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v34.0.10 (2026-02-13)

Features

Plugins

  • Widgets BoxModel · Warn on icon rendering taking too long

Performance

Plugins

  • Widgets BoxModel · Warm up font rendering

Fixes

Core

  • GeneratorQueryHandler · Workaround Qt 6.4 deadlocks
  • BackgroundExecutor · Workaround Qt 6.4 deadlocks

v34.0.9 (2026-02-13)

Fixes

Core

  • widgetsboxmodel · Accidentially released dev branch

Plugins

  • URL Handler · Disable implict input action

v34.0.8 (2026-02-13)

Fixes

Plugins

  • Python plugins · Dependent template breaks almost all builds

Miscellaneous Tasks

Core

  • Remove title from cliff templates

Plugins

  • GitHub · Remove leftover debug output

v34.0.7 (2026-02-12)

Fixes

  • Python plugins · Default trigger overrides not used

v34.0.6 (2026-02-12)

Features

Plugins

  • Files · Treat depth 0 as special value (infty)
  • Python plugins
    • Let default trigger be module name
    • Add prefpanes plugin

Fixes

Core

  • Remove unnecessary redundancy in global query log
  • Avoid holding a lock while calling plugin code

Plugins

  • Files · File item completion
  • Jetbrains projects · Python 3.12 problems
  • Python plugins · PyPluginLoader · Do not hold GIL while emitting finished signal
  • Timers · Disable auto input action text

Miscellaneous Tasks

Core

  • cliff · Ignore plugin release commits
  • Remove unreleased changes from changelog

Plugins

  • PacMan · Add maintainer

v34.0.5 (2026-02-04)

Features

Plugins

  • Jetbrains projects · Global query handling
  • VSCode projects · Support workspaces and singlefile recents

Performance

Plugins

  • Jetbrains projects · Debounce projects cache update

Fixes

Core

  • Run calls to items() threaded

Plugins

  • Chromium · GCC13 builds
  • PacMan · Query context variable
  • Pass · Pass generate could have empty location

Miscellaneous Tasks

Core

  • Change motivational text in plugins tab placeholder widget

Plugins

  • Bitwarden · Add maintainer
  • Jetbrains projects · Update readme

v34.0.4 (2026-02-02)

Features

Plugins

  • Albert · Show composed dir icon on albert dirs
  • Files · Default to case insensitive matching for fs browsers
  • Spotify · Add open settings action on error items
  • Widgets BoxModel
    • Linear-gradient brush support
    • Add ubuntu prototype theme

Fixes

Core

  • Link to extension website

Plugins

  • Widgets BoxModel · Correct input_hint_color default

Miscellaneous Tasks

Core

  • Update FAQ link

Plugins

  • Albert · Translation correction
  • Chromium
    • Log reason on favicons db copy failure
    • Add some more data directories
    • Scan for profiles on init only if none configured
  • Files
    • Drop static dir mime type
    • Do not store mime types, fetch mimetype on demand
  • Spotify · Update german translations
  • Widgets BoxModel · Update README

v34.0.3 (2026-01-28)

Features

Plugins

  • Applications
    • macOS · Use default terminal for *.command files
    • Add cosmic-term support
    • Support guake terminal
  • Chromium
    • [BREAKING] · Add profile selection combo box
    • Add option "Show favicons"
  • Clipboard · Use clipboard emoji icon

Performance

Plugins

  • Widgets BoxModel · Cache icon by item identifier

Fixes

Core

  • RankedQueryHandler · Do not call rankItems on main thread
  • Segfault on plugin selection of unloaded plugin

Plugins

  • Bitwarden · Return type and attr error
  • Clipboard · Deadlock on clipboard change
  • Date and time · Timer not started/stopped in same thread
  • Python plugins
    • Empty debug line
    • Missing dependencies are not automatically installed
    • Duplicate interpreter config dump

Miscellaneous Tasks

Plugins

  • Applications · Update translations
  • Bluetooth · Add README link
  • Chromium
    • Add README
    • Platform specific base dirs
  • Python plugins
    • Update translations
    • Comment config dumps

v34.0.2 (2026-01-21)

Fixes

Plugins

  • Applications · Non persistent and ineffective applications options
  • Python plugins
    • Pip freeze parsing
    • Reset venv when Python version changed
    • Handle errors of process executions

Documentation

  • Give the albert namespace a docstring
  • Remove reference to ExtensionRegistry

Miscellaneous Tasks

Core

  • Codesign bundle with local certificate

Plugins

  • Python plugins
    • Instantiate plugins on main thread
    • Drop dynamic dependecy installation

v34.0.1 (2026-01-19)

Fixes

Core

  • Misleading tooltip in query widget
  • Segfault on initial run

Plugins

  • Date and time
    • "Show date on empty query" not persisent
    • Segfaults due to timers controlled from different threads

Documentation

  • Fix missing graphemeDefaultBrush docs
  • Remove leftover icon topic
  • Group App functions

Miscellaneous Tasks

  • gitlint · Ignore body min length

v34.0.0 (2026-01-19)

Features

Core

  • [BREAKING] Tokenize strings using unicode word boundaries
  • Add 🕚 inputhint to global query wildcard
  • Add Homebrew plugin

Plugins

  • Arch Linux Wiki · Infinite scrolling
  • Documentation · Allow custom docsets
  • GitHub
    • Use a placeholder icon to impove visual appearance
    • Lazily fetch pages (Infinite scroll)
  • Kill Process · Support all platforms
  • Obsidian
    • Flatpak app support
    • Snapcraft support
  • Python plugins · Add firefox plugin
  • Spotify · Lazy item generation (Infinite scroll)
  • Widgets BoxModel
    • Customizable window properties
    • Drop "quit on close" option
  • Wikipedia · Infinite scrolling

API

Core

  • [BREAKING] Drop property.h
  • [BREAKING] Rename bind to bindWidget
  • [BREAKING] Drop util namespace
  • [BREAKING] Drop tryCreateDirectory
  • [BREAKING] Expose the UsageScoring class
  • [BREAKING] Remove color macros from public interface
  • [BREAKING] Simplify UsageScoring API
  • [BREAKING] Add asynchronous query handling support
  • [BREAKING] BackgroundExecutor · Remove any logging or exception handling
  • Make template<typename T> T* extension(const QString &id) const
  • [BREAKING] Move UsageScoring into the Query
  • [BREAKING] Add object oriented global App interface
  • [BREAKING] Remove const from global query handlers parameter
  • [BREAKING] Add GeneratorQueryHandler class
  • [BREAKING] Drop GlobalQueryHandler::handleGlobalQuery
  • [BREAKING] Rename Query to QueryContext
  • [BREAKING] Rename ThreadedQueryHandler to RankedQueryHandler
  • Add class AsyncGeneratorQueryHandler
  • [BREAKING] Rename QueryContext::string to QueryContext::query
  • Make QueryContext::isValid thread-safe
  • Asynchronous PluginInstance initialization
  • [BREAKING] PluginInstance · Remove keychain API
  • [BREAKING] Facade ExtensionRegistry behind App interface
  • [BREAKING] Redesign icon API

Plugins

  • Python plugins · [BREAKING] · Python plugin interface v5.0

Performance

Plugins

  • Calculator · Initialize calculator in background thread
  • Documentation · Asynchronous initialization
  • Python plugins · Asynchronous plugin initialization

Fixes

Core

  • No tray icon on xdg platforms
  • Taborder in settingswidget
  • QueryResults · Proper tr context
  • OAuth · Do not silently fail on incorrect credentials
  • Prevent segfaults on plugin unload while window is visible
  • GlobalQuery · Threading bugs
  • Replace leftover bool ref stop token
  • Add icon.h to header file set
  • Use clang for dedicated plugin test builds
  • configWidget call on unloaded plugin
  • Workaround Qt 6.4 deadlocks
  • Dead link in CONTRIBUTING.md
  • Mute shadow warnings
  • Mute -Wunused warnings

Plugins

  • CopyQ · Invalid return type
  • Debug · Workaround GCC13 bugs
  • Docker · Proper tag handling
  • Documentation · Extract docsets into the docset directory
  • Emoji · Loading error when locale is 'C'
  • Files · Apply mime filter to the root item.
  • GitHub
    • Fix typos in logs
    • Avoid writing keychain on initial read
    • Workaround GCC13 bugs (Ubuntu 24.04).
  • Obsidian · Backward compatibility
  • Pass · Correct license
  • Python plugins
    • Python AST API dropped attr Str
    • Fix virtual dispatch of GlobalQueryHandler::items
    • Fix virtual dispatch of IndexQueryHandler::items
    • Fix virtual dispatch of IndexQueryHandler::rankItems
    • Use regular exceptions instead of pybind11_fail
  • Spotify
    • Broken error icon lookup
    • Avoid unneccesary writes to keychain on initial read
  • Widgets BoxModel
    • Correct window_shadow_size literal
    • Segfaults on null query
    • Derive palette from app instead style

Documentation

Core

  • Structure by topics
  • Update doxygen topic structure
  • Update query handlers documentation
  • Update ALBERT_PLUGIN macro documentation
  • Fix maintainers field documentation
  • Document how to handle plugin initialization failure
  • Add a note on GCC-13 generator bugs
  • PluginLoader · Move contract into class description
  • Reorder changelog groups

Plugins

  • Documentation · Document the custom docset feature

Testing

Plugins

  • Files · Fix tests according to d033020b89f0306eaf09fdf95070e1697ed7c633
  • Python plugins · Update tests

Miscellaneous Tasks

Core

  • Mute -Wshadow warnings
  • docker · Build test images with Clang and Ninja
  • test · Mute -Wunused-result warnings
  • changelog · Group plugin commits if >1
  • Rename plugin path to commandline
  • Mute clazy-fully-qualified-moc-types
  • Print theme search paths on start
  • RateLimiter · Async acquire support
  • Drop Widgetsboxmodel QSS frontend
  • Git ignore ".qtcreator"
  • StandardIconType · Add values and documentation
  • Telemetry · Derive QObject, use proper context objects
  • Remove global engine access on item activation
  • RPCServer · Avoid using QtPrivate
  • QueryEngine · Emit signal per handler type
  • Separate plugin macros from config.h into plugin.h
  • Do not export privately linked dependencies
  • docker · Pull qcoro dependencies
  • GlobalQuery · Print diag and add results of valid queries only
  • Update translations
  • CI · Update macos build system
  • CI · Add QCoro dependency
  • Run dedicated plugin test builds in docker files
  • Do not print plugin exceptions to the root logging category
  • Update changelog template
  • Revert to GCC builds
  • Do not send anything if users opt out telemetry

