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Changelog

All notable changes are documented here. The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Changes on main not yet in a tagged release.

1.3.1 - 2026-05-19

Fixed

  • Regex export no longer capped at 100 000 records; replaced with cursor pagination for complete large exports.
  • UI no longer freezes during regex history search; scan moved to a background thread.
  • Monthly time range calculations no longer skew around DST transitions.
  • Hidden-domain filter now correctly escapes LIKE wildcard characters in domain names.
  • URL prefix record counts no longer double-count overlapping prefixes.
  • WebDAV cleanup failures now surfaced instead of silently swallowed; manifest timestamp aligned with upload time.
  • HTML export now raises an error when the template is missing the injection marker instead of producing corrupt output.
  • Config saves suppressed on shutdown to prevent corruption; failed config promotes now roll back cleanly.
  • Config backup rotation fixed; migration false-positive detection guard added.
  • Badge data loading now handles DB errors gracefully instead of crashing.
  • Extractor backup thread no longer implicitly blocks the main process on shutdown.
  • Potential deadlock during FTS-stripped database export resolved.

Build

  • WebDAV hidden import corrected from webdav4 to webdav3 in PyInstaller spec, fixing missing-module errors in packaged builds.

1.3.0 - 2026-05-14

Added

  • Default theme changed from Dark to System, so the app now follows OS appearance out of the box.
  • Record count preview in blacklist and hidden-domain management dialogs, showing impact before confirming changes.
  • Isolated recent search history for regex mode, keeping advanced search workflows cleaner.
  • Redesigned app icon with an animated SVG-based tray renderer replacing static tray assets.
  • Added a multilingual MkDocs documentation site.

Fixed

  • FTS triggers silently lost after a process crash are now recovered before all history write paths.
  • title: and url: search tokens no longer overwrite each other; multi-word field queries now split into AND terms correctly.
  • Hidden domains are now filtered correctly in overlay quick search.
  • Safari incremental extraction time boundary condition corrected.
  • Incorrect path filter in browser scanner that excluded non-standard installations removed.
  • WebDAV password ciphertext now preserved when decryption fails on config load.
  • Single-instance startup now falls back safely when token file write fails.
  • History records correctly migrated when adopting a previous device identity.
  • sync_progress signal guarded against wrong argument types emitted from worker thread.
  • Real-time sync progress was restored, and the QThread wrapper lifetime was hardened against destroyed-while-running crashes.
  • The backup thread lifecycle was fixed, and auto-backup exceptions are now isolated from the sync flow.
  • Cross-thread signal emission races and QThread lifetime issues during sync were resolved.
  • FTS triggers restored immediately on upsert exception to close the write window.
  • _ro_lock held across both query stages in get_records to eliminate connection race.
  • WebDAV sync manifest uploaded before cleaning old backups to prevent stale manifest on crash.
  • Domain cache writes guarded with a lock to prevent TOCTOU race.
  • Stale page cache evicted in regex load-more path to prevent blank rows.
  • Dialog flash at top-left corner on first open eliminated.
  • Autocomplete font size clamped to valid range on Linux.
  • Tray minimization prevented when system tray is unavailable.

Performance

  • O(N) vt_cache trim replaced with page-granularity LRU eviction.
  • Write lock released before VACUUM INTO in export_without_fts.
  • Shared registry and filter sets in extractor manager guarded with a lock to prevent data races.

Build

  • Linux Qt platform fallback added; xcb dependencies packaged for out-of-box startup on Linux.
  • Comprehensive .gitattributes rules added for line endings and binary files.

1.2.2 - 2026-04-29

Fixed

  • CLI restore always restored the latest backup instead of the user-selected one.
  • CLI restore did not honor the favicon restore flag.
  • CLI restore --replace used unsafe database replacement.
  • Scheduler lead-in timers not cancelled, causing stale callbacks to fire after reschedule.
  • Terminal size API usage corrected, fixing output formatting in all CLI commands.

