Bay 1.5.5-nightly.1

A nightly build of Bay, made from b55f7f19, with what changed since v1.5.4.

New

• Add a hermes cpu profiler to the js benchmark (perf)
• Lay spaces out in columns and mirror the library sidebar on the right (library)
• Open the library in the sidebar by default, with a page option (library)
• Edit the theme from the sidebar menu and the palette with tabs open (spaces)

Fixed

• Preserve the published engine layout and identity (release)
• Correct tab transfers and browser event handling
• Rank visited pages above search suggestions in the palette (omnibox)

Faster

• Reduce palette rebuild and media event overhead
• Render only the rows that changed (sidebar)
• Stop per-page work running on other pages' updates (pages)
• Add a live-free store view for selectors (store)
• Read the page tint from the store instead of context (theme)
• Skip palette rows whose suggestion is unchanged (omnibox)
• Reuse each unchanged tab's json when saving (session)
• Scope sidebar subscriptions and reuse known tab deltas (store)
• Reduce browser update and tab processing overhead

And 4 other changes (refactors, tests, tooling).

Install

Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple: download, drag it to Applications, open it.

A nightly: each day's changes, tested less than a stable release. It updates to newer nightlies and stable releases (Bay › Check for Updates…); Settings › General › Update channel switches back to Stable, which never downgrades.

Bay 1.5.4

Added

• The bay command. Script Bay from the terminal: open tabs, read pages and history, and install user scripts that
  run on the sites they match. Install it from Settings › Advanced › Terminal, and turn on "Let the bay command
  control Bay" to allow it. Its tabs open behind the page you're on, and private windows never load its scripts.
• Pinned split views. Pin a split view to the sidebar and it reopens side by side.
• Reorder spaces by dragging their icons at the bottom of the sidebar.
• Clear Cookies and Cache from the command bar.
• Update channels. Choose Stable or Nightly in Settings › General. Nightly gets new builds first.

Improved

• Setup. Drag your old browser onto Bay to import from it. You can skip steps, pick up where you left off, and
  search during setup.
• Link previews spring out of the link you clicked and back into it when closed.
• One space hides the sidebar's space header.
• Sidebar on the right. The window buttons sit in its header, as they do on the left, instead of on a band over
  the page.
• The installer opens in a styled window.

Fixed

• Pages without a background of their own show white, or their dark-mode canvas, instead of the window's colours
  under their text.

Install

Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple: download, drag it to Applications, open it.

Earlier versions update automatically (Bay › Check for Updates…). Every release's notes: https://bay.krishkalaria.in/release-notes/

Engine ce89821bc203

Bay's engine (NNCore's Chromium Framework, unstripped) for engine/ tree ce89821bc203325c493b1ff47f155022704f7cac (commit 655bdb4), for release builds without a Chromium tree (packages/nncore/scripts/fetch-engine.sh). Not an app release.

Bay 1.5.4-nightly.2

A nightly build of Bay, made from 06af78ea, with what changed since v1.5.4-nightly.1.

New

• Add skip, resume, and search setup (onboarding)

Fixed

• Lock navigation during system setup (onboarding)

Install

Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple: download, drag it to Applications, open it.

A nightly: each day's changes, tested less than a stable release. It updates to newer nightlies and stable releases (Bay › Check for Updates…); Settings › General › Update channel switches back to Stable, which never downgrades.

Bay 1.5.4-nightly.1

A nightly build of Bay, made from 4451008c, with what changed since v1.5.3.

New

• Add stable and nightly update channels

Fixed

• Simplify translation splitting for xcode 26.6

And 1 other change (refactors, tests, tooling).

Install

Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple: download, drag it to Applications, open it.

A nightly: each day's changes, tested less than a stable release. It updates to newer nightlies and stable releases (Bay › Check for Updates…); Settings › General › Update channel switches back to Stable, which never downgrades.

Bay 1.5.3

Fixed

• Full-screen video on streaming sites keeps playing on its own desktop when you swipe to another one. It used to
  leave full screen and bring the Bay window back.

