SureRedact Free 1.0.1 — Windows is here, and so is the rest of 1.0

One week on from the 17 June macOS launch, this is the build that closes the original 1.0 plan: a Windows installer for the laptops most disclosure operators actually reach for, plus the error-reporting integration that lets us see and fix problems without ever seeing a customer document. And it includes the small set of useful operator improvements we held back from last week’s macOS launch.

A milestone, said plainly

We think it’s worth saying this directly: as far as we know, SureRedact Free 1.0.1 is the only general-purpose tool that does forensic PDF redaction with a tamper-evident audit trail, locally on the operator’s own computer, free, on both major desktop platforms. Purpose-built for regulated document disclosure work — subject access requests, FOI and EIR responses, complaints, safeguarding-redaction-for-disclosure — the kind of work that runs to deadlines that don’t pause.

For organisations responding to DSARs and FOIs, the practical claim is concrete: hours per case saved on the routine redactions, on machines you already own, with a paper trail your DPO or the ICO can verify after the fact. A real difference, every working day.

What’s new in 1.0.1

Error reporting, the way we always said we’d do it. SureRedact now uses Bugsink for error reporting. Bugsink is EU-resident — its sub-processors are Hetzner and Scaleway, both in the EU. The scrubbing rules — what stays on your computer when something goes wrong — strip file paths, exception messages, breadcrumb request bodies, and stack-trace local variables at source, before anything leaves your machine. It’s on by default with an informed first-run choice; the Settings off-switch turns it off when you turn it off. The full record of what may ever go is in the Telemetry Transparency Document, and the architectural reasoning is in the AI Policy.

Files where you expect to find them. Free now lands redacted output and the one-page audit summary in ~/Documents/SureRedact/<matter-name>/ on macOS, and the Windows-equivalent Documents\SureRedact\<matter-name>\ — findable in Finder or File Explorer, alongside the rest of your case file.

Reviewer reliability. A handful of small fixes that you’ll notice as the absence of friction: detection-poller timing on slower machines; the New Matter dialog fitting properly on lower-resolution Windows displays; reviewer-interaction polish; a backup database connection that now closes cleanly on quit. None are individually heroic; together they make the document review interface feel quieter.

Windows, and the signing posture behind it

The Windows build is Authenticode-signed via Azure Trusted Signing under the validated publisher SureMatters Ltd. When you run the installer for the first time, you may see a SmartScreen “Windows protected your PC” warning — that’s normal for newly-signed software while Windows builds reputation in the publisher signature over the first few weeks of legitimate downloads. Click More info → Run anyway. The publisher should show as SureMatters Ltd; if it shows anything else, please email security@surematters.com immediately. The detail, including a procurement-grade SHA-256 round-trip command, is on the Downloads page.

Ahead of the internal schedule

We pencilled the 1.0.1 wave for “within one to two weeks of the 17 June macOS launch” — both for Windows and for the error-reporting integration. Both landed on day seven, today, in a single 1.0.1 release.

The honest reason isn’t a heroic effort. The engineering scope was narrower than the procurement-pack-grade due-diligence work that ran in parallel: vendor evaluation for error reporting, Windows code-signing certificate issuance, the public DPA verification. When those gates cleared on the morning of 24 June, the engineering side was already in shape to ship. The planning was conservative, and the work finished.

What comes next

SureRedact Professional is now available on Windows, with macOS to follow. It adds the file-format breadth, the disclosure-pack output, the custom detection rules, and the governance features. We sell it by direct enquiry to founding customers — we email you a signed licence key that unlocks Professional in the build you already have. Enquire about Professional. Self-service purchasing via the customer portal lands by December 2026.

SurePrepare continues in private pilot for organisations preparing documents at scale before redaction. Apply via the contact form.

Bug fixes, fast. We monitor hello@surematters.com, pilots@surematters.com, and security@surematters.com. If something breaks, please tell us — we’ll fix it.

Where to get it

Download SureRedact Free 1.0.1 from the Downloads page. macOS and Windows, signed under SureMatters Ltd, integrity hashes published.

For DPOs, IG officers, and procurement teams

The trust pack is public: AI Policy, Telemetry Transparency Document, Security overview, Subprocessors, Vulnerability Disclosure, and the SureRedact licence. The DPIA template and the processor agreement template are available on request from policy@surematters.com.

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