v1.0.0

Major changes

• Dependency changes:
  • Support for legacy QtWebKit (before 5.212 which is distributed independently from Qt) is dropped.
  • Support for Python 3.4 is dropped.
  • Support for Qt before 5.7.1 and PyQt before 5.7 is dropped.
  • New dependency on the QtSql module and Qt sqlite support.
  • New dependency on the attrs project (packaged as python-attr in some distributions).
  • The depedency on PyOpenGL (when using QtWebEngine) got removed. Note that PyQt5.QtOpenGL is still a dependency.
  • PyQt5.QtOpenGL is now always required, even with QtWebKit.
• The QtWebEngine backend is now used by default. Note this means that QtWebEngine now should be a required dependency, and QtWebKit (if new enough) should be changed to an optional dependency.
• Completely rewritten configuration system which ignores the old config file. See link:qute://help/configuring.html[] for details.
• Various documentation files got moved to the doc/ subfolder; qutebrowser.desktop got moved to misc/.
• :set now doesn't support toggling/cycling values anymore, that functionality got moved to :config-cycle.
• New completion engine based on sqlite, which allows to complete the entire browsing history. The default for completion.web_history_max_items got changed to -1 (unlimited). If the completion is too slow on your machine, try setting it to a few 1000 items.

Added

• QtWebEngine: Spell checking support, see the spellcheck.languages setting.
• New qt.args setting to pass additional arguments to Qt/Chromium.
• New backend setting to select the backend to use. Together with the previous setting, this should make most wrapper scripts unnecessary.
• qutebrowser can now be set as the default browser on macOS.
• New config commands:
  • :config-cycle to cycle an option between multiple values.
  • :config-unset to remove a configured option.
  • :config-clear to remove all configured options.
  • :config-source to (re-)read a config.py file.
  • :config-edit to open the config.py file in an editor.
  • :config-write-py to write a config.py template file.
• New :version command which opens qute://version.
• New back/forward indicator in the statusbar.
• New bindings.key_mappings setting to map keys to other keys.
• QtWebEngine: Support for proxy authentication.

Changed

• Using :download now uses the page's title as filename.
• Using :back or :forward with a count now skips intermediate pages.
• When there are multiple messages shown, the timeout is increased.
• :search now only clears the search if one was displayed before, so pressing <Escape> doesn't un-focus inputs anymore.
• Pinned tabs now adjust to their text's width, so the tabs.width.pinned setting got removed.
• :set-cmd-text now has a --run-on-count argument to run the underlying command directly if a count was given.
• :scroll-perc got renamed to :scroll-to-perc.

Removed

• Migrating QtWebEngine data written by versions before 2016-11-15 (before v0.9.0) is now not supported anymore.
• Upgrading qutebrowser with a version older than v0.4.0 still running now won't work properly anymore.
• The --harfbuzz and --relaxed-config commandline arguments got dropped.

Fixes

• Exiting fullscreen via :fullscreen or buttons on a page now restores the correct previous window state (maximized/fullscreen).
• When input.insert_mode.auto_load is set, background tabs now don't enter insert mode anymore.
• The keybinding help widget now works correctly when using keybindings with a count.
• The window.hide_wayland_decoration setting now works correctly again.

v0.11.1

Fixes

• Fixed empty space being shown after tabs in the tabbar in some cases.
• Fixed :restart in private browsing mode.
• Fixed printing on macOS.
• Closing a pinned tab via mouse now also prompts for confirmation.
• The "try again" button on error pages works correctly again.
• :spawn -u -d is now disallowed.
• :spawn -d shows error messages correctly now.

v0.11.0

New dependencies

• New dependency on PyQt5.QtOpenGL if QtWebEngine is used. QtWebEngine depends
  on QtOpenGL already, but on distributions packaging split PyQt5 wrappers, the
  wrappers for QtOpenGL are now required.
• New dependency on PyOpenGL if QtWebEngine is used.