Plugins

  • AUR
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • Albert
    • Adapt API changes
    • Use new icon API
  • Applications
    • Adapt API changes
    • Drop soft hyphen removal
    • Use new icon API
  • Arch Linux Wiki
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • Bitwarden
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • Bluetooth
    • Adapt API changes
    • Use new icon API
  • Caffeine
    • Adapt API changes
    • Use new icon API
  • Calculator
    • Adapt API changes
    • Use new icon API
  • Chromium
    • Adapt API changes
    • Use new icon API
  • Clipboard
    • Adapt API changes
    • Remove unused include
    • Adapt new icon API
  • CoinGecko
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add readme
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • Contacts
    • Adapt API changes
    • Remove legacy shared_ptr holder
    • Adapt new icon API
  • CopyQ
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • Date and time
    • Adapt API changes
    • Adapt new icon API
  • Debug
    • Adapt API changes
    • Adapt new icon API
  • Dictionary
    • Adapt API changes
    • Adapt new icon API
  • Docker
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • Documentation
    • Add README content
    • Document the custom dataset feature
    • Adapt API changes
    • Drop legacy workaraound for lacking move semantics
    • Adapt new icon API
  • Emoji
    • Increase interface version
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • Files
    • Adapt API changes
    • Fix test
    • Remove unused include
    • Adapt new icon API
  • GitHub
    • Adapt API changes
    • Move all saved search handling into root handler
    • Adapt further API changes
    • Use qtkeychain directly
    • Adapt new icon API
  • GoldenDict
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • Hash Generator
    • Adapt API changes
    • Adapt new icon API
  • Jetbrains projects
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • Kill Process
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • Locate
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • Media player remote
    • Adapt API changes
    • Adapt new icon API
  • Menu bar
    • Adapt API changes
    • Adapt new icon API
  • Obsidian
    • Fix range-loop-detach warning
    • Print found vaults to console
    • Adapt API changes
    • Index all vaults on change
    • Adapt further API changes
    • Adapt new icon API
  • PacMan
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • Pass
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • Pomodoro
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • Python Eval
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • Python plugins
    • Drop plugin duckduckgo
    • Remove unused include
    • Update plugins
  • SSH
    • Adapt API changes
    • Adapt new icon API
  • Snippets
    • Adapt API changes
    • Avoid -Wunused
    • Update translations
    • Adapt new icon API
  • Spotify
    • Adapt API changes
    • Use detail::DyamicItem
    • TrackItem · Show only authors in description
    • ArtistItem · Show followers and genres in description
    • AlbumItem · Show only artists in description
    • PlaylistItem · Show only owner in description
    • ShowItem · Show only publisher in description
    • EpisodeItem · Show only description in description
    • AudiobookItem · Show only authors in description
    • Further adaption of API changes
    • Use qtkeychain directly
    • Adapt new icon API
  • Syncthing
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • System
    • Adapt API changes
    • Remove unused include
    • Adapt new icon API
  • TeX to Unicode
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • Time zones
    • Adapt API changes
    • Adapt new icon API
  • Timers
    • Adapt API changes
    • Adapt new icon API
  • Translator
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • URL Handler
    • Adapt API changes
    • Adapt new icon API
  • Unit Converter
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • VPN
    • Adapt API changes
    • Adapt new icon API
  • VSCode projects
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • VirtualBox
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • Web search
    • Adapt API changes
    • Adapt new icon API
  • Widgets BoxModel
    • Adapt API changes
    • Mute missing context object warning
    • Take namespace of the old WBM frontend
    • Adapt new icon API
  • Wikipedia
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
  • X Window Switcher
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes
    • Add maintainer
  • Zeal
    • Adapt to API changes
    • Add CODEOWNERS
    • Adapt icon API changes

v33.0.1 (2025-10-15)

Core changes

Fixes

  • Workaround hidpi icon Qt bug

Miscellaneous Tasks

  • QIconEngineAdapter · Remove drawing code

v33.0.0 (2025-10-14)

Core changes

Features

  • triggersqueryhandler · Add fuzzy support
  • tray · Install the app tray icon on xdg
  • Built-in fallback theme support
  • PluginQueryHandler · Add 'Load'/'Reload' actions
  • User customizable PATH

Fixes

  • triggersqueryhandler · Properly sync triggers
  • rankitem · Correct inverted text length in operator<
  • globalquery · Remove leftover explicit comparator
  • Update wayland faq link

Performance

  • rankitem · Avoid multiple string allocations in comparison (🚀200%)
  • globalqueryhandler · Instant response times in handleTriggerQuery

API

  • Add util::percentEncoded
  • Add util::percentDecoded
  • [BREAKING] Add customizable and typesafe icon support
  • PluginInstance · [BREAKING] Asynchronous keychain access

Documentation

  • cmake-macros · Add missing metadata fields
  • plugininstance · Add \ref, remove \since, some updates.
  • extensionplugin · Add doxygen references
  • TriggerQueryHandler · Update doxygen documentation

Miscellaneous Tasks

  • Add api group to gitlint
  • Remove justfile
  • Add git cliff configuration
  • Move frontend resources into frontend repository
  • Scoring · Fetch exceptions thrown from items
  • Replace about text with list of links
  • Notify on major version change

Plugin changes

Features

  • Albert · Use paths of app data locations as input action text
  • Applications · Add sakura terminal support
  • Bluetooth · Linux/BlueZ support
  • Bluetooth · Device icon based on class of device
  • Clipboard · Add fuzzy support
  • Documentation · icon · Pixel density dependent icon
  • Jetbrains projects · Handle multiple config dir prefixes (#4)
  • Jetbrains projects · Update icons to 2025 (#5)
  • Python Eval · Customizable list of modules to preload
  • VirtualBox · Use SDK manually installed into venv

Fixes

  • Applications · macOS · Index apps in $HOME/Applications
  • Calculator · Remove completion on evaluation errors
  • Emoji · Do not lower others while capitalizing 1st char
  • GitHub · Correct endpoint in "Show on GitHub" action
  • Menu bar · Mutex item acces
  • PacMan · Remove trigger from input action
  • Python Eval · Remove trigger from input action
  • Python plugins · Add missing setTrigger trampoline
  • System · Strict standard conform array initialization

Performance

  • Spotify · Select smallest picture greater than 128px

API

  • Python plugins · [BREAKING] · Reflect core API changes in the Python API.

Documentation

  • Python plugins · Unify and update links
  • Python plugins · Polish stubfile. Minor fixes.
  • Python plugins · IndexQueryHandler · Mark final methods @final

Testing

  • Python plugins · Add additional tests

Miscellaneous Tasks

  • AUR · Add maintainer
  • AUR · Add README
  • AUR · Adopt v4 API changes
  • AUR · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • Albert · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Applications · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Applications · Make exec_args usable on all platforms
  • Arch Linux Wiki · Adopt v4 API changes
  • Arch Linux Wiki · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • Bitwarden · Add README
  • Bitwarden · Adopt v4 API changes
  • Bitwarden · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • Bluetooth · Platform abstraction
  • Bluetooth · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Caffeine · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Calculator · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Chromium · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Clipboard · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • CoinGecko · Adopt v4 API changes
  • CoinGecko · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • Contacts · Remove unused code
  • Contacts · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Contacts · Avoid copyingitems vector on indexing
  • CopyQ · Adopt v4 API changes
  • CopyQ · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • Date and time · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Debug · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Dictionary · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Docker · Adopt v4 API changes
  • Docker · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • DuckDuckGo · Adopt v4 API changes
  • DuckDuckGo · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • Emoji · Add maintainers
  • Emoji · Adopt v4 API changes
  • Emoji · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • Files · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • GitHub · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • GitHub · Adapt to async keychain API
  • GoldenDict · Add README
  • GoldenDict · Adopt v4 API changes
  • GoldenDict · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • Hash Generator · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Jetbrains projects · Add maintainers
  • Jetbrains projects · Adopt v4 API changes
  • Jetbrains projects · Add README
  • Jetbrains projects · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • Kill Process · Add maintainer
  • Kill Process · Adopt v4 API changes
  • Kill Process · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • Locate · Adopt v4 API changes
  • Locate · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • Media player remote · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Menu bar · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Obsidian · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • PATH · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • PacMan · Add README
  • PacMan · Adopt v4 API changes
  • PacMan · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • Pass · Add maintainers
  • Pass · Adopt v4 API changes
  • Pass · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • Pomodoro · Adopt v4 API changes
  • Pomodoro · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • Python Eval · Adopt v4 API changes
  • Python Eval · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • Python plugins · Drop color plugin
  • Python plugins · Drop dice_roll plugin
  • Python plugins · Use smart_holders for items
  • Python plugins · >3.9 typing annotations
  • Python plugins · Update to pybind v3.0.1
  • Python plugins · Refactor and minor optimizations.
  • SSH · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Snippets · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Spotify · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Spotify · Adopt async keychain API
  • Syncthing · Adopt v4 API changes
  • Syncthing · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • System · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • TeX to Unicode · Add maintainers
  • TeX to Unicode · Adopt v4 API changes
  • TeX to Unicode · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • Time zones · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Timers · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Translator · Adopt v4 API changes
  • Translator · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • URL Handler · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Unit Converter · Add maintainers
  • Unit Converter · Adopt v4 API changes
  • Unit Converter · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • VPN · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • VSCode projects · Add maintainer
  • VSCode projects · Adopt v4 API changes
  • VSCode projects · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • VirtualBox · Adopt v4 API changes
  • VirtualBox · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • Web search · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Widgets BoxModel · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Widgets BoxModel · Adopt changes of async keychain
  • Widgets BoxModel QSS · icon · Adapt to updated icon API
  • Widgets BoxModel QSS · Adopt API changes of async keychain
  • Wikipedia · Adopt v4 API changes
  • Wikipedia · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • X Window Switcher · Adopt v4 API changes
  • X Window Switcher · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes
  • Zeal · Adopt v4 API changes
  • Zeal · Adopt v4 StandardItem API changes

v0.32.1 (2025-08-21)

