Release notes, newest first -- the same notes vew shows in its in-app What's New panel.
vew 0.6.3
vew 0.6.2
vew 0.6.1
vew 0.6.0
Yaw Team bundles: enable a whole curated MCP bundle for your team in one click from the Yaw MCP panel. Activating a bundle turns on every server in it (e.g. GitHub + Linear + Slack) for all team members, behind a confirmation step, and shows a per-server result so you can see exactly what changed.
Yaw Team secret sync: the Yaw MCP panel now lists your local secret-vault entries and lets you push the encrypted vault to your team or pull the team's, so teammates stop re-entering the same tokens by hand. Values stay encrypted and are never shown -- set them with the yaw-mcp CLI and sync them here.
Yaw Team usage: a new read-only panel shows your team's per-server and per-client Yaw MCP call counts when you're signed in.
Clearer Yaw Team sign-in status: the panel now tells 'signed out' apart from a temporary connection problem -- if the account backend is unreachable or the status check times out, you get a retry prompt and a warning instead of being silently shown as signed out.
vew 0.5.4
New Settings panel (gear icon or command palette 'Settings'): switch between dark and light mode, change search engine, and toggle the MCP bridge -- all in one place.
Put any tab to sleep from the command palette ('Put Tab to Sleep'): the tab navigates to a blank page to free memory, and wakes automatically when you switch back to it.
Updated to @yawlabs/mcp 0.64.2.
Per-server environment variable configuration in the Yaw MCP panel: click 'Configure' on any server row to set KEY=VALUE secrets (like GITHUB_TOKEN or OPENAI_API_KEY). Secrets are stored encrypted in your OS keychain and injected into the Yaw MCP sidecar at connect time. Leave a value blank to fall back to your machine's own environment.
vew 0.5.2
Hitting Stop now cancels in-flight MCP tool calls immediately instead of silently waiting for them to finish.
Fixed: MCP sidecar processes could be orphaned on Windows when quitting the app. The quit sequence now awaits MCP teardown (with a 3-second timeout) before exiting.
vew 0.5.1
vew 0.5.0
vew 0.4.27
vew 0.4.26
vew 0.4.25
The start page no longer advertises the 'f' link-hints shortcut. The search box grabs focus on that page, so the shortcut couldn't fire there -- the hint promised something the page itself prevented. Link hints still work everywhere: press f on any page when you're not typing in a field.
vew 0.4.24
Private tabs are easier to open: right-click a link to open it in a new private tab, or right-click the browser chrome or the tab strip for a New Private Tab entry. Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+N now works while a web page has focus too -- previously the shortcut was silently swallowed unless the toolbar had focus.
A fresh private tab now opens to a private start page that says you're browsing privately -- pages you visit aren't saved to history, cookies and site data are wiped when the last private tab closes, and bookmarks you save are kept. Before, a private tab looked identical to a normal one apart from the small tab-strip badge.
Fixed: the Bookmarks and History panels could come up empty on launch even though nothing was lost (the start-page tiles still showed everything). A startup race could drop the one-time hand-off of those lists to the UI; the hand-off is now guaranteed, so the panels always show your saved items.
Fixed: Ctrl/Cmd+N (new window) and the clear-history / clear-cookies shortcuts were also silently ignored while a web page had focus. All keyboard shortcuts now behave the same regardless of whether the page or the browser chrome has focus.
vew 0.4.23
Browser extensions now load in the installed app. A packaging bug left the extensions runtime unable to locate its preload script, so Chrome extensions (ad blockers, password managers, dev-tools panels, and the like) failed to attach in the Scoop / Homebrew / deb / rpm builds. They now initialize correctly.
vew 0.4.22
Self-updates on Windows now actually install. A bug in the updater could leave it stuck partway and then report that it had 'updated' -- to the very version you were already running -- so you would stay on the old build without realizing it. Updates now complete properly, and on the rare occasion one genuinely cannot, Vew tells you it did not complete and to try again, instead of claiming a success that did not happen.
vew 0.4.21
vew 0.4.20
vew 0.4.19
vew 0.4.18
If saving your API key -- or a plugin's environment variables -- ever fails (a locked keychain, a full disk), Vew now warns you instead of carrying on as if it worked. The key still works for the current session, but you're told it didn't persist and will revert on the next launch, rather than discovering it gone later.
When you hand the agent a task and then switch tabs, it no longer acts on the wrong page. The agent refuses an action if the active tab has moved away from the one it attached to, and its extra-caution checks on sensitive pages (checkout, banking) now key to the page it is actually driving.
You can now revoke a browser extension that has no background page. Previously the Revoke button stayed permanently disabled for those extensions, so withdrawing consent meant removing and reinstalling them.
The Bookmarks manager is now keyboard- and screen-reader-friendly: focus stays trapped inside the dialog, Escape closes it from anywhere (not just the search box), and focus returns to where you were when it closes.
