riptide v0.3.0

0.3.0 - 2026-10-08

Features

• settings: :settings opens a page to browse, change and reset every setting
• tabs: Mark tabs using the camera, microphone or screen
• settings: A clearer settings page with sections, a colors preview and checks while typing
• settings: URLs & search second on the settings page
• sessions: :recover lists each crash's tabs to reopen some or all
• notifications: Libnotify presenter with app name, urgency, timeout and site icon
• settings: A Keys tab to bind, unbind and restore keys, with clash warnings
• settings: A Sites tab to forget saved permission answers and clear site data
• windows: Well-known call sites open in call windows by default
• settings: Edit per-site values on the page, and j/k/Return to move and edit
• windows: Say when a call site opened in a call window
• prompts: Questions belong to their tab, and permission requests show the site and what it wants
• completion: Site icons in :open and tab completion
• adblock: The status bar counts requests blocked on the page
• adblock: Hosts files work as block lists
• completion: Letters with gaps match when nothing contains the text
• spell: :spell-install downloads dictionaries checked against pinned checksums
• tabs: Cm mutes the call from any tab with the site's own key
• spell: :spell-install alone lists the languages to pick from
• tabs: Gp floats the page's video in picture-in-picture
• Chromium's crash dumps are kept locally and listed in :crash-report
• lua: Rt.on with patterns, groups and once, and eleven more events
• lua: Rt.defer and rt.every timers, rt.notify levels, and a time limit per callback
• lua: Rt.keymap with descriptions, and commands that complete their arguments
• lua: Rt.store keeps data between runs
• lua: Sandboxed plugins from a folder, loaded once you approve their permissions
• tabs: Screen shares are marked, and :share-stop ends them from any tab
• lua: Plugins install from git and stay pinned in rt-pack-lock.json
• lua: A Plugins tab with update review, revoke and remove
• lua: Plugins can wait for an event, command or key to load
• lua: Rt.statusbar.widget draws lua: widgets
• lua: Rt.ui.select and rt.ui.input, rt.page to type and fill logins, and rt.json
• lua: Rt.ui.float draws boxes of text over the page
• lua: Builtin plugins, starting with passwords to fill logins from pass, rbw, bw or KeePassXC
• lua: Rt.ui.panel docks lines beside or below the page
• lua: Plugins ship HTML pages that talk only to their own plugin
• Chrome extensions, installed from the Web Store with :extension-install
• lua: Plugin pages can dock in a panel beside the page
• lua: Rt.page.eval, rt.page.css and rt.page.selection
• lua: Rt.page.hint hints a selector's elements and hands the pick to Lua
• An Extensions tab in :settings, :extension-open and extension updates
• help: :help rt.ui.float and :help
• Install extensions straight from the Web Store page
• lua: Riptide --plugin-test runs a plugin's specs, and a plugin template
• lua: Subdir installs one plugin from a repository of several
• Extension popups float over the page, as in Chrome
• Drag an extension's popup by its bar
• lua: Plugins declare dependencies, which install and load first
• lua: One checkout per repository, and check, update, sync, restore and clean
• adblock: Scriptlets, $redirect stand-ins and $removeparam
• lua: Riptide checks plugins for updates in the background
• adblock: UBlock Origin's lists by default, with its trusted scriptlets
• adblock: Procedural element hiding (:has-text, :upward, :remove and more)
• adblock: Element hiding inside frames
• lua: Check plugins for updates daily, mentioning each update once
• lua: Add plugins from the Plugins tab or :pack-add, kept in plugins.toml
• adblock: Your own rules, and an element picker that writes them (;x)

Bug fixes

• window: Windows can be resized, so tiling window managers tile them
• cmdline: :q closes the current window and :qa quits, as in qutebrowser
• tabs: Middle-click and Ctrl+click open links in a background tab
• ui: Ctrl+scroll no longer zooms riptide's own bars
• lua: A plugin whose folder is missing shows as Failed on the Plugins tab
• Say plainly what works when an extension has a popup
• lua: Commands added after loading run in the same callback
• extensions: Build on Windows, and wait for the limits link in the e2e test
• lua: Plugin names and tests on Windows

