Shep 1.1.0

Shep runs on Windows.

What is new

• Windows 10 and 11, x86-64. The same app from the same source: every service signed in on its own, the favicon in the rail, the count from the page title. The installer writes to your own account, %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Shep, and never asks for an administrator; the zip is the same build with nothing to install.
• The window keeps Windows' own buttons. The title bar is Shep's, carrying the page controls and find, and the system paints minimise, maximise and close at the end of it. It follows the light or dark style there as it does on GNOME.
• The notification area takes the coloured mark, rather than the flat white one a GNOME panel asks for, and it grows a red dot while a service has something unread.
• Start when you log in writes Windows' own Run key, where the Linux build writes an autostart entry.
• Shep updates itself on Windows too, from this repository's releases, as it does on Linux.

Nothing changes for Linux. The packages are built by a newer electron-builder, whose NSIS is what the Windows installer needed, and are otherwise the same.

Installing on Windows

Download Shep-1.1.0-windows-x64-setup.exe and run it, or Shep-1.1.0-windows-x64.zip and extract it where you like.

Neither is signed. The first run of either one meets SmartScreen: More info, then Run anyway. For the zip, ticking Unblock in the downloaded file's properties before extracting settles it for every file inside at once. The warning is about the missing signature rather than about what is installed, and no installer can talk Windows out of it.

Update

1.0.1 on Linux finds this release on its next start, downloads it and offers Restart Now. To look for it without restarting, use Preferences › Advanced › Check for Updates. To install it by hand, take Shep-1.1.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage, or the .deb or .tar.gz, from the files below. Your services and sign-ins stay where they are.

On Windows this is the first release, so there is nothing to update from.

Known limits

• x86-64 only, on both systems. There is no ARM build.
• The Windows builds are unsigned, and SmartScreen counts reputation per file, so every new version starts from zero.
• Tested on Fedora with GNOME on Wayland, and on Windows 11.
• On Windows, screen sharing goes through Shep's own picker; the desktop's own picker is Wayland's.