Beta changelog

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.