1.2.1 - 2026-04-23

Added

  • "Locate in History" button on bookmark cards for quick navigation.
  • Clicking the tag chip area or note area on a bookmark card now opens the editor directly.

Fixed

  • Ctrl+F / Ctrl+R global shortcut conflicts resolved; shortcuts now work reliably in history view.
  • Date separator visit counts now respect current filters and hidden-record mode.

1.2.0 - 2026-04-23

Added

  • 14 configurable global and in-app keyboard shortcuts with a dedicated settings panel.
  • Hidden Records viewing mode: a dedicated view for soft-hidden records.
  • Soft hide-domain: hide all records from a domain without deleting them, with a standalone manager UI.
  • Portable mode: auto-detects a .portable marker file in the app root and routes all data to data/ subdirectory.
  • "Search the Web" entry in the quick-access overlay and autocomplete dropdown, with configurable search engine presets.
  • "Start minimized to tray" startup setting.
  • Lazy-GUI minimize-to-tray mode: window and subsystems deferred until first open.
  • Date separators now restored after column toggle or reorder.
  • Real-time system Dark/Light mode following.

Changed

  • WebDAV uploads switched from chunked to atomic streamed, significantly improving reliability and eliminating temporary file descriptor leaks on Windows.
  • Headless mode now skips GUI subsystems and uses a lower SQLite cache, reducing background memory footprint.
  • Domain and icon cache eviction changed from full clear() to FIFO popitem() to eliminate periodic eviction spikes.
  • Column visibility toggles moved into a submenu for a cleaner toolbar.

Fixed

  • WAL read-after-write inconsistencies resolved by unifying connection lifecycle lock order.
  • VACUUM crash caused by prune_tombstones running while _vacuuming=True fixed.
  • Tombstones pruned during VACUUM to prevent unbounded table growth.
  • Scroll jitter after delete/hide/unhide fixed; scroll position preserved instead of jumping to top.
  • Long titles no longer push action buttons off-screen in settings cards.
  • Spurious horizontal scrollbar after theme switches eliminated.
  • Bookmark and annotation reads now see fresh data immediately after a write (stale WAL snapshot fixed).
  • Windows Junction points no longer traversed during BFS browser scan.
  • QTimer interval clamped to INT32_MAX to prevent integer overflow on very long intervals.
  • BrowserMonitor properly terminated on application exit.
  • Multi-word CLI search queries now accepted without quoting.
  • Long table output in CLI truncated with ellipsis to prevent line overflow.
  • encrypt_text failures now propagated instead of silently discarding the WebDAV password.
  • get_bookmarked_urls now uses DISTINCT to prevent duplicate URL results.

Performance

  • Two-step keyset pagination in get_records eliminates O(N) offset scan for large histories.
  • Regex search pagination pushed to SQL layer, eliminating full-table O(N) scan.
  • Fast-scroll lag reduced by optimizing paint, data(), URL parsing, and eventFilter hot paths.
  • DashboardPage browser status updates skipped when window is hidden.

Security

  • Encryption upgraded to V2 format with independent HKDF encryption and authentication subkeys.
  • Nonce-based authentication added to single-instance IPC to prevent replay attacks.
  • XSS vulnerability in HTML export patched: SVG icons sanitized before embedding.
  • Master password idle timeout now uses time.time() to correctly count time during system sleep.
  • Master password bypass gaps closed; stale session UI fixed.

Build

  • macOS standalone tar.gz artifact added.
  • Windows portable ZIP and setup installer added.
  • Windows standalone Python runtime cached in CI to reduce build times.

1.1.1 - 2026-04-12

Fixed

  • Overlay (Ctrl+Shift+H) vertical drift when reopening fixed.
  • Random horizontal scrollbar appearing in the history table fixed.
  • Bookmarks page not refreshing after modifying bookmarks from the History page fixed.
  • bookmarked_at timestamp not updating on conflict fixed.
  • Potential race condition during WebDAV client initialization fixed.
  • Stale filter hits from uncleared _excl_cache on connection reset fixed.

