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[2024.11.1] - 2024-11-11​

  • [browser] Remove the built-in browser (macOS Intel only)

[2024.11.0] - 2024-11-05​

  • [application] Fix start menu shortcut error (Windows)
  • [detector] Fix StripChat support
  • [downloader] Fix Facebook support

[2024.10.0] - 2024-10-15​

  • [application] Fix high CPU usage bug on Macbook Pro
  • [browser] Fix a bug where Google Chrome was unable to exit with the main program

[2024.09.0] - 2024-09-01​

Fixed​

  • [brwoser] Warn while visiting pages contains Vimeo videos
  • [detector] Fix the bug of operating another item
  • [downloader] Fix duration/length display bug of live streams
  • [downloader] Fix HTTP redirection with wrong headers bug
  • [downloader] Fix key store misusage bug (m3u8)

[2024.08.1] - 2024-08-10​

Fixed​

  • [detector] Better vimeo support (Chrome only)
  • [downloader] Fixed a bug where the live stream was interrupted

[2024.07.0] - 2024-07-01​

Changed​

  • [player] Enable the built-in media player by default (Windows)

Fixed​

  • [detector] Tolerant on wrong video/audio extensions
  • [detector] Fix multiple-resolutions wrong links bug
  • [downloader] Fix MediaDelivery support

[2024.06.0] - 2024-06-10​

Changed​

  • [application] Updated automatic update module (macOS)
  • [browser] Add a customized blank page
  • [browser] Rename the built-in browser to - WhaleDown Browser

[2024.05.0] - 2024-05-10​

Changed​

  • [application] Redesign the browser launcher view
  • [browser] Support cookie store (WhaleBrowser)

[2024.04.0] - 2024-04-15​

Added​

  • [application] New browsers launcher view
  • [browser] Support Brave Browser

Changed​

  • [detector] Display file size of chunked HTTP files
  • [detector] Display duration and live info of m3u8 streams

Fixed​

  • [downloader] Don't merge audio while video already contains audio

[2024.03.0] - 2024-03-13​

Changed​

  • [browser] The built-in browser is now standalone as a new program - WhaleBrowser

Fixed​

  • [detector] Fix the bug where you can't click to download
  • [detector] Fix a bug where videos cannot be detected based on web content (Windows)
  • [downloader] Fix a critical m3u8 video download bug

[2024.02.0] - 2024-02-20​

Added​

  • [detector] A newly designed pop-up window while starting to download

Changed​

  • [downloader] Support more websites
  • [downloader] Support downloading subtitles embedded in m3u8 manifests
  • [downloader] Transcode video/audio in real-time

Fixed​

  • [downloader] Fix missing progress bug while downloading DASH streams (Windows)

[2023.12.0] - 2023-12-01​

Fixed​

  • [detector] Choose the best quality when possible
  • [detector] Fix the DASH stream detection bug (Chrome)
  • [downloader] Fix the settings view display bug
  • [downloader] Resolved some 401 errors

[2023.11.0] - 2023-11-10​

Changed​

  • [application] Add the 'More' section to general settings
  • [browser] Warn while visiting Google Account
  • [browser] Warn while blocked by Cloudflare

Fixed​

  • [detector] Fix YouTube support
  • [downloader] Fix the bug of writing to the same file

[2023.10.0] - 2023-10-15​

Added​

Fixed​

  • [application] Fix graphic rendering bug on macOS Sonoma (Intel)
  • [application] Fix a UI layout bug while using multiple moniters

[2023.9.0] - 2023-09-01​

Changed​

  • [application] Use month as the minor version
  • [browser] Bypass CloudFlare verification (Chrome)
  • [detector] Choose the best format by default
  • [downloader] Increase the maximum number of retries to 128

[2023.3.2] - 2023-08-01​

Changed​

  • [application] Redesign the license view
  • [application] Redesign the license activation dialog
  • [browser] Support for installing extensions in Google Chrome

Fixed​

  • [downloader] Remove the audio file with the video

[2023.3.1] - 2023-07-15​

Added​

  • [application] Remove the Pin/Unpin button from the AppBar
  • [browser] Initial Chrome extensions support
  • [detector] Move to stack view
  • [settings] Move to stack view

[2023.3.0] - 2023-07-01​

Added​

  • [browser] Move to a separate window
  • [detector] Disable Ads filter
  • [settings] Move to a separate window

Fixed​

  • [downloader] Fix audio merging bug

[2023.2.5] - 2023-05-27​

Fixed​

  • [downlader] Fix a critical URLs parsing bug (m3u8)

[2023.2.4] - 2023-05-25​

Added​

  • [browser] Initial support for Microsoft Edge
  • [browser] Cache m3u8 keys (Chrome)

Fixed​

  • [detector] Fix missing title bug (Chrome)
  • [detector] Fix missing cookies bug (Chrome)
  • [downloader] Fix no audio bug (m3u8)

Known Issuses​

  • [player] The built-in player causes the entire app to become unresponsive (macOS Intel). It is disabled by default.

