[qutebrowser] qutebrowser v1.12.0 released

[Florian Bruhin]

Hey,

I'm happy to announce that I just released qutebrowser v1.12.0!

This issue adds another workaround for sessions on Qt 5.15, where
sessions.lazy_restore caused sessions to be lost, as (like mentioned
previously) Qt 5.15 only loads the most recently opened page for every tab.
Now, lazy_restore is ignored on Qt 5.15.

Despite that, I decided to bundle Qt 5.15 for Windows/macOS and enable Qt 5.15
for mkvenv.py by default, to get security updates in the underlying Chromium
out. If you're using a virtualenv install and prefer staying on an older Qt,
run mkvenv.py with --pyqt-version 5.14 to keep the older Qt version.

More information can be found in the following issue:
https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/5359

I'll now take a break from qutebrowser and open-source stuff for the remainder
of this week (i.e. essentially mostly-at-home holidays) and then figure out how
to solve this issue (and, if possible time-wise, also integrate some PRs
related to sessions at the same time) next week.

This release also comes with various new features and changes, such as settings
for Chromium's dark mode or per-domain support for the content.cookies.accept
setting. See the full changelog for more details:

## Removed

- `tox -e mkvenv` which was deprecated in qutebrowser v1.10.0 is now
  removed. Use the `mkvenv.py` script instead.
- Support for using `config.bind(key, None)` in `config.py` to unbind a
  key was deprecated in v1.8.2 and is now removed. Use
  `config.unbind(key)` instead.
- `:yank markdown` was deprecated in v1.7.0 and is now removed. Use
  `:yank inline [{title}]({url})` instead.

## Added

- New `:debug-keytester` command, which shows a "key tester" widget.
  Previously, that was only available as a separate application via `python3 -m
  scripts.keytester`.
- New `:config-diff` command which opens the `qute://configdiff` page.
- New `--debug-flag log-cookies` to log cokies to the debug log for
  debugging.
- New `colors.contextmenu.disabled.{fg,bg}` settings to customize colors for
  disabled items in the context menu.
- New line selection mode (`:toggle-selection --line`), bound to `Shift-V` in caret mode.
- New `colors.webpage.darkmode.*` settings to control Chromium's dark mode.
  Note that those settings only work with QtWebEngine on Qt >= 5.14 and require
  a restart of qutebrowser.

## Changed

- Windows and macOS releases now ship Qt 5.15, which is based on Chromium
  80.0.3987.163 with security fixes up to 81.0.4044.138.
- The `content.cookies.accept` setting now accepts URL patterns.
- Tests are now included in release tarballs. Note that only running them with
  the exact dependencies listed in
  `misc/requirements/requirements-tests.txt{,-raw}` is supported.
- The `:tab-focus` command now has completion for tabs in the current window.
- The `bindings.key_mappings` setting now maps `<Ctrl+I>` to the tab key by default.
- `:tab-give --private` now detaches a tab into a new private window.

## Fixed

- Using `:open -s` now only rewrites `http://` in URLs to `https://`, not other
  schemes like `qute://`.
- When an unhandled exception happens in certain parts of the code (outside of
  the main thread), qutebrowser did crash or freeze when trying to show its
  exception handler. This is now fixed.
- `:inspector` now works correctly when cookies are disabled globally.
- Added workaround for a (Gentoo?) PyQt/packaging issue related to the
  `QWebEngineFindTextResult` handling added in v1.11.0.
- When entering caret selection mode (`v, v`) very early before a page is
  loaded, an error is now shown instead of a crash happening.
- The workaround for session loading with Qt 5.15 now handles
  `sessions.lazy_restore` so that the saved page is loaded instead of the
  "stub" page with no possibility to get to the web page.
- A site specific quirk to allow typing accented characters on Google
  Docs was active for docs.google.com, but not drive.google.com. It is
  now applied for both subdomains.
- With older graphics hardware (OpenGL < 4.3) with Qt 5.14 on Wayland, WebGL
  causes segfaults. Now qutebrowser detects that combination and suggests to
  disable WebGL or use XWayland.

Enjoy!

Florian

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