Albert

  • Fix plugins list view borders in breeze styles

Plugins

  • github
    • Add saved search action "Show on GitHub"
  • obsidian
    • Fix obsidian.json path on xdg platforms
  • widgetsboxmodel
    • Fix window property signals

v0.32.0 (2025-08-16)

Albert

  • Add plugin: Obsidian

API

  • Let runAppleScript return the result and throw on error
  • Add maintainers to metadata
  • Move InputHistory to namespace detail

Plugins

  • clipboard
    • Specialize behavior of different platforms Qt on macOS does not deliver clipboard changes reliably. Poll on macos. React on clipboard changes everywhere else.
  • copyq
    • v3 Add macOS support
  • kill
    • Add platform filter.
  • obsidian 🆕
  • python
    • API v3.1 Add additional metadata fields
      • md_maintainers
      • md_readme_url
      • md_platforms

v0.31.1 (2025-07-29)

Fix pre Qt6.7 builds not supporting QString spaceship operator

v0.31.0 (2025-07-28)

API

  • Move applyUsageScore into TriggerQueryHandler
  • GlobalQueryHandler::applyUsageScore pass by reference

Plugins

  • python Add plugins as submodules
  • ssh v10
    • Allow customizing the ssh command
    • Allow customizing the remote command
  • locate v3
    • Drop update database action
    • Filter using Matcher
    • Use system file icons

v0.30.1 (2025-07-12)

Plugins

  • contacts
    • Use AppleScript to open contacts which allows setting a selection.
  • github
    • Avoid downloading icons multiple times
  • python
    • Use pip freeze instead of inspect to check for existing packages

v0.30.0 (2025-06-30)

Adds minor API improvements and new plugins Spotify (WIP) and VSCode.

Albert

  • Add construction site emojis to beta plugins title

API

  • Move Action into item.h. Apply perfect forwarding in ctor.
  • API: Add QString albert::util::runAppleScript(const QString &script)
  • Move DesktopEntryParser from app plugin into private albert API

Plugins

  • files
    • Index trash item also by native title
    • Fix link paths
  • github
    • Fix translations of listview headers
    • Drop fixed listview height
  • mediaremote
    • v7
      • Drop public API
      • Reintroduce multi player support
      • Nice composed icons
  • spotify 🆕

Python plugins

  • vscode_projects 🆕
  • translators Improve description

v0.29.4 (2025-06-27)

Albert

  • Add optional field "readme_url" to metadata. Add a link in the plugin settings if it is available
  • Fix dysfunctional url scheme handler

v0.29.3 (2025-06-26)

Fix release.

v0.29.2 (2025-06-25)

Hotfix release.

v0.29.1 (2025-06-24)

Hotfix gitmodules private link causing all Linux builds to fail

v0.29.0 (2025-06-24)

  • New GitHub plugin
  • Next step in making the API more developer friendly

Albert

  • Move AppQueryHandler into plugin

API

  • c++23 👋
  • Make PluginLoader asynchronous
  • StandardItem changes
    • Make input_action_text the last constructor argument
    • Apply perfect forwarding in constructor and shared_ptr factory.
    • The default behavior of inputActionText() is to return name() if input_action_text is the null string. Set input_action_text explicitly to the empty string to get no input action text at all.
  • Return text() in Item::inputActionText base implementation
  • Remove frontend related classes from public API
  • Add albert::util::toQString(const std::filesystem::path&)
  • Simplify messagebox functions
  • Add modal parent parameter to messagbox utils
  • Drop makeRestRequest from networkutil.h
  • Move ExtensionPlugin into util namespace
  • Move TelemetryProvider into private namespace
  • Rename albert::util::FileDownloader to albert::util::Download
  • Add shared_ptr<Download> albert::util::Download::unique(const QUrl &url, const QString &path)
  • Move plugin dependecies into albert::util namespace

Plugins

  • application
    • Moved from core to plugin
  • applications
    • Read env variable ALBERT_APPLICATIONS_COMMAND_PREFIX
  • bluetooth
    • Fix MRU order
  • caffeine
    • Fix completion behavior
  • docs
    • Index docsets in background thread
  • github 🆕
  • python
    • Check and install missing dependencies before loading plugins
    • Add button that opens terminal in activated venv
  • ssh
    • Fix missing sort in triggered handler
  • widgetsboxmodel
    • Remove deprecated theme info
    • Support F/B bindings for pgdown/pgup

v0.28.2 (2025-06-20)

Hotfix index initialization

v0.28.1 (2025-06-19)

Fix release.

v0.28.0 (2025-05-30)

Albert

  • Make global and triggered triggersqueryhandler behave the same

API

  • Force plugins to not convert from ascii.
  • Move system related functions into systemutil.h
    • Remove void open(const std::string &path);
    • Remove default param workdir in runDetachedProcess
    • Add long long runDetachedProcess(const QStringList&);
    • Remove open(const std::string &path);
    • Add open(const std::filesystem::path &path);
  • Remove Query::isFinished()
  • Changes to albert::util::InputHistory
    • Add uint limit() const;
    • Add void setLimit(uint);
    • Support multiline entries (store in JSON format)
  • Add keychain support
    • Add QString PluginInstance::readKeychain(const QString & key) const;
    • Add void writeKeychain(const QString & key, const QString & value);
  • Iconprovider add mask: and comp: schemes
    • mask: Mask a given icon given a radius divisor.
    • comp: Composes two given icons.
  • Move messagebox utils to messagebox.h
  • Move utility symbols into albert::util namespace
  • Add class albert::util::FileDownLoader
  • Add class albert::util::OAuthConfigWidget
  • Add class albert::util::OAuth
  • Add widgetsutil.h
    • Add bind function for QCheckBox
    • Add bind function for QLineEdit
    • Add bind function for QSpinBox
    • Add bind function for QDoubleSpinBox
    • Remove ALBERT_PROPERTY_CONNECT_* macros
  • Add networkutil.h
    • Move albert::network() to albert::util::network
    • Add waitForFinished(QNetworkReply *reply)
    • Add QNetworkRequest makeRestRequest(…)
  • Add CMake macros
    • albert_plugin_link_qt
    • albert_plugin_dbus_interface
    • albert_plugin_sources
    • albert_plugin_link
    • albert_plugin_include_directories
    • albert_plugin_i18n
    • albert_plugin_generate_metadata
    • albert_plugin_compile_options
  • Add dynamic items feature
    • Add interface class albert::Item::Observer
    • Add void albert::Item::addObserver(Observer *observer);
    • Add void albert::Item::removeObserver(Observer *observer);
  • Add albert: scheme handling support
    • Add albert::UrlHandler extension

Plugins

  • chromium
    • Show the full folder path
  • datetime
    • Add paste action
    • Dynamic item support
  • docs
    • Compose icon with the books emoji to compensate for its 32x32 size
    • Fix missing cache location initialization
    • Fix directory init mismatch
  • mpris → mediaremote
    • v6 macOS implementation
  • path
    • Fix trigger behavior
  • snippets
  • ssh
    • Avoid empty match in global query.
  • timer
    • Use dynamic item feature
  • timezones
    • Fix icon and translations
    • Use batch add to avoid flicker
  • vpn
    • Use dynamic item feature
  • websearch
    • Fix 6.9 breaking tableview behavior
  • widgetsboxmodel
    • Make use of Query::dataChanged for dynamic items
    • Disable window properties for now
    • Add input edit mode
    • Change animation durations to a more calm behavior
    • Drop redundant history text equality check
    • Properly reset input history search on hide.
    • Restore user input on backward history iteration end
    • Fix macOS cmd+backspace behavior in multiline editing
    • Fix weird selection glitch
    • Fix out of bounds crashes. Trigger length is set async and may exceed the text length.
    • Fix null query segfaults
    • Fix comboboxes not showing system theme

v0.27.8 (2025-04-06)

Hotfix release for the frontends.

Plugins

  • widgetsboxmodel
    • Fix uninitialized trigger length causing crashes
  • widgetsboxmodel-qss
    • Adopt completion bahavior
    • Non hiding action support.
    • Themesqueryhandler behavior from wbm

v0.27.7 (2025-04-02)

Hotfix git submodule urls.

v0.27.6 (2025-04-02)

Albert

  • Organize plugins in submodules.
  • Run the empty query on *
  • Add 'Open in terminal' action to AppQueryHandler

API

  • Add albert::Action::hide_on_activation
  • Add albert::PluginInstance::dataLocations
  • Add albert::show(const QString&)
  • Add standard message box functions modal to the main window.
    • Add albert::question(…)
    • Add albert::information(…)
    • Add albert::warning(…)
    • Add albert::critical(…)

Plugins

  • bluetooth

    • Add icons for (in)active/(dis)connected items.
    • Add completions.

  • caffeine

    • Polish translations of durations.
    • Add natural duration spec (eg 1h1m).
    • Fix weird trigger completions.
    • Fix default trigger matching.
    • Add deactivation notification.
    • Use special text ∞ in settings.

  • clipboard - Avoid flicker by using batch add.

  • system

    • New icon set.
    • Update macOS logout command.

  • timer - Remove timers from empty query without hiding the window.

  • vpn - Add icons clearly indicating the state.

  • websearch - New default icon.

  • widgetsboxmodel and widgetsboxmodel-qss

    QStyleSheetStyle and its style sheets are a mess to work with and pretty limited. They may be suitable to style dedicated widgets but not for entire UIs. This release lays the foundation for a frontend that is not a pain to work with. The widgetsboxmodel as you know it has been forked to widgetsboxmodel-qss. But for now it still has the id widgetsboxmodel id until the prototype is polished enough. The id of the new widgetsboxmodel frontend without style sheets is widgetsboxmodel-ng.

