Beta changelog

Actions Plugin

• Fixed DPI support for the confirmation dialog.

• First release: pick accented letters, arrows, box drawing, math and currency symbols, emoji and more from a small window, and paste them where you are typing.
  • Search by name, keyword or code (U+2192, or 65 for A), or browse by topic.
  • Recall your favorites and recently picked characters.
  • Click a character, or press Enter, to collect it. Ctrl+click or Ctrl+Enter pastes (or copies) right away.
  • Pick characters or their codes (code points, HTML entities, or programming language escapes).
  • Emoji show in color on Windows 8.1 and later.
  • Opens with a hotkey or from the paste menu to paste in-place (closes like a menu once you paste or click elsewhere).
  • Opens as a persistent window from the tray menu or its own separate hotkey, so you can keep the picker handy.
  • Drag and drop for favorites and tab custom ordering.

• Small change to MCP agent documentation to account for new do-not-record settings in latest ClipX.

Sharing Plugin

• Fixed potential stuck progress notification when the peer times out.
• Fixed lack of notification when an item from another computer failed to be copied into your clipboard.
• Fixed error messages when pairing fail to let you now why.
• Fixed DPI of the peer history status row after a display scale change.

ColorPicker Plugin

• Previews now also recognize modern CSS colors (oklch(), oklab(), lab(), lch(), hwb(), color(display-p3 ...), and rgb(255 136 0 / 50%)) and colors written in code, such as Color(0xFFFF8800), Color.FromArgb(255, 136, 0), UIColor(red: 1, green: 0.5, blue: 0, alpha: 1), and new Color(1f, 0.5f, 0f).
• Fixed DPI of the magnifying glass area after a monitor scale change.

• Small improvement of Markdown detection rules:
  • Longer headings no longer count against detection for short texts
  • Several headings of the same level with no blank lines between them no longer count as a positive signal

• The zoom loupe now works with fine wheel turns for better compatibility with precision touchpads.

Stickies Plugin

• Added a new choice for Sticky hotkeys to restore the old clipboard after pasting.
• Clearer message when a collection name is empty or too long.
• Copying the history into a new collection now skips items that cannot be copied instead of failing.
• Improved error messages when the Add to Stickies hotkey fails to read the source item.

TransformColors Plugin

• First release: color conversions in the transform menus, under Colors. Copy a color written as hex, rgb(), hsl(), hwb(), lab(), lch(), oklab(), oklch(), color(), a CSS color name, or in code, then convert it.
  • Colors: to hex, short hex, rgb(), rgb() with commas, hsl(), hwb(), lab(), lch(), oklab(), oklch(), color(display-p3), and the CSS color name. Colors that a form cannot show are brought into its range without changing their hue.
  • List in all formats writes the color in every form, one per line.
  • Colors > Code: Flutter or Compose Color, C# Color, Swift UIColor, SwiftUI Color, Unity Color, GLSL vec4, Win32 RGB(), and COLORREF.
  • Colors > Adjust... opens a dialog with sliders for lightness, saturation, hue, and tint or shade, and shows the colors before and after as you move them.
  • Transform any number of colors throughout your clipboard in a single action (e.g.: adjust the hue of an entire stylesheet)

TransformFiles Plugin

• First release: file transforms in the transform menus, under Files, for files copied in Explorer or file paths copied as text.
  • Files > Hashes: SHA-256, SHA-1, SHA-512 and MD5 of one or more files. Large (or slow) files hash in the background, with progress and Cancel.
  • File contents: the text of one or more text files, each after its name when there are several.
  • Files as Markdown code blocks: each file's text in a fenced code block, labeled with its language.
  • Markdown links: one link per copied file or folder.
  • Image file as picture: a copied picture file (PNG, JPEG, GIF, BMP or TIFF) becomes the picture itself.
  • Files > Encode: one file as Base64, or as a data URI.
  • File info: each file's folder, type, size, times and attributes, a picture's size and a program's version.
  • Files > Lists: Folder listing (a copied folder as a tree), File table (also as a formatted table), File names, Relative paths, and Total size (files and folders counted with their contents).
  • Paths copied as text can name files with a pattern, such as C:\Notes\*.txt, for every transform that takes several files.

