Picocrypt/Changelog.md

# v1.30 (No ETA)
<ul>
	<li>✓ Improve tooltip word choice</li>
	<li>✓ Add FAQ to README</li>
	<li>✓ Fix scaling issue when moving between monitors with different DPIs (on Windows)</li>
	<li>✓ Strip periods from custom output filename to prevent file extension problems</li>
	<li>✓ Minor tweaks to keyfile modal</li>
	<li>✓ Use temporary .zip file to prevent overwriting when encrypting</li>
	<li>✓ Check if files already exist when recombining and splitting to prevent overwriting</li>
	<li>✓ Show ".*" in the output box if splitting</li>
	<li>✓ Skip temporary and inaccessible files when combining/compressing</li>
	<li>✓ Improve file scanning performance by precomputing total size</li>
	<li>✓ Stability improvements and fixes for edge cases</li>
</ul>

# v1.29 (Released 05/23/2022)
<ul>
	<li>✓ Review/improve Internals.md</li>
	<li>✓ Add option to compress when encrypting a single file</li>
	<li>✓ Check for errors when not enough disk space</li>
	<li>✓ Show MiB/GiB instead of M/G in the input label to prevent confusion</li>
	<li>✓ Minor consistency improvements</li>
</ul>

# v1.28 (Released 05/16/2022)
<ul>
	<li>✓ Fix bug when decrypting a splitted volume with a custom output name and "Delete files" selected</li>
	<li>✓ Improve responsiveness of cancel button (instant cancel when pressed instead of delays)</li>
	<li>✓ Software OpenGL rendering on Windows (for Windows on ARM compatibility and older hardware)</li>
	<li>✓ Progress, speed, and ETA for combining/compressing files, recombining files, and splitting files</li>
	<li>✓ Improve overall IO performance</li>
	<li>✓ Much smoother Reed-Solomon decryption flow, slightly better performance</li>
	<li>✓ Major code cleanups and organizing</li>
	<li>✓ <i>Much better</i> file permission handling</li>
	<li>✓ Numerous minor fixes and improvements</li>
	<li>✓ Improve Reed-Solomon performance (only rebuild data if corruption is detected)</li>
	<li>✓ `gofmt` and `go mod tidy` all dependencies</li>
	<li>✓ Fix bad pointer issue when running with `-race`</li>
	<li>✓ Fix focus bug where input boxes are not cleared if they are focused when file is dropped</li>
	<li>✓ Fix bug on Windows where copying from the password field using Ctrl+C and then pasting with the "Paste" button would cause a crash</li>
	<li>✓ Make sure at least one password characters category is checked when generating</li>
	<li>✓ Use `desktop-file-validate` to find and remove deprecated fields and fix invalid ones in the .desktop for .deb and AppImage</li>
	<li>✓ .deb and AppImage optimizations, reliability improvements</li>
	<li>✓ Snapcraft uses software OpenGL rendering as well now</li>
	<li>✓ Statically linked libc6, etc. for best cross-platform compatibility for Snapcraft</li>
	<li>✓ Added NO_AT_BRIDGE=1 to Snapcraft to fix an issue on Arch Linux (<a href="https://github.com/HACKERALERT/Picocrypt/issues/75">#75</a>)</li>
	<li>✓ Clean up unnecessary files in dependencies</li>
	<li>✓ Sign executables with OpenPGP</li>
</ul>

# v1.27 (Released 05/02/2022)
<ul>
	<li>✓ Input validation for split size</li>
	<li>✓ Ability to split into a custom number of total chunks in addition to by size</li>
	<li>✓ Fix issue with long comments</li>
	<li>✓ Deprecate Snapcraft and provide a .deb and AppImage instead</li>
</ul>

# v1.26 (Released 04/18/2022)
<ul>
	<li>✓ Fix a race condition</li>
	<li>✓ Fix invalid pointer crash when decrypting files >256GB</li>
	<li>✓ UI improvements and tweaks</li>
	<li>✓ Fix crash on Windows when saving to the root directory of a drive</li>
	<li>✓ Max file size limit removed! Picocrypt can now encrypt files of unlimited size instead of being capped at 256 GiB 🥳</li>
	<li>✓ Shows total input size along with input label</li>
	<li>✓ Update to GLFW 3.3.6 for better stability</li>
</ul>

# v1.25 (Released 04/13/2022)
<ul>
	<li>✓ Improve Internals documentation (header format, etc.)</li>
	<li>✓ Save as and keyfile file dialog now opens in the same directory as dropped files</li>
	<li>✓ Improvements for long file names</li>
	<li>✓ Minor UI improvements and fixes</li>
</ul>

