V2026.2.0-beta1

[nlogozzo]

Fixes #903
Fixes #931
Fixes #1313
Fixes #1329
Fixes #1371
Fixes #1432
Fixes #1450
Fixes #1483
Fixes #1485
Fixes #1497
Fixes #1499
Fixes #1526
Fixes #1531
Fixes #1539
Fixes #1552
Fixes #1555
Fixes #1565
Fixes #1569
Fixes #1571
Fixes #1588
Fixes #1594

TODO

Project

• Update screenshots
• Remove snap documentation

Shared

• URL on startup (parabolic://)
• Recover downloads on startup
• Prevent suspend when enabled
• Stop all on shutdown
• KeyringViewController
• HistoryViewController
• PreferencesDialogController
• Generate doc translations on build
• Add plugins folder on build
• deno version check

WinUI

• DownloadRows
• DownloadsPage
• KeyringPage
• HistoryPage
• SettingsPage

GNOME

• AddDownloadDialog
• DownloadRows
• DownloadsPage
• MainWindow
• KeyringDialog
• HistoryDialog
• PreferencesDialog
• Configure and add dbus service files to build script
• Install documentation in build script

[barracuda156]

@nlogozzo I missed that development, what happened to C++ code?

[nlogozzo]

@nlogozzo I missed that development, what happened to C++ code?

We've switched to C#/.NET10 . Makes dependency management easier. Fixed a lot of VC and Sql errors many were experiencing on Windows and Linux alike for no reason.

[nlogozzo]

This is just beta1. Support for quickjs will be done before stable for you

[barracuda156]

Does that mean that we need C# on macOS as well? That will effectively kill it for almost all macOS versions. (I also recall from a GUIX thread that dotnet is quite problematic security-wise.)

[nlogozzo]

.NET 10 is supported on all modern platforms: https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/10.0/supported-os.md . Which is all we support.

(I also recall from a GUIX thread that dotnet is quite problematic security-wise.)

Security of?

[barracuda156]

Which is all we support.

It is always up to developers what to support, I am just saying this as a matter of fact. It will be sad to lose Parabolic.
If possible, please consider keeping C++ version with at least security updates to it.

Security of?

It does not build without binary blobs.
dotnet/source-build#1930 (comment)

[nlogozzo]

It is always up to developers what to support, I am just saying this as a matter of fact. It will be sad to lose Parabolic.
If possible, please consider keeping C++ version with at least security updates to it.

Parabolic has always only supported the latest operating systems supported by the vendors i.e. macOS 14-26 and Windows 11 only.

Efforts to keep Parabolic running on older systems (macOS < 14, Windows 10/8/7) are community driven and supported. The C++ will continue to work and update yt-dlp as per the updater service. But it will no longer receive bug fixes / feature drops from me. The community is more than welcome to open a fork / manage a separate branch on this repo with the C++ version to support any security issues, however I do not have the man power / free time to do that anymore.

It does not build without binary blobs.
dotnet/source-build#1930 (comment)

I wouldn't call this a security issue more of a privacy/copyright issue. .NET has been tried and true in security vulnerabilities. Heck, I'd go to say the C++ version was probably less secure.

[barracuda156]

Parabolic has always only supported the latest operating systems supported by the vendors

@nlogozzo Apparently at least OpenBSD does not have dotnet too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35513159

[nlogozzo]

https://wiki.freebsd.org/.NET
https://www.freshports.org/lang/dotnet/

This seems to say otherwise. There are ports available for .NET 8 and 9. This version of Parabolic is buildable on .NET 8/9. Just have to patch the csproj files to change the 10 to 8 or 9.

[nlogozzo]

Plus, Parabolic was C# in 2024. So this is nothing new.

[barracuda156]

https://wiki.freebsd.org/.NET https://www.freshports.org/lang/dotnet/

This seems to say otherwise.

Freshports are FreeBSD. There is no dotnet is OpenBSD ports, AFAICT: https://github.com/openbsd/ports/tree/master/lang

Three *BSDs differ substantially, it won’t work just to pick some non-trivial port from another one.