Added

• Private browsing is now implemented for QtWebEngine, and changed its
  behavior: The general -> private-browsing setting now only applies to newly
  opened windows, and you can use the -p flag to :open to open a private
  window.
• New "pinned tabs" feature, with a new :tab-pin command (bound
  to <Ctrl-p> by default).
• (QtWebEngine) Implemented :follow-selected.
• New :clear-messages command to clear shown messages.
• New ui -> keyhint-delay setting to configure the delay until
  the keyhint overlay pops up.
• New -s option for :open to force a HTTPS scheme.
• :debug-log-filter now accepts none as an argument to clear any log
  filters.
• New --debug-flag argument which replaces --debug-exit and
  --pdb-postmortem.
• New tabs -> favicon-scale option to scale up/down favicons.
• colors -> statusbar.bg/fg.private and .command.private to
  customize statusbar colors for private windows.
• New {private} field displaying [Private Mode] for
  ui -> window-title-format and tabs -> title-format.
• (QtWebEngine) Proxy support with Qt 5.7.1 (already was supported for 5.8 and
  newer)

Changed

• To prevent elaborate phishing attacks, the Punycode version (xn--*) is now
  shown in addition to the decoded version for international domain names
  (IDN).
• Starting with legacy QtWebKit now shows a warning message.
  With the next release, support for it will be removed.
• The Windows releases are redone from scratch, which means:
  • They now use the new QtWebEngine backend
  • The bundled Qt is updated from 5.5 to 5.9
  • The bundled Python is updated from 3.4 to 3.6
  • They are now generated with PyInstaller instead of cx_Freeze
  • The installer is now generated using NSIS instead of being a MSI
• Improved qute://history page (with lazy loading)
• Crash reports are not public anymore.
• Paths like C: are now treated as absolute paths on Windows for downloads,
  and invalid paths are handled properly.
• Comments in the config file are now placed before the individual options
  instead of being before sections.
• Messages are now hidden when clicked.
• stdin is now closed immediately for processes spawned from qutebrowser.
• When ui -> message-timeout is set to 0, messages are now never cleared.
• Middle/right-clicking the blank parts of the tab bar (when vertical) now
  closes the current tab.
• The adblocker now also blocks non-GET requests (e.g. POST).
• javascript: links can now be hinted.
• :view-source, :tab-clone and :navigate --tab now don't open the tab as
  "explicit" anymore, i.e. (with the default settings) open it next to the
  active tab.
• qute:* pages now use qute://* instead (e.g. qute://version instead of
  qute:version), but the old versions are automatically redirected.
• Texts in prompts are now selectable.
• The default level for :messages is now info, not error
• Trying to focus the currently focused tab with :tab-focus now focuses the
  last viewed tab.
• (QtWebEngine) With Qt 5.9, content -> cookies-store can now be set without
  a restart.
• (QtWebEngine) With Qt 5.9, better error messages are now shown for failed
  downloads.
• (QtWebEngine) The underlying Chromium version is now shown in the version
  info.
• (QtWebKit) Renderer process crashes now show an error page on Qt 5.9 or newer.
• (QtWebKit) storage -> offline-web-application-storagegot renamed to...-cache`
• (QtWebKit) PAC now supports SOCKS5 as type.