# v1.24 (Released 04/02/2022)
<ul>
	<li>✓ Fixed layout bug that allowed scrolling within window</li>
	<li>✓ Optimize dependencies</li>
	<li>✓ Numerous code and UI optimizations, including better comments</li>
	<li>✓ Keyfile modal will recenter automatically upon dropping a keyfile</li>
	<li>✓ Fix modals moving around randomly when open and closed numerous times</li>
	<li>✓ Fixed: Progressbar modal moves around weirdly sometimes</li>
	<li>✓ Better error handling</li>
	<li>✓ Show compression speed and percentage</li>
	<li>✓ Smoothen splitting file and recombing file progress bars</li>
	<li>✓ Finish adding tooltips</li>
</ul>

# v1.23 (Released 03/19/2022)
<ul>
	<li>✓ Removed the checksum generator to get back on track with original Picocrypt ideology</li>
	<li>✓ Cleaned up and optimized code</li>
	<li>✓ Compiled with MinGW GCC11 instead of TDM-GCC, Go 1.18 instead of Go 1.17</li>
	<li>✓ Picocrypt no longer checks for new versions, so no network requests are ever made</li>
</ul>

# v1.22 (Released 12/22/2021)
<ul>
	<li>✓ Remove fast mode, as a change for the normal mode will make fast mode obselete</li>
	<li>✓ For normal mode, change HMAC-SHA3 to a keyed Blake2b</li>
</ul>

# v1.21 (Released 11/19/2021)
<ul>
	<li>✓ Remove file shredder because it won't be very effective in the future</li>
	<li>✓ Fix minor temporary file bug</li>
	<li>✓ Improve decryption UI</li>
</ul>

# v1.20 (Released 11/12/2021)
<ul>
	<li>✓ Fix keyfile modal UI layout</li>
	<li>✓ Fix keyfile modal typo</li>
	<li>✓ Fix minor keyfile bug</li>
	<li>✓ Improve shredding window layout</li>
	<li>✓ Fork all dependencies and recursive dependencies into "offline" repos for hardening and better stability</li>
	<li>✓ Fix UI scaling issues</li>
	<li>✓ Fix high DPI layout issues</li>
	<li>✓ Optimize zip compressor</li>
</ul>

# v1.19 (Released 09/26/2021)
<ul>
	<li>✓ UI scaling hotfix</li>
</ul>

# v1.18 (Released 09/24/2021)
<ul>
	<li>✓ Make UI more consistent (minor DPI issues)</li>
	<li>✓ Fix crashing when OS denies permission to access file</li>
	<li>✓ Fixed bug where file object was not closed properly</li>
	<li>✓ Encryption/decryption file naming and extension bugs</li>
	<li>✓ Many fixes, optimizations, and linting</li>
</ul>

# v1.17 (Released 09/04/2021)
<ul>
	<li>✓ (abandoned due to UI issues with ASCII codes >128) Extended ASCII set in password generator</li>
	<li>✓ Tooltips for all advanced options</li>
	<li>✓ Localization support (use system default where possible)</li>
	<li>✓ Auto detect system locale, fallback to English</li>
	<li>✓ Fix ETA negative number bug</li>
	<li>✓ Add clear button to password field</li>
	<li>✓ Multiple keyfiles support and DND</li>
	<li>✓ Option to require specific keyfile order</li>
	<li>✓ Keyfile generator</li>
	<li>✓ Bug: Red error label shown in main window during successful decryption after selecting incorrect keyfiles</li>
	<li>✓ Prevent duplicate keyfile</li>
	<li>✓ Add a select keyfile button</li>
	<li>✓ Make sure only one of "Fast mode" and "Paranoid mode" can be enabled</li>
	<li>✓ Fix bug where metadata says "read-only", but the textbox is modifiable</li>
	<li>✓ Add option to delete encrypted files after decryption</li>
</ul>
<strong>Note: v1.17 will be incompatible with all previous releases!</strong>

# v1.16 (Released 08/11/2021)
<ul>
	<li>✓ Fixed bug when entering a wrong password when decrypting a splitted file</li>
	<li>✓ Fixed bug where an existing file is delete when a wrong password is used</li>
	<li>✓ The password generator is now customizable</li>
	<li>✓ Make keyfile support more reliable (keyfile now out of Beta)</li>
	<li>✓ Fix keyfile user flow issue</li>
	<li>✓ Bug fixes</li>
	<li>✓ UI fixes improvements</li>
</ul>

