All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog.
This project follows the official Firefox releases, but also uses Arch Linux Package Versioning to mark individual releases in between versions.
- New upstream release 88.0-1
- Several yet-to-be documented changes from previous updates that are not yet added to the changelog (tbd)
- Switched to building on Ubuntu Bionic (18.04) from Xenial (16.04) as the latter is now EOL/EOS
- Releases can from now on be found in the specific subprojects (debian, windows, flatpak, appimage, arch, macos) for consistency; this project will only hold the tarball used for the flatpak and appimage releases
- New upstream release 85.0.2
- Fixed about box
- Removed pocket menu entry
- New upstream release 85.0.2
- New upstream release 85.0.1
- New upstream release of included uBlock Origin (1.33.2)
- New upstream release 85.0
- Global menubar patch removed from default releases. Separate releases will be made available.
dom.event.contextmenu.enabled
is now an unlocked preference
- Non-Arch releases should now also have some additional startup requests removed
- AppImage and Flatpak releases were not using the most recent settings.
- New upstream release 84.0.1
- Flatpak runtime version updated (thanks @TheEvilSkeleton)
- Use patch for global menubar added to AppImage and Flatpak build script as well
- Flatpak now properly provides a .desktop-file (and some other small improvements)
- Fixed AppImage crashes when
XDG_DATA_DIRS
is unset (fixes #139)
- New upstream release 84.0.1
- New upstream release of included uBlock Origin (1.32.4)
- More options kept unlocked to remain easier to modify
- "Wayland first" Flatpak with (hopefully) clean X11-fallback
- Included Debian patch for global menubar
- HTTPS only mode enabled by default
- New upstream release 84.0
- New upstream release 83.0
- New upstream release of included uBlock Origin (1.31.0)
- New upstream release 82.0.3
- New upstream release 82.0.2
- New upstream release of included uBlock Origin (1.30.6)
- New upstream release 81.0.2
- New upstream release of included uBlock Origin (1.30.4)
- New upstream release 81.0
- New upstream release of included uBlock Origin (1.30.0)
- New upstream release 80.0.1
- New upstream release 80.0
- New upstream release of included uBlock Origin (1.29.2)
- Fixed too broad Flatpak access permissions / sandboxing (#122 and #123), thanks to @TheMainOne!
- Unlocked an important setting required to easily enable WebRTC (macOS/#8)
- Closing the last tab now closes the browser again (#121)
- New upstream release 79.0
- New upstream release 78.0.2
- New upstream release of included uBlock Origin (1.28.0)
- New upstream release 78.0.1
- New upstream release 78.0
- Various changes to approach fixing settings#21
- Fix somewhat broken urlbar (switch to proper megabar-removal code)
- Use correctly updated uBlock origin URL
- New upstream release 77.0.1
- Disable "Megabar" functionality (#23)
- New upstream release 76.0.1
- Typos in
librewolf.cfg
that prevented it from being cleanly loaded.
- Remove Internal Plugin Certificates from Mozilla
- New upstream release 76.0
- DoH disabled by default
- Some default addons from Mozilla are now removed (#59)
- Improvements to search engines and DDG Lite added (settings#18)
- Don't disable the Intersection Observer API (settings#20)
- Configure manual update URL (settings#1)
- Set fallback UA to resistFingerprinting's default (settings#10)
- Temporarily fix Firefox's address bar (settings#23)
- Update to ghacks-user.js 69 (settings#21)
- Fix Qwant's name (settings#25)
- New upstream release 75.0
- New upstream release 74.0.1
- WebRTC related settings unlocked (but still disabled) in
librewolf.cfg
- AppImage and Flatpak improvements (metadata, conventions etc.)
- (Mostly) working Flatpak release
- Untested: AppImage and Flatpak releases for
aarch64
are now also built on Ubuntu 16.04
- AppImage and Flatpak releases cannot be built as PGO/profiled builds at the moment
- AppStream metadata is not completely valid (missing screenshots)
- Build scripts are not tested outside of a dockerized environment
- WebRTC enabled for
aarch64
builds (librewolf.cfg
still blocks it by default, intentionally)
- Installation of uBlock
- Removal and addition of search engines via
policies.json
- Building the intermediary tarball on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) to ensure AppImage and Flatpak compatibility
- Appimage and Flatpak settings loading still needs to be tested
- Appimage and Flatpak still don't work on older distributions
- LibreWolf built on Ubuntu 16.04 cannot be a profiled/PGO build at the time.
- Wrong commenting format in
librewolf.cfg
breaking LibreWolf settings
- Appimage and FlatPak releases must be considered broken
- Initial release following stable upstream Firefox releases
- [WIP] Appimage and FlatPak Releases