Removed

• Battery Saver. Bay no longer pauses busy background tabs on battery or in Low Power Mode, and the setting is
  gone from Settings › Advanced.

Install

Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple: download, drag it to Applications, open it.

Earlier versions update automatically (Bay › Check for Updates…). Every release's notes: https://bay.krishkalaria.in/release-notes/

Bay 1.5.2

Fixed

• Full-screen video on streaming sites stays the size of the screen. It could shrink back to the size of its tab
  while still in full screen, when something in Bay changed behind it.

Install

Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple: download, drag it to Applications, open it.

Earlier versions update automatically (Bay › Check for Updates…). Every release's notes: https://bay.krishkalaria.in/release-notes/

Bay 1.5.1

Fixed

• Full-screen video on streaming sites fills the screen without leaving the Bay window behind on your desktop,
  as on every other site. The window comes back when you leave full screen, and switching tabs while a video is full
  screen takes it out of full screen.
• Streaming sites no longer cover the tab you're looking at after you switch spaces.
• Window controls that appear when you hover over the window's corner have a background, so they stay readable
  over the page.

Install

Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple: download, drag it to Applications, open it.

Earlier versions update automatically (Bay › Check for Updates…). Every release's notes: https://bay.krishkalaria.in/release-notes/

Bay 1.5.0

Added

• Capture. Press ⇧⌘2 to capture part of a page, then copy, save, share or mark it up. Capture Full Page
  saves the whole page, and Capture in Portrait frames it on your space's colours.
• Easels and Library. Collect captures, images, links, text and drawings on a whiteboard. Move things around,
  make captures live, or export an Easel as a PNG or HTML file. Library keeps your saved media, downloads,
  Easels and archived tabs together.
• Boosts. Change a site's colours and fonts, remove parts of a page, focus on one section, or add CSS and
  JavaScript. Boosts sync between your devices; scripts stay on the Mac where you enabled them.
• Sharing. Share folders, split views and selected tabs, or turn selected text into a quote card.
• Tidy Tabs. Group today's tabs by topic from the sidebar menu or command bar. Pinned tabs can suggest
  shorter titles, and Tidy Downloads offers readable names for new downloads.
• Link previews. Hold Shift while hovering a link for five seconds to show a preview of its page.
• Streaming sites in WebKit. Supported streaming sites open in macOS's WebKit engine by default. Choose an
  engine for individual sites in Site Controls, or change the defaults in Settings › Engines.
• Foldable JSON. Developer Mode shows JSON responses as a tree, with the raw text a click away.

Improved

• Sidebar controls. Press ⌘. to focus the sidebar and navigate with the arrow keys. ⌘Z undoes sidebar
  edits, holding Option reveals a hidden sidebar, and mouse side buttons switch spaces while over it.
• Files in the sidebar. Drop Finder files and folders into pinned tabs. Expand folders in place, open files
  in tabs, or drag them onto a website to upload them.
• Little Bay. Open it from any app with a shortcut or the menu bar. Idle windows move into Library's archive
  after six hours.
• Search and meetings. ⇧Return opens a search's top result, and ⌃⌘J joins the meeting that's on now.
• Favorites and long lists. Favorites show unread counts from page titles, and long lists use a new renderer.

Fixed

• Space switching. Reorder spaces while swiping and switch them from the sidebar's peek.
• Window controls. The window buttons appear with the closed sidebar's peek.
• External links. Links from other apps open in the most recent space by default.
• Tidy Downloads. Renamed files keep their names after relaunching, and older downloads aren't offered again.

Install

Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple: download, drag it to Applications, open it.

Earlier versions update automatically (Bay › Check for Updates…). Every release's notes: https://bay.krishkalaria.in/release-notes/

Bay Nightly

The newest nightly, always as Bay-Nightly.dmg (https://bay.krishkalaria.in/nightly). Now 1.5.5-nightly.1: https://github.com/krishkalaria12/bay/releases/tag/v1.5.5-nightly.1. Nightlies update themselves to the next one; Settings › General › Update channel switches a copy between Stable and Nightly.