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@aidanholm aidanholm released this 25 Jul 17:28
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2017.07.26
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  • Required WebKitGTK+ version: 2.14+
  • A relatively recent version of GTK+ 3 is required; some features are not available on older versions.

Added

Adblock module

The adblock module available at https://github.com/luakit/luakit-plugins
has been included into the main luakit repository, with the following changes:

  • Ported adblock module to use WebKit 2 compatible APIs. This breaks compatibility with WebKit 1.
  • Added color-coding to adblock filter list status indicator.
  • The Adblock chrome page CSS has been updated to be more consistent with other luakit chrome pages.
  • An enable/disable button has been added to the Adblock chrome page.
  • The adblock chrome page has received several other refactors and improvements.
  • Adblock no longer blocks ads on local files (pages on the file:// scheme).
  • Adblock no longer blocks data URIs for performance reasons.
  • Added links for quickly enabling/disabling filter lists to adblock chrome page.
  • Made adblock.enabled writeable, and removed adblock.state() function.
  • Adblock now blocks pages from being loaded until all filter list rules are fully loaded.
  • Adblock now enables newly-added filter lists by default.
  • Fixed a bug where luakit would not start if the adblock subscriptions file was missing.
  • Fixed broken :adblock-reload command.
  • Improved the consistency and formatting of adblock log messages.
  • Fixed a bug where the adblock subscriptions file would become corrupted.
  • Adblock simple mode has been removed.
  • Fixed parsing of adblock filter list rules containing '#'.
  • Fixed a bug where adblock would incorrectly block URIs on many domains, due to an design flaw.
  • Adblock now displays an error page when the adblock module blocks a page navigation.
  • Improved filter list rule length and ignore count calculation.
  • Added several optimizations for rule matching that significantly improve performance.

See also:

  • luakit://help/doc/modules/adblock.html
  • luakit://help/doc/modules/adblock_chrome.html

Error pages

A new module, error_page.lua, allows customization of luakit error
pages, such as those displayed when a page fails to load.

  • Luakit error pages are now displayed with a nicer interface, provided by error_page.lua
  • Chrome page errors are now displayed with the error_page.lua module interface.
  • Error pages now show information about the current proxy, as unintended proxy use can be responsible for page load failures.
  • Error pages can now be customized with user CSS.

See also:

  • luakit://help/doc/modules/error_page.html

User styles

A new module, styles.lua, supports user stylesheets with
@-moz-document sections. User stylesheets from https://userstyles.org are
supported.

  • Luakit now automatically detects and parses user stylesheets on startup.
  • Added support for enabling/disabling user stylesheets immediately, without refreshing the page.
  • Added the :styles-list command to display the user stylesheets menu.
  • Added the :styles-reload command to reload all user stylesheet files from disk.
  • Removed the site-specific user_stylesheet_uri interface.

See also:

  • luakit://help/doc/modules/styles.html

Other new modules

  • open_editor.lua: Adds support for editing text areas and input fields in an external text editor.
  • newtab_chrome.lua: Adds support for customizing the new/blank tab page (luakit://newtab/) with HTML and CSS.
  • image_css.lua: Improves how images are displayed by WebKit.
  • vertical_tabs.lua: Displays tabs in a vertical tab bar to the left of the tab content.
  • referer_control_wm.lua: Adds support for blocking the Referer header on cross-origin requests.
  • viewpdf.lua: Adds support for automatically viewing downloaded PDF files.

New APIs

Core APIs:

  • Added luakit.process_limit to control the maximum number of web processes.
  • Added luakit.options and luakit.webkit2 properties.
  • Added lousy.util.table.filter_array() and lousy.util.lua_escape().
  • Added luakit spell checking API. A suitable language to check spelling with is automatically detected.
  • Added website data retrieval and removal APIs.
  • Added user stylesheet APIs, used by styles.lua. Stylesheet objects can be created from Lua code and enabled/disabled for individual webview widgets.
  • Added request API. This supports handling custom URI scheme requests asynchronously.
  • Added msg logging library. This replaces the info() and warn() functions.
  • Added more log levels. Luakit now has fatal, error, warn, info, verbose, and debug log levels.
  • Added regex class, to provide JavaScript- and PCRE-compatible regular expressions.
  • Added lousy.pickle library for Lua table serializing.
  • Added missing remove_signals method to Lua objects.
  • Added soup.cookies_storage to control the path to the cookies SQLite database.
  • Added IPC endpoint and web module APIs.
  • Added API for registering Lua functions accessible from JavaScript.
  • Added API for intercepting and modifying outgoing requests.

New widget APIs:

  • Added drawing_area, spinner, image, overlay widgets.
  • Added unique IDs to window widgets.
  • Added widget parent, focused properties.
  • Added widget "resize" signal.
  • Added "mouse-enter" and "mouse-leave" signals to eventbox widget.
  • Added window.ancestor() method to retrieve the window widget that a given widget is contained in.
  • Added support for getting/setting scrolled widget scroll position and scrollbar settings.
  • Added support for displaying tooltips over widgets.
  • Added support for customizing individual widgets with GTK 3's CSS support.
  • Added nrows() getter to lousy.widget.menu widget instances.

