which FTP account to be used
- Allow Jira address with subfolder
- Using GitHub API for check updates
