CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

3.6.0 - Performance and usability improvements

• Added support to use custom codes when sending files and folders using drag and drop (see #108).
• Added an option to save directory receives as a .zip file instead of automatically extracting (see #50).
• Added options for more easily switching to Least Authority servers to communicate with Winden and Destiny clients (see #125).
• Fixed an issue where deleting a sent or received item would not close the dialog (see #127).
• Improved the rendering performance for long lists of sent and received items (see #99).
• Use less CPU when dragging the options slider for selecting code components (see #79).
• Improved performance and memory usage when clicking on sent and received items (see #129 and #117).
• Using tab completion when writing the receive code is now much faster (see #136).
  • Tab completions allocates a lot less memory and uses binary search to look up matches faster.
• Receiving items now has less startup delay and has a bit less overall cpu usage.
• The highest setting for generated receive code components is now bumped from 6 to 9.
• Performance improvements to the code validation that runs when starting a receive.
• QR codes are now generated with rymdport/go-qrcode instead of skip2/go-qrcode.
  • The new dependency is a maintained fork with various modernisations, code cleanups and performance improvements.
• The magic-wormhole backend now uses rymdport/wormhole instead of psanford/wormhole-william.
  • See improvements-over-upstream for reasons.
• Go 1.19 or later is now required for compiling the application.
• Various other code refactoring and cleanup.

3.5.3 - Fixing Flathub review comments and updating dependencies

• Updated icons, screenshots and appstream metadata to fix problems noted in Flathub review (see #139).
• Updated fyne to v2.4.4.
  • This brings various bug fixes and some sizeable performance improvements.
• Updated compress to v1.17.7.
  • Decompression performance for directory transfers is improved slightly.
• Update fyneselfupdate to v0.1.1.
  • This removes some usage of deprecated functions and cleans up the code. Nothing major.
• Some improvements to documentation.
  • Some incorrect wording and textual errors were fixed in CONTRIBUTING.md.
  • Information on how to build distribution packages (for Linux repositories etc.) was added in a new PACKAGING.md file.

3.5.2 - Updated Fyne UI toolkit dependency

• Updated fyne to v2.4.3.

3.5.1 - Bug fixes and improved performance

• The Makefile now includes .PHONY targets to avoid problems with targets having the same name as local files.
• The Makefile no longer updates the icon cache (per request from Linux package maintainers).
  • A user installing locally should manually run make update-icon-cache afterwards instead.
• Updated fyne to v2.4.1.
  • File names inside the file dialog grid view are now shown on two lines and with better truncation.
  • Various other improvements and bug fixes.
• Updated compress to v1.17.0 for more efficient decompression of directory transfers.

3.5.0 - Major theme redesign plus drag and drop support

• Major theme rework with rounded corners.
• Added support for dragging and dropping files and folders onto the application (#73).
• Users on Linux and BSD can now open files or folders in Rymdport from the file manager to start a transfer (#91).
• A transfer can now be started by passing files or folders as command-line arguments (#75).
• Pressing enter after writing a custom code will now start the transfer (#55).
• Instead of giving an error, a number is now added to the end of a file if a duplicate exists (#87).
• Fixed long codes flowing into the progress bar (#96).
• Fixed the QR code showing for failed and completed transfers (#90).
• Refocus the main window after sending text (#85).
• Enabling the option to overwrite files now shows the submit button using a warning colour (#48).
• Fixed a memory leak when starting a second text transfer with the window already open.
• The text send window now opens faster for transfers after the initial start.
• Directory transfers now check that the size and file number are as expected before extraction.
• Long filenames and codes are now truncated using ellipsis instead of clipping.
• The Makefile for building and installing on Linux and BSD has been improved.
  • Binaries are now more reproducible and cleaned up more aggressively for release builds.
  • The icon path has been updated to install the files in a more suitable location.
  • Icons are now installed in more sizes to look better in more places.
  • The icon cache is now automatically updated after installing files.
• Release bianries now install Rymdport with a capital R.
• Go 1.18 or later is now required for compiling the application.
• Updated fyne to v2.4.0.
  • Added an option to disable animations (which can be found within our Settings tab).
  • Rectangles now use OpenGL hardware-acceleration for improved rendering performance.
  • Various improvements to keyboard navigation in widgets.
  • Fix text in the progress bar flickering and having the wrong colour sometimes.
  • Various bug fixes, performance improvements, and code cleanups.
• Updated wormhole-william to v1.0.7 for minor bug fixes and performance improvements.
• Updated compress to v1.16.7 for slightly more efficient compression and decompression of directory transfers.
• Various cleanups and performance improvements throughout the codebase.

