CopyQ 8.0.0 Released

[Lukáš Holeček]

Hi All,

CopyQ 8.0.0 clipboard manager has been released.

There were a lot of changes since the last release. Here are some highlights (details in the Changelog below):

- There is now new M1 build for macOS and Linux ARM builds!

- The Windows and macOS now use new version of GUI framework (Qt 6).

- The Windows app is now installed in the correct location for 64 bit apps (usually "C:\Program Files" instead of "C:\Program Files (X86)") but the old installation may need to be removed manually (unfortunately it is not handled by the new installer).

- The app can now handle more items in tabs and the performance should be noticeably better when working with lots of items.

Thanks the bug reports, translations and helping with fixes!

# Downloads

- https://github.com/hluk/CopyQ/releases/tag/v8.0.0
- https://www.fosshub.com/CopyQ.html
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/copyq/files/copyq-8.0.0/

# Changelog

## Added

- Tab item limit has been increased to 100,000 (#1144).

- New macOS builds for M1/arm64 architectures are available (#1884).

- New Debian/Raspbian builds for arm/arm64 architectures are available.

- Allows overriding item activation using `paste()`.

- Allows overriding script functions to handle some events: items
  added/removed/changed (`onItemsAdded()`, `onItemsRemoved()`,
  `onItemsChanged()`), tab items loaded (`onItemsLoaded()`), tab selected
  (`onTabSelected()`) (#59).

- Allows to cancel removing items by overriding `onItemsRemoved()` script
  function. If the exit code is non-zero (for example `fail()` is called),
  items will not be removed. But this can also cause a new items not to be
  added if the tab is full.

- Allows overriding current clipboard owner (`currentClipboardOwner()`) used by
  the clipboard monitor process. By default it uses `currentWindowTitle()`.

- Allows using Ctrl+C to copy items even if search entry box is focused unless
  it has a selection (#2440).

- Linux: Adds build option to disable X11 support (`cmake -DWITH_X11=OFF ...`)
  (#2532).

- Linux: Adds build option to disable autostart which is useful mainly for
  Flatpak builds (#2517, #2518).

## Changed

- Windows binaries (which are 64 bit) are now by default installed to "Program
  Files" instead of incorrect "Program Files (X86)". After installing the new
  version, the **old path must be manually removed**.

- Windows and macOS builds are now based on newer Qt 6.

- Avoids accessing clipboard from password managers (#2282, #2495, #2500). This
  disallows storing and processing such data. Specifically, the clipboard is
  ignored if it contains following data: `Clipboard Viewer Ignore` on Windows,
  `application/x-nspasteboard-concealed-type` on macOS,
  `x-kde-passwordManagerHint` with `secret` value on Linux.

- Large data items in tabs are now stored in separate location unless
  Synchronize or Encryption plugins are active for the tab. This allows storing
  more items in tabs while using less memory. The data path can be printed via
  `copyq info data` command and overridden using `COPYQ_ITEM_DATA_PATH`
  environment variable. To disable this functionality use `copyq config
  item_data_threshold -1` - the default value is 1024 and items larger than
  this amount of bytes are stored in the separate location.

- Command dialog now shows advanced properties for built-in commands allowing
  to copy the command line to set global shortcut in system.

- Global shortcuts are now also visible in menus (#2382).

- Avoids pasting all image formats as new item.

- Display commands are now applied to tray menu items too.

- Linux: Last stored text item is updated from any new mouse selection only if
  the item content matches the start or the end of the selection (but not the
  middle like previously). This may avoid some unexpected item updates.

- Updates icon font from Font-Awesome 6.5.1.

## Fixed

- Fixes drag'n'drop ordering for plugins and commands. This could have caused a
  missing icon, app crash or various inconsistencies.

- Fixes managing keys with gpg 2.1 and above (#2463, #1208).

- Fixes creating duplicate item with Synchronize plugin when adding a tag for
  example (#2355).

- Fixes conflicting notes and text with Synchronize plugin (#2355)

- Fixes deleted global object after running scripts (#2542).

- Wayland: Fixes copying images to another app instance.

Enjoy,
Lukas