Changelog — LocalDrop.Dev

1.1.4 Latest 2026-05-07

macOS auto-update story lands: in-app DMG installer, native Settings → About / Updates card, Dock right-click menu, and a boot-time prompt that surfaces an available update even in tray-only mode. On Windows, a single Ctrl+C no longer pops the device picker — Cloud Clipboard sync used to fire a duplicate event that fooled the share-menu trigger. On Android, notifications actually appear on Android 13+ thanks to a proper runtime permission flow. Plus host-aware UI font (SF Pro / Segoe UI Variable / Inter) and an editor fix for the typing-into-a-text-annotation case.

✨ New

macOS in-app updates. Settings → Updates → Download streams the new DMG, mounts it, replaces the running app (with a rollback path if it fails), and relaunches. No browser hop, no manual drag-to-Applications.
Native macOS Settings → About / Updates card with install-source detection. The card branches by where you got the app from — direct DMG, TestFlight, or Mac App Store — and shows the right action ("Download", "Open TestFlight", "Open in App Store").
Dock right-click menu on macOS mirrors the menu-bar tray. Capture region, fullscreen, record screen, Open Received Files, Settings, Report a bug, Quit — same items, same shortcuts.
Update prompt at launch when a new version is available. Shows in tray-only mode too (was previously invisible until you opened the main window). Three actions: Skip this version, Later, Update now.
Per-OS release notes in the auto-update payload — the popup now shows the items that actually apply to your OS, instead of a single one-size-fits-all blurb.
Android notifications work on Android 13+. The runtime permission is now requested at first send (lazy, with an explanation dialog if the OS asks for one) instead of being declared but never asked for. Adds a Settings → Permissions card so you can re-grant after a denial without digging through Android Settings.
Host-aware UI font. SF Pro Display on Apple, Segoe UI Variable on Windows 11+, Inter on Linux — instead of the previous Roboto-everywhere fallback that looked off against native chrome on non-Apple platforms.

🐛 Fixes

Windows: single Ctrl+C used to pop the device picker. Cloud Clipboard sync fires a duplicate event for the same press that fooled the "press ⌘C twice to share" trigger. Now only real keystrokes count — system-driven echoes are filtered out deterministically.
Editor no longer discards your image when you press Backspace or Delete while typing into a text annotation. The keys now reach the inline text field normally; the discard prompt only fires when nothing is being edited.
macOS TestFlight link in Settings. "Open TestFlight" used to point at the iOS public link, so macOS TestFlight users landed on "App not available". Fixed to the right macOS beta-group link.

✦ Polish

Sub-window popups on macOS: smoother chrome, no more "black band" below the rounded surface, and the update prompt resizes cleanly when you toggle "What's new".
The Dock icon now stays put on macOS instead of toggling between accessory + regular mode (Tahoe started swallowing the custom Dock menu in accessory mode).

1.1.3 2026-05-05

Quality-of-life pass on the received-files popup and the macOS editor. New Clear all button that sends files to the system Trash / Recycle Bin instead of hard-deleting, Windows installs updates from inside the app instead of opening a browser, and every device now shows a last-seen timestamp so you can spot stale entries at a glance. Plus a sweep of macOS editor and popup fixes.

✨ New

Clear all button in the received-files popup. Confirms first, then sends every file to the platform's recoverable bin where one exists — Trash on macOS, Recycle Bin on Windows. Linux, Android, and iOS still hard-delete (no system-wide recycle path on those platforms).
In-app updates on Windows. Settings → Updates now downloads the new installer in the app and runs it silently. The previous behaviour was to open the release URL in a browser and leave you to do the rest.
Last-seen badge next to each device's fingerprint (now / 5s / 2m / 1h / 3d). Useful when a peer reinstalled and now appears twice — the older entry's badge tells you which one is the ghost.

