Version 7.0.0

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What's new?

New

A brand new New tab page

A more refined user interface

Improved

• Addresses an issue which caused single char urls (like x.com) not be recognized as urls
• Addresses and issue which caused the urlbar to get focus after switching tabs
• Addresses various issues related to the tabs system (#5)
• Addresses various issues related to split tabs
• Refactor various code, which resulted in a 1.5mb binary size reduction
• Update various dependencies(9d18c30, e7b393d)

Full Changelog: 6.1.1...7.0.0

Version 6.1.1

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What's new?

This release focused on performance improvements and general improvements

Full Changelog: 6.1.0...6.1.1

Version 6.1.0

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Changelog

New:

• Added the ability to create a new split tab from the titlebar
  

Improved:

• New browser menu ui
  

Full Changelog: 6.0.0...6.1.0

Version 6.0

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Changelog

New:

• Added the ability to export a web page as pdf
• Added the ability to save a qr code to disk
• Added Yandex search engine

Improved:

• Addresses an issue related to tab selection if the window id in maximized mode
• Small user experience improvements
• Update dependencies (addresses a security vulnerability in System.Text.Json)

Full Changelog: 5.0.0...6.0.0

Version 5.0

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Summary

This release contains a few bugs fixes, one completely new feature and a redesign. In additon, the total application size has been reduced and the overall performance has been improved

Highlights

AI search bar powered by perplexity.ai

The brand new AI search bar allows the user to quickly ask AI questions and get an answer in no time

Redesigned settings

The settings page has been completely redesigned to match the Windows 11 Settings app, as well as unused settings have been removed.

Full changelog

• Migrate from Newtonsoft.Json to System.Text.Json
• build(deps): bump Microsoft.Web.WebView2 from 1.0.2151.40 to 1.0.2525.41
• Remove unused XAML code
• feat: Mica on loginpage
• Cleanup
• refactor(ctx): Remove unused code
• feat: Hide toolbar in fullscreen
• feat: Improve WebView2 runtime not installed error
• fix: Address a bug with the favorites creation
• build(deps): bump System.Text.Json from 8.0.0 to 8.0.1
• build(deps): bump System.Text.Json from 8.0.1 to 8.0.3
• feat: Remove Qwant Lite
• feat: Replace ProgressRing with ProgressBar
• fix: Bad link highlight color contrast
• feat: Remove about dialog
• build(deps): bump Mozilla.Readability from 0.4.4 to 0.5.0
• feat(ui): Favorite list header
• feat: New settings ui
• Move Translate from Toolbar to context menu
• Migrate to slnx
• refactor: Search engine url settings backend
• feat: Add AISearchBox
• refactor: Remove unused settings init code
• feat: Acrylic backdrop on UrlBox and Toolbar
• feat: Clear user data
• feat: Disable broken SaveAs feature

Version 4.0

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Highlights

Bluebird version 4.0 features many new features such as split tabs, allowing the user to display two tabs side by side, and a redesigned browser menu.

Splitscreen

Split Tabs allows you to put websites side by side for seamless multitasking, without having to open a new window.

Redesigned browser menu

The browser menu has been redesigned to help you quickly find what you need, allowing you to quickly create a split tab or change a setting

Full changelog

• build(deps): bump Microsoft.UI.Xaml from 2.8.5 to 2.8.6
• bump Microsoft.Web.WebView2 from 1.0.2045.28 to 1.0.2151.40
• feat(Search engines): Add Brave Search
• feat: About dialog
• feat: Favorites deletion
• feat: Missing WebView2 runtime warning
• feat: New browser menu
• feat: New favorites flyout
• feat: Remove experimental FRE
• feat: Settings refresh
• feat: Split tabs
• fix: Memory leak when closing tabs
• refactor(Bluebird.Modules): Integrate QRCoder into Bluebird.Modules, removed unused functionality
• refactor: Favorites backend

Version 3.2.1

ℹ️ Due to issues with building process, Version 3.2.0 has been pulled, and is now re-released with two small changes on top

Changelog:

• build(deps): bump Microsoft.Web.WebView2 from 1.0.1938.49 to 1.0.2045.28(57afab3)
• common: About page updates(e37eb21)

Full Changelog: 3.2.0...3.2.1

Version 3.2

⚠️ This release has been pulled due to issues with the building process which resulted in the shipping binary to be based on an older commit
It will soon be re-released as version 3.2.1, I am sorry for any inconveniences

Changelog:

• build(deps): bump Microsoft.UI.Xaml from 2.8.4 to 2.8.5
• build(deps): bump Microsoft.Web.WebView2 from 1.0.1823.32 to 1.0.1901.177
• feat: Add support for edge:// urls
• feat: Add support for navigating to ip adresses
• feat: Hide UrlBox in full screen
• feat: Hide/Show toolbar options
• fix: Event handlers not being re-registered in SettingPages after navigating back to them
• refractor various parts of the application

Full Changelog: 3.1.0...3.2.0

Version 3.1.0

Changelog:

• feat: Improve selected tab visibility in light mode
• feat: move browser menu to the left side
• fix: Address issues related to favicons and titles in reading mode
• fix: Address issues related to uri activation
• fix: crash on startup
• fix: Improved url detection 🎉
• fix: Issues with urls which do no contain "http(s)://"
• fix: Launching local uris
• misc: Replace Bluebird discord link with Windows Apps Hub link
• modules: bump forcedark from 2023.03.18-pre to 1.0.0
• remove no longer used library from credits
• revert: hide wv while loading due to element focus issues
• small resource usage improvements

Version 3.0.0

Changelog:

• Bump version to 3.0.0
• build(deps): bump Microsoft.UI.Xaml from 2.8.3 to 2.8.4
• build(deps): bump Microsoft.Web.WebView2 from 1.0.1722.45 to 1.0.1823.32
• feat: Add toolbar/urlbox to webviewpage
• feat: Add translate and readingmode to toolbar
• feat: Apply settings during runtime
• feat: Bluebird UserAgent
• feat: Compact tabs
• feat: Disable NewWindow feature
• feat: Favorites list loading animation
• feat: Favorites refresh btn
• feat: Settings improvements
• feat: Urlbox position setting
• feat: XAML alert window
• feat: add ntp
• feat: disable multi instance
• feat: focus UrlBox automatically after new tab creation
• feat: remove web message setting
• fix: Flyout placement
• fix: Force dark setting not being checked on startup
• fix: Titlebar menu btn not being clickable on the right side
• fix: home icon displaying on favorites and history tabs
• fix: issue when opening urls while bluebird is running
• fix: personalization page background
• Hide WV control while page loading to hide flickering (e.g. white -> dark if the page has implemented dark mode poorly, about:blank - >any page)
• Move LoadingRing to WebViewPage
• Move sidebar to left side
• Remove unused code
• Update ToolbarButton style
• Update tab icons