TransformMarkdown Plugin

• First release: Markdown transforms in the transform menus, under Markdown.
  • Markdown to formatted text, near the top of the menu for Markdown text: paste into any web or HTML enabled editor (Word, Outlook, etc.) with headings, bold, lists, links, tables, and code formatted.
  • Formatted text to Markdown: copy part of a web page, a Word document, a Google Doc or simply Text with HTML markup, and turn it into Markdown, with its headings, emphasis, links, lists, tables, and code.
  • Remove Markdown formatting turns Markdown into plain text: headings, lists, links, and tables read naturally.
  • Quote turns text into a Markdown quote.
  • Markdown > Code: Wrap in a code block, and Extract code blocks (keeps only the code).
  • Markdown > Headings: Raise heading levels and Lower heading levels, for moving a section into another document.
  • Tidy Markdown: "-" bullets, "#" headings, lined-up tables, single blank lines, and no stray trailing spaces. Code is left as it is.
  • Markdown > Tables: Spreadsheet cells to Markdown table (copy cells from Excel or Google Sheets), and Markdown table to spreadsheet cells.
  • Markdown > Tables: CSV to Markdown table, and Markdown table to CSV. A value can span several lines with \n (use \\ for backslashes, e.g., : C:\\new for C:\new).

TransformQR Plugin

• First release: QR to text and Text to QR.
  • Supports images, block-character text for chat and terminals, and SVG markup for design tools.
  • A new Transform QR settings page sets the error correction level, module size, margin, colors and transparent background, and lets you tweak the reader behavior.
  • Use the interactive "Make QR code..." transform to choose the format and every option for one code, with a live preview.
  • Transform QR presets: save named sets of QR code options, each with its own format and hotkey. Every preset appears as its own transform in the QR Codes submenu. Manage them with the Configure Presets button on the Transform QR settings page.

• New: in Settings > Transforms: "After pasting with transform" lets you choose what to do after pasting a transform (e.g., keeping the result on the clipboard, restoring your prior clipboard etc.).
• Small cleanups in Settings.

Sharing Plugin

• Added Right-click/Ctrl+Enter submenus on shared history items with Pinned Previews, Transforms, Plugin actions etc.

Stickies Plugin

• Added Pinned Previews, Transforms, Plugin actions etc. on Stickies Right-click/Ctrl+Enter item submenu.

Pinned previews

• New: pin any clipboard item or sticky in its own window, to keep it in view while you work. Pin it from the tray menu, a history item's right-click menu, or a hotkey.
• Pinned windows support always-on-top, snapping and automatic placement, and can be moved in groups. They also offer transforms and plugin actions.

Transforms

• New: edit text before copying or pasting it, with Edit... in the Transform menu.
• Apply several transforms in a row without leaving the Transform window, or run plugin actions such as Save As and Add to Stickies to the result.
• Pin & Close opens the result in a pinned window.
• Transform windows no longer block Search & Manage, and you can keep several open at once.
• Fixed pasting when multiple Paste with Transform windows have been opened.
• Transforms now also work on copied files, using their paths as text.
• When a transform fails, ClipX now tells you why.

Previews (hover, transforms, pinned)

• New Previews settings page to customize the size and text style of hover and pinned previews.
• Text in hover previews now wrap long lines by default.
• Select and copy text in HTML and Markdown previews.
• Search for text in pinned and Transform windows with Ctrl+F, including in HTML and Markdown.
• HTML previews now render asynchronously and no longer block the ClipX UI.
• HTML previews now reflow according to their window
• Long HTML and RTF documents can now be scrolled in full
• Saving an HTML or RTF item as an image now saves the whole page as you see it.
• Optimized resizing previews with a large amount of text.

Installation

• New: install ClipX just for yourself, without administrator rights. An all-user install can be converted while keeping its plugins.
• The installer now offers to set up autostart (for you or for all users).
• Added a /VCREDIST option for silent installs (/S), to download the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime if it is missing.

