Solipsism Browser

Releases

• Sep 23, 2026 9.3.0
  ## Solipsism Browser 9.3.0 Bookmark management and rail visibility release with web console devtools. ### Highlights - Bookmark Manual order is now fully functional: drag the vertical pill handle to reorder, or long-press a bookmark and choose Move up, Move down, Move to top or Move to bottom. Positions persist across restarts, and the Sort order setting now applies correctly. - Auto-hide rail on scroll: new option under Settings → Fullscreen and display. The rail slides away when scrolling down so the page uses the full width, and slides back on scroll-up. Scrolling to the top always reveals it. - Web console devtools: per-tab JavaScript console from the browser tools menu, with log levels, evaluation, and persistence across tab switches. - Cookie Manager sheet: review and manage cookies for the current site from the browser tools menu.

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  - Refreshed bundled Antares 0.4.0 engine library with console bridge and tab-rendering hardening. - Bumped version to 9.3.0 (versionCode 159), signed with the established release key so earlier installs update in place. Android WebView remains the stable fallback. Download the APK below. Source code and build instructions are available in this repository.
• Sep 16, 2026 9.2.0
  ## Solipsism Browser 9.2.0 Stability and rendering release with bundled Antares 0.4.0 engine. ### Highlights - Antares 0.4.0 engine: inline SVG keeps document CSS through rasterization, so class-driven logo paints (Tailwind dark variants, currentColor icon systems) render correctly in both themes. - Dark-scheme vector icons: dark gray icon fills remap to light counterparts; saturated brand colors and photos untouched. - Fixed phone freeze on switching to Antares: content-blocking policy is now served from memory instead of blocking the main thread on the hosts database during tab migration. - Safe external intent forwarding (no more UnsafeIntentLaunchViolation noise, no smuggled extras).

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  - Starter tabs merge with the incoming link instead of dropping it; renderer re-activation deduped. - WebView JS console parity logging; leaner URL-override path; tile-memory trim hook. - Bumped version to 9.2.0 (versionCode 158), signed with the established release key so earlier installs update in place. Android WebView remains the stable fallback. Download the APK below. Source code and build instructions are available in this repository.
• Sep 14, 2026 9.1.3
  ## Solipsism Browser 9.1.3 Small release: top and bottom rail layouts are now generally available, plus the 9.1.2 stability fixes. ### Highlights - Top/bottom navigation rails no longer sit behind an experimental flag: pick any of the four positions in settings or onboarding, no debug toggle needed. - Tab-reselect visibility fix, renderer priority management, preraster tuning against tile-budget blackouts. - Bundled Antares 0.3.1 engine with headless-window paint tolerance. - Bumped version to 9.1.3 (versionCode 157), signed with the established release key so earlier installs update in place.

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  Android WebView remains the stable fallback. Download the APK below. Source code and build instructions are available in this repository.
• Sep 14, 2026 9.1.0
  ## Solipsism Browser 9.1.0 Feature release on top of 9.0.0: bookmark icons, multi-list ad blocking, and themed launcher icons. ### Highlights - Bookmark icons: saving a bookmark captures the open tab's favicon automatically, and the add/edit dialog gains change/reset icon controls with an image picker for a manual PNG/JPG per site. - Multiple remote filter lists: subscribe to any number of hosts-format and Adblock-syntax lists. Each list has its own enable switch, manual refresh, delete, and last-updated stamp under Adblock settings → Filter lists. Opening a filter-list link offers to subscribe on the spot. - Android 13+ themed launcher icon: a dedicated single-color cube traced from the logo, so the icon themes correctly instead of tinting the full-color artwork. - Complete translations for all new strings across the 20 supported locales.

