Release Announcement

SecureDrop Client 0.17.2 released

February 5, 2026

This SecureDrop Client release updates a Rust dependency, bytes, which published a security advisory about potential undefined behavior. We are not aware of any exploits for this issue, but are releasing an update as a precaution.

Users need to run the standard SecureDrop Workstation Updater to apply these updates; no further action is necessary.

Changelog

  • Bump bytes from 1.5.0 to 1.11.1 (#3069)
  • Remove current year from messages.pot (#2953)

Acknowledgments

This release incorporates Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) contributions by Martin C; Nathan Dyer; Micah Lee; Kunal Mehta, release manager; Cory Francis Myers; Vicki Niu; Kevin O’Gorman; Francisco Rocha; John Skinner, communications manager; and Rowen S.

Questions and comments

If you have questions or comments regarding this release, please contact us:

We also encourage you to file nonsensitive issues via our GitHub repository.

Thank you for using SecureDrop!

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