Releases: Alex313031/Thorium-Special
Raspberry Pi Release - M110.0.5481.178
ONLY FOR Raspberry Pi 3B+ and 4
M110 is shaping up to be a great release!
- JPEG-XL functionality RESTORED; thanks to @jonsneyers @mo271 and @gz83 for helping with this.
There is a new repo for the source code for this, used as a submodule in this repo. > https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium-libjxl
In case you didn't know, Google decided to be a d**k and remove JPEG-XL support after M109, as well as Windows 7/8/8.1 support. - Thorium now supports the AC3 codec, including in HEVC/H.265 videos. Thanks to @midzer for helping find a patch, which I manually converted to work on M110.
- HEVC/H.265 videos now supports all profiles.
- More optimization flags for V8, Chromium's Javascript engine.
- Added four new chrome://flags flags:
– chrome://flags/#force-gpu-mem-available-mb - Set available VRAM to be used by Thorium. Options are 128, 256, 512, and 1024 Mb. Useful for systems with very low or very high video memory. The default (if unset) is 512 Mb.
– chrome://flags/#enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers - Enable native CPU-mappable GPU memory buffer support on Linux. (Linux only) You can see the effect of this on chrome://gpu in the "GpuMemoryBuffers Status" section.
– chrome://flags/#double-click-close-tab - A flag that @gz83 came up with and we both implemented. Allows you to close a tab by simply double-clicking on it, similar to an option in Vivaldi.
– chrome://flags/#show-fps-counter - Show a F.P.S. counter on each display, which also shows used/available GPU memory. Useful for Web development. - Logo has had padding removed, and a new logo was created for the windows installer .exe.
- New desktop action on Linux, to "Open New Window with a temporary profile". This can be used even if Thorium is already running. It will make a new profile in /tmp, and use that. NOTE: Upon system restart, the /tmp dir is cleared.
- Thorium mascot image added to chrome://version page, under the copyright (for fun)
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Westmere Release - M110.0.5481.178
ONLY FOR WESTMERE CPUS
M110 is shaping up to be a great release!
- JPEG-XL functionality RESTORED; thanks to @jonsneyers @mo271 and @gz83 for helping with this.
There is a new repo for the source code for this, used as a submodule in this repo. > https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium-libjxl
In case you didn't know, Google decided to be a d**k and remove JPEG-XL support after M109, as well as Windows 7/8/8.1 support. - Thorium now supports the AC3 codec, including in HEVC/H.265 videos. Thanks to @midzer for helping find a patch, which I manually converted to work on M110.
- HEVC/H.265 videos now support all profiles.
- More optimization flags for V8, Chromium's Javascript engine.
- Added four new chrome://flags flags:
– chrome://flags/#force-gpu-mem-available-mb - Set available VRAM to be used by Thorium. Options are 128, 256, 512, and 1024 Mb. Useful for systems with very low or very high video memory. The default (if unset) is 512 Mb.
– chrome://flags/#enable-native-gpu-memory-buffers - Enable native CPU-mappable GPU memory buffer support on Linux. (Linux only) You can see the effect of this on chrome://gpu in the "GpuMemoryBuffers Status" section.
– chrome://flags/#double-click-close-tab - A flag that @gz83 came up with and we both implemented. Allows you to close a tab by simply double-clicking on it, similar to an option in Vivaldi.
– chrome://flags/#show-fps-counter - Show a F.P.S. counter on each display, which also shows used/available GPU memory. Useful for Web development. - Logo has had padding removed, and a new logo was created for the windows installer .exe.
- New desktop action on Linux, to "Open New Window with a temporary profile". This can be used even if Thorium is already running. It will make a new profile in /tmp, and use that. NOTE: Upon system restart, the /tmp dir is cleared.
- Thorium mascot image added to chrome://version page, under the copyright (for fun)
Contributors
Assets 5
MacOS ARM and X64 Release - M109.0.5414.120
- M109 Maintenance release.
- HEVC patch rebased and re-added (simple version bump from previous release)
- Icon updated for Linux and Windows, which removes the padding on the outside of the thorium logo to match
upstream change, the only effect is that the logo is slightly bigger. - More LLVM optimization flags
- ARM Tune flags for M1 MacOS.
- Removed the "unsupported OS" infobar banner for Win7/8/8.1 and Ubuntu 16.04, Debian 9, and Arch <2018.12
NOTE: Going forward, Thorium will be built to more stable versions. This one is based on M109 stable (see below), future versions will be based on the equivalent of "beta" or "dev" channel, rather than tip-o-tree, i.e. "canary" channel.
