1. Re-implemented single instance with QLocalSocket (easy recover from crashes)
2. Start at login in general settings
3. Updated Chinese translations to keep keyboard shortcuts available
4. Fixed #500 #450

Starting from this release, all libraries used in building the Windows binaries are from MSYS2/MinGW64

ss-qt5-v2.9.0-win64.7z sha1sum: fec371532497cfbd2999c55c189875f91f1abd6c

An experimental AppImage is now provided for Linux users

Shadowsocks-Qt5-x86_64.AppImage sha1sum: 9eee6c05d79c6f3acf2d415cefa056df4b886a50 Shadowsocks-Qt5_botan2-x86_64.AppImage sha1sum: ca69f6d9a7612d2a88e3340c39d76d600e7df378

On any recent Linux distributions, download the AppImage file, then:

chmod a+x Shadowsocks-Qt5-x86_64.AppImage
./Shadowsocks-Qt5-x86_64.AppImage

That is it! Please open an issue if you are not able to run it. Once you've given it permission to execute, you can just double click it to run from file manager as well (just like exe on Windows).