Fixed

• The macOS .dmg is now built against Qt 5.9 which fixes various
  important issues (such as not being able to type dead keys).
• Fixed crash with :download on PyQt 5.9.
• Cloning a page without history doesn't crash anymore.
• When a download results in a HTTP error, it now shows the error correctly
  instead of crashing.
• Pressing ctrl-c while a config error is shown works as intended now.
• When the key config isn't writable, we now show an error instead of crashing.
• Fixed crash when unbinding an unbound key in the key config.
• Fixed crash when using :debug-log-filter when --filter wasn't given on startup.
• Fixed crash with some invalid setting values.
• Continuing a search after clearing it now works correctly.
• The tabbar and completion should now be more consistently and correctly
  styled with various system styles.
• Applying styiles in qt5ct now shouldn't crash anymore.
• The validation for colors in stylesheets is now less strict,
  allowing for all valid Qt values.
• data: URLs now aren't added to the history anymore.
• Accidentally starting with Python 2 now shows a proper error message again.
• For some people, running some userscripts crashed - this should now be fixed.
• Various other rare crashes should now be fixed.
• The settings documentation was truncated with v0.10.1 which should now be
  fixed.
• Scrolling to an anchor in a background tab now works correctly, and javascript
  gets the correct window size for background tabs.
• (QtWebEngine) Added a workaround for a black screen with some setups
• (QtWebEngine) Starting with Nouveau graphics now shows an error message
  instead of crashing in Qt.
• (QtWebEngine) Retrying downloads now shows an error instead of crashing.
• (QtWebEngine) Cloning a view-source tab now doesn't crash anymore.
• (QtWebEngine) window.navigator.userAgent is now set correctly when
  customizing the user agent.
• (QtWebEngine) HTML fullscreen is now tracked for each tab separately, which
  means it's not possible anymore to accidentally get stuck in fullscreen state
  by closing a tab with a fullscreen video.
• (QtWebEngine) :scroll-page with --bottom-navigate now works correctly.
• (QtWebKit) The HTTP cache is disabled on Qt 5.7.1 and 5.8 now as it leads to
  frequent crashes due to a Qt bug.
• (QtWebKit) Fixed Crash when a PAC file returns an invalid value.

v0.10.1

Changed

• --qt-arg and --qt-flag can now also be used to pass arguments to Chromium when using QtWebEngine.

Fixed

• URLs are now redacted properly (username/password, and path/query for HTTPS) when using Proxy Autoconfig with QtWebKit
• Crash when updating adblock lists with invalid UTF8-chars in them
• Fixed the web inspector with QtWebEngine
• Version checks when starting qutebrowser now also take the Qt version PyQt was compiled against into account
• Hinting a input now doesn't select existing text anymore with QtWebKit
• The cursor now moves to the end when input elements are selected with QtWebEngine
• Download suffixes like (1) are now correctly stripped with QtWebEngine
• Crash when trying to print a tab which was closed in the meantime
• Crash when trying to open a file twice on Windows

v0.10.0

Added

• Userscripts now have a new $QUTE_COMMANDLINE_TEXT environment variable, containing the current commandline contents
• New ripbang userscript to create a searchengine from a duckduckgo bang
• QtWebKit Reloaded (also called QtWebKit-NG) is now fully supported
• Various new functionality with the QtWebEngine backend:
  • Printing support with Qt >= 5.8
  • Proxy support with Qt >= 5.8
  • The general -> print-element-backgrounds option with Qt >= 5.8
  • The content -> cookies-store option
  • The storage -> cache-size option
  • The colors -> webpage.bg option
  • The HTML5 fullscreen API (e.g. youtube videos) with QtWebEngine
  • :download --mhtml
• New qute:history URL and :history command to show the browsing history
• Open tabs are now auto-saved on each successful load and restored in case of a crash
• :jseval now has a --file flag so you can pass a javascript file
• :session-save now has a --only-active-window flag to only save the active window
• OS X builds are back, and built with QtWebEngine

Changed

• PyQt 5.7/Qt 5.7.1 is now required for the QtWebEngine backend
• Scrolling with the scrollwheel while holding shift now scrolls sideways
• New way of clicking hints which solves various small issues
• When yanking a mailto: link via hints, the mailto: prefix is now stripped
• Zoom level messages are now not stacked on top of each other anymore
• qutebrowser now automatically uses QtWebEngine if QtWebKit is unavailable
• :history-clear now asks for a confirmation, unless it's run with --force.
• input -> mouse-zoom-divider can now be 0 to disable zooming by mouse wheel
• network -> proxy can also be set to pac+file://... now to
  use a local proxy autoconfig file (on QtWebKit)

