We are happy to say that we have made some progress towards making Sandboxie an open source tool. We are releasing an updated version that will help us prepare for the transition. We are hoping that the Community will provide feedback. Details, links, and an update on the project are included below.
We are proud to announce the latest Sandboxie version:
SandboxieInstall-533-6.exe: https://www.sophos.com/Pages/DownloadRedirect.aspx?downloadKey={E2A08EF8-5D36-43B9-BCF6-CD0F1E9763E8}
SandboxieInstall32-533-6.exe (32-bit only): https://www.sophos.com/Pages/DownloadRedirect.aspx?downloadKey={51889F7F-8E25-4A05-B3D2-A8B05B989400}
SandboxieInstall64-533-6.exe (64-bit only): https://www.sophos.com/Pages/DownloadRedirect.aspx?downloadKey={B15DECBE-8D8C-4374-A73C-7095D2473FB8}
What are we releasing?
Why are we doing this?
How to provide feedback
Details on the upcoming Source Code release:
We are busy preparing details on how to build your own Sandboxie builds. However, the task is not trivial and unlike many open source projects in the world, to do it right requires some specialized software and tools that are not commonly available.
Anticipated requirements and dependencies:
Akhilesh@Sophos
What several bits of code were stripped away?
Only things related to licensing and software updating or something else?
I would presume that its other code related to functionality but one that due to legal reasons can't be open sourced.
i.e. the original author is not reachable or is not agreeing and the original license was limited to begin with.
Hence the test build to see if without or with a self written replacement code it still works as expected.
Don't presume anything and let's wait for the reply.
Thank you.
Does this build fix the bug reported here? https://community.sophos.com/products/sandboxie/f/forum/118874/sandboxie-5-33-3-now-available-for-download/432901#432901
If not then I will revert to 5.31.6 which apparently does not have this bug.
Thank you for all your effort in releasing SB to opensource. It is appreciated.
Above post intended to be in reply to Pedro López.
We haven't stripped away any functionality from the Sandbox. As noted above, we had to clean up code that referenced things like licensing and remove any special integrations with OEM products.
It would really help if you can provide feedback on the new build.
Akhilesh@Sophos said: It would really help if you can provide feedback on the new build.
5.33.6 feels the same as 5.33.3
For me it seams to work just as fine as the previous build :D
Any ETA for the source release?
Please see this thread. Apparently the bug reported there is still present in 5.33.6.
https://community.sophos.com/products/sandboxie/f/forum/118874/sandboxie-5-33-3-now-available-for-download
Akhilesh@Sophos said:It would really help if you can provide feedback
What a coincidence! That's the same I've been thinking for months when I was seeing someone opening a thread and reporting a bug.
Well if you're going to be like that. we might as well give you the source code or something.
Akhilesh@Sophos said:Well if you're going to be like that. we might as well give you the source code or something.
In Spain we have a saying: recoges lo que siembras.
Ahh your Spanish, all makes sense now your childish behavior. Grow up kid. You whine about the "source code" all this time, show me one thing you've coded, can you even read it? Lets say someone decided to fork Sandboxie when it does get released, like maybe Xanatos, do you also plan on harassing him or whoever on their GitHub with childish gifs and being a whiny baby there as well?
Redacted said:Ahh your Spanish, all makes sense now your childish behavior.
Ahh you are human, all makes sense now the stupid thing you said.