v1.10.0

Added

• New colors.webpage.prefers_color_scheme_dark setting which allows forcing
  prefers-color-scheme: dark colors for websites (QtWebEngine with Qt 5.14 or
  newer).
• New fonts.default_size setting which can be used to set a bigger font size
  for all UI fonts.

Changed

• The fonts.monospace setting has been removed and replaced by
  fonts.default_family. The new default_family setting is improved in
  various ways:
  • It accepts a list of font families (or a single font family) rather than a
    comma-separated string. As an example, instead of
    fonts.monospace = "Courier, Monaco", use
    fonts.default_family = ["Courier", "Monaco"].
  • Since a list is now accepted as value, no quoting of font names with spaces
    is required anymore. As an example, instead of
    fonts.monospace = '"xos4 Terminus"', use
    fonts.default_family = 'xos4 Terminus'.
  • It is now empty by default rather than having a long list of font names in
    the default config. When the value is empty, the system's default
    monospaced font is used.
• If monospace is now used in a font value, it's used literally and not
  replaced anymore. Instead, default_family is replaced as explained above.
• The default content.headers.accept_language value now adds a ;q=0.9
  classifier which should make the value sent more in-line with what other
  browsers do.
• The qute-pass userscript now has a new --mode gopass switch which uses
  gopass rather than pass.
• The tox -e mkvenv (or mkvenv-pypi) way of installing qutebrowser is now
  replaced by a mkvenv.py script. See the updated
  link:install{outfilesuffix}#tox[install instructions] for details.
• macOS and Windows releases now ship with Qt/QtWebEngine 5.14.1
  • Based on Chromium 77.0.3865.129 with security fixes up to Chromium 79.0.3945.117.
  • Sandboxing is now enabled on Windows.
  • Monospace fonts are now used when a website requests them on macOS 10.15.
  • Web notifications are now supported.

Fixed

• When quitting qutebrowser, components are now cleaned up differently. This
  should fix certain (rare) segmentation faults and exceptions when quitting,
  especially with the new exit scheme introduced in in PyQt5 5.13.1.
• Added a workaround for per-domain settings (e.g. a JavaScript whitelist) not
  being applied in some scenarios with Qt 5.13 and above.
• Added additional site-specific quirk for WhatsApp Web.
• The qute-pass userscript now works correctly when a PASSWORD_STORE_DIR
  ending with a trailing slash is given.

v1.9.0

Added

• Initial support for Qt 5.14.
• New content.site_specific_quirks setting which enables workarounds for
  websites with broken user agent parsing (enabled by default, see the "Fixed"
  section for fixed websites).
• New qt.force_platformtheme setting to force Qt to use a given platform
  theme.
• New tabs.tooltips setting which can be used to disable hover tooltips for
  tabs.
• New settings to configure the appearance of context menus:
  • fonts.contextmenu
  • colors.contextmenu.menu.bg
  • colors.contextmenu.menu.fg
  • colors.contextmenu.selected.bg
  • colors.contextmenu.selected.fg

Changed

• The macOS binaries now require macOS 10.13 High Sierra or newer. Support for
  macOS 10.12 Sierra has been dropped.
• The content.headers.user_agent setting now is a format string with the
  default value resembling the behavior of it being set to null before.
  This slightly changes the sent user agent for QtWebKit: Instead of mentioning
  qutebrowser and its version it now mentions the Qt version.
• The qute-pass userscript now has a new --extra-url-suffixes (-s)
  argument which passes extra URL suffixes to the tldextract library.
• A stack is now used for :tab-focus last rather than just saving one tab.
  Additionally, :tab-focus now understands stack-prev and stack-next
  arguments to traverse that stack.
• :hint now has a new right-click target which allows right-clicking
  elements via hints.
• The Terminus font has been removed from the default monospace fonts since it
  caused trouble with HighDPI setups. To get it back, add either
  "xos4 Terminus" or Terminus (depending on fontconfig version) to the
  beginning of the fonts.monospace setting.
• As a workaround for a Qt bug causing a segfault, desktop sharing is now
  automatically rejected on Qt versions before 5.13.2. Note that screen sharing
  still won't work on Linux before Qt 5.14.
• Comment lines in quickmarks/bookmarks files are now ignored. However, note that
  qutebrowser will overwrite those files if bookmark/quickmark commands are used.
• Reopening PDF.js pages from e.g. a session file will now re-download and
  display those PDFs.
• Improved behavior when using :open-download in a sandboxed environment (KDE
  Flatpak).
• qutebrowser now enables the new PyQt exit scheme, which should result in
  things being cleaned up more properly (e.g. cookies being saved even without
  a timeout) on PyQt 5.13.1 and newer.
• The :spawn command has a new -m / --output-messages argument which
  shows qutebrowser messages based on a command's standard output/error.
• Improved insert mode detection for some CodeMirror usages (e.g. in
  JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook).
• If JavaScript is disabled globally, file://* now doesn't automatically have
  it enabled anymore. Run :set -u file://* content.javascript.enabled true to
  restore the previous behavior.
• Settings with URL patterns can now be used to affect the behavior of the
  QtWebEngine inspector. Note that the underlying URL is chrome-devtools://*
  from Qt 5.11 to Qt 5.13, but devtools://* with Qt 5.14.
• Improvements when tabs.tabs_are_windows is set:
  • Using :tab-take and :tab-give now shows an error, as the effect of
    doing so would be equal to :tab-clone.
  • The :buffer completion doesn't show any window sections anymore, only a
    flat list of tabs.
• Improved parsing in some corner cases for the QtFont type (used for
  fonts.tabs and fonts.debug_console).
• Performance improvements for the following areas:
  • Adding settings with URL patterns
  • Matching of settings using URL patterns