Fixed

• Various bugs with Qt 5.8 and QtWebEngine:
  • Segfault when closing a window
  • Segfault when closing a tab with a search active
  • Fixed various mouse actions (like automatically entering insert mode) not working
  • Fixed hints sometimes not working
  • Segfault when opening a URL after a QtWebEngine renderer process crash
• Other QtWebEngine fixes:
  • Insert mode now gets entered correctly with a non-100% zoom
  • Crash reports are now re-enabled when using QtWebEngine
  • Fixed crashes when closing tabs while hinting
  • Using :undo or :tab-clone with a view-source:// or chrome:// tab is now prevented, as it segfaults
• :enter-mode now refuses to enter modes which can't be entered manually (which caused crashes)
• :record-macro (q) now doesn't try to record macros for special keys without a text
• Fixed PAC (proxy autoconfig) not working with QtWebKit
• :download --mhtml now uses the new file dialog
• Word hints are now upper-cased correctly when hints -> uppercase is true
• Font validation is now more permissive in the config, allowing e.g. "Terminus
  (TTF)" as font name
• Fixed starting on newer PyQt/sip versions with LibreSSL
• When downloading files with QtWebKit, a User-Agent header is set when possible
• Fixed showing of keybindings in the :help completion
• :navigate prev/next now detects rel attributes on <a> elements, and
  handles multiple rel attributes correctly
• Fixed a crash when hinting with target userscript and spawning a non-existing script
• Lines in Jupyter notebook now trigger insert mode

v0.9.1

Fixed

• Prevent websites from downloading files to a location outside of the download
  folder with QtWebEngine.

v0.9.0

Added

• New dependency: qutebrowser now depends on the Qt QML module, which is
  packaged separately in some distributions (as Qt Declarative/QML/Quick).
• New :rl-backward-kill-word command which does what :rl-unix-word-rubout
  did before v0.8.0.
• New :rl-unix-filename-rubout command which is similar to readline's
  unix-filename-rubout.
• New fonts -> completion.category setting to customize the font used for
  completion category headers.
• New :debug-log-capacity command to adjust how many lines are logged into RAM
  (to report bugs which are difficult to reproduce).
• New hide-unmatched-rapid-hints option to not hide hint unmatched hint labels
  in rapid mode.
• New {clipboard} and {primary} replacements for the commandline which
  replace the :paste command.
• New :insert-text command to insert a given text into a field on the page,
  which replaces :paste-primary together with the {primary} replacement.
• New :window-only command to close all other windows.
• New prev-category and next-category arguments to :completion-item-focus
  to focus the previous/next category in the completion (bound to <Ctrl-Tab>
  and <Ctrl-Shift-Tab> by default).
• New :click-element command to fake a click on a element.
• New :debug-log-filter command to change console log filtering on-the-fly.
• New :debug-log-level command to change the console loglevel on-the-fly.
• New general -> yank-ignored-url-parameters option to configure which URL
  parameters (like utm_source etc.) to strip off when yanking an URL.
• Support for the HTML5 page visibility API
• New readability userscript which shows a readable version of a page (using
  the readability-lxml python package)
• New cast userscript to show a video on a Google Chromecast
• New :run-with-count command which replaces the (undocumented) :count:command syntax.
• New :record-macro (q) and :run-macro (@) commands for keyboard macros.
• New ui -> hide-scrollbar setting to hide the scrollbar independently of the
  user-stylesheet setting.
• New general -> default-open-dispatcher setting to configure what to open
  downloads with (instead of e.g. xdg-open on Linux).
• Support for PAC (proxy autoconfig) with QtWebKit

