OnionShare v2.6 Release Notes

    • ๐Ÿ”ง Major feature: a new 'Quickstart' screen, which enables toggling on or off an animated automatic connection to Tor. This allows configuring network settings prior to automatic connection.
    • Major feature: Censorship circumvention. Use new features in the upstream Tor API to try to automatically obtain bridges depending on the user's location.
    • ๐Ÿ†• New feature: automatically fetch the built-in bridges from the upstream Tor API rather than hardcode them in each release of OnionShare.
    • ๐Ÿ†• New feature: keyboard shortcuts to access various modes and menus, and accessibility hints
    • ๐Ÿ› Bug fix: Temporary Directory for serving the OnionShare web pages was broken on Windows
    • ๐Ÿš€ Packaging: Packaging is more automated, and Linux Snapcraft releases are available for amd64, arm64, and armhf
    • โšก๏ธ Miscellaneous: Many dependency updates and web page theming improvements