Version 5.0

• Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.38.5
• Added a setting to place the cookies SQL database in RAM and synchronize it on quit/periodically to reduce disk I/O
• Added a User Scripts manager UI
• Bookmarks editor UI improvements

Version 4.9

• Added a workaround for YT changing quality mid-stream by simply feeding the player video data in different format instead of using the MSE APIs to do this
• Added a workaround for MSE initialization race with seeking for streams not starting at pos=0
• Updated cURL and nghttp2 libraries
• Updated EasyList

Version 4.8

• Cherrypicked a cURL fix for socks proxies failing

Version 4.7

• Removed the requirement of latest openssl3.libary in order to run Wayfarer
• Update check will also optionally check if openssl3.library is latest
• Localization strings cosmetics

Version 4.6

• Fixed a race condition in OffscreenCanvas leading to use after free
• Fixed the 'Import HAR' button in the Web Inspector
• Drag image handling improvements
• Implemented drag images for links
• Changed the cURL thread priority
• Updated cURL, png, webp and sqlite libraries

Version 4.5

• Updated libcURL to fix issues with HTTP/2

Version 4.4

• Massive performance gains in decoding of large file images
• Loading progress bar colour can now be configured in Interface settings
• Cherrypicked OffscreenCanvas fixes from latest WebKit sources
• Added handling of very long filenames when finalizing a download
• Fixed a bad free call in the media decoder
• Disabled some stray debug

Version 4.3

• Implemented the full WebKit WebInspector
• Deprecated Eruda
• Enabled anchor's download attribute
• Implemented download support for data blobs and data URLs
• Fixed BigInt64 types in TypedArrays
• Optimized some TypedArray operations

Version 4.2

• Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.36.8
• Updated cURL and other libs

Version 4.1

• Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.36.7
• Updated EasyList AdBlocker database
• Updated cURL and other libs

Version 4.0

• Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.36.3
• HLS stream qualities also accessible from the Media menu
• Updated cURL and other libs

Version 3.9

• Implemented ClearKey DRM support for HLS media streams
• Implemented HLS stream quality switching accessible from the media popup
• Added configurable touch events emulation (think Youtube-Mobile seeking slider)
• Refactored the HLS player to allow MPEG-TS playback
• Live HLS streams now start playing closer to the current time
• Improved stream end position reporting to get some streaming services correctly skip to next stream after playing ads
• Updated libcurl

Version 3.8

• Implemented basic drag & drop of web elements within a page
• Fixed scrollbar positions after switching between tabs

Version 3.7

• Rewritten MediaSource player state machines to improve seeking, end-of-stream handling
• Fixed a bug that caused a/v decoders to keep increasing the read-ahead decoded frame buffers infinitely (causing out-of-memory sooner or later during playback)
• Fixed a memory leak in a/v de-multiplexer
• Refactored the HLS player to enable seeking in terminated playlists
• Reduced the memory footprint of MediaSource playback
• Fixed video position reporting for MediaStreams w/o an audio track
• Rewritten the right mouse button handling
• Improved the media popup, added stream information
• Fixed input handling in fullscreen mode
• Updated OpenJPEG

Version 3.6

• Added code to skip redraws of web contents entirely when Wayfarer is on an invisible screen
• Added an Amazon Fire Stick user agent to settings, works well with youtube.com/tv
• Removed 'Skip All Frames' loop filter option
• Fixed a possible crash in the MediaSource player
• Checks if a file exists and asks to overwrite in Download As.. requester

Version 3.3-3.5

• HTTP HEAD requests to resources would poison the Curl disk cache with 0-byte files, leading to websites failing to load/work correctly
• Minor speed improvements in JavaScriptCore and timing code
• Improved refresh speeds when typing text on websites showing animated contents as you type
• The HLS player will iterate through all streams of the master playlist now if a selected sub playlist fails to play
• Re-worked post-seeking playback restart to avoid auto-start of streams that start playback from non-0 position
• Fixed audio buffer under-run handling
• Invisible video streams fixed not to enable overlay
• Improved invalid certificate error handling UI flows
• Disabled touch events support
• Fixed a regression in HTTP AUTH handling
• Please note that 3.3-3.5 binaries suffer from build problems

