v0.9.0

Added

• New dependency: qutebrowser now depends on the Qt QML module, which is
  packaged separately in some distributions (as Qt Declarative/QML/Quick).
• New :rl-backward-kill-word command which does what :rl-unix-word-rubout
  did before v0.8.0.
• New :rl-unix-filename-rubout command which is similar to readline's
  unix-filename-rubout.
• New fonts -> completion.category setting to customize the font used for
  completion category headers.
• New :debug-log-capacity command to adjust how many lines are logged into RAM
  (to report bugs which are difficult to reproduce).
• New hide-unmatched-rapid-hints option to not hide hint unmatched hint labels
  in rapid mode.
• New {clipboard} and {primary} replacements for the commandline which
  replace the :paste command.
• New :insert-text command to insert a given text into a field on the page,
  which replaces :paste-primary together with the {primary} replacement.
• New :window-only command to close all other windows.
• New prev-category and next-category arguments to :completion-item-focus
  to focus the previous/next category in the completion (bound to <Ctrl-Tab>
  and <Ctrl-Shift-Tab> by default).
• New :click-element command to fake a click on a element.
• New :debug-log-filter command to change console log filtering on-the-fly.
• New :debug-log-level command to change the console loglevel on-the-fly.
• New general -> yank-ignored-url-parameters option to configure which URL
  parameters (like utm_source etc.) to strip off when yanking an URL.
• Support for the HTML5 page visibility API
• New readability userscript which shows a readable version of a page (using
  the readability-lxml python package)
• New cast userscript to show a video on a Google Chromecast
• New :run-with-count command which replaces the (undocumented) :count:command syntax.
• New :record-macro (q) and :run-macro (@) commands for keyboard macros.
• New ui -> hide-scrollbar setting to hide the scrollbar independently of the
  user-stylesheet setting.
• New general -> default-open-dispatcher setting to configure what to open
  downloads with (instead of e.g. xdg-open on Linux).
• Support for PAC (proxy autoconfig) with QtWebKit

