Before you know it, it looks like a whole year has passed now from the first public revision of GScrot (what Shutter was previously known as) was published on April 9, 2008, at 21:19. Shutter one year old now! It seems that time passed so quickly, so lets look at what was accomplished in the last year.
A new mini-howto is now available that describes how can you upload your screenshots directly to Flickr from Shutter! It’s available in our FAQ & Help section:
Shutter 0.70.2 is out, fixing seven discovered issues as reported by our users.
This is the second and last release in the 0.70.x release series; the next 0.80 release will be focusing on improving the drawing tool – including an “Undo” feature, double-clicking to update items, a crop tool and instant-apply for property changes (for example, line width, color, and etc. will be updated as soon as you set a new option – this allows real-time “preview”).
If you’ve added the Shutter Ubuntu repository, you’ll be notified about an update automatically – otherwise, see our downloads page for ArchLinux, Fedora, Mandriva, Mepis packages and the source code.
After some suggestions and careful considerations, we’ve now decided to rename GScrot into Shutter. Along with that decision, we now also have a nicer logo (thanks to Pascal Grochol), and a nicer website!
If you’ve been subscribed to our PPA, then you’ll automatically be notified of an upgrade. Otherwise, you can download an updated version of Shutter here, which will replace GScrot. Instead of GScrot in Applications→Accessories, you’ll now see Shutter 
Thanks to the community at ubuntuforums.org for contributing to the name brainstorming, and especially damis648 for coming up with the name.
If you are using Mandriva or Arch Linux you might like the newly added links to external downloads / builds for those platforms.
Check out our download area:
http://shutter-project.org/downloads
If you discover any packages or builds for platforms that are not listed here please let us know.
If you like Shutter and find it useful, help keep it actively developed by clicking the donate button or sending me a gift from my Amazon wishlist. You can even flattr our thing!