Version 3.2

• Implemented WOFF/WOFF2 fonts support
• Improved ligatures support
• Worked around a possible crash in JavaScript
• Fixed the Polish catalog's encoding

Version 3.1

• Fixed a crash on exiting fullscreen mode

Version 3.0

• Updated WebKit code base to the WebKitGTK 2.34.6 release
• Added a Media menu with playback controls hotkeys
• Added cookie/cache cleaning menu options
• Password save requester pops up on more sites now
• No longer writes partial files into the Curl cache
• Launcher removes PROGDIR:ICU since it is no longer required
• Fixed downloads from itch.io
• Improved network error handling in the media player
• Cleaned up console log output into dprintf
• Fixed the base URL for HLS media chunks (fixes cnn.com, etc)

Version 2.10

• Tabs may now be sorted / moved between the windows with drag & drop
• Updated notifications to use magicbeacon.library
• Improved handling of errors and clicking on downloadable URLs
• Fixed I/O error handling in downloads
• Added additional sanitization to download file names and download prefix
• Fixed Downloading files to folders containing non-ASCII characters

Version 2.9

• Implemented Proxy settings
• Added right mouse button override settings that make it possible to open the default context menu on websites that try to block it
• Fixed several edge cases where Wayfarer's url bar wouldn't correctly show page's url
• Added code to handle "ContentDisposition: attachment" to trigger downloading instead of displaying the target url
• Fixed 'Reload' to work after a failed page load
• Downloaded filename had 1st letter truncated in some cases due to a bug in header parsing
• Enabled USE_NEW_THEME in WebKit to change how some controls are drawn
• Default CSS tweaks to prevent invisible checkboxes/radio buttons

Version 2.8

• Altivec code paths for a lot of WebAudio routines, optimized sin/cos computations in StereoPanner
• Fast code paths for feColorMatrix (approximately 6 times faster than WebCore code)
• Recompiled to fix a bug with longcalls in GCC, which caused it to miscompile the code in some cases leading to crashes
• Improved the ContentDisposition header parser in WebKit
• Detects expired certificates in the certificate viewer
• Added a way to delete saved self-signed certificates, disabled the ability to 'trust' invalid/expired (not self signed) certificates
• Fixed a regression in HTTP AUTH handling that caused downloads from password protected pages to fail

Version 2.7

• Worked around random crashes that may have been observed in 2.6
• Significantly improved performance of various threading checks across WebKit
• Worked around an issue in objc runtime that caused Wayfarer to stall during download notifications. Do note that notifications must be reconfigured in Magic Beacon as some keywords have changed.
• Improved handling of websites that constatly request http auth credentials instead of caching the state

Version 2.6

• Implemented Web Notifications and Download notifications via Magic Beacon. See the FAQ for more information
• Added browser tab pinning (via tab context menu). Disables tab close button and hotkeys
• Use Clipboard unit 1 for HTML paste operations like Odyssey does
• Linked against OpenSSL 3.0
• Fixed a WebAudio crash on bahn.de
• Enabled Intersection Observer (fixes github.com)
• Fixed an issue which caused some of the settings to display wrong state when opening settings for a given host directly from the menu

Version 2.5

• Fixed a severe memory leak in JavaScriptCore, up to 5MB+ were being leaked per one page load in case of websites using SQL/IDB
• Fixed to terminate Audio Worklet threads (which has also leaked a JavaScript VM) on pages using WebAudio
• Implemented a warning (yellow shield icon) for mixed HTTPS/HTTP website content
• Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1l
• Fixed a bug in Curl backend / networking that caused WebSockets to fail
• Removed MorphOS 3.14 threading workarounds
• Lowered WebAudio audio thread priority
• Fixed Download Image As... to popup a requester
• Disabled Download As window's menu
• Fixed double-clicking on downloaded items in Downloads view where Download As was used