3.4.0 - QR code support and backend rewrite

• QR codes can now be generated for easily sending items to supported apps (fixes #10).
• Rewrote a large part of the backend for displaying sends and receives.
  • Progress bars no longer display the wrong percentage sometimes.
  • Fixes a potential crash that could happen sometimes when sending.
• Added support for removing items that have completed the transfer (fixes #32).
• Added keyboard shortcuts for switching between tabs. See the Keyboard Shortcuts wiki for more information.
• Added an option to disable update checking on startup for release binaries (fixes #66).
• The receive page now shows which code a received item came from.
• Various improvements to performance and memory usage.
• Updated fyne to v2.3.5 for many bug fixes.

3.3.6 - Crash fix for copying received text

• Fixed a crash when pressing the copy button in the text receive window (fixes #83).
• Fixed the AppStream metadata not containing the v3.3.5 release information.

3.3.5 - Performance and memory usage improvements

• Updated fyne to v2.3.4.
  • Binary size improvements (roughly 20% smaller binaries).
  • Various performance and memory usage improvements.

3.3.4 - Add missing AppStream metadata for v3.3.3

• Fixed the AppStream metadata not containing the v3.3.3 release information.

3.3.3 - Better Apple M2 support and improved rendering

• Updated selfupdate to v0.2.0.
  • This fixes update notifications showing when there were no new releases (issue #76).
• Updated fyne to v2.3.3.
  • Many improvements when running on Apple M2 devices.
  • Performance and memory improvements for text rendering.
  • Faster performance when resizing the window on Linux/BSD.
  • Fixed letters being cropped in some cases.
  • Other minor fixes and improvements.
• Updated indirect dependencies for some minor security fixes.

3.3.2 - Performance improvements and bug fixes

• Minor performance improvements to the list of sent/received items.
• Updated fyne to v2.3.1.
  • Fixes for various potential crashes (most importantly when minimizing on Windows sometimes).
  • Support being displayed over VNC on RaspbianOS (for Raspberry Pi computers).
  • Fixes an issue with list items sometimes appearing hovered when scrolling.

3.3.1 - Fix Windows builds not starting

• Fixes a cross-compilation issue that caused the Windows binary to not work correctly.

3.3.0 - New theme and improved usability

• The application can now automatically update itself.
• Notifications for received files now mentions where the file was saved to.
• Present more useful information about how to write custom codes.
• The dialog for custom codes now focuses the text entry automatically.
• The selection of the download path has been reworked to be more useful.
• Minor redesign of the send and receive tabs.
• Minor wording improvements inside the settings tab.
• Updated fyne to v2.3.0.
  • An entirely new theme with improved visuals.
  • The application will now follow the FreeDesktop Dark Style Preference on Linux/BSD.
  • Added an option to create a new folder within the folder selection dialog.
  • Lots of other improvements and fixes.
• Update compress to v1.15.14.
  • Includes performance improvements that benefit sending and receiving of directories.
• Minimal supported Go compiler version is now Go 1.17.
• Release binaries are now built using Go 1.19.
  • Various performance improvements, security fixes and other improvements.

