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PortableApps.com has hit the 900 million portable apps downloaded milestone. That's 900,000,000 portable apps served to millions of users all over the world.

PortableApps.com is proud to announce the addition of Antivirus Scan links and the rollout of SHA-256 hashes to app download pages.

PortableApps.com is proud to announce broader support for Farsi/Persian, Romanian, and Turkish locales. The three languages have been added to the build system for Firefox Portable with today's releases of 65.0 Stable and 60.5.0 ESR. Romanian and Turkish have also been added to the build system for Thunderbird Portable with today's release of 60.5.0. We have also added a new Turkish landing page to download the PortableApps.com Platform. All three languages are included in the PortableApps.com Platform as well.

Today marks the conclusion of the trial partnership with DuckDuckGo, the Internet privacy company, to host some of the downloads you get from PortableApps.com. DuckDuckGo's popular search engine, tracker blocking extension, and mobile app are built around user privacy and security, so it was a natural fit. While the download hosting has worked well and been a hit with users, it unfortunately doesn't line up with DuckDuckGo's current product focus. So, we're announcing an end to the trial.

PortableApps.com is proud to announce broader support for Indonesian. In addition to the Indonesian language support within the PortableApps.com Platform, Indonesian language packs of Mozilla Firefox Portable Edition and Mozilla Thunderbird Portable Edition are now available for download.

The PortableApps.com project has chosen to black out our logo and post a sitewide header message to show our support for the fight for net neutrality and the Battle for the Net campaign. If you live in the US please visit the site and show your support as well.

PortableApps.com is happy to announce that Slovak language builds have been added to our builder setup for the portable versions of Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and all 5 channels of Firefox that support individual language builds thanks to new translator Juraj Cigáň. These builds are available from within the PortableApps.com Platform when set to Slovak / Slovenčina, the recommended way to get the builds and automatically update them.

If you're a regular user of LinkedIn, you can now follow PortableApps.com on LinkedIn.

Over the past few days, Wikileaks posted a series of documents purported to be from the CIA in a dump of files dubbed "Vault 7". Within those documents are references to a project called "Fine Dining" which details how a field agent can alter their own software on a portable device to include additional functionality to enable spying and other covert activities while appearing innocuous to those who happen to see the agent using their portable software.

PeaZip Portable 6.1.0 has been released. PeaZip Portable is an easy to use PeaZip file archiver with support for 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR files and more packaged as a portable app. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. And it's open source and completely free.

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