Performance

  • History queries and bookmark/annotation badge loading moved to a background thread to unblock the UI.
  • Display domain resolved via JOIN on domains table instead of per-row URL parsing on the render path.
  • Redundant second VACUUM removed from export_without_fts.
  • NOT IN subquery on hidden_records replaced with more efficient NOT EXISTS correlated lookup.

1.1.0 - 2026-04-11

Added

  • Spotlight-style global quick-search overlay (Ctrl+Shift+H): instant search across history, bookmarks, and annotations from any app.
  • Advanced search syntax: domain:, after:, before:, title:, url:, browser:, device:, is:bookmarked, has:note, tag:.
  • Inline ghost-text autocomplete and fuzzy-matching dropdown suggestions in the search bar.
  • Statistics page with a GitHub-style annual activity heatmap (with active-month contour highlight), browser usage pie chart, 24-hour activity bar chart, and one-click high-resolution image export.
  • Bookmarks and annotations system: tag URLs and write rich-text notes to build a personal knowledge base.
  • hsync headless CLI with sync, backup, search, export, restore, config, db, and watch-mode commands.
  • Shell tab completion for hsync via argcomplete (Bash, Zsh, Fish).
  • Device identity management: rename devices, delete obsolete ones, or adopt a previous identity after an OS reinstall.
  • WebDAV restore now merges with local data instead of a destructive overwrite.
  • Drag-and-drop URL export from the history table (Alt+drag or favicon drag) to desktop or editors.
  • Scroll time bubble: shows date, top domain, and activity density bar while dragging the scrollbar.
  • Native browser support added: QQ Browser, Sogou, Twinkstar, CentBrowser, 2345 Explorer, Liebao, UC Browser (Desktop), Quark.
  • Firefox fork support added: Waterfox, LibreWolf, Pale Moon, Basilisk, SeaMonkey.
  • Chrome, Edge, and Brave Canary/Dev/Beta channel support.
  • BFS deep scan to automatically discover portable or non-standard browser installations.
  • Overlay fade-in/fade-out animation.
  • First-run wizard overhauled for simpler initial setup.
  • Migration wizard for lossless migration from v1.0.x installations.
  • Scrollbar context menu for time bubble display modes.
  • Inertial smooth animation on the scroll time bubble.

Fixed

  • File-locking issues during WebDAV backup on Windows resolved.
  • Scrollbar position jumping on Dark/Light theme switch fixed.
  • FTS multi-word queries now use AND semantics for higher precision recall.
  • normalize_domains UPDATE now processed in 5000-row chunks to avoid long write locks.
  • Hidden records excluded from analytics stats and overlay quick search.
  • _ensure_conn guarded with _vacuuming flag to prevent concurrent access during VACUUM.

Performance

  • SQLite extraction rewritten with batch inserts and pre-compiled regex, reducing memory usage and improving speed.
  • Favicon rendering optimized with LRU cache and SVG recoloring, reducing stuttering during fast scrolling.
  • History page initial load uses progressive initialization to reduce time to first paint.

1.0.0 - 2026-03-24

Initial stable release.

Added

  • Browser history aggregation from Chromium-based (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Arc, and more), Firefox-based, and Safari browsers.
  • Local SQLite database with FTS5 full-text search using a trigram tokenizer for millisecond-latency substring search.
  • WebDAV cloud backup and restore with ZIP compression and SHA-256 integrity verification.
  • Multi-browser, multi-profile support with WAL-safe database copying.
  • Virtual scrolling for smooth browsing of million-row history lists.
  • System tray integration with sync status notifications.
  • Master password encryption for WebDAV credentials via HKDF-SHA256 and system keyring integration.
  • Windows and macOS packages.