2011.02.15: Too long between releases!

2010-02-15

Wow, it's already been 3 months since the last release? That's too long.

I've been dreading this release, because it breaks backwards compatibility. In short:

  • the way downloads are handled has changed
  • $UZBL_FIFO, $UZBL_TITLE are available to scripts as environment variables, but not as command-line arguments.
  • $ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLES are no longer expanded by the config parser
  • cookie daemons are no longer supported

The full details are on the wiki, including how to get your browser working again.

The good news is:

  • downloads will work on sites that they didn't before
  • it's easier to write and understand scripts
  • uzbl parses commands faster and more consistently
  • uzbl can make requests immediately rather than waiting for a response from an external cookie handler

Besides these changes and various cleanup and bugfixes, we have:

  • a per-site-settings script that executes commands from a config file based on the current URL
  • powerful cookie whitelisting and blacklisting
  • gtk3 support (we build against gtk2 by default, enabling gtk3 requires uncommenting some lines in the Makefile)
  • the accept_languages variable, which controls the Accept-Language HTTP header
  • a split statusbar that allows right-aligned content

This release was brought to you by Ben Boeckel, k0ral, David Keijser, Jochen Sprickerhof, and myself. (I'm the one to blame for the compatibility changes.)

Brendan