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  - Bumped version to 9.1.0 (versionCode 154), signed with the established release key so 9.0.0 installs update in place. Antares engine status reports 0.3.0; Android WebView remains the stable fallback. Known limitations: Antares remains experimental, and some complex sites, media players and Web APIs may behave differently from Android WebView. Download the APK below. Source code and build instructions are available in this repository.
• Sep 10, 2026 9.0.0
  ## Solipsism Browser 9.0.0 Major release: the complete 8.0.5 feature set, bundled Antares 0.2.3 engine, and onboarding upgrades. ### Highlights - Browser-core chooser with hidden Antares quick-start: long-press the logo on the appearance page to jump straight in with the Black AMOLED preset (black theme, teal accent, right rail, DuckDuckGo). - Native homepage, dual-core tab system, and reworked settings (Basics / Experience / Innovative Features / About) with a unique icon for every entry. - Onboarding shortcuts: globe button for instant in-app language switching, wheelchair button jumping straight to Accessibility settings. - Top and bottom rail layouts alongside left/right, with per-mode constraint handling.

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  - Complete translations: every string now covered in all 20 supported locales. - Black-tab fixes carried forward: background WebView tabs are no longer paused, stalled loads are rescued, and crashed render processes reload automatically instead of staying black. - Bumped version to 9.0.0 (versionCode 153) and the bundled Antares engine to 0.2.3. - Production ARM64/ARMv7 packaging with resource shrinking, signed with the established release key so 8.x installs update in place. Antares is bundled in the same APK; Android WebView remains the stable fallback. Known limitations: Antares remains experimental, and some complex sites, media players and Web APIs may behave differently from Android WebView. Download the APK below. Source code and build instructions are available in this repository.
• Sep 5, 2026 8.0.4
  ## Solipsism Browser 8.0.4 Patch release with Antares engine compatibility and background rendering fixes. ### Highlights - Exposed `element.animate()` with stub playback in the bundled Antares engine, so sites like DuckDuckGo that animate on scroll no longer throw and show an error page. - Stopped pausing background WebView tabs, eliminating surfaces stuck black on return from background and restoring the proven long-standing behaviour. - Bumped version to 8.0.4 (versionCode 151) and the bundled Antares engine to 0.2.2. - Production ARM64/ARMv7 packaging with resource shrinking and release signing.

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  Antares is bundled in the same APK; the release APK ships alongside Android WebView with the Antares Servo-based rendering core built in, and Android WebView remains the stable fallback. Known limitations are unchanged from 8.0.3: Antares remains experimental, and some complex sites, media players and Web APIs may behave differently from Android WebView. Download the APK below. Source code and build instructions are available in this repository.
• Sep 3, 2026 8.0.3
  ## Solipsism Browser 8.0.3 Patch release with Antares engine stability, recovery and memory fixes. ### Highlights - Fixed Antares engine crashes on cross-origin pages. A native panic on cross-origin window access that killed the app, plus a Java/native interface mismatch that aborted startup and misconfigured the engine, are both resolved. Pages that previously died or stayed blank now load. - Bundled rebuilt Antares 0.2.1 engine with the stability fixes. - Recover automatically when the WebView renderer process dies (for example after a system memory kill) by reloading the tab instead of freezing on a stale surface. Rapid repeat deaths back off to avoid loops. - Release tab memory correctly on close and cap closed-tab history so long sessions accumulate less state.

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  - Bumped version to 8.0.3 (versionCode 150). - Production ARM64/ARMv7 packaging with resource shrinking and release signing. Antares is bundled in the same APK; the release APK ships alongside Android WebView with the Antares Servo-based rendering core built in, and Android WebView remains the stable fallback. Known limitations are unchanged from 8.0.2: Antares remains experimental, and some complex sites, media players and Web APIs may behave differently from Android WebView. Download the APK below. Source code and build instructions are available in this repository.
• Sep 2, 2026 8.0.1
  ## Solipsism Browser 8.0.1 Patch release removing the recurring Antares engine update prompt. ### Highlights - Removed the "Antares Engine update available" dialog that appeared on every launch when the installed Antares engine was older than the reminder's threshold. The reminder was dismissible but not persistable, so it kept reappearing on each reopen. Solipsism now launches cleanly regardless of the Antares engine version. - Bumped version to 8.0.1 (versionCode 148). - Production ARM64/ARMv7 packaging with resource shrinking and release signing.

