Aether v0.3.0 — A clearer day

Aether 0.3.0 — A clearer day

A redesigned browser command center with daily priorities, richer private insights, and a calmer place to focus.

What's new

• Editorial dashboard with larger typography, a live browser summary, action launchpad, refined glass cards, and an original animated orbital illustration.
• Daily priorities: add from Overview, complete/reopen, see overdue items, and edit in Notes. Priorities share the existing local database and portable backups.
• Focus presets for 15/25/45/60 minutes, configurable daily goals, completion-day streaks, weekly consistency markers, and an immersive dialog with soft breathing motion.
• Insights ranges for 7/30/90 days, daily averages, previous-period changes, ranked website shares, completed focus totals, and a 91-day activity map. CSV exports respect the selected range.
• Polished navigation, hover responses, staggered widget entrances, chart growth, and smooth timer progress. In-app Reduce motion and operating-system preferences both stop decorative motion.
• Improved Windows keyboard hints and explicit accessible names on new controls.
• Cross-platform Node ZIP packaging; Python is no longer required. Updated screenshots and a maintained premium roadmap.

Download and install

Download aether-chromium-v0.3.0.zip, extract it, enable Developer mode at chrome://extensions (or your Chromium browser's extension page), and choose Load unpacked on the folder containing manifest.json.

For an existing installation, back up your data in Privacy & data, replace files in the same installed folder, and reload Aether. Do not uninstall or load it from another folder if you want to preserve local data.

The release includes source code, a release manifest, and SHA-256 checksums. It is a manual-install package; there is no browser-store auto-update.

Privacy and limits

No account, telemetry, new permissions, or remote analytics. Browsing activity remains off by default. Focus does not block websites or support pause/break cycles yet. Activity is approximate foreground domain time. Comparisons include today's partial day; no baseline produces no percent claim. Streaks use completed sessions attributed to their local completion date.

Validation

Strict TypeScript, ESLint, 43 logic tests, native Chromium integration tests, production build, ZIP-root/checksum verification, and four-surface layout/accessibility checks. CI validates the exact pushed commit before publishing.

Aether v0.2.0 — Tabs, workspaces & local productivity

Changelog

0.2.0

• Add virtualized multi-select tab management, list/card/domain/window layouts, sorting, URL labels/favorites/protection, guarded bulk pin/move/group/assign/close/discard, and supported undo.
• Add editable workspaces, descriptions, archives/templates, explicit live tab ownership, selective restore with real progress, and session comparison.
• Add serialized debounced note autosave, workspace/URL links, priority/dates, safe Markdown preview, and save-failure recovery.
• Add incremental fuzzy command search across tabs, workspaces, sessions, notes, and already-permitted browser bookmarks/history; include prefixes and actual recent selections.
• Persist per-surface navigation and serialize preference updates in the worker across open surfaces.
• Migrate IndexedDB v1 to v2 without discarding saved work; retain compatibility with v1 portable backups and include URL metadata in exports.
• Extend migration, safety, autosave, search, and native browser tests. Document a synthetic 1,000-record rendering benchmark separately from native browser tab testing.

0.1.1

• Guard appearance state against stale reads during rapid preference changes.
• Keep immediate switch feedback and serialized local writes.
• Ship the latest code as a separate patch package without replacing the first release.

0.1.0

Initial functional Aether foundation in the existing Arnav-Dugad/Aether repository.

• Classic frosted-glass design across the new tab, popup, side panel, and command center.
• Live themes, glass controls, reduced transparency/high contrast, responsive layouts, and keyboard dialogs.
• Tab management, saved workspace/session collections, notes, timestamp-based focus, local opt-in activity, optional bookmarks/history, and official manual release discovery.
• Typed local storage, validated portable backups, privacy controls, tests, and versioned packaging/CI.

This is not the completed feature set of the original browser-OS brief; see docs/STATUS.md.

Aether v0.1.1 — Frosted glass foundation

Changelog

0.1.1

• Guard appearance state against stale reads during rapid preference changes.
• Keep immediate switch feedback and serialized local writes.
• Ship the latest code as a separate patch package without replacing the first release.

0.1.0

Initial functional Aether foundation in the existing Arnav-Dugad/Aether repository.

• Classic frosted-glass design across the new tab, popup, side panel, and command center.
• Live themes, glass controls, reduced transparency/high contrast, responsive layouts, and keyboard dialogs.
• Tab management, saved workspace/session collections, notes, timestamp-based focus, local opt-in activity, optional bookmarks/history, and official manual release discovery.
• Typed local storage, validated portable backups, privacy controls, tests, and versioned packaging/CI.

This is not the completed feature set of the original browser-OS brief; see docs/STATUS.md.

Aether v0.1.0 — Frosted glass foundation

Changelog

0.1.0

Initial functional Aether foundation in the existing Arnav-Dugad/Aether repository.

• Classic frosted-glass design across the new tab, popup, side panel, and command center.
• Live themes, glass controls, reduced transparency/high contrast, responsive layouts, and keyboard dialogs.
• Tab management, saved workspace/session collections, notes, timestamp-based focus, local opt-in activity, optional bookmarks/history, and official manual release discovery.
• Typed local storage, validated portable backups, privacy controls, tests, and versioned packaging/CI.

This is not the completed feature set of the original browser-OS brief; see docs/STATUS.md.