Paste and tray menus

• New: Drag & Drop support in the history menu: reorder the history, copy to Stickies, copy from a shared peer history.
• Press Delete on a history item to delete it without closing the menu.
• Clear Current clipboard now has undo
• Simplified the Paste Menu settings. Menu item width is now set in pixels for text and images alike, so entries line up.
• New option to limit how many history items the menus show, independent of how many items are kept in the history.
• "Configure" is now called "Settings..." throughout ClipX.
• The tray history clearing commands are now grouped under a Clear submenu. Export History and Import History are grouped under Archive.
• Archive, Clear and Settings... can now be added to the bottom of the paste menus.
• Fixed text indentation in Windows 11 style menus.
• Fixed some text overlapping the item number in translucent menus.
• Fixed the "Match Windows" theme option showing 3D borders on some customized desktops.

Search & Manage

• Added a button to clear your search.
• Search & Manage no longer switches between Search and Manage when you open a menu elsewhere.
• Hotkeys now keep working while Search is open.
• The facet viewer now keeps the format you picked and its scroll position when the history changes.
• Image zoom is no longer carried over to the next item.

History import and export

• Exports can now be a regular ZIP file, an encrypted ZIP file, or ClipX's own encrypted format, which also hides file names and sizes.
• A failed export no longer removes the file it replaces.
• Import now skips damaged items and imports the rest, instead of rejecting the whole archive.
• Damaged archives are now rejected before your current history is replaced.
• Import progress now counts items, matching the total shown at the end.
• Importing large archives uses much less memory.
• Fixed copies made during an export or import, or while its file dialog is open, never reaching history.
• Fixed items replaced by an import sometimes coming back after ClipX restarts.

Clipboard history

• Image history now excludes many redundant image formats, and lets you customize which to preferably retain (Facets > Image retention).
• Photoshop: fixes pasting transparent clipboards from history
• Photoshop: now signals photoshop that the clipboard has changed and needs reloading

Privacy & Security

• New option to clear the history when the computer goes to sleep.
• Clearing the history on lock or sleep now closes any ClipX or plugin windows that would have prevented the history from being purged.
• Fixed a possible crash when the computer locks or sleeps while the history is being saved.
• Unsaved plugin data, such as partly downloaded ClipShare history, is now deleted after ClipX closes unexpectedly.

Performance and reliability

• Menus, pasting and loading the history are faster and use less memory, especially with large items and large histories.
• A plugin that holds on to the system clipboard can no longer block ClipX's monitoring.
• Exiting ClipX no longer leaves open dialogs behind and enforces complete shutdown even if a plugin stops responding.

Notifications

• Added an accessible title to the screen-reader mode corner notification icon.
• In screen-reader mode, Space now works like Enter on notifications, and Escape or Alt+F4 no longer makes the corner notification icon disappear.
• Improved error messages throughout.

Plugin browser

• On the Beta channel, each plugin now lists its beta changes under "Beta Updates". Plugin descriptions describe the stable version.

Actions Plugin

• Added support for running actions on pinned and transform previews's More menus.
• Fixed very long rule patterns, replacements, and names being cut short after restarting ClipX or importing a .clf file.
• Added support for automatic cancellation when ClipX clears history on lock or sleep.
• Improved error messages.

Sharing Plugin

• Peer-history entries can now be dragged into your local history or a Stickies collection.
• Reduced memory usage and improved performance of sending large clipboard histories.
• Fetch now, Refresh History and Retry in a peer's shared-history submenu now keep the menu open while the fetch reports its progress in place and updates the menu items as they arrive.
• Added support for automatic cancellation when ClipX clears history on lock or sleep.
• "Revoke all permissions" now also stops a clipboard you are already sending to that peer. Before, a send in progress kept going until it finished.
• Cancelling a peer-history fetch now keeps the history you already had. Before, the items received up to that point replaced it.
• A failed send to a peer now says why it failed.
• Improved error messages.