Fixed

• Downloads (e.g. via :download) now see the same user agent header as
  webpages, which fixes cases where overly restrictive servers/WAFs closed the
  connection before.
• dictcli.py now works correctly on Windows again.
• The logic for :restart has been revisited, which should fix issues with
  relative basedirs.
• Remaining issues related to Python 3.8 are now fixed (mostly warnings,
  especially on QtWebKit).
• Workaround for a Qt bug where a page never finishes loading with a
  non-overridable TLS error (e.g. due to HSTS).
• The qute://configdiff page now doesn't show built-in settings (e.g.
  javascript being enabled for qute:// and chrome:// pages) anymore.
• The qute-lastpass userscript now stops prompting for passwords when
  cancelling the password input.
• The tab hover text now shows ampersands (&) correctly.
• With QtWebEngine and Qt >= 5.11, the inspector now shows its icons correctly
  even if loading of images is disabled via the content.images setting.
• Entering a very long string (over 50k characters) in the completion used to
  crash, now it shows an error message instead.
• Various improvements for URL/searchengine detection:
  • Strings with a dot but with characters not allowed in a URL (e.g. an
    underscore) are now not treated as URL anymore.
  • Strings like "5/8" are now not treated as IP anymore.
  • URLs with an explicit scheme and a space (%20) are correctly treated as
    URLs.
  • Mail addresses are now treated as search terms.
  • With url.open_base_url set, searching for a search engine name now works.
  • url.open_base_url = True together with url.auto_search = 'never' is now
    handled correctly.
  • Fixed crash when a search engine URL turns out to be invalid.
• New "site specific quirks", which work around some broken websites:
  • WhatsApp Web
  • Google Accounts
  • Slack (with older QtWebEngine versions)
  • Dell.com support pages (with Qt 5.7)
  • Google Docs (fixes broken IME/compose key)

v1.8.3

Fixed

• Segmentation fault introduced in v1.8.2 when a tab gets closed immediately
  after it has finished loading (e.g. with certain login flows).

v1.8.2

Changed

• Windows/macOS releases now ship with Qt 5.12.6. This includes security fixes
  up to Chromium 77.0.3865.120 plus a security fix for CVE-2019-13720 from
  Chromium 78.

Fixed

• Unbinding keys via config.bind(key, None) accidentally worked in
  v1.7.0 but raises an exception in v1.8.0. It now works again, but is
  deprecated and shows an error. Note that :config-py-write did write
  such invalid lines before v1.8.0, so existing config files might need
  adjustments.
• The readability-js userscript now handles encodings correctly (which it
  didn't before for some websites).
• can now be used to paste text starting with a hyphen.
• Following hints via the number keypad now works properly again.
• Errors while reading the state file are now displayed instead of causing a
  crash.
• Crash when using :debug-log-level without a console attached.
• Downloads are now hidden properly when the browser is in fullscreen mode.
• Crash when setting colors.webpage.bg to an empty value with QtWebKit.
• Crash when the history database file is not a proper sqlite database.
• Workaround for missing/broken error pages on Debian.
• A deprecation warning (caused by pywin32) about the imp module on Windows is
  now hidden.

v1.8.1

• No code changes - this release only repackages the Windows/macOS
  releases due to issues with the v1.8.0 release.
• Updated dependencies for Windows/macOS releases:
  • macOS and Windows releases now ship with Qt/QtWebEngine 5.12.5. Those
    are based on Chromium 69.0.3497.128 with security fixes up to Chromium
    76.0.3809.87.
  • Qt 5.13 couldn't be used yet due to various bugs in Qt 5.13.0 and .1.

v1.8.0

The Windows/macOS releases were pulled because of issues with the bundled Qt versions. Use the v1.8.1 release there instead.

Added

• New userscripts:
  • readability-js which uses Mozilla's node.js readability library.
  • qute-bitwarden which integrates the Bitwarden CLI.

