lightpanda-io/browser 1.0.4

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Behavior changes

• Requests to the Fetch "bad ports" (ssh, smtp, pop3, imap, …) are now refused for every request, not only WebSocket.
• window.postMessage now honors targetOrigin.
• A cross-site response can no longer set a SameSite cookie other than None.
• Proxy and server credentials are tracked separately, so proxy credentials are no longer sent to the server after a redirect.
• An about:blank (or src-less) iframe now gets its contentWindow and contentDocument even without --load-resources iframe. Its HTTP and WebSocket requests are blocked while iframe loading is off.
• An HTTP status from 600 to 999 (e.g. LinkedIn's 999) is now reported as-is instead of 0.
• Trusted mousedown, mouseup, click and dblclick now stop at the first disabled form control, as in Chrome.
• Element clicks and hovers from tools now hit the element's center instead of (0, 0).
• document.readyState is now interactive when deferred scripts run.
• Network.setUserAgentOverride now logs a warning when a restricted user agent is ignored.
• The HTTP server parses requests more strictly and its routes are guarded against DNS rebinding.

CDP

• Several page targets in one browser context. Console, exception and network events are routed to the right target, and a frame id from another target is rejected
• Accessibility: ignoredReasons now match Chrome (ariaHiddenElement, ariaHiddenSubtree, inertElement, notRendered, notVisible)
• Lone surrogate escapes in JSON ("\udc00") are accepted instead of closing the connection
• LP.waitUntil and a settled lifecycle event
• beacon added to LP.configureLoading
• A closed browser context no longer leaves its viewport override for the next one
• LP commands described in /json/protocol

Serve / CLI

• --wait-until settled (experimental): waits for load, then for the work that can still change the page. Interval timers, long timers and intersection observers don't hold it
• --v8-gc-hint-floor-mb replaces the fixed 1 MiB GC hint floor. Off in fetch
• --experimental-features animation: fire animationstart, animationend and animationcancel for CSS animations
• Bash 3.2 (macOS) filename completion

New Web APIs

• AnimationEvent and CSS animation events (behind --experimental-features animation)
• ClipboardEvent
• InputEvent.getTargetRanges()
• execCommand('insertParagraph')
• getComputedStyle().content resolved from the cascade

Web API behavior / fixes

• Text editors: CKEditor works, and clicks, focus and Tab place the caret in a contenteditable (Slate, Draft.js)
• contenteditable: Backspace and Delete merge blocks (nested ones too), side-by-side lists merge, Enter in an empty list item outdents it
• execCommand: runs of spaces and spaces at line edges become  , so they stay visible
• innerText keeps spaces when CSS white-space preserves them, and puts a newline between rows of thead, tbody and tfoot
• :defined follows the custom element state; customized built-ins (<button is=...>) now upgrade
• [CEReactions] for createElement/createElementNS; the reactions queue is no longer drained when a constructor returns
• a.hash and a.search (and <area>) return "" for a lone # or ?
• history.pushState(undefined) no longer breaks history.state; state that JSON can't encode throws DataCloneError
• import() of an already available module settles in a later task, as in Chrome
• window.<id> on an iframe's window looks up the iframe's document
• Functions called from a realm whose frame is gone no longer crash (import(), import.meta, postMessage, location)
• WebSocket: fragmented messages are reassembled; the server's Sec-WebSocket-Protocol is checked against the offered list
• CORS responses filter their headers
• Response.clone() on a stream; pipeTo/pipeThrough fixes
• Input stepUp/stepDown with fractional steps (0.1 + 0.2 gives 0.3)
• matchMedia("") always matches
• SVG getCTM()/getScreenCTM() return an identity matrix on a detached element
• frame and basefont are serialized as void elements
• document.createEvent('inputevent') is rejected; PromiseRejectionEvent requires its options
• new CSSStyleSheet() sheets are the only ones replace() accepts
• IntersectionObserver: the first check runs on the next tick

Tools / MCP

• tree delta: true: returns only the lines that changed since the last call
• The page's WebMCP tools are reported in a tool result whenever they change
• Actions that open a window late (after a fetch or a timer) now follow it; new popups tool lists and switches windows
• click says when the element is disabled or not rendered
• Tool arguments are type-checked, and every error names the argument and the problem
• tree and markdown keep content that is rendered despite hidden or aria-hidden
• Markdown: <ol start>, multi-paragraph blockquotes, a blank line before ---
• MCP over HTTP: tool output streamed over SSE (the run tool streams console lines), logging/setLevel, and notifications/cancelled now stops the call in flight
• The run tool description explains how to load pages in parallel

Performance / stability

• Style caches are invalidated per property group, and a geometry change no longer resets the whole geometry cache
• Smaller CSS declarations (~500 KB saved on a style-heavy site); property names are ids, and style matching compares ids (7%+ faster rebuilds on most frameworks)
• XHR takes the response body instead of copying it
• XPath parsing allocates less
• Crash fixes: abort during a gated transfer, a UAF in custom element upgrade
• The crash reporter exits non-zero when it can't start curl

Release

• macOS builds run on macOS 15; the Intel build targets baseline x86_64, fixing "Illegal instruction" on older CPUs
• Release candidates (1.0.4-rc1) are now published