Well, there’s bad news and good news. The bad news is that there won’t be a 0.8.1 release at all. The good news… no… the really awesome news is: we will release Greenshot 1.0 soon! Yay!

Yes, that’s right: after five years, we are finally going to push Greenshot out of beta, with the probably most grown-up, most feature-crammed, most-stable and most-bug-free Greenshot version ever.

Why? While working on the release candidates for 0.8.1 the feature-set still grew very rapidly with every version, and (kudos to our hard-working team member Robin) several long and often requested features have been implemented and also a lot of bugs of the previous version have been eliminated. After some time, we decided that a minor release would not do justice to the terrific list of changes.
With the current status being very stable we also thought it would be a good idea to leave beta status and put the 1 before the dot.
Of course, we will publish a complete list of changes when publishing a new version, but just to name a few of the new features:

• configurable hotkeys: choose the keys to be used to create screenshots
• improved portability (ZIP version): configuration files are written to the unzipped directory instead of the user’s application data
• Aero (DWM) window capture support on Windows Vista and 7 (transparent borders)

When? We cannot give you a release date yet (remember: we are doing this in our spare time, which is limited as for most people). But we will start publishing release candidates within the next few weeks and are very optimistic that it will not take very long from the first release candidate to the final release.

We will let you know when there are release candidates and – of course – when Greenshot 1.0 is finally out, our blog will keep you up to date, you might also want to follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Google+.

In case you do not know your upload e-mail address, you can find it out very easy, Facebook’s Help Center entry tells us how to do it:
Open the mobile upload page located at https://m.facebook.com/upload.php (you do not have to use a mobile device to do so). If you are not already logged into Facebook, you are prompted to do so now. At the bottom, you will see your personal upload email address.

Once you know it, the rest is quite easy: Take a screenshot with Greenshot and use the E-Mail feature with your upload email address to upload it to Facebook. If you want to add a description, you can do so by typing it into the E-Mail’s subject. That’s it :)

P.S.: Of course we are aware that Facebook offers interfaces to upload images directly from a desktop application. But as there is no Facebook Plugin for Greenshot yet, uploading it via email is currently the easiest solution to share your screenshots on Facebook.

Among the newest translations are Vietnamese and Korean (thanks to Nguyen Vu Hung and Scott UC), there are Arabic and Persian language files available now, too (kudos to Ramzy Samman, Jamal Mashal and Dadkan Mirzaee) for these. We are also glad to see the Ukrainian version of Greenshot (translated by oleksandr-6c6c6).
Another newcomer is Portuguese, Brasil (by Célio Eduardo Gonçalves Costa) as well as Portugal (by Paulo Carreiro)… great job everybody :)

Phew. I hope there’s nothing missing now, the list keeps growing :)

All in all this makes Greenshot available in 26 different languages now, which is really impressive! Again, thanks to all translators for their support.

You can download all translations on the Greenshot download page – just download the desired language file and save it to the “Languages” subdirectory of Greenshot’s installation directory. The new language will be available after Greenshot has been restarted. (If it is not, please check whether your operating system supports the language.)

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.

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