Changelog

These are the release notes that ship with the app — the update dialog and the GitHub release show the same text. Dates are release dates.

1.5.0 — 2026-08-20#

Security#

• The S3 Access Key ID is no longer stored in the clear. It used to sit in ~/Library/Preferences/dev.emmmm.Dropline.plist next to the rest of the profile. It now lives in the system keychain like the Secret Access Key always has. Existing profiles are migrated on first launch and the plaintext copy is wiped.
• Custom headers and form fields can be marked secret. Click the lock on a row holding a token or an API key and its value moves to the keychain instead of the config file — the "token" field in the EasyImage preset, an Authorization header on a custom host, and so on. On first launch fields whose name looks like a credential (token, auth, apikey, secret, signature, …) are marked once automatically; the lock is yours to toggle from then on.
• Deleting a profile now removes all of its secrets. Previously only the auth secret was deleted and anything else was left behind in the keychain.

Added#

• Export and import profiles, so a backup survives a new machine. Settings → Hosts → the "⋯" menu at the bottom left. The profile settings are written as readable JSON; secrets are included only when you set a password and are encrypted with it (PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256, 310 000 rounds, then AES-GCM) — they are never written in the clear. Import is additive: every profile comes in under a fresh id, so an import can never overwrite what you already have.
• Help → Dropline Help opens the documentation site, and About gained a "Documentation" button. Both follow the language chosen in Settings. This replaces the stock menu item, which only ever said "Help isn't available for Dropline".
• File type icons and image thumbnails in both the upload queue and the history. Anything the system does not recognise still falls back to the old link icon. Queue thumbnails are read from the local file, so the picture is there before the upload even starts.
• Readable timestamps: today shows the time, yesterday shows Yesterday 16:40, earlier this week shows the weekday, anything older shows the full date. The upload queue shows them too.
• Open in Browser button on every row, next to the copy button.
• The copy button confirms: it turns into a checkmark for a moment so you can tell the click registered.
• History rows show the file size, the same way the queue always has.

Changed#

• All secrets are now kept in a single keychain item instead of one per field. Keychain items are authorised individually, so a signature change meant one prompt per item; now it is at most one prompt in total. Secrets are also read once per launch instead of on every upload.
• Queue rows lead with the file, not the status. The thumbnail or type icon takes the front, and the status moves to a small badge in its corner — waiting, uploading, done, failed. Eight files dropped at once no longer look like eight identical rows.
• The queue and the history are one component now. They had drifted apart by a few points of spacing and padding, which showed as the row height jumping when switching tabs.

Fixed#

• Row height no longer jumps when an upload finishes, or when switching between the two tabs.
• A missing field no longer discards everything. profiles.v1 and history.v1 are decoded field by field, so one unreadable entry can no longer wipe every profile or the whole history.

1.4.0 — 2026-08-08#

Added#

• Dark mode: Settings → General → Appearance switches between light and dark, or follows the system (the default). Takes effect immediately, no restart needed, and only Dropline is affected — the system appearance is left alone. The menu bar icon keeps following the menu bar itself, as it should.

Changed#

• The DMG no longer carries a version number in its filename, so the release asset name is stable and Dropline.dmg always points at the newest stable build — the same trick already used for appcast.xml. The version is still in the volume name and in the app itself. The Sparkle zip keeps its version, because generate_appcast reads the version from the filename.

Fixed#

• Uploading from the Finder context menu really does leave the main window alone now. 1.3.0 tried to hide the window again after SwiftUI had already put it on screen, which raced and could flash or fail outright. The main window is no longer part of the SwiftUI scene tree at all: it is created on demand, so a background upload never brings one into existence. Normal launches, the Dock icon and "Open Main Window" open it exactly as before.
• A Finder upload whose files had been moved or deleted in the meantime could still pop the main window open.

1.3.0 — 2026-08-08#

Added#

• English and Chinese UI: follows the system language by default (Chinese when the system is Chinese, English otherwise), and can be switched by hand in Settings → General → Language. Takes effect immediately, no restart needed. The Finder context menu and the Services item follow along.
• Switch hosts from the menu bar: pick the active host profile straight from the menu bar item without opening Settings.

Changed#

• New icon: the app icon and the menu bar icon now share one upload mark (arrow above a baseline). The menu bar icon lost its surrounding circle; while uploading it hides the baseline and draws a progress ring instead.
• Settings rearranged: General moved first; the Finder context menu setting moved into it and the separate "Right-click Upload" tab is gone, with its long help text cut down to two sentences; About no longer lists the bundle ID, update feed and other internals.
• Background uploads no longer steal focus: uploads started from the Finder context menu, the Services menu or a drop on the Dock icon no longer bring up the main window — watch the progress ring in the menu bar instead.
• The menu bar now lists the 5 most recent uploads instead of 8.
• The update feed is a release asset: appcast.xml is uploaded with every release and the app reads releases/latest/download/appcast.xml. Neither the appcast nor the release notes are written back into the repository, and release notes are embedded in the appcast itself.
• ./build.sh --install reinstalls cleanly: it quits the running app and its Finder extension, clears every stale Dropline.app registration from LaunchServices (including dead entries left behind by ejected DMGs), then installs, re-enables the Finder extension and launches. Host profiles and keychain secrets are untouched.

Fixed#

• Pop-up buttons in Settings were misaligned because of inconsistent widths.
• After switching languages, pop-up menu items and tab titles did not refresh, and the tab bar showed duplicated labels and icons.

1.2.0 — 2026-08-07#

Added#

• Three modes for the Finder context menu: Settings offers "show with icon", "show without icon" and "don't show". Changes apply immediately, without restarting Finder.
• DMG installer: ./tools/dmg.sh builds an installer with a background image and a "drag to Applications" hint.
• GitHub Actions: the CI workflow builds and validates the artifacts on every push; the Release workflow can be triggered manually to build, pack the DMG, sign the appcast, publish the release and write the notes back.

1.1.0 — 2026-08-07#

Added#

• Finder extension: select files in Finder and upload them straight from the top level of the context menu. It can be toggled under System Settings → General → Login Items & Extensions → Finder Extensions.
• System notifications on success and failure; click the notification to copy the link (can be turned off in Settings).
• Progress ring in the menu bar while uploading.
• About panel in Settings, showing the version, bundle ID, update feed and project page.

Fixed#

• The first row of the upload list was hidden behind the segmented control.
• The menu bar icon changed width while uploading, making the icons to its right jitter.
• Removed the redundant bottom status bar; clearing and copying moved to the list's context menu.

1.0.0 — 2026-08-07#

Added#

• Five ways to upload: drop on the window, drop on the Dock icon, the system file panel, the clipboard, and the Finder context menu service.
• Three upload engines: multipart/form-data, binary PUT/POST, and S3-compatible (AWS SigV4, implemented in-house).
• Presets for Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, Aliyun OSS, Tencent COS, MinIO, SM.MS, Imgur, Lsky Pro / Chevereto and EasyImage, plus fully custom hosts.
• Authentication via Bearer token, Basic, custom headers or URL query parameters; secrets are stored in the system keychain.
• The link is copied automatically when an upload finishes, optionally as Markdown; concurrent uploads, progress and history are supported.
• Built-in Sparkle auto-update.