Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Latest Shotwell Releases Enable HTTPS Encryption, Change Your Passwords Now

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 stole 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 pas... (read more)

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