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  Antares is bundled in the same APK; the release APK ships alongside Android WebView with the Antares Servo-based rendering core built in, and Android WebView remains the stable fallback. Known limitations are unchanged from 8.0.0: Antares remains experimental, and some complex sites, media players and Web APIs may behave differently from Android WebView. Download the APK below. Source code and build instructions are available in this repository.
• Aug 30, 2026 7.0.3
  ## Solipsism 7.0.3 - Updated Solipsism and Antares compatibility metadata. - Improved Antares signing and callback trust handling. - Updated search-engine display naming and onboarding UI. - Release APK is ARM64/ARMv7 compatible. The companion Antares engine is distributed separately. Install Antares 0.2.0 for experimental Servo-based browsing.
• Aug 29, 2026 7.0.2
  Security and compatibility update - Adds compatibility with trusted legacy Antares installations. - Older Antares versions remain usable and receive an update reminder linking to GitHub releases. - Accepts compatible Antares protocol versions 12 through 14. - Uses the shared release signing identity for trusted Solipsism and Antares installation. - Antares downloads are directed to GitHub Releases.
• Aug 28, 2026 7.0.1
  ## Highlights - Fixed Antares in-page text input on Android 17 by keeping keyboard ownership in Solipsism and forwarding text and key events over the engine protocol. - Added safer cross-process IME handling for Unicode input, deletion, Enter, and dismissal. - Improved Antares form-control layout so auto-sized text and search inputs follow their HTML preferred size. - Added a generic regression test for automatic input sizing. - Updated the companion-engine protocol to version 13. ## Compatibility

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  - Antares remains experimental and is installed separately. - The attached APK is an ARM64 build signed with the local development key used for companion-engine testing.
• Aug 28, 2026 7.0.0
  ## Solipsism Browser 7.0.0 ### Installing the optional Antares core 1. Install this signed Solipsism APK. 2. Download and install the matching arm64 **Antares Engine** APK from the [Antares releases](https://github.com/Kenneth-Cho-InfoSec/Antares/releases). 3. Open Solipsism and choose Antares in the browser-core chooser or Debug Settings. 4. Both packages are required. Android WebView remains the stable fallback. ### Highlights

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  - Added the Antares experimental browser-core integration, with secure companion-package binding and runtime core selection. - Added a native offline homepage with bookmarks, shortcuts and consistent rendering when creating or restoring tabs. - Added first-run setup for browser core, theme, AMOLED black, accent colour, navigation rail position and search engine. - Added Antares/WebView tab-content lifecycle handling, loading-state tracking, media bridging and coordinate diagnostics. - Added generic media-source handling and improved video playback lifecycle across tab switches. - Added compatibility user-agent controls, including a Chrome-compatible mode for supported sites. - Added preference-aware ad and tracker blocking with immediate policy updates. - Added Screenshot Studio improvements, image search workflow and safer temporary-image handling. - Added expanded accessibility behaviour, including announcements and Text-to-Speech support. - Added rail and overflow-menu customisation, configurable quick actions and improved Material 3 layouts. - Improved tab switching, URL/search-bar interaction, homepage persistence, downloads, bookmarks and privacy controls. ### Known limitations Antares is experimental. Some complex sites, including YouTube and Amazon, may have incomplete interaction, CAPTCHA, media playback or compatibility behaviour. Android WebView remains available as the stable fallback.
• Aug 22, 2026 6.1.7
  ## What's fixed - Addresses #36: tapping the new-tab control in the tab panel now creates exactly one tab. - Removed the duplicate synthetic click from the Material press-feedback handler while preserving its animation and Android's standard click and accessibility dispatch. - Added a Robolectric regression test that verifies one physical tap produces one click. ## Verification - Repeated new-tab taps tested on an Android 17 AVD; the tab count advanced one at a time with no crash. - The signed release APK was installed and tested separately on the Android 17 AVD.