🐛 Fixes

macOS received-files popup width. Was opening at a tiny 100×540 strip because AppKit's auto-layout sized the window from intrinsic content. The popup now opens at the correct 540×540 (drag to resize, the new size is remembered).
macOS editor close button. Clicking the X (or pressing ⌘W) no longer asks “Discard capture?” — it keeps the file silently. Pressing Delete still asks first since deleting is a destructive action.
Capturing while the editor is open no longer leaves you stuck staring at the “Discard?” modal. The new capture closes the previous editor on its own and the region overlay opens normally.
Recording preview after Share. The video player no longer goes black after you tap Share — it reattaches to the renamed file so you keep watching your recording.
Device list jitter. Peers no longer reshuffle on every UDP announce. Active peers stay on top, stale ones drop below; within each bucket the order is stable.
macOS settings reverting on restart. Every native UI toggle (Launch at startup, Continuous capture, auto-copy, every shortcut, language) was reading the wrong storage key on restart and quietly resetting to the default. Fixed.

✦ Polish

Grid view reserves a label band at the bottom of each card so the filename always reads, even at the smallest zoom level.
List view rows are draggable to other apps (Finder, Discord, Slack, etc.) — same gesture as the grid card.
Received-files popup default size bumped to 540×540 (was a cramped 360×440).

1.1.2 2026-05-04

Hotfix on top of 1.1.1: the macOS Send via LocalDrop clipboard popup occasionally re-appeared by itself right after you clicked outside to dismiss it. Fixed. The same safety guard also lands on Windows.

🐛 Fixes

macOS: ⌘C+⌘C share menu re-popped itself after a click-outside dismiss when the click landed on an app that auto-copies on selection (or when iCloud Universal Clipboard synced). The watcher now ignores clipboard events while the menu is open AND for a 1-second cooldown after dismiss — the shortcut still works on the next press, just no auto-spam.
Windows: same two guards added as a parity safety net. TrackPopupMenu's modal loop dispatches WM_CLIPBOARDUPDATE messages, so the same pattern was theoretically possible.

iOS, Android, Mac App Store, and Google Play stay on 1.1.1 — this fix only affects the desktop clipboard-share flow on direct downloads.

1.1.1 2026-05-04

File transfers now run over end-to-end encrypted HTTPS with Trust-On-First-Use peer fingerprint validation. iOS ships properly for the first time (Apple's multicast networking capability got approved). New “Continuous capture” toggle in Settings lets a new screenshot replace the open editor instead of stacking endless windows, and the editor's ESC / Delete keys behave the way you'd expect — Esc closes and keeps the file, Delete asks first then removes it.

✨ New

Encryption. Every file transfer now uses HTTPS with a per-install self-signed RSA 2048 certificate. The first time you connect to a peer, its fingerprint is silently remembered (Trust-On-First-Use). If the same peer's fingerprint changes later — usually because the other side reinstalled — a warning popup asks whether to trust the new key, cancel, or block that device. Wireshark on a transfer now shows only encrypted bytes.
“Continuous capture” toggle (Settings → Screenshot, off by default). Off = a new capture closes the open editor and replaces the image. On = every capture opens its own editor, useful when you want to screenshot the editor itself for a bug report.
iOS ships. Apple approved the multicast networking capability needed for peer discovery on local Wi-Fi. The iOS App Store build is functional end-to-end, including HTTPS+TOFU and the system Share Sheet.

✦ Polish

Editor key bindings. ESC with no annotation selected now closes the editor and keeps the file — distinct from the toolbar X (still discard + delete). Delete with no annotation selected asks “Delete this screenshot?” and removes the file on confirm.
Settings → Text tab rewritten per OS, with structured icon-row cards instead of a generic wall of text. Documents the previously-hidden ⌘C / Ctrl+C twice quick-share workflow on desktop.
Heads-up: the device-fingerprint scheme changed (it's now the cert hash, not a random UUID). Favorites + blocked-devices lists + cached PINs from 1.1.0 will reset on first launch — re-favorite peers and re-enter PINs once.

🐛 Fixes

Android cert generation produced an invalid signature (Java's RSA private exponent uses a different reduction than OpenSSL's), so the HTTPS server failed to start silently. Fixed by reading the public exponent verbatim from the PEM rather than re-deriving it.
macOS clipboard ⌘C+⌘C quick-share didn't fire when the two presses landed inside the same 300 ms poll window. Now detects the back-to-back pair in a single tick.
iOS share sheet kept re-prompting “Send N files to…” on every launch because the inbox was listed but never drained. Fix: move incoming files into a temp directory on read, so the same file can't re-trigger.
Cert files written by an older buggy build are now self-validated on load — broken on-disk certs are deleted + regenerated instead of looping the app at startup.