MoreFormats Plugin

• Markdown
  • New: Markdown previews. Copied text written in Markdown now shows formatted. You can turn this off in More Formats settings.
• Previews
  • Select and copy text in HTML, Markdown and RTF previews, and search it with Ctrl+F in pinned and Transform windows.
  • Previews now reflow when their window is resized, and long documents can be scrolled in full.
• HTML
  • HTML previews now render in the background.
  • New HTML Source view, to see the copied HTML markup as text. You can turn it off in More Formats settings.
  • HTML previews now show placeholders for pictures (the renderer remains forbidden from making network requests), and draw checkboxes.
  • Updated the liteHTML engine, with some layout and parsing fixes.
  • Fixed content spilling out of nested boxes that hide their overflow.
• RTF
  • RTF formats with identical content now share a single preview.
  • RTF previews are now sharp on displays with different scaling.
  • Fixed RTF longer than 32k
  • Fixed single-line RTF previews appearing blank.

SaveToDisk Plugin

• New: Save as WebP, either lossy (small files, quality 90) or lossless (every pixel kept exactly). Transparency is kept.
• New: Save as ICO icons. Images larger than 256 pixels are shrunk to fit, non-squares get centered on a square.
• Added support for saving from pinned and transform preview's More menus.
• Reordered the formats to offer the most useful ones first: PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF, ICO, TIFF, then BMP.
• Added support for automatic cancellation when ClipX clears history on lock or sleep.
• Improved error messages.

Snip Plugin

• Crop & Annotate now also appears near the top of transform menus for images for quick access.
• Crop & Annotate now explains errors (image-size, screen-fit limits, etc.)
• Added support for automatic cancellation when ClipX clears history on lock or sleep.
• The Snip toolbar and its buttons now use your high-contrast theme colors.

Stickies Plugin

• All clipboard types
  • New: Stickies can now keep images, files and any other clipboard content, with all their formats. Existing stickies and their hotkeys are converted automatically.
• Collections
  • New: organize stickies into named collections. The default collection shows directly in the ClipX menu, and the others are under "More Stickies".
  • Give a collection its own hotkey to open its menu, then press 1 to 9 to paste one of its first stickies.
  • Create, delete and set the default collection right from the menu.
  • The same item can be kept in several collections, but only once in each.
• Menus
  • New "Add to Stickies" command in the tray menu (with optional hotkey) and on each history item's menu, to save an item into the collection you pick.
  • Right-click a sticky to restore, pin, move or delete it. The menu stays open, so you can handle several stickies in a row.
  • Drag stickies to reorder them or move them between collections, and drag items between the history and Stickies.
  • Press Delete on a sticky to delete it.
  • A sticky that matches the current clipboard now shows the current clipboard bullet.
  • Add to Stickies from pinned and Transform windows too.
• Archives
  • Save and load collections as ClipX archives, with the same encryption choices as the history. Saved history archives can be loaded into Stickies too.
• Settings
  • The Stickies settings page has been reorganized around collections. Changes now wait for Apply or OK, and Cancel discards them.
  • Added "Stickies Settings..." under "More Stickies" to open the settings page directly.
  • Added an option to make a sticky's own hotkey copy the sticky to the clipboard instead of pasting it.
  • Improved error messages.

TransformCode Plugin

• Code transforms now explain errors (decoding, JSON syntax, nesting limits, unsupported text, etc.)
• Faster transform checks for large text, especially when no URLs or email addresses are present.

TransformImage Plugin

• Image transforms now explain errors (image-size limits, invalid resize settings, etc.).
• Added support for automatic cancellation when ClipX clears history on lock or sleep.

TransformOCR Plugin

• Text recognition now explains errors (image-size limits, processing failures, etc.)

TransformText Plugin

• Replace All now explains errors (source-size, etc).
• Faster checks for invisible-character and typography cleanup on large text.
• Added support for automatic cancellation when ClipX clears history on lock or sleep.

TransformToDataUri Plugin

• Transform failures now explain errors (image-size limits, unavailable image data, encoding failures, etc.)

TransformWithRegex Plugin

• Regular-expression transforms now distinguish invalid rules, rules that could not finish, and no matching rule, without reporting errors after another rule succeeds.