Downloads

• Linux (x86_64): the .deb for Ubuntu 24.04+ and Debian 13+ (sudo apt install ./riptide_*.deb), the .AppImage, or the .tar.gz (unpack and run riptide). See Installing for the sandbox setup.
• macOS and Windows: experimental packages that don't run the browser yet.
• Check a download with sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing, or its build provenance with gh attestation verify <file> --repo joshzcold/riptide.

riptide v0.2.0

0.2.0 - 2026-10-07

Features

• tabs: Pinned tabs stay where they are and can sit between others
• tabs: Gt lists this window's tabs by number alone
• tabs: A dragged tab shrinks and stays centred on the pointer
• content: Proxy, WebRTC IP policy, DNS prefetch, canvas reading, cache size
• content: Autoplay, WebGL, reduced motion, PDF viewer, window.close and console messages
• release: Ship a .deb with each release
• cmdline: Ctrl-v and Shift-Insert paste into the command line and prompts
• input: Partial_timeout, match_counts and mode_override
• :report, :debug-keytester, :debug-log-filter, editor.remove_file, new_instance_open_target_window
• Scrolling.bar and tabs.close_mouse_button_on_bar
• content: Mailto: and other external links, mouse lock, protocol handlers, file access
• downloads: Prompt-open-download (Ctrl-x) and prompt-yank (Alt-y)
• input: Rocker gestures, spatial navigation and media keys
• config: Say when a changed setting only applies after a restart
• content: Notifications in the status bar, and keep tests off the desktop bus
• tabs: Tabs.tabs_are_windows
• cmdline: Cmd-repeat, cmd-repeat-last and cmd-run-with-count
• hints: Hints inside cross-origin iframes and open shadow roots
• tabs: A tab whose renderer crashed says so, and r reloads it
• prompts: Float prompts in a box near the bottom of the page
• A panic writes a crash report, and the next start says where
• prompts: Amber floating prompts with a button per answer
• theme: Themes and colors.* settings for riptide's bars, prompts and hints
• theme: Fonts for riptide's bars, prompts and hints, and for pages
• theme: Ui.css and content.user_stylesheets, reloaded on change
• theme: Colors.webpage.bg, and dark mode that applies at once and per site
• sessions: Restored tabs keep their back/forward history and scroll position
• completion: Commands and settings match anywhere in their name, with the match highlighted
• theme: Bars and completion rows grow to fit their fonts and padding
• theme: A floating command line, ui.overlay.position and ui.overlay.width
• hints: Hints.radius, hints.padding and a hints.css file shape the labels
• prompts: Prompt.position center, and a CSS class for what each prompt is about
• theme: Ui.theme = auto follows the light or dark preference
• theme: :theme previews each theme while it's typed or picked
• theme: Your own themes from themes/.toml in the config directory
• window: Riptide's logo as the window icon
• theme: The downloads and history pages take the theme's colors
• windows: Call windows, where screen sharing picks a tab, window or screen
• theme: Import base16 schemes and qutebrowser theme files from themes/
• windows: :tab-call and content.call_sites send calls to call windows
• lua: Rt.theme defines a theme in config.lua
• :crash-report shows the last crash report, to send as a GitHub issue or by email

Bug fixes

• tabs: Place a dragged tab by the pointer, not its centre
• sessions: Keep each crash's tabs, and don't reopen tabs that crash again
• permissions: Alt-y in a permission prompt copies the site's origin
• notifications: Name riptide's desktop file, not Chromium's
• sessions: Crash recovery messages stay until the tabs have loaded
• theme: Readable text in every built-in theme
• theme: The current tab is always the darkest tab
• sessions: Ctrl-C and a closed terminal keep the tabs for crash recovery
• window: Give riptide's windows a WM_CLASS
• windows: Keep ordinary windows' focus as before call windows
• theme: In light themes the current tab is the brightest tab

