Release Notes

Dropshare is frequently updated with new features and improvements - 15 releases since January 2025.

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Improvements
07 Jan 2026

Version 6.9

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  • App Preferences: macOS 26 design update for app's preferences
  • Screenshot Annotation: Adding magnification tool to screenshot annotation editor
  • Screen Recordings: Adding option to resize screen recording area before starting a recording
  • Screen Recordings: Fixing issue that would render shadow of screen recording toolbar into screen recordings



Improvements
25 Nov 2025

Version 6.8

  • ✨ AI-generated filenames: Automatically AI-generated filenames for screen shots are now included (limited daily usage, no more OpenAI API key required).
  • 🎥 Screen Recordings: Adding new pixelation tool to redact areas of the screen during screen recordings.

  • Cloudflare R2: Fixing issue with wrong mimetype for image uploads (applies to all custom S3 connections)
  • FTP/SFTP: Fixing an issue where landing page previews would not be shown for some file types.
  • Connection Preferences: Fixing an issue where overwriting connection preferences would not work when not using the Upload Summary.
  • Dropshare Mirror: Fixing an issue that would prevent screenshots from being taken from an Android devices.
  • macOS 26: Building Dropshare against macOS 26 SDK to support new features.



Improvements
7 Oct 2025

Version 6.7

  • Share Extension: Fixing an issue where the Upload Summary would always show
  • Share Extension: Fixing an issue where preview images for image uploads would not be created
  • Connection Export: Fixing an issue which would prevent SCP and SFTP connections from being exported successfully
  • Screen Captures: Fixing an issue with too large screen capture image resolutions on certain Retina MacBook Pro models



Improvements
26 Sep 2025

Version 6.6.1

  • Annotation Editor: Fixing an issue that lead to low quality images exported from the built-in annotation editor



Improvements
20 Sep 2025

Version 6.6

  • Screen Recordings: Adding option to pause and resume screen recordings
  • Screen Recordings: Improving positioning of screen recording overlay during recordings
  • Share Extension: Reworking the share extension, making it utilize the new Upload Summary
  • Annotation Editor: Adding the option to add white outlines to annotations for better visibility
  • Annotation Editor: Fixing an issue where the selection color was not disappearing when unselecting annotations
  • Uploading Multiple Files: Adding expert mode option to archive multiple files into a single ZIP
  • Upload Preferences: Adding expert mode option never copy the upload URL to clipboard



Improvements
29 Jul 2025

Version 6.5

  • Annotation Editor: Multiple annotation editor windows can now be open at the same time
  • Screen Recordings: Downscaling retina recordings will now only downscale on actual retina displays
  • Fastmail: Fixing an issue with Fastmail logins not working correctly



Improvements
6 Jul 2025

Version 6.4

  • Custom API: Adding multiple new features (such as option to add a request body for deletion requests, HTTP Basic Auth., placeholders in request URLs, etc.)
  • Annotations: Fixing an issue that would draw annotations with an offset to the mouse cursor
  • Annotations: Last used tool will now be automatically selected
  • Floating Captures: Adding option to copy capture to clipboard or save capture on disk
  • Automated Deployment: Adding options to import landing pages and preferences for automated deployment of Dropshare
  • macOS 26: Fixing an issue that would prevent drag & drop to the status bar icon to work. Please note that Dropshare is not officially compatible with pre-release versions of macOS.

Improvements
4 May 2025

Version 6.3

  • Synchronisation: Improving upload history synchronisation
  • Screen Captures: Adding option to always capture highest quality screen shots
  • Landing Pages: Updating Community Landing Page 2
  • CLI: Fixing issue with CLI not working when using relative paths

Improvements
13 Apr 2025

Version 6.2

  • Fastmail Files: Add support for storage provider Fastmail Files
  • Annotation Editor: Add option to save annotated image to disk with CMD+S, copy annotated image to clipboard with CMD+C
  • Annotation Editor: Fixing issue where drag & drop would not work for some apps
  • Permissions: Fix issue with Input Monitoring permission (would never say "Granted" in settings)
  • Floating Captures: Adding expert option to automatically hide floating captures after a timeout
  • CLI: Add option to specify name of uploaded file via CLI tool