Transforms

• A new "Transforms" feature was introduced: specialized plugins can now inject dedicated tools that transform a clipboard (text or image), to perform on-the-fly paste transforms or to keep as new clipboards.
  • Added a "Paste With Transform" submenu in the per-item paste menu to transform any item from the history as you paste it
  • Added a hotkey to open this feature in a standalone "Paste With Transform" menu
  • Added a "Transform" submenu to the systray menu to invoke a transform on the current item without pasting (preview and copy)
  • Added a Transforms config page to hide/show transforms and assign them individual hotkeys
  • New TransformText plugin for simple text operations (search & replace, change case, unwrap, collapse spaces etc)
  • New TransformImages plugin for image operations (rotate, flip, custom resizes)
  • New TransformCode plugin for code-related operations (base64, json, hex, sort, dedup, indent, etc.)
  • New TransformToDataURI plugin to turn images to data URIs (png, jpg, html img tags)
  • New TransformWithRegex plugin to create custom multi-regex based text transforms
  • New TransformOCR plugin for simple image to text conversion (uses the Windows OCR module, requires Win10+)

Unrecorded System Clipboards

• Most tools can now act on unrecorded clipboards (requires updating your plugins), from the history item #0 submenu or the main menu.
• Transform previews for a privacy/security-sensitive unrecorded clipboard conceal the content until you click to reveal it.

Clipboards

• Pasting a cut file's path as plain text no longer turns the system clipboard into a copy instead of a move.
• Clear Current now notifies and offers Undo. For privacy and security, the Undo data is cleared after a configurable amount of time.

Menus

• Added Ctrl+Enter to open a history menu item's submenu (alternative to Right-Click or Menu key)
• Fixed some incorrect classic menu metrics and default timings
• Reworked how plugins insert menu items for deterministic order and better long term maintainability with future plugins. Some menu items have moved as a result.
• Pressing a paste or manage/search hotkeys while a ClipX menu is already open no longer confuses clipx.
• Improved keyboard support for the tray icon, now properly responds to Enter as well, and no longer opens at the mouse position.
• The clipboard preview next to a hovered history item now fades in and out if you turn on menu animations.
• Menu settings: the classic look's "Match Windows" choice for 3D vs Flat is now available on themed desktops too.

Notifications

• Notifications now follow the selected theme, same as menus (Win11 acrylic, Win7-10 themed, Classic).
• Notifications now support animations (flyout, vertical/diagonal slide, fade).
• Improved the sequencer for multi-card display, addresses awkward mixed collapsed/expanded states and works much better with animations
• Notifications now follow the "hide from screen capture" privacy setting.
• "Respect Windows Focus / Do Not Disturb":
  • Now also covers presentation mode and fullscreen games.
  • Security notices arriving during any of those now appear as the collapsed corner badge instead of being exempt.

Manage & Search

• Images and other graphical entries now show as pictures directly in the history list, sized like their history menu rows (follows the "graphical menus" setting).
• The history list now marks the entry that is on the clipboard right now with a bullet (like the history menu rows do).
• Right-clicking a history entry now selects it before opening its menu, so the menu acts on the entry you pointed at instead of requiring you to select it separately.
• Optimized panning large image previews in the facet viewer to use less CPU (uses a bit more ram while Manage shows the graphical facet).
• Image previews (facet viewer and transform preview) can now zoom gradually with the mouse wheel, from Fit to 1600%; past 100% the pixels show unsmoothed, so you can inspect the real image. The magnifier button still snaps between Fit and 100%.
• Click an image facet preview to give it keyboard focus: Plus/Minus zoom and the arrow keys pan (you can still drag to pan).
• Switching between facets now resets graphical previews to Fit instead of carrying over the previous facet's zoom and pan.
• "Set as Current" and double-click no longer close the window, so you can keep managing after promoting an entry (Enter still promotes and closes, and the paste flow still pastes and closes, Escape still closes).
• Ctrl+Enter and Space in the history list now also set the highlighted entry as current without closing the window.

Configuration

• Closing the configuration dialog with unapplied changes now asks before discarding them.
• Lowering "Remember the last N entries" now drops the extra entries when you click Apply or OK instead of waiting for the next clipboard, or menu open event.
• Fixed a bug where "Re-enable all disabled prompts" could eventually switch three of the confirmations back off
• The Edit animation timings dialog has a new set of settings to customize previews' fade in/out animations.