On Linux, a self-update that needs root -- because the authorization prompt was dismissed or no auth agent was available -- now says 'Root access required' with the manual command to run, instead of a generic install-failed message.
vew 0.4.17
vew 0.4.16
Self-update is much smoother to watch. The progress bar used to sit frozen near 2% for the whole update, and a successful upgrade often ended on an amber 'Update problem -- reopening vew' banner -- both were display bugs sitting on top of an update that actually worked. The bar now tracks real progress, and the error banner only shows when something genuinely went wrong.
More privacy when the agent reads a page: credit-card numbers (validated with a Luhn check) and Social Security numbers are now stripped from the page text before it's sent to the model, and card- or CVV-shaped values you type into a form are masked too. Ordinary numbers like prices and quantities stay readable.
The per-site data panel now folds a site's secure and non-secure cookies into a single row and clears both when you remove it, so wiping a site no longer leaves its non-secure (http) cookies behind. Clearing saved passwords now reports honestly when Windows had the password file locked, instead of claiming success on a no-op.
Your bookmarks, history, settings, and preferences are saved more safely: each write goes to a temp file that's renamed into place, and vew never overwrites a file it couldn't read this session -- so a crash, sleep, or antivirus lock mid-save can't corrupt or blank them.
vew 0.4.14
Right-click the chrome (toolbar / tab strip) for a context menu that mirrors the omnibox and command palette -- Bookmark this page, Copy URL, Copy Title, toggle the theme, or jump straight into Bookmarks / History / Plugins / Site Data / About. The page's right-click menu now includes a separator-bracketed App group for the same shortcuts, so a context-click on a link or image still feels native to the page.
The Plugins manager (the gear button, or 'Manage plugins' in the command palette) is rewritten end to end. Add an MCP server (a stdio command + args + optional env) and Vew asks for your consent before it ever runs, stores any secrets that server needs encrypted, and tears the connection down cleanly when you remove or disable the plugin.
Cold start is faster. The MCP SDK (~10 MB of transitive deps via zod, ajv, and ajv-formats) is now deferred to the moment you actually open the agent panel -- a user who never touches the agent never pays the load cost. Navigations also push far less work to the renderer: five page-load events that used to re-render the whole chrome now coalesce into a single state push, and the same-tab state pushes are deduped so the IPC + layout walk don't fire on no-ops.
The version poll that runs every five minutes to detect an installed-package upgrade is now paused when your laptop sleeps. Without this, opening the lid after a four-hour sleep would fire 48 backlogged ticks in a single burst, hammering the package manager and adding visible jank. The poll resumes five seconds after wake to give WiFi and VPN time to reconnect.
vew 0.4.11
The brand teal across the app -- focus rings, buttons, the agent chip, the in-place upgrade splash -- is a deeper, more saturated shade that reads as a true teal rather than mint-cyan. App icon, tab favicon, and wordmark gradient all updated in lockstep.
The wordmark in the app icon and logo is now flattened to vector outlines, so it renders identically whether or not Inter is installed on your machine.
vew 0.4.3
New History overlay (Ctrl+Shift+H, or 'Open history' in the command palette) -- a per-page log of where this Vew has been, with a search box and a one-click 'clear history'.
New per-site data panel: pick a site and clear just its cookies, storage, and cached state, without losing anything else. Bookmarks, API keys, and other sites are untouched.
The history file is capped at 5,000 entries (oldest evicted) and titles at 500 characters, so a page with a giant <title> can't bloat it; reloads and re-visits within five minutes collapse to a single row.
vew 0.4.0
New MCP bridge -- an opt-in toggle in the agent panel (off by default) that lets an external MCP client like @yawlabs/vew-mcp drive this Vew instead of launching its own headless Chromium.
The bridge binds to 127.0.0.1:9222 only, so a remote host can't attach; any local process running as you can, so enable it only while you're actively using a client that needs it.
A new security policy at SECURITY.md spells out the threat model: when the bridge is on, a prompt-injected instruction reaches your real browser -- with your cookies, sessions, and authenticated state -- not a sandboxed one.
Toggling the bridge takes effect on the next launch; the About panel shows the live CDP URL and a "restart required" hint when the setting hasn't taken effect yet.
vew 0.3.0
New Plugins manager -- the gear button in the toolbar, or "Manage plugins" in the agent panel -- where you add MCP servers to give the agent more tools than the built-in browser actions.
Yaw MCP is now a built-in plugin you toggle in Plugins, and you can add your own MCP servers alongside it (for example a filesystem or GitHub server).
vew asks for your OK before it ever runs a server you add, and stores any secrets that server needs (its environment variables) encrypted.
vew 0.2.9
New About panel -- the (i) button in the toolbar, or “About vew” in the command palette -- showing the version you're on.
The command palette gained Settings, Keyboard Shortcuts, Report an Issue, and What’s New.
The updater popup now shows live progress and a clear "still working" hint, so an update never looks frozen.
More reliable self-update on Windows: vew waits for the old version to fully release before installing, and always reopens even if a step fails.