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v1.33 (Released 06/27/2023)

✓ Add tooltip warning that comments are not encrypted (#164)
✓ Hash keyfiles in chunks to reduce memory usage (#168)
✓ Prevent using identical keyfiles under different filenames (#170)

v1.32 (Released 04/28/2023)

✓ Added a command-line interface
✓ Use Debian 11 as the base for the AppImage instead of Debian 10
✓ Include software rendering DLLs in the Paranoid Pack for future proofing
✓ Add plausible deniability and recursive encryption
✓ Added an installer for Windows (made using Inno Setup)

v1.31 (Released 11/18/2022)

✓ Force software OpenGL rendering on macOS
✓ Use native clipboard APIs instead of external package (removes need for xclip)
✓ Revert using system temporary folder due to size issues

v1.30 (Released 09/24/2022)

✓ Improve tooltip word choice
✓ Add FAQ to README
✓ Fix scaling issue when moving between monitors with different DPIs (on Windows)
✓ Strip periods from custom output filename to prevent file extension problems
✓ Minor tweaks to keyfile modal
✓ Use temporary .zip file to prevent overwriting when encrypting
✓ Check if files already exist when recombining and splitting to prevent overwriting
✓ Show ".*" in the output box if splitting
✓ Skip temporary and inaccessible files when combining/compressing
✓ Improve file scanning performance by precomputing total size
✓ Stability improvements and fixes for edge cases
✓ Check for clipboard support on Linux

v1.29 (Released 05/23/2022)

✓ Review/improve Internals.md
✓ Add option to compress when encrypting a single file
✓ Check for errors when not enough disk space
✓ Show MiB/GiB instead of M/G in the input label to prevent confusion
✓ Minor consistency improvements

v1.28 (Released 05/16/2022)

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

v1.27 (Released 05/02/2022)

✓ Input validation for split size
✓ Ability to split into a custom number of total chunks in addition to by size
✓ Fix issue with long comments
✓ Deprecate Snapcraft and provide a .deb and AppImage instead

v1.26 (Released 04/18/2022)

✓ Fix a race condition
✓ Fix invalid pointer crash when decrypting files >256GB
✓ UI improvements and tweaks
✓ Fix crash on Windows when saving to the root directory of a drive
✓ Max file size limit removed! Picocrypt can now encrypt files of unlimited size instead of being capped at 256 GiB
✓ Shows total input size along with input label
✓ Update to GLFW 3.3.6 for better stability

v1.25 (Released 04/13/2022)

✓ Improve Internals documentation (header format, etc.)
✓ Save as and keyfile file dialog now opens in the same directory as dropped files
✓ Improvements for long file names
✓ Minor UI improvements and fixes

v1.24 (Released 04/02/2022)

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

v1.23 (Released 03/19/2022)

✓ Removed the checksum generator to get back on track with original Picocrypt ideology
✓ Cleaned up and optimized code
✓ Compiled with MinGW GCC11 instead of TDM-GCC, Go 1.18 instead of Go 1.17
✓ Picocrypt no longer checks for new versions, so no network requests are ever made

v1.22 (Released 12/22/2021)

✓ Remove fast mode, as a change for the normal mode will make fast mode obselete
✓ For normal mode, change HMAC-SHA3 to a keyed Blake2b

v1.21 (Released 11/19/2021)

✓ Remove file shredder because it won't be very effective in the future
✓ Fix minor temporary file bug
✓ Improve decryption UI

v1.20 (Released 11/12/2021)

✓ Fix keyfile modal UI layout
✓ Fix keyfile modal typo
✓ Fix minor keyfile bug
✓ Improve shredding window layout
✓ Fork all dependencies and recursive dependencies into "offline" repos for hardening and better stability
✓ Fix UI scaling issues
✓ Fix high DPI layout issues
✓ Optimize zip compressor

v1.19 (Released 09/26/2021)

✓ UI scaling hotfix

v1.18 (Released 09/24/2021)

✓ Make UI more consistent (minor DPI issues)
✓ Fix crashing when OS denies permission to access file
✓ Fixed bug where file object was not closed properly
✓ Encryption/decryption file naming and extension bugs
✓ Many fixes, optimizations, and linting

v1.17 (Released 09/04/2021)

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

Note: v1.17 will be incompatible with all previous releases!

v1.16 (Released 08/11/2021)

✓ Fixed bug when entering a wrong password when decrypting a splitted file
✓ Fixed bug where an existing file is delete when a wrong password is used
✓ The password generator is now customizable
✓ Make keyfile support more reliable (keyfile now out of Beta)
✓ Fix keyfile user flow issue
✓ Bug fixes
✓ UI fixes improvements

v1.15 (Released 08/09/2021)

✓ Add cancel button to file shredder and custom number of passes
✓ Password generator
✓ Make password strength circle start at top
✓ Fix shredder UI bugs

v1.14 (Released 08/07/2021)

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

Note: v1.14 will be incompatible with all previous releases!

v1.13 (Released 5/29/2021)

✓ Picocrypt has been ported from Python to Go, thus completely rewritten
✓ Added fast mode, which can achieve ~250MB/s
✓ Added file shredder and file checksum generator
✓ Automatically checks for newer versions
✓ Added file chunking support

Note: v1.13 will be incompatible with all previous releases!

v1.12.1 (Released 04/11/2021)

✓ Fixed a bug that caused "Secure wipe" feature to show "Unknown error" when done

v1.12 (Released 04/07/2021)

✓ Beautiful UI
✓ More than x2 as fast as previous versions
✓ Add cancel button to cancel encryption/decryption
✓ (Bug) Delete existing file only if password is correct
✓ Minor aesthetic fixes
✓ Complete rewrite from scratch, to ensure reliability and security
✓ Better anti-corruption (re-defined header format)
✓ Switch to Argon2d instead Argon2id for better security
✓ Switch from SHA3 to BLAKE3 for corruption check
✓ Better user flow

Note: v1.12 will be incompatible with all previous releases!

v1.11 (Released 03/23/2021)

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

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