Portable mode

• ClipX no longer trims its memory footprint when running in portable mode (-p) to make it less likely to freeze if its drive is unplugged while running.
• Added -n command line switch to apply the same keep-in-RAM behavior to a regular (non-portable) install. Using it when ClipX or its settings folder lives on a non-local drive can help keep ClipX responsive when that drive is slow or briefly unavailable.

Startup

• Fixed slow old-clipx settings migrations on startup introduced in 2.0.0.2beta.
• Better error handling when old settings migrations fails for any reasons.

Plugin Browser

• Plugin Search box now finds terms used in the plugins detail pages in addition to their names and short descriptions.
• The plugin catalog now has a Stable/Beta channel switch.

Updates

• Update checks are now batched: ClipX and its plugins are checked in one request instead of one per plugin (less traffic and faster checks).
• New versions of ClipX now check your plugins for updates so you are not unknowlingly stuck with bugs that need both sides updated (you can decline the plugins update if you really want to).
• The "also check installed plugins" setting now also applies to the Check Now button (instead of just daily checks): with it off, Check Now checks only ClipX itself.
• Added third party plugin update flow to support upcoming SDK 2.0 release.

Settings

• Significantly improved settings saving performance (fixes stalling on Config apply/ok button on older machines).
• The settings file is now written in a Unicode format, improving interoperability and fixing some obscure cases that could drop characters outside your system's language on older Windows versions (existing settings get upgraded automatically).
• Added notification when the attempting to load the settings at startup failed, instead of continuing silently with defaults.
• ClipX now warns you when it cannot save your settings or clipboard history to disk instead of failing silently (clears itself once saving works again).

Installer

• Silent installs (/S) of the 64-bit version now upgrade a previous 32-bit installation automatically, removing it and carrying its settings over just like a normal install. Pass /KEEPOLD to leave the previous installation in place instead and start with default settings.
• New /UPGRADEPLUGINS switch, instructs ClipX to automatically update or reinstall eligible plugins after an upgrade.
• New /DELETEDATA switch for silent uninstall (uninstall.exe /S /DELETEDATA): automatically deletes settings and clipboard history that silent uninstall would otherwise keep.

Actions Plugin

• Replacement Syntax
  • Choose Sed or Boost replacement syntax for each rule and no-match target (defaults to Sef). Boost adds dollar captures and case controls; a format link shows syntax help for the selected option.
• Menus
  • Clipboard-item action submenus and single-selection Manage menus now include Actions that run against that item, while the existing top-level Actions menu still uses the current clipboard
  • Actions can now also be triggered on unrecorded system clipboards.
  • The Actions menu entry now sits in the tray menu's tools area.
  • Action menu entries now show the assigned global hotkey when their Action has one.
• Privacy
  • Running an Action on an unrecorded system clipboard that was kept out of the history for privacy/security now asks for an extra confirmation before sending the data to the target.
  • The rule editor's live preview conceals unrecorded sensitive clipboard content behind a "Sensitive content. Click to reveal." button.
• Fixes
  • The "Run all matching rules" option in the Edit Action window no longer overlaps with the option beside it.
  • The import/export file dialogs is now properly parented to the Actions settings window to avoid zorder issues.

Sharing Plugin

• Added "Send to..." support from the clipboard item submenu (Ctrl+Enter / Right Click)
• Now supports sending the current unrecorded system clipboard from the "Send to..." menu item. If the clipboard was left out of the history for privacy/security reasons, "Send To" asks for confirmation first.
• Tray menu entries moved into ClipX's grouped layout: Send Clipboard To now sits with the other commands that act on the current clipboard item, and the shared peer histories sit together further down.

Save to Disk Plugin

• "Save Current As..." now works on the current unrecorded system clipboard.
• If the clipboard was left out of the history for privacy/security reasons, saving asks for confirmation first.

