Nightly 2026-08-30
Pre-release
Pre-release
Fixed
- Installing an update no longer asks you to close Portkey Drop first, and no longer leaves the app sitting there with nothing happening. Setup checks whether the app is running, and it was being started while the app was still on screen. Portkey Drop now closes itself and Setup opens on its own first page, the way the portable and macOS updates already worked. Quitting for an update is also final now: the download's progress window could keep the program alive after its window had closed, which left the update waiting for a program that never went away.
- Leaving Portkey Drop while a transfer was running froze the window instead of closing it. Quitting closed the connection, and that waited for the transfer to let go of it -- on the window's own thread, so nothing repainted until the transfer finished. The connection is now closed out of the way of the window.
- Downloading a folder no longer freezes the window for the length of the transfer. The connection check behind the status bar and tray tooltip waited for the connection to be free, and a transfer holds it for as long as its work takes -- the whole listing of a folder, then each file in turn -- so the window stopped repainting and Windows offered to close it. The check no longer waits: a connection busy with a transfer is reported as connected.