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  - Unit tests, Android lint, and the production release build pass. **APK SHA-256:** `40a84aab9830972af4c9afd20157e27eae8e12a6b5746d2446de3154f4d44af4`
• Aug 20, 2026 6.1.6
  ## What's changed - Migrated the remaining Java production sources to Kotlin. - Preserved hashing, URL parsing, bookmark import/export, MIME probing, and download behaviour. - Added regression tests for MurmurHash, WebAddress, and bookmark import handling. - Updated the application to version 6.1.6. - Updated the launcher icon artwork. ## Verification

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  - Unit tests passed. - Debug and release builds passed. - Debug and release lint checks passed. - Signed APK verified with APK Signature Scheme v2 and v3. SHA-256: `f4d2edc5f6103eb396a9a3c1299823b7acb638d4c55f5c9ff608fd15da3a2e93`
• Aug 11, 2026 6.1.4
  ### Highlights - Updated the app to version 6.1.4. - Improved accessibility metadata, touch activation feedback, RTL layout support, and autofill behaviour. - Fixed Rx subscription lifecycle handling and download stream cleanup. - Added Android 12+ backup and data-extraction rules that keep private browser data out of backups. - Improved adaptive launcher icon resources and removed obsolete duplicate assets. - Removed obsolete API-level resources and corrected localisation plural and typography metadata. - Removed redundant layout backgrounds and corrected MIME-aware custom download intents.

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  ### Validation - Unit tests passed. - Debug lint completed successfully. - Release APK build completed successfully. - APK signature verified with APK Signature Scheme v2 and v3.
• Aug 11, 2026 6.1.2
  ## What's changed - Renamed the user-agent control to **Display As**. - Shows the active choice in context, such as **Display As: Desktop**. - Updated overflow-menu and rail accessibility labels to reflect the selected display mode. - Moved Rail Position into General settings with hand-orientation guidance. - Preserved existing preference keys and experimental rail-position behaviour. ## Verification

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  - Release APK built successfully. - APK signature verified with Android APK Signature Scheme v2 and v3. - SHA-256: `9c52691bd5ae3c2b7162d36b854ed739fd1a676f96b8d6f6b68b96793645e545`.
• Aug 10, 2026 6.1.0
  ## What’s new - Added Rail & Menu Studio for customising rail actions and quick actions. - Added one-time release notes shown after an app update. - Added optional update reminders with direct APK and release-page links. - Added About settings to control release notes and update notifications. - Added a generated GitHub release manifest for reliable website and app release synchronisation. - Added release parsing, trusted download URL validation, APK selection, and version comparison tests. - Improved release archive deep links and fallback handling.

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  ## Verification - Release APK assembled and signed with Solipsism’s release key. - APK signature verified with Android APK Signature Scheme v2 and v3. - SHA-256: `b566517eb2017e3e927e546fec882af4f102c2c272ee70b3f159915169ad217a`
• Aug 9, 2026 6.0.1
  ## Solipsism Browser 6.0.1 ### Screenshot Studio - Fixed Screenshot Studio content overlapping the Android status bar. - Made Save image and Search actions visible, equal-width, and Material 3 styled. - Improved screenshot capture retries when a page is not ready. - Corrected selection coordinates for letterboxed screenshots. - Closed selection outlines automatically and increased their visibility. - Search now processes the selected crop as a temporary JPEG.

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  ### Image search - Added background Yandex visual classification for the selected crop. - Yandex is never shown as a browsing page. - The first recognised image label is sent to Google Images as a text search inside Solipsism. ### Reliability - Added capture failure logging and retry handling. - Release APK built and signed locally with APK Signature Scheme v2/v3.
• Aug 8, 2026 6.0.0
  Solipsism Browser 6.0.0 is a major feature release focused on private, one-handed browsing and practical power-user tools. Highlights: - Added Vault for saving and reopening private links. - Added Screenshot Studio with region selection, saving and image search. - Added configurable rail utility actions for QR, Vault or Screenshot. - Added Android Text-to-Speech page read-aloud support. - Added long-press Home immersive fullscreen and optional rail hiding. - Added folding-phone user-agent support and zoom overrides for restricted pages. - Added automatic image-to-JPEG saving, custom download-manager support and improved download metadata handling.