Version 2.4

• Implemented Download As...
• WebAudio support for sample playback (while Google Translate text to speech works just fine, most online MOD players will be too slow)
• Implemented a Media flags popup
• Improved SSL certificate verification to avoid cases where a website wouldn't load due to cert not matching the hostname, but cert viewer window would assume the cert is fine and would not present buttons allowing to ignore/save cert
• Worked around an issue that prevented further popups from showing up if the main window was resized while a popup was up
• Reload button state wasn't properly refreshed when switching between tabs
• Fixed a crash and status bar issues when browsing page history for cached pages
• Certificate viewer may now be localized

Version 2.3

• Reimplemented fullscreen support to display contents on a separate screen
• Implemented HLS stream A/V synchronization for streams that contain no timestamps
• MediaSource playback improvements, including workarounds for broken websites
• Implemented code to stall the video pipeline when audio stalls
• Fixed a crash in ffmpeg h264 decoder

Version 2.2

• Fixed duration handling in the Media Source player
• Disabled focus frame on some elements since it wasn't always redrawn correctly
• Fixed a low-memory related crash in the PNG decoder
• Tweaked ICU data checks to try and detect broken installations
• Added a workaround for Wayfarer not shutting down (may still be up to 30s)
• Fixed setting media playback variables after prefs were reset

Version 2.1

• ICU files will now be loaded from PROGDIR if missing in MOSSYS
• Updated EasyList adblocker data
• Fixed wheel scrolling in subframes
• Fixed a race condition in HLS player
• Fixed a widely reported crash in H264 decoding
• Fixed a potential crash in bookmarks code

Version 2.0

• Rebased to latest stable WebKitGTK (2.32.1)
• Implemented Dark Mode
• Fixed a crash in HLS video playback
• Worked around an issue preventing sites from loading, etc after quit confirmation requester got cancelled
• Fixed webkit message log functionality that crashed if the resulting message contained formatting sequences
• Changed rendering of elements like checkmarks that were missing on some websites
• Out-of-RAM crashes no longer bring up the Send Bugreport messagebox

Version 1.21

• Fixed a crash on player exit
• Fixed an issue where player settings weren't correctly applied when loading pages
• Fixed an issue where wrong player settings were used in some code paths
• Fixed a problem with quitting Wayfarer

Version 1.20

• Mitigated a problem with TLS that would often cause crashes when Wayfarer was used alongside Iris
• Addressed some potential ffmpeg abort() calls as seen in bugreported crashes
• Fixed to trim long titles in Tabs menu

Version 1.19

• Implemented video playback statistics (Youtube's Stats for Nerds will now show decoded frame counts, etc)
• Fixes in HLS Live playback on YT
• Reduced frame drops when playing video
• Fixed to correctly display rotated photos

Version 1.18

• Fixed to update page's url when traversing history
• Updated ffmpeg to 4.4
• Improved player's handling of bogus stream data
• Partially mitigated a player memory leak

Version 1.17

• Media playback settings are now per-host
• Removed the media playback popup requester mode
• Various improvements in the player pipeline, including improved HLS

Version 1.16

• Disables screensaver while playing video
• Fixed a crash when shutting down the video decoder

Version 1.15

• Enabled Media playback on PowerPC CPUs without Altivec
• Improved audio seeking
• Fixed switching between playing multiple streams
• A lot of MediaSource player improvements, fixes in quality change, seeking, re-play
• Fixed playback of HLS videos

Version 1.14

• Fixed a regression in cURL code

Version 1.13

• HLS support can now be disabled in settings
• Fixed a regression in cURL code
• Fixed a crash in media playback initialization
• Minor player improvements
• Disabled media playback support for CPUs other than the G4 and G5 family

