qutebrowser v0.8.1

Fixed

• Fix crash when pressing enter without a command
• Adjust error message to point out QtWebEngine is unsupported with the OS
  X .app currently.
• Hide Harfbuzz warning with the OS X .app

qutebrowser v0.8.0

Added

• New :repeat-command command (mapped to .) to repeat the last command.
  Note that two former default bundings conflict with that binding, unbinding
  them via :unbind .i and :unbind .o is recommended.
• New qute:bookmarks page which displays all bookmarks and quickmarks.
• New :prompt-open-download (bound to Ctrl-X) which can be used to open a
  download directly when getting the filename prompt.
• New {host} replacement for tab- and window titles which evaluates
  to the current host.
• New default binding ;t for :hint input.
• New variables $QUTE_CONFIG_DIR, $QUTE_DATA_DIR and
  $QUTE_DOWNLOAD_DIR available for userscripts.
• New option ui -> status-position to configure the position of the
  status bar (top/bottom).
• New --pdf <filename> argument for :print which can be used to generate a
  PDF without a dialog.

Changed

• :scroll-perc now prefers a count over the argument given to it, which means
  gg can be used with a count.
• Aliases can now use ;; to have an alias which executed multiple commands.
• :edit-url now does nothing if the URL isn't changed in the spawned editor.
• :bookmark-add can now be passed a URL and title to add that as a bookmark
  rather than the current page.
• New taskadd userscript to add a taskwarrior task annotated with the
  current URL.
• :bookmark-del and :quickmark-del now delete the current page's URL if none
  is given.

Fixed

• Compatibility with PyQt 5.7
• Fixed some configuration values being lost when a config option gets removed
  from qutebrowser's code.
• Fix crash when downloading with a full disk
• Using :jump-mark (e.g. '') when the current URL is invalid doesn't crash
  anymore.

Removed

• The ability to display status messages from webpages, as well as the related
  ui -> display-statusbar-messages setting.
• The general -> wrap-search setting as searches now always wrap.
  According to a quick straw poll and prior crash logs, almost nobody is using
  wrap-search = false, and turning off wrapping is not possible with
  QtWebEngine.
• :edit-url now doesn't accept a count anymore as its behavior was confusing
  and it doesn't make much sense to add a count.

qutebrowser v0.7.0

Added

• New :edit-url command to edit the URL in an external editor.
• New network -> custom-headers setting to send custom headers with every request.
• New {url:pretty} commandline replacement which gets replaced by the decoded URL.
• New marks to remember a scroll position:
  • New :jump-mark command to jump to a mark, bound to '
  • New :set-mark command to set a mark, bound to ```(backtick)
  • The ' mark gets set when moving away (hinting link with anchor, searching, etc.) so you can move back with ''
• New --force-color argument to force colored logging even if stdout is not a
  terminal
• New :messages command to show error messages
• New pop-up showing possible keybinding when the first key of a keychain is
  pressed. This can be turned off using :set ui keyhint-blacklist *.
• New hints -> auto-follow-timeout setting to ignore keypresses after
  following a hint when filtering in number mode.
• New :history-clear command to clear the entire history
• New hints -> find-implementation to select which implementation (JS/Python)
  should be used to find hints on a page. The javascript implementation is
  better, but slower.

Changed

• qutebrowser got a new (slightly updated) logo
• :tab-focus can now take a negative index to focus the nth tab counted from
  the right.
• :yank can now yank the pretty/decoded URL by adding --pretty
• :navigate now clears the URL fragment
• :completion-item-del (Ctrl-D) can now be used in :buffer completion to
  close a tab
• Counts can now be used with special keybindings (e.g. with modifiers)
• Various SSL ciphers are now disabled by default. With recent Qt/OpenSSL
  versions those already all are disabled, but with older versions they might
  not be.
• Show favicons as window icon with tabs-are-windows set.
• :bind <key> without a command now shows the existing binding
• The optional colorlog dependency got removed, as qutebrowser now displays
  colored logs without it.
• URLs are now shown decoded when hovering.
• Keybindings are now shown in the command completion
• Improved behavior when pasting multiple lines
• Rapid hints can now also be used for the normal hint target, which can be
  useful with javascript click handlers or checkboxes which don't actually open
  a new page.
• :zoom-in or :zoom-out (+/-) with a too large count now zooms to the
  smallest/largest zoom instead of doing nothing.
• The commandline now accepts partially typed commands if they're unique.
• Number hints are now kept filtered after following a hint in rapid mode.
• Number hints are now renumbered after filtering
• Number hints can now be filtered with multiple space-separated search terms
• hints -> scatter is now ignored for number hints
• Better history implementation which also stores titles.
  As a consequence, URLs which redirect to another URL are now added to the
  history too, marked with a -r suffix to the timestamp field.