Changed

• Hints are now drawn natively in Qt instead of using web elements. This has a
  few implications for users:
  • The hints -> opacity setting does not exist anymore, but you can use
    rgba(r, g, b, alpha) colors instead for colors -> hints.bg.
  • The hints -> font setting is not affected by
    fonts -> web-family-fixed anymore. Thus, a transformer got added to
    change Monospace to ${_monospace}.
  • Gradients in hint colors can now be configured by using qlineargradient
    and friends instead of -webkit-gradient. The most common cases get
    migrated automatically, but if you drastically changed the defaults,
    you'll need to manually adjust your config.
  • Styling hints by styling qutehint elements in user-stylesheet was
    never officially supported and does not work anymore.
  • Hints are now not affected by the page's stylesheet or zoom anymore.
• :bookmark-add now has a --toggle flag which deletes the bookmark if it
  already exists.
• :bookmark-load now has a --delete flag which deletes the bookmark after
  loading it.
• :open now also accepts quickmark names instead of URLs
• :tab-move now optionally takes an index for absolute moving.
• Commands taking either an argument or a count (like :zoom or :tab-focus)
  now prefer the count instead of showing an error message.
• :open now has an --implicit argument to treat the opened tab as implicit
  (i.e. to open it at the position it would be opened if it was a clicked link)
• :download-open and :prompt-open-download now have an optional cmdline
  argument to pass a commandline to open the download with.
• :yank now has a position argument to select what to yank instead of using
  flags.
• Replacements like {url} can now also be used in the middle of an argument.
  Consequently, commands taking another command (:later, :repeat and
  :bind) now don't immediately evaluate variables.
• Tab titles in the :buffer completion now update correctly when a page's
  title is changed via javascript.
• :hint now has a --mode <mode> flag to override the hint mode configured
  using the hints -> mode setting.
• With new-instance-open-target set to a tab option, the tab is now opened in
  the most recently focused (instead of the last opened) window. This can be
  configured with the new new-instance-open-target.window setting.
  It can also be set to last-visible to show the pages in the most recently
  visible window, or first-opened to use the first (oldest) available window.
• Word hints now are more clever about getting the element text from some elements.
• Completions for :help and :bind now also show hidden commands
• The :buffer completion now also filters using the first column (id).
• :undo has been improved to reopen tabs at the position they were closed.
• :navigate now takes a count for up/increment/decrement.
• The hints -> auto-follow setting now can be set to
  always/full-match/unique-match/never to more precisely control when
  hints should be followed automatically.
• Counts can now be used with special keybindings (e.g. with modifiers).
  This was already implemented for v0.7.0 originally, but got reverted because
  it caused some issues and then never re-applied.
• Sending a command to an existing instance (via "qutebrowser :reload") now
  doesn't mark it as urgent anymore.
• tabs -> title-format now treats an empty string as valid.
• Bindings for :, / and ? are now configured explicitly and not hardcoded
  anymore.
• The completion -> show setting can now be set to always, auto or
  never.
• :open-editor can now be used in any mode.
• Lots of improvements to and bugfixes for the QtWebEngine backend, such as
  working hints. However, using qutebrowser directly from git is still advised
  when using --backend webengine.
• content -> javascript-can-open-windows got renamed to
  javascript-can-open-windows-automatically.
• :prompt-accept now optionally accepts a value which overrides the one
  entered in the input box. yes and no can be used as values for yes/no
  questions.
• The new --qt-arg and --qt-flag arguments can be used to pass
  arguments/flags to Qt's commandline.
• Error/warning/info messages are now shown stacked above the statusbar.
  This also added various new settings:
  • colors -> messages.fg.error (renamed from statusbar.fg.error)
  • colors -> messages.bg.error (renamed from statusbar.bg.error)
  • colors -> messages.border.error
  • colors -> messages.fg.warning (renamed from statusbar.fg.warning)
  • colors -> messages.bg.warning (renamed from statusbar.bg.warning)
  • colors -> messages.border.warning
  • colors -> messages.fg.info
  • colors -> messages.bg.info
  • colors -> messages.border.info
  • fonts -> messages.error
  • fonts -> messages.warning
  • fonts -> messages.info
• The qute:settings page now also shows option descriptions.
• qute:version and qutebrowser --version now show various important paths
• :spawn/userscripts now show a nicer error when a script wasn't found
• Various functionality now works when javascript is disabled with QtWebKit
• Various commands/settings taking left/right/previous arguments now take
  prev/next/last-used to remove ambiguity.
• The ui -> user-stylesheet setting now only takes filenames, not CSS snippets
• ui -> window-title-format now has a new {backend} replacement
• :hint has a new --add-history argument to add the URL to the history for
  yank/spawn targets.
• :set now cycles through values if more than one argument is given.
• :open now opens default-page without an URL even without -t/-b/-w given.

