Version 10.0.454 4/3/2021

This update contains some important security fixes from upstream Chromium which are recommended for all users. Here's everything that's new...

• Update to Chromium 89.0.4389.72
• Update dependencies
• Reduce individual writes to disk by batching them together, decreasing CPU load
• Disallow adding workspaces multiple times
• Clearing all browsing data would sometimes fail when clearing multiple profiles. Fix this.
• Add create group from tab to tab context menu
• Flags section under advanced settings
• Wavebox connect improvements
• UI Tweaks

Version 10.0.442 24/2/2021

This update contains some magnificent performance improvements, that make Wavebox feel much snappier! We've also got lots of new features and improvements from right across the board.

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🆕 New!

• Add an alert state to apps and groups to show which are audible, muted, screensharing etc
• Add mute/unmute to the app/tab menus
• Improve the active indicator when apps are placed in the sidebar
• Add search to settings
• Add option to hide or show the bookmarks bar in the main Wavebox window (available under settings. This is still experimental)
• Wavebox mini now remembers the last tab that was open
• Add option to move app into its own group
• Add an option to always show the tabstrip

🔧 Updates & improvements

• Update to Chromium 88.0.4324.192
• Update dependencies
• Speed up double click vs single click detection on apps
• Make Wavebox connect theme aware
• Various UI tweaks
• Performance improvements! 🚀🚀🚀
  • Serialize sleeping tabs to disk for faster tab restore
  • Use our new store heuristics to pre-predict changes and dump those that have no effects early in the pipeline
  • There's a case where switching between some Slack teams would cause a large CPU spike and in some cases a short hang. We added a fix that should vastly reduce CPU usage when doing this.
  • In some places we emit multiple store updates together, causing some usless UI repainting in the process. We now batch these automagically into a single update and crucially a single repaint which means faster performance.
  • Some of the integrated apps would share large blobs with multiple frames in the app. This data was never used in any of those frames, so move into a dedicated background sync store and free up some CPU and memory for all!
  • Fix a potential leak in the tab manager that was causing CPU spikes when switching tabs

🐛 Fixes

• The cookie profile was being lost in new tabs, when new tab extensions are installed (e.g. start.me). Carry the cookie profile through.
• In some instances, tabs might not load until they're entered. Hopefully a fix we applied will make them load when they're supposed to
• When sleeping/unsleeping tabs they’d incorrectly animate. Fix this
• Wavebox connect fixes & improvements
• Fix double clicking on apps wrongly reloading when the window is out of focus
• Fix widevine on Apple Silicon devices not working
• When adding weblink apps to a shared team they'd lose their name and icon. Hold on tighter and carry these through
• Fix a crash on the dashboard when it loads before the background thread is 100% ready
• Tweaks to the app/group tooltips
• Fix connect call notifications routing to the wrong tab
• Fix case where some conflicting notification sounds would play

Version 10.0.422 8/2/2021

Second stable of the week following Chromiums security patches. Here's what's new...

• Update to Chromium 88.0.4324.150, which contains important security fixes
• Additional V8 hardening and security fixes
• The new tab page always started opening on the default partition. Fix this and make it partition aware again
• There was an edge case where the UI may not paint in the main window
• This patch release includes a fix for Slack unread counts and notifications not working

Version 10.0.419 8/2/2021

• Update to Chromium 88.0.4324.150, which contains important security fixes
• The new tab page always started opening on the default partition. Fix this and make it partition aware again
• There was an edge case where the UI may not paint in the main window

Version 10.0.412 4/2/2021

🆕 New!

• Add Wavebox Mini button to the the titlebar
• Add option to disable buttons in the titlebar to the main settings rather than using chrome://flags
• Double clicking on an app or group with one app now loads the homepage

🔧 Updates & improvements

• Update to Chromium 88.0.4324.146
• UI Tweaks
• Update dependencies
• Crashpad reporting
• Add extension spanning info to user generated diagnostics

🐛 Fixes

• Some themes would show a clipped background on buttons in the titlebar. The background was never meant to be there, so remove it
• The Clickup extension wouldn't allow you to sign-in on a Cookie Profile that isn't the default one. Fix this so you can sign in on any cookie profile

Version 10.0.407 26/1/2021

This patch release fixes the titlebar alignment that was broken on 10.0.406. Here's what else is new in this release...

🆕 New!