Fixed

• Fixed using :hint links spawn with flags - you can now use things like the
  -v argument for :spawn or pass flags to the spawned commands.
• Various fixes for hinting corner-cases where following a link didn't work or
  the hint was drawn at the wrong position.
• Fixed crash when downloading from an URL with SSL errors
• Close file handles correctly when a download failed
• Fixed crash when using ;Y (:hint links yank-primary) on a system without
  primary selection
• Don't display quit confirmation with finished downloads
• Fixed updating the tab index in the statusbar when opening a background tab
• Fixed a crash when entering :-- in the commandline
• Fixed :debug-console with PyQt 5.6
• Fixed qutebrowser not starting when sys.stderr is None
• Fixed crash when cancelling a download which belongs to a MHTML download
• Fixed rebinding of keybindings being case-sensitive
• Fix for tab indicators getting lost when moving tabs
• Fixed handling of backspace in number hinting mode
• Fixed FileNotFoundError when starting in some cases on old Qt versions
• Fixed sharing of cookies between tabs when private-browsing is enabled
• Toggling values with :set now uses lower-case values
• Hints now work with (non-standard) links with spaces around the URL
• Strip off trailing spaces for history entries with no title

qutebrowser v0.6.2

Fixed

• Fixed crash when using :tab-{prev,next,focus} right after closing the last
  tab with last-close set to close.
• Fixed crash when doing :undo in a new instance with tabs -> last-close set
  to default-page.
• Fixed crash when starting with --cachedir=""
• Fixed crash in some circumstances when using dictionary hints
• Fixed various crashes related to PyQt 5.6

qutebrowser v0.6.1

Fixed

• Fixed broken cheatsheet image which was missing from package
• Fixed occasional crash when switching/disconnecting monitors
• Fixed crash when downloading non-ascii files with a broken locale (LC_ALL=C)
• Added workaround for a Qt/PyQt bug which is too weird to describe here

qutebrowser v0.6.0

Added

• New :buffer command to easily switch tabs by name. This is not bound to a
  key by default for existing users due to a conflict with the gt/gT
  bindings (which are now removed from the default bindings).
  You can bind it by hand by running :bind -f gt set-cmd-text -s :buffer.
• New --quiet argument for the :debug-pyeval command to not open a tab with
  the results. Note :debug-pyeval is still only intended for debugging.
• The completion now matches each entered word separately.
• A new command :paste-primary got added to paste the primary selection, and
  <Shift-Insert> got added as a binding so it pastes primary rather than
  clipboard.
• New mode word for hints -> mode which uses a dictionary and link-texts
  for hints instead of single characters.
• New --all argument for :download-cancel to cancel all running downloads.
• New password_fill userscript to fill passwords using the pass executable.
• New current hinting mode which forces opening hints in the current tab
  (even with target="_blank")

Changed

• Pasting multiple lines via :paste now opens each line in a new tab.
• :navigate increment/decrement now preserves leading zeroes in URLs.
• general -> editor can now also handle {} inside another argument (e.g. to open vim via termite)
• Improved performance when scrolling with many tabs open.
• Shift-Insert now also pastes primary selection for prompts.
• :download-remove --all got un-deprecated to provide symmetry with
  :download-cancel --all. It does the same as :download-clear.
• Improved detection of URLs/search terms when pasting multiple lines.
• Don't remove qutebrowser-editor-* temporary file if editor subprocess crashed
• Userscripts are also searched in /usr/share/qutebrowser/userscripts.
• Blocked hosts are now also read from a blocked-hosts file in the config dir
  (e.g. ~/.config/qutebrowser/blocked-hosts).

Fixed

• Fixed starting with -c "".
• Fixed crash when a tab is closed twice via javascript (e.g. Dropbox
  authentication dialogs)
• Fixed crash when a notification/geolocation prompt is answered after closing
  the tab it belongs to.
• Fixed crash when downloading a file without any path information (e.g a
  magnet link).
• Fixed crashes when opening an empty URL (e.g. via pasting).
• Fixed validation of duplicate values in hints -> chars.
• Fixed crash when PDF.js was partially installed.
• Fixed crash when XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR was not an absolute path.
• Fixed very long filenames when downloading data://-URLs.
• Fixed ugly UI fonts on Windows when Liberation Mono is installed
• Fixed crash when unbinding key from a section which doesn't exist in the config
• Fixed report window after a segfault
• Fixed some directory browser issues on Windows
• Fixed crash when closing a window with a finished download and delayed
  remove-finished-downloads setting.
• Fixed crash when hitting <Tab> then <Ctrl-C> on pages without keyboard
  focus.
• Fixed "Frame load interrupted by policy change" error showing up when
  downloading files with Qt 5.6.

