Silent Mode — downloads

Windows 64-bit · unsigned · 2026-10-27 · Open-with menu now reads just "Theseus Navigator" — the per-extension long label is dropped. File associations register on first launch automatically — the Settings toggle is gone. Right-click an .html, .htm, .pdf, .svg or .xhtml file and Theseus is in the Open-with menu without a flipped switch. Settings sidebar: Plug-ins is renamed System and now holds Names & Certificates as a chevron row — the Names & Certificates nav entry at top level is removed.

Windows 64-bit · unsigned · 2026-10-27 · Error page's Did-you-mean row gains a 🔎 Search '<host>' chip that falls back to the default search engine. Search and AI engines settings pages lead with the curated catalog visible by default — the + Show more button at the bottom reveals the wider bank + the custom-URL form. Shield (adblocker) and Cookie Pop-ups (consent) now also apply to the sidebar AI panel and the quick-link app panels; the inject gate used to require a web tab, so the sparkle-opened chat still showed every banner.

Windows 64-bit · unsigned · 2026-10-27 · Settings restructured: Theseus ID moved inside General; Ariadne's Thread and Aegis are their own top-level nav entries; General leads with four one-line rows (Default browser, Theseus Shield, Startup, Updates); the always-on BNS row is dropped from Names & Certificates; Hermes and Pithos drop out of Extensions and show in a new Theseus-native-apps card at the top of Sidebar; the document editors sort last in Extensions and in the toolbar add-on row. AI engines get their own Settings page separate from Search, with Default picker, catalog and Add form. The Pick-AI overlay is borderless and rounded, with an Edit button in the header. Pithos now appears in the Sidebar card without needing a first launch. The error page's Did-you-mean row surfaces alternative-TLD swaps on DNS failures (my.mynymbox.com → my.mynymbox.io, mynymbox.io, …) alongside the existing BCNR warm-index matches. Engine icons prefer the real brand favicon over the bundled tile once it's fetched.

Windows 64-bit · unsigned · 2026-10-27 · Settings › General has a new Default handling section (Windows). Toggle to make Theseus the default browser (opens Windows' Default apps so you confirm it there — Windows reserves that choice for the user), and a separate toggle to put Theseus in the Open-with menu for .html, .htm, .pdf, .svg and .xhtml files. Everything is written under HKCU, no admin prompt. Theseus also now opens a file path or URL you pass on the command line as a new tab — which is what Windows calls when you pick Theseus from an Open-with menu.

Windows 64-bit · unsigned · 2026-10-27 · Pick AI button opens its list again — a close-on-click-away handler the overlay inherited from 0.3.106 was closing the pop the moment it opened, so from 0.3.106 through 0.3.119 Pick AI looked like a no-op. Fixed to use the same server-side click-away contract the search engine picker uses. Also: DuckDuckGo AI renamed to Duck AI (duck.ai is Duck's own name for the chat UI, and it reads cleaner next to the DuckDuckGo search entry).

Windows 64-bit · unsigned · 2026-10-27 · The toolbar magnifier dropdown no longer mixes LLMs in with the search engines — pick an AI through the Pick-AI button on the sidebar strip instead. The LLM list itself is reordered by rough global popularity (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity) and gains three new engines: DuckDuckGo AI (truly anonymous, no sign-up, serves GPT-4o mini + Claude 3 Haiku + Llama + Mistral behind one URL), Yandex Alisa (Russian), and Qwen (Alibaba's Tongyi chat — email sign-up, the strongest non-mainland-phone access to a Chinese model). All three ship with bundled icons.

Windows 64-bit · unsigned · 2026-10-27 · AI engine icons now load from a bundled set on disk instead of being fetched from each engine's favicon over the network. Fewer requests at startup, correct icons in the picker on first open, and nothing to render if the engine's host is unreachable. Phind is dropped from the enabled defaults — its web UI currently returns a Vercel 404 at the root — so the Open AI launcher now opens Perplexity by default. Phind stays in the catalog but marked frozen, so it won't be re-added automatically.

Windows 64-bit · unsigned · 2026-10-27 · A navigation to a .com / .net / .io / country-code TLD that fails DNS now shows the DNS-flavoured This name did not resolve page instead of the BCNR-flavoured That name is not registered page. The old framing pushed a Register on Sirius action for sites that are almost certainly real clearnet domains whose DNS temporarily broke (hostile Wi-Fi AAAA mangling is the usual cause). Non-ICANN TLDs (.bch, .x, …) keep the register-first framing.

Windows 64-bit · unsigned · 2026-10-27 · Pick AI is now its own strip button next to the AI launch button, not a chevron badge glued onto it. Launch button opens the current engine in the panel; Pick button (three-row list glyph) opens the picker overlay to switch engines. Right-click on the launch button still opens the picker as a shortcut. Also: the Claude connector chip in the toolbar gets a max-width + ellipsis + flex-shrink so a long Claude N tabs string no longer squeezes the search box text out of view.