[2023.2.2] - 2023-04-12​

Fixed​

  • [detector] Fix missing audio bug (E.g. TED)
  • [downloader] Generate MediaPlayer/QuickTime friendly videos (m3u8)
  • [downloader] Fix failure bug of DASH streams
  • [downloader] Auto retry on connection reset by peer error
  • [player] Reduce crash on previewing m3u8 streams

[2023.2.1] - 2023-04-06​

Added​

  • [application] Show badge number on application icon

Fixed​

  • [browser] Get rid of warning bar while starting Google Chrome
  • [browser] Fix TikTok access issue
  • [downloader] Fix audio codec bug (m3u8)
  • [downloader] Fix timestamp bug (m3u8)

[2023.2.0] - 2023-04-01​

Added​

  • [browser] External browser (Google Chrome) support 🤡
  • [detector] Suport kuaishou.com
  • [detector] Filter YouTube DASH streams

[2023.1.1] - 2023-03-03​

Fixed​

  • [application] Change light/dark theme with system
  • [detector] (YouTube) Fix failure bug on some URLs
  • [downloader] (YouTube) Fix missing audio bug
  • [downloader] (YouTube) Save to .mp4 instead of .webm

Changed​

  • [ffmpeg] Upgrade bundled ffmpeg to version 6.0

[2023.1.0] - 2023-01-30​

Added​

  • [player] Introduce a brand new built-in media player

Changed​

  • [downloader] 'Convert to MP4' is available to all streams

Fixed​

  • [browser] Fix captcha infinite loop bug
  • [detector] Fix Emoji display bug

Known Issuses​

  • [downloader] Can not change the save directory

[2022.4.2] - 2022-12-20​

Changed​

  • [browser] Update User Agent strings
  • [detector] Improve performance (~3x faster)

Fixed​

  • [windows] Fix live stream bug

[2022.4.0] - 2022-11-30​

Added​

  • [browser] Show live screenshot in tab previewer while hovering on tab
  • [browser] Option to autoplay videos/audios (Less Ads)
  • [browser] New text search bar (Ctrl/CMD+F)
  • [browser] New notification bubble widget
  • [detector] Support more video sharing websites
  • [downloader] Free to download Facebook & Reddit videos
  • [downloader] New context menu item - 'Convert to mp4' (m3u8 only)
  • [downloader] Double click to open in Explorer.exe/Finder.app

Fixed​

  • [windows] Fix a critical performance bug

[2022.3.4] - 2022-09-20​

Added​

  • [browser] Add preview for tabs (Long hover on a tab)
  • [browser] Add pin/unpin mode to the context menu of tab
  • [browser] Double click on a tab to toggle the pin mode
  • [browser] Double click right mouse button on a tab to close it
  • [browser] Add 'close all/other tabs' actions to the context menu of tab
  • [browser] Cmd+Left/Cmd+Right to switch between tabs
  • [browser] Cmd+[Num] to switch to the tab at [Num]
  • [detector] Support more websites
  • [detector] Use favicon as the default thumbnail

[2022.3.2] - 2022-08-04​

Added​

  • [detector] Optimize for Facebook (Live streams are not supported)
  • [detector] Optimize for Reddit
  • [detector] Optimize for Snapchat
  • [downloader] Free to download Twitter videos

[2022.3.0] - 2022-07-07​

Added​

  • [detector] Add interceptor rules for DASH(mpd) streams
  • [detector] New option to download without asking
  • [downloader] Download and merge videos and audios automatically (m3u8)
  • [downloader] Support EXT-X-MAP tag of m3u8

Fixed​

  • [downloader] Fix downloading bug on Windows
  • [downloader] Fix file name too long bug
  • [downloader] Fix downloading empty key bug (m3u8)
  • [downloader] Fix wrong referer header of iframe bug
  • [downloader] Tolerant mis-configured m3u8 server

[2022.2.2] - 2022-05-30​

Added​

  • [app] New Chinese and Spanish translations
  • [downloader] Support keys in 'chave://' form (HLS)

Fixed​

  • [detector] Fix small videos filtering bug
  • [detector] Fix save directory changing bug

[2022.2.0] - 2022-05-05​

Added​

  • [detector] Display more details about detected videos
  • [detector] Update Ads filter rules

Fixed​

  • [app] Fix 'Load License Error"

[2022.1.0] - 2022-03-30​

Added​

  • [app] New tray icon and tray window
  • [app] New menu entry - Find My License
  • [browser] Suggestions pane for address bar
  • [browser] Bookmarks manager
  • [browser] Dark mode for supported webpages
  • [detector] Side by side mode (Pin)
  • [detector] Add support to 20+ Chinese video sharing websites
  • [downloader] Free to download TikTok and DouYin videos
  • [downloader] Display downloading speed
  • [downloader] Suport base64 encoded key of HLS(m3u8)

Fixed​

  • [app] Extend window's dragging area on macOS
  • [app] Fix updater dialog positioning bug on Windows
  • [app] Fix tooltips style in the light mode
  • [detector] Fix title detection bug

[2021.4.3] - 2021-12-30​

This version towards Apple Silicon (M1) only. The minimum system requirements are macOS 11 Big Sur + Apple Silicon (M1).

[2021.2.5] - 2021-11-30​

  • [downloader] Support streaming ranged segments (HLS)
  • [downloader] Clean temporary files while deleting (DASH)
  • [downloader] New Moved to downloader indicator
caution

This would be the last version that can run on Windows 7 and macOS 10.13, 10.14. We will not push updates and provide support for these operating systems.