    • Theme files support.
    • Allow multiline input. Shift enter inserts a newline.
    • Empahsize the trigger.
    • Add context menu to button
    • Allow non hiding actions.
    • Add a handcrafted, buffered windowframe. Drop glitchy Qt shadow.
    • Add option 'Disable input method'.
    • Completion and synopsis side by side.
    • Handcrafted rounded rects that support gradients.
    • Ads settable window properties like colors, margins, sizes and such.
    • Put settingsbutton into the input layout. No overlay anymore.
    • Always show action to set the current mode first (dark, light).
    • Add debug overlay option
    • Loads of fixes and mini improvements.

v0.27.5 (2025-03-06)

Plugins

  • widgetsboxmodel - Fix dark mode detection on Gnome
  • coingecko - Make sure cache location exists
  • emoji - Make sure cache location exists

v0.27.4 (2025-03-05)

Albert

  • Fix translation file lookup

Plugins

  • vpn
    • Add xdg platform (network manager)
    • Listen to state changes
  • python.vpn - Archive plugin
  • Append _en to the plural files

v0.27.3 (2025-02-28)

Hotfix Qt 6.2 backward compatibility (Ubuntu 22.04 builds).

v0.27.2 (2025-02-28)

Hotfix #1517

v0.27.1 (2025-02-27)

Albert

  • Fixes and minor improvements
  • Update translations

Plugins

  • vpn
    • Change icons
    • Fix translations
  • python
    • Redesign the settings widget
    • Allow users to reset the venv
    • Avoid initializing venv on every start

v0.27.0 (2025-02-27)

This is primarily an intermediate release that reverts bad design decisions that make progress difficult.

API

  • albert
    • Remove class ItemsModel
    • Remove enum ItemRoles
    • Remove openUrl(const QUrl &url)
    • Remove ExtensionWatcher<T>
    • Add class ResultItem
    • Add const ExtensionRegistry &extensionRegistry();
    • Add tryCreateDirectory(const filesystem::path&)
    • network(): Return reference
  • albert::ExtensionRegistry
    • Remove T* extension<T>(const QString &id)
  • albert::PluginInstance
    • Remove ExtensionRegistry &registry();
    • Remove createOrThrow(const QString &path)
    • Make cache/config/dataLocation return filesystem::path
    • Add extensions()
  • ExtensionPlugin
    • Add ExtensionPlugin::extensions()
  • albert::MatchConfig
    • Avoid recurring default separator regex instatiation
    • Change field order
  • albert::Query
    • Add isActive()
    • Return vector<ResultItem> in matches and fallbacks
    • Return bool in activate*
    • Remove signal finished
    • Add signal matchesAboutToBeAdded
    • Add signal matchesAdded
    • Add signal invalidated
    • Add signal activeChanged
  • albert::TriggerQueryHandler
    • Pass queries as reference
    • synopsis() > synopsis(const QString &query)
  • albert::GlobalQueryHandler
    • Pass queries as reference
    • Remove param of handleEmptyQuery
  • Rename albert/util.h to albert/albert.h

Plugins

  • python
    • Add tests.
    • Google Docstring format stub file.
    • Python API v3.0. See changelog in stub file for details.

v0.26.13 (2025-01-06)

Hotfix backward compatibility.

v0.26.12 (2025-01-06)

Albert

  • Fix device dependent pixmap creation
  • Avoid usage of deprecated QStyle::standardPixmap

Plugins

  • applications - Add ghostty

v0.26.11 (2024-12-30)

Albert

  • Add a motivating text in the plugin settings placeholder page

Plugins

  • timer
    • Allow h, m, s durations
    • Clean obsolete translations
    • User timer emoji icon
  • caffeine - Fix non-persistent default interval
  • menubar - Do not retain NSRunningApplication forever.
  • widgetsboxmodel
    • Update icon handling
    • Do not upscale icons that are smaller than requested
    • Draw the icon such that it is centered in the icon area
  • chromium - Update bookmark icon
  • websearch - Change icon sizes which lead to blurry output
  • applications - Change missing terminal link to issues choice

v0.26.10 (2024-12-06)

Albert

  • Add some more precise Match tests
  • Hardcode /usr/local/bin into PATH on macos
  • Fix Matcher type conversion
  • Precompile headers

Plugins

  • chromium - Avoid warnings on emtpy paths
  • menubar
    • Properly display glyphs
    • Fix modifier conversion
    • Minor improvements and fixes
  • bluetooth - Add open settings action

v0.26.9 (2024-12-02)

  • widgetsboxmodel - Fix broken input history behavior
  • applications - Set ignore_show_in_keys default to true
  • clipboard - Fix typo
  • path - Show PATH in settings and tr synopsis
  • docs - "Fix" mac builds

v0.26.8 (2024-11-18)

Albert

  • Minor improvements around telemetry

API

  • Add variadic Matcher::match(…)

Plugins

  • python - Interface 2.5
  • applications
    • Recurse app directories on macos
    • Revert back to command based heuristic to find terminals
  • menubar - Show hotkeys

v0.26.7 (2024-11-07)

Albert

  • CPack drop qt deploy tool
  • Update translations
  • Parse cli params asap for faster hotkeys

Plugins

  • menubar - v1.0
  • system - Move sleep inhibition in separate plugin
  • caffeine - Separate from system

v0.26.6 (2024-10-23)

Albert

  • Actually make use of telemetry and send enabled plugins and activated extensions.
  • Add context menu to the plugin list
    • En/disable plugin
    • Un/load plugin
    • Option to sort list by checked state
  • Improve testing
    • Drop doctest. Use QTest.
    • Drop doctest and use QTest
    • Enable CTest for better CI

API

  • albert
    • Add quit()
    • Add restart()
    • Add open(QUrl url)
    • Add open(QString path)
    • Add open(filesystem::path path)
  • InputHistory
    • Constructor now optionally takes a path
  • Add colors to logging.h

Plugins

  • applications
    • Send telemetry about available terminals
    • Log warning on unsupported terminals
    • Case sensitive desktop ids
    • Fix desktop entry shadowing
    • Add terminal org.gnome.ptyxis
  • bluetooth - Fix warning on language
  • files
    • Add filebrowser option: Show hidden files
    • Add filebrowser option: Sort case insensitive
    • Add filebrowser option: Show directories first
    • Use QTest
  • widgetsboxmodel - Fix weird end of history behavior

v0.26.5 (2024-10-16)

Plugins

  • qmlboxmodel - Archive plugin
  • applications
    • Fix segfaults on Qt 6.8
    • Add option "split camel case"
    • Add option "use acronyms"
    • Add terminals debian-uxterm and com.alacritty.Alacritty
  • python - Do not allow site_import
  • dictionary - Implement FallbackHandler
  • contacts
    • Implement IndexQueryHandler
    • Index contacts in background
    • Use all available names
    • Add website addresses actions

v0.26.4 (2024-09-24)

Albert

  • ItemIndex: Fix access to moved item. Skip emtpy IndexItems.

Plugins

  • applications - Search in /System/Cryptexes/App/System/Applications
  • files - Fix f-term action failing on spaces
  • files - Fix xfce4-terminal
  • snippets - Fix typo
  • websearch - Create required data directory on start
  • syncthing - Use python-syncthing2. python-syncthing is dead.
  • unit_converter - Remove future typehints

v0.26.3 (2024-09-07)

Plugins

  • calculator_qalculate
    • Add option: Units in global query
    • Add option: Functions in global query
  • python
    • Proper venv isolation
    • Fix excluding regex breaking aur builds
    • No quotes around logs

v0.26.2 (2024-08-21)

Hotfix docs plugin cluttering output due to nonunique item id

v0.26.1 (2024-08-20)

Albert

  • Albert license v1.1

Plugins

  • system
    • Also match the trigger for sleep inhibition
    • Allow changing trigger for sleep inhibition
  • docs
    • Proper anchor support for all kinds of docsets
    • Add the type to the description
  • files
    • Add option "index file path"
    • Also fix persistence for option "case senstive file browsers"
  • applications
    • Sort terminals list by caseinsensitive name

v0.26.0 (2024-08-16)

Albert

  • Give QIcon::fromTheme another try

API

  • Remove const from GQH::hgq and GQH::heq
  • Drop albert::runTerminal. Moved to applications plugin.
  • Make private property available in subclasses
  • Add getter for plugin dependencies

Plugins

  • system:10.0 - Add inhibit sleep feature
  • docs:3.17 - Be more tolerant with anchors
  • applications:12.0
    • Move terminal detection here
    • Proper flatpak terminal support
    • Add public interface to run terminals
    • Proper platform abstraction
    • Foundation for xdg-terminal-execute
    • Foundation for URL scheme and mime type handlers
  • inhibit_sleep Archive. Moved to system plugin.
  • docker:3.0 Revert to trigger query handling.
  • unit_converter:1.6 Port to API v2
  • jetbrains:2.0 - Add Aqua and Writerside
  • tex_to_unicode:1.3 Port to v2.3

v0.25.0 (2024-08-02)

Albert

  • Simplify MatchConfig
  • Hardcode error_tolerance_divisor to 4

Plugins

  • chromium
    • Avoid initial double indexing
    • Fix status message in settings window
    • Fix warnings on empty paths
  • bluetooth - Support fuzzy matching
  • urlhandler - Use albert::openUrl. QDesktopServices::openUrl fails on wayland.

v0.24.3 (2024-07-09)

Albert

  • Port applications settings to new id
  • Fix telemetry

Plugins

  • snippets:5.4 Show a snippet preview in description.

v0.24.2 (2024-07-02)

Albert

  • Add "open terminal here" to app directory items
  • Hotfix #1408

Plugins

  • python:4.5 Update python stub file
  • goldendict:1.5 Remove breaking type hints

v0.24.1 (2024-06-28)

Plugins

  • python:4.4 Revert back to using pybind submodule (v2.12.0)

v0.24.0 (2024-06-28)

Albert

  • Ignore soft hyphens in lookup strings
  • Add TriggersQueryHandler builtin handler
  • Drop PluginConfigQueryHandler
  • Ignore order of query words
  • Do not run fallbacks on empty queries
  • Allow unsetting hotkey on backspace
  • Move about into general tab
  • Use a button for hotkeys such that tab order is usable
  • Cache icons in the fallback handler to avoid laggy resize
  • Set 700 on albert dirs
  • Use same config location and format on all platforms.
  • Show message box on errors while loading enabled plugins
  • Make openUrl working on wayland by using xdg-open

