[qutebrowser] qutebrowser v1.5.0 released!

[Florian Bruhin]

Hey,

The release announcement is a bit delayed because there was some
trouble[1][2] with the release, but here it is: I released qutebrowser
v1.5.0 yesterday!

[1] https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/pull/3787
[2] https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2018-October/040977.html

The highlight of this release is probably PDF.js support for
QtWebEngine, but there's a lot more too - check the full changelog:

Added
~~~~~

- Rewritten PDF.js support:
  * PDF.js support and the `content.pdfjs` setting are now available with
    QtWebEngine.
  * Opening a PDF file now doesn't start a second request anymore.
  * Opening PDFs on https:// sites now works properly.
  * New `--pdfjs` flag for `prompt-open-download`, so PDFs can be opened in
    PDF.js with `<Ctrl-P>` in the download prompt.
- New settings:
  * `content.mouse_lock` to handle HTML5 pointer locking.
  * `completion.web_history.exclude` which hides a list of URL patterns from
    the completion.
  * `qt.process_model` which can be used to change Chromium's process model.
  * `qt.low_end_device_mode` which turns on Chromium's low-end device mode.
    This mode uses less RAM, but the expense of performance.
  * `content.webrtc_ip_handling_policy`, which allows more
    fine-grained/restrictive control about which IPs are exposed via WebRTC.
  * `tabs.max_width` which allows to have a more "normal" look for tabs.
  * `content.mute` which allows to mute pages (or all tabs) by default.
- Running qutebrowser with QtWebKit or Qt < 5.9 now shows a warning (only
  once), as support for those is going to be removed in a future release.
- New t[iI][hHu] default bindings (similar to `tsh` etc.) to toggle images.
- The qute-pass userscript now has optional OTP support.
- When `:spawn --userscript` is called with a count, that count is now
  passed to userscripts as `$QUTE_COUNT`.

Changed
~~~~~~~

- Windows and macOS releases now bundle Python 3.7, PyQt 5.11.3 and Qt 5.11.2.
  QtWebEngine includes security fixes up to Chromium 68.0.3440.75 and
  various other fixes:
  http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtwebengine.git/tree/dist/changes-5.11.2/?h=v5.11.2
- Various performance improvements when many tabs are opened.
- The `content.headers.referer` setting now works on QtWebEngine.
- The `:repeat` command now takes a count which is multiplied with the given
  "times" argument.
- The default keybinding to leave passthrough mode was changed from `<Ctrl-V>`
  to `<Shift-Escape>`, which makes pasting from the clipboard easier in
  passthrough mode and is also unlikely to conflict with webpage bindings.
- The `app_id` is now set to `qutebrowser` for Wayland.
- `Command` or `Cmd` can now be used (instead of `Meta`) to map the Command key
  on macOS.
- Using `:set option` now shows the value of the setting (like `:set option?`
  already did).
- The `completion.web_history_max_items` setting got renamed to
  `completion.web_history.max_items`.
- The Makefile shipped with qutebrowser now supports overriding variables
  `DATADIR` and `MANDIR`.
- Regenerating completion history now shows a progress dialog.
- The `content.autoplay` setting now supports URL patterns on Qt >= 5.11.
- The `content.host_blocking.whitelist` setting now takes a list of URL
  patterns instead of globs.
- In passthrough mode, Ctrl + Mousewheel now also gets passed through to the
  page instead of zooming.
- Editing text in an external editor now simulates a JS "input" event, which
  improves compatibility with websites reacting via JS to input.
- The `qute://settings` page is now properly sorted on Python 3.5.
- `:zoom`, `:zoom-in` and `:zoom-out` now have a `--quiet` switch which causes
  them to not display a message.
- The `scrolling.bar` setting now takes three values instead of being a
  boolean: `always`, `never`, and `when-searching` (which only displays it
  while a search is active).
- '@@' now repeats the last run macro.
- The `content.host_blocking.lists` setting now accepts a `file://` URL to a
  directory, and reads all files in that directory.
- The `:tab-give` and `:tab-take` command now have a new flag `--keep` which
  causes them to keep the old tab around.
- `:navigate` now clears the URL query.

Fixed
~~~~~

- `qute://` pages now work properly on Qt 5.11.2
- Error when passing a substring with spaces to `:tab-take`.
- Greasemonkey scripts which start with an UTF-8 BOM are now handled correctly.
- When no documentation has been generated, the plaintext documentation now can
  be shown for more files such as `qute://help/userscripts.html`.
- Crash when doing initial run on Wayland without XWayland.
- Crash when trying to load an empty session file.
- `:hint` with an invalid `--mode=` value now shows a proper error.
- Rare crash on Qt 5.11.2 when clicking on `<select>` elements.
- Rare crash related to the completion.

Removed
~~~~~~~

- Support for importing pre-v1.0.0 history files has been removed.
- The `content.webrtc_public_interfaces_only` setting has been removed and
  replaced by `content.webrtc_ip_handling_policy`.

Enjoy!

Florian

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