Changed

• Updated dependencies for Windows/macOS releases:
  • macOS releases now ship with Qt 5.13.0 and QtWebEngine 5.13.1. Those are
    based on Chromium 73.0.3683.105 with security fixes up to Chromium 76.0.3809.87.
  • Windows releases now ship with Qt/QtWebEngine 5.12.5. Those are based on
    Chromium 69.0.3497.128 with security fixes up to Chromium 76.0.3809.87.
  • Those specific combinations were chosen due to various issues with newer Qt
    releases. Hopefully, those will be unified again with Qt 5.13.2.
• The statusbar text for passthrough mode now shows all configured bindings to
  leave the mode, not only one.
• When :config-source is used with a relative filename, the file is now
  searched in the config directory instead of the current working directory.
• HTML5 inputs with date/time types now enter insert mode when selected.
• dictcli.py now shows where dictionaries are installed to and complains when
  running it as root if doing so would result in a wrong installation path.
• The Makefile now can also run setup.py build when invoked without a target.
• Changes to userscripts:
  • qute-pass: Don't run pass if only a username is requested.
  • qute-pass: Support private domains like myrouter.local.
  • readability: Improved CSS styling.
• Performance improvements in various areas:
  • Loading config files
  • Typing without any completion matches
  • General keyboard handling
  • Scrolling
• :version now shows details about the loaded autoconfig.yml/config.py.
• Hosts are now additionally looked up including their ports in netrc files.
• With Qt 5.10 or newer, qutebrowser now doesn't force software rendering with
  Nouveau drivers anymore. However, QtWebEngine/Chromium still do so.
• The XSS Auditor is now disabled by default (content.xss_auditing =
  false). This reflects a similar change in Chromium, see
  their XSS Auditor Design Document for details.

Fixed

• :config-write-py now correctly writes config.unbind(...) lines (instead
  of config.bind(..., None)) when unbinding a default keybinding.
• Prevent repeat keyup events for JavaScript when a key is held down.
• The Makefile now rebuilds the manpage correctly.
• ~/.config/qutebrowser/blocked-hosts can now also contain /etc/hosts-like
  lines, not just simple hostnames.
• Restored compatibility with Jinja2 2.8 (e.g. used on Debian Stretch or Ubuntu
  16.04 LTS).
• Fixed implicit type conversion warning with Python 3.8.
• The desktop file now sets StartupWMClass correctly, so the qutebrowser icon
  is no longer shown twice in the Gnome dock when pinned.
• Bindings involving keys which need the AltGr key now work properly.
• Fixed crash (caused by a Qt bug) when typing characters above the Unicode BMP
  (such as certain emoji or CJK characters).
• dictcli.py now works properly again.
• Shift can now be used while typing hint keystrings, which e.g. allows typing
  number hints on French keyboards.
• With rapid hinting in number mode, backspace now edits the filter text after
  following a hint.
• A certain type of error ("locking protocol") while initializing sqlite now
  isn't handled as crash anymore.
• Crash when showing a permission request in certain scenarios.

Removed

• At least Python 3.5.2 is now required to run qutebrowser, support for 3.5.0
  and 3.5.1 was dropped.

v1.7.0

Added

• New settings:
  • colors.tabs.pinned.* to control colors of pinned tabs.
  • hints.leave_on_load which allows disabling leaving of hint mode when a
    new page is loaded.
  • colors.completion.item.selected.match.fg which allows configuring the
    text color for the matching text in the currently selected completion item.
  • tabs.undo_stack_size to limit how many undo entries are kept for closed tabs.
• New commands:
  • :reverse-selection (o in caret mode) to swap the stationary/moving ends
    of a selection.
• New commandline replacements:
  • {url:domain}, {url:auth}, {url:scheme}, {url:username},
    {url:password}, {url:host}, {url:port}, {url:path}, {url:query}
    for the respective parts of the current URL.
  • {title} for the current page title.
• The {title} field in tabs.title.format, tabs.title.format_pinned and
  window.title_format got renamed to {current_title} (mirroring
  {current_url}) in order to not conflict with the new {title} commandline
  replacement.
• New delete target for :hint which removes the hinted element from
  the DOM.
• New --config-py commandline argument to use a custom config.py file.
• Qt 5.13: Support for notifications (shown via system tray).

