AnInsomniacy Release Notes

Rayburst Connect 2.1.7

Rayburst Connect 2.1.7 fixes browser downloads that stayed paused after Rayburst handed them back to the browser.

🐛 Bug Fixes

A download returned to the browser now continues on its own. Chromium refuses to resume a download while the extension still holds its filename, so a download Rayburst did not take, for example because the desktop app was not ready in time, stayed paused until resumed by hand (#102).

The Download with Rayburst context menu entry no longer logs a duplicate-ID warning when the browser starts.

📦 Install

The release workflow attaches these packages:

• Chrome / Edge: rayburst-connect-2.1.7-chromium-mv3.zip. Extract it, enable Developer mode on the browser's extensions page, then choose Load unpacked.
• Firefox: rayburst-connect-2.1.7-firefox-mv3.zip. For temporary testing, extract it and load manifest.json through about:debugging → This Firefox → Load Temporary Add-on. Regular installation uses the signed Firefox Add-ons listing.

Browser store submissions are separate from this GitHub Release.

Full changelog: v2.1.6...v2.1.7

Original source

Important

Rayburst 4.1 needs Rayburst Connect 2.1.2 or later. Browser handoff was rebuilt for this release. With Connect 2.0.x the extension shows "Desktop version not supported" and the browser keeps its downloads. Update the extension from the Chrome Web Store, Edge Add-ons or Firefox Add-ons. Connect 2.1.2 and later also work with Rayburst 4.0.

What's Changed

Rayburst 4.1.0 is the largest update since 4.0 and brings eleven betas to the stable channel. It moves to the rebuilt Aria2 Next 3 engine, bundled here as 3.0.8, which replaces the event loop inherited from aria2 with Boost.Asio, libcurl, libtorrent and SQLite. The app now reads the engine through one native pump instead of several polling loops, and a browser download is released only after the engine confirms it would receive the same file. Every new download is confirmed in a standalone add window, an optional floating window shows progress over other apps, and site rules, multi-select, moving unfinished downloads and post-download actions are new. Linux rendering, start at login and file safety are fixed across the board.

🚀 Performance

Aria2 Next 3.0.0 against the 2.8.6 engine of Rayburst 4.0.1, measured on the same machine and network; every downloaded file was verified.

Download Size 4.1.0 vs 4.0.1 openSUSE image from a Metalink with several mirrors 261 MiB about 20× faster eMule installer over ED2K 3.2 MiB about 6× faster Sintel torrent with a web seed 123 MiB about 2× faster; first data about 10× sooner Linux kernel tarball from kernel.org 149 MiB about 1.8× faster HLS and DASH streams 4 cases all complete; 4.0.1 failed 3 Server that throttles with 503 or 429 — completes at the server's limit; 4.0.1 failed the task One response with a wrong Content-Range — about 14× faster; 4.0.1 dropped to one connection Connections that open but never send data — completes; 4.0.1 stalled

Fast single servers download at the same speed with 2–4× less CPU time and less memory.

Downloads from one server share its connections by remaining bytes when the server limits them, so a large video no longer waits behind its audio and subtitles.

The app reads the global status and the task lists in one call per tick, and the window no longer polls. Busy engines no longer trigger restart storms (#690).

Large torrents stay responsive: the file selector is virtualized, and the window receives at most 64 files per task, except the task whose details are open (#447).

🔗 Rayburst Connect

Rayburst 4.0.x Rayburst 4.1.0 Rayburst Connect 2.0.x ✅ Update the extension Rayburst Connect 2.1.2 or later ✅ ✅

Verified handoffs: the extension holds a browser download until Rayburst answers. Rayburst asks the engine to request the URL with the browser's headers and cookies, and takes over only when the server answers with the expected file. Web pages, rejected or unreachable URLs and size mismatches stay in the browser, and a lost answer never leaves a download in neither place.

With the confirm behavior and Connect 2.1.4 or later, the browser releases a download as soon as the add window shows it (#720).

