Engaged_Clown:
qutebrowser v0.9.0
29-12-2016
[more=Big Changelog]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[/more]
https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/releases/tag/v0.9.0
qutebrowser v0.9.0
29-12-2016
[more=Big Changelog]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[/more]
https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/releases/tag/v0.9.0