camber

camber changelog

What changed in each release of camber, newest first, straight from the repo's CHANGELOG.md. Installers for every version are on the releases page; the newest is always at releases/latest.

0.4.1 11 November 2026

Electron 45.3.0, and a first fix for password manager extensions.

  • Chromium 156.0.8078.96, with Chromium, Dawn and V8 fixes from upstream.
  • In an extension's background and its own pages, browser now has the API groups camber adds to chrome that it was missing, such as windows. 1Password's extension no longer crashes on start, but its popup still stays on the loading screen, so it doesn't work yet.
  • Apple Passwords: macOS starts the helper behind the iCloud Passwords extension only for browsers on Apple's list. camber has to be signed before it can be added.
  • Tried on macOS (Apple Silicon): the saved-password tests and the 1Password and Bitwarden extensions. Windows and Linux only start in CI.

Known gaps: nothing is signed; no Widevine; 1Password and Apple Passwords don't work yet; no password import; no Windows arm64 build, no sync, Boosts or Live Folders.

0.4.0 9 November 2026

camber saves your passwords and fills them in.

  • Sign in to a site and camber asks whether to save the password: Save, Not Now or Never for This Site. It asks once the sign-in went through, so a wrong password isn't offered. Next time the form comes up filled in, and a changed password is offered as an update.
  • More than one login for a site: the last used one is filled, and typing another saved username brings its password.
  • File > Passwords lists the saved logins with Copy Password and Delete, and has the switch to stop asking.
  • Passwords are sealed with the system keychain and stay in passwords.json on your computer. Only https pages and local http count, and a site only gets its own logins.
  • macOS: the builds are unsigned, so after each camber update macOS should ask for your login password before camber can read its keychain entry again. Linux: needs GNOME Keyring or KWallet; without one nothing is saved.
  • A sign-in form in an embedded frame or a web component, or one sent over a WebSocket, is not seen. camber never saves without asking.
  • Tried on macOS (Apple Silicon). On Windows and Linux the save and fill have not been run yet, beyond the app starting in CI.

Known gaps: nothing is signed; no Widevine; 1Password doesn't work yet; no password import; no Windows arm64 build, no sync, Boosts or Live Folders.

0.3.2 9 November 2026

Windows and Linux get their menus.

  • The window on Windows and Linux has no menu bar, so File, Tab and Help were out of reach there: Import Arc File, the Chrome Web Store, making camber the default browser, and the routing, unload and archive options. On Linux that meant no practical way to import from Arc. A ≡ button at the top left of the sidebar now opens them.

Known gaps: nothing is signed; no Widevine; 1Password doesn't work yet; no Windows arm64 build, no sync, Boosts or Live Folders.

0.3.1 8 November 2026

camber says it's a beta, and reporting a bug takes one click.

  • A card in the sidebar on first launch (and once after this update) says camber is in beta and links to the bug form. Feedback in the sidebar, and Help > Report a Bug on macOS, open GitHub's issue form in your browser with camber's version and your OS filled in. GitHub gets those two when the page opens; nothing is posted until you submit. Ideas are welcome there too.
  • Homebrew on macOS: brew install yuvrajangadsingh/tap/camber. The cask clears the quarantine flag, so the app opens without the unsigned-app prompt.
  • Releases are now built, checked and drafted by CI from a tag, the Apple Silicon DMG included, so fixes can ship sooner. From the next release on, Windows updates download only the parts that changed.

Known gaps: nothing is signed; no Widevine; 1Password doesn't work yet; no Windows arm64 build, no sync, Boosts or Live Folders.

0.3.0 4 November 2026

Idle tabs give their memory back, and Windows and Linux builds can update themselves.

  • Tab unload: tabs you haven't looked at for an hour give their memory back and stay in the sidebar; clicking one loads it again (Tab > Unload After: 30m, 1h, 3h, Off). The tab on screen, both halves of a split, tabs playing sound and tabs with a picture-in-picture video stay loaded. 23 loaded tabs took 4.9 GB, 0.85 GB after the unload (summed RSS of every camber process, from source on an M5 Air). Form input on an unloaded page is lost, like a reload.
  • A tab's archive and unload clock starts when it leaves the screen, so reading one page for two hours doesn't make it look idle. A today tab playing sound is never archived.
  • Updates: on Windows and the AppImage, camber downloads a newer release in the background and offers Restart in the sidebar; it never restarts by itself. macOS and the .deb keep the note that links to the release. 0.3.0 is the first release with the files the updater reads, so this shows from the next release on.
  • The update note only opens this repo's release pages.
  • Electron 45.2.1.

Known gaps: nothing is signed; no Widevine; 1Password doesn't work yet; no Windows arm64 build, no sync, Boosts or Live Folders.

0.2.0 1 November 2026

The Arc features people said they would miss most, plus tab hygiene.

  • Little window: links from other apps open in a small window over whatever you are doing (Cmd+Shift+N opens one too). Open in camber (Cmd+O) moves the page into the current space.
  • Default browser: File > Make camber the Default Browser. On Linux, xdg-settings set default-web-browser camber.desktop if it doesn't stick.
  • Air Traffic Control: Tab > Always Open Links to This Site in This Space. Links to that site and its subdomains from other apps land in that space. Rules survive a re-import from Arc.
  • Split view: Tab > Split with… (or "split" in the command bar) puts two tabs of the space side by side. Cmd+Shift+\ closes it.
  • Peek: Shift+click a favorite, or Cmd+Shift+click a pinned tab, to look at it over the page. Esc or a click outside closes it, Open as tab keeps it.
  • Auto picture-in-picture: a playing video pops out when you leave its tab and goes back when you return.
  • Per-site permissions: sites ask before they get the camera, microphone, location, notifications and the rest, once per site.
  • Tab hygiene: drag to reorder (drop among the pinned ones to pin), hover close button, closing a tab returns to the one you came from, unpinned tabs unused for 12 hours are closed (Tab > Archive After), double-click a space to rename it.
  • Tabs only load web and extension pages; nothing can point a tab at a local file.

Known gaps: a site that never asked reads camera, microphone and notifications as "granted" until it asks; no Widevine; 1Password doesn't work yet; no auto-update, no Windows arm64 build, no sync, Boosts or Live Folders. Nothing is signed.

0.1.0 28 October 2026

First build: Arc's sidebar, spaces, pinned tabs and command bar on Electron 45 (Chromium 156), for macOS, Windows and Linux. No AI features.

  • Import from Arc (File > Import from Arc, or Import Arc File… for a copied file): spaces with names and colors, Arc's profiles (spaces that shared a profile share logins), favorites per profile, pinned tabs with their names, nested folders, today tabs. Importing again replaces the earlier import.
  • Not imported: history, passwords, bookmarks, extensions, Boosts, Easels. Split views and tab groups become plain tabs.
  • Chrome Web Store extensions, with their buttons in the sidebar.
  • A sidebar note when a newer release is out.

Nothing is signed: macOS is ad-hoc signed and not notarized, Windows shows a SmartScreen warning.

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