CAPTCHA Widget Release Notes
Here you can see all the modifications and changes of the TrustCaptcha CAPTCHA widget.
CAPTCHA Widget 2.x
Section titled “CAPTCHA Widget 2.x”2.1.2 — 04.11.2025
Section titled “2.1.2 — 04.11.2025”- Added: Support for Angular 20
2.1.1 — 18.10.2025
Section titled “2.1.1 — 18.10.2025”- Bugfix: Automatic reset of the CAPTCHA widget shortly before the verification token expires
2.1.0 — 17.10.2025
Section titled “2.1.0 — 17.10.2025”- Added: Automatic reset of the CAPTCHA widget shortly before the verification token expires
2.0.1 — 24.06.2025
Section titled “2.0.1 — 24.06.2025”- Update: Improving accessibility
2.0.0 — 17.06.2025
Section titled “2.0.0 — 17.06.2025”- TrustCaptcha is now part of TrustComponent
- Changed: Scopes, namespaces and some packages combined under TrustComponent
- Changed: JavaScript files are no longer provided under
https://resources.trustcaptcha.com/. All TrustCaptcha JavaScript files from version 2.0.0 are now available athttps://cdn.trustcomponent.com/trustcaptcha/
CAPTCHA Widget 1.x
Section titled “CAPTCHA Widget 1.x”1.9.0 — 30.04.2025
Section titled “1.9.0 — 30.04.2025”- Added: Changeable rounding of CAPTCHA box corners
- Updated: TrustCaptcha branding link from
trustcaptcha.comtotrustcomponent.com - Updated: API endpoint changed from
api.captcha.trustcaptcha.comtoapi.trustcomponent.com - Updated: Privacy link now only visible if a custom privacy url is set
- Updated: Added screen reader translations for
fr,es,itandlb - Fixed: TrustCaptcha branding when theme uses auto detection
- Improved: Data privacy
- Removed: Slider
1.8.4 — 21.03.2025
Section titled “1.8.4 — 21.03.2025”- Added: Option to hide the privacy link
- Updated: Translations
- Updated: Accessibility improvements
1.8.3 — 19.02.2025
Section titled “1.8.3 — 19.02.2025”- Changed: Angular TrustCaptcha component now standalone (requires Angular 14+)
- Updated: StencilJS upgrade to
4.26 - Updated: Internal dependencies
1.8.2 — 15.02.2025
Section titled “1.8.2 — 15.02.2025”- Refactor: Technical improvements
1.8.1 — 31.01.2025
Section titled “1.8.1 — 31.01.2025”- Fixed: Error in older browsers like Safari 15
1.8.0 — 05.01.2025
Section titled “1.8.0 — 05.01.2025”- Added: Override translations and add additional languages
- Added: Customizable captcha-box design
- Added: Option to set a custom privacy link
- Added: Hint for running CAPTCHA if the CAPTCHA is invisible
- Updated: Angular version to v19
1.7.3 — 19.11.2024
Section titled “1.7.3 — 19.11.2024”- Added: Provide static UMD JavaScript bundles from version 1.7
- Added: Cache rules for static assets
- Changed: Improved proof-of-work and privacy measures
1.7.2 — 08.11.2024
Section titled “1.7.2 — 08.11.2024”- Updated: Links in README.md files
1.7.1 — 05.11.2024
Section titled “1.7.1 — 05.11.2024”- Added: Provide static CJS JavaScript bundles from version 1.7
- Added: Measures to optimize the captcha box in the future
- Changed: Replace company website with privacy url
1.7.0 — 01.11.2024
Section titled “1.7.0 — 01.11.2024”- Added: New captcha box slider security measure
- Added: Public JavaScript event
captchaReset() - Changed: Improved cache methods to improve loading performance of static JS bundles
- Changed: Improved text minification and compression to improve loading performance
- Changed: Reduced code size
- Changed: Improved privacy measures
- Removed: Language support for: Armenian (hy), Azerbaijani (az), Bengali (bn), Hebrew (he), Indonesian (id), Japanese (ja), Kazakh (kk), Malay (ms), Persian (fa), Swahili (sw), Tagalog (tl), Tamil (ta), Thai (th), Urdu (ur), Vietnamese (vi)
- Updated: Internal dependencies
1.6.1 — 24.10.2024
Section titled “1.6.1 — 24.10.2024”- Added: Public JS function