3.2.0 - Improvements and bug fixes

• Work around send and receive windows not being focused correctly sometimes.
• Go backwards in tab completion using Shift + Tab.
• Update compress to v1.15.8 for CVE-2022-30631 fix.
• Clicking the icon on the about page now opens the repository in a browser.
• The zip and completion packages are now exported and considered stable.
• Updated fyne to v2.2.3 for minor bug fixes.
• Minor performance improvements.
• The Makefile for Linux and BSD release binaries now includes an option to install into the home directory.
• Release binaries are now built using Go 1.18.
  • Performance of arm64 binaries should improve by around 10-20%.
  • Various security fixes and other improvements.

3.1.0 - Tab completion and more BSD support

• Added support for tab completion of receive-codes (fixes #35).
• Initial support for OpenBSD and NetBSD.
  • Feel free to report any feedback. This support is new and experimental.
• Notifications on Linux and BSD now show the application icon.
• The list view in the file chooser now display extensions correctly (fixes #39).
• The entry for receive-codes now becomes unfocused when pressing escape.
• Updated fyne to v2.2.1.
  • Better error reporting on Windows when OpenGL is not available.
  • Many optimizations and widget performance enhancements.
• Updated compress to v1.15.5.
  • Includes minor performance improvements that benefit sending and receiving of directories.
• Go 1.16 is now the oldest supported compiler. Support for older versions has been removed.
• Various improvements and fixes for the AppStream metadata.
• Notifications are now enabled by default.

3.0.2 - Improvements to AppStream Metadata

• Added release summaries and removed markdown leftovers from AppStream metadata.
  • This should mostly benfit the Flatpak package and Linux packages.

3.0.1 - Flatpak support and performance improvement

• Optimized text receives to be faster and use significantly less memory.
  • This change also means that saving the text to a file will be faster.
• The Windows release binary no longer opens a terminal on start-up (#34).
• Various improvements and fixes for the AppStream metadata.
  • These changes should make it possible to create a Flatpak (for #23)

3.0.0 - Rymdport is the new wormhole-gui

• Added support for sending using custom codes.
• UI scaling and primary color can now be changed in the settings tab.
• Dialogs are not scaled to window size (fixes #16).
• Progress is now shown for receives as well (fixes #20).
• Added support for verifying sends and receives before accepting them (fixes #18).
• Improved application startup time by optimizing how settings are handled on startup.
• Long codes are now truncated to avoid moving other UI elements.
• The user now has to confirm before enabling overwriting of files.
• Fixed an issue where sending with received text open would remove the text.
• Removed support for removing completed sends and receives (see #32).
  • This has been broken broken a long time. Will be introduced again in a later version.
• The filename when saving received text now also contains the current time.
• Many improvements to the contents of the appstream metadata.
• Various minor performance improvements and race condition fixes.
• Updated wormhole-william to v1.0.6.
  • Fixes compatability with the magic-wormhole.rs client.
  • Switched to a faster websocket library.
• Updated fyne to v2.1.3.
  • Improves performance, fixes a few memory leaks and minor visual refresh among many other improvements.
• Updated compress to v1.15.0.
  • Includes various performance improvements that benefit sending and receiving of directories.
• Release binaries are now built using Go 1.17.
  • Performance of amd64 binaries should improve by around 5-10%.
  • Lowest supported macOS release is now 10.13 High Sierra.
  • Includes various other fixes and improvements.
• Release binaires for FreeBSD and Linux are now xz compressed to decrease sizes.
• Release binaries on macOS now contain the correct version and build number metadata.

2.3.1 - Rebuilt release binaries

• Updated compress to v1.13.6.

