v5.5.0

• New Text Size slider in the Options to adjust the font size and removed the Font size adjustment on the information header.
• Updated the Bulma CSS framework to v1.0. The Options themes look different due to this update, as the framework was rewritten from scratch. The fonts, tag elements and some buttons used in the Options are larger.
• Updated Cascadia Mono and Code fonts to v2024.4 to use its new Symbols for Legacy Computing support, "the Cascadia family now supports a whopping 1140 new glyphs covering sextants, octants, large type pieces, eights, sedecimants, quadrants (separated), segmented digits, circles and checkerboards... In addition, the existing block elements have been aligned to fit the same grid as the new characters to make for seamless ANSI art."
• Reworked the Display Options tab.
• • The 80 column wrap toggle is renamed to Narrow wrap and works with both ANSI and plain text documents.
• • Created a new Style panel and moved a number of Text toggles to it.
• • Colors panel has been split into Text color and ANSI color.
• • Text pairs is now Foreground and background pair, and it now uses the current selected font for the color labels.
• Fixed Blinking cursor and text off option not applying to the cursor.

v5.4.1

Updates and new documentation for https://docs.retrotxt.com.

v5.4.0

• New Backup and restore options to save and load your RetroTxt settings.
• New reset button for the Custom colour values in the Options.
• New Limit URLs option to force Hyperlink to validate URLs, linking only links that start with an http or https protocol.
• New Reset to defaults button in the Settings Options.
• Changed the CSS of the page wrap toggle.
  It now works correctly on windows and tabs smaller than 640px in width. And it has enabled an optimized text-wrapping feature.
• Monitor downloads handles different server replies better and provides a restart recommendation when toggled on.
• Text render effect option is changed to use a toggle switch.
• Changed the Line Height slider to display variations in percentage values.
• Fixed error Cannot read properties of null for new installs.

v5.3.0

• New Intel One Mono fonts.
• Removed the column wrap toggle from the information header of a RetroTxt browser tab.
  The feature was confusing with the page wrap toggle, and would not work correctly with the 80 column wrap ANSI option in the RetroTxt Options.
• Fixed a major issue in Chrome 118+, with text files breaking due to the Sanitizer API deprecation. As a stopgap, the DOMPurify library is used to sanitise the text files.
• The RetroTxt options tab changes the document title.
• Clicking the links or buttons in the toolbar popup will only ever open one RetroTxt options tab.
• Fixed Monitor downloads launching twin tabs of the same file.
• Minor tweak to the Getting Started dialog text.
• Removed version_name from the manifest as it hid useful version information.
• Fixed C:/ drive being referenced on non-Windows operating systems.
• Fixed "RetroTxt has run into a problem" displaying the wrong keyboard keys on macOS.
• Fixed package.json version number not matching the manifest.

v5.2.0

• New Display Hyperlinks option to convert plain text URLs, emails and IP addresses into hyperlinks.
• New Cascadia Mono and Code fonts, that support ligatures and Powerline symbols.
• Toolbar popup contains icons with links to the fonts, display, settings options and a link to the RetroTxt Extension Details tab.
• Update Spleen fonts to v2.0 and include the use of size 32x64 variation.
• Fixed Page wrap behaviour not replicating on new tabs.
• Hyperlinked the Allow access to file URLs is off notice in the popup.

v5.1.0

• Change the behavior of the toolbar button to display useful usability information.
  The previous, unreliable per-tab on/off toggle function would sometimes have Chrome disconnect the button from the tab, breaking the functionality.
• The home and office computer fonts use a local, monospaced font as the fallback. Previously, the browser would show out-of-range characters in a variable-width font, making blocks and line characters look unnecessarily messy.
• Update the Information header to reorder the information displayed and mention the shortcut keys to view the original text.
• Update and fix broken links to external resources and prioritized HTTPS over HTTP schemes.
• Rearrange the Settings and Feature pane to emphasize the add domain input.
• Fix a bug that gave RetroTxt access to the Suggested domains after removing them.

v4.2.1

• Fixed flickering when changing between Option tabs.
• Fixed broken documentation links.

v5.0.0

Highlights

• Options interface should be more responsive with less visual jank.
• RetroTxt features and functions are more reliable.
• Changing Options should apply to all open tabs, including focused and unfocused tabs.

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• Manifest v3 has much better error handling and there should be less uncaptured errors.

• Unfocused tabs can run RetroTxt in the background.

• Browser tab displays the SAUCE title and author when available.

• Artworks linked in the Samples tab display the title and author on the browser tab.

• Smear block characters are applied to BBS texts.

• Monitor downloads works better with 16colo.rs and defacto2.net by ignoring their incorrect Content-Type headers.

• New Toolbar icon setting to select dark or light mode button.

• Updated the Welcome, new install text to be a Getting started with RetroTxt brief.

• Information header encoding can be clicked to change the encoding.

• Fixed font size adjustment for 2x and 3x values. Text now centre aligns and stopped unexpected text wrapping.

• Fixed Options reloading the page when a new tab was selected.

• Tweaked the Information header CSS to use very slight rounded corners.

• Documentation tab in Options shares the same layout and formatting as the other menus.

• Settings - Run RetroTxt on files hosted on these domains
  
  The on/off toggle has been removed for code simplification.
  
  Created a button to remove and restore website suggestions.
  
  Hostname input form responds to Enter ↵ key presses.

• Settings - Monitor downloads, toggles the optional download and downloads.open permissions.

• Mentions of the file scheme file:///, will under Windows display as file:///C:/

• Transcode context menu is disabled by default except for textfile tabs.

• Replaced the scripts/eventpage.js background page with modular service workers.

• Replaced and split the scripts/functions.js shared functions page with scripts/helpers.js for content-scripts and scripts/sw/helpers.js for service workers.

• Replaced simple one-time message requests with long-lived connections where needed.
  
  This should fix some strange behaviour and failures that occurred in previous versions.

• Removed the use of Window.localStorage and Window.sessionStorage which held Options settings and replaced it with chrome.storage.local.
  
  This was needed as the Window interface is not accessible by service workers which are required by Manifest v3.

• Dropped the permissions requirement for tabs.

• Dropped the Transcode text context menu.

• Using pnpm as the dependencies manager.

• The use of Manifest v3 with service workers is incompatible with Firefox.

• Removed the Firefox specific build tools.

Version 4.2.0

• Squared 1:1, 8x8 pixel PC fonts now use their -2y variants when available.
  The 2y variants are 16x16 in size, meaning they're easier to read and look better.
• 11 new color themes for the Options tab under Settings.
• Replaced deprecated API function, extension.getURL().
• Fixed broken elements in options.html.

Version 4.1.0

• Updated PC and MS-DOS fonts to Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack v2.2.
• Support for custom ports in URLs such as http://localhost:8080 or https://example.com:9999.
• Replaced all the woff fonts with woff2 fonts to offer better file compression.
  This reduces the overall file size of RetroTxt and system resource usage.
• The Options Fonts tab Jump to the menu now always remains on the tab.
• Reduced page flicker when switching Options tabs.
• Fixed broken Apple Lisa fonts.
• Fixed the local file viewer toggling on non-text file tabs when the file's extension is in uppercase.
• Fixed certain fonts that use spaces within their names, breaking the loading text files.
• Fixed broken SAUCE IBM VGA50 font.
• Improved support and display of multiline SAUCE comments.
• Improve the positioning of the error alert box.
• Spelling and typo fixes for both UK and US English.
• Using Task for the build process.
• Dropped the use of the convoluted Node.createTextNode() and Node.appendChild() methods.