API

  • Loads of changes around the project structure
    • AUTOMOC, UIC, RCC per target
    • Structure sources in folders
    • Flatten headers
    • No paths in core source files (rather lots of include dirs)
    • Finally proper target export such that plugin build in build tree as well as separate projects
    • Add custom target global_lupdate
  • CMake
    • albert_plugin(…) modifications
      • Add QT parameter
      • Add I18N_SOURCES parameter
      • SOURCE_FILES > SOURCES
      • I18N_SOURCE_FILES > I18N_SOURCES
      • INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES > INCLUDE
      • LINK_LIBRARIES > LINK
      • Make SOURCES optional. Specify source conventions: include/*.h, src/*.h, src/*.cpp, src/*.mm, src/*.ui and <plugin_id>.qrc
    • Drop METADATA the metadata.json is a mandatory convention now.
    • Drop TS_FILES. Autosource from 'i18n' dir given a naming convention. <plugin_id>.ts and <plugin_id>_<ui_language>.ts
    • Add CMake option BUILD_PLUGINS
  • General
    • Move Q_OBJECT into ALBERT_PLUGIN macro
    • Remove app functions from API
    • Rename albert.h to util.h
    • albert::networkManager -> albert::network
    • Add convenience classes for plugin interdependencies
    • Allow RankItems to be created using a Match
    • Revert back to per plugin translations. Plugins shall be self contained modules and in principle be packagable in a separate package.
    • Let QtPluginLoader automatically load translations if available.
    • Add finished and total count to translations metadata
    • User per target compile options
    • Add havePasteSupport()
    • Remove openIssueTracker from interface
    • Separate and improve ALBERT_PLUGIN_PROPERTY macros
      • ALBERT_PROPERTY_GETSET
      • ALBERT_PLUGIN_PROPERTY_GETSET
      • ALBERT_PROPERTY_CONNECT_SPINBOX
      • Add param in property changed signal
  • PluginInstance
    • Add {cache,config,data}Location. Checks are up to the clients.
    • Add createOrThrow as a utility function for the above functions.
    • Add weak refs for PluginLoader and ExtensionRegistry
    • Drop convenience functions like id, name, description.
    • Drop initialize/finalize
    • Registering extensions can fail
    • Auto register root extensions
  • Changes to icon provider API
    • Add QIcon support
    • Make it free functions
    • Remove caching
    • Returned size can be smaller than requestedSize, but is never larger.
  • Query, engine and handlers
    • Handle handler configuration in core (trigger, fuzzy, enabled). Remove the getters, have only setters to update plugins.
      • Add TriggerQueryHandler::setUserTrigger
      • Remove TriggerQueryHandler::trigger()
      • Remove TriggerQueryHandler::fuzzyMatching()
    • Do not allow users to disable triggered query handlers. This may end up in states where plugins are loaded but actually not used. Also some handlers may rely on them to be there, like e.g. the files global handler redirects tabs to the triggered handlers.
    • Remove const from handleTriggerQuery
    • Support ignore diacritics
    • Support ignore word order
    • Make Query contextually convertible to QString
    • Unify query interface, no more global- and triggerquery
    • Add parameterizable Matcher/Match class
    • Add dedicated empty query handling Empty patterns should match everything. For global queries that's too much. For triggered queries it is desired though. Since a lot of global query handlers relay the handleTriggerQuery to handleGlobalQuery it is not possible to have both. This introduces a dedicated function for GlobalQueryHandlers that will be called on empty queries:

Plugins

  • widgetsboxmodel - Use QWindow::startSystemMove instead QWidget:move for Wayland Support
  • websearch
    • Add fallback option
    • Add GPT to default engines
    • Add fallback section.
    • Allow inline editing of fallback and trigger withough using the search engine widget.
    • Use matcher for more tolerant queries
    • Complete to trigger instead of name
  • timezones
  • timer
  • telegram - Archive failed telegram quick access approach
  • path - Rename from 'terminal'
  • system - System commands update for KDE Plasma 6
  • ssh - Allow params only in triggered handler
  • sparkle - Archive for now
  • snippets - Check if paste is supported at all
  • qmlboxmodel - Port
  • python
    • Namespace plugin id
    • Compensate the API changes gracefully to defer a breaking API change
    • Ship stub file with the plugin
    • Add buttons for stubfile and user plugin dir
    • API 2.3
      • Deprecate obscure module attached md_id. Use PluginInstance.id.
      • Expose function albert.havePasteSupport
      • Expose class albert.Matcher
      • Expose class albert.Match
      • Expose method albert.TQH.handleTriggerQuery
      • Expose method albert.GQH.handleGlobalQuery
      • albert.PluginInstance:
        • Add read only property id
        • Add read only property name
        • Add read only property description
        • Add instance method registerExtension(…)
        • Add instance method deregisterExtension(…)
        • Deprecate initialize(…). Use init(…).
        • Deprecate finalize(…). Use del(…).
        • Deprecate init extensions parameter. Use (de)registerExtension(…).
        • Auto(de)register plugin extension. (if isinstance(Plugin, Extension))
      • albert.Notification:
        • Add property title
        • Add property text
        • Add instance method send()
        • Add instance method dismiss()
      • Minor breaking change that is probably not even in use: Notification does not display unless send(…) has been called
  • mpris - Rewrite using xml interface files
  • exprtk - Archive exprtk prototype
  • docs
    • Fix XML based docs.
    • Do not upscale icons
    • Fix leak on plugin unloading
  • dictionary - Drop resources, use Dictionary.app icon
  • datetime
    • Separate timetzonehandler
    • Add "show_date_on_empty_query" option
  • clipboard
    • Check if paste is supported at all
    • Use albert::WeakDependency
  • chromium
    • Add completion
    • Display bookmark folder
  • bluetooth New extension on macos
    • Enable disable Bluetooth
    • Connect to paired devices
  • applications
    • Add non localized option on macos
    • Merge applications_macos and applications_xdg
    • Add completion
  • All python plugins: Minor fixes and port to API 2.3
  • zeal - Add fallback extension
  • wikipedia - Add fuzzy search support
  • tr - Check paste support
  • timer - Move to archive
  • syncthing - Initial prototype
  • goldendict - Support flatpaks and goldendict-ng
  • emoji - Check paste support

v0.23.0 (2024-03-03)

Albert

  • i18n
  • Make fallback order settable in new query tab.
  • Load native plugins threaded.
  • Add --no-load cli param
  • Use hashmap and avoid exceptions. Twice as fast 🚀
  • Add german translation
  • Make "Show settings" action the default for plugin items

API

  • Change frontend interface design
  • drop extensions() from PluginInstance interface. Extensions can now bei registered dynamically at any time.
  • Reduce the plugin system interfaces to the bare minimum
  • Allow hard plugin dependencies.
  • Private destructors for interfaces
  • Refactoring
    • ExtensionRegistry add > registerExtension
    • ExtensionRegistry remove > deregisterExtension
  • Make UI strings in the metadata required.
  • Allow plugins to have public interfaces
  • Revert to authors. Drop maintainers. (plugin metadata)
  • Remove polymorphism in PluginInstance id/name/description
  • Remove dynamic allocation of cache/config/dataDir()
  • Drop template parameter QOBJECT
  • Frontend is not an extension
  • Support localized metadata
  • CMake interface
    • Drop long_description from metadata
    • Add TS_FILES parameter to albert_plugin macro.
    • Revert back to json metadata file again
    • Complete metadata using cmake project details
    • Move Qt::Widgets into the public link interface

Plugins

  • Support i18n
  • qmlboxmodel archive wip
  • widgetsboxmodel
    • Fix animation on linux
    • Dark theme support
    • Themes update
    • Reproducible style (fusion)
    • Fix history search
    • Move persistent window position to state
    • Clear icon cache on hide
    • Archive unlicensed themes
    • Remove "Show fallbacks on empty result" option
    • Drop fonts from themes
  • websearch:8.0
    • Capital You_T_ube
    • Add Google translate default engine
  • ssh:8.0
    • Reduce complexity of this overengineered plugin
      • Remove quick connect
      • Remove known hosts
      • Remove file watchers (configs change not that often)
      • remove indexer mutexes
      • remove fuzzy index
  • snippets:5.0
    • Public extension interface "Add snippet"
  • qmlboxmodel:3.0
    • Archived
  • python
    • Open external links in config labels by default
    • API v2.2
    • Drop source watches. a plugin provider cant just reload without notifying the plugin registry
    • API 2.2
      • PluginInstance.configWidget supports 'label'
      • doc is not used anymore, since 0.23 drops long_description metadata
      • md_maintainers not used anymore
      • md_authors new optional field
  • dictionary:3.0 Former platform_services
    • Rename plugin platform services to dict
  • clipboard:3.0
    • use snippets interface
  • applications_macos:5.0
    • Use KVO to track NSQuery results
  • virtualbox:1.6 Add info on vboxapi requirement
  • docker:2.0 Show error on conn failure.
  • pomodoro:1.5 Fix notifications
  • inhibit_sleep:1.0 Similar to caffeine, theine, amphetamine etc…

v0.22.17 (2023-11-26)

Albert

  • Prepend albert to logging categories, default filter debug
  • Remove logging rules cli arguments Dont work on some systems and there is QT_LOGGING_RULES for it
  • Differentiate terminator terminals suffering bug 660

Plugins

  • mpris:2.0 Ported

v0.22.16 (2023-11-18)

Albert

  • Remove the visual warning on crashes.
  • Remove autostart option
  • Add "report" RPC

Plugins

  • python:2.1.0 - Improve UX while installing dependencies
  • calc:1.4 - Threadsafe and aborting calculations
  • system:1.8 - Dont prompt on gnome session logout
  • app_xdg:1.8 - Use Ubuntu gettext domains
  • bitwarden - Add copy-username action

v0.22.15 (2023-11-08)

Albert

  • Fix missing smooth transform in icon provider
  • Add style information to report
  • Use X-GNOME-Autostart-Delay
  • Add proper unix signal handling using self pipe trick
  • Revert printing to logfile
  • Give enough time to connect to other instance.

Plugins

  • system:1.8 - Dont prompt on gnome session logout
  • wbm:1.6 - Remove unnecessary cast that may introduce segfaults
  • app_xdg:1.8 - Use Ubuntu gettext domains
  • python - Fix links in stub

v0.22.14 (2023-10-06)

Let RPCServer take care of crash reports. This is a hotfix to remove the recurring crash report on start, if the app is run more than once, e.g. because the session manager restores a session including albert, but albert is also configured to be autostarted.

v0.22.13 (2023-10-05)

Albert

  • Hotfix create missing application paths
  • Fix pixmaps path

Plugins

  • qml Fix version branching logic

v0.22.12 (2023-10-03)

Albert

  • CI/CD: Fix path in sed expression

Plugins

  • sparkle Add macos updater plugin prototype
  • jetbrains Add RustRover editor

v0.22.11 (2023-10-03)

Albert

  • Add missing "-executable=" for macdeployqt plugin parameters

Plugins

v0.22.10 (2023-10-03)

Albert

  • CI/CD: Appcast prototype
  • Store log in cache dir
  • Add loadtype NOUNLOAD There are some plugins that dont like to be unloaded (Sparkle, Python). Add a mechanism to let plugins prohibit users to unload it at runtime.

