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Old 13 October 2020, 15:25   #1
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MorphOS 3.14 and a new web browser released

The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.14. While mostly a maintenance and stability release, this update also brings multiple technological improvements in the kernel. Out of these, the most notable are TLS support in exec.library, updates to the Netstack and ixemul.library.
Wayfarer, a new web browser based on a modern mid-2020 branch of WebKit is now available for download from wayfarer.icu. This new app makes it possible to browse most of the web that have become off-limits for Odyssey with its ageing engine. Google apps like Docs, Drive and Maps with Street view are supported just as the Whatsapp or Telegram web interfaces.
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Old 13 October 2020, 20:25   #2
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Old 13 October 2020, 21:00   #3
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Old 13 October 2020, 21:09   #4
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Wow. That's amazing...
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Old 13 October 2020, 23:17   #5
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Great work from the MorphOS team! Excelent!
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Old 14 October 2020, 01:30   #6
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Definitely going to give it a go on my G4
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Old 14 October 2020, 02:25   #7
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Definitely going to give it a go on my G4
Posting this from my G4 Mac Mini under MorphOS as we speak using Wayfarer 1.1!
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Old 14 October 2020, 05:30   #8
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Old 14 October 2020, 05:50   #9
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For forums, yes. For Facebook, no. But that's no major loss.
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AmigaOne X5K GFX board supported....now?
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Old 14 October 2020, 10:57   #11
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I don't have the material to run it but kudos for the work @all involved
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Old 15 October 2020, 15:38   #12
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Time to update my Morph OS computers again
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Old 18 October 2020, 12:12   #13
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Wayfarer has already been updated to version 1.2! See the change log here.
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Old 28 October 2020, 19:20   #14
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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

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

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
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Amazing work, posting this using v1.5 atm
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Old 30 October 2020, 08:58   #16
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Better fire up MorphOS again and update!
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Old 16 November 2020, 20:11   #17
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Wayfarer 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
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It's hard to keep up with the progress The big improvement now is the audio support (including audio from videos, like from YT).

Wayfarer 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


Wayfarer 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


Wayfarer 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


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Old 31 December 2020, 19:14   #19
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And now morphos 3.15 and sdk 3.16!
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Old 31 December 2020, 19:19   #20
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And now morphos 3.15 and sdk 3.16!
...and Wayfarer 1.10!
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