New webview APIs:

  • Added webview widget properties editable and is_playing_audio.
  • Added webview.modify_load_block() API. This allows Lua code to suspend page load operations.
  • Added webview widget private property.
  • Added webview widget "crashed" and "go-back-forward" signals.
  • Added APIs to get the web process ID of webview widgets and the current web extension ID.
  • Added APIs to save/restore the internal state of a webview widget.
  • Added "enable-scripts", "enable-styles", "enable-userscripts" signal APIs to customize module behavior for individual webview widgets.
  • Added signal for tab save decisions.

Miscellaneous

  • Added globals.page_step to control the size of the scrolling step.
  • Added the :tabdetach command to detach a tab into a separate window. The tab is not destroyed and recreated, so any ongoing work in the tab will not be lost.
  • Added build options to specify more system paths, easing installation and packaging for a variety of systems.
  • The build system now uses the correct Lua/LuaJIT binary for build scripts.
  • A testing framework has been added that supports asynchronous tests.
  • Automatically generated documentation is now included in luakit installations.
  • Mode and bind information is now included in generated documentation.
  • The documentation index now displays which modules are loaded.
  • Added support for private browsing on a per-tab basis.
  • Added support for defining search engines as Lua functions. This allows more complex input, such as specifying multiple fields in technical search engines.
  • Added support for getting/setting the text alignment of label widgets.
  • Added support for getting/setting the divider position of paned widgets.
  • Added support for getting/setting the background color of box and label widgets.
  • Added support for getting the width and height of widgets.
  • Added support for setting the minimum width and height of widgets.
  • Added basic profile support.
  • Added options to control externally editing text files.
  • Added a crash recovery session that is automatically saved regularly.
  • Improved the formatting of error tracebacks. Improved tracebacks are now used for debug.traceback() as well as error messages.
  • The xdg module now has new properties system_data_dirs and system_config_dirs.
  • The xdg module now ensures that the paths it returns do not end in a trailing slash, regardless of how the relevant environment variables are set.

Changed

  • User scripts can now run even when JavaScript has been disabled. They now use an isolated script world inaccessible from the web page.
  • User scripts now show an error message on failure.
  • The status bar and the tab bar are now hidden when luakit is fullscreen.
  • GLib logs are now funneled through luakit's log system.
  • Subsequent lines in log messages with multiple lines are now indented.
  • When the input bar is shown, the status bar is hidden. This is to prevent webview resizes causing performance issues for some users.
  • Error messages within the luakit window can now be selected with the mouse and copied.
  • An error message is now shown when the formfiller module fails to fill a form.
  • The undoclose menu is now automatically closed when there are no more menu entries.
  • Closed tabs are now saved in the luakit session file, so undoclose now works across sessions.
  • Individual tab history is now saved in the luakit session file.
  • The "navigation-request" signal now includes the reason for the navigation.
  • Plugin errors, load cancel errors, and frame load errors are now ignored.
  • Search behavior across multiple tabs has been improved.
  • Idle callback functions that throw errors are now removed.
  • Follow mode now has a new label maker: trim().
  • w:run_cmd() no longer adds the given command to the mode command history.
  • A compile-time check for older WebKit versions has been added.
  • All uses of module() in Lua code have been removed.
  • Most variables have been made non-global.
  • A follow mode heuristic has been added for links that contain a single image element.
  • Luakit no longer uses a custom luakit-specific useragent string. This mproves site compatibility with sites such as Google Maps and decreases user fingerprint.
  • All binds now have accompanying descriptions.
  • Chrome pages now have consistent CSS and page style.
  • introspector.lua has been renamed to introspector_chrome.lua for consistency with other chrome page modules.
  • Added a help chrome page.
  • Luakit now gives a full backtrace on startup failure.
  • Formfiller mode now uses visual selection to add forms to the formfiller file.
  • Formfiller mode now uses Lua patterns instead of JavaScript regular expressions.
  • Widget getters and setters now verify that the widget is still valid.
  • The widget "created" signal now has the new widget as an argument, making it much more useful.
  • Accessing unknown widget properties now prints a warning.
  • A developer warning is now printed if the web extension binary is not found.
  • Luakit is now completely restarted if loading a configuration file fails.
  • Luakit no longer shows follow hints for invisible elements.
  • The :lua command now has an implicit variable w, the current window table. This is for convenience.
  • The :lua command can now evaluate expressions as well as execute statements.
  • A resources/ directory tree has been added.
  • Tabs now have a themable hover color.
  • The default set of key bindings now includes bindings for number pad keys.
  • A small margin has been added to the status bar.
  • The formfiller now supports automatically filling forms when pages have finished loading. This is useful for automatically logging in to certain sites.
  • Added export_funcs parameter to chrome.add().
  • Key presses that do not prefix any valid bindings are now ignored. This prevents key bindings being ignored because the input buffer has filled up with garbage.
  • Follow mode now allows focusing inputs by their value (the text within them) and focusing empty inputs by their placeholder text.
  • The :javascript command now has improved error handling.
  • luakit:// URIs are no longer added to history.
  • Download objects now have the allow_overwrite property.
  • Performance of the ssl widget has been improved.
  • The downloads chrome page now displays file size statistics.
  • Trailing newlines are now stripped from log messages.
  • The webview widget scrolling interface has been modified for compatibility with WebKit 2.
  • The API for retrieving page source is now asynchronous.
  • Follow mode now strips the leading mailto: from email links, and allows the user to configure whether to ignore case in or not.
  • Changed the label widget width property to textwidth.
  • The socket widget is no longer destroyed upon plug disconnect.
  • go_next_prev.lua now uses an improved heuristic for guessing page relationship.
  • Other minor changes.

