v34.0.10

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

Fixes

Core

• widgetsboxmodel · Accidentially released dev branch

Plugins

• URL Handler · Disable implict input action

v34.0.8

Fixes

Plugins

• Python plugins · Dependent template breaks almost all builds

Miscellaneous Tasks

Core

• Remove title from cliff templates

Plugins

• GitHub · Remove leftover debug output

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v34.0.0

Highlights

• Query system redesign: stateful asynchronous query handlers enable lazy query processing. This significantly reduces query latency and supports infinite scrolling. Generator-based subclasses allow writing linear, readable code while remaining fully asynchronous.

• Internationalized tokenization: queries are now tokenized using Unicode word boundaries, enabling correct splitting of non-Latin scripts.

• Improved API structure and documentation: API restructuring reduces the cognitive load for plugin developers.

• Asynchronous plugin initialization: gives implementations control over how plugins are initialized, improving performance and reducing UI freezes.

• Plugins

  • Added Homebrew plugin.
  • Added Firefox plugin.
  • Renamed the PATH plugin to Commandline.
  • Removed the QStylesheets-based widgets box model frontend.

Details

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
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