Downloads

• Linux (x86_64): the .deb for Ubuntu 24.04+ and Debian 13+ (sudo apt install ./riptide_*.deb), the .AppImage, or the .tar.gz (unpack and run riptide). See Installing for the sandbox setup.
• macOS and Windows: experimental packages that don't run the browser yet.
• Check a download with sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing, or its build provenance with gh attestation verify <file> --repo joshzcold/riptide.

riptide v0.1.0

0.1.0 - 2026-10-06

Features

• Scaffold CEF-based vim-like browser (milestone 0)
• Add ./task wrapper that bootstraps Task
• Add tabs (milestone 3)
• Add hints and yank/paste (milestone 4)
• Add configuration: TOML, Lua and :set/:bind (milestone 5)
• Add history, quickmarks, bookmarks and sessions (milestone 6)
• Add prompts, downloads and permissions (milestone 7)
• ui: Serve UI pages from hb:// with a UI-only message channel
• tabs: Pinned tabs, tab bar mouse support and favicons
• help: Generated help page, :help, :version and F1
• remote: Hand arguments to a running browser from the terminal
• ui: Add window.title_format
• sandbox: Run Chromium's sandbox whenever Linux allows it
• privacy: Stop background calls that only serve Google
• adblock: Block ads and trackers with Adblock Plus filter lists
• help: Add :changelog and an "Updated to" notice
• spell: Spell checking with keyboard-driven suggestions
• spawn: Add :spawn, qutebrowser-style userscripts and :open-editor
• marks: Set and jump to marks with ` and '
• macros: Record keys with q and replay them with @
• caret: Add caret mode for keyboard text selection
• greasemonkey: Run Greasemonkey scripts in matching pages
• search: Find text in the page with /, ?, n and N
• navigate: Go up the URL, to next/prev pages, or change its number
• ui: Add dark mode and preferred color scheme settings
• config: Per-site settings, and save 'always' permission answers
• tabs: Restore each tab's mode when switching back
• tls: Ask before loading pages with untrusted certificates
• widevine: Opt-in Widevine DRM with content.widevine
• windows: Multiple windows and private windows
• lua: Script the browser from config.lua
• clipboard: Yank to and open from the primary selection
• tabs: Pick a tab in any window with :tab-select (T)
• session: Crash-recovery autosave and a history page
• history: Import qutebrowser's history with :history-import
• tabs: Clone tabs and move them between windows
• help: List commands from config.lua on the help page
• hints: Hint elements inside same-origin iframes
• hints: Number hints that filter by text
• downloads: Tab path completion and a :downloads page
• packaging: Build an AppImage next to the tarball
• ui: Stack messages above the status bar
• adblock: Hide ads with the lists' element-hiding rules
• adblock: Re-check element hiding for ads that load late
• spawn: Show output in a tab with :spawn -o, and Y in caret mode
• hints: Run programs and userscripts on hinted links
• search: Follow a search match's link with Return
• lua: Add hb.tabs() for the current window's tabs
• Zoom, devtools, print, fullscreen, view-source, jseval and more
• Scroll-px, cmd-later, fake-key, click-element and more commands
• breaking: Rename hackers-browser to riptide
• tabs: Vertical tabs with tabs.position, and tabs.show
• statusbar: Statusbar.position and statusbar.show
• statusbar: Statusbar.widgets
• keys: A key hint popup for partial key chains
• completion: Delete and yank the selected completion
• editor: Edit-url, cmd-edit and edit-text, and clean yanked URLs
• hints: Hints.auto_follow, hint-follow and hints.selectors
• input: Bindings.key_mappings and input.insert_mode.auto_load
• sessions: Session.lazy_restore and confirm_quit
• screenshot: Save the tab as an image with :screenshot
• content: JavaScript, cookie and user agent settings
• downloads: Retry, remove and delete downloads; external file picker
• greasemonkey: @require and GM_setValue/getValue/deleteValue/listValues
• prompts: Alt-e picks a folder for the download prompt
• userscripts: Run qutebrowser's bundled userscripts unchanged
• config: Config-list/dict add and remove, config-diff, config-clear, config-edit, config-write-toml
• tabs: Tab title format, select_on_remove, wrap, undo stack size, tooltips
• search: Search.wrap and wrap messages; smooth scrolling; zoom.levels
• keys: Readline word commands, rl-yank, caret block moves, selection-drop
• tools: Restart, bookmark-list, mark reloads, debug-dump-page, debug-clear-ssl-errors, devtools-focus
• userscripts: breaking: Name the userscript variables RIPTIDE_*
• completion: Completion.show, height, open_categories and more
• urls: Url.auto_search, url.open_base_url and url.incdec_segments
• hints: Hints.min_chars, scatter, leave_on_load and next/prev regexes
• downloads: Location.suggestion and remember, open_dispatcher, remove_finished
• content: Images, mute, popups, clipboard and protocol handler settings
• tabs: Mark the current tab by making it darker, with an accent line
• tabs: Title alignment, min and max tab width, indicator width, close button
• completion: Shrink, timestamp_format, delay, quick and use_best_match
• Update CEF to 154.0.33 (Chromium 154.0.8037.94)
• hints: Word hints from hints.dictionary, and hints.hide_unmatched_rapid_hints
• tabs: No accent line on the current tab by default; colors.tabs.selected.accent sets one
• sessions: Session.default_name and :save
• window: Window.hide_decoration and changelog_after_upgrade
• greasemonkey: GM_xmlhttpRequest and GM_openInTab
• lua: Rt.spawn runs programs and calls back with their output
• content: Accept_language, do_not_track, referer and custom headers
• tabs: Gt tab picker, pinned-tab prompt, live drag, gD, :set values
• tabs: Gt tab picker, pinned-tab prompt, live drag, gD, :set values

