onionshare version history
10 releases tracked, newest first.
v2.6.4
Jun 9, 2026- Security fixes to prevent symlink traversal and unauthorized file uploads.
- Updated Tor and other dependencies, including Flatpak runtime.
- Bug fix for Tor traversal progress display and user warnings.
4 downloads
v2.6.3
Feb 25, 2025## 2.6.3
* Feature: It is now possible to view what URLs are visited in Share/Website mode using the CLI tool, with `--log-filenames`.
* Feature: It is now possible to automatically start a saved persistent onion tab, once OnionShare itself starts and once Tor is connected.
* Bug fix: It is now once again possible to request bridges and use meek as a Pluggable Transport.
* Bug fix: Fixed a fatal error with Censorship Circumvention when no bridges are returned.
* Bug fix: Fixed an issue with lack of gevent with SocketIO on systems that don't have it.
* Bug fix: Fixed a thread-related race condition segfault with the CLI tool on shutdown.
* Bug fix: Fixed an issue with the 'auto-stop timer' when the CLI tool is being used in 'Share mode' and someone has visited the share at least once. Desktop was unaffected, as were all other modes.
* Locales: Gaeilge, Slovenčina and Tamil languages introduced, and various other translations in existing languages added or improved (thanks to the translators!)
* Documentation: Added examples of using a systemd unit file for persistent onions, and various other clarifications.
* Documentation: Documented all the config file parameters and
4 downloads
v2.6.2
Mar 21, 2024What's new:
* Security fix: Removes newlines from History item path
* Security fix: Set a maximum length of 524288 characters for text messages in Receive mode
* Security fix: Allows only specific ASCII characters for usernames and removes control characters
* Security fix: Forcefully disconnect user from chat on `disconnect` event
* Security fix: Handle username validation excpeptions to prevent silent joining
4 downloads
v2.6.1
Feb 28, 2024What's new:
* Release updates: Automate builds with CI, make just 64-bit Windows release, make a single universal2 release for both Intel and Apple Silicon macOS
* Upgrade dependencies, including Tor, meek, and snowflake
* Bug fix: Restore the primary_action mode settings in a tab after OnionShare reconnects to Tor
* Bug fix: Fix issue with auto-connecting to Tor with persistent tabs open
* Bug fix: Fix packaging issue where Windows version of OnionShare conflicts with Windows version of Dangerzone
* Bug fix: Fix 'Use a bridge' checkbox state change
* Bug fix: Raise error from waitress if not shutdown
4 downloads
v2.6.1.dev1
Pre-releaseOct 21, 2023This is a development release.
4 downloads
v2.6
Oct 10, 2022What's new:
* Major feature: a new 'Quickstart' screen, which enables toggling on or off an animated automatic connection to Tor. This allows configuring network settings prior to automatic connection.
* Major feature: Censorship circumvention. Use new features in the upstream Tor API to try to automatically obtain bridges depending on the user's location.
* New feature: automatically fetch the built-in bridges from the upstream Tor API rather than hardcode them in each release of OnionShare.
* New feature: keyboard shortcuts to access various modes and menus, and accessibility hints
* Bug fix: Temporary Directory for serving the OnionShare web pages was broken on Windows
* Packaging: Packaging is more automated, and Linux Snapcraft releases are available for amd64, arm64, and armhf
* Miscellaneous: Many dependency updates and web page theming improvements
5 downloads
v2.6.dev2
Pre-releaseOct 2, 2022Early release.
4 downloads
v2.6.dev1
Pre-releaseJun 20, 2022Early release to test CI builds.
3 downloads
v2.5
Jan 17, 2022What's new:
* Security fix: Sanitize the path parameter in History item widget to be plain text
* Security fix: Use microseconds in Receive mode directory creation to avoid potential DoS
* Security fix: Several hardening improvements for session and username management in Chat mode, to prevent impersonation and other issues
* Major feature: Obtain bridges from Moat / BridgeDB (over a domain-fronted Meek client)
* Major feature: Snowflake bridge support
* New feature: Tor connection settings, as well as general settings, are now Tabs rather than dialogs
* New feature: User can customize the Content-Security-Policy header in Website mode
* New feature: Built-in bridges are automatically updated from Tor's API when the user has chosen to use them
* Switch to using our `stem` fork called `cepa`, which is now published on PyPi so we can build it in releases
* Various bug fixes
4 downloads
v2.4
Sep 26, 2021What's new:
- Major feature: Private keys (v3 onion client authentication) replaces passwords and HTTP basic auth
- Updated Tor to 0.4.6.7 on all platforms
- Various bug fixes
4 downloads