Windows 64-bit · unsigned · 2026-10-26 · Pick AI engine chevron on the sidebar AI button is now a visible acid-coloured badge (grew from a 10 px grey ghost in the corner) so the way to switch engines is actually discoverable. Click or Enter still opens the picker overlay; right-click on the main AI icon still works too. The sidebar strip and the picker also refresh their icons the moment a favicon fetch finishes — previously they kept the sym emoji until some other state change re-emitted.

Windows 64-bit · unsigned · bundled Node runtime · 2026-10-01 · Every subsystem is now individually switchable and reports its own state. New endpoint http://127.0.0.1/api/status returns a full state report (daemon version + startup + policy + permitted TLDs + ports + upstream + gateway; index size + warm-start source; per-source enabled/lastAttempt/lastSuccess/lastError/counters for snapshotHttps + electrumWss + perQueryLookup + diskCache + localApi). C:\ProgramData\Ariadne\policy.json extended with a `sources.<name>.enabled` block (hot-reloaded every 5 s alongside the collision policy) -- flip any source off to isolate a path or measure without it. Turning localApi off returns 503 with a hint pointing at the config file. Turning diskCache off skips writing bns-name-snapshot.json AND skips reading it at warm-start. Turning snapshotHttps off skips the HTTPS refresh; electrumWss off skips the WSS refresh; perQueryLookup off skips the per-query /api/name/ fallback. Includes 0.1.12 (orphan-safe upgrade + /api/tlds + /api/name/:n + /api/registry). Upgrades in place.

Android 5.0+ (API 21) · self-signed release key · 2026-10-22 · In the Grid tab-switcher, the + New tab card is now the same size as a real tab card instead of collapsing to roughly half the height. The two sit on the same baseline so the grid reads as one surface. Same signing key; installs over 0.46.

Android 5.0+ (API 21) · self-signed release key · 2026-10-22 · Hold any card on the LIVE row for a moment, then drag it between other cards to reorder — same gesture FAVORITES already use. The new order persists across restarts. Short tap-and-hold still opens the edit menu. Internally, a store-side unit test harness (63 assertions covering drag bounds, corrupt-prefs fallback, round-trip persistence) now guards this and the FAVORITES reorder from regressing. Same signing key; installs over 0.45.

Windows 64-bit · unsigned · 2026-10-08 · In Theseus, Send on Telegram and Send on WhatsApp open Theseus's own Telegram and WhatsApp apps at their share screens; the share menu shows the real Telegram, WhatsApp and X icons. The sidebar's Full page button is gone (the panel's Maximize does the same).

Linux 64-bit · unsigned · 2026-10-08 · In Theseus, Send on Telegram and Send on WhatsApp open Theseus's own Telegram and WhatsApp apps at their share screens; the share menu shows the real Telegram, WhatsApp and X icons. The sidebar's Full page button is gone (the panel's Maximize does the same).

Windows 64-bit · unsigned · 2026-10-07 · Share opens a menu: copy the public link, open it, or send it on X, Telegram or WhatsApp. Shared links open on a page with a preview and a Download button. Pithos fills wide windows, a renamed user updates in every open view, and pithos.sia in Theseus asks for the vault PIN after a lock and reopens once it is unlocked.

Linux 64-bit · unsigned · 2026-10-08 · Share opens a menu: copy the public link, open it, or send it on X, Telegram or WhatsApp. Shared links open on a page with a preview and a Download button. Pithos fills wide windows and a renamed user updates in every open view.

Android 5.0+ (API 21) · signed · 2026-10-26 · Invite Friends: tapping a contact opens the system SMS composer pre-addressed to that number with the invite text ready to send; Share Hermes link stays as the chooser. Sign-out shows the 12-word recovery phrase AND the nsec when both exist on the device; nsec-only imports show the nsec with a note explaining why no 12 words are sealed.

Android 5.0+ (API 21) · signed · 2026-10-26 · Profile: Name / Surname / Username are three independent fields. The old code conflated the @handle with the real-name slot, so profile rows surfaced an npub as the "Name" value when no name was set. Each row is now empty with its own placeholder, and username publishes to kind:0 `name` separately from the `display_name` (First Last). Chats + contacts prefer First+Last, fall back to @username only when no name is on file. Room v8 destructive migration — chats and messages persist, cached profiles rebuild from relays.

Android 5.0+ (API 21) · signed · 2026-10-26 · Auto-download updates (banner downloads + sha256-verifies the new APK the moment one is available; Update is now a one-tap install confirm). Contacts: Telegram-style Search Contacts field + Invite Friends shortcut; new Invite Friends screen opens the system share sheet with a prepared hermes.x link. NIP-42 AUTH wired on inbox subscriptions. About -> Source code links through navigate.st/bns/hermes.x so stock browsers reach the page.