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@EdgeXene EdgeXene released this 07 Aug 04:30
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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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