Plugins

  • python Fix 6.5.2 only QLogCat quirks. Fixes arch builds

v0.22.9 (2023-09-28)

  • CD: upload on tag
  • Revert. NO_SONAME makes troubles on other platforms.

v0.22.8 (2023-09-28)

  • Hotfix fixing RPM based builds

v0.22.7 (2023-09-27)

  • Restore 6.2 backward compatibility

v0.22.6 (2023-09-26)

  • Proper tab navigation in handler widget
  • NativePluginProvider: Use absolute file paths.

Plugins

  • files Fix "rel. dirpaths of depth 1 have dot prepended" issue
  • docs Fix recent changes to download urls
  • qalc Fix tab order

v0.22.5 (2023-09-22)

Albert

  • CMake: On macOS include the macports lookup path
  • Fix segfaults on busywait
  • Hardcode /usr/local/bin to PATH
  • Move last report ts from settings to state
  • Add iconlookup in /usr/local/share although not standardized

Plugins

  • qml Add hack around lacking DropShadow.samples in Qt <6.4
  • apps_macos
    • Find all apps in home dir
    • Keep apps up to date unsing online search
    • Localized app names
    • Add prefpanes
  • docs Disable build on macOS. Licensing does not allow usage on macOS.
  • files Add emtpy trash action on macos
  • muparser Archive muparser. One calculator is enough.
  • qml Fix shadow clipping
  • qml Fix clear on hide breaking history search
  • goldendict Fix import issue
  • pass Add OTP feature

v0.22.4 (2023-08-30)

Plugins

  • docs
    • Add cache for docset list
    • Use find_program to find brew for ootb cmake config
  • muparser Use find_program to find brew for ootb cmake config
  • python
    • Silently skip dirs and files that are no python modules
    • iid v2.1: Add config facilities
  • qalcualte Use find_program to find brew for ootb cmake config
  • qml Add Cmd/Ctrl+Enter/Return to show actions
  • snippets Port old snippets
  • googletrans Archive. py-googletrans is broken.
  • translators Add "translators" plugin
  • emoji Add "Use derived emojis" option
  • dice_roll iid 2.0

v0.22.3 (2023-08-17)

Albert

  • Dont show version notification before app is fully initialized

v0.22.2 (2023-08-14)

Albert

  • Fix logging filters
  • Proper database move

Plugins

  • ws Fix websearch breaking users search engines config
  • ws Fix websearch not applying icon when selected from file dialog

v0.22.1 (2023-08-14)

Albert

  • Freedesktop notification implementation
  • Adopt generic Notification interface on macOS
  • Fix Linux paste action

Plugins

  • apps_xdg Default trigger "apps"
  • python
    • Update notification function
    • Fix function warn > warning
  • clipboard Add paste action

Python plugins

  • pint,yt Archived. Require maintenance
  • timer Adopt notification api changes

v0.22.0 (2023-08-12)

Albert

  • Add commandline option for logging filter rules
  • Add contour terminal
  • Add settingswindow shortcut action for plugin settings
  • Add feature copy and paste
  • Add "Run empty query" option
  • Add handler configurations tab
  • Sort fallbacks
  • LexSort items having equal score
  • Doxygen documentation

API

  • TriggerQueryHandler
    • Add bool supportsFuzzyMatching()
    • Add bool fuzzyMatchingEnabled()
    • Add void setFuzzyMatchingEnabled(bool)
    • Add QString trigger() (the user configured one)
  • GlobalQueryHandler
    • Add applyUsageScore(…).
    • Inherit TQH, i.e. every handler is a TQH
  • IndexQueryHandler
    • Reimplement TQH fuzzy methods
    • Default synopsis <filter>
  • Plugin system
    • Revert multithreaded plugin loading (Qt makes problems everywhere)
    • Statically inject metadata, use it for PluginInstances
    • Move native plugin interface into plugin:: namespace
    • Cache/Conf/Data dirs per plugin only (were per Extension)
    • Add PluginInstance::extensions()
    • Add Template based ExtensionPlugin(Instance)
    • Make native plugin a template class to allow subclassing any QObject
  • Frontend:
    • Add Frontend::winId, Move the window quirks to the core
    • Use app-wide input history file
    • Add generic qml/widgets icon provider to interface
    • Add generic icon provider, creating icons on the fly
  • Fuctions and macros:
    • Put all free functions in albert.h
    • Add openUrl QUrl overload
    • Add convenience macros for user property definition
    • Require albert logging category to pass the name
    • Add state file
    • Add global settings factory
  • Rename History to InputHistory
  • Drop QueryHandler convenience class
  • Drop global albert.h include

Plugins

  • clipboard - Add paste action
  • wbm
    • Remove option "display icon"
    • Appwide input history
  • websearch
    • Adopt to sorted fallbacks, drop dragndrop in listview
    • Add drag'n'drop image feature
  • snippets - Add paste action
  • qml:2.0 - Revamped QML frontend
  • python
    • Mimic internal api as close as possible
    • Attach logging functions to plugin modules
    • Expose albert::setClipboardTextAndPaste
    • Expose albert::Notification
    • Interface v2.0 stub
  • files
    • Show filePath instead path in subtext
    • Add option for case sentivity of fs browsers.
    • Add user property for inline config
  • emoji - New generic and platform agnostic emoji implementation
  • duckduckgo - Add extension
  • color - Add extension

v0.21.1 (2023-06-27)

Albert

  • Add cmd/ctrl + number tab navigation in settings
  • Automatically add hpp and qml files to plugin projects

Plugins

  • docs:1.2 - Fix misleading comment in config widget
  • tex_to_unicode Fix crash due to wrong type annotation
  • emoji Fix #179. Call cacheLocation as method of self.

v0.21.0 (2023-06-23)

Albert

  • Settings window
    • Add a new search widget in settingswindow
    • Make handlers of all types optionable
    • Make window and search widgets tabs in the settings window
  • Change usagedatabase location to datadir
  • Change IPC socket path to $CACHEDIR/albert/ipc_socket. Was $CACHEDIR/albert_socket.
  • Fix triggered global query MRU sort

API

  • Remove Item::hasActions
  • Add global config, cache and data location functions
  • Change RankItem::score type to float (0,1**
  • Make queries pointers in handler functions
  • Add function to get global network manager
  • Use explicit named query handling methods (no parameter overloading) handleTriggerQuery and handleGlobalQuery. This reduces confusion, avoids annoying extra boilerplate to disambiguate methods to avoid hide-virtual warnings and serves as a lowest common denominator on a language/naming level since these features may not be supported by script languages (e.g. Python).

Plugins

  • Add
    • docs Reduced set of Zeal docsets at hands
    • clipboard Clipboard history
    • coingecko v1.0
    • mathematica iid:1.0 port
  • contacts:1.2
    • Formatting: Remove Apple specific braces
  • snip:1.3
    • Add "Add" and "Remove" button in config widget
    • Add "Add snippet" item on "add" query
    • Add "Remove" action to snippet items
  • python:1.8 Adopt API v0.21. New interface version iid 1.0
    • Add Extension.cache-, config- and dataLocation
    • Expose FallbackHandler
    • Proper multi extension registration
    • Move interface spec into python stub file (yay!)
    • Expose TriggerQueryHandler
    • Expose GlobalQueryHandler
    • Expose QueryHandler
    • Expose IndexQueryHandler
    • Expose Item class entirely such that plugins can subclass it
    • Use pointer for queries
    • Remove global cache/config/data dir functions
    • Add stub file for type hinting and documentation in IDEs

v0.20.14 (2023-05-01)

Albert

  • Sort triggerwidget by name rather than id
  • Avoid segfaults when setting hotkey failed.

Plugins

  • ws - Fix oversized text in config
  • sys:1.6 - Dynamic default commands.
  • app_xdg - Remove content margins of settings widget
  • system - Add lxqt defaults
  • python_eval:1.3 - Fix type of result in item subtext
  • locate:1.7 - Fix lambda capture
  • api_test - Drop plugin
  • aur:1.6 - Fix install action
  • jetbrains_projects - handle missing projectOpenTimestamp

v0.20.13 (2023-03-30)

Plugins

  • ws - Show space markers in trigger section
  • vbox:v1.3 - Port iid:0.5
  • dice_roll - iid:0.5 v1.0
  • emoji - iid:0.5 v1.0

v0.20.12 (2023-03-29)

Plugins

  • system:1.4 Make items checkable and titles customizeable

v0.20.11 (2023-03-27)

Albert

  • Respect whitespaces in rpcs

Plugins

  • wbm Add option "Center on active screen"
  • app_xdg Add action "reveal desktop entry"
  • files Workaround Qt appending slash to root paths
  • bitwarden 1.1 (iid: 0.5)
  • vpn Add wireguard to connection types
  • pacman Fix out of scope lambda vars

v0.20.10 (2023-03-20)

  • vpn Add wireguard to connection types

v0.20.9 (2023-03-13)

Albert

  • Update supported terminals (add st and blackbox, remove tilda)

Plugins

  • wbm Hide task bar entry
  • ws Add google scholar to defaults

v0.20.8 (2023-02-11)

Albert

  • Tilda support
  • Print font in report

Plugins

  • contacts_mac v1.0
  • wbm Dont hide window when control modifier is hold
  • xdgapps Do not inherit QT_QPA_PLATFORM to launched apps

v0.20.7 (2023-02-10)

Albert

  • Clear icon cache if unused for a minute.

