Clipboard Manager 0.10.0

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Crash fixes from the first testers, a built-in update button and a quieter start with Windows.

Added

• In-app update check: Settings → About → Check for updates (also Check for updates… in the tray
  menu). Runs only on an explicit click and contacts only GitHub; Install update downloads the
  EXE for this PC, verifies its size and SHA-256 against the release's SHA256SUMS.txt, replaces
  the EXE in place and restarts. Settings, history and autostart are kept. Folders that need
  administrator rights get a link to the releases page instead.

Changed

• The privacy guarantee is now "no network connections unless you click Check for updates"; a
  test keeps networking code confined to the updater.
• The About section shows the version without the build commit.
• Quiet start at sign-in: when Windows starts the app, it shows no window or notification and
  never takes the focus. Clipboard capture and the shortcut work immediately; for 45 seconds (or
  until the app is first opened) it runs at below-normal priority and defers popup pre-warming and
  cleanup. Notices from that phase appear when the history or the tray menu is first opened, at
  the latest after those 45 seconds.
• Windows lists the app as "Clipboard Manager" (instead of "ClipboardManager") in Startup apps,
  Task Manager and on notifications.
• Settings: a link next to "Start with Windows" opens the Windows startup-apps page, where the same
  entry can be switched off.

Fixed

• The app no longer crashes when the history popup is opened and closed quickly, or after Windows
  was locked and unlocked (Absturz Report #1, Clipboard Manager crashes after Windows is locked and unlocked #2). A hint row in the popup (empty history, skipped copy, no
  results, loading) used a theme color that the Fluent theme only defines as an alias; every time
  the row was built it threw, and repeated errors ended the app.
• A popup that fails is now replaced instead of taking the app down, unlock, resume and display
  changes warm the popup up only once, and the popup always hides even if closing fails.
• The error message after a crash now names the log file and offers to open its folder, and is no
  longer the "could not start" text when the app had been running.

Download

File	For
ClipboardManager.exe	Windows 10 / 11, x64 – just run it, no installer, no admin rights
ClipboardManager-arm64.exe	Windows 11 on ARM
ClipboardManager-x64.zip	the x64 EXE plus license files, smaller download

Already installed? Settings → About → Check for updates installs new versions in place (from
0.10.0 on); settings and history are kept.

Note

The EXE is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may show Windows protected your PC:
click More info → Run anyway. Verify the download with SHA256SUMS.txt or
gh attestation verify ClipboardManager.exe -R Secoolioo/clipboard-manager.

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This discussion was created from the release Clipboard Manager 0.10.0.