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Patches for ShareX
Windows
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ShareX is a free and open-source screenshot and screencast program for Microsoft Windows
ShareX Version 17.1.0
Release Date
5/26/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

Added Metadata tool to view file metadata and strip non-essential metadata from media files. ShareX$$$Added Metadata tool hotkey.$$$Added a custom scrollbar to ShareXs main window to support the dark theme. ShareX$$$Update FFmpeg to 7.1.$$$Improved H.265 support for Apple products.$$$Added icons to Workflows menu items.$$$Added command line arguments:$$$-PinToScreen image file path$$$-PinToScreenFromFile image file path$$$-VideoConverter video file path$$$-OCR image file path$$$-QRCode image file path$$$-HashCheck file path$$$-FileUpload file path$$$-Metadata file path$$$-StripMetadata file path$$$Added notification sound to Hash checker tool.$$$Removed DNS changer tool.$$$Allow moving pinned images with arrow keys.$$$Removed Use custom theme option; it is now always enabled.
ShareX Version 17.0.0
Release Date
1/8/2025
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

ShareX 17.0.0 - 2025-01-08$$$Scrolling capture improvements:$$$Automatically ignores 50px from the bottom during scrolling captures; useful for cases like horizontal scrollbars at the bottom.$$$Added an Auto ignore bottom edge option; which compares two images to identify static parts at the bottom; in addition to the default 50px.$$$Added a Copy button to the scrolling capture window.$$$Added notification sound to certain actions: ShareX$$$Screen recording stop/pause/abort actions.$$$Scrolling capture action.$$$Pin to screen tool.$$$Screen color picker tool.$$$Borderless window tool.$$$Browser extension action.$$$Silent OCR action.$$$Disable/Enable hotkeys action.$$$Added Play sound after action is completed option.$$$Added Use custom action completed sound option.$$$Removed toast notification from silent OCR action.$$$Removed Disable notifications option.$$$Added Arabic language support. OthmanAliModaes$$$When DisableUpload registry is set; hide upload related items in the main window.$$$Save tasks to history regardless of failed or stopped upload.$$$Allow restoring borderless window in Borderless window tool.$$$Added Make active window borderless hotkey.$$$Added Make active window top most hotkey.$$$Added Pin to screen (Close all) hotkey.$$$Removed YouTube icon because Google does not allow us to use a 16x16 size logo.$$$Removed Google Photos image uploader. (Reason: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-photos-picker-api-launch-and-library-api-updates/)$$$Removed adf.ly URL shortener.$$$Removed backward compatibility for .sxcu files generated before ShareX 12.4.0. ShareX
ShareX Version 16.1.0
Release Date
5/9/2024
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

ShareX 16.1.0 - 2024-05-09$$$Added an Update channel option to the Application settings window with the following options:$$$Release$$$Pre-release$$$Dev$$$Added Background dim strength region capture option.$$$Scrolling capture improvements:$$$Added scrolling capture status indicator.$$$Scrolling capture automatically stops if the first image combine attempt fails.$$$Improved image combining performance.$$$Mouse wheel input is now ignored within the scrolling capture region.$$$Added help button to scrolling capture window; which opens this page: https://getsharex.com/docs/scrolling-screenshot$$$Update FFmpeg to version 7.0.$$$Previously; releasing the Escape key would close the active window. Now; it will also check if the Escape key was initially pressed in the active window as well.$$$Improved task icon detection in Quick task menu.$$$Added Cut out background color option for image editor Cut out tool. flmbray$$$Browser extension host manifest files are now stored in app folder instead of Documents\ShareX\Tools folder.$$$Improved update downloader progress text.$$$Added Enable browser extension support option to setup.$$$Google has forced us to use a more restrictive API scope (/auth/drive.file) for Google Drive; which does not allow us to see files or folders anymore. Because of this; we cannot provide folder listing and selection support anymore.$$$However; there is a workaround. You can navigate to the Google Drive website in your browser; open the folder you want to upload to; and then copy the folder ID from the browsers address bar to Folder ID textbox.
ShareX Version 15.0.0
Release Date
1/18/2023
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

