3.1 KiB
Latest Windows release
v0.6.26 — 2026-11-02
Changes
- Settings → Sync… is available to everyone. Connect your own OpenBao KV v2 with a username and password; synchronization is disabled by default and no server is built in.
- Synchronize at startup, approximately two seconds after saving settings, and every 10 minutes in the background. Local operation continues offline.
- Merge independent settings changes and resolve conflicts individually, with local/server values shown side by side. Unresolved values stay pending while independent changes synchronize. Every server write uses CAS to protect concurrent changes.
- Snippets have stable IDs and retained deletion records. Independent snippets, renames and text edits can merge; deletion versus editing and duplicate shortcuts/triggers receive explicit conflict handling.
- Personal dictionaries, exclusions, shortcuts and layout preferences synchronize. Startup, history, local paths, connection details and credentials stay on the PC. Passwords use Windows Credential Manager; cached sync state uses DPAPI.
- Existing profiles migrate to sync envelope version 2. Update every participating PC before using the new synchronization behavior.
Validation
91 sync/protocol/conflict checks, 423 native regressions, 510 input/UI checks, screenshot editor and PNG save regressions, shared wheel handling, notification registration, 48 updater checks and updater progress checks. Initial upload and personal-dictionary synchronization were confirmed against the user's OpenBao. Two-physical-PC production testing is still pending.
Limitations
OpenBao synchronization is experimental and requires a reachable HTTPS server with a trusted certificate, KV v2 and a provisioned userpass account/policy. It does not provide account registration, MFA login, non-root namespaces or reverse-proxy URL prefixes. Ordered layout/language lists are resolved as whole settings. Deletion records are retained without expiry. Missing keyboard layouts block applying a profile. Download/Upload replace a whole profile and are intended for initial setup or deliberate recovery; use Resolve individual conflicts for normal conflicts. Existing browser-selection and clipboard/accessibility limitations remain unchanged.
Upgrade: choose Update in the tray menu. Legacy v0.3.0–v0.4.1 clients first receive the v0.4.2 compatibility bridge, then the current full release. v0.2.3 and earlier require manual installation.
For manual installation, exit KSwitcher, close screenshot editors and extract the entire ZIP into its installation folder. Keep personal data/ and customized dictionaries.
Download KSwitcher-win-x64.zip with SHA256SUMS.txt. The package contains all three executables, a release manifest, offline dictionaries, documentation and license notices. It contains no personal settings, passwords, server address, clipboard history, Tesseract installation or language models.
Build and package:
.\build.ps1 -Stage -Test
.\package.ps1 -PublishRelease
Commit the archive, checksum and sources together. Publish both assets on a stable release-vX.Y.Z tag matching the executable version. Keep v0.4.2 as the last legacy tag.