v0.27.0

All Platforms:

• Cloud accounts: connect Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox under
  Settings -> Cloud Accounts. Sign-in happens in your own browser, tokens are
  kept in your system's keychain, and uploads go straight from your machine to
  your account. Nothing passes through anyone else's servers.
• Upload from the preview editor: a new Upload action (Ctrl+U, Cmd+U on
  macOS) sends the capture to a cloud account and copies a link to it.
• Live upload progress: a progress meter in the editor titlebar shows the
  upload as it happens, with cancel a click away. When it finishes, the meter
  turns success colored and stays until your next upload, and a trash button
  can take the upload back off the cloud if you change your mind.
• Upload progress in the tray: while an upload runs, the tray and menu bar
  icon shows a clear, full-size progress counter.
• YouTube uploads for self-configured setups: connect a YouTube account and
  upload videos with a title and visibility of your choice. This one needs your
  own (free) API credentials; the docs walk you through it step by step.
• A real documentation site: guides for the capture tool, the preview
  editor, settings, the CLI, and cloud account setup now live at
  https://cck.thedragon.dev.
• Recording toolbar stays quiet: toolbar tooltips no longer pop up over
  your content while a recording is running.

Fixes:

• Settings window could hang on close: closing settings right after cloud
  account work no longer wedges the window.

v0.26.0

All Platforms:

• Save and Save As have been simplifed: pressing Save opens a picker prefilled with
  where it would have saved, so you can always confirm or change the destination.
• Better automatic options: Check out the new options under _Settings ->
  Preview Editor. In the preview editor, you now have Save, Copy, Share, and
  Upload. Behaviors are intuitive and succinct.
• Native share integration: On platforms that support it, the preview editor
  has a new "Share" file action available. This will launch your platform's
  native share widget.
• Capture toolbar polish: Every option now has a tooltip, and the button
  used to capture has been changed to a checkmark to make it more
  obvious.
• Toolbar group labels: each group of buttons in the editor's toolbar now
  has a small label describing what it does (and can be turned off in settings).
• Curved arrows: arrows now have a third handle in the middle you can drag
  to bend them.
• The selection tool is easier to use: selecting no longer looks like
  drawing, and pressing Escape now clears your selection.
• Scanner can now be refreshed: The scanner mode now has a refresh button that you can
  use to freely re-scan what's in the selected region.

Windows:

• Fixed not being able to open the overlay editor after opening a
  dialog like Save/Settings.

v0.25.1

All Platforms:

• Instant capture: new shortcuts that save and copy without opening the editor.
• Capture notifications: an editor-less capture says what it copied, and clicking it
  finds the file.
• Shortcut conflicts: two capture shortcuts can no longer be given the same keys.
• The editor opens faster: copying to the clipboard no longer holds up the editor
  while it opens.
• Window captures are clean: a window capture can no longer contain a window you did
  not pick.
• Failed recordings explain themselves: the reason is shown instead of a generic
  failure.
• Edited images keep their capture info.
• Scanner improvements: the scanner now reads what is on your screen right now instead
  of a copy taken when the capture started, so switching windows no longer gives you the
  old window's text. Your real screen stays visible while you scan, and a refresh button
  in the toolbar re-reads it whenever you want.

Linux (COSMIC):

• Recording starts right away on multi-GPU machines: it used to pause for several
  seconds at the start of every take before falling back.
• Audio meters work: the microphone and system audio level indicators now show up
  correctly when a recording starts.

macOS:

• Permission prompts come to the front instead of opening behind other windows.
• macOS 13 is now fully supported: screenshots and recordings work, not just an
  error message.
• Failed captures explain themselves instead of the app silently closing.
• Pressing a capture shortcut repeatedly no longer leaves old capture windows stuck
  open.

