Wavebox Changelog
Version 148.2.16 beta 15/5/2026
- Add support for tab groups to the Wavebox tabstrip in the main window, matching the experience of secondary windows
- Tab right-click menu is now fully multi-select aware — close, reload, mute, pin, sleep, move and group actions all apply to every selected tab
- Tabs filed inside a tab group are now preserved across restarts, just like pinned tabs
- Faster multi-tab sleep, wake and move operations
- Added a Webdock layout option to the Webdock context menu for quicker access to the layout switcher
Version 148.2.14 beta 13/5/2026
- Update to Chromium 148.0.7778.168
- All new more intelligent Brainbox assistant
- Enter no longer prematurely commits unfinished input while composing characters with an IME (Japanese, Chinese, Korean)
- Fixed users with a configured LiveSync key being prompted for the team master password on every relaunch
- Fixed the Brainbox side panel refusing to close after tool usage
- Fixed some Smartnote launch actions failing
- Update dependencies
Version 148.2.9 beta 8/5/2026
- Restored profile sync reliability by clearing stale cluster IDs when the server reports none, preventing sync errors
- Fixed traffic control and partition routing so rules targeting the default partition open correctly again
- Fixed several default-space edge cases when switching, duplicating, or routing tabs between spaces
- Fixed Clear browsing data being skipped for the default space in privacy settings and dialogs
- Fixed links opened from an app sometimes inheriting the wrong space
- Fixed exact-match lookups for id: and source: searches in the window opener manager
- Resolved an onboarding error when fetching containers and tidied tile alignment plus broken search engine favicons
- Improved internal reliability of app and space data handling to prevent future issues
Version 148.2.6 beta 7/5/2026
- Fixed sign-in failures across Google, Microsoft and Wavebox accounts
- Fixed an issue on startup where some URLs were incorrectly treated as external links
- Improved error reporting when a tab is destroyed mid-action for easier diagnosis
Version 148.2.5 beta 7/5/2026
- New 'Move to new group' option in the tab right-click menu, with a clearer label when moving multiple tabs
- Startup restore and start-up URLs are now combined into a single, clearer settings panel with an empty-state hint
- Diagnostics now report data integrity issues for your apps and offer to include store data when uploading a report
- Notification action buttons (e.g. Snooze in Google Calendar) no longer steal focus by activating the underlying app
- Fixed a sync issue that could cause synced data to be written to the wrong location
- Fixed an issue where tabs could be stranded in a separate window on startup when start-up URLs mode had no URLs configured
- Fixed a rare race during cloud snapshot uploads that could keep scheduling new uploads after being stopped
- Fixed widget deletion so workspaces no longer keep stale references to removed widgets
- Fixed orphaned tab cleanup on startup so removed tabs no longer linger in memory
- More reliable opening of dialog windows in cases where a stale focus cache could prevent them from appearing
- Improved error reporting for tab messaging and chromium API failures
- Various stability and reliability fixes across apps, spaces and the webdock
- Various UI polish and visual fixes
Version 148.2.4 beta 5/5/2026
- AppImage builds now run on newer Linux distributions such as Fedora 44 that no longer ship libfuse2
- Fixed a crash that could occur when bulk-moving two or more tabs from the same group
- Improved resilience of internal messaging so transient data-copy failures no longer break communication between windows
- Fixed a bug where setting Wavebox as the default mail handler always showed an error toast even when registration succeeded
- Hardened notification sound playback to avoid errors when no sound is configured
- Fixed several small UI issues
Version 148.2.3 beta 1/5/2026
- Fixed a connection leak in Slack that could exhaust resources during reconnects on unstable networks
- Customized spaces are now preserved when their last group, app or tab is removed
- Added an 'Add group' option to the webdock divider context menu
- Various UI polish and visual fixes
Version 148.2.1 beta 30/4/2026
- Update to Chromium 148.0.7778.96
- Fixed a Windows update issue that could leave a corrupt database after restart
- Stability fixes for the Slack integration
- Slack emoji rendering now supports extended icon codes and skin tone variants
- Fixed custom notification sound uploads silently failing to appear in the sound list
- Fixed dragging a tab branch between groups sometimes leaving stale references
- Replaced Group & App icons are now cleaned up properly instead of accumulating in local storage
- Fixed an issues that prevented spacial-navigator search fallback from finding the active tab
- Moving apps or groups to the end of a list now behaves consistently
- Fixes for crash uploads and Brainbox backups
- Various stability and reliability improvements from internal fuzzing
- Various stability and code-quality improvements
- Update dependencies
- UI tweaks
- Release test
Version 148.1.63 beta 27/4/2026
- Update to Chromium 148.0.7778.56
- Added account sign-in recovery option to the sync join password dialog
- ~2x faster cross-process messaging
- Performance fixes for integrated apps
- Updated the Outlook integration to mac additional url configurations
- Improved the Slack notification emoji parsing
- Added a flag to restore colored fill backgrounds on group icons
- Fixed a crash on macOS when entering or exiting fullscreen mode
- PWAs are now correctly restored when importing from a backup
- Fixed extension restore during snapshot import now correctly handling locally installed extensions
- Fixed split tabs not updating their title, favicon, URL, or audio indicator in real time
- Fixed the correct app now being selected when closing a tab, respecting the last-active app
- Fixed tabs in the tab strip failing to shrink correctly in scroll modes
- Fixed trackpad scrolling across the tab strip and restored overflow indicators
- Fixed the scroll shadow not appearing at the end of the tab strip
- Fixed an issue on macOS where fullscreen mode could show a black bar when the toolbar is hidden
- Fixed the privacy settings page not displaying correctly
- Various UI polish and visual fixes
- Brainbox updates and fixes
- Various internal type-safety and code-quality improvements across the codebase
Version 148.1.59 beta 20/4/2026
- Update Chromium to 148.0.7778.40
- Fix the webdock hiding behind the signed out panel in some configurations
- Update dependencies