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.