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GPaste 51.0 released

by Marc-Antoine Perennou on September 15, 2026

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It’s available there, get it while it’s hot!

This release targets GNOME 51.

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

What’s new?

This is the first stable release of GPaste 51. On top of everything 51.beta brought — the new history view, the redesigned graphical tool, encryption and SQLite storage — it lets you manage your histories straight from the GNOME Shell menu, and GPaste finally has an icon of its own.

New since 51.beta

  • Manage histories from the GNOME Shell menu: switch, create, delete, empty and back up
  • Give the GNOME Shell menu rows the graphical tool’s layout, with pin and delete shown on hover or focus
  • Add passwords directly from the graphical tool’s New button
  • Strip the rich text from an item, keeping its plain text
  • Choose the command used to upload an item to a pastebin
  • Add a setting to turn every global keyboard shortcut off
  • Only offer the GNOME Shell preferences where the extension is installed
  • Give GPaste an icon of its own
  • Keep a single entry for a password copied twice
  • Refuse a new password whose name is already taken
  • Make scrolling through a history full of images lighter

Fixes

  • Fix two quick copies sometimes landing in the history in the wrong order
  • Fix the global shortcuts under the portal not picking up edited accelerators or Super
  • Fix a damaged SQLite history being loaded partially and then saved over
  • Fix a stuck upload never timing out
  • Fix restarting the daemon leaving none running, or being reported as a failure
  • Fix the GNOME Shell menu staying empty after the daemon comes back
  • Fix keyboard navigation in the GNOME Shell menu on GNOME 51
  • Fix the graphical tool’s rows moving under the pointer and its header buttons being cut off
  • Fix a password staying on the clipboard once the daemon inside GNOME Shell stops
  • Fix a remembered empty passphrase skipping the unlock prompt
  • Fix the daemon crashing when copying files right after something else
  • Fix gpaste-client exiting silently on an unknown command

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

Extension

Graphical tool

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