Shotwell 0.24.5 and 0.25.4 are now available for download

Feb 1, 2017 03:02 GMT  ·  By

Shotwell maintainer Jens Georg announced earlier the availability of two new maintenance versions of the open-source Shotwell image viewer and organizer application for GNU/Linux operating systems.

Shotwell 0.24.5 and 0.25.4 are now available for download, and it looks like the only change is the use of consistent HTTPS (Secure HTTP) encryption for all the included publishing plugins. This will make sure that your connections to various publishing services supported by the application are kept secure at all time and no one will be able to intercept it and steal your credentials.

"I have just released Shotwell 0.24.5 and 0.25.4 which turn on HTTPS encryption all over the publishing plugins," said Jens Georg in the mailing list announcement, where the developer strongly advises those who use Shotwell's Tumblr or Yandex.Fotki publishing features to immediately change their passwords and then re-authenticate to those services after upgrading the application to the new versions.

On the other hand, if you're using either of the YouTube or Picasa publishing services within Shotwell, you should re-authenticate the next time you open the application by logging out and then logging back in to the respective services after upgrading Shotwell to the new maintenance updates released today. You can download Shotwell 0.24.5 (stable) and 0.25.4 (unstable) right now from our website.

These are only the source tarballs, so if you don't fancy compiling software from sources, we recommend watching the software repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distribution for the updated Shotwell versions, which should land in the coming days. Please update your installations as soon as you see Shotwell version 0.24.5 or 0.25.4 in your distro's repos. Several language translations have also been updated in these versions.