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@SnowTimSwiss SnowTimSwiss released this 16 Dec 18:19
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πŸš€ Timenc Alpha 3.0

"Cross-Platform Evolution"


Release Date: 16 December 2025
Status: Alpha Release


✨ Highlights

  • 🎨 Complete UI Redesign – Modern, GitHub-inspired dark theme
  • ⌨️ Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts – Fully configurable with profiles
  • 🌐 Native Cross-Platform Apps – Windows, macOS & Linux

🎨 User Interface

New Design System

  • Consistent dark theme with clear visual hierarchy
  • Sidebar navigation with hover & focus feedback
  • Improved form layouts, spacing, and borders
  • Smooth animations & gradient progress bars
  • Visual password strength indicator
  • Enhanced drag & drop interactions

⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts

  • Centralized shortcut management
  • Conflict detection for duplicate assignments
  • Save & load shortcut profiles
  • Professionally designed default presets
  • Live preview before applying changes
  • One-click reset to factory defaults

🌐 Platform Support

Supported Platforms

  • Windows (x64): Installer, Start Menu, native notifications
  • macOS (Intel & Apple Silicon): Universal app, Dock & menu bar integration
  • Linux: AppImage with desktop integration

As well as any other platform with Python installed


πŸ”§ Settings Panel

  • Language selection: English / German (restart required)
  • Direct access to shortcut customization
  • Persistent settings across sessions
  • Clean, modern category layout

πŸ”„ Migration from Alpha 2.x

βœ… Backward Compatible

  • All existing .timenc files remain compatible
  • No changes to encryption format (v2)
  • Same strong security foundation

⚠️ Breaking Changes

  • Completely redesigned UI
  • New settings storage location
  • File associations may need re-registration

πŸ› οΈ Technical Improvements

Core Architecture

  • Improved multithreading
  • Better memory and error handling
  • Noticeable performance improvements

Security

  • More comprehensive memory wiping
  • Additional integrity checks
  • Improved keyfile handling

User Experience

  • Non-blocking status notifications
  • Intelligent filename suggestions
  • More accurate progress reporting

πŸ› οΈ Bugfixes

  • You can now en- and decrypt a file in the same session of the app