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CryptPad

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Velocity2.5

End-to-end encrypted collaboration suite with documents, sheets and whiteboards.

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CryptPad ships on a seasonal train, and the visible work is upstream upgrades and fixes

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◆Current state
CryptPad releases in named seasonal batches — Winter 2026.2.0, Spring 2026.5.0 — each followed by one or two small fix releases, then a long quiet stretch. The two substantive releases in this window both center on upgrading bundled upstream editors: OnlyOffice 9 for the office apps in February, Drawio 29 for the Diagram app in May, the latter switching to an infinite-canvas sketch theme by default with a switcher for the older mode. Everything else is fixes, translations, accessibility and locale additions, and websocket and pinning leak repairs. Since May the only entry is an opendesk-tagged build that suppresses donation prompts when CryptPad runs inside an integration.
◆Where it's heading
This reads as a small team maintaining a broad end-to-end encrypted suite rather than pushing into new capability. Progress arrives largely through the editors CryptPad wraps, with its own work concentrated on the collaboration layer around them — history browsing extended to office documents, drive tree, forms, moderation tooling. The opendesk build points at where distribution is actually going: CryptPad embedded as a component of a larger sovereign workplace stack, with donation appeals turned off because in that context someone else owns the user relationship.
◆Prediction
Expect the next seasonal release to continue the pattern — another upstream editor bump plus accumulated fixes — and more integration-specific adjustments as embedded deployments grow. The three-month gap since the Spring line suggests the next batch is still some way out.

◆Recent moves

  1. 15d ago

    opendesk build suppresses donation prompts

    A single-line integration build that stops CryptPad asking for donations when it runs embedded inside opendesk. Small, but it is the only entry since May and the clearest sign that embedded distribution is a real channel.

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  2. 2mo ago

    Fix release repairs office app corruption and SSO plugin

    Corrective follow-up to the Spring release covering office document corruption, a password-change TypeError with the user registry enabled, and SSO plugin issues. The standard fix release that trails each seasonal batch.

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  3. 3mo ago

    Diagram app moves to Drawio 29 with a sketch-mode default

    The Diagram app jumps to Drawio 29 and now opens on an infinite sketch canvas, with a switcher back to the fuller mode. Private message notifications, form accessibility work, and Chinese locale support round it out — a solid seasonal batch built mainly on an upstream upgrade.

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  4. 4mo ago

    Patch fixes office history loading and a version misnumber

    One office-history fix, a correction to a version number botched in the prior patch, and updated translations. Housekeeping on the Winter line.

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  5. 4mo ago

    Patch closes websocket leaks and a shared-folder drive bug

    A broader fix release touching drive, office documents, and deployment — websocket connection leaks, duplicate pin-log entries, nginx rate limiting in the example config, and moderator privacy defaults. Infrastructure repair rather than user-visible change.

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  6. 6mo ago

    OnlyOffice 9 brings full history browsing to office docs

    Office apps move to OnlyOffice 9 and finally get the same history browsing the rest of CryptPad already had, alongside a redesigned drive tree and integration API improvements. Closing a long-standing gap between the office surface and everything else.

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