The popup lists unfinished and recent tasks with pause, resume and show in folder.

Browser .torrent links either open the torrent's content or are saved as plain files; they are always saved while BitTorrent is off (connect#50).

Starting Rayburst from Firefox works when the browser forbids leaving its job object (connect#62).

Media from a CDN without captured headers is requested with the page origin as Referer, so split audio and video tracks no longer answer 403.

✨ New Features

• Standalone add window — every new download, from the menu, tray, links, drops or the extension, is confirmed in one movable window that opens at once. It reads each link's size and file name the way the download will request them, shows the total against the folder's free space, and accepts dropped .torrent files (#693, #445, #379, #400, #718)
• Floating window — an optional orb that stays on top, fills with the overall progress and shows the speed. Click it for a panel to pause or resume each download, or drop links and torrents on it. Show it always, only while downloading or never; on Windows it steps aside for fullscreen apps (#718, #726)
• Site rules — choose the proxy and cap connections per host, for the add window and browser downloads (#489, connect#52)
• Multi-select — Ctrl/Shift click, Ctrl+A and Esc, with batch resume, pause and delete (#473)
• Move unfinished downloads — Task details → "Save to" → "Move to…" pauses the download, moves its files across disks too, and resumes it (#696)
• Per-task speed limits in the add window and task details, including live upload limits for BitTorrent
• Duplicate detection against live tasks and history, even after the earlier file was moved or deleted, with skip, add anyway or cancel (#491, #545)
• Replace a task's URL, or retry a failed task with a new one (#548)
• Post-download program with {file}, {dir} and {name} arguments, and shut down when complete from the speed popover (#651, #733)
• Expected checksum for single downloads, DNS over HTTPS with presets, and a switch to skip certificate checks for trusted self-signed servers (#337, #704)
• Download torrents in order, so files finish one after another like the episodes of a series (#703)
• Torrent links open their file list when copied or pasted (#737)
• Mark unfinished files with .ray until they complete, and remove records when complete while keeping the files (#721, #722)
• Notifications — clicking one on Windows shows or opens the file, and Settings says when the system turns Rayburst's notifications off, with a test notification (#609, #742)
• Redirect target — task details show where a redirected link leads, and the download is filed under the category of the file it delivers (#730)
• Interface size with Ctrl/Cmd +, − and 0, optional IEC units (KiB, MiB) and a Linux system title bar option (#367, #496, #533)
• Tray icon can be hidden, and shows a dot while downloads run and the speeds in its tooltip (#352, #508, #283)
• GPU acceleration on Linux — Settings → Advanced picks whether the graphics card or the CPU draws the window (#731)

🛠 Improvements

• Bundles Aria2 Next 3.0.8. It keeps an existing file intact when a server ignores ranges, writes BitTorrent names as UTF-8 under any Linux locale and names an unavailable Windows drive or network share. XML-RPC, Thunder links and the PeerBanHelper blocklist methods remain available
• Settings are reorganized so related options sit together, with shorter hints in all languages. Save and Discard appear only when something changed (#691, #723)
• The BitTorrent file selector shows a folder tree with file-type icons, type shortcuts and invert selection (#598, #472)
• Taken file names are numbered name (1).ext, as browsers and file managers do; a typed name is used exactly as written (#709)
• Split archive parts such as .7z.001, .z01 and .r00 are filed with the archive's category (#736)
• Clipboard detection offers file links only by default, and only links copied after Rayburst started (#683, #738)
• Lightweight mode frees every window in the tray, leaving only Rayburst and the engine; the floating window can optionally stay (#735)
• The add window, the floating window and its panel follow the system text size and interface zoom on Windows and Linux (#731)
• Esc hides the window like its close button without quitting (#569)
• Update checks finish within 15 seconds and check both channels together (#657)
• Task progress is rounded down to one decimal, so a task never reads 100% before it finishes
• History written by a newer version is kept; the notice offers an update or, after confirmation, a reset (#729)
• The engine saves unfinished tasks every 60 seconds and checkpoints progress every 10 seconds. Crash recovery stops after three crashes in five minutes
• docs/LINUX.md lists fixes for Linux display problems

