Release Notes
List of the changes applied to Screenbits after each update can be found below. This list gets updated every time a new version arrives.
Aug 2026
Version 10.8.1
- Ability to change application language to Japanese
- Ability to zoom in on screen
- Added Numbering tool to drawing tools
- Improved user interface of drawing panel
- Default audio bitrate changed to 192kbps
Jul 2026
Version 10.7.1
- No Scaling option for video scaling mode is available again
- UI improvements for area selection tool
- Are selection tool now ignores desktop window when selecting an area
- Improved licensing UI
- Fixed an issue which could result a minor blurring in output video
Jun 2026
Version 10.6.2
- Fixed a crash on application startup
Jun 2026
Version 10.6.1
- Performance improvements
- Internal improvements
May 2026
Version 10.5.1
- Ability to snap compact view to top of screen
- Improved UI, performance and usability of compact view
- Compact view now scales properly on multi-display setups with different DPIs
- Minor UI improvements
Apr 2026
Version 10.4.3
- Fixed a UI issue in dark theme for area selection tool
- Fixed a UI issue after changing application theme
- Fixed application crash after exiting the app in compact view
Feb 2026
Version 10.4.2
- New design for area selection tool significantly improves its performance
- Fixed a crash after stopping recording since the last Windows Update
- Fixed an issue related to moving compact view between displays with different DPIs
Feb 2026
Version 10.3.1
- Ability to change layout options from preview (interactive preview)
- Ability to assign separate hotkeys for actions such as start/stop recording
- Ability to change captured display by hotkey
- Ability to select background color for text
- Ability to filter hotkeys in settings view
- Statistics section now includes average video frame rate and average cpu usage
- Statistics section now includes stats for all output audio streams (if multitrack recording is on)
- Smoother transition between modes
- Minor UI improvements
Dec 2025
Version 10.2.1
- Ability to record audio in 320kbps (requires Windows 11)
- Ability to record capture audio sources onto individual tracks (multitrack recording)
- Ability to select profile (baseline/main) for H.264 harware encoders
- Ability to exclude user interface from screen capture
- Ability to manually select dark/light theme for user interface
- Improved hotkey control
- Minor user interface improvements
- Fixed "Camera format is not supported." error caused after rotating camera image from system settings
- Fixed flashing white background when restoring the app in dark mode
- Fixed an issue with the window frame on recent versions of Windows 10
- Fixed a video encoding issue
- Fixed untranslated strings