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  - Added download-history clearing, Download Decoy Mode and Bookmark Decoy Mode. - Added bookmark search, favicons, import behaviour and sorting controls. - Improved homepage persistence and automatic popup blocking. - Refined Material 3 settings, dialogs, haptics, AMOLED presentation and accessibility controls. Compatibility: - Minimum Android version: Android 8.0 (API 26). - Release APK is signed with the project release key. - Android WebView provider capabilities and device behaviour may affect some browser features. Validation: - Release build completed successfully. - APK signature verified with APK Signature Scheme v2 and v3. - Version code 131, version name 6.0.0.
• Aug 8, 2026 5.4.0
  ## Solipsism Browser 5.4.0 ### Improvements - Added configurable custom download manager support. - Improved image download handling and JPEG conversion preferences. - Added viewport zoom override support for sites that restrict zoom. - Improved full-screen and system-bar handling. - Fixed tab and download interaction edge cases. - Updated About → Open Source Licences with third-party dependency versions and licence details. - AMOLED mode now uses a true-black navigation rail for OLED power savings.

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  ### Validation - Release APK built with Gradle. - APK signature verified with APK Signature Scheme v2/v3. The attached APK is signed with the project release key.
• Aug 8, 2026 5.3.3
  ## Solipsism Browser v5.3.3 ### Highlights - Added a User agent action to the three-dots menu. - Switch quickly between Default, Desktop, Mobile, and Custom user-agent profiles. - Persist the selected profile for future tabs and reload the active page once after changing it. - Improved JPEG conversion for image downloads whose MIME type is missing but whose filename identifies a PNG, WebP, GIF, AVIF, or BMP image. - Added coverage for missing-MIME image filename handling. - Updated the app version to 5.3.3 (version code 128).

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  ### Validation - Unit tests, lint, compilation, and release assembly completed successfully. - Signed APK verified with APK Signature Scheme v2 and v3. This release is signed with the new Solipsism release key.
• Jul 31, 2026 5.3.1
  ## Solipsism Browser 5.3.1 This release adds a more complete haptics experience and improves settings organization and reliability. ### Highlights - Added separate haptic controls for screenshot capture, rail swiping, and individual interactions. - Added screenshot haptic intensity control, defaulting to 70%. - Added linear and nonlinear rail-swipe intensity curves. - Added built-in Default, Pixel, Samsung, and Accessibility Optimized interaction presets.

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  - Added export/import for user-created haptic presets. - Reorganized settings into Basics, Experience, Innovative Features, and About. - Improved settings search spacing and icon presentation. - Fixed crashes caused by opening interaction haptic controls. - Fixed trusted in-app Downloads and History pages being blocked by WebView file-access restrictions. - Improved spacing around the tabs list header. The APK attached to this release is signed with the current release key. F-Droid was not updated as part of this release.
• Jul 31, 2026 5.2.0
• Jul 30, 2026 5.3.0
  ## Solipsism Browser 5.3.0 ### Highlights - Added independent Audio settings under Graphics, including custom EQ presets and left/right channel testing. - Added custom font support with validated local font import. - Added experimental top and bottom rail layouts behind Debug settings. - Added the compact rail book icon for tab access. - Improved homepage customization and verified sanitized custom HTML homepage loading. ### Security and reliability

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  - Hardened intent:// handling to allow only HTTP(S) destinations. - Restricted internal file-page access to Solipsism-generated private pages. - Blocked arbitrary public-storage file navigation and malformed file paths. - Preserved disabled JavaScript, file access, downloads, forms, frames, and popups for custom HTML homepages. - Verified release build, signature, AVD installation, homepage behavior, unit tests, localization resources, and logcat stability. The attached APK is release-signed with the current Kenneth-Cho-InfoSec signing key. F-Droid publication is not included in this release.