Here is the list of resolved bugs and added features since the first release candidate. Feel free to download the new build and, as always, let us know if you encounter problems with it.

Thanks a lot :)


* Variables in the output path caused problems are all "illegal path characters" were replaced with "_", making it unusable.
* Multiple Imgur plug-in fixes (wrong sorting, resizing the history causes GUI problems)
* Now detecting "RC" releases as new!
* Multiple windows didn't show the Greenshot icon
* Language selection is shown again if no language is selected (at first run or if the configuration is deleted)
* Fixed OCR plug-in still showing, even if it's not loaded correctly (as MODI is not installed).

Features added:
* Image editor now shows the dimensions in the status bar
* Image editor title now starts with the capture title, ending with " - Greenshot editor", which is usual behaviour for editors.
* Imgur history clear button


Enough talk for now, here is the download link for Greenshot 0.8.1 RC 1. We hope you like it :) In case of bugs, please let us know.
Thanks a lot, have fun!

P.S.: Here is the list of changes for the release candidate:


Bugs resolved:
* Image editor problems when exiting Greenshot.
* Systray icon wasn't removed when stopping Greenshot
* Installer fixes for silent installation and the selected installer language will be passed to Greenshot
* Hotkeys on Windows 7 x64 weren't working, should be okay now.
* Changed variable naming from %VAR% to ${VAR}, a.o to prevent early resolving on the command-line
* Fixed problems with calculating the window size for Windows Vista & Windows 7.
* Fixed annoying bug in editor which made the screen jump if the editor had scrollbars, got even more annoying with the new IE capture feature.
* Fixed mousewheel scrolling in editor
* Capture & editor performance improved
* Fixed capture region selection screen losing focus
* Many other minor stability fixes
* At first start all available languages can be selected

Known bugs:
* When having multiple monitors the systray context menu will have options which apear on a different screen. (Issue in Microsoft Windows)
* The "I" Mouse-Cursor will not be rendered correctly on the final image. (Issue in Microsoft Windows)
* There might still be some minor rendering problems due to performance improvements, these will not be visible on the resulting image. We will fix them as soon as we find them.


We are happy to announce that Greenshot translation files are now available for Swedish (Tack, Eric F.), Finnish (Kiitos, Jari Majaniemi), Greek (Χάρη, ΓΙΩΡΓΟ ΣΚΟΥΝΤΖΗ) and Hebrew (תודה, רן ששון).
Furthermore, grazie to tonytogna and gracias to Alejandro de Gárate for submitting revised versions of the Italian and Spanish translations.

Thanks to dedicated users, Greenshot is now available in 18 languages – wow… this is really great :)

You can get hold of all translations on our download page – just download the desired language file and save it to the “Languages” subdirectory of Greenshot’s installation directory.

Your language is still missing? Have a look at our translations tracker – maybe someone has already submitted it, but we have not found the time to check it and put it onto the website.
If there is none, and you would like to submit a translation of your own, you are very welcome to upload it there, of course.

Thanks again to all translators – good job :)

Thanks for your patience – we will keep you updated :)

The c’t software collection 6/10 offers 88 software tools, most of them about editing photos and other images, among those: one tool for taking screenshots :)

By the way: you may have noticed that it has been a little bit quiet here lately, but that does not mean that the development is not going on. We had less time available for working on this screenshot tool for several reasons – it has been holiday season, bigger work load at our jobs, and of course there are always some other time consuming things in life… Version 0.8.1 is in development (we will post some more information about the changes in this minor release soon) and we have already made some preparations for version 0.9.

Actually, it does not. Please do not judge any software by what the task manager says. Of course, the task manager is not lying to you; but its presentation of facts is rather misleading.

The value pointed out as “Mem usage” is actually the size of a processes working set. A working set is not reserved for a single process. When analyzing the memory performance of a process using a tool like Process Explorer (or – with Windows Vista or 7 – changing the displayed columns in the task manager; see link below how this can be done) it is obvious that the working set size is split into two values, WS Private and WS Shareable.

Example: Process Explorer distinguishing Private and Shareable Working Set

These terms are pretty much self-explanatory: the private part of a working set is how much the process actually needs, it cannot be used by other processes. The shareable part is most often the bigger part of a working set. What is in there is free for use by any other application running, which is most obvious when running multiple .NET applications. Launch Paint.NET next to Greenshot and you will notice WS shared increasing. Launch SharpDevelop and it will increase even more. Loaded resources are shared between applications, which is a good thing.
If you are curious about the shared working set: cybernetnews has posted a nice article on Windows memory usage.

Another thing: as long as RAM is not scarce, used memory is not wasted memory. Actually, unused memory is literally of no use. For this reason Windows may be more generous in spending your RAM than actually demanded. So if the process needs some more at a later point, it is already there and can be accessed quickly (i.e. more performant). If other processes demand it, it can still be reallocated.
Just imagine three persons sitting on a sofa. No matter how big the sofa is, they will probably spread along the whole length instead of stacking up on one side of it, allowing each of them some extra space to sit comfortably and uncramped, leaving room to move. But when needed, they can still move together so that other persons can find a seat, too. Now there are maybe five or six persons sitting of the sofa, which still works out. But reaching out for ones drink on the table is a little bit more cumbersome, every move is a bit less effiecient now.

That said, be sure that we are always having an eye on memory usage, we definitely have no intent to waste memory for whatever reason. We can do our best to free resources as soon as they are no longer needed, but we also have to rely that Windows and .NET do a good job when it comes to memory management.

有難うございます。, asabu. Hartelijk dank, Jurjen and Robin. Muchas gracias, darkprop. 非常感谢, uralhan. :)
(Hope this is anywhere near correctness ;-)

For those who have not discovered yet: Greenshot 0.8 has improved multilingual support – several nice users have supplied translations (Thanks again). The complete list of available languages you can use this screenshot tool with is now:

• English (included in the program)
• German (included in the program)
• Czech
• Spanish
• French
• Japanese
• Dutch
• Russian
• Simplified Chinese
• Traditional Chinese

Here are Greenshot’s all time download stats on sourceforge.net.

This is a good occasion to say thank you to those who donated – your appreciation is very motivating to keep things going :)
And of course, thanks to everyone supporting Greenshot in whatever way. We really appreciate your support.

We recommend updating to the current version of Greenshot.

At the time of this writing, Greenshot has already been translated to Czech, French, Russian and Traditional Chinese (thanks to vodim, EminoMeneko, Aleksey and Timothy Lin), a Dutch version is in progress already. English and German are included in Greenshot by default.

We are excited about seeing the Greenshot interface in different languages and hope that there are more to come.
If you create a translation for Greenshot, we would of course be very happy if you shared it with us and other Greenshot users.

Before starting a new translation, please make sure that none has been provided for this language yet in our translations tracker as well as in our SVN repository, to avoid the translation work being done twice.

In order to create a new translation, use an existing language file from your Greenshot installation (they are located in the Languages subdirectory of Greenshot’s installation directory – please make sure that you are having the latest available version installed) and duplicate it using the respective language code in the filename. Make sure the filename is still something like language_##_##.xml. Open the file using a text editor and translate the entries.
When you are done, please upload the translation to our translations tracker, we will offer it for download as soon as possible.

Please note that we prefer translations from registered sourceforge.net users. For a simple reason: it allows for other users to contact the translator about enhancements or improvements. Feel free to discuss things with a translation’s creator in the tracker, because – in most of the cases – the Greenshot development team will not be able to discuss about specific languages with you.

Thanks a lot in advance to anyone who wants to do a translation.