[qutebrowser] qutebrowser v3.4.0 released / 11 years qutebrowser!

[David Colburn]

Awesome!

Thanks!

On 12/14/24 16:15, Florian Bruhin via qutebrowser wrote:
> Hey!
>
> I'm delighted that qutebrowser is 11 years old today, almost on the
> minute:
>
>      Author: Florian Bruhin <git at the-compiler.org>
>      Date:   Sat Dec 14 22:15:16 2013 +0100
>
>          Initial commit
>
> If you're feeling nostalgic, in 2022 I did a little writeup about how it
> all started:
> https://listi.jpberlin.de/pipermail/qutebrowser-announce/2022-December/000115.html
>
> What better way to celebrate than with a new release? So I just released
> v3.4.0 (the CI had other plans, but on the 5th try it finally worked).
>
> The main highlight in this release is probably proper Qt 6.8 support
> finally, including asking the user for clipboard permission on-demand
> instead of needing to grant that before clipboard buttons start working.
>
> There also were a couple of bugfixes (one of them improving website
> compatibility when they do XHR requests with a custom Accept-Language
> header), and Windows/macOS releases finally ship with Qt 6.8 (PyQt 6.8
> was a bit delayed and only released two days ago).
>
> Nothing else too big in there, but I'm hoping we'll get around to some
> bigger topics in 2025! toofar has been looking at getting tree-style
> tabs finished finally, and personally there are a variety of topics I'd
> love to have a look at. We'll see how it all pans out!
>
> Here's the full changelog:
>
> ## Removed
>
> - Support for Python 3.8 is dropped, and Python 3.9 is now required. (#8325)
> - Support for macOS 12 Monterey is now dropped, and binaries will be built on
>    macOS 13 Ventura. (#8327)
> - When using the installer on Windows 10, build 1809 or newer is now required
>    (previous versions required 1607 or newer, but that's not officialy supported by
>    Qt upstream). (#8336)
>
> ## Changed
>
> - Windows/macOS binaries are now built with Qt 6.8.1. (#8242)
>      - Based on Chromium 122.0.6261.171
>      - With security patches up to 131.0.6778.70
> - Windows/macOS binaries are now using Python 3.13. (#8205)
> - The `.desktop` file now also declares qutebrowser as a valid viewer for
>    `image/webp`. (#8340)
> - Updated mimetype information for getting a suitable extension when downloading
>    a `data:` URL.
> - The `content.javascript.clipboard` setting now defaults to "ask", which on
>    Qt 6.8+ will prompt the user to grant clipboard access. On older Qt versions,
>    this is still equivalent to `"none"` and needs to be set manually. (#8348)
> - If a XHR request made via JS sets a custom `Accept-Language` header, it now
>    correctly has precedence over the global `content.headers.accept_language`
>    setting (but not per-domain overrides). This fixes subtle JS issues on
>    websites that rely on the custom header being sent for those requests, and
>    e.g. block the requests server-side otherwise. (#8370)
> - Our packaging scripts now prefer the "legacy"/"for older browsers" PDF.js
>    build as their normal release only supports the latest Chromium version and
>    might break in qutebrowser on updates. **Note to packagers:** If there's a
>    PDF.js package in your distribution as an (optional) qutebrowser dependency,
>    consider also switching to this variant (same code, built differently).
>
> ## Fixed
>
> - Crash with recent Jinja/Markupsafe versions when viewing a finished userscript
>    (or potentially editor) process via `:process`.
> - `scripts/open_url_in_instance.sh` now avoids `echo -n`, thus running
>    correctly on POSIX sh. (#8409)
> - Added a workaround for a bogus QtWebEngine warning about missing spell
>    checking dictionaries. (#8330)
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Florian