• We've been busy changing the underlying tech behind Cookie Profiles to bring a shiny new version 2. This has far improved stability and compatability with lots of apps and extensions. Here's what's new and fixed from this change
  • Sites that request HTTP basic auth now work outside the default cookie profile
  • Vastly improved service worker sync for sites that support it
  • The ability to lock an extension to a single cookie profile
  • Better cookie profile support for extensions that have struggled with it
  • Fixes for mixmax outside of the default cookie profile
• Add the ability to re-order pinned items
• Add tab close button to quick switch
• Add favicons to quick switch
• Add tab search, navigatior & new window button to the titlebar

🔧 Updates & improvements

• Update to Chromium 88.0.4324.96
• Update dependencies
• Improve stability by hardening some core event systems so in-app errors don't result in a domino-effect fallover
• Open pinned and recent items as a new tab rather than always in a new window
• Some tabs in the stip failed to update on chrome:// pages. Fix this.
• Hide tab sleep indicator when space is at a premium

🐛 Fixes

• Fix toolbar apps collapsing slightly when there are lots of tabs
• Fix an edge case where opening the options page in a tab on startup would result in it crashing
• Badges wouldn't clear on facebook messenger if you dismissed them on another device. Fix this
• Signing into Slack with Google stopped working, fix this
• Opening a link from bookmarks in a new tab would cause the app to crash. Don't crash.
• Fix folder upload on sites such as Google Drive & OneDrive
• Fix tray losing notification muted state on Linux & Windows
• The character encoding was losing some character definition in Wavebox Mini Notifications. Fix this (Existing notifications will continue to show funny glyphs).

Version 10.0.406 26/1/2021

🆕 New!

• We've been busy changing the underlying tech behind Cookie Profiles to bring a shiny new version 2. This has far improved stability and compatability with lots of apps and extensions. Here's what's new and fixed from this change
  • Sites that request HTTP basic auth now work outside the default cookie profile
  • Vastly improved service worker sync for sites that support it
  • The ability to lock an extension to a single cookie profile
  • Better cookie profile support for extensions that have struggled with it
  • Fixes for mixmax outside of the default cookie profile
• Add the ability to re-order pinned items
• Add tab close button to quick switch
• Add favicons to quick switch
• Add tab search, navigatior & new window button to the titlebar

🔧 Updates & improvements

• Update to Chromium 88.0.4324.96
• Update dependencies
• Improve stability by hardening some core event systems so in-app errors don't result in a domino-effect fallover
• Open pinned and recent items as a new tab rather than always in a new window
• Some tabs in the stip failed to update on chrome:// pages. Fix this.
• Hide tab sleep indicator when space is at a premium

🐛 Fixes

• Fix toolbar apps collapsing slightly when there are lots of tabs
• Fix an edge case where opening the options page in a tab on startup would result in it crashing
• Badges wouldn't clear on facebook messenger if you dismissed them on another device. Fix this
• Signing into Slack with Google stopped working, fix this
• Opening a link from bookmarks in a new tab would cause the app to crash. Don't crash.
• Fix folder upload on sites such as Google Drive & OneDrive
• Fix tray losing notification muted state on Linux & Windows
• The character encoding was losing some character definition in Wavebox Mini Notifications. Fix this (Existing notifications will continue to show funny glyphs).

Version 10.0.393 13/1/2021

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• Update to Chromium 87.0.4280.141. This Chromium update includes a number of security fixes
• Fix specific instance where the text in sidebar would force the items to overflow (sidebar in list view mode, apps visible sidebar, sidebar collapse enable & long title)
• Update deb packaging and fix sandboxing permission for some distributions
• Add option to show active app, when a tab is active (To turn this on, the option is under Settings > Advanced)
• Dark mode fix in Wavebox Mini
• Fix issue where unread badges were not updated until the guest page actually changed the unread badge
• Add keyboard shortcut to quit Wavebox completely (this can be configured under Settings, Keyboard Shortcuts)
• Update dependencies

Version 10.0.389

This patch version fixes a few crashes reported in the previous version

• There's an instance where a tab could crash when it has a service worker and tries to navigate. This was reported to us when using Slack (thanks!), but the issue will affect other sites. Fix the root cause of this so that it doesn't crash anymore 😊
• Update dependencies
• Update a few icons

Version 10.0.388

• Auto select inbox type when adding Gmail apps
• Update to Chromium 87.0.4280.88
• Add support for a broader range of 3rd party 2-factor devices. This includes the much-requested support for Touch ID on Apple computers with a fingerprint scanner
• When opening new tabs in the main window, they would always open at the end of the strip. Update this to match the normal tab behaviour of opening at the end of the logical group
• Fix help links opening blank tabs
• Fix dashboard links opening blank tabs
• On a handful of websites, when not using the primary Cookie Profile, they could get a bit confused, pushing you into the default profile. Stop doing this and instead stay in the same Cookie Profile
• Multiple UI Tweaks, mainly in settings, but not limited to
• Fix an issue whereby badges would not be updated when Wavebox is set to restore tabs and apps on startup