🚀 Browser4 4.13.23

🚀 Browser4 v4.13.23 Release Notes

Release Date: 2026-09-27 19:03:40 UTC
Java Version: 17+
Built by: @galaxyeye

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LLM configuration guidance: doctor prints the writable config file path, doctor --fix writes a commented template, and browser4-base 4.11.21 corrects the not-configured guide (issue #609).

📦 Release Highlights

📊 Release Statistics

Metric	Value
📁 JAR Size	91MB
📝 Commits	7
👥 Contributors	1
🏗️ Build Date	2026-09-27 19:03:40 UTC

🔄 Changes Since Last Release

• chore(deps): bump browser4-base to 4.11.21 (e3b0b3272e)
• fix(cli): stop the LLM status line from claiming a fixed config directory (a4a17ee2c0)
• test(cli): make the environment-mutating tests deterministic (63521eebcf)
• feat(rest,cli): hand the user the LLM configuration file instead of a path to guess (8167333bcf)
• chore(deps): bump browser4-base to 4.11.20 (LLM provider selection) (1d6cb822da)
• fix(rest,cli): report the effective LLM provider instead of only "configured" (039cdd0169)
• Auto-bump version to 4.13.23-SNAPSHOT (16583e35a6)

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🚀 Quick Start

Self-contained install

Use the CLI to download the matching Browser4 runtime bundle for your platform:

browser4-cli install
browser4-cli open

CLI & SKILLS

# Open a new browser window
browser4-cli open

# Navigate to a page
browser4-cli goto https://browser4.io

# Inspect the page — note the eN labels on interactive nodes
browser4-cli snapshot

# Interact using refs from the snapshot
browser4-cli click e15
browser4-cli type e15 "Hello World"
browser4-cli press e15 Enter
browser4-cli keydown Shift
browser4-cli mousemove 150 300
browser4-cli mousewheel 0 100
browser4-cli keyup Shift

# Take a screenshot and save it to disk
browser4-cli screenshot

# Use a custom server URL
browser4-cli open --server http://localhost:9090

# Execute multiple commands in one process
browser4-cli batch "open https://browser4.io" "snapshot"

# Stop on the first batch failure
browser4-cli batch --bail "open https://browser4.io" "click e1" "screenshot"

# Advanced: pipe batch commands as JSON via stdin
echo '[
  ["goto", "https://example.com/form-filling"],
  ["click", "#reset-btn"],
  ["fill", "#first-name", "Bob"],
  ["fill", "#last-name", "Smith"],
  ["fill", "#email", "bob@example.com"],
  ["select", "#country", "uk"],
  ["check", "#agree-terms"],
  ["click", "#submit-btn"]
]' | browser4-cli batch --json

# Close the session when done
browser4-cli close

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📄 Full Changelog

v4.13.22...v4.13.23

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Built with ❤️ by the Browser4 team

browser4-cli

This release also includes prebuilt browser4-cli binaries for:

• Linux x64
• Linux ARM64
• Linux musl x64
• Linux musl ARM64
• Windows x64
• macOS x64
• macOS ARM64

npm package:
npm install -g browser4-cli

CLI package version in this release workflow:

• 4.13.23

Self-contained Browser4 runtime bundles

This release also includes self-contained Browser4 runtime bundles with:

• a lib/ directory containing Browser4Bundle.jar and all runtime dependencies
• a minimal jlink-built JRE under runtime/
• platform-specific launcher scripts in bin/

Runtime model:
runtime/bin/java -cp "lib/*" <MainClass>

Supported release assets:

• browser4-bundle-runtime-windows-x64.zip
• browser4-bundle-runtime-linux-x64.tar.gz
• browser4-bundle-runtime-darwin-arm64.tar.gz

Recommended install flow:

browser4-cli install

Full Changelog: v4.13.22...v4.13.23