⚠️ Changed Behavior

• Resume downloads is removed. A new download of an existing file name is renamed instead of continuing into that file; Retry still resumes the task's own file (#595)
• New installs use 16 connections per file; saved preferences keep their value
• Downloaded .torrent files are saved instead of started; open them to start the torrent. A new switch turns BitTorrent off entirely (#558)
• The engine maps BitTorrent and ED2K ports itself and moves to another port when one is taken; a taken RPC port falls back to a free local port. The port-conflict recovery settings are removed
• The maximum HTTP range size setting is removed; the engine sizes ranges by connection speed
• On Linux, GPU acceleration replaces the software rendering switch and is off by default. Remove WebKitGTK environment variables you added for earlier versions
• External RPC clients see the Aria2 Next 3 changes: RPC over TLS is gone, retired engine options are ignored with a warning, and Metalink 3 is no longer read. See the engine release notes
• Settings for removed features are dropped on first start; everything else carries over, and unfinished downloads resume with their progress

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a download continuing into another download's file of the same name, including when the server ignores ranges (#595)
• Fixed Linux windows flickering or showing only the area around the pointer with WebKitGTK 2.54: every frame is now repainted in full. WebKitGTK also keeps compositing, so translucent shadows no longer pile up (#650, #705, #731)
• Fixed the AppImage staying invisible with EGL_BAD_PARAMETER on newer Mesa (#714)
• Fixed KDE showing a generic icon for Rayburst, and Rayburst missing from application menus in deb and rpm installs (#745, #731)
• Fixed the main window popping up after a KDE panel restart (#707)
• Fixed start at login on Windows for install paths with spaces, such as D:\Program Files; the next launch repairs the entry (#716)
• Fixed "Open file" for downloads on network shares such as \server\share (#715)
• Fixed notifications on Windows installs upgraded from an older product, start notifications for tasks added by any RPC client, and tasks announced as "Unknown" (#685, #534)
• Fixed a silent autostart showing a maximized window (#576)
• Fixed queued magnets showing as fetching metadata (#611)
• Fixed shortened long multibyte file names losing their extension (#509)
• Fixed seeding-only or unsized downloads animating the taskbar indefinitely
• Bounded Extension API requests in flight and their write rate (#603)

📦 Downloads

Platform Architecture File macOS Apple Silicon · Intel .dmg Windows x64 · ARM64 -setup.exe Linux x64 · ARM64 .AppImage .deb .rpm

Bundles Aria2 Next 3.0.8. Pair with Rayburst Connect 2.1.7 or any version from 2.1.2.

Full changelog: v4.0.1...v4.1.0

Original source

What's Changed

This beta bundles Aria2 Next 3.0.8 for all platforms. A download no longer writes into another download's file of the same name, Linux windows keep their shadows clean with GPU acceleration off by default, and the add window opens smoothly at the right size.

✨ New Features

• GPU acceleration on Linux — Settings → Advanced picks whether the graphics card or the CPU draws the window. It is off by default, which avoids drivers and virtual GPUs that freeze or blank the window; either way WebKitGTK keeps compositing, so translucent shadows no longer pile up (#731)
• Notification check — when the system turns Rayburst's notifications off, Settings says so and offers the notification settings and a test notification (#742)
• Floating orb in lightweight mode — an optional setting keeps the orb while lightweight mode releases the other windows

🛠 Improvements

• Aria2 Next 3.0.8 — keeps an existing file intact when a server ignores ranges, writes BitTorrent names as UTF-8 under any Linux locale, names an unavailable Windows drive or network share, and restores the PeerBanHelper blocklist and announce RPC methods
• Add window — it rises in smoothly, grows a little before scrolling when advanced options open, and opens over the main window on GNOME; connections per file moved into advanced options; on macOS it keeps the system traffic lights
• Window scaling — the add window, the floating orb and its panel follow the system text size and interface zoom on Windows and Linux (#731)
• Wayland — turning the floating orb on asks for the restart it needs to place itself
• New installs use 16 connections per file, which most servers accept; saved preferences keep their value

