We are proud to announce the inaugural release of SecureDrop Inbox, version 1.0.0.
The new Inbox replaces the previous SecureDrop Client on the SecureDrop Workstation, and includes a number of highly requested features, like full-text search, pausing and resuming downloads, and keyboard navigation, as well as significant performance improvements. For an overview of all the new features, check out our recent blog post.
SecureDrop Inbox is the culmination of nearly a year of effort to rewrite our client application from the ground up. For more details about the motivation behind this work, see our companion post.
The Inbox will automatically be installed as part of your regular preflight updates. When first launched, the Inbox will need to perform a complete sync with the server, which may take some time, depending on how much information is stored on your server. Regardless, it is safe to close the Inbox even if it hasn’t finished syncing; it’ll resume automatically when you next open it.
If you do encounter any bugs or issues in the new Inbox, please contact SecureDrop support via Signal so we can make sure to address them.
In case you encounter any major issues, the legacy Client will still be available as a fallback option for one month. It can be opened by going to Qubes Menu â–¸ Gear Icon â–¸ Other â–¸ SecureDrop Client (legacy). Note that the Client and Inbox sync and download data independently; any data you download in the Inbox will have to be downloaded again in the Client, if you choose to use it, and vice versa.
We will also keep you updated on specific dates and other details through your Signal Group.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Localization Lab for continued support with our translations. Translations were updated thanks to the work of many volunteers:
- aaloo
- Adriano Gomes
- AO yahoe.001
- clarailr
- Curtis Baltimore
- kwadronaut
If you would like to help expand the languages that SecureDrop supports, please see our instructions on contributing translations.
This release incorporates Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) contributions by Giulio B; Martin C; Nathan Dyer, communications manager; Micah Lee; Kunal Mehta, release manager; Erik Moeller; Cory Francis Myers; Vicki Niu; Kevin O’Gorman; Francisco Rocha, deputy release manager; Conor Schaefer; John Skinner; and Rowen S.
Additionally, thanks to Anxhela Maloku and Elio Qoshi from Ura Design for their contributions to improve the Inbox’s design, accessibility, and user experience.
We’d also like to thank the Signal Desktop team for their advice around Electron in the early stages of the Inbox project.
Questions and comments
If you have questions or comments regarding this release, please contact us:
- Via Signal, either in your dedicated SecureDrop Support group, or by contacting the support account listed at securedrop.org/help/.
- Via securedrop@freedom.press (PGP encrypted) for sensitive security issues (please use judiciously), or submit a report via Bugcrowd.
We also encourage you to file nonsensitive issues via our GitHub repository.
Thank you for using SecureDrop!