I'm happy to annouce the release of qutebrowser v0.7.0!
qutebrowser is a keyboard driven browser with a vim-like, minimalistic interface. It's written using PyQt and cross-platform.
As usual the source release is available, binary releases (Windows as usual, and now also a standalone OS X .app/.dmg and a Debian .deb) will follow ASAP (but might be Monday until everything is taken care of).
This is a really exciting release! It comes with fixes for a few long-standing bugs (like being able to use :hint spawn with flags or sharing of cookies between tabs with private browsing) and includes many new features (like marks to remember the scroll position).
It also comes with a greatly improved hint and history implementation: Hints now work more reliably in some corner cases, and gained a few new features and other bugfixes. The history completion now contains titles and handles redirects.
And there's a lot more than that - see the full changelog:
Added
New :edit-url command to edit the URL in an external editor.
New network ->custom-headers setting to send custom headers with every request.
New {url:pretty} commandline replacement which gets replaced by the decoded URL.
- New marks to remember a scroll position:
- New :jump-mark command to jump to a mark, bound to '
- New :set-mark command to set a mark, bound to ` (backtick)
- The ' mark gets set when moving away (hinting link with anchor, searching, etc.) so you can move back with ''
New --force-color argument to force colored logging even if stdout is not a terminal
New :messages command to show error messages
New pop-up showing possible keybinding when the first key of a keychain is pressed. This can be turned off using :set ui keyhint-blacklist *.
New hints ->auto-follow-timeout setting to ignore keypresses after following a hint when filtering in number mode.
New :history-clear command to clear the entire history
New hints ->find-implementation to select which implementation (JS/Python) should be used to find hints on a page. The javascript implementation is better, but slower.
Changed
- qutebrowser got a new (slightly updated) logo
- :tab-focus can now take a negative index to focus the nth tab counted from the right.
- :yank can now yank the pretty/decoded URL by adding --pretty
- :navigate now clears the URL fragment
- :completion-item-del (Ctrl-D) can now be used in :buffer completion to close a tab
- Counts can now be used with special keybindings (e.g. with modifiers)
- Various SSL ciphers are now disabled by default. With recent Qt/OpenSSL versions those already all are disabled, but with older versions they might not be.
- Show favicons as window icon with tabs-are-windows set.
- :bind <key> without a command now shows the existing binding
- The optional colorlog dependency got removed, as qutebrowser now displays colored logs without it.
- URLs are now shown decoded when hovering.
- Keybindings are now shown in the command completion
- Improved behavior when pasting multiple lines
- Rapid hints can now also be used for the normal hint target, which can be useful with javascript click handlers or checkboxes which don't actually open a new page.
- :zoom-in or :zoom-out (+/-) with a too large count now zooms to the smallest/largest zoom instead of doing nothing.
- The commandline now accepts partially typed commands if they're unique.
- Number hints are now kept filtered after following a hint in rapid mode.
- Number hints are now renumbered after filtering
- Number hints can now be filtered with multiple space-separated search terms
- hints -> scatter is now ignored for number hints
- Better history implementation which also stores titles. As a consequence, URLs which redirect to another URL are now added to the history too, marked with a -r suffix to the timestamp field.
Fixed
- Fixed using :hint links spawn with flags - you can now use things like the -v argument for :spawn or pass flags to the spawned commands.
- Various fixes for hinting corner-cases where following a link didn't work or the hint was drawn at the wrong position.
- Fixed crash when downloading from an URL with SSL errors
- Close file handles correctly when a download failed
- Fixed crash when using ;Y (:hint links yank-primary) on a system without primary selection
- Don't display quit confirmation with finished downloads
- Fixed updating the tab index in the statusbar when opening a background tab
- Fixed a crash when entering :-- in the commandline
- Fixed :debug-console with PyQt 5.6
- Fixed qutebrowser not starting when sys.stderr is None
- Fixed crash when cancelling a download which belongs to a MHTML download
- Fixed rebinding of keybindings being case-sensitive
- Fix for tab indicators getting lost when moving tabs
- Fixed handling of backspace in number hinting mode
- Fixed FileNotFoundError when starting in some cases on old Qt versions
- Fixed sharing of cookies between tabs when private-browsing is enabled
- Toggling values with :set now uses lower-case values
- Hints now work with (non-standard) links with spaces around the URL
- Strip off trailing spaces for history entries with no title
Since v0.6.0, the following people have contributed to qutebrowser:
- Ryan Roden-Corrent
- Daniel Schadt
- Jakub Klinkovsk
- Panagiotis Ktistakis
- Corentin Jul
- Felix Van der Jeugt
- Tarcisio Fedrizzi
- Liam BEGUIN
- Jimmy
- kanikaa1234
- Tomasz Kramkowski
- Philipp Hansch
- Nick Ginther
- Fritz Reichwald
- haitaka
- Ismail
- adam
- Stefan Tatschner
- Samuel Loury
- Jan Verbeek
- oniondreams
- Xitian9
- Noah Huesser
- Johannes Martinsson
- Jay Kamat
- Error 800
- Alexey Glushko
Thank you!