Changed

• Updated dependencies for Windows/macOS releases:
  • PyQt5 5.12.3 / PyQtWebEngine 5.12.1
  • Qt 5.12.4, which includes security fixes up to Chromium 74.0.3729.157
  • Python 3.7.4
  • OpenSSL 1.1.1
  • Note: This release includes Qt 5.12.4 instead of Qt 5.13.0 due to
    QTBUG-76913 causing frequent
    segfaults with Qt 5.13. After Qt 5.13.1 is released, qutebrowser v1.8.0
    will be released with an updated Qt.
• Completely revamped Windows installer which allows installing without admin
  permissions and allows setting qutebrowser as default browser.
• The desktop file qutebrowser.desktop is now renamed to
  org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop.
• Pinned tabs now always show a favicon (even if the site doesn't provide one)
  when shrinking.
• Setting downloads.location.directory now changes the directory displayed in
  the download prompt even if downloads.location.remember is set.
• The yank command gained a new inline argument, which allows to e.g. use
  :yank inline [{title}]({url}).
• Duplicate consecutive history entries with the same URL are now ignored.
• More detailed error messages when spawning a process failed.
• The content.pdfjs setting now supports domain patterns.
• Improved process status output with :spawn -o.
• The colors.tabs.bar.bg setting is now of type QssColor and thus supports
  gradients.
• The :fullscreen command now understands a new --enter flag which
  causes it to always enter fullscreen instead of toggling the current
  state.
• --debug-flag stack is now needed to show stack traces on renderer process
  crashes.
• --debug-flag chromium can be used to easily turn on verbose Chromium logging.
• For runtime data (such as the IPC socket), a proper runtime path is now used
  on BSD; only macOS/Windows continue to use the temporary directory.
• PDF.js is now also searched in /app/share/pdf.js/ (for Flatpak)
• Permission prompts can now be answered with Y (:prompt-accept --save yes)
  and N (:prompt-accept --save no) to save the answer as a per-domain
  setting.
• content.dns_prefetch is now turned off by default, as it causes crashes
  inside QtWebEngine.
• The (still unofficial) interceptor plugin API now contains resource_type
  for a request and allows redirecting requests.
• :bookmark-remove now shows a message for consistency with :bookmark-add.
• Very early segfaults are now also caught by the crash handler.
• The appdata XML now contains proper release information and an (empty) OARS
  content rating.
• Improved Linux distribution detection.
• Qt 5.13: Request filtering now happens in the UI rather than IO thread.
• Qt 5.13: Support for PDFium (Chromium's PDF viewer) is disabled for now so
  that PDFs can still be downloaded (or shown with PDF.js) properly.
• Various performance improvements (e.g. for showing hints or the :open
  completion).

Deprecated

• :yank markdown got deprecated, as :yank inline [{title}]({url}) can now
  be used instead.

Fixed

• Various QtWebEngine load signals are now handled differently, which should
  fix issues with insert mode being left while typing on sites like Google
  Translate.
• Race condition causing a colored statusbar in normal mode when
  entering/exiting caret mode quickly.
• Using 100% for a hue in a hsv(...) config value now corresponds to 359
  (rather than 255), matching the fixed behavior in Qt 5.13.
• Chaining commands with ;; used to abort with some failing commands. It now
  runs the second command no matter whether the first one succeeded or not.
• Handling of profiles and private windows (and resulting crashes with Qt
  5.12.2).
• Fixes for corner-cases when using :navigate increment/decrement.
• The type for the colors.hints.match.fg setting was changed to QtColor.
  Gradients were never supported for this setting, and with this change, values
  like rgb(0, 0, 0) now work as well.
• Permission prompts now show a properly normalized URL with QtWebKit.
• Crash on start when PyQt was built without SSL support with Qt >= 5.12.
• Minor memory leaks.

v1.6.3

Fixed

• Crash when hinting and changing/closing the tab before hints are displayed.
• Crash on redirects with Qt 5.13.
• Hide bogus AA_ShareOpenGLContexts warning with Qt 5.12.4.
• Workaround for renderer process crashes with Qt 5.12.4. If you're unable to update, you can remove ~/.cache/qutebrowser for the same result.

v1.6.2

Changed

• Windows/macOS releases now ship with Qt 5.12.3, which includes security fixes
  up to Chromium 73.0.3683.75.

Fixed

• Crash when SQL errors occur while using the completion.
• Crash when cancelling a download prompt started in an already closed window.
• Crash when many prompts are opened at the same time.
• Running without Qt installed now displays a proper error again.
• High CPU usage when using the keyhint widget with a low delay.

v1.6.1

Changed

• Windows/macOS releases now ship with Qt 5.12.2, which includes
  security fixes up to Chromium 72.0.3626.121 (including CVE-2019-5786
  which is known to be exploited in the wild).

Fixed

• Crash when using :config-{dict,list}-{add,remove} with an invalid setting.
• Functionality like hinting on pages with an element with ID _qutebrowser (such as qutebrowser.org) on Qt 5.12.
• The .desktop file in v1.6.0 was missing the "Actions" key, which is now fixed.
• The SVG icon now has a size of 256x256px set to comply with freedesktop standards.
• Setting colors.statusbar.*.bg to a gradient now has the expected effect of
  the gradient spanning the entire statusbar.