I'm happy to annouce the release of qutebrowser v0.8.0!
qutebrowser is a keyboard driven browser with a vim-like, minimalistic interface. It's written using PyQt and cross-platform.
The main reason for this release is that v0.7.0 will break with PyQt 5.7 which is soon going to be released.
I decided to do a new minor release instead of a patch release as plenty new features have accumulated already. If your distribution can't update to v0.8.0 for some reason, backporting this patch patch should work, though I haven't verified this.
This release also got a big refactoring to prepare for QtWebEngine support. To my current knowledge, all issues have been smoothened out. If not, crash reports shall now tell me. ;)
You can also already start with "--backend webengine" with this release to try the QtWebEngine support - however many features are still missing.
Source release and binaries for Windows/OS X are available, the Debian packages are still work-in-progress.
The full changelog for this release:
Added
- New :repeat-command command (mapped to .) to repeat the last command. Note that two former default bundings conflict with that binding, unbinding them via :unbind .i and :unbind .o is recommended.
- New qute:bookmarks page which displays all bookmarks and quickmarks.
- New :prompt-open-download (bound to Ctrl-X) which can be used to open a download directly when getting the filename prompt.
- New {host} replacement for tab- and window titles which evaluates to the current host.
- New default binding ;t for :hint input.
- New variables $QUTE_CONFIG_DIR, $QUTE_DATA_DIR and $QUTE_DOWNLOAD_DIR available for userscripts.
- New option ui -> status-position to configure the position of the status bar (top/bottom).
- New --pdf<filename> argument for :print which can be used to generate a PDF without a dialog.
Changed
- :scroll-perc now prefers a count over the argument given to it, which means gg can be used with a count.
- Aliases can now use ;; to have an alias which executed multiple commands.
- :edit-url now does nothing if the URL isn't changed in the spawned editor.
- :bookmark-add can now be passed a URL and title to add that as a bookmark rather than the current page.
- New taskadd userscript to add a taskwarrior task annotated with the current URL.
- :bookmark-del and :quickmark-del now delete the current page's URL if none is given.
Fixed
- Compatibility with PyQt 5.7
- Fixed some configuration values being lost when a config option gets removed from qutebrowser's code.
- Fix crash when downloading with a full disk
- Using :jump-mark (e.g. '') when the current URL is invalid doesn't crash anymore.
Removed
- The ability to display status messages from webpages, as well as the related ui -> display-statusbar-messages setting.
- The general ->wrap-search setting as searches now always wrap. According to a quick straw poll and prior crash logs, almost nobody is using wrap-search = false, and turning off wrapping is not possible with QtWebEngine.
- :edit-url now doesn't accept a count anymore as its behavior was confusing and it doesn't make much sense to add a count.
Since v0.7.0, the following people have contributed to qutebrowser:
- Ryan Roden-Corrent
- Jan Verbeek
- Daniel Schadt
- Marshall Lochbaum
- Ismail S
- David Vogt
- Michał Góral
- Panashe M. Fundira
- Jeremy Kaplan
- Edgar Hipp
- Daryl Finlay
- Jean-Louis Fuchs
- Kevin Velghe
- Jakub Klinkovský
- Dietrich Daroch
Thank you!