ShareX 15.0.0 - 2023-01-18$$$Our GitHub Sponsors profile is live! You can sponsor us to support the development of the ShareX project. Thanks to GitHub Sponsors Matching Fund; we are receiving double the amount of donations; therefore GitHub Sponsors is the best way to support us!$$$$$$Added new Dark theme; and renamed previous theme to Night*$$$If you did not add a new theme manually then ShareX will assume theme settings are default and add the new theme automatically; otherwise you must reset theme settings to default to get it$$$Updated our website theme to fit to new ShareX dark theme$$$Added Pin to screen tool*$$$Available methods to use the tool*:$$$Tools menu ? Pin to screen$$$Main window right click context menu ? Pin to screen (Ctrl + P shortcut)$$$History/Image history window right click context menu ? Pin to screen (Ctrl + P shortcut)$$$After capture tasks ? Pin to screen$$$Toast notification click action option ? Pin to screen$$$Create a hotkey$$$Available hotkeys that users can create:$$$Tools ? Pin to screen$$$Tools ? Pin to screen (From screen)$$$Tools ? Pin to screen (From clipboard)$$$Tools ? Pin to screen (From file)$$$Pin to screen keybinds:$$$Hold left click Move image$$$Right click / Escape Close image$$$Middle click Reset image$$$Double click Minimize image$$$Mouse wheel / + - Change image scale$$$Ctrl + Mouse wheel / Ctrl + + - Change image opacity$$$Ctrl + C Copy image$$$Hotkey settings window visual improvements$$$Allow changing hotkey tasks without opening task settings window; instead dropdown menu could be used; which also gonna make creating new hotkeys easier*$$$Hotkeys which have their task settings overridden by the user are now indicated by * character at the end of hotkey task name$$$Added support to quickly combine images in main window by drag and dropping thumbnails to top of each other$$$Use ShareX theme in screen recording overlay$$$Added Pause support to screen recording*$$$Added Pause screen recording hotkey$$$Added support to move recording region while recording is paused*$$$All ShareX builds now include FFmpeg 5.1 64-bit built-in; 32-bit OS users can override FFmpeg path to use their own FFmpeg binaries$$$Removed FFmpeg download button because it is not necessary anymore$$$Added Freehand arrow annotation tool$$$Added Cut out tool to image editor (by @nielsmh)$$$Available cut out effects:$$$No effect$$$Sawtooth$$$Torn edges$$$Wave$$$X keybind can be used to select the tool$$$While annotating when Ctrl key is hold also disable selection of resize nodes$$$Increase text annotation maximum font size to 300 from 100$$$Added Wave edge image effect (by @nielsmh)$$$Uploader configurations now assume https:// by default if prefix is missing from URL entered by user$$$When downloading file to reupload; ShareX will request the file name from the server instead of parsing it from URL; this feature is mainly used with ShareX browser extensions because extension gives URL to ShareX which then downloads the file from URL to reupload it$$$Added DisableLogging registry setting (Disables debug log file saving)$$$If system admin disabled upload through registry then on first ShareX run disable after capture upload option too$$$Using GitHub Actions to release builds now instead of AppVeyor$$$Install dev build button now shows update message box and downloads the dev builds from ShareX/DevBuilds repository$$$In auto update message box if No button is pressed then disable auto update check until ShareX is restarted$$$Allow closing OCR window with Esc key$$$In Hash check window allow dragging file to second file path textbox$$$Added Wrap after option and image count label to Image combiner tool$$$Include uploader name in upload error notifications$$$Implemented OAuth loopback IP address flow for Google Drive; Google Photos; Google Cloud Storage and YouTube because the rest of authentication methods are deprecated for desktop apps by Google$$$ShareX 14.1.0 - 2022-07-15$$$Added Polish language support (by @R
ShareX Version 14.1.0
Release Date
7/15/2022
Bug Fix?
Yes
Minor Release?
Yes
Patch Notes

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}$$${regex:input|pattern|group}$$$Dont show notification window in Alt + Tab menu$$$Support portable dev build update
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