Windows:

• Captures work on scaled displays: above 100% scaling every capture failed
  instantly and silently. Fixed.
• A failed capture says so instead of closing with nothing.
• A stuck tray icon no longer swallows captures.

v0.24.0

All Platforms:

• Fixed a recording with no audio at all: on machines using the software
  recording path, two parts of the pipeline could collide and leave the
  recording silent.
• A failed recording no longer breaks the next one: if a recording session
  died unexpectedly it could leave a stuck background process holding the file,
  and every later recording would fail until it was cleared by hand. That can no
  longer happen, and a session that does die is cleaned up automatically.
• Interrupted recordings are kept, not lost: a recording cut short by a
  crash is recovered alongside your other captures instead of being discarded.
• Recordings start faster: the encoder was being detected twice at the start
  of every recording, once needlessly.
• More natural voice levels: the automatic gain now leaves more room above
  your speaking level, so louder syllables keep their punch instead of being
  flattened against the ceiling. Your level meter will read a little lower than
  before, which is the extra headroom.
• Video editor settings: the Preview Editor settings page has a new Video
  Editor section, so save-on-copy, close-on-copy and copy-on-delete can differ
  between images and videos instead of sharing one set.
• Small region selections work: dragging a very thin selection produced
  nothing at all, with no error. Fixed.
• Crop button now reads "Apply Crop".

Diagnostics:

• Debug logging: Settings → Health → Debug has an opt-in "Enable Debug
  Logging" switch, off by default, with a button that opens the log folder. When
  something goes wrong, the log names it, which makes a bug report a single file
  instead of a conversation.

Linux:

• Folder buttons open the file manager: buttons that open a folder did
  nothing at all. Fixed.

macOS:

• Failures explain themselves: a capture that could not complete used to
  close with nothing and no message. It now says what happened and, where the
  fix is known, how to fix it.
• Screen Recording permission: if the permission is missing or has been
  invalidated (which macOS often does after a system update), the app now says
  so and gives the steps to restore it.
• Permissions are clearer: Accessibility is now labelled Recommended rather
  than Optional, explains what it is used for, and can be skipped without being
  asked again on every launch.
• Manage Permissions has been added to the menu bar item, so the permissions
  window can be reopened whenever you want.
• Stuck captures clean themselves up: a capture that never manages to open
  now exits on its own instead of lingering as an invisible process.

Windows:

• Nothing new this release.

Known issues:

• On Windows 10, the shaded overlay shown when selecting a capture area renders
  solid black instead of see-through, and frosted-glass window effects do not
  apply. Windows 11 is unaffected. Still under investigation.

Note: Windows 10 is not officially supported, but effort is being made to
ensure rudimentary compatibility at this time.

v0.23.0

All Platforms:

• Hand tool and a reorganized toolbar: Crop, Select, and Hand now sit
  together as one group. The hand tool (H, or hold middle click) pans the canvas
  without touching your annotations. The bottom bar gained a live info block
  showing the current resolution and original capture file size.
• Zoom range increased: The preview editor zooms further than before, with
  the 100% detent still snapping exactly under your cursor.
• Sharper icons everywhere: Every icon in the app is now drawn on whole
  pixels instead of being resampled onto a fractional grid. This leads to much
  cleaner icon display.
• Crop framing: Entering crop now zooms out to leave a consistent margin
  around the image on all sides, so the handles are always reachable and there
  is room to expand the canvas outward.
• Crop UX: The top toolbar items not related to crop now vanish while in a
  cropping session.
• Annotations stay visible while cropping: Marks that fall outside the
  current crop rectangle are still drawn during a crop session, so you can see
  what you are about to cut. Covermarks and spotlight dimming are hidden during
  crop for usability, and return when you accept.
• Live selection preview: Dragging a selection box in the canvas will now
  show a border around items that get included in the selection in real time as
  you continue dragging.
• Covermarks cover expanded canvas: When you crop past the image bounds, the
  covermark pattern now fills the expanded area instead of stopping at the
  original edge.
• Video share parity: The video editor's share actions now match the image
  editor's. Copied recordings get a proper name, and a share that cannot be
  baked is refused with a reason instead of silently producing the wrong file.
• Fixed: The preview editor no longer crashes when zooming in quickly on a
  large capture with many annotations.

Windows:

• Windows 10 window controls: The minimize, restore, and close buttons now
  render on Windows 10. They were previously invisible while still being
  clickable.
• Diagnostics report: Windows builds now write a small text report to
  %LOCALAPPDATA%\cosmic-capture-kit\logs describing the graphics adapter and
  window settings. It exists to track down a Windows 10 display problem and
  contains no screenshots, file names, or personal data. It will be removed once
  that issue is resolved.