Plugins

  • wbm Postpone query deletion until hide event to prevent busy wait for destruction

v0.20.6 (2023-02-08)

Albert

  • Close settingswindow on ctrl+w

Plugins

  • wbm Avoid segfaults on failing screenAt()
  • jetbrains:1.1 Polish. Fix Macos.

v0.20.5 (2023-02-01)

Albert

  • Drop usage weight. Add option to prioritize perfect matches. See #695

v0.20.4 (2023-01-31)

Albert

  • Reintroduce telemetry
  • Fix disfunctional link in settings

Plugins

  • tex_to_unicode py interface 0.5
  • vpn 1.1 (iid: 0.5)
  • yt v1.3 create tmp dirs lazily
  • jetbrains 1.0 (iid:0.5)

v0.20.3 (2023-01-27)

Albert

  • Remove plugin registry from global search
  • Add -Wno-inline
  • Fix line breaks in errors displayed in settings
  • Tray icon isMask

Plugins

  • platform_mac 1.0
  • py Add button to open the dependency dir
  • pint 1.0 (currency converter)

v0.20.2 (2023-01-25)

Plugins

  • py Quote cd path
  • pacman v1.6 iid:0.5
  • timer v1.4 iid:0.5

v0.20.1 (2023-01-25)

Albert

  • Fix pedantic warnings
  • BW tray
  • Use env vars to set default locale
  • Strech config widget
  • Fix segfaults on empty icon name lookup

Plugins

  • Lots of UI polishing
  • qalc Fix precision probles
  • websearch Add google maps to defaults
  • datetime Use default locale

v0.20.0 (2023-01-24)

Albert

  • Make Triggerwidget edit trigger on double click anywhere

API

  • Config widget per plugin (v0.20)

Plugins

  • chromium:1.4 Add path reset button
  • locate 1.6
  • docker 1.3

v0.19.4 (2023-01-22)

Plugins

  • qalc v1.0 Prototype

v0.19.3 (2023-01-22)

Albert

  • md Use content if long description is a file path
  • Use both, extension and item id, as icon cache key
  • Add standard pixmaps support to iconprovider
  • Workaround terminator bug #702

Plugins

  • wbm Add Nord theme
  • calc Respect LC_*
  • chromium Fix filewatcher does not watch bookmarks
  • wbm Do not exit on missing themes
  • wbm Use generic placeholder color for input hint
  • app:xdg Add exec key option. Also exclude 'env' in exec keys.
  • wbm Fix clipped label
  • WBM fix open theme file action
  • files Provide trash item
  • wbm Fix list view height margins
  • trash Drop. Provided by files plugin now.

v0.19.2 (2023-01-18)

Plugins

  • datetime v1.0
  • urlhandler Fix tld validation

v0.19.1 (2023-01-18)

Albert

  • Fix recurring new version info
  • Allow copyconstruction of rank and index items

Plugins

  • calc 1.5
    • Inline evaluation
    • Default trigger '='
    • Synopsis
  • wbm Add item activation using Ctrl+O

v0.19.0 (2023-01-18)

Albert

  • Add reload actinon for plugins
  • Support Console term
  • Fix backgroundexecutor not using move semantics
  • Refactoring
  • Show plugin header files in IDEs
  • Use handcrafted icon lookup again

API

  • Revert to dedicated FallbackHandler
  • Clean interface using opaque pointers
  • GlobalQueryHandler::rankItems -> handlyQuery
  • IndexQueryHandlers have to set items directly

Plugins

  • wbs 1.3 add query handler providing themes
  • apps_xdg 1.5 Remove desktop indexing
  • ssh 1.5
    • Fix ssh connect containing user or port
    • Allow specifying a command to send to the host
    • Add action (keep/close term)
  • yt v1.2 (iid:0.5)
  • kill v1.1 (iid:0.5)

v0.18.13 (2023-01-13)

Fix invalid submodule link breaking OBS builds

Plugins

  • chromium Fix config loading
  • goldendict 1.1 (0.18)

v0.18.12 (2023-01-13)

Albert

  • Always print report in debug mode
  • Add platform, lang and locale to report
  • Support Terminology

Plugins

  • mac_apps - Dont show system service apps
  • python - ! Add default md_id if not available

v0.18.11 (2023-01-11)

Albert

  • Add missing long description in plugin metadata.
  • Add metadata LONG_DESCRIPTON to docs

Plugins

  • urlhandler - Handcraft tld validation. Make handler global.
  • py - Create site-packages dir if necessary
  • snippets - Fix open snippet

v0.18.10 (2023-01-09)

Fixes, minor changes and requests

v0.18.9 (2023-01-07)

Plugins

  • py Ask user to install missing python dependencies in terminal
  • googletrans 1.0
  • pass 1.2

v0.18.8 (2023-01-07)

Albert

  • Give sensible defaults for usage history
  • Fix memory weight not being loaded
  • Merge frontend tab into general
  • Support foot terminal
  • Check for other instances before laoding plugins

Plugins

  • files - Avoid starting indexing on file index serialization
  • googletrans 1.0
  • pass 1.2

v0.18.7 (2023-01-05)

Drop albertctl. Back to albert <command>

v0.18.6 (2023-01-05)

Albert

  • sendTrayNotification(…) add time parameter
  • Support wezterm.

Plugins

  • Python 1.5
    • sendTrayNotification(…) add ms parameter
  • Hash 1.5
    • Global query handler
    • Add copy 8 char action
  • Pomodoro 1.1
  • CopyQ 1.2

v0.18.5 (2023-01-04)

Albert

  • Support Kitty terminal
  • Support Alacritty terminal

Plugins

  • wbm Show synopsis in tooltip

v0.18.4 (2023-01-03)

Albert

  • fix single instance mechanism

Python plugins

  • docker - Archive, curious segfaults
  • aur - Port 0.5
  • awiki - Port 0.5

v0.18.3 (2023-01-02)

Plugins

  • wbm Fix theme dir paths

v0.18.2 (2023-01-02)

  • Better diagnostics on frontend loading

v0.18.1 (2023-01-01)

  • Fix armhf builds

v0.18.0 (2022-12-31)

Note that there have been some breaking changes. The new plugin id format changed settings keys and config/cache/data paths. If you want to keep your old plugin settings you have to adjust the section names in the config file and adjust the paths in your config/cache/data dirs. (e.g. from org.albert.files to files). I'd recommend to start from scratch though, since too much changed.

Albert

  • Shorter plugin ids.
  • Customizeable triggers (if the extension permits)
  • Central plugin management
  • More useful plugin metadata
  • User customizable scoring parameters
    • Add user option memory decay
    • Add user option memory weight
  • Finally scoring for all items
  • Inputline history goes to a file now
  • Settingswidget overhaul
  • Hello Qt6, C++20 👋
  • Entirely new interface (see header files)
  • Value typed Action class based on std::function
  • Drop all former *Action classes
    • Free functions replace and extend action subclass functionality
  • Updates to Item interface
  • New and extended query handling interface classes
  • Extended frontend interface
  • New abstract plugin provider interface
    • Common plugin metadata
    • Maintainership is a thing now!
  • Add StandardItem factory for better type deduction and readability
  • Add bgexecutor class
  • Add timeprinter
  • Leaner logging
  • Query design change (realtime, global, indexed)
  • Add extension watcher template class
  • Move XDG into the lib.

Plugins

  • python 1.4 (0.18)
    • Use system pybind
    • 0.5 interface
    • auto pip dependencies
  • files 1.2 (0.18)
    • Drop bashlike completions. We have items.
    • Settings per root path
    • Add name filter dialog
    • Add option watch filesystem
    • Add option max depth
  • snippets 1.1 (0.18)
    • files instead database
  • widgetsboxmodel 1.2 (0.18)
    • Fading busy indicating settingsbutton
    • Drop rich text
    • Proper async query without flicker using statemachines
    • Add input hint
    • Add option show fallbacks on empty query
    • Add option history search
  • Archived
    • firefox
    • qml box model
    • mpris
    • vbox

v0.17.6 (2022-10-08)

  • Let users choose the chromium bookmarks path
  • Fix #978

v0.17.5 (2022-10-05)

Fix #1064.

v0.17.4 (2022-10-04)

Fix #1117

v0.17.3 (2022-07-05)

Sloppy hotfix #1088. 0.18 will change DB entirely anyway.

v0.17.2 (2020-12-24)

Drop telemetry

Plugins

  • wbm Fix completion

v0.17.1 (2020-12-21)

Albert

  • Fix OBS builds
  • Several fixes
  • Archive virtualbox python extension

v0.17.0 (2020-12-17)

Albert

  • Again break init order of Item for the sake of less boilerplate. Presumed this frequency indexStrings > actions > completion > urgency.
  • Let shells handle splitting/quoting
  • Add core as QueryHandler. Add restart, quit, settings action. Also to tray and cli.
  • Drop shutil:: and let shells handle lexing

Plugins

  • FINALLY ARCHIVE EXTERNAL EXTENSIONS.
  • New extension state : MissingDependencies
  • Disable settings items of exts in this new state
  • Use pybind v2.6.1
  • term v1.1 Let shells handle lexing
  • calc Add muparserInt option for hex calculations
  • Use QLoggingCategory in all extensions
  • Implicit dependency check for executables and Python modules
  • Pyv1.3 Adopt core changes. PyAPIv0.4. Changes to the API:
    • embedded module is called 'albert' now
    • Reflect core api changes:
      • Positional arguments of the standard item changes
      • New semantics of the term action constructors
        • String commandline will be executed in a shell
        • StringList commandline will be executed without shell
    • Add core version of iconLookup(StringList)
    • New metadata labels:
      • version: new versioning scheme iid_maj.iid_min.ext_version
      • title: former prettyname
      • authors: string or list
      • exec_deps: string or list
      • py_deps: string or list
      • triggers: string or list
    • Allow multiple triggers
    • Allow multiple authors
  • locate ' for basename '' for full path lookups
  • timer Make notification stay.
  • baseconv Python-style base prefixes to detect source base
  • texdoc Add texdoc plugin
  • aur add yay helper

v0.16.4 (2020-12-10)

Albert

  • Fix tab order

Plugins

  • chromium Chromium v1.1
  • docker New extension prototype
  • timer Use dbus instead of notify-send
  • units v1.2 including to time conversion

v0.16.3 (2020-12-03)

  • Hotfix for #955
  • Archive defunct CoinMarketCap and Bitfinex extensions

v0.16.2 (2020-11-26)

Albert

  • Allow multiple instances of albert on different X sessions
  • Fix super key not registering
  • Add terms: Elementary, Tilix, QTerminal, Termite
  • Fix build on FreeBSD
  • Dont show fallbacks on triggered queries

