Nightly 2026-08-19

Changed

• Portkey Drop is now a native application written in Rust rather than Python. The Windows download is about a fifth of the size it was (7 MB portable, down from 36 MB) and starts without unpacking a bundled interpreter first. Everything it did before it still does: SFTP, FTP, FTPS, and WebDAV, the same keyboard shortcuts, the same sound packs, and the same saved sites and passwords, which are read from where the previous version left them.
• macOS builds now ship as a disk image containing a universal app bundle, so one download works on both Intel and Apple silicon Macs, and updating no longer leaves you to finish the job in Finder.
• Linux downloads are paused for this release. The build links a system library from an older distribution and will not start on current ones, and the AppImage does not carry its own copy of the desktop toolkit. Windows and macOS are unaffected.

Fixed

• Speech could corrupt memory on every platform. Portkey Drop's description of the speech library's configuration was forty-seven bytes shorter than the real one, so starting speech wrote past the space set aside for it. Windows and macOS survived it; Linux crashed on the first announcement, which is how it came to light.
• Settings, Site Manager, and the import window announced the wrong labels: each field was read out with the previous field's label, spin controls were read as unlabelled, and the first control on every page had no label at all.
• The update check said a new version was available and then offered only a Close button. It now offers to download and install it, with progress you can hear and a Cancel that stops the download.
• Release notes shown in the update window are no longer read out with their formatting characters.