Version 10.0.503 5/5/2021

10.0.503 contains some fixes over 10.0.500 that prevented some users from launching Wavebox. (Thanks to everyone that reported 👍!) Here's everything that shipped in 10.0.500 & 10.0.503.

🆕 New!

• Add keyboard shortcut for home
• Add keyboard shortcut for the profile picker
• Add duplicate to new window option to the tab menus
• Add support for some additional chrome.identity extension apis

🔧 Updates & improvements

• Update to Chromium 90.0.4430.93
• Slack unread badges and notifications stopped working after Slack changed their API. Update Wavebox to be compatible with these changes
• UI tweaks and fixes
• Improvements to streaming quality in Wavebox Connect
• Add the option to open pinned items in new windows

🐛 Fixes

• Shutting down profiles was a bit flakey, fix this
• Cookie container settings were not respected on extensions after the Chromium 90 update. Fix this
• Fix zoom not working in Wavebox Mini
• Fix clicking on a notification erroneously waking up a bunch of tabs in a group
• Fix an issue that would sometimes see tabs requiring a double click to close
• Fix playback of protected media on Apple Silicon
• Fix issue that would prevent some users from launching Wavebox

Version 10.0.500 4/5/2021

🆕 New!

• Add keyboard shortcut for home
• Add keyboard shortcut for the profile picker
• Add duplicate to new window option to the tab menus
• Add support for some additional chrome.identity extension apis

🔧 Updates & improvements

• Update to Chromium 90.0.4430.93
• Slack unread badges and notifications stopped working after Slack changed their API. Update Wavebox to be compatible with these changes
• UI tweaks and fixes
• Improvements to streaming quality in Wavebox Connect
• Add the option to open pinned items in new windows

🐛 Fixes

• Shutting down profiles was a bit flakey, fix this
• Cookie container settings were not respected on extensions after the Chromium 90 update. Fix this
• Fix zoom not working in Wavebox Mini
• Fix clicking on a notification erroneously waking up a bunch of tabs in a group
• Fix an issue that would sometimes see tabs requiring a double click to close

Version 10.0.495 23/4/2021

• Fix change to Slack sync protocol that caused Slack accounts to stay signed out
• Fix the Wavebox UI incorrectly using the default page zoom
• Add a flag to revert the linux tray behaviour to the old refresh-y behaviour

Version 10.0.493 21/4/2021

This release contains a Chromium update as well as some performance improvements and bugfixes

• Upgrade to Chromium 90.0.4430.85
• Add an option for main window tabs to inherit their sleep settings from the opening app
• Speed up initial load in Navigator
• Bugfix for missing tabs in Navigator
• Fix the scrollbar not appearing on workspaces
• The homepage url for apps could be lost under an edge case, fix this
• UI Fixes

Version 10.0.487 14/4/2021

🆕 New!

• Add notification volume control to Settings > General > Notifications
• What's New icon in sidebar
• Add an option to name individual tabs
• New Profiles!
  • Profiles icon in the UI top-right with dropdown Profile switcher. Disabled by default - email support for access
  • We've been busy updating and fixing some longstanding issues with Cookie Profiles. Alongside this and the release of Profiles, we've renamed Cookie Profiles to be Cookie Containers. They do the same thing, but helps with any ambiguity between profiles and containers 😊
  • Option to show Wavebox Profile picker window on start-up
  • Option to launch all Wavebox Profiles on start-up
• 😴 Sleep Improvements!
  • Extend the default sleep period to 15 minutes from the old 5 minutes
  • Sleep unused tabs (not just apps) after 15 minutes. This works across all windows, not just the main Wavebox window and can be disabled or customized in settings
  • Uncouple the sleep setting for tabs in the main Wavebox window, so that they use the global setting
  • Add an option to sleep apps & tabs when the machine has low memory
  • Indicate when tabs are sleeping by greying out the tab title and icon
  • Add an option to each tabs context menu to sleep them on demand
  • After adding an app and switching away from it, the app would always go to sleep immediately. Don't do this.
  • Schedule auto sleep on apps at startup (if applicable)
  • Show sleeping tabs in the tab navigator

🔧 Updates & improvements

• Upgrade Chromium to 89.0.4389.128
• Update dependencies
• Tidy up the context menu by grouping link open actions together
• If you had apps in the sidebar and then scrolled the active highlight would float in space. We nailed the highlight down so it sticks with the app
• Update dependencies
• Performance improvements to the updater
• Performance improvements from app fuzzing
• Improve the UI around automatically fetching the Gmail inbox type
• Remove a bunch of legacy code that's no longer used, helping to reduce our install size
• UI Tweaks

🐛 Fixes

• When sleep disk serialization is enabled, Evernote could be slow to start. Add a fix for this.
• Google serves up the Google Docs favicon for Sheets, Slides & Forms. Kind of annoying if you're trying to see what's open, so we added an exception for those sites and stuck the right icon in.
• On linux (Ubuntu in-particular) the tray icon would flash when focusing Wavebox windows. This isn't completely unavoidable, but we've reduced the amount that it flashes a lot!
• UI fixes when a light OS theme is used, but a dark Wavebox theme
• Fix an issue where the link opener would fail on a sleeping tab
• Fix an issue where the outlook account icon would always come from the primary outlook account
• Fix a case where the thumbnail service could lock up and stop generating tab thumbnails

Version 10.0.462 16/3/2021

• Update to Chromium 89.0.4389.90
• Update dependencies
• Add support for base64 encoded favicons. This fixes an incompatibility with some extensions such as Salesforce Colored Favicons
• Fix an issue where syncing profiles would actually sync blank app icons
• Fix an issue where visiting an error page would always return you to the default cookie profile

Version 10.0.456 10/3/2021

• Update to Chromium 89.0.4389.82
• If we tried to generate lots of thumbnails at the same time (e.g. in Wavebox Navigation), the thumbnail manager would get a bit muddled and bring the app to a stop with a crash. We like our thumbnails and we don't like our crashes, so we sent the thumbnail manager on a small vacation and now it's all refreshed and ready to handle whatever we throw at it.
• Service workers would sometimes create an additional intermediary process, this could be seen in the task manager as a process labelled "Renderer". These aren't needed and eat a little bit of cpu and memory for no apparent reason. We had a stern conversation with the service workers and they agreed to not do this anymore.

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