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a download continuing into another download's file of the same name: the global "continue" setting is gone, a new download of an existing name is renamed, and Retry still resumes the task's own file (#595)
• Fixed KDE showing a generic icon for Rayburst in the overview and task switcher (#745)
• Fixed two spinners showing while the add window fetches the file name again (#749)
• Fixed the floating orb drifting on X11 and after repeated dragging
• Fixed the content of record and manager dialogs running past the dialog in short windows

📦 Downloads

Platform Architecture File macOS Apple Silicon · Intel .dmg Windows x64 · ARM64 -setup.exe Linux x64 · ARM64 .AppImage .deb .rpm Original source

Rayburst Connect 2.1.6 removes the last nested scrollbar from the popup.

🐛 Bug Fixes

Popup scrolling: the media and task lists no longer cap their height and scroll on their own, so several sniffed videos or a preview no longer give the popup a second scrollbar. The page is now the only scroll container (#100)

📦 Install

The release workflow attaches these packages:

• Chrome / Edge: rayburst-connect-2.1.6-chromium-mv3.zip. Extract it, enable Developer mode on the browser's extensions page, then choose Load unpacked.
• Firefox: rayburst-connect-2.1.6-firefox-mv3.zip. For temporary testing, extract it and load manifest.json through about:debugging → This Firefox → Load Temporary Add-on. Regular installation uses the signed Firefox Add-ons listing.

Browser store submissions are separate from this GitHub Release.

Full changelog: v2.1.5...v2.1.6

Original source

What's Changed

This beta bundles Aria2 Next 3.0.6, which shares a server's connections fairly across downloads and keeps parallel connections for servers that omit Content-Range. Lightweight mode now frees every webview in the tray, the floating orb tells seeding from downloading, and several download and add-window refinements land.

✨ New Features

• Torrent links open their file list — copying or pasting a .torrent link fetches it and shows its files for selection at once (#737)
• Split archives in their category — parts such as .7z.001, .z01 and .r00 are filed with the archive's category (#736)

🛠 Improvements

• Aria2 Next 3.0.6 — downloads from one server share its connections by remaining bytes when the server limits them, so a large video no longer waits behind its audio and subtitles; a 206 without Content-Range keeps its parallel connections
• Lightweight mode frees every webview — the main window, the prepared add window, the floating orb and its panel all close in the tray, leaving only Rayburst and the engine; they return with the main window (#735)
• Floating orb — it fills from the bottom with the overall progress, shows the upload speed while only seeding, and marks connecting, queued and paused states with their sign and percentage; its panel opens centered on it and lists seeding torrents with their upload speed
• Duplicate prompt from history — a URL downloaded before is recognized even after its file was moved, renamed or deleted (#545)
• Clipboard detection — only links copied after Rayburst started are picked up (#738)
• Advanced options — resource type and "save for this site" sit lower, next to the options they belong to

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed the floating orb spinning forever while torrents only seed, and the completion check vanishing when a finished torrent starts seeding
• Fixed the main window appearing transparent and empty for a moment on launch and when reopened from the tray
• Fixed the macOS traffic lights drifting off the add window's title bar; on macOS the add window is now framed like the main window
• Fixed the floating panel opening away from the orb on Wayland: Rayburst runs under XWayland while the orb shows (#731)
• Fixed Rayburst missing from Linux application menus: deb and rpm desktop entries now list it under Network (#731)

📦 Downloads

Platform Architecture File macOS Apple Silicon · Intel .dmg Windows x64 · ARM64 -setup.exe Linux x64 · ARM64 .AppImage .deb .rpm Original source

