Wavebox Changelog
Version 152.2.159 beta 13/8/2026
- Update to Chromium 152.0.7977.42
- Optional Spaces and Groups headings in the webdock, switched on from the webdock right-click menu
- Fix a browser crash when splitting a tab that was already part of a split
- Fix a stray error when renaming a tab that is closed or dragged while the rename is landing
- Translation fixes and clearer wording across several languages
- Various webdock polish and visual fixes
Version 151.2.154 beta 12/8/2026
- Update to Chromium 151.0.7922.138
- Existing users are now invited to try the grammar checker from the settings menu, with a short preview of it at work
- The navigator now always opens in its own window, including from the webdock button, and defaults to list view
- Fixed a crash that could take down the whole browser when theme colours were requested in the background
- Fixed a browser crash when extensions listed tabs belonging to partitioned apps
- Fixed crashes when using native menus on Mac and Windows
- Fixed a crash when dragging a tab over the split-view drop area as it was closing
- Fixed removing a group, app or space icon breaking cloud sync, which stopped icons saving and kept sending the webdock back to the first group
- Fixed removing the last group from a space leaving that space stuck in the webdock and impossible to open
- Deleting an empty group that's the last one in its space now offers to delete the space, and is disabled when that space can't be deleted
- Clicking a Slack notification now opens the right channel again, switching in place without a full reload
- Fixed the Outlook unread badge sticking at an old count when the window is narrow
- Fixed the Linux menubar icon rendering as a blank, unclickable gap
- The grammar suggestion popover no longer opens on its own while you type, and the cursor now lands at the end of the corrected word
- Fixed the Windows IME candidate window staying in the corner instead of following the cursor after a drag and drop
- Fixed the mini window not reopening from its shortcut once the previous one had gone stale, along with several related window and tab errors
- Brainbox updates and fixes
- Various UI polish and visual fixes
- Various build and code-quality improvements behind the scenes
Version 151.2.148 beta 5/8/2026
- Update to Chromium 151.0.7922.76
- Linux AppImage builds can now update themselves in place, downloading only the parts that changed
- Grammar suggestions are now switched on by default for new users
- Fixed tabs sometimes failing to close while another tab is being dragged
- Fixed an error that could be reported when closing a tab that had already closed
- Release test
Version 151.2.141 beta 3/8/2026
- You can now pick a space when creating a new Webdock group in the List and Explorer layouts
- The assistant can now tell which group, app, tab and space you are actually looking at, so it acts on the right one
- Asking the assistant to remove a group or a space now opens the usual confirmation dialog instead of deleting it straight away
- Grammar suggestions no longer delete your quotation marks or brackets, and no longer offer wording taken from a different line
- Various UI polish and visual fixes
Version 151.2.140 beta 31/7/2026
- Update to Chromium 151.0.7922.72
- Made account setup more resilient to brief network drops so onboarding no longer fails after a momentary connection loss
- Fixed a crash loop in on-device AI so a failing GPU reliably falls back to CPU, along with a related Linux crash in the AI text sampler
- Fixed crashes during session restore involving saved tab groups and split tabs
- Fixed a macOS crash when dismissing notifications and another in the app menu
- Fixed a crash in Smartnotes when a note was updated from another device while open
- Fixed a crash when clearing a Space's colour and when opening the account setup dialog
- Various stability fixes across tabs, workspaces, app updates and syncing
Version 151.2.135 beta 17/7/2026
- Update to Chromium 151.0.7922.34
- Browser import now shows browsers that macOS is blocking, with step-by-step guidance and a button that opens the right System Settings pane
- Fixed a crash on launch on macOS Golden Gate during startup
- Space, group and app default icons now follow the light and dark theme instead of showing a white tile in dark mode
- A group dashboard can now be set to a chrome-extension:// address
- Added a dark grey sticky note colour for darker backgrounds
- Fixed background errors that could interrupt tab reordering, cloud sync setup during onboarding restore, and app URL changes
- The grammar checker no longer runs on devtools pages
- Improved translations across several languages
- Various UI polish and visual fixes
Version 151.2.131 beta 15/7/2026
- Grammar checking no longer gives up on long text — a full blog post or long message is now proofread sentence by sentence as you write
- Check spelling and grammar in the right-click menu now walks you through the suggestions one by one, and now sits with the other language and spelling options
- The grammar status badge now follows your cursor as you move between writing areas, and hides itself where grammar isn't checked
- Fixed the guided grammar review quietly stopping after you accepted the second suggestion
Version 151.2.129 beta 14/7/2026
- Guided grammar review now wraps around and waits for the checker to finish, so suggestions that appear while you're part-way through a review are no longer skipped
- Hovering a tab that belongs to another space now shows a tooltip naming that space and explaining why the tab is marked
- Fixed a crash when choosing one of the Wavebox profile pictures in settings
- Fixed a startup crash when restoring a session that contained a docked tab
- Fixed crashes when opening a saved tab group from a menu, or when a group had been created with invalid links
- Fixed a crash on macOS when a window was changed from being the main Wavebox window
- Sleeping and waking docked and split tabs is now more reliable, and sleeping one no longer leaves a blank pane behind
- Restoring a session now docks the tab you actually had docked instead of a different one
- The space icon picker now shows six distinct icons instead of repeating the same few
- Several further stability fixes for split tabs, docked tabs and profile creation
- Various UI copy and polish fixes
Version 151.2.128 beta 13/7/2026
- Update to Chromium 151.0.7922.19
- The spelling suggestion popover can now add words straight to your dictionary, and repositions itself so it's no longer clipped near the bottom of the screen
- Add custom App dialog now uses floating labels on the URL and name fields so they stay visible once you start typing
- Fixed a startup crash on macOS that could be triggered by apps opening tabs while Wavebox was launching
- Fixed a crash when opening an incognito window after Wavebox had restarted following a crash
- Fixed a crash in grammar checking while editing text
- Unread badges on a space now only count unread from apps in that space, so an emptied space no longer keeps a stale count
- Fixed the Smartnote panel sometimes opening blank
- Fixed a transient error that could occur while dragging tabs
- Fixed an error when quickly clicking the audio, video or screen-share buttons twice during a chat call
- Fixed an error when opening options for an app whose profile had already been deleted
- Fixed an error when using the Brainbox right-click menu on a tab that had already closed
- Several stability fixes for side panels, the tab strip, cloud sync and the app setup dialog
Version 150.2.123 beta 10/7/2026
- Update to Chromium 150.0.7871.115
- Fixed the app occasionally getting stuck on the 'Wavebox is starting' splash screen when the background was restarted or updated
- Fixed several crashes and background errors, including tabs closing or being dragged during a sync and using a docked tab's menu while the tabs changed underneath it
- Fixed on-device AI being reported as unavailable inside Brainbox