Bug fixes

• Build on Windows, where CEF event flags are i32
• tabs: Focus a new tab again once its browser exists
• keys: Send keys that land in a UI view on to the current tab
• remote: Build valid file URLs from Windows paths
• ui: Leave the port and user info out of {host}
• permissions: Make per-site settings override Chromium's saved answers
• tabs: U reopens a tab closed before its page loaded
• content: Private windows crashed after content settings applied

Downloads

• Linux (x86_64): the .tar.gz (unpack and run riptide) or the .AppImage. See Installing for the sandbox setup.
• macOS and Windows: experimental packages that don't run the browser yet.
• Check a download with sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing, or its build provenance with gh attestation verify <file> --repo joshzcold/riptide.

Nightly nightly-20261006-3363ca1

Built from main at 3363ca1 on 2026-10-06. Not a release: it's replaced every night that main changes, and may be broken.

Check a download with sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing, or its build provenance with gh attestation verify <file> --repo joshzcold/riptide.

Changes since the last release

Features

• Scaffold CEF-based vim-like browser (milestone 0)
• Add ./task wrapper that bootstraps Task
• Add tabs (milestone 3)
• Add hints and yank/paste (milestone 4)
• Add configuration: TOML, Lua and :set/:bind (milestone 5)
• Add history, quickmarks, bookmarks and sessions (milestone 6)
• Add prompts, downloads and permissions (milestone 7)
• ui: Serve UI pages from hb:// with a UI-only message channel
• tabs: Pinned tabs, tab bar mouse support and favicons
• help: Generated help page, :help, :version and F1
• remote: Hand arguments to a running browser from the terminal
• ui: Add window.title_format
• sandbox: Run Chromium's sandbox whenever Linux allows it
• privacy: Stop background calls that only serve Google
• adblock: Block ads and trackers with Adblock Plus filter lists
• help: Add :changelog and an "Updated to" notice
• spell: Spell checking with keyboard-driven suggestions
• spawn: Add :spawn, qutebrowser-style userscripts and :open-editor
• marks: Set and jump to marks with ` and '
• macros: Record keys with q and replay them with @
• caret: Add caret mode for keyboard text selection
• greasemonkey: Run Greasemonkey scripts in matching pages
• search: Find text in the page with /, ?, n and N
• navigate: Go up the URL, to next/prev pages, or change its number
• ui: Add dark mode and preferred color scheme settings
• config: Per-site settings, and save 'always' permission answers
• tabs: Restore each tab's mode when switching back
• tls: Ask before loading pages with untrusted certificates
• widevine: Opt-in Widevine DRM with content.widevine
• windows: Multiple windows and private windows
• lua: Script the browser from config.lua
• clipboard: Yank to and open from the primary selection
• tabs: Pick a tab in any window with :tab-select (T)
• session: Crash-recovery autosave and a history page
• history: Import qutebrowser's history with :history-import
• tabs: Clone tabs and move them between windows
• help: List commands from config.lua on the help page
• hints: Hint elements inside same-origin iframes
• hints: Number hints that filter by text