IMPORTANT Windows Users! M109 is the last version of Chromium for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 😢 as per Here. I still use and enjoy Windows 7, and so have made a site for it here > https://thorium.rocks/win7 This is why this release is based on stable M109. Over at https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Win I will be posting the special builds for Windows 7/8/8.1 there, and updating the links on my win7 page to link to these. Another deviation from standard Thorium releases, is that the windows 7 release will have a special 32 bit SSE2 build for old computers, on top of the SSE3, AVX, and AVX2 builds. There is also a small easter egg on the chrome://version page, to show love for one of Micro$oft's greatest OSes, back when that $ sign was a little smaller, lol.
M109 will also be getting maintenance releases for the Win7/8/8.1 version, tracking the official chrome stable versions as per https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/releases?platform=Windows and I will be attempting to backport patches from M110 into M109, as time and knowledge permits.
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SSE3 and SSE2 Windows Releases - M109.0.5414.120
- Special Windows 7/8/8.1 release! (Not only for these platforms, but see below.)
- NOTE: The SSE2 build is extra special in that it is 32 bit SSE2 only. This is for very old machines running Win7.
- M109 Maintenance release.
- HEVC patch updated.
- Icon updated for Linux and Windows, which removes the padding on the outside of the thorium logo to match
upstream change, the only effect is that the logo is slightly bigger. - More LLVM optimization flags
- Removed the "unsupported OS" infobar banner for Win7/8/8.1 and Ubuntu 16.04, Debian 9, and Arch<2018.12
NOTE: Going forward, Thorium will be built to more stable versions. This one is based on M109 stable (see below), future versions will be based on the equivalent of "beta" or "dev" channel, rather than tip-o-tree, i.e. "canary" channel.
IMPORTANT M109 is the last version of Chromium for Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 😢 as per Here. I still use and enjoy Windows 7, and so have made a site for it here > https://thorium.rocks/win7 This is why this release is based on stable M109. I will be updating the links on my win7 page to link to these. Another deviation from standard Thorium releases, is that the windows 7 release will have a special 32 bit SSE2 build for old computers, on top of the SSE3, AVX, and AVX2 builds. There is also a small easter egg on the chrome://version page, to show love for one of Micro$oft's greatest OSes, back when that $ sign was a little smaller, lol.
M109 will also be getting maintenance releases for the Win7/8/8.1 version, tracking the official chrome stable versions as per https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/releases?platform=Windows and I will be attempting to backport patches from M110 into M109, as time and knowledge permits.
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Westmere Release - M109.0.5414.120
- M109 Release for me and @midzer
ONLY use this if you have a 1st gen Core 32nm "Westmere" CPU.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmere_(microarchitecture)
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Raspberry Pi Release - M109.0.5361.0
- M109
- HEVC Software Decoding should now work, enabling you to play H.265 videos no matter what.
- Hide Side Panel button chrome://flags flag has been fixed.
- Minor bugs fixed
- New flag added chrome://flags/#auto-dark-mode which puts this behind a flag to as not to impede the chrome://flags/#force-dark-mode flag.
- See also SSE3 Linux Release > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Special/releases/tag/M109.0.5361.0_1
- See also MacOS M1 and x64 Releases > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Special/releases/tag/M109.0.5361.0
SSE3 Release - M109.0.5361.0
- M109
- HEVC Software Decoding should now work, enabling you to play H.265 videos no matter what.
- Hide Side Panel button chrome://flags flag has been fixed.
- Minor bugs fixed
- New flag added chrome://flags/#auto-dark-mode which puts this behind a flag to as not to impede the chrome://flags/#force-dark-mode flag.
- See also Raspberry Pi Release > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Special/releases/tag/M109.0.5361.0_2
- See also MacOS M1 & x64 Releases > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Special/releases/tag/M109.0.5361.0
MacOS x64 and M1 Release - M109.0.5361.0
- M109
- HEVC Software Decoding should now work, enabling you to play H.265 videos no matter what.
- Hide Side Panel button chrome://flags flag has been fixed.
- Minor bugs fixed
- See also SSE3 Linux Release > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Special/releases/tag/M109.0.5361.0_1
- See also Raspberry Pi Release > https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium-Special/releases/tag/M109.0.5361.0_2
SSE3 Release - M108.0.5312.0
- M108
- For even further compatibility, I have decided to bump these releases down to SSE3, rather than SSE4. This means these releases will work on any CPU.
MacOS Releases - M107.0.5279.0
- M107 Refresh
- Possibly fixes bugs some of ya'll were experiencing.