Known issues:

• On Windows 10, the shaded overlay shown when selecting a capture area renders
  solid black instead of see-through, and frosted-glass window effects do not
  apply. Windows 11 is unaffected. This is under active investigation, and the
  diagnostics report above is part of tracking it down.

Note: Windows 10 is not officially supported, but effort is being made to
ensure rudimentary compatibility at this time.

v0.22.0

All Platforms:

• Crop tool: Crop any screenshot from the preview editor (press C or use the toolbar). Classic thirds-grid selection with draggable edges and corners, edge snapping with modifier override, and Enter to apply. Crop past the image bounds to expand the canvas: annotations work on the expanded space, and everything stays non-destructive until you save.
• Companion colors: Press X to swap the active annotation color with its perfect companion color. Press X again to swap right back.
• Multi-select groups: Selecting multiple annotations now wraps them in a group box you can drag, scale, and right-click as one. Scaling keeps every item's size, position, and overlap in perfect unison.
• Tool shortcuts: Spotlight joined the highlighter group on U. The color picker moved to S, freeing C for the crop tool, so Photoshop muscle memory transfers.

macOS:

• Emoji picker: Press Ctrl+Cmd+Space while editing a text annotation to open the system emoji picker. Picking an emoji drops it right at your cursor.
• Display consistency: Annotation strokes, text, and step markers now render at the same visual size on Retina and standard displays.

v0.21.1

All Platforms:

• Text annotations: Add text to any capture. Click to drop a box that grows as you type, or drag one out to a fixed width and let the text wrap inside it. Pick fonts, sizes, colors and outline weight. Dragged selection boxes match Photoshop's behavior for text vs paragraph bounds.
• Emoji support: The text annotation tool also supports the full emoji space.
• Save, Save As, Copy, Delete: Much clearer actions with failure notices when something goes wrong.
• Tool shortcuts changed: Tool keys now follow Photoshop, so muscle memory transfers. Several tools are now grouped for cycling a single hotkey.
• Multi-select: Shift-click to build a selection with any tool armed, and duplicate several annotations at once. Ctrl with a drawing tool lays a new shape over the top instead of grabbing what's underneath.
• Step markers Now remembers the last used size.
• Polish: Updated preview editor toolbar design.

macOS:

• Improved Encoder performance for recordings.

v0.20.0

All Platforms:

• Step markers: Number the steps in your screenshots. Click to drop a numbered circle — markers count 1, 2, 3… and renumber themselves when you delete one from the middle.
• UI Updates: Reduced clutter in the window preview editor by grouping tools
• Lighter on memory: Significant reductions across the app — capture sessions, the preview editor, and the tray icon all use less RAM.
• Multiple capture: Improved support for multiple window preview editors open at once.

Windows:

• Fixes a bug where automatic update checks don't always trigger

v0.19.2

All Platforms:

• Pencil: Freehand drawing arrives to the image editor. Paired with an eraser tool, you can now mark up your images as you see fit!
• Select with the pointer tool: click, Ctrl/Shift-click, or sweep a band to build a multi-selection, then move it as a group. Ctrl+A selects everything.
• Place instantly: double-click any shape tool to drop a ready-made, pre-selected item in the center of the shot. Hold Ctrl while a tool is armed to draw on top of existing items instead of moving them.

macOS & Windows:

• The zoom slider's 100% tick now sits exactly on 100%, matching Linux.

v0.19.0

All Platforms:

• Pencil: Freehand drawing arrives to the image editor. Paired with an eraser tool, you can now mark up your images as you see fit!
• Select with the pointer tool: click, Ctrl/Shift-click, or sweep a band to build a multi-selection, then move it as a group. Ctrl+A selects everything.
• Place instantly: double-click any shape tool to drop a ready-made, pre-selected item in the center of the shot. Hold Ctrl while a tool is armed to draw on top of existing items instead of moving them.

macOS & Windows:

• The zoom slider's 100% tick now sits exactly on 100%, matching Linux.