Snip Plugin

• New "Crop & Annotate" transform (Image category): open any image from the history in the snip editor to crop and annotate it, just like you would on your live desktop.
• "Re-snip Current" in the tray menu and an optional Re-snip Current hotkey run Crop & Annotate on the current clipboard image.
• New stamp tool in the snip toolbox: place a mouse-pointer, navigation hand, or a selection of emoji images onto the screenshot.
• The Snip menu entry now sits in the tray menu's tools area, grouped with other tools.
• Significantly improved dragging of the capture area, especially on large or multi-monitor desktops.

Stickies Plugin

• Sticky menu entries now show their assigned global hotkeys in the history menu (while keeping the A-Z shortcuts).
• Importing from an older machine's ClipX settings file with multiple users data now always asks you to pick a user (even if only one user had stickies) so that there is no confusion as to what data you are importing.

TransformCode Plugin

• First release: adds code-related transforms to ClipX.
  • Convert programmer identifiers between camelCase, PascalCase, snake_case, kebab-case, and CONSTANT_CASE.
  • Encode and decode Base64, URL components, JSON string literals, and hexadecimal text.
  • Pretty-print or minify JSON without changing token spelling or object order.
  • Sort, deduplicate, number, indent, and normalize line-oriented text.
  • Encode or decode HTML entities, extract visible HTML text, URLs, and email addresses.
  • Convert path separators and file URIs, or remove common URL tracking parameters.

TransformImages Plugin

• First release: rotate, flip, resize a copied image straight from the Transform menus.
  • Define your own custom resizing templates (defaults 25%, 50%, and fit a 1280 pixel width)
  • Custom "Resize..." (downscale/upscale, lock/unlock aspect ratio, fit, choose interpolation)
  • Paste in place from the history item's paste submenu

TransformOCR Plugin

• First release: extract text from copied images with Windows OCR (Win10+).

TransformText Plugin

• First release: adds text transforms to ClipX's transform menus, offered only when they would change your text.
  • Replace all, with an interactive search-and-replace dialog with Match case, Whole word, Regex toggles and a live preview. Initially conceals the live preview until clicked when operating on an unrecorded system clipboard with security/privacy sensitive content.
  • Trim removes the whitespace around the copied text.
  • UPPERCASE, lowercase, Title and Sentence case change the text's case, grouped under "Case".
  • Clean up: Unwrap paragraphs (rejoins hard-wrapped lines, mends split words), Collapse spacing, Remove empty lines, Trim lines, and Strip invisible characters (zero-width and bidi characters; non-breaking spaces become normal spaces).
  • Typography: Smarten quotes and ellipses (straight to curly, ... to the ellipsis character) and Straighten quotes and ellipses (the reverse, and em/en dashes to plain dashes).

TransformToDataUri Plugin

• First release: turns a copied image into embeddable text via the Transform menus.
  • "PNG data URI" and "JPEG data URI" produce a data: link
  • "HTML image tag" wraps the PNG version in a ready-to-paste img tag.
  • Paste in place from the history item's paste submenu

TransformWithRegex Plugin

• First release: Add named multi-regex-based text transformed.
  • Rules can invoke multiple regular expressions in a defined order (first match or sequential).
  • Supports apply to whole-text and/or replace-all modes, optional trimming, fallback rule, and provides a built-in regex test area.
  • Include editable examples for whitespace cleanup, wrapping, date reformatting, digit extraction, email redaction, quote removal, WSL/windows path conversions.

Stickies Plugin

• New Export button to save your stickies to a .clf file
• New "From a File..." item on the Add menu loads them back in, and can read from another machine's ClipX INI file.

Menus

• On Windows 11, you can now choose compact spacing separately for the paste menu and/or the systray menu
• Added support for menu animations: as configued in windows or via custom overrides.
• Fixed the gutter on Windows 7 themed menus, which was 3px too wide, causing a visible artifact.
• Checked and radio menu items now render the standard background box behind the checkmark/radio, if applicable (win7-10 themed). Can be disabled for a cleaner look.
• The Classic menu style now honors Windows' flat-menu setting in true classic environments, and can be forced on/off otherwise.
• Added a selectable menu overflow strategy (standard flip bottom to top, or clamp to save screen space)

