Finally! For those of you who celebrate Christmas, here is a little Christmas present from us. For the rest, here is a little present for you, for no particular reason :)

If have a look at our blog regularly or follow us on Twitter or another social media channel, you probably have noticed that we have been eagerly working on release candidates for Greenshot 1.2. The new version comes just in time before 2015 is about to start; after three release candidates and a lot of bug fixes, improvements and enhancements in between.

So, what's new, you ask? Here we go, just to name a few:

• Speech bubbles, a.k.a. call-outs: we know that many of you have been waiting for those, and we are glad to see them in the editor ourselves - the ideal tool to annotate a specific element with text.
• Incrementing labels: ever needed to point out several steps of a workflow like "first click here, then there, and finally over there, ..."? Probably... well, you no longer have to take care of the enumeration with text boxes manually. Incrementing labels are the much smarter and more beautiful solution :)
• Torn edge and border settings: we have improved both features by providing extra settings for them, e.g. you can select which edges of your image should be torn.
• Region mode accessibility: it is now possible to select a screenshot region with the keyboard, which allows exact and easy fine-tuning of a selected region, and of course allows the feature to be used at all for people having problems with handling a pointing device like mouse or touchpad.

Of course, that's not all - way too much to describe everything in detail here... we have also fixed quite some bugs and usability issues and we have a new language aboard, welcome Latvian (kudos to Kārlis Kalviškis for supplying the translation) as well as updates for many other languages.

Thanks again to everyone who keeps supporting us by submitting translations, feature requests, bug reports and donations! We really appreciate your support a lot, your help keeps the project going. :)

So much for now, we're getting ready for Christmas and new year's eve now. Have a good time everybody, and have fun with Greenshot - the latest version is always available at http://getgreenshot.org/downloads/
And of course, here is the complete change log:


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Features:
* Added the possibility to select the region to capture by using the keyboard, use the cursor keys to move the cursor (ctrl-key speeds up the movement) and the enter key to mark the start and ending.
* Added support for another clipboard format "Format17" (aka CF_DIBV5) which could improve the result of the "open image from clipboard" and drag&drop actions.
* Editor: a resize effect with settings window has been added.
* Editor: a settings window for the torn-edge effect has been added, the settings will be stored.
* Editor: a settings window for the drop shadow effect has been added, the settings will be stored.
* OneNote: Enabled and enhanced the OneNote destination, so we can test this and see if it's worth releasing.
* External command: If a command outputs an URI this will be captured and placed on the clipboard, the behaviour currently can only be modified in the greenshot.ini
* FEATURE-184, FEATURE-282, FEATURE-486: Image editor now has a speech bubble
* FEATURE-281, FEATURE-669, FEATURE-707, FEATURE-734: Image editor now has auto incrementing labels
* FEATURE-757: Greenshot will now store the last used region in the greenshot.ini, which makes it also available after a restart.
* FEATURE-758: Due to the fact that more and more high DPI displays are used, we added a setting to change the icon size.
* FEATURE-776: Improvement of the torn edge settings dialog
* FEATURE-777: Improvement of the font family settings, also changed the used font for every family making it easier to find your font.