Removed

  • All support for building with WebKit 1 has been removed.
  • All support for building with GTK+ 2 has been removed.
  • The "cookie-changed" signal has been removed, due to a WebKit API limitation.
  • The download creation API has been removed, due to a WebKit API limitation.
  • The global info() and warn() functions have been removed in favor of the msg library.
  • The :viewsource command is removed, and replaced with :view-source.
  • The WITH_UNIQUE build option has been removed, as libunique is no longer used.
  • The webview widget show_scrollbars property has been removed. It is replaced by the hide_scrollbars.lua module.
  • The default mouse forward/backward bindings have been removed.
  • Support for webview.init_funcs and window.init_funcs has been removed. There are replacement signals that serve the same purpose.

Fixed

  • Changed outdated luaL_reg to luaL_Reg.
  • Fixed a desktop file issue preventing setting luakit as default browser for GNOME.
  • Fixed evaluated scripts appearing in the web inspector debugger tab.
  • Fixed find_config() assuming the system configuration is located at /etc/xdg/.
  • Fixed luakit window losing initial focus, preventing some key bindings from working.
  • Fixed luakit icon having incorrect permissions.
  • Removed use of some deprecated functions.
  • Fixed completion for hyphenated commands not working.
  • Fixed bind activation for hyphenated commands not working.
  • Fixed completion menu not closing.
  • Fixed a segmentation fault when removing a non-present signal from an object.
  • Fixed issues in how follow mode handled clicking on <input> elements.
  • Fixed broken conditional in noscript.lua.
  • Fixed a bug where calling view:load_string() from load_failed_cb() would cause reload loops.
  • Fixed a bug where the "link-unhover" signal was not being emitted.
  • Fixed click() in follow.lua to trigger more events to work around glitches.
  • Fixed go_up breaking on file:// URIs.
  • Fixed PKGBUILD issues.
  • Fixed contributor emails.
  • Fixed use-after-free of destroyed widgets.
  • Fixed incorrect chrome page header z-index.
  • Fixed a bug where the bin widget child property always returned itself.
  • Fixed a bug in URI __add operation.
  • Fixed long source paths appearing in Lua log output.
  • Fixed formfiller silently failing to add forms.
  • Fixed formfiller radio button and checkbox clicking behavior.
  • Fixed errors when handling tabs with empty titles
  • Change context menu 'New Window' items to 'New Tab' items
  • Fixed a bug where "property::textwidth" signal was not emitted.
  • Fixed a bug where invalid color codes were silently ignored.
  • Fixed unstable behavior when creating widgets without a specified type.
  • Fixed design flaws where several modules would not work without JavaScript enabled.
  • Fixed the bookmarks chrome page missing pagination.
  • Fixed a bug where user scripts would fail to add CSS on pages without a <head> element.
  • Fixed a bug where quitting luakit through the window manager circumvented luakit's exit prevention system.
  • Fixed the < and > binds not wrapping around consistently.
  • Fixed a bug where the "destroy" signal would not be emitted for some widget types.
  • Numerous other fixes and performance improvements.

Contributors to this release:

  • Aidan Holm (1585 commits)
  • Jenny Wong (71 commits)
  • Mason Larobina (17 commits)
  • Grégory DAVID (8 commits)
  • karottenreibe (7 commits)
  • Ygrex (6 commits)
  • Robbie Smith (4 commits)
  • Michishige Kaito (4 commits)
  • Ambrevar (3 commits)
  • Yuriy Melnyk (2 commits)
  • Plaque-fcc (2 commits)
  • loblik (2 commits)
  • Daniel Bolgheroni (2 commits)
  • windowsrefund (1 commit)
  • walt (1 commit)
  • Robbie (1 commit)
  • Peter Hofmann (1 commit)
  • Nuno Vieira (1 commit)
  • nmeum (1 commit)
  • Kane Wallmann (1 commit)
  • Jasper den Ouden (1 commit)
  • gleachkr (1 commit)
  • feivel (1 commit)
  • eshizhan (1 commit)
  • donlzx (1 commit)
  • Bartłomiej Piotrowski (1 commit)
  • Babken Vardanyan (1 commit)
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