Configuration

• You can now choose which tray-icon mouse button opens the clipboard history and which opens the main ClipX menu.
• Added ability to disable moving clipboards to the top of the history when restoring them
• Added ability to skip recording the clipboard contents that's already present when ClipX starts.
• Clipboard previews can now be hidden from the tray tooltip
• Clear Current can now be bound to a global hotkey
• The Clear Current and Search & Manage tray entry now shows their configured hotkey in their respective main menu items

History

• Combining entries in Search & Manage no longer subjects the result to Limits and other plugins recording vetos.
• Fixed bug that ignored "Remove matching history entry on Clear Current" when the entry was not the most recent clipboard.
• Paste menu systray history menus now follow history changes live and relayout.
• Right-clicking (or pressing the keyboard Context-Menu key) on a history menu entry now opens a per-entry submenu to restore, paste, delete, or run plugin actions like Save To Disk's "Save as...". The unrecorded System Clipboard row offers Clear System Clipboard.
• Submenus and hover previews now prefer opening on the same side of the menu, to minimize jumping across when space allows.
• Previews too large for the space beside the menu now shrink to fit that space instead of overlapping the menu.
• The Save Clipboard History and Load Clipboard History dialogs now each remember their last-used folder, across restarts.

Notifications

• Hovering the close button or an action link on a notification card no longer causes flickering.

Actions Plugin

• The following fixes require ClipX 2.0.0.2beta2 or above:
  • Fixed a bug that disabled Actions after the current clipboard item was manually repositioned in the history in Manage & Search.
  • The same bug would also disable Send Clipboard To when "Move entries to top when ..." is disabled in ClipX 2.0.0.2beta2+
• The rule import and export dialogs now each remember their last-used folder.

Sharing Plugin

• The following fixes require ClipX 2.0.0.2beta2 or above:
  • Fixed a bug that disabled Send Clipboard To after the current clipboard item was manually repositioned in the history in Manage & Search.
  • The same bug would also disable Send Clipboard To when "Move entries to top when ..." is disabled in ClipX 2.0.0.2beta2+

Save To Disk Plugin

• The Save as... dialog now starts in the folder you last saved to, remembered across restarts.

Snip Plugin

• The instruction banner now follows the mouse to the monitor you are working on, instead of splitting across the middle of a multi-monitor desktop
• Delay, Mode, and Magnifier choices made from the tray menu now apply to the current session only, instead of silently overwriting your saved settings. The saved defaults are set in the Snip config page, and applying the config also resets the session choices.
• You can now switch the capture mode (Rect, Lasso, Window) while snipping, from the new bar at the top of the screen or with the 1/2/3 keys
• The magnifier can now also be zoomed with the + and - keys, alongside the mouse wheel
• The new bar also offers "Retake in 1s / 3s / 5s / 10s": clicking one closes the snip and retakes it after that delay, so you can set up menus or tooltips that the frozen screen missed
• A Reset button next to Cancel discards the selection and all annotations and starts the snip over, without leaving the frozen screen

UI

• Added multi-monitor High-DPI display support. Now renders at each display's real pixel density instead of being blur-stretched by Windows. Some plugins need the corresponding beta update:
  • Sharing 1.2beta1 (peer-status menu row sizes)
  • ColorPicker 1.5beta1 (magnifier crosshair and sampler icons, color preview).
  • MoreFormats 1.1beta1 (HTML and RTF previews rendering)
  • Snip 1.1beta1 (toolbar, magnifier, buttons, and annotation text)
• On beta builds, the "ClipX was updated" notification and the Update page's changelog link now open the beta changelog.

Plugin Installer

• More robust plugin installs on system-wide setups: the "finish plugin changes" prompt now always comes to the front, restarts tolerate slow shutdowns, and a manual start shortly after a restart still offers to finish pending changes. Failure notifications now include an error code to make support reports actionable.

Plugin browser

• The plugin browser now shows beta plugin builds when ClipX is on the beta update channel, with a Beta badge on those plugins.
• Plugin update checks on the beta channel now fall back to a plugin's stable release when no beta build is published, so stable-only plugins keep updating.

Updates

• Beta builds of ClipX now always use the beta update channel.