Version 1.12

• Overlay based video playback, requires updated cgxvideo.library (included in the archive)
• Experimental MediaSource support
• Added a Media settings tab
• Improved HLS audio playback
• Implemented basic fullscreen (window) mode
• Implement redraw throttling to prevent pages from taking up all the CPU time for redraws
• Updated to the latest FFMpeg4
• Updated to latest OpenSSL and cURL
• Fixed Wayfarer being stuck on quit forever
• Fixed issues with invalid download sizes for large files or with unknown size
• Fixed Tab->Move to New Window...
• Fixed an bug where chunked file uploads would fail
• Improved resource cleanup on page hibernation

Version 1.11

• Optimized Curl cache warm-up to be several magnitudes faster
• Don't popup download requesters for webpage components that have no valid mime type and aren't the main url itself
• Updated EasyList filter data
• Optimized not to attempt loading media at all if the page settings are set to block it
• Reworked localizable string formats to use @key@ instead of %d, etc to avoid crashes with incorrect translations
• Improved handling of custom/unsupported protocols
• Fixed Offline Storage settings UI
• Fixed Recently closed tabs menu
• Fixed a networking crash
• Fixed a memtrash in the loader code when closing Wayfarer on its own screen

Version 1.10

• Fixed a potential crash in AHI code

Version 1.9

• Implemented an audio player, including audio in video files
• Codec coverage basically the same as in Odyssey, with Opus and MPEG-TS support added
• Implemented HLS chunk-based media playback for many live radio streams
• Configurable popup on media load, with download option
• Fixed a case where mouse pointer would no longer change above links after scrolling with mmb
• Fixed not to mangle the file path after resuming a download with name prefix set
• Fixed to disable menus in several popup windows
• Fixed to ensure the Sessions folder is always present
• Worked around a race condition in MUI where it would crash trying to show a help bubble for a tab being closed at the same time

Version 1.8

• Added jpeg2k support via OpenJPEG
• Reports browser locale based on system locales
• Added a Translation service support w/ settings
• Added session quicksave hotkeys
• Improved wheel scrolling and mouse cursor code
• Adjusted page/wheel scrolling deltas to be in-line with WebCore's suggested values
• Scrolling page content is now possible with mmb pressed
• Esc key deactivates the WebKit container, instead of being swallowed
• Improved the cURL thread loop
• Various UI improvements in the Printing Mode
• Improved shutdown times
• Linked against latest OpenSSL 1.1.1i and cURL 7.74.0
• Fixed RMB to not select word under cursor if there already is a selection in editable components
• Fixed pasting text into editors handling paste via JS/DOM Events
• Fixed a crash in FavIcon loader
• Fixed a crash when logging into AppleID
• Fixed a crash when closing a window with tabs that are pending website load
• Fixed early startup issues where OpenURL could send OPEN commands before Wayfarer fully initializes
• Fixed a race condition in curl cache handling
• Fixed a use-after-free when closing a window or loading a session
• Worked around a bug causing some localized strings to be empty
• Download name scheme is stored when a download begins, so subsequent settings changes won't affect it
• Page reload actually skips curl caches now
• Command keys are no longer eaten by webkit
• Loader now catches all ObjC terminal errors

Version 1.7

• Implemented an optional online version check
• Added a Safari/iPad spoofing option
• Tweaked to save settings periodically after edits
• Added Local Storage and Application Cache settings
• Enabled Application Cache
• Worked around servers that compress file downloads
• Fixed a crash when opening host settings from menu