1.1.0 2026-05-04

The Received-files popup now matches across every platform: live search, sort, list/grid toggle, and zoom (Ctrl+scroll on desktop, two-finger pinch on mobile). New Add device by IP button next to "Nearby Devices" lets you reach peers across subnets, VPN, or guest Wi-Fi where multicast can't — and Cmd/Ctrl-clicking devices lets you send the same files to several at once in a single batch.

✨ New

Received-files popup overhaul — search field, sort dropdown (Newest / Oldest / Name / Largest), grid ↔ list view toggle, and zoom in grid mode (Ctrl+scroll on desktop, two-finger pinch on mobile). Available on macOS native, Windows / Linux sub-window, and the Android / iOS dialog — all four surfaces share the same persisted preferences.
Add device by IP. Small icon next to "Nearby Devices" opens a dialog where you type a peer's address. Useful when multicast can't reach the other side (different subnet, VPN, guest Wi-Fi). Saved peers re-register on every launch and show a "MANUAL" badge.
Multi-device send. Cmd-click (macOS) or Ctrl-click (Windows/Linux) device tiles to multi-select, pick files once, send to every selected peer in one batch. PIN prompts queue one at a time so you don't get five popups stacked.
Local IP shown in the discovery row. Read off "what address do I tell the other side?" without opening Terminal.

✦ Polish

Launch-at-startup on Windows properly isolated between Debug and Release builds; entry now cleans up on uninstall.
Android Debug builds install side-by-side with the Play Store release — no more INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE when sideloading a development APK.
Better error messages when adding a peer by IP (timeouts, "no route to host", "connection refused" all translated into plain English).
Received-files Windows sub-window is now actually resizable (the spawn was incorrectly using a frameless fixed-size variant).

🐛 Fixes

Popup self-stretching across the screen on every view toggle (macOS native) — runaway feedback loop in the grid layout, fixed at the constraint level.
Floating popup needed two clicks to do anything when it wasn't focused — first click is now properly click-through on cards, drag handles, and action buttons.

1.0.8 2026-05-03

Tray menu now has a "Report a Bug" entry — your description plus the last 200 log lines (with paths, LAN IPs and PINs scrubbed client-side) ships straight to us. Editor's Share dropdown also stays in sync with discovery now: a peer joining the network mid-edit shows up immediately instead of only after closing and reopening the editor.

✨ New

In-app bug reporting. Tray menu → Report a Bug…. Pick a category, describe what happened, see the scrubbed log preview before sending. Paths, LAN IPs, device fingerprints and PINs are stripped on your device — the server only ever sees what's in the preview.
Open Received Files entry in the tray menu — drag old arrivals out without waiting for a new transfer.

✦ Polish

Editor's Share menu updates live. A new peer joining the network mid-edit now appears in the dropdown immediately. Both the native macOS editor and the Windows/Flutter editor get the live update.
Tray menu reorganised: file-list actions on top, admin actions (Settings, Report a Bug, Quit) at the bottom.

1.0.7 2026-05-02

iOS is in TestFlight Beta — devices, files and clipboard text now sync between iPhone, iPad, macOS, Windows and Android over the same Wi-Fi. Discovery is also more reliable: devices no longer randomly disappear from the list every minute, since multicast on Wi-Fi drops packets in bursts (especially when the app is tray-resident on macOS or Android slips into doze). The 30-second auto-remove that was firing false positives is gone; device list is now sticky between manual refreshes.

✨ New

iOS is here. TestFlight public Beta — open testflight.apple.com/join/fgWySS2f on your iPhone or iPad to join. Same Wi-Fi peer discovery you know from desktop; clipboard text syncs across iOS too.

⚒ Fixed

Discovery list is sticky. Devices stay until you hit Refresh (which restarts discovery from a clean state) or the app restarts. No more "I just opened it and already the other device is gone."
Slightly more aggressive announce cadence to compensate for multicast packet loss on busy / mesh Wi-Fi networks.

