Download Greenshot 1.3.116 Beta

A beta release of Greenshot has been released. Screenshots can be taken with this open source program for Windows. After taking a screenshot, you get the option to edit the image, for example to add text or arrows. The image can be saved as a file or imported directly into a program, or put to the clipboard or even to an online storage service. The release notes for this release are as follows:

Greenshot 1.3.116 unstable

At first we didn’t want to release another Greenshot 1.x but skip ahead to Greenshot 2.x
But as this was supposed to target dotnet core 3.1, it did give us a few challenges, which were hard to fix.

So in the end we felt like we at least needed to bring out another release of Greenshot which can still be used by users who got stuck with Windows 7, fix some issues for all and bring a few new features for Windows 10 at the same time .

This is the first Greenshot which targets .NET 4.7.2 which solves some general issues in the area of ​​Internet Explorer capturing, TLS communication and some other minor issues. We’ve also added some new Windows 10 functions, like OCR and sharing with Windows 10 apps.

This is only tested on Windows 7 and Windows 10, and as always comes “as-is” with no guarantee whatsoever. It might also work on Windows 8, but we don’t have enough hardware to test.

New features

• The editor now has a zoom, PR #201
• Windows 10 OCR support
• Windows 10 app sharing
• Windows 10 notifications

Changes:

• Improved the about and error details with better version information, and OS name.
• Upgraded to .NET Framework 4.7.2 due to netstandard 2.0 issues, any lower version would make the installer even bigger.
• Used more recent versions of software components, which make it easier to find bugs.
• DPI improvements, so people can use Greenshot with high DPI screens.
• Made the selection boxes (grippers) bigger and travel with the DPI settings
• Update check should have less impact with us and for the user
• Added Italian to the installer PR #224
• Added support to generate random characters in the filename PR #216

Fixes

• BUG-2535 Greenshot selects invisible windows fix, suggested here
• BUG-2544: Enabled TLS1.1 & 1.2 to fix jira connectivity and do not use the JIRA session support as this was deprecated.
• BUG-2542: Fix for shutdown issue (ImgurPlugin)
• BUG-2378, BUG-2435, BUG-2486, BUG-2463, BUG-2309, BUG-2307, BUG-2249 : This should solve the issue, without requiring a lock. Just use an atomic assignment.
• bug #124, some minor issues with the EmailDestination
• bug #149: If using a full screen capture of the current monitor, not the default, the mouse cursor is not visible.
• BUG-2529: This should most likely fix the excessive update checks.
• PR #157 — Fixing textbox issue with polish letter “ą”