Plugins

  • Applications Index desktop files on desktop
  • firefox Rework v2
  • ssh Respect the Include keyword
  • ssh Allow hyphens to be part of hostnames
  • chromium Add brave-browser to list of chromium based browsers.
  • New:
    • emoji
    • bitwarden
    • xkcd
    • node.js evaluator
    • php evaluator

v0.16.1 (2018-12-31)

Albert

  • Fix default plugin lookup path
  • Fix flicker when changing frontends
  • Fix "Terminal option resets after a restart"
  • Link libglobalshortcut statically
  • Add a build flag for QtCharts
  • Drop debug options if favor of QLoggingCategory env vars

Plugins

  • ssh Fix input regex. Sort by length then lexically.
  • ssh Use backward compatible ssh url syntax
  • qml Consistent form layout
  • aur Sort items by length first

v0.16.0 (2018-12-28)

Albert

  • Add jekyll website as submodule
  • New project structure (minimal shared lib)
  • Let travis build against Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04
  • Backward compatibility for Ubuntu 16.04
  • Let fuzzy require an additional character. Tolerance: floor((wordlen - 1)/3))
  • Print logging category to stdout QT_LOGGING_RULES="*debug=false;driver.usb.debug=true"

Plugins

  • Term Change terminal action order: Let "Run w/o term" be the last one
  • VBox Set default build switch for VirtualBox to OFF
  • Files Add fancy icons to mime dialog
  • Py Use ast to read metadata without loading the modules
  • Py Additional constraint: Metadata have to be string literals (for ast)
  • Py Additional constraint: Name modules according PEP8
  • Py/WinSwitch Add close win action
  • Py/VBox Add VirtualBox extension

v0.15.0 (2018-12-16)

Usage graph in the settings (QtCharts (>=5.6))

Plugins

  • QML
    • Frontend plugin requires ()5.9
    • History search of the input now allows substring matching (Type and navigate)
    • Store user input of every session
  • New Python extension: Fortune
  • New Python extension: Window switcher

v0.14.22 (2018-09-21)

  • Telemetry is now opt-in.
  • New themes
  • New Python extension: Pidgin

v0.14.21 (2018-06-08)

Bugfixes

v0.14.20 (2018-06-04)

Bugfixes

v0.14.19 (2018-05-15)

  • New Python extension: Datetime. (Time display and conversion. Supersedes the external extension)
  • New Python extension: Bitfinex. (Quickly access Bitfinex markets)
  • The file browse mode finally mimics bash completion behavior.

v0.14.18 (2018-03-23)

  • Hotfix release

v0.14.17 (2018-03-23)

Plugins

  • applications
    • New option in applications extension: Use keywords for lookup
    • New option in applications extension: Use generic name for lookup
  • New Python extension: Arch Wiki
  • The kvstore extension was renamed to Snippets and got an improved config UI.

v0.14.16 (2018-03-09)

Plugins

  • Gnome dictionary (nikhilwanpal)
  • Mathematica (Asger Hautop Drewsen)
  • TeX to unicode (Asger Hautop Drewsen)
  • IP address (Benedict Dudel)
  • Multi Translate (David Britt)
  • Emoji lookup (David Britt)
  • Kaomoji lookup (David Britt)
  • Timer
  • Binance

v0.14.15 (2018-01-26)

Plugins

  • python - API PythonInterface/v0.2 (configLocation(), dataLocation(),cacheLocation()).
  • New:
    • CoinMarketCap
    • Trash
    • Pomodoro
    • Epoch
    • Packagist

v0.14.14 (2017-12-06)

New Python extension: npm (Benedict Dudel)

v0.14.13 (2017-11-25)

  • Rich text support

Plugins

  • New:
    • AUR
    • scrot

v0.14.12 (2017-11-23)

  • New CopyQ Python extension (Ported from external extension)

v0.14.11 (2017-11-19)

  • New locate Python extension

v0.14.10 (2017-11-16)

Bugfixes

v0.14.9 (2017-11-16)

  • Better HiDPI support
  • New commandline option for debug output (-d)

v0.14.8 (2017-11-14)

Plugins

  • New
    • Gnote (Ported from external extension)
    • Tomboy (Ported from external extension)
    • Pacman
    • Pass
    • Kill

v0.14.7 (2017-11-03)

Bugfixes

v0.14.6 (2017-10-31)

New Wikipedia Python extension

v0.14.5 (2017-10-30)

Bugfixes

v0.14.4 (2017-10-25)

New base converter Python extension

v0.14.3 (2017-10-21)

New Google Translate Python extension

v0.14.2 (2017-10-20)

Bugfixes

v0.14.1 (2017-10-19)

Bugfixes

v0.14.0 (2017-10-18)

Plugins

  • New
    • Python Embedding
    • Python Eval
    • Debugging
    • Zeal
    • GoldenDict
    • Unit Converter
    • Currency Converter

v0.13.1 (2017-00-30)

Bugfixes

v0.13.0 (2017-09-28)

  • Modular frontends
  • QML frontend
  • Tree structure in file index and "smart" indexing
  • Shell like completion for terminal extension

Plugins

  • New: KeyValue
  • New: Hash Generator

v0.12.0 (2017-06-09)

  • Git-like ignore files
  • Dedicated dialog for websearch editing.

v0.11.3 (2017-05-28)

Bugfixes

v0.11.2 (2017-05-13)

  • Home and End now work for the results list holding Ctrl.

v0.11.1 (2017-04-16)

Bugfixes

v0.11.0 (2017-04-16)

  • Fine-grained control of the MIME types to be indexed.
  • Extensions can now have multiple triggers.
  • The sorting algorithm is now stable.
  • Browse mode now lists the results in lexicographical order with directories before the files.
  • The use of fallbacks has been disabled for triggered queries.
  • Further the websearch extension now contains an URL handler.
  • The qss property selection-color works as expected now.

v0.10.4 (2017-04-14)

Bugfixes

v0.10.3 (2017-04-02)

  • Terminal extension does no more show suggestions.
  • Any shell querying dropped.
  • Bugfixes

v0.10.2 (2017-03-24)

Bugfixes

v0.10.1 (2017-03-20)

Bugfixes

v0.10.0 (2017-03-19)

  • Tab completion.
  • Hovering over the input box the mouse wheel can now be used to browse the history.
  • Spotlight themes (Bright, Dark and Space).
  • The terminal extension now provides the shell aliases too.
  • File browse mode.
  • The application extension allows to ignore the OnlyShowIn/NotShowIn keys.
  • The bash script to clone the template extension is now deprecated and replaced by a Python script.

Plugins

  • New: MPRIS
  • New: Secure Shell

v0.9.5 (2017-03-13)

Bugfixes

v0.9.4 (2017-03-01)

Bugfixes

v0.9.3 (2017-02-05)

Bugfixes

v0.9.2 (2017-01-30)

Bugfixes

v0.9.1 (2017-01-23)

  • Chooseable terminal command of a list of installed terminals.
  • The app icon now uses a theme icon
  • Open terminal here action.
  • Mostly fixes

v0.9.0 (2017-01-17)

  • New extension system architecture

Plugins

  • External extensions
  • Firefox
  • Improved VirtualBox extension

v0.8.11 (2016-09-29)

  • Plugin abstraction architecture
  • New plugin support: Native C++ QPlugins
  • New plugin support: Executables
  • Single click activation of items
  • Action modifiers
  • Multithreading
  • Core is now responsible for usage counting (obsoletes most serialization)
  • Asynchronous query "live" results
  • Tray icon
  • New option: Show tray icon
  • New extension: Debug

v0.8.10 (2016-06-23)

  • New extension: Virtual Box
  • Basic IPC
  • Graceful termination on SIGHUP

v0.8.9 (2016-05-12)

  • New option: Hide on close
  • New option: Display shadow
  • Graceful termination on SIGINT

v0.8.8 (2016-04-28)

  • Single instance

v0.8.7.3 (2016-04-27), v0.8.7.2 (2016-04-03), v0.8.7.1 (2016-03-31)

  • Hotfixes

v0.8.7 (2016-03-31)

  • New extension: Terminal
  • Project structure: Use libraries

v0.8.6 (2016-03-28)

  • Restructured settings widget

v0.8.5 (2016-03-25)

  • Custom icon lookup
  • Make main window movable
  • Show alternative actions o Tab
  • New option: Always on top
  • New option: Hide on focus out
  • New option: Display icons
  • New option: Display scrollbar
  • Dozens of new themes: Dark, Bright, SolarizedDark, SolarizedBright in several colors.

v0.8.4 (2016-03-15)

  • Show message box after ungraceful termination

v0.8.3 (2016-03-13)

  • Restructured settings widget

v0.8.2 (2016-03-09)

  • New option: Group separators for calculator
  • New themes: Arc
  • New theme: Numix

v0.8.1 (2016-03-04)

  • Minor tasks and improvements

v0.8.0 (2015-10-27)

  • New extension: System control

v0.7.7 (2015-10-16)

  • Bring settings window to front if it is already open.

v0.7.6 (2015-10-15)

  • Reorderable websearches
  • Allow exclusive queries by trigger

v0.7.5 (2015-10-12)

  • Graceful termination on SIGINT

v0.7.1 (2015-10-06), v0.7.2 (2015-10-07), v0.7.3 (2015-10-07), v0.7.4 (2015-10-08)

  • Tasks, Hotfixes, minor changes

v0.7.0 (2015-10-05)

  • Implement plugin architecture
  • Port the modules
  • Ignore file (".albertignore")
  • Actions
  • Threaded background indexing
  • New themes

v0.6.0 (2014-11-12)

  • Make action modifications configurable
  • Command history

v0.5.0 (2014-11-06)

  • Add configuration widget to configure the modules
  • Make user interface themable
  • Provide proof-of-concept themes
  • Make actions modifiable
  • Show action modifications in the list
  • Use CMake build system

v0.4.0 (2014-10-16)

  • Add settings widget
  • Implement indexing and search algorithms 'prefixmatch' and 'fuzzy'

v0.3.0 (2014-09-12)

  • Implement serialization of indexes
  • New module:
    • Applications
    • Bookmarks
    • Calculator
    • Web search

v0.2.0 (2014-09-08)

  • Abstract module architecture
  • New module: Files

v0.1.0 (2014-09-01)

  • Basic user interface
  • Hotkeymanager