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@AurelioAvila AurelioAvila released this 30 Aug 18:26
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PC Tweaker Uninstaller 0.8.1 — its own update-signing key

No feature changes. This release exists to fix one thing: the auto-updater
trusted the same signing key as PC Tweaker and Redaxa — three separate
products verifying updates against one shared private key. A compromise of
that one key, together with push access to any one of the three
repositories, could have signed a malicious update for all three install
bases at once, not just the product actually breached.

What changed

  • A new, Uninstaller-only Ed25519 keypair now signs its updates. This
    release is still signed with the old shared key, because that is the
    only key existing 0.8.0 installs trust — it is what lets this update
    reach them at all. From the release after this one onward, the
    Uninstaller signs only with its own key.
  • Nothing else moved: same binary, same behaviour, same detection logic.

If you're on 0.8.0 already

You update to this release exactly as you would any other — nothing to do
by hand. If you skip checking for updates for a long stretch and land
directly on a future release without passing through this one first, the
auto-update check for that one jump may fail silently, since your app would
still be trusting the old key. A normal manual install fixes it, the same
as installing 0.8.0 the first time did.