A Pro license on macOS currently has no binary to download. Rather than
hard-failing a paying customer, fall back to the free binary with a clear
notice. Scoped to the 404 case only: transient and checksum-verification
failures still hard-fail (no silent downgrade), and once the macOS Pro
build ships the 404 disappears and Pro is served automatically.
JS side adds DownloadHttpError to carry the HTTP status through fetch's
generic error path so the 404 can be distinguished from transient failures.
Replace the same-origin checksum with a detached Ed25519 signature
(SHA256SUMS.sig) verified against a pinned public key before extraction,
closing #308: a compromised download mirror can no longer certify a
tampered binary. The signed manifest also binds the release version,
rejecting a forced downgrade to an older signed build.
Verification is mandatory and non-bypassable on the official download path;
custom CLOAKBROWSER_DOWNLOAD_URL mirrors keep the legacy skippable checksum.
Silent auto-update is preserved for everyone because only a constant public
key is pinned, not per-version hashes. Older installed wrappers are
unaffected — the version= line is ignored by their checksum parser.
Python uses cryptography; JS uses node:crypto. Adds tamper, downgrade, and
fail-closed tests in both languages.
- Add linux-arm64 to PLATFORM_CHROMIUM_VERSIONS (Python + JS)
- Multi-arch Docker build (linux/amd64 + linux/arm64) via QEMU in CI
- Add ko-fi donate link to welcome banner (Python + JS)
- Version bump to 0.3.16
Show welcome banner once per install (Python, JS, Docker).
Uses marker file in ~/.cloakbrowser/ — resets on cache clear or update.
Replaces logger.info() calls that were invisible by default.
Bump to v0.3.8.
Check for newer wrapper versions on startup (once per process).
Python queries PyPI, JS queries npm registry. Respects
CLOAKBROWSER_AUTO_UPDATE=false and CLOAKBROWSER_DOWNLOAD_URL
(custom mirror mode skips external registry calls).
Includes unit tests for both languages covering: update detection,
env var gating, network error handling, and once-per-process guard.
- Add PLATFORM_CHROMIUM_VERSIONS map (Linux=v145, macOS=v142)
- Add get_chromium_version()/getChromiumVersion() for platform-specific version
- Make auto-update check release assets before offering updates
- Scope version markers per-platform (latest_version_linux-x64)
- Support 5th version segment for hotfix builds (e.g. 145.0.7632.109.2)
- Derive AVAILABLE_PLATFORMS from version map
Fetches SHA256SUMS sidecar file from download server before extraction.
Mismatch = hard error, unavailable = warn and proceed (graceful for old releases).
Respects CLOAKBROWSER_DOWNLOAD_URL contract (no GitHub fallback for custom mirrors).
Skip with CLOAKBROWSER_SKIP_CHECKSUM=true. Both Python and JS wrappers.
macOS downloads were broken: symlinks in Chromium.app Framework layout were
skipped and flatten logic removed the .app bundle structure. Now allows safe
symlinks, skips flattening .app dirs, and runs xattr -cr post-extraction to
prevent Gatekeeper prompts. Also adds Turnstile GIF to README proof section.
- Binary downloads now served from CloakHQ/cloakbrowser releases (chromium-v* tags)
- Auto-update: background version check on launch, downloads newer binary for next use
- Graceful error on macOS/Windows (Linux-only binaries for now)
- Rate-limited (1hr), opt-out via CLOAKBROWSER_AUTO_UPDATE=false
- Add release-binary.yml workflow for anonymous binary releases
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