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changelog

What shipped, and when

Every release across every tool, newest first.

0.3.0

Aug 30, 2026

Hub

A browser you can throw away

The Playground: a real Chrome the Hub opens, on a profile of its own, with a control panel in its side panel — twenty-seven of Chrome’s own privacy switches in one place. Plus a dashboard you can arrange and a bell that tells you when something needs you.

Improvements7
  • Playground — a real Chrome, started by the Hub, on its own profile. Your extensions are in it, and Reset puts the whole thing back
  • A control panel in the browser’s side panel: 27 switches and 6 actions, every one a Chrome setting you can go and see in chrome://extensions’ neighbour, chrome://settings
  • Downloading an extension asks where it goes — the Playground, which the Hub can load it into, or the folder for your own browser, which no program may
  • The dashboard is yours to arrange: eight cards, three widths, add and remove, kept on your own computer
  • New cards — a greeting, the newest posts, and what is published beside what you have
  • A notification bell beside the account card, for an update that is ready or a check that could not be made
  • Documentation links open in the Hub’s own reader instead of leaving for a browser
What it is not3
  • Not anonymity. A clean profile is not a different network connection, and your address is still your address
  • Not a sandbox. It is Chrome, with Chrome’s access to the files you choose
  • Not a replacement for Argon. Substituting the graphics card, the font list and the canvas is Argon’s work, and Argon loads into this same browser

0.2.1

Aug 30, 2026

Hub

A profile, a reader, and an icon

The Hub gains the things an application is expected to have and did not: a name and a picture that follow the account, the documentation inside the window, and an icon in the Dock and the taskbar.

Improvements6
  • A display name and a picture, stored on the account rather than the machine, so they follow you to another computer
  • Documentation opens inside the Hub, locked to the docs — links go to your own browser, where the address bar is yours
  • The account card in the sidebar opens the Account page
  • “Forgotten your password?” asks in the window. It still never sets one; the link lands in your email
  • Extensions can be loaded into a browser you opened yourself — Show the folder, then Chrome’s own Load unpacked
  • An application icon, on both platforms
Fixes6
  • Change picture and Change display name had no handler at all — the two were markup
  • A failed bridge call was silent, so a press that did nothing looked exactly like one that worked
  • The Extensions page said downloading needed Chrome installed. It never did; what arrives is a folder
  • Windows sent “Forgotten your password?” to the account page, which is the one you cannot reach without the password
  • Every link out of both apps opened on the API hostname. Both answer, so the page looked right — and a sign-in there set a session the real site could never read
  • A session that expired while the documentation was open left it on screen over the sign-in form

0.18.2

Aug 30, 2026

Perch

An icon

Perch had no icon on either platform. macOS is 0.17.2 and Windows is 0.18.2 — the two have always been numbered separately, and this changed the same thing in both.

Improvements1
  • An application icon: a frame with one pane inside it, which is both halves of what Perch does

0.18.0

Aug 26, 2026

Perch

The Windows build

Perch runs on Windows 11. The browser half is the same extension the macOS build loads, byte for byte; everything new is the native shell around it.

Improvements5
  • Mirror on Windows.Graphics.Capture, cropped to the page
  • Chrome driven over the DevTools pipe, so the extension can be loaded at all
  • Click and scroll forwarding into the mirrored window
  • One-file installer, per-user, no administrator prompt
  • Setup completes itself — nothing left for you to grant
Fixes3
  • A window that is completely covered now keeps producing frames; Chrome was throttling it
  • The native-messaging host shipped without its runtime files and exited before starting
  • The install folder no longer nests a stray architecture directory
Known issues1
  • Uninstall does not always remove the program folder on the first attempt

0.17.0

Aug 24, 2026

Perch

Diagnostics that say something

Everything Perch knows about a failure, in one paste, plus a repair that runs before giving up.

Improvements3
  • Copy Diagnostics gathers app, browser and permission state in one block
  • Chrome's disposable caches are cleared and the launch retried once
  • Perch's own side of the DevTools conversation is now logged
Fixes1
  • Crash reports from a stripped framework are parsed instead of ignored
Known issues0

0.16.0

Aug 21, 2026

Perch

Domain allowlist

Name a domain once and every subdomain and path under it is covered.

Improvements2
  • Screen-share allowlist, matching a domain and everything beneath it
  • Update notices arrive in the browser rather than a system notification
Fixes2
  • Fullscreen no longer bounces when a site starts sharing
  • The spoofed screen can no longer report itself smaller than the window
Known issues0