Highlights

• Uploaded Gecko to v140 LTS branch
• New Voice Search offline engine based on Vosk ASR models
• Remember browser state in between upgrades
• Google Earth support
• Several UI fixes, time picker min/max support, steps in date/time picker...
• New 3D environments

Gecko

• Uploaded Gecko to v140.8.0 from the v140 LTS branch

New Features

• New Custom Search Engine feature
  • Allow users to set up new search engines
  • Supports both search results and search suggestions
• Added support for Google Earth
  • Actually part of a bigger effort to properly support web pages that offer users to install a native app. Instead of failing with an error Wolvic is now able to gracefuly navigate to a fallback URL.

Notable Fixes

• New Open Source Voice Input Search engine based on Vosk ARS models
  • Completelly offline, language models are downloaded on demand (tiny size <50Mb)
  • No info transmitted to external servers
  • Supports one language at a time
  • Supported Languages: English, Spanish, Deutsch, Italian, Chinese, French and Russian
• Remember browser state in between upgrades
  • Fixed a bug that was corrupting the browser state
  • Tabs are no longer lost after upgrading the browser to a new version
• Fixed a bug preventing users from typing on text entries caused by the last HorizonOS update

New Devices

• Lynx-R1
  • Not strictly a new device, but we're releasing packages for it again
  • Wolvic icon is now shown in the app launcher instead of a generic Android icon
  • Added several required permissions to the manifest required by the latest OS updates

Multimedia

• Restored support for Paramount+, desktop mode is no longer needed to play content.
• Added support for additional VR video sites

Security

• Removed the FxR crash reporting service. Not working since the FxR transition and causing crashes in the background
• Secured several string manipulation methods that could cause crashes

UI enhancements

• Added min/max support for the time picker widget
• Support step and list attributes in date time picker widget
• New X 3D environments

Development

• Align LOAD segments of native libraries to 16kb boundaries
  • Currently enforced by Google Play. We don't currently distribute Wolvic via Google Play but we're ready just in case.