2.3.0 - FreeBSD and macOS arm64 binaries

• Added support for receiving from custom codes (sending will be in the next big release)
• Fixed received data not showing until after download completes, #17.
• Fixed a possible incorrect error that could happen when a text receive failed.
• Fixed an issue with the project module structure that made it impossible to download using go get or go install.
• Slightly faster application startup time.
• Fix issue with send items sometimes not being unselected correctly.
• Very minor performance improvement for receives.
• Avoid hardcoded defaults for advanced settings. We now use the defaults from ẁormhole-william directly instead.
• Release binaries are now available for FreeBSD and macOS (M1) on the arm64 architecture.
• Release binaries for macOS are now called that instead of darwin for clarity.
• Release binaries are now built with Go 1.16.7.
  • Fixes a couple security issues and contains a few bug fixes.
• Updated compress to v1.13.3.
  • Better and faster zip compression and decompression (brings faster directory sends and receives).
• Updated fyne to v2.0.4.
  • The title bar on Windows 10 now matches the system theme (light or dark theme).
  • Fixed the Windows 10 notifications view showing the text "app-id" as application name.
  • Fixed a couple issues when running in fullscreen.
  • Improved performance when drawing transparent rectangles or whitespace strings.

2.2.2 - A small hotfix release

• Fixed the receive code validation being too strict in some cases.
• Fixed incorrect version information on the about tab.

2.2.1 - A few minor bug fixes

• Fixed text wrapping being disabled for the text send/receive windows.
• Updated fyne to v2.0.3.
  • Fixed compilation on FreeBSD 13.
  • Fixed an issue when clicking links on macOS.
  • Improvements and fixes for text selection.
  • A few minor performance improvements.

2.2.0 - Much faster directory transfers

• Replace mholt/archiver with a custom zip extractor using klauspost/compress/zip.
  • Binaries are about 0.5 MB smaller due to not including unused compression standards.
  • Improved performance when receiving directories.
• Added advanced settings for the wormhole client.
  • Support for changing the default AppID, Rendezvous Server URL and Transit Relay Address used for transfers.
• Improved error handling for receives.
• Improved memory usage when when receiving text.
• Fixed files not being closed if send failed to start.
• Fixed main window being unresponsive when sending text.
• Fixed sent/received text staying in memory until the next send/receive.
• Updated wormhole-william to v1.0.5.
  • Switched to klauspost/compress/zip for up to 2.5x faster zip compression when sending directories.
• Updated fyne to v2.0.1.
  • Improved refresh and resizing of dialogs.
  • Initial support for building on Apple M1 computers (arm64).
  • Fixed some buttons not showing hover effects.
  • Fixed progress bars not having correct background.
  • Fixed pointer and cursor misalignment when typing text.
  • Fixed possible panic when selecting text.
  • Fixed cursor animation sometimes distorting the text.
• Release binaries are now built with Go 1.16.2.
  • Binaries for macOS no longer support 10.11 El Capitan and instead require 10.12 Sierra or later.
  • Windows binaries are built with ASLR support for improved security.
  • All binaries are now smaller due to using an improved linker.
  • Small performance improvements and other minor changes.

2.1.0 - Major ui changes and a lot of improvements

• Major rework of the receive tab to use progress bars.
  • Dialogs are no longer used to indicate finished receives.
• Redesigned settings tab to use a more modern layout.
  • The component slider setting now displays the currently selected number.
  • Fixed a bug where the component length slider did not have distinct steps.
  • Added a setting to allow existing files to overwritten (disabled by default).
• Multiple improvements to the text send and receive windows.
  • Opens faster by only being created once instead of on each send/receive.
  • Clicking CTRL + SHIFT in the send window now starts the send.
  • Tab characters are now displayed correctly (bug fix in fyne).
  • Buttons now use better wording and better icons.
• Some small performance improvements for send and receive of files and directories.
• Receives are now properly rejected instead of just not being downloaded.
• Better notification handling by indicating success and fail for both sends and receives.
• Copying the code of a sent item is now slightly faster.
• Fixed an issue where existing files could be overwritten.
• Fixed a couple possible race conditions on sending data.
• Fixed an issue that prevented enter on the numpad from starting the receive.
• Fixed an issue where file extensions would be displayed as . when waiting for data.
• Fixed a bug that caused the window to not be able to shrink to the correct smallest size.
• Multiple other code cleanups, restructurings and minor fixes.
• Added an appstream metadata file for Linux and BSD systems (installed via make install).
• Updated fyne to v2.0.0.
  • The tabs are now animated to be more responsible on change.
  • Buttons now show an animation on tapped.
  • Theme changes and other improvements to styling.
  • Multiple smaller performance optimizations for widgets.
  • Improved scaling on HIDPI displays.
• Release binaries are now built with Go 1.14.15.
  • A security fix for crypto/elliptic and a few smaller bug fixes.