Improvements
18 Mar 2025

Version 6.1

  • Annotation Editor: Brand new annotation editor with better usability and performance
  • Pretty Screenshots: The existing pretty screenshots feature has been replaced with the updated annotation editor, offering many more background options
  • Filename Configuration: Replacement variables can now be reordered
  • PDF Previews: Adding preview images for uploaded PDFs when using a landing page
  • Automatic File Deletion: Adding options to delete files after 6 and 9 months
  • Automatic File Deletion: Fixing issue that might cause files not being deleted when per-connection preference has been set
  • Upload Summary: Reworking filename override, now behaving more intuitively (filename will only be overriden when changed in the upload summary, otherwise global or connection-specific preference will be used)
  • Upload Summary: Fixed an issue when uploading multiple files at once; selected overrides will now be applied to all uploads
  • Landing Pages: Adding support for .webp preview images in built-in landing page designs
  • Open URL after Upload: Adding option to automatically open the upload's URL in a browser after the upload finished
24 Feb 2025

Version 6.0.4

  • Fixing a number of internal issues that occurred with the first version of Dropshare 6:
    • Fixing a potential crash that occurred on older versions of macOS
    • Fixing an issue that might occurr when trying to export a S3 connection to a file
    • Fixing an issue that might have deleted the original file when using the Upload Summary and entering a custom filename
22 Feb 2025

Version 6.0.3

  • Fixing a number of internal issues that occurred with the first version of Dropshare 6:
    • A crash that occurred on macOS 12 and 13 when using the new Upload Summary
21 Feb 2025

Version 6.0.2

  • Fixing a number of internal issues that occurred with the first version of Dropshare 6:
    • A crash that might have occurred when the app was launched for the first time without an internet connection
    • An issue that would show the What's New window for fresh installs
    • A crash that might have occurred when closing the OneDrive login window before the login has completely loaded
21 Feb 2025

Version 6.0.1

  • Watermarking: Fixing an issue where text watermarks could not be edited, or the edit window would be stuck on screen.
20 Feb 2025

Version 6.0

Dropshare 6.0 is a major update that brings a lot of new features and improvements, and will be the foundation for many more years of updates - just like Dropshare 5 has been for over 7 years and more than 80 releases. Here are the highlights:

  • Automatic File Deletion: Configure uploaded files to expire after a certain amount of time. Expired uploads will be automatically deleted from upload history and optionally server.
  • Filename Configuration: Filenames can now be customized with replacement variables for both regular uploads and screen captures.
  • Watermarking: Screenshots can now be watermarked with text or an image placed transparently on top of the screen capture.
  • kDrive: Adding support for Infomaniak kDrive.
  • Retina Screenshots: Screenshots taken on Retina screens now feature improved file size and resolution handling, with better results for both @2x (original resolution) and @1x (scaled resolution).
  • Connection Sorting: Connection order can now be changed via drag-and-drop in the connection preferences.
  • Upload History Performance: The upload history window now offers smoother performance, even with thousands of uploads.
  • Bulk Upload Deletion: Uploads can now be deleted from the storage provider in bulk from the upload history.
  • Screen Recordings (Window Selection): The window selection for screen recordings has been reworked to use a “click this window” instead of “select this window from a list” workflow.
  • Popover: Allowing to configure the menu bar popover and the quick-dial icons.
  • Connection Chooser: Reworking Connection Chooser to Upload Summary, now allows to actually override the landing page, url shortener and automatic deletion settings per upload.
  • Pretty Screenshots: Prettified screenshots captured on retina screens now have a more reasonable file size.
  • Upload Device: Uploads now show the device used to upload in the upload history (e.g. iOS device or name of the Mac).
  • Copy Long URL: Adding option to copy the full URL (no shortener) of an upload from the upload history context menu.
  • App Updates: Show notification instead of popup window when an update is available.

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