Rayburst Connect 2.1.5 fixes a second scrollbar in the popup at browser zoom levels above 100% and removes the module preload warnings Chrome listed for the extension.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Popup scrolling: the popup now scrolls as one page. At a browser zoom such as 125%, the browser makes the popup shorter than its content's 600 px limit, and both the page and its content scrolled, for example on the media selection page (#100)
• Extension errors: Chrome no longer lists "A preload … is found, but is not used" warnings for the popup

📦 Install

The release workflow attaches these packages:

• Chrome / Edge: rayburst-connect-2.1.5-chromium-mv3.zip. Extract it, enable Developer mode on the browser's extensions page, then choose Load unpacked.
• Firefox: rayburst-connect-2.1.5-firefox-mv3.zip. For temporary testing, extract it and load manifest.json through about:debugging → This Firefox → Load Temporary Add-on. Regular installation uses the signed Firefox Add-ons listing.

Browser store submissions are separate from this GitHub Release.

Full changelog: v2.1.4...v2.1.5

Original source

What's Changed

This beta fixes two Linux layout problems, the new-task window opening too tall and button labels sitting high, and lets you reset the database from the notice about history written by a newer version.

🛠 Improvements

• The notice about history saved by a newer version of Rayburst now also offers a reset; history is still kept unless you choose it and confirm (#729)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed the new-task window on Linux opening too tall, with blank space below the advanced options (#731)
• Fixed button labels sitting above center on Linux, where the font fallback picked a font with mismatched metrics

📦 Downloads

Platform Architecture File macOS Apple Silicon · Intel .dmg Windows x64 · ARM64 -setup.exe Linux x64 · ARM64 .AppImage .deb .rpm Original source

What's Changed

This beta targets the WebKitGTK 2.54 rendering problem on Linux, where windows flickered or showed only the area around the pointer. It also fixes downloads that stayed at 0% on some servers, shows where redirected links lead, and keeps download history that a newer version wrote. Aria2 Next is updated to 3.0.5.

✨ New Features

• Shut down when complete — the speed popover in the sidebar switches "Shut Down After Downloads" on and off (#733)
• Redirect target — the task details' Sources section shows where a redirected link leads, ready to copy (#730)

🛠 Improvements

• On Windows, the floating orb hides while a fullscreen video or game fills its screen, and returns afterwards without taking the focus (#726)
• Redirected links are filed under the category of the file they deliver, such as .msix behind a fwlink URL (#730)
• History saved by a newer version of Rayburst is kept as is; the app asks you to update instead of offering a reset (#729)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Linux windows flickering or showing only the area around the pointer with WebKitGTK 2.54, including with NVIDIA drivers and software rendering: every frame is now repainted in full (#650, #705)
• Fixed the new-task window on Linux missing its bottom buttons (#731)
• Fixed the floating orb and panel being cut off after changing the interface size (#731)
• Fixed buttons jumping when changing settings that save at once, such as the update channel (#732)
• Fixed downloads staying at 0% when a server answers range requests without a usable Content-Range, as cloud.mail.ru does; they now continue on one connection (#734)

📦 Downloads

Platform Architecture File macOS Apple Silicon · Intel .dmg Windows x64 · ARM64 -setup.exe Linux x64 · ARM64 .AppImage .deb .rpm Original source

Rayburst Connect 2.1.4 lets the Rayburst dialog take over a download as soon as it shows it, so the browser's download list no longer keeps a paused item while you decide, and makes the media panel easier to filter. The takeover change needs Rayburst 4.1.0-beta.6 or later; with older versions the extension works as before.

🛠 Improvements

• Handoff: once the Rayburst dialog shows a download, the browser's item is released and removed from the browser's list right away, without waiting for you to confirm. Chromium names every download within 15 s, so if Rayburst has not answered after 12 s, the paused item is given its name and stays paused until Rayburst decides (rayburst#720)
• Media panel: each type in the filter shows how many resources it has under the current search, and the select-all box checks only the resources the filters show