• Fixed sporadic crash on startup due to wrong usage of libwnck. The ability to take screenshot of a window is currently broken, but that’s better than not starting at all.
• Fixed Pixelate tool in Draw to decrease leaking of data from under pixelation
• Fixed quality setting of PNG images

New features:

• Added AVIF format support

New optional dependency for AVIF support: Gdk Pixbuf loader from libavif, e.g. libavif-gdk-pixbuf in Debian, or as part of libavif package in some other distros.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed loading and saving profiles
• Fixed the editor being unavailable under some circumstances
• Fixed crash when selection has zero width or height
• Check to prevent user setting a filename pattern without wildcards, which lead to crashes
• Fixed crash on Wayland under some circumstances
• Fixed crash when the autostart .desktop file is not writable
• Fixed handling images pasted from clipboard: they are now handled the same as screenshots made by Shutter itself, rather than being put into /tmp
• Fixed error when using the -s option with a zero coordinate for the selection origin

New features:

• Added WebP support
• In Selection mode added an option to take screenshot on releasing the mouse button without confirmation

New optional dependency for WebP support: webp-pixbuf-loader

• Fix not appearing tray icon on system startup under rare circumstances
• Fix crash on launch for new installs

• Improved code quality a bit, added a few unit tests (thanks to Alexander Ruzhnikov!)
• Fixed font size in the editor
• Fixed loading of profiles
• Fixed crash when taking too small screenshots
• Fixed appearance of the web capture button
• Fixed XML schema of AppData
• Allow more valid character in filenames
• Removed dysfunctional upload plugins
• Added a visible warning about limited functionality on Wayland

New dependency: Moo

Dropped dependencies: libwww-mechanize-perl, libwww-perl, libnet-oauth-perl

The fix is the compatibility with GLib 2.70. GLib strictened the way how GApplication is initialized, and Shutter apparently was doing it incorrectly before, resulting in inability to run Shutter again to bring up the main window, or to take screenshots from command line. The fix works with older GLib as well.

The new feature is a rudimentary Wayland support. Don’t get too excited about it yet. All it does is it asks the compositor to let user take the screenshot, and user will be presented with some implementation-defined UI to select the window or area, which we cannot control at all. Maybe the limitations will be lifted in future, but no promises. Also there are multiple cases where it doesn’t work, e.g.:

• The compositor doesn’t even support XDG Desktop Portal API
• The backend for the XDG Desktop Portal API doesn’t match the compositor running, e.g. Gnome’s portal backend cannot take screenshot on KDE, and instead it silently does nothing

We can’t even meaningfully handle these cases, other than adding a huge timeout to the call, because perhaps the user is just taking time interacting the UI shown by the portal backend.

Finally, dependency on Gtk3::ImageView is bumped to v10: the improved selection tool added in Shutter 0.98 got moved upstream.

• Fixed several more regressions of the Gtk3 switch:
  • Fixed File->Open dialog
  • Fixed Autoscroll option of the Draw tool
• Added support for gir1.2-ayatanaappindicator3, because some distros don’t have gir1.2-appindicator3 anymore. If neither of AppIndicator3 nor AyatanaAppIndicator3 is available, on some DEs you will miss the tray icon, so it’s recommended to have at least one of these 2 libraries installed.
• Fixed schema of the appdata XML, use https in URLs in it
• Added search keywords to the shutter.desktop file
• Icons cleanup
  • Dropped a copy of the whole Tango icon set, which was usable from the Draw Tool. Any icon can still be imported from the the local disk, including even Tango ones if they are installed
  • Fixed shutter icon size
  • Removed duplication of the same icons
  • Removed logo images for dropped image hosters

Today we are happy to announce that the creator of linuxuprising has taken over the maintanence of the official PPA and updated it with packages for Ubuntu 20.04 and 21.04.

Users of the PPA by linuxuprising are advised to switch to the official PPA, since the linuxuprising PPA will only be maintained for a limited time.

Fixes:

• show main window when launching Shutter and an instance is already running
• in selection mode allow to move the selection
• in selection mode allow to trigger the screenshot with doubleclick
• fix the Print button
• when uploading a screenshot via FTP, copying the URL to clipboard is now functional
• fix the “Torn paper” and “Watermark” plugins

Crash fixes:

• when doing screenshot if “include cursor” is set
• when using text annotation tools in the editor
• when launching on Wayland. Note that the screenshot functionality is still not available on Wayland yet
• when using a DE without a dedicated Pictures/ directory

Additionally:

• the tray icon wasn’t shown on Gnome, making it impossible to interact with the app after the main window is closed/hidden
  • if both libappindicator is not available and the legacy tray icon doesn’t work (it’s not supported by gnome), closing the window will now terminate the application rather than hiding it to the non-existing tray
• copy to clipboard didn’t work
• capturing full screen on multiple screens didn’t work