Hey,

I'm delighted to announce that I just released qutebrowser v1.0.0!

qutebrowser is a keyboard driven browser with a vim-like, minimalistic interface. It's written using PyQt and cross-platform.

This release comes with many big breaking changes such as the new config and QtWebEngine by default. See the changelog for details.

Florian

Major changes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Dependency changes: * Support for legacy QtWebKit (before 5.212 which is distributed independently from Qt[1] is dropped. * Support for Python 3.4 is dropped. * Support for Qt before 5.7.1 and PyQt before 5.7 is dropped. * New dependency on the QtSql module and Qt sqlite support. * New dependency on the attrs[2] project (packaged as `python-attr` in some distributions). * The depedency on PyOpenGL (when using QtWebEngine) got removed. Note that PyQt5.QtOpenGL is still a dependency. * PyQt5.QtOpenGL is now always required, even with QtWebKit. - The QtWebEngine backend is now used by default. Note this means that QtWebEngine now should be a required dependency, and QtWebKit (if new enough) should be changed to an optional dependency. - Completely rewritten configuration system which ignores the old config file. See qute://help/configuring.html for details. - Various documentation files got moved to the doc/ subfolder; `qutebrowser.desktop` got moved to misc/. - `:set` now doesn't support toggling/cycling values anymore, that functionality got moved to `:config-cycle`. - New completion engine based on sqlite, which allows to complete the entire browsing history. The default for `completion.web_history_max_items` got changed to `-1` (unlimited). If the completion is too slow on your machine, try setting it to a few 1000 items.

[1] https://github.com/annulen/webkit/wiki [2] http://www.attrs.org/

Added ~~~~~

- QtWebEngine: Spell checking support, see the `spellcheck.languages` setting. - New `qt.args` setting to pass additional arguments to Qt/Chromium. - New `backend` setting to select the backend to use. Together with the previous setting, this should make most wrapper scripts unnecessary. - qutebrowser can now be set as the default browser on macOS. - New config commands: * `:config-cycle` to cycle an option between multiple values. * `:config-unset` to remove a configured option. * `:config-clear` to remove all configured options. * `:config-source` to (re-)read a `config.py` file. * `:config-edit` to open the `config.py` file in an editor. * `:config-write-py` to write a `config.py` template file. - New `:version` command which opens `qute://version`. - New back/forward indicator in the statusbar. - New `bindings.key_mappings` setting to map keys to other keys. - QtWebEngine: Support for proxy authentication.

Changed ~~~~~~~

- Using `:download` now uses the page's title as filename. - Using `:back` or `:forward` with a count now skips intermediate pages. - When there are multiple messages shown, the timeout is increased. - `:search` now only clears the search if one was displayed before, so pressing `<Escape>` doesn't un-focus inputs anymore. - Pinned tabs now adjust to their text's width, so the `tabs.width.pinned` setting got removed. - `:set-cmd-text` now has a `--run-on-count` argument to run the underlying command directly if a count was given. - `:scroll-perc` got renamed to `:scroll-to-perc`.

Removed ~~~~~~~

- Migrating QtWebEngine data written by versions before 2016-11-15 (before v0.9.0) is now not supported anymore. - Upgrading qutebrowser with a version older than v0.4.0 still running now won't work properly anymore. - The `--harfbuzz` and `--relaxed-config` commandline arguments got dropped.

Fixes ~~~~~

- Exiting fullscreen via `:fullscreen` or buttons on a page now restores the correct previous window state (maximized/fullscreen). - When `input.insert_mode.auto_load` is set, background tabs now don't enter insert mode anymore. - The keybinding help widget now works correctly when using keybindings with a count. - The `window.hide_wayland_decoration` setting now works correctly again.