1 Release history for lariza
5 - The file "adblock.black" has been renamed to "adblock".
9 - Middle-click to open in a new tab has been improved. In certain
10 conditions, the user's intention to open a new tab has been ignored
11 and URLs haven been opened in the current tab.
12 - When new tabs are opened in the background, the web view is now
17 - Build no longer depends on GNU sed.
21 - lariza now uses native GTK tabs instead of relying on suckless
23 https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2020-04-26/0/POSTING-en.html
24 - Keyword searches have been removed, as these code paths were
25 unmaintained. See also:
26 https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2020-05-01/0/POSTING-en.html
27 - The "external URI handler" has been removed, as these code paths
28 were unmaintained. See also:
29 https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2020-05-01/0/POSTING-en.html
30 - WebKit sandboxing is now enabled. While considered stable, it is a
31 rather new feature. Please report breakages. This also requires you
32 to run at least WebKitGTK 2.26 (released 2019-09-09). See also:
33 https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2020/03/31/sandboxing-webkitgtk-apps/
34 https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2020-05-04/0/POSTING-en.html
37 - Allow webkit:// in URLs.
41 - Minor fixes to manpages.
45 - Makefile: Web extensions and user scripts will be installed.
46 - "enable-developer-extras" is now always set to "TRUE". This enables
48 - WebGL is enabled in WebKit by default these days. lariza's
49 environment variable $LARIZA_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_WEBGL is gone.
52 - User-supplied JavaScript files can be put into
53 ~/.config/lariza/user-scripts. "hints.js" is one such script, it's
54 bundled with the main application, but must be activated manually by
55 copying or linking it to said directory.
59 - We no longer use WebKit's deprecated JavaScript API.
63 - The input bar now shows an indicator for web feeds.
65 The icon used for this purpose is the stock icon called
66 "application-rss+xml-symbolic". It is somewhat "non-standard", i.e.
67 not defined by [0], but appears to be present in many icon themes.
68 Let me know if it doesn't work for you.
70 [0]: https://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html
73 - This is a maintenance release, due to the project moving away from
74 GitHub. No code changes.
78 - Accidentally opening a context menu and then issuing a middle click
79 to open a new tab no longer changes the location of the original tab
80 (fixes #56). (This only happened under certain circumstances.)
84 - Compilation warnings regarding deprecated API calls (GtkAction) have
85 been addressed. Thanks to @jun7 on GitHub!
89 - You can now set the following environment variable to have console
90 output printed to STDOUT: LARIZA_ENABLE_CONSOLE_TO_STDOUT.
94 - The project has been relicensed under the MIT license (more
95 precisely called "Expat License", but everyone calls it "MIT
100 - User input is now properly escaped when used for keyword based
101 searching (fixes #47).
105 - Automatically adding the "file://" prefix didn't work (reliably) if
106 a message was sent to an already running instance.
109 - Autoreloading of crashed web processes has been removed. It doesn't
110 make sense anymore since the switch to webkit's multi-process model.
111 Instead, we now simply announce the crash in the location bar.
112 - Refuse to quit if there are active downloads. The user has to cancel
113 them explicitly. (To improve workflow a little bit, the download
114 manager now also knows a "Mod1 + q" hotkey.)
117 - WebGL can now be enabled by setting an environment variable. This is
118 an experimental feature, though.
122 - As requested by WebKit's API documentation, we now wait for the
123 "ready-to-show" signal after a "create" signal. This fixes crashes
124 after you chose "Open link in new window" from a context menu.
127 - The "search prefix" has been changed from "/" to ":/". This means,
128 in order to search for text in a web page, you now have to enter
129 something like ":/your search term" into the input box.
130 - Lariza now uses WebKit's multi-process model. This means that (most)
131 tabs run as independent processes. If one tab crashes, it should not
133 - The GtkLevelBar to show page loading progress has been removed.
134 Instead, we now use the progress bar which is already included in
135 GtkEntry (the input box). This is mostly a cosmetic change, but it
136 also eliminates some GTK warnings.
139 - An external user-supplied program can be called for the current URI
140 or for hyperlinks/images/videos/audio files.
141 - Lariza will now automatically add a "file://" prefix for local
143 - Hotkeys have been unified. It is now largely irrelevant whether the
144 location bar or the web view has focus.
145 - Lariza can be instructed to write each visited URI to a file.
149 - Lariza no longer reports download progress below 0% or above 100%.
150 (Workaround for what appears to be a WebKit2GTK+ bug.)
153 - We no longer explicitly set the X11 window's class and name. Let
154 GTK+ do this job. The actual class and name should be unchanged,
155 though (WM_CLASS(STRING) = "lariza", "Lariza").
157 This does not affect tabbed which is still run with "-n lariza".
159 This change fixes a GTK+ deprecation warning.
163 - Web extensions are now looked for in ~/.config/lariza/web_extensions.
170 - Except for the default window size, there are no hardcoded pixel
171 values anymore. Should make it a little easier to run lariza on
172 HiDPI screens. (Sorry, not tested, I don't have one.)
175 - New key bindings F2 and F3: Go backward and forward, just like the
176 existing mouse key binds do.
180 - Issue #14: "Keypad enter" now registers as "commit", i.e. "start
181 loading the URL" or "begin searching for search term".
182 - Issue #15: lariza no longer tries to create local file names with
183 directory separators in them when downloading files.
184 - lariza no longer sets the window title to an empty string.
187 - For the sake of consistency, $LARIZA_WEB_EXTENSIONS_DIR has been
191 - Manpages are now available.
193 v15.09 and earlier releases
194 - Sorry, the CHANGES file did not exist back then. Please refer to the