1 Release history for lariza
5 - lariza now uses native GTK tabs instead of relying on suckless
6 tabbed. More background:
7 https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2020-04-26/0/POSTING-en.html
8 - Keyword searches have been removed, as these code paths were
10 - The "external URI handler" has been removed, as these code paths
15 - Minor fixes to manpages.
19 - Makefile: Web extensions and user scripts will be installed.
20 - "enable-developer-extras" is now always set to "TRUE". This enables
22 - WebGL is enabled in WebKit by default these days. lariza's
23 environment variable $LARIZA_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_WEBGL is gone.
26 - User-supplied JavaScript files can be put into
27 ~/.config/lariza/user-scripts. "hints.js" is one such script, it's
28 bundled with the main application, but must be activated manually by
29 copying or linking it to said directory.
33 - We no longer use WebKit's deprecated JavaScript API.
37 - The input bar now shows an indicator for web feeds.
39 The icon used for this purpose is the stock icon called
40 "application-rss+xml-symbolic". It is somewhat "non-standard", i.e.
41 not defined by [0], but appears to be present in many icon themes.
42 Let me know if it doesn't work for you.
44 [0]: https://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html
47 - This is a maintenance release, due to the project moving away from
48 GitHub. No code changes.
52 - Accidentally opening a context menu and then issuing a middle click
53 to open a new tab no longer changes the location of the original tab
54 (fixes #56). (This only happened under certain circumstances.)
58 - Compilation warnings regarding deprecated API calls (GtkAction) have
59 been addressed. Thanks to @jun7 on GitHub!
63 - You can now set the following environment variable to have console
64 output printed to STDOUT: LARIZA_ENABLE_CONSOLE_TO_STDOUT.
68 - The project has been relicensed under the MIT license (more
69 precisely called "Expat License", but everyone calls it "MIT
74 - User input is now properly escaped when used for keyword based
75 searching (fixes #47).
79 - Automatically adding the "file://" prefix didn't work (reliably) if
80 a message was sent to an already running instance.
83 - Autoreloading of crashed web processes has been removed. It doesn't
84 make sense anymore since the switch to webkit's multi-process model.
85 Instead, we now simply announce the crash in the location bar.
86 - Refuse to quit if there are active downloads. The user has to cancel
87 them explicitly. (To improve workflow a little bit, the download
88 manager now also knows a "Mod1 + q" hotkey.)
91 - WebGL can now be enabled by setting an environment variable. This is
92 an experimental feature, though.
96 - As requested by WebKit's API documentation, we now wait for the
97 "ready-to-show" signal after a "create" signal. This fixes crashes
98 after you chose "Open link in new window" from a context menu.
101 - The "search prefix" has been changed from "/" to ":/". This means,
102 in order to search for text in a web page, you now have to enter
103 something like ":/your search term" into the input box.
104 - Lariza now uses WebKit's multi-process model. This means that (most)
105 tabs run as independent processes. If one tab crashes, it should not
107 - The GtkLevelBar to show page loading progress has been removed.
108 Instead, we now use the progress bar which is already included in
109 GtkEntry (the input box). This is mostly a cosmetic change, but it
110 also eliminates some GTK warnings.
113 - An external user-supplied program can be called for the current URI
114 or for hyperlinks/images/videos/audio files.
115 - Lariza will now automatically add a "file://" prefix for local
117 - Hotkeys have been unified. It is now largely irrelevant whether the
118 location bar or the web view has focus.
119 - Lariza can be instructed to write each visited URI to a file.
123 - Lariza no longer reports download progress below 0% or above 100%.
124 (Workaround for what appears to be a WebKit2GTK+ bug.)
127 - We no longer explicitly set the X11 window's class and name. Let
128 GTK+ do this job. The actual class and name should be unchanged,
129 though (WM_CLASS(STRING) = "lariza", "Lariza").
131 This does not affect tabbed which is still run with "-n lariza".
133 This change fixes a GTK+ deprecation warning.
137 - Web extensions are now looked for in ~/.config/lariza/web_extensions.
144 - Except for the default window size, there are no hardcoded pixel
145 values anymore. Should make it a little easier to run lariza on
146 HiDPI screens. (Sorry, not tested, I don't have one.)
149 - New key bindings F2 and F3: Go backward and forward, just like the
150 existing mouse key binds do.
154 - Issue #14: "Keypad enter" now registers as "commit", i.e. "start
155 loading the URL" or "begin searching for search term".
156 - Issue #15: lariza no longer tries to create local file names with
157 directory separators in them when downloading files.
158 - lariza no longer sets the window title to an empty string.
161 - For the sake of consistency, $LARIZA_WEB_EXTENSIONS_DIR has been
165 - Manpages are now available.
167 v15.09 and earlier releases
168 - Sorry, the CHANGES file did not exist back then. Please refer to the