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This release targets GNOME 50.

If you’re looking for the legacy applet/tray-icon, it’s available here.

What’s new?

This is a maintenance release, and a big one: two daemon deadlocks, two ways your clipboard history could be silently damaged, and a good number of crashes.

• Fix the daemon deadlocking against itself when copying, most often on larger items: GTK’s serialization of our text selections left an unowned stream chain that, on X11, waited on the very main loop that would have signalled it. Text selections are now served by a dedicated content provider that encodes the value itself
• text/plain is now served as UTF-8, where GTK’s serializer encoded it as ASCII and replaced anything else with ?
• Fix a deadlock when selecting an item that turns out to be invalid: the history now emits its “selected” signal once its lock is released, rather than driving the whole clipboard stack with it held
• Fix the daemon crashing when searching from the GNOME Shell overview with a term containing an unbalanced bracket or parenthesis (#496)
• Fix the history file being destroyed when it had been written by a newer version of GPaste
• Fix items being lost or garbled when loading a history containing an item with an empty value
• Fix every client crashing, GNOME Shell included, on the first update sent by a newer daemon after gpaste-client daemon-reexec
• Fix the daemon aborting, instead of disabling search, when it cannot connect to its own D-Bus proxy
• Fix gpaste-client help, version, ui and preferences failing when no daemon is reachable
• Fix gpaste-client file crashing on a file that is neither text nor a loadable image
• Fix a critical on every keystroke when the GTK UI search term is not a valid regular expression
• Fix acting on history rows before their content has been loaded, in both the GTK UI and the GNOME Shell extension
• Fix a second gpaste-ui or gpaste-preferences invocation failing instead of presenting the running window
• Fix several memory leaks and a use-after-free in the GTK UI history panel
• Fix the “empty history” helpers reporting success when the operation had failed

And don’t forget to run gpaste-client dr aka gpaste-client daemon-reexec after upgrading GPaste to activate new functionalities ;)

You can then run gpaste-client daemon-version to check that the correct daemon is running.

Screenshots

Gnome-shell extension

Graphical tool