Changed

• Hints are now drawn natively in Qt instead of using web elements. This has a
  few implications for users:
  • The hints -> opacity setting does not exist anymore, but you can use
    rgba(r, g, b, alpha) colors instead for colors -> hints.bg.
  • The hints -> font setting is not affected by
    fonts -> web-family-fixed anymore. Thus, a transformer got added to
    change Monospace to ${_monospace}.
  • Gradients in hint colors can now be configured by using qlineargradient
    and friends instead of -webkit-gradient. The most common cases get
    migrated automatically, but if you drastically changed the defaults,
    you'll need to manually adjust your config.
  • Styling hints by styling qutehint elements in user-stylesheet was
    never officially supported and does not work anymore.
  • Hints are now not affected by the page's stylesheet or zoom anymore.
• :bookmark-add now has a --toggle flag which deletes the bookmark if it
  already exists.
• :bookmark-load now has a --delete flag which deletes the bookmark after
  loading it.
• :open now also accepts quickmark names instead of URLs
• :tab-move now optionally takes an index for absolute moving.
• Commands taking either an argument or a count (like :zoom or :tab-focus)
  now prefer the count instead of showing an error message.
• :open now has an --implicit argument to treat the opened tab as implicit
  (i.e. to open it at the position it would be opened if it was a clicked link)
• :download-open and :prompt-open-download now have an optional cmdline
  argument to pass a commandline to open the download with.
• :yank now has a position argument to select what to yank instead of using
  flags.
• Replacements like {url} can now also be used in the middle of an argument.
  Consequently, commands taking another command (:later, :repeat and
  :bind) now don't immediately evaluate variables.
• Tab titles in the :buffer completion now update correctly when a page's
  title is changed via javascript.
• :hint now has a --mode <mode> flag to override the hint mode configured
  using the hints -> mode setting.
• With new-instance-open-target set to a tab option, the tab is now opened in
  the most recently focused (instead of the last opened) window. This can be
  configured with the new new-instance-open-target.window setting.
  It can also be set to last-visible to show the pages in the most recently
  visible window, or first-opened to use the first (oldest) available window.
• Word hints now are more clever about getting the element text from some elements.
• Completions for :help and :bind now also show hidden commands
• The :buffer completion now also filters using the first column (id).
• :undo has been improved to reopen tabs at the position they were closed.
• :navigate now takes a count for up/increment/decrement.
• The hints -> auto-follow setting now can be set to
  always/full-match/unique-match/never to more precisely control when
  hints should be followed automatically.
• Counts can now be used with special keybindings (e.g. with modifiers).
  This was already implemented for v0.7.0 originally, but got reverted because
  it caused some issues and then never re-applied.
• Sending a command to an existing instance (via "qutebrowser :reload") now
  doesn't mark it as urgent anymore.
• tabs -> title-format now treats an empty string as valid.
• Bindings for :, / and ? are now configured explicitly and not hardcoded
  anymore.
• The completion -> show setting can now be set to always, auto or
  never.
• :open-editor can now be used in any mode.
• Lots of improvements to and bugfixes for the QtWebEngine backend, such as
  working hints. However, using qutebrowser directly from git is still advised
  when using --backend webengine.
• content -> javascript-can-open-windows got renamed to
  javascript-can-open-windows-automatically.
• :prompt-accept now optionally accepts a value which overrides the one
  entered in the input box. yes and no can be used as values for yes/no
  questions.
• The new --qt-arg and --qt-flag arguments can be used to pass
  arguments/flags to Qt's commandline.
• Error/warning/info messages are now shown stacked above the statusbar.
  This also added various new settings:
  • colors -> messages.fg.error (renamed from statusbar.fg.error)
  • colors -> messages.bg.error (renamed from statusbar.bg.error)
  • colors -> messages.border.error
  • colors -> messages.fg.warning (renamed from statusbar.fg.warning)
  • colors -> messages.bg.warning (renamed from statusbar.bg.warning)
  • colors -> messages.border.warning
  • colors -> messages.fg.info
  • colors -> messages.bg.info
  • colors -> messages.border.info
  • fonts -> messages.error
  • fonts -> messages.warning
  • fonts -> messages.info
• The qute:settings page now also shows option descriptions.
• qute:version and qutebrowser --version now show various important paths
• :spawn/userscripts now show a nicer error when a script wasn't found
• Various functionality now works when javascript is disabled with QtWebKit
• Various commands/settings taking left/right/previous arguments now take
  prev/next/last-used to remove ambiguity.
• The ui -> user-stylesheet setting now only takes filenames, not CSS snippets
• ui -> window-title-format now has a new {backend} replacement
• :hint has a new --add-history argument to add the URL to the history for
  yank/spawn targets.
• :set now cycles through values if more than one argument is given.
• :open now opens default-page without an URL even without -t/-b/-w given.

Deprecated

• The :paste command got deprecated as :open with {clipboard} and
  {primary} can be used instead.
• The :paste-primary command got deprecated as :insert-text {primary} can
  be used instead.
• The :prompt-yes and :prompt-no commands got deprecated as
  :prompt-accept yes and :prompt-accept no can be used instead.

Removed

• The :yank-selected command got merged into :yank as :yank selection
  and thus removed.
• The :completion-item-prev and :completion-item-next commands got merged
  into a new :completion-focus {prev,next} command and thus removed.
• The ui -> hide-mouse-cursor setting since it was completely broken and
  nobody seemed to care.
• The hints -> opacity setting - see the "Changed" section for details.
• The completion -> auto-open setting got merged into completion -> show and
  thus removed.
• All --qt-* arguments got replaced by --qt-arg and --qt-flag and thus
  removed.
• The -c/--confdir, --datadir and --cachedir arguments got removed, as
  --basedir should be sufficient.

Fixed

• :undo now doesn't undo tabs "closed" by :tab-detach anymore.
• Fixed an issue with hint chars not being cleared correctly when leaving hint
  mode.
• :tab-detach now fails correctly when there's only one tab open.
• Various small issues with the command completion
• Fixed hang when using multiple spaces in a row with the URL completion
• qutebrowser now still starts with an incorrectly configured
  $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
• Fixed crash when a userscript writes invalid unicode data to the FIFO
• Fixed crash when a included HTML was not found