• downloads: Tab path completion and a :downloads page
• packaging: Build an AppImage next to the tarball
• ui: Stack messages above the status bar
• adblock: Hide ads with the lists' element-hiding rules
• adblock: Re-check element hiding for ads that load late
• spawn: Show output in a tab with :spawn -o, and Y in caret mode
• hints: Run programs and userscripts on hinted links
• search: Follow a search match's link with Return
• lua: Add hb.tabs() for the current window's tabs
• Zoom, devtools, print, fullscreen, view-source, jseval and more
• Scroll-px, cmd-later, fake-key, click-element and more commands
• breaking: Rename hackers-browser to riptide
• tabs: Vertical tabs with tabs.position, and tabs.show
• statusbar: Statusbar.position and statusbar.show
• statusbar: Statusbar.widgets
• keys: A key hint popup for partial key chains
• completion: Delete and yank the selected completion
• editor: Edit-url, cmd-edit and edit-text, and clean yanked URLs
• hints: Hints.auto_follow, hint-follow and hints.selectors
• input: Bindings.key_mappings and input.insert_mode.auto_load
• sessions: Session.lazy_restore and confirm_quit
• screenshot: Save the tab as an image with :screenshot
• content: JavaScript, cookie and user agent settings
• downloads: Retry, remove and delete downloads; external file picker
• greasemonkey: @require and GM_setValue/getValue/deleteValue/listValues
• prompts: Alt-e picks a folder for the download prompt
• userscripts: Run qutebrowser's bundled userscripts unchanged
• config: Config-list/dict add and remove, config-diff, config-clear, config-edit, config-write-toml
• tabs: Tab title format, select_on_remove, wrap, undo stack size, tooltips
• search: Search.wrap and wrap messages; smooth scrolling; zoom.levels
• keys: Readline word commands, rl-yank, caret block moves, selection-drop
• tools: Restart, bookmark-list, mark reloads, debug-dump-page, debug-clear-ssl-errors, devtools-focus
• userscripts: breaking: Name the userscript variables RIPTIDE_*
• completion: Completion.show, height, open_categories and more
• urls: Url.auto_search, url.open_base_url and url.incdec_segments
• hints: Hints.min_chars, scatter, leave_on_load and next/prev regexes
• downloads: Location.suggestion and remember, open_dispatcher, remove_finished
• content: Images, mute, popups, clipboard and protocol handler settings
• tabs: Mark the current tab by making it darker, with an accent line
• tabs: Title alignment, min and max tab width, indicator width, close button
• completion: Shrink, timestamp_format, delay, quick and use_best_match
• Update CEF to 154.0.33 (Chromium 154.0.8037.94)
• hints: Word hints from hints.dictionary, and hints.hide_unmatched_rapid_hints
• tabs: No accent line on the current tab by default; colors.tabs.selected.accent sets one

Bug fixes

• Build on Windows, where CEF event flags are i32
• tabs: Focus a new tab again once its browser exists
• keys: Send keys that land in a UI view on to the current tab
• remote: Build valid file URLs from Windows paths
• ui: Leave the port and user info out of {host}
• permissions: Make per-site settings override Chromium's saved answers
• tabs: U reopens a tab closed before its page loaded
• content: Private windows crashed after content settings applied