2.0.2 - A few fixes while waiting for 2.1.0

• Fix a bug that prevented folder send to work on Windows.
• Fix an issue where the ui would become unresponsive on dismissing text send.
• Fixed a bug where the application could crash on typing an incorrect code.
• Sending large files, folders or text will no longer slow down the ui.
• Updated fyne to v1.4.3.
  • Fix an issue with notifications sometimes not showing on MacOS.
• Release binaries are now built with Go 1.14.13.
  • Improved performance thanks to multiple runtime improvements.
  • Windows binaries now have DEP (Data Execution Prevention) enabled.

2.0.1 - Minor fixes and FreeBSD release binaries

• Binaries for freeBSD/amd64 are now available on the release page.
• Corrected the icon for the receive tab.
• Updated fyne to v1.4.2.
  • Dialog shadow does not resize correctly sometimes.
  • Possible crash when minimising app on Windows.
  • File chooser ignores drive Z on Windows.

2.0.0 - Code rework and many new features

• Massive rework and rewrite of code to simplify and make it more maintainable.
• Use new list widget with custom layout for showing sends and receives.
• Show a button for copying the send code. See #3 for more information.
• Show an icon for each file, folder, or text snippet that is sent.
  • Includes MIME type and extension information.
• Big UI refresh thanks to new theme rework in fyne v1.4.0.
• Added support for sending and receiving folders.
• Sending files now properly closes them afterwards.
• Fixed a bug that caused component length to not be saved between application restarts.
• Switch to adaptive theme by default.
  • Will changes depending on dark/light mode on windows 10 and macOS.
• Added folder picker for selecting a downloads directory.
• Multiple performance and memory improvements.
  • Sends and receives are reusing the same wormhole client instead of creating a new one each time.
  • Dialogs are now created once and then shown when appropriate (not when showing errors).
  • Themes are no longer checked too many times on startup.
  • Using less goroutines and channels internally.
• The Makefile now supports uninstalling too (for Linux and BSD).
• Release binaries are now built for linux/arm64 as well.
• Add initial build and package support for BSD.
  • The next release will have binaries for freeBSD/amd64.
• Updated fyne to v1.4.0.

1.3.0 - Code refractoring, new features and fixes

• Refactored code to simplify and be more maintainable.
• Added support for sending notifications on send and receive.
  • Can be turned on in settings.
• Added an about page with logo and version number.
• Added build scripts and .desktop file for Linux packaging.
• Added a new fancy way of displaying text files.
  • Support for saving text to a file on receive.
  • Support for copying all text to clipboard on receive.
• Make sure that sending text updates progress too.
• Changed arrow down icon to download icon.
• Make file saves more reliable.
• Release binaries are built using fyne-cross v2.2.0.
  • Now built with Go 1.13.15.
• Updated wormhole-william to v1.0.4.
• Updated fyne from v1.3.1 to v1.3.3.
  • Brings a bunch of bugfixes and favourite icons in file picker.

1.2.0 - Application icon, fixes and new features

• Fixed text transfer between devices.
• Only set the max value for progressbars once.
• Add support for receiving on pressing enter/return.
• Added an application icon based on an actual wormhole.
• Moved out custom widget code to it's own package.
  • Added code copy popup menu on right click to send codes.

1.1.0 - New features and fixes

• Added progression bars when sending files.
• Added filename and status information to the receive page.
• Made headers bold for information on the send and receive tabs.
• Fixed an issue with the EventQueue filling up due to blocking calls.

1.0.0 - Initial version

The first release of wormhole-gui.