Deprecated

• The :paste command got deprecated as :open with {clipboard} and
  {primary} can be used instead.
• The :paste-primary command got deprecated as :insert-text {primary} can
  be used instead.
• The :prompt-yes and :prompt-no commands got deprecated as
  :prompt-accept yes and :prompt-accept no can be used instead.

Removed

• The :yank-selected command got merged into :yank as :yank selection
  and thus removed.
• The :completion-item-prev and :completion-item-next commands got merged
  into a new :completion-focus {prev,next} command and thus removed.
• The ui -> hide-mouse-cursor setting since it was completely broken and
  nobody seemed to care.
• The hints -> opacity setting - see the "Changed" section for details.
• The completion -> auto-open setting got merged into completion -> show and
  thus removed.
• All --qt-* arguments got replaced by --qt-arg and --qt-flag and thus
  removed.
• The -c/--confdir, --datadir and --cachedir arguments got removed, as
  --basedir should be sufficient.

Fixed

• :undo now doesn't undo tabs "closed" by :tab-detach anymore.
• Fixed an issue with hint chars not being cleared correctly when leaving hint
  mode.
• :tab-detach now fails correctly when there's only one tab open.
• Various small issues with the command completion
• Fixed hang when using multiple spaces in a row with the URL completion
• qutebrowser now still starts with an incorrectly configured
  $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
• Fixed crash when a userscript writes invalid unicode data to the FIFO
• Fixed crash when a included HTML was not found

v0.8.4

Fixed

v0.8.3 accidentally broke compatibility with Python 3.4, which is restored with this release.

v0.8.3

Fixed

• Fixed crash when doing :<space><enter>, another corner-case introduced in v0.8.0
• Fixed :open-editor (<Ctrl-e>) on Windows
• Fixed crash when setting general -> auto-save-interval to a too big value.
• Fixed crash when using hints on Void Linux.
• Fixed compatibility with Python 3.5.2+ on Debian unstable
• Compatibility with pdfjs v1.6.210
• :bind can now be used to bind to an alias (binding by editing keys.conf
  already worked before)
• The command completion now updates correctly when changing aliases
• The tabbar now displays correctly with the Adwaita Qt theme
• The default sk keybinding now sets the commandline to :bind correctly
• Fixed crash when closing a window without focusing it

qutebrowser v0.8.2

Fixed

• Fixed general -> private-browsing not being set correctly until a restart
  (which caused e.g. local storage to be enabled).
• Fixed crash when using hints with JS disabled in some rare circumstances.
• When hinting input fields (:t), also consider input elements without a type.
• Fixed crash when opening an invalid URL with a percent-encoded and a real @ in it
• Fixed default ;o and ;O bindings
• Fixed local storage not working (and possible other bugs) when using a
  relative path with --basedir.
• Fixed crash when deleting a quickmark with Ctrl-D
• Fixed HTML5 video playback on Windows
• Fixed crash when using :prompt-open-download with a file with chars not
  encodable with the OS' filesystem encoding (e.g. with LC_ALL=C)
• Fixed :prompt-open-download with a too long filename (< 255 bytes)
• Fixed crash when cancelling a download after doing :prompt-open-download
• Fixed crash when writing a download to disk fails with
  :prompt-open-download.
• Fixed HTML5 video playback on Windows