✦ Polish

macOS menu-bar icon is now a proper transparent template — the droplet fills the menu bar and tints with the system foreground colour, instead of looking small inside a squircle background.

1.0.6 2026-05-02

macOS App Sandbox fix: picking a custom Storage Folder now actually works (previously TestFlight + DMG users saw their choice silently get redirected back to the default). Default save folder moved to ~/Downloads/LocalDrop — much easier to find than the deep ~/Library/Containers/… path the v1.0.5 sandbox was rewriting it to. Auto-copy edited screenshots to clipboard now defaults to ON.

⚒ Fixed (macOS)

Custom Storage Folder is honored across launches. The app now persists a security-scoped bookmark for any folder you pick, so writes succeed even after relaunch. Previously the sandbox dropped the grant once the app restarted and screenshots silently went elsewhere.
Default save folder is now ~/Downloads/LocalDrop (instead of ~/LocalDrop, which the sandbox redirected deep into ~/Library/Containers/…). Existing files in the old container location are NOT migrated automatically — copy them over manually if you want them in one place.
Settings storage-folder subtitle refreshes immediately after picking a new folder. No more "switch to a different tab and back" dance to see the updated path.

✦ Changed

Auto-copy edited screenshot to clipboard now defaults to ON. The editor only opens because you just captured something — overwriting clipboard with that image is what people overwhelmingly want. Flip it back off in Settings → Screenshot if you'd rather keep your clipboard untouched.

1.0.5 2026-05-01

Region capture on macOS now works correctly when your displays are stacked vertically — previously the selection overlay for the secondary monitor went off-screen and you couldn't drag on it. Esc reliably cancels the picker even when another app was focused. Auto-copy tooltip in the editor toolbar no longer sits flush against the button.

⚒ Fixed (macOS)

Region capture on the secondary display — the overlay was being placed off-screen above both monitors on vertically-stacked dual-monitor setups. Window position now uses global coordinates so each display gets its own overlay at the right spot.
Esc cancels the region picker reliably — even when another app had focus when the hotkey fired. Added a global key monitor as fallback and made the overlay under the cursor the key window instead of always picking the primary display's overlay.
Auto-copy toolbar tooltip spacing — the two-line tooltip ("Auto-copy: ON / Copied on every save") was hugging the button. Now clears it by the same gap as every other tooltip.

1.0.4 2026-04-30

Editor auto-copies your edited image to the clipboard so you can paste straight into chat. Right-click the editor's preview thumbnail for quick Copy / Open in Finder. macOS DMG is now Developer ID-signed and notarized — first launch from a downloaded DMG no longer shows the Gatekeeper "Apple cannot check it for malicious software" warning.

✦ New

Editor auto-copies edited image to clipboard (Windows + macOS) — turn on the toggle in Settings → Screenshot, or flip the per-session button in the editor toolbar (clipboard icon, between the colour picker and the help button). Image lands on the clipboard the moment the editor opens and after every annotation, so you can paste it straight into Discord / Slack / Telegram with Cmd-V without saving a file.
Right-click the editor's preview thumbnail (macOS) — four quick actions: Copy image, Copy path, Open in Finder (highlights the file, not just the folder), Open with default app.

✓ Fixes

Region capture spans secondary displays (macOS) — earlier builds anchored the picker to the primary display only, so dragging across to a second monitor stopped at the bezel and produced empty PNGs. Now selects across all attached screens correctly.

Under the hood (macOS)

DMG is now Developer ID-signed and notarized. First launch from a downloaded DMG no longer shows the Gatekeeper "Apple cannot check it for malicious software" warning. (Note: macOS still tracks Screen Recording / Full Disk Access separately if you install both the DMG and the TestFlight build on the same Mac — that's a fundamental Apple limitation, not something a developer can fix. Pick one install source to avoid double permission prompts.)

Platforms

macOS DMG + TestFlight. Windows / Android binaries unchanged from 1.0.2.

1.0.3 2026-04-29

Window size memory fix across all sub-windows (editor, settings, received files popup, receive prompt) plus a Settings UX polish on Windows. macOS gets the bundle-name fix that unblocks Screen Recording grants.

