0.11.0

This release includes various new features, stability improvements, and security fixes. You are strongly advised to update to this new version.

⚠️ Due to issues with Windows signing certificates, we are not able to provide a Windows release of Dangerzone at this time. This release page will be updated as soon as the .msi packages are ready.

Breaking changes

• Our Linux packages no longer include the container image by default. For both new and existing users, the container image will be downloaded at first use, and then will be kept up to date. If your installation is in an air-gapped environment, or if you prefer not to get updates, you can install the dangerzone-full variant (#1069) instead.

  This is a breaking change if you are using the Linux CLI, as it no longer has a ready-to-use conversion sandbox. New installations must initialize the sandbox once with dangerzone-image upgrade (or run the GUI, which prompts for the download) before dangerzone-cli can convert documents. Users of the dangerzone-full package or users who already have an image installed are unaffected.

Highlights

• Optical character recognition in the sanitized PDF is now happening in parallel. Internal tests have shown a speedup of up to x6, but your mileage may vary (#1329).
• It is now possible to convert another set of documents after the first batch (#549), or add more documents to an ongoing conversion (#1464).
• You can now install Dangerzone from the Microsoft Store and follow updates automatically.

Fixed

• User-selected output directory is now remembered across sessions (#1123).
• (MacOS, Windows) The theme correctly detects dark/light mode changes (#1238).
• (Linux) The default PDF reader selection is now fixed (#814).
• (Linux) HWP and ODF formats are now linked correctly to Dangerzone on Linux (#646).
• (Linux) Searching for applications to handle PDFs is now handled better, thanks to an updated way to look for Desktop entries in XDG_DATA_DIRS (#1413).

Platform changes

• Ubuntu: Add support for Ubuntu 26.04 (Resolute Raccoon) (#1467) and drop support for Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin), as it has reached end of life (#1468).
• Windows 10: Add a deprecation warning (#1357).
• Fedora: Add support for Fedora 44 (#1462) and drop support for Fedora 41 and 42, as they have reached end of life.
• Debian: Drop support for Debian bull’s-eye (#1482).

Contributors

We want to thank all the folks who gave us a hand for this release, either by opening issues or contributing some code. Special thanks go to (in no specific order):

• @carsonjan, for keeping the README up to date.
• @HastD @moaaz-ae @NielDuysters, for making the detection of PDF readers across several Linux distributions more stable.
• @jw409, for their work on maintaining the user-selected output directory across sessions.
• @paulschreiber, for typography on copyrights.
• @heathdutton, for the help making the dark/light mode detect changes properly on macOS.
• @herbenderbler, to help us triage a CPython CVE.
• @hwine, for helping us clarify support for Windows on ARM.

The full list of changes can be seen in the changelog.