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.