Version 1.6

• Fully WSIWYG printing system
• Spell checking support
• Undo/Redo support
• Networking thread optimized to use less CPU
• Built with optimized OpenSSL for faster HTTPS connections
• Added tons of help bubbles across the app
• Added an option to log console messages to ramdebug
• Added quit requester options to the Settings tab
• Added a setting to popup downloads tab on new downloads
• Tries to use current tab for Downloads/Settings/Bookmarks if empty
• Added an Error column to the download list
• Added a context menu to the download list (copy path/url)
• Download URL updates on redirects
• 'Download' Context menu will now use OpenURL for ftp/mailto links
• Fixed resuming of downloads after error
• Fixed to handle multiselection in the download list
• Improved the Stop/Reload button; Reload forces a full reload (disregarding disk caches)
• Fixed ctrl key handling in the text editor
• Fixed a nasty 5 random-address bytes memtrash at the end of JS Promise handling that was the main source of instability on pages like PayPal, ebay, etc
• Fixed a use-after-free in WTF's file system support
• Fixed a crash when editing quicklink submenus
• Prevents re-opening screen when loading a session
• Disabled a bunch of memtrashing code paths in audio processing support
• Fixed an out-of-mem crash in WebCore's JPEG decoder
• Fixed a crash when adding quicklinks
• Fixed size overflow on >4GB downloads
• Fixed a potential browser crash after a hibernation

Version 1.5

• Wayfarer now starts via a loader app
• Added an early loading splash window, shutdown splash window (via loader)
• Crashes in Wayfarer are caught by the loader which cleans up the windows and as many resources as possible, usually allowing a restart of the application
• Implemented a way to send bugreports directly after a crash, including debug information and the most recently visited URLs
• Added Eruda web inspector integration
• It's now possible to select a session to load on application start or automatically re-store the previous state
• Sessions store the active tab
• Enabled the Intersection Observer in WebCore
• Reduced the number of SQL file writes
• Separate interpolation setting for image links
• Quicklink buttons respect favicon settings, update on favicon changes
• Added a file requester to the downloads path in Settings
• Added quit confirmation requester settings
• Fixed navigating to wayfarer:// links without explicitly doing it from the menu
• Fixed CPU clock detection code
• Fixed a double-start issue where the 2nd instance would not quit
• Fixed a potential crash in favicon code
• Fixed right shift key handling in some hotkeys
• Fixed tab button backgrounds
• Fixed ghost effects after closing tabs on some MUI configurations

Version 1.4

• Fixed an issue where adding a link to bookmarks via menu would try to insert it to a wrong tree node in a Bookmarks tab
• Rolled back some compilation setting tweaks since they were causing issues on some G4 cpus

Version 1.3

• Minor performance improvements, mostly on G5
• Fixed lists in settings displaying no text, sometimes crashing
• Fixed url string background offsets
• Activate an exiting tab instead of adding a new one for downloads/bookmarks/settings
• Fixed tab buttons becoming invisible or corrupt on some configs
• Fixed an issue where adding a link to quick links via menu would display them in a wrong location in the Bookmarks tab
• Fixed quicklink buttons to respect releasing mouse of of button bounds

Version 1.2

• Implemented Quick Links
• Implemented favicons
• Enabled support for WebP images
• Updated libcurl
• Fixed blob: support
• Fixed file name encoding and cookie issues in downloads
• Fixed Bookmarks menus to show more depth levels
• Fixed a crash on exit caused by the password autofill manager
• Fixed a crash on exit in WebCore's fileapi
• Fixed Copy image URL context menu function

Version 1.1

• Implemented Search Engines settings UI
• Implemented a 'Do not ask to save passwords' setting
• Space+Shift does reverse scroll now
• Updated to latest OpenSSL and nghttp2
• Fixed handling of IDN/Unicode chars typed into the URL bar
• Fixed loading of files from the Curl cache, which in some cases resulted in images failing to decode (or decode as text)
• Fixed SCREENTOFRONT
• Fixed the default CSS file load path (caused default radios and checkmarks to be missing on some sites)
• Fixed an issue with sticky border scrollers
• Fixed not to leak the volume name when uploading files straight from the volume root path
• Implemented workarounds for OpenURL callers that don't pass correctly escaped URIs (like YAM)
• Updated the OWB importer

Version 1.0

• Initial public release for MorphOS 3.14