Removed

• The gt/gT bindings (luakit-like alternatives to J/K) were removed
  (except for existing configs) to make room for the gt binding to show
  buffers.

qutebrowser v0.5.1

Fixed

• Fixed completion for various config values when using :set.
• Fixed config validation for various config values.
• Prevented an error being logged when a website with HTTP authentication was
  opened on Windows.

qutebrowser v0.5.0

Added

• Ability to preview PDFs using pdf.js in the browser if it's installed. This
  is disabled by default and can be enabled using the
  content -> pdfjs-enabled setting.
• New setting ui -> hide-wayland-decoration to hide the window decoration
  when using wayland.
• New userscripts in misc/userscripts:
  • open_download to easily open a file in your downloads folder.
  • view_in_mpv to open a video in mpv and remove it from the page.
  • qutedmenu and dmenu_qutebrowser to select URLs via dmenu
• New setting content -> host-blocking-whitelist to whitelist certain domains
  from the adblocker.
• {scroll_pos} can now be used in ui -> window-title-format and
  tabs -> title-format.
• New setting general -> url-incdec-segments to configure which segments of
  the URL should be affected by :navigate increment/decrement.
• New --target argument to specify how URLs should be opened in an existing
  instance.
• New setting statusbar.url.fg.success.https to set the foreground color for
  the URL when a page was loaded via HTTPS.
• The scrollbar in the completion is now styled, and the following new options
  got added:
  • completion -> scrollbar-width
  • completion -> scrollbar-padding
  • colors -> completion.scrollbar.fg
  • colors -> completion.scrollbar.bg
• New value none for options taking a color system so they don't display a
  gradient:
  • colors -> tabs.indicator.system
  • colors -> downloads.fg.system
  • colors -> downloads.bg.system
• New command :download-retry to retry a failed download.
• New command :download-clear which replaces :download-remove --all.
• :set-cmd-text has a new --append argument to append to the current
  statusbar text.
• qutebrowser now uses ~/.netrc if available to authenticate via HTTP.
• New :fake-key command to send a fake keypress to a website or to
  qutebrowser.
• New --mhtml argument for :download to download a page including all
  ressources as MHTML file.
• New option tabs -> title-alignment to change the alignment of tab titles.

Changed

• The colors -> tabs.bg/fg.selected option got split into
  tabs.bg/fg.selected.odd/even.
• :spawn --userscript and :hint with the userscript target now look up
  relative paths in ~/.local/share/qutebrowser/userscripts or
  $XDG_DATA_DIR. Using a binary in $PATH won't work anymore with
  --userscript.
• New design for error pages
• Link filtering for hints now checks if the text is contained anywhere in
  the link, and matches case-insensitively.
• The ui -> remove-finished-downloads option got changed to an integer and
  now takes a time (in milliseconds) to keep the download around after it's
  finished. When set to -1, downloads are never removed.
• The :follow-hint command now optionally takes the keystring of a hint to
  follow.
• :scroll-px now doesn't take floats anymore, which made little sense.
• Updated the user agent list for the :set network user-agent completion.
• Starting with --debug doesn't log VDEBUG messages anymore (add
  --loglevel VDEBUG to get them).
• :debug-console now hides the console if it's already shown.
• :yank-selected now doesn't log the selected text anymore.
• general -> log-javascript-console got changed from a boolean to an option
  taking a loglevel (none, info, debug).
• :tab-move +/- now wraps around if tabs -> wrap is true.
• When a subprocess (like launched by :spawn) fails, its stdout/stderr is now
  logged to the console.
• A search engine name can now contain any non-space character, like dashes.

Deprecated

• :download-remove --all is now deprecated and :download-clear should be
  used instead.
• :download <url> <destination> is now deprecated and
  :download --dest <destination> <url> should be used instead.

Removed

• :scroll with two pixel-arguments (deprecated in v0.3.0)
• The :run-userscript command (deprecated in v0.2.0)
• The rapid and rapid-win targets for :hint (deprecated in v0.2.0)
• The :cancel-download command (deprecated in v0.2.0)
• The :download-page command (deprecated in v0.2.0)

Fixed

• Fixed retrying of downloads which were started in a now closed tab.
• Fixed displaying of web history if web-history-max-items is set to -1.
• Cloned tabs now don't display favicons anymore if show-favicons is False.
• Fixed a crash when clicking a bookmark name and pressing Ctrl-D.
• Fixed a crash when a website presents a very small favicon.
• Fixed prompting for download directory when
  storage -> prompt-download-directory was unset.
• Fixed crash when using :follow-hint outside of hint mode.
• Fixed crash when using :set foo bar? with invalid section/option.
• Fixed scrolling to the very left/right with :scroll-perc.
• Using an external editor should now work correctly with some funny chars
  (U+2028/U+2029/BOM).
• Movements in caret mode now should work correctly on OS X and Windows.
• Fixed upgrade from earlier config versions.
• Fixed crash when killing a running userscript.
• Fixed characters being passed through when shifted with
  forward-unbound-keys set to auto.
• Fixed restarting after a crash is reported.
• Removed .pyc files accidentally contained in source releases.

qutebrowser v0.4.1

• Adjusted AppArmor config for the IPC changes in v0.4.0.
• Fixed atime update frequency for IPC file.
• Worked around a Qt issue where middle-clicking caused scrolling with a touchpad to restart at the beginning of the page.
• The completion -> web-history-max-items setting is now also respected for items added after starting qutebrowser.
• Search terms are now shared between different tabs again
• Tests (a reduced subset of them) now run correctly again when DISPLAY is not set.
• Fixed an issue causing qutebrowser to crash with Python 3.5 as soon as an ad was blocked.
• Fixed an issue causing qutebrowser to not start with more recent Python 3.4 versions (e.g. on Debian experimental).
• Fixed various PendingDeprecationWarnings shown with Python 3.5.

qutebrowser v0.4.0

Added

• New bookmark functionality (similar to quickmarks without a name).
  • New command :bookmark-add to bookmark the current page (bound to M).
  • New command :bookmark-load to load a bookmark (bound to gb/gB/wB).
• New (hidden) command :completion-item-del (bound to <Ctrl-D>) to delete the current item in the completion (for quickmarks/bookmarks).
• New settings tabs -> padding and tabs -> indicator-tabbing to control the size/padding of the tabbar.
• New setting ui -> statusbar-padding to control the size/padding of the status bar.
• New setting network -> referer-header to configure when the referer should be sent (by default it's only sent while on the same domain).
• New setting tabs -> show which supersedes the old tabs -> hide-* options and has an additional switching option which shows tab while switching them. There's also a new show-switching option to configure the timeout.
• New setting storage -> remember-download-directory to remember the last used download directory.
• New setting storage -> prompt-download-directory to download all downloads without asking.
• Rapid hinting is now also possible for downloads.
• Directory browsing via file:// is now supported.

Changed

• Some developer scripts got moved to scripts/dev/
• When downloading to a FIFO or special file, a confirmation is displayed as this might cause qutebrowser to hang.
• The :yank-selected command now works in all modes instead of just caret mode and is not hidden anymore.
• minimal_webkit_testbrowser.py now has a --webengine switch to test QtWebEngine if it's installed.
• The column width percentages for the completion view now depend on the completion model.
• The values for tabs -> position and ui -> downloads-position got changed from north/south/west/easttotop/bottom/left/right`. Existing configs should be adjusted automatically.
• :tab-focus/gt now behaves like :tab-next if no count/index is given.
• The completion widget doesn't show a border anymore.
• The tabbar doesn't display ugly arrows anymore if there isn't enough space for all tabs.
• Some insignificant Qt warnings which were printed on OS X are now hidden.
• Better support for Qt 5.5 and Python 3.5.

Fixed

• Fixed a bug where cookies were saved despite qutebrowser being started in private browsing mode.
• The local socket used for inter-process communication (opening new instances) is now ensured to only be accessible by the user on all operating systems.
• Various corner cases for inter-process communication issues got fixed.
• link_pyqt.py now should work better on untested distributions.
• Fixed various corner-cases with crashes when reading invalid config values and the history file.
• Fixed various corner-cases when setting text via an external editor.
• Fixed potential crash when hinting a text field.
• Fixed entering of insert mode when certain disabled text fields were clicked.
• Fixed a crash when using :set with -p and ! (invert value)
• Downloads with unknown size are now handled correctly.
• :navigate increment/decrement (<Ctrl-A>/<Ctrl-X>) now handles some corner-cases better.
• Fixed a bug where the completion got affected by another window's completion if it was open in both windows.
• Fixed a performance issue with large histories when opening previously unvisited websites.
• The progress bar now doesn't cause the statusbar to change it's height anymore.
• ~ is now always expanded when spawning a script.
• Fixed various corner cases when opening links in an existing instance.
• Fixed a race-condition causing an exception when starting qutebrowser.

Removed

• The tabs -> indicator-space setting got removed as the new padding settings should be used instead.
• The tabs -> hide-always and tabs -> hide-auto settings got merged into the new tabs -> show setting.