Releases: camellia-app/camellia
2.1.0
Release 2.1.0 brings Camellia to Firefox, and also contains lots of small polishings and improvements.
Camellia for Firefox
When I was designing internals of Camellia 2.x I kept possibility of porting the extension to other browsers in mind. Finally the day has come!
To install Camellia for Firefox, visit Add-ons for Firefox store. And make sure you have the latest version of Firefox (version 121 or newer is required).
What's changed
New features and improvements:
- Shadows under bookmarks were needed to improve contrast, but they looked a bit ugly. They were replaced with thin hard-to-notice grey outline. This outline appears on options controls too.
- "Accessibility" category added to the options page.
- Added "Privacy policy" link to the bottom of the options page.
- Added hints to the bottom of the search dialog.
- On options page the background preview block moved after URL text fields.
- The search dialog may be opened with Ctrl + K and ⌘ Command + K shortcuts now.
- Added a message suggesting to rate the extension to the bottom of the options page.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed rare case when background image could be loaded without fade-in animation.
Internals:
- In Chrome Web Store the extension will be marked as "Works offline". It really does! (in terms of displaying your bookmarks)
- Slightly improved Unsplash wallpapers loading time.
- Updated all dependencies.
Screenshots
New outline instead of shadow
Zoom the image if you can't notice the difference 🕵️♀️
2.0.0
I was developing this release since 2019 in my own pace, rewriting the project 3-4 times from scratch, and finally I'm glad to present long awaited Camellia 2.0! 🎉
What's changed
Visually refreshed, but still familiar. Most notable changes of new design:
- Bookmarks have a new chip-style look. They provide better mouse-hover feedback and show loading animation when clicked.
- Clicking folder now opens popup.
- Bookmark grid now adapts to displays of any size. No matter what display you have: 34" ultrawide display or a browser window opened on a half of your laptop display.
- Less buttons in bottom toolbar.
- Completely new modern looking options page.
New features:
- You can specify Unsplash collection as a source of random wallpapers now. By default Camellia shows random photos from our curated Unsplash collection with 100+ handpicked photos.
Removals:
- Removed lots of useless options from the options page.
- Removed omnibox bookmark search.
Internals:
- The extension was completely rewritten: from Vue to React, it uses TypeScript and CSS Modules now.
- The extension is bundled with webpack now (instead of Laravel Mix).
- It was updated to Chrome Manifest V3.
- It requests new mandatory permission
faviconinstead of non-documented manifest V2-onlychrome://favicon/. - License changed from GNU GPL 3.0 to MIT.
- Enabled performance and error tracking using Sentry.
How to update
Your old Camellia will be updated automatically, but we should wait a bit for Chrome Web Store review process. Please note that your browser will ask for additional permissions, you should approve them to enable the new version.
If you haven't installed it previously, you are welcome to Camellia's Chrome Web Store page.
2.0.0: Release Candidate 2
Some noticeable fixes:
- Refactored a bit to make sure "Mobile bookmarks" category will be displayed when you have some bookmarks on your phone (40e7def)
- Improved contrast of disabled form controls (eb0abb1)
- Primary white color in the app is brighter now (b4747ed)
Open beta
Everyone is welcome to participate in the beta to help me polish it before general release.
To install the beta build, you should open chrome://extensions page in Google Chrome, then toggle "Developer mode" switch, next press the "Load unpacked" button and select a folder you extracted from the archive attached to this release (below) your are reading right now.
Please share your feedback in repository discussions. Your feelings and discovered bugs are very appreciated!
2.0.0: Release Candidate 1
Long awaited version 2.0 is close to its release! I'm glad to open public beta so you can share your feedback and report some bugs if you discover them.
What's new
Camellia 2.0 features all-new, but still familiar design, that adapts to displays of all kind: from very small windows to very large displays. It's also was completely rewritten to React and TypeScript, designed for future release on Firefox and even Safari.
Most notable changes of new design:
- Bookmarks have a new chip-style look. They provide better mouse-hover feedback and show loading animation when clicked.
- Clicking folder now opens popup.
- Bookmark grid now adapts to displays of any size. No matter what display you have: 34" ultrawide display or a browser window opened on a half of your laptop display.
- Less buttons in bottom toolbar.
- Completely new modern looking options page.
New features:
- You can specify Unsplash collection as a source of random wallpapers now. By default Camellia shows random photos from our curated Unsplash collection with 100+ handpicked photos.
Open beta
Everyone is welcome to participate in the beta to help me polish it before general release.
To install the beta build, you should open chrome://extensions page in Google Chrome, then toggle "Developer mode" switch, next press the "Load unpacked" button and select a folder you extracted from the archive attached to this release (below) your are reading right now.
Please share your feedback in repository discussions. Your feelings and discovered bugs are very appreciated!
Release date
I would be nice to release it in first half of February. The stable update will be distributed via Chrome Web Store as a standard auto-update, so your old Camellia will be updated automatically.