Changelog
[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
andlive
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
- [detector] Support Bilibili.com
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 version6.0
[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.