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@mtom2k mtom2k released this 18 Aug 00:26
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Capturo 0.20.0

Windows binaries are not code-signed. Capturo has no Authenticode certificate, so SmartScreen shows an unknown-publisher warning on first run. Verify the checksums at the bottom of these notes before trusting a download.

Placing text actually works now

  • Clicking away places the text. Typing into a text box and then clicking elsewhere in the
    selection used to lose everything typed. The click reopened an empty box at the new point before
    the old one was committed, so the commit saw an empty value and nothing was drawn.
    Ctrl/Cmd+Enter still commits explicitly, and Esc is now the only way to discard.
  • Esc cancels the text, not the screenshot. One press used to discard the text and cancel
    the whole capture, taking every other annotation with it. The first press now discards the text;
    a second cancels the capture, the same way Esc already backs out of the transparency panel.
  • The resize corner is easy to grab. It was the browser's own ~15px grip, which demanded
    near-pixel aim. It is now a 24px target straddling the corner, so it can be grabbed from outside
    the box as well as inside, and a resize you drag is no longer undone by the next keystroke.

A clearer toolbar

Save carries its own green accent instead of reading as a secondary control beside the two
filled copy actions, and Cancel carries a red tint that deepens on hover, so the one
destructive button in the row is identifiable before it is clicked.

New logo

Capturo has a new mark, applied everywhere: executable and installer, Settings and GIF preview windows, notifications, the Windows notification area, and the macOS menu bar. Icons now have transparent corners rather than the delivered backdrop, and the macOS menu bar uses a monochrome template that follows the light or dark bar and matches the system glyphs beside it.

macOS is a working preview

Verified on macOS 26.2: a menu-bar click starts a capture, the overlay covers the whole display including the menu bar and Dock, Esc cancels immediately, and region selection, annotation, save, clipboard copy, GIF recording, GIF preview, and GIF copy all work.

Capturo-0.20.0-universal.dmg is a universal binary and runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel.

⚠️ This macOS build is not notarized

Capturo has no Apple Developer ID certificate yet, so the app is ad-hoc signed. macOS will refuse to open it after download with "Capturo is damaged and can't be opened". That is Gatekeeper's response to an un-notarized download, not a corrupted file. To run it anyway, after dragging Capturo to Applications:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Capturo.app

Only do that if you trust the checksum below. A notarized build is the fix and remains the blocker for macOS support.

macOS also ties the Screen Recording permission to the exact build, so an ad-hoc signed Capturo asks for it again after an upgrade.

Copy text and HDR-correct capture are Windows-only: both run through the native Windows helper.

Fixed

  • Blur now actually blurs the whole region. It was fed only the pixels inside its own
    rectangle, so the blur read transparency past every edge: the effect faded towards the border
    and the untouched original showed through underneath, and raising Intensity only widened the
    faded band. Regions are now blurred with a margin of the surrounding image.
  • Copy text now shows a clipboard holding "Aa" and carries its own violet accent beside image
    Copy's blue, so the two copy actions read as a pair without competing for the same colour.

Also fixed on macOS since 0.18.1

  • The overlay could not cover the menu bar or Dock, so a duplicate Dock appeared and the menu bar could not be captured.
  • Esc did nothing before a region was dragged, including from the global shortcut.
  • Screen Recording was requested repeatedly, and Capturo stacked its own dialog on top of Apple's prompt.
  • Copying a finished GIF silently did nothing while reporting success.
  • The app declared five unused camera, microphone and Bluetooth permissions inherited from Electron. It now declares only Screen Recording and cannot capture audio.

Windows

Built on a Windows 11 x64 host. Both the installer and the portable executable are attached and
report product version 0.20.0. Copy text and HDR-correct capture remain Windows-only.

Capturo-Setup-0.20.0-x64.exe is the installer; Capturo-Portable-0.20.0-x64.exe needs no
install. The docs/ screenshots still show the previous icon and are best regenerated on Windows.

Checksums

60abe1faf3b26116966cc7f8f55b1b9773c3529a1c0c8579cbcb5cc2114b9bbf  Capturo-Setup-0.20.0-x64.exe
ace5b52a9980c6c27f547088d91bf83e5c9af2141dceae152bb84314c8adcbeb  Capturo-Portable-0.20.0-x64.exe
22e02f4cb20b67fcb1155e22aaac107c81ae96dbdfcd80fc3c852dc381299302  Capturo-0.20.0-universal.dmg
65b481da34371c5c2b2b65240e546930e000af33c865b30a74120a24a6bf690f  Capturo-0.20.0-universal-mac.zip

Verification

102 automated tests, typecheck, and production build pass.

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