✓ Fixes

Sub-windows now remember your resized size — drag the editor / Settings / received-files popup to the size you like, close it, reopen it, and it comes back at that exact size. Earlier builds either silently reset to the canonical default or shrank by a fraction every cycle on high-DPI displays. Now stable across captures.
Bundle name on macOS = LocalDrop.Dev.app on every install path (DMG and TestFlight). Pre-1.0.3 TestFlight builds shipped as local_drop.app, which surfaced as a separate Privacy & Security entry and broke Screen Recording grants when both DMG + TestFlight installs were on the same machine.

Polish

Settings > General layout (Windows) — on a comfortably wide settings window, the Device name / Language / Theme / Receive password / Storage folder / Port controls now sit on the same row as their label instead of stacking under it. Drops back to the stacked layout when the window is dragged narrow. Focused text fields show a visible 2px primary ring instead of no change on click; tapping outside the field drops focus cleanly.

Platforms

Windows installer + portable ZIP, macOS DMG + TestFlight. Android binaries unchanged from 1.0.2.

1.0.2 2026-04-28

Speaks your language now. Plus a brand-new native macOS image editor and public TestFlight betas for iOS & macOS.

✦ New

10 languages — English, Tiếng Việt, 简体中文, Español, Français, Deutsch, 日本語, 한국어, Português (BR), Русский. Pick from Settings → General.
Native macOS image editor — rewritten in SwiftUI. Faster open, smoother zoom & pan, Apple-native Share menu (AirDrop, Mail, Messages…), click empty desktop to capture full screen.
iOS & macOS TestFlight — public beta links on the download page; auto-update once installed.
JPG quality tiers — choose anywhere from 30% to 100% with auto-downsampling for ultra-light shares.
Keyboard shortcuts sheet — press ? in the editor to see every shortcut.

✓ Fixes & polish

Editor: Esc now commits the text draft (was: discarded it), Enter inserts a newline.
Editor: cursor changes to grab / grabbing while panning, default arrow elsewhere.
Editor: cancel-without-saving deletes the temp capture so it doesn't pile up in Downloads/LocalDrop.
Tray: Open LocalDrop folder now opens the base folder, not the Received sub-folder.
Tray: removed the Auto-accept toggle (live in Settings instead — one source of truth).
Windows installer: more reliable kill-before-install (8 s polling, full process tree, longer DLL-release wait) so updates land cleanly.

Platforms

Windows 10/11 (x64), macOS 11+ (Intel & Apple Silicon), Android 7+ sideload, Android Play Store (closed test), macOS App Store (TestFlight beta), iOS (TestFlight beta).

1.0.1 2026-04-26

Windows-only patch release — emergency fix for dead top-button rows.

✓ Fixes

Windows: top button row of every popup (and the main window) was completely unclickable in v1.0.0 — fixed by repairing the gesture arena inside SubWindowDragToMove.

1.0.0 2026-04-22

The “I'm lazy” release: everything you need to send a screenshot, recording, file or clipboard snippet lives in one app, one click away.

✦ New

Drag-from-popup — incoming files appear in a popup you can drag straight into Discord, Slack or email. No Finder detour.
Screenshot & annotate — capture full screen, window, or a region. Mark up with arrows, text, shapes. Send in one click.
Screen recording — record a clip and share over LAN instantly. No upload, no watermark, no length cap.
Shared clipboard — copy on one device, paste on another. Text syncs across macOS, Windows and Android.
Native OS context menu — right-click any file in Finder / File Explorer → Send via LocalDrop → pick device.

⚡ Performance & privacy

Direct HTTP transfer over LAN — speed depends only on your network, no bandwidth caps.
UDP multicast device discovery finishes within ~5s. No IP entry, no pairing.
Files never leave your network. No middleman server, no account, no tracking.
Optional password gate before accepting files — prevents accidental sends in busy offices.
No artificial size limit — send 1 GB, 10 GB or 100 GB folders.

Platforms

Windows 10/11 (x64), macOS 11+ (Intel & Apple Silicon), Android 7+ sideload.
iOS coming soon — TestFlight opens after this release.