startVerification()to trigger the captcha box manually - Fixed: StencilJS downgraded to
4.17.2to fix Vue issues
1.6.0 — 17.10.2024
Section titled “1.6.0 — 17.10.2024”- Added: Hide branding option
- Added: Invisible option
- Added: Public JS event
captchaStarted() - Removed: Old button shaped design
- Updated: StencilJS to
4.20.0
1.5.0 — 07.09.2024
Section titled “1.5.0 — 07.09.2024”- Added: Error message if captcha is locked
- Added: Error message if captcha is temporarily locked because of payment issues
1.4.2 — 14.08.2024
Section titled “1.4.2 — 14.08.2024”- Added: Language support for Albanian (sq), Armenian (hy), Azerbaijani (az), Bosnian (bs), Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca), Estonian (et), Hebrew (he), Kazakh (kk), Macedonian (mk), Malay (ms), Persian (fa), Serbian (sr), Slovene (sl), Tamil (ta), Ukrainian (uk)
- Changed: Improve compatibility for screen readers
1.4.1 — 11.08.2024
Section titled “1.4.1 — 11.08.2024”- Fixed: Issue with provided static ESM JS bundle files
1.4.0 — 11.08.2024
Section titled “1.4.0 — 11.08.2024”- Added: New checkbox shaped design
- Added: Captcha box width option
fullandfixed - Added: Language support for: Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn), Chinese (zh), Hindi (hi), Indonesian (id), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Swahili (sw), Tagalog (tl), Thai (th), Urdu (ur), Vietnamese (vi)
- Added: Provide static ESM JS bundles for v1.2, v1.3 and v1.4
- Changed: Improve error display message on error
COMMUNICATION_FAILURE - Deprecated: Current button shaped design will be removed in v1.6.0
1.3.2 — 03.07.2024
Section titled “1.3.2 — 03.07.2024”- Changed: Improve captcha box design
- Fixed: Bug in auto language detection
1.3.1 — 03.05.2024
Section titled “1.3.1 — 03.05.2024”- Fixed: Issue in the build process
1.3.0 — 03.05.2024
Section titled “1.3.0 — 03.05.2024”- Added: Auto language detection
- Added: Minimal data mode option
- Added: Bypass keys for testing purposes
- Fixed: Wrong display error on HTTP
422server response
1.2.0 — 27.03.2024
Section titled “1.2.0 — 27.03.2024”- Added: Dynamic names for honeypot field
- Fixed: Move proof-of-work calculation to Web Workers (performance & efficiency)
- Fixed: Privacy and performance issues while data collection and analysis
- Fixed: Cursor design on disabled buttons
- Updated: StencilJS to
4.13.0 - Updated: Internal dependencies
1.1.1 — 18.03.2024
Section titled “1.1.1 — 18.03.2024”- Updated: Privacy link in the captcha-box
- Updated: Links in README.md files
1.1.0 — 29.02.2024
Section titled “1.1.0 — 29.02.2024”- Added: Language support for: Belarusian (be), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), Finnish (fi), French (fr), Greek (el), Hungarian (hu), Italian (it), Latvian (lv), Lithuanian (lt), Luxembourgish (lb), Norwegian (no), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Slovak (sk), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Turkish (tr)
- Added: Make verification token field name changeable
- Added: Switch off the autostart for certain input fields
- Changed: Loading spinner animation (design & behaviour)
- Updated: StencilJS to
4.12.4
1.0.1 — 23.01.2024
Section titled “1.0.1 — 23.01.2024”- Refactor: Proof-of-work calculation
- Refactor: Remove unnecessary code
- Updated: StencilJS to
4.11.0
1.0.0 — 12.01.2024
Section titled “1.0.0 — 12.01.2024”- Release version
CAPTCHA Widget Alpha & Beta
Section titled “CAPTCHA Widget Alpha & Beta”0.0.4 — 11.01.2024
Section titled “0.0.4 — 11.01.2024”- Open-Beta
0.0.3 — 11.01.2024
Section titled “0.0.3 — 11.01.2024”- Open-Beta
0.0.2 — 23.11.2023
Section titled “0.0.2 — 23.11.2023”- Open-Beta
0.0.1 — 15.08.2023
Section titled “0.0.1 — 15.08.2023”- Closed-Beta