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PATANYX 0.9.62

PATANYX 0.9.62 Pre-release
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@EdgeXene EdgeXene released this 09 Aug 21:54
v0.9.62
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PATANYX 0.9.62 is a pre-release.

Download it from https://patanyx.edgexene.io/download/ rather than
from this page. The download page carries the installation notes and
explains the SmartScreen prompt a new certificate produces.

What changed

  • The Library. A bookmark manager with folders, tags and Quick
    Access, holding everything you save in one place.
  • Stronger Fingerprint Divergence. Audio noise is applied per sample
    and keyed to the recording, so it no longer cancels out under
    normalization. Protection reaches ordinary background workers, which is
    where a tracker moves to avoid it, including on sites whose content
    policy forbids blob workers. Element measurements carry sub-pixel noise
    and hardware hints are capped. Module workers, data: and blob: workers,
    SharedWorker and ServiceWorker are still not covered.
  • A waiting update is visible. When a check finds a new version, a
    banner appears at the top of the window naming it. Nothing installs
    until you restart, and that restart is still your click.

You can check what your own browser gives away, in any browser, at
https://patanyx.edgexene.io/fingerprint-divergence/test/

Verifying what you downloaded

Every binary is signed with Sigstore. Verify one with:

cosign verify-blob PATANYX.exe \
  --bundle PATANYX.exe.sigstore.json \
  --certificate-identity contact@edgexene.io \
  --certificate-oidc-issuer https://accounts.google.com

The Windows builds are also Authenticode signed and timestamped.

SHA256 checksums are listed in SHA256SUMS, and the update manifests
served from /v1/ carry the same hashes inside a signature the browser
checks before it will install anything.

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PATANYX 0.9.61

PATANYX 0.9.61 Pre-release
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@EdgeXene EdgeXene released this 07 Aug 04:30
v0.9.61
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PATANYX is a privacy-first desktop browser, written in Rust. Protection is part of the architecture from the start, not something buried behind a maze of settings. It runs on Windows and Linux.

Prerelease. PATANYX is pre-1.0 and under active development. Behavior, interfaces, and formats may change between releases. The Linux build is the more exercised of the two; the Windows build is newer and is still being put through real hardware testing. Treat this as beta software.

This is the first release published here. Everything below is in it.

New in 0.9.61

Fingerprint Divergence. PATANYX gives different sites different fingerprintable signals, reducing their ability to correlate your activity across the web. The canvas, audio, and graphics readouts that fingerprinting scripts lean on hardest carry small site-specific noise, so the reading that identifies you on one site does not match the one another site sees, and all of them change when the browser restarts. On by default, with a switch in the privacy panel.

It is noise, not invisibility. Screen size, fonts, and code running in a worker are not covered.

Also new:

  • Session-only permissions. Camera, microphone, location, and notification requests are refused until you allow them, and an allowed site has to ask again the next time you start the browser. (Windows)
  • True link destinations. Hover a link and read where it actually goes, with deceptive characters stripped before anything is shown.
  • Cleaner copied links. Copying a link without tracking parameters now also unwraps known redirect wrappers, so the address you copy is the real destination.
  • Local network protection. Pages served over plain HTTP can no longer reach addresses on your own network. (Windows)
  • Release notes in the update panel. Updates carry a short description inside the signed manifest, so the browser can tell you what an update contains before you install it.
  • Blocklist staleness alerting.

What else is in the browser

Ad and tracker blocking, a local phishing blocklist, network freeze and a privacy ledger, an encrypted vault and session store, page integrity checks, encrypted DNS, a WireGuard tunnel client, on-device OCR, and signed update and blocklist clients.

Downloads

  • PATANYX.exe — Windows, x86-64. Authenticode-signed.
  • PATANYX — Linux, x86-64. Needs WebKitGTK 2.52.5 or newer, which ships with Debian 13.

Both are the free build.

Verifying a download

Every binary here has a Sigstore bundle:

cosign verify-blob PATANYX.exe \
  --bundle PATANYX.exe.sigstore.json \
  --certificate-identity contact@edgexene.io \
  --certificate-oidc-issuer https://accounts.google.com

SHA-256 checksums are in SHA256SUMS.

Updates

The browser updates itself from patanyx.edgexene.io over its own signed update channel, not from GitHub. Each update is described by an Ed25519-signed manifest that the browser verifies against a key compiled into the binary, and nothing installs without your say-so. Releases here are a mirror for people who would rather fetch from GitHub.

Reporting a problem

Security and privacy reports go through the contact form at https://patanyx.edgexene.io/contact/ rather than the tracker. See SECURITY.md.

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