# v1.15 (Released 08/09/2021)
<ul>
	<li>✓ Add cancel button to file shredder and custom number of passes</li>
	<li>✓ Password generator</li>
	<li>✓ Make password strength circle start at top</li>
	<li>✓ Fix shredder UI bugs</li>
</ul>

# v1.14 (Released 08/07/2021)
<ul>
	<li>✓ Low-severity security fix for the recently discovered <a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1491.pdf">partitioning oracle attacks</a></li>
	<li>✓ Move from Monocypher to Go's standard supplemental ChaCha20 in favour of the latter being stateful</li>
	<li>✓ Add SHA3 (normal mode) and BLAKE2b (fast mode) as HMAC to replace Poly1305 and prevent partitioning oracle attacks</li>
	<li>✓ Removed ~100 lines of unnecessary code now that Picocrypt uses Go's ChaCha20 (cleaner and stabler code)</li>
	<li>✓ Added window icons</li>
	<li>✓ Switch to a new Reed-Solomon encoder that automatically corrects errors</li>
	<li>✓ Add a "Paranoid mode", which will use the Serpent cipher in addition to XChaCha20</li>
	<li>✓ Cleaner code with plenty of comments for people taking a look</li>
	<li>✓ Metadata is now Reed-Solomon encoded (everything bit of header data is now RS-encoded for redundancy)</li>
	<li>✓ Reed-Solomon checkbox is now enabled and Reed-Solomon works</li>
	<li>✓ Implemented Dropbox's zxcvbn password strength checker</li>
	<li>✓ Removed paranoid shredding as it is too hard to implement correctly and not cross platform</li>
	<li>✓ Fixed Windows zip extract error notice that doesn't appear in 7-Zip (edit: it was a backslash issue)</li>
	<li>✓ Optional shred temporary files checkbox</li>
	<li>✓ Remove BLAKE3 from the checksum generator tab, as it has no practical use and requires a non-standard library</li>
	<li>✓ Advanced options are shown dynamically depending on whether encrypting or decrypting</li>
	<li>✓ Window closing disabled during encryption/decryption/shredding to prevent leakage of temporary files</li>
	<li>✓ Reduce padding of metadataLength from 10 to 5 (you probably won't type more than 99999 metadata characters)</li>
	<li>✓ Use regex to check if an input file is a valid Picocrypt volume or not during decryption</li>
	<li>✓ Improved user flow as well as fix UI bugs</li>
	<li>✓ Code optimizations</li>
	<li>✓ Many bug fixes/stability improvments</li>
</ul>
<strong>Note: v1.14 will be incompatible with all previous releases!</strong>

# v1.13 (Released 5/29/2021)
<ul>
	<li>✓ Picocrypt has been ported from Python to Go, thus completely rewritten</li>
	<li>✓ Added fast mode, which can achieve ~250MB/s</li>
	<li>✓ Added file shredder and file checksum generator</li>
	<li>✓ Automatically checks for newer versions</li>
	<li>✓ Added file chunking support</li>
</ul>
<strong>Note: v1.13 will be incompatible with all previous releases!</strong>

# v1.12.1 (Released 04/11/2021)
<ul>
	<li>✓ Fixed a bug that caused "Secure wipe" feature to show "Unknown error" when done</li>
</ul>

# v1.12 (Released 04/07/2021)
<ul>
	<li>✓ Beautiful UI</li>
	<li>✓ More than x2 as fast as previous versions</li>
	<li>✓ Add cancel button to cancel encryption/decryption</li>
	<li>✓ (Bug) Delete existing file only if password is correct</li>
	<li>✓ Minor aesthetic fixes</li>
	<li>✓ Complete rewrite from scratch, to ensure reliability and security</li>
	<li>✓ Better anti-corruption (re-defined header format)</li>
	<li>✓ Switch to Argon2d instead Argon2id for better security</li>
	<li>✓ Switch from SHA3 to BLAKE3 for corruption check</li>
	<li>✓ Better user flow</li>
</ul>
<strong>Note: v1.12 will be incompatible with all previous releases!</strong>

# v1.11 (Released 03/23/2021)
<ul>
	<li>✓ Much more secure wipe via <code>sdelete64</code> for Windows, <code>shred</code> for Linux, and <code>rm -P</code> for MacOS</li>
	<li>✓ Much more beautiful UI for macOS</li>
	<li>✓ Robust secure wipe support for drag and dropped files/folders</li>
	<li>✓ Only open input files in read mode, since write mode is unnecessary</li>
	<li>✓ Clean up source code, add better comments</li>
	<li>✓ Drag and drop support (multiple files, a folder, a file and a folder, etc.)</li>
</ul>