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@runhusk runhusk released this 02 Jun 19:53
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Husk v0.1.4 — URL-bar Paste fix + in-place update path

Small patch release. Two user-visible improvements:

  1. Right-click → Paste / Paste and go in the URL bar now work.
  2. The download page exposes a standalone husk.exe so existing users
    can update in place without re-extracting the full zip.

Downloads

File Size SHA-256
Husk-Portable-0.1.4.zip 1.8 MB ef4bdd4f272403620c1d91ccce60ce022470eeb33aa9beff726e0126436e7d98
husk.exe (standalone, for in-place update) 4.0 MB c6fe5c521ae9143184d688d820fc242578ec6420a7eb2815766106cb5d32b8c5

Verify before running

Get-FileHash .\Husk-Portable-0.1.4.zip -Algorithm SHA256

Match the output against the hash above. If it differs — do not run.

What's new

URL-bar Paste / Paste-and-go fix

Right-click in the URL bar → Paste or Paste and go had been
silently failing since the menu was rewritten as a Win32 popup. Root
cause: when the popup callback fires, Chromium has lost its "recent
user activation" signal — both document.execCommand('paste') and
navigator.clipboard.readText() get gated by the permission system and
return nothing. The keyboard shortcut Ctrl+V still worked (because that
IS a fresh user gesture), but the menu items did not.

v0.1.4 reads the clipboard on the Rust side when the user picks
Paste / Paste-and-go, where no user-activation gate applies, and ships
the text into the URL bar directly via the existing chrome IPC channel.
Cut, Copy and Select all keep using document.execCommand — they
write to the clipboard, which WebView2 still allows in any context.

In-place update path on the download page

The download page now offers two clearly-labelled paths:

  • New install → the same Husk-Portable-0.1.4.zip as before.
  • Already have Husk? → just the standalone husk.exe (4 MB).
    Close Husk, drop the new binary next to your existing HuskData/
    folder, overwriting the old one. Bookmarks, vault entries,
    profiles, history and cookies all live in HuskData/ — not in the
    executable — so a binary swap is the whole upgrade.

Everything else

Unchanged from v0.1.3 — same OAuth popup handling, same vault, same
DoH stack, same boss key, same crypto source at
husk-crypto.

Upgrade path

  • From v0.1.x portable: download husk.exe from the new
    "Already have Husk?" link, replace the file inside your folder,
    re-launch. HuskData/ is untouched.
  • From the zip: re-extract on top of your current folder; the zip
    doesn't bundle HuskData/, so your data is preserved either way.

Known limitations carried over

  • Taskbar pin AUMID identity is still consolidated by Windows Shell
    in development setups where multiple husk.exe binaries live on
    the same machine.
  • macOS + Linux still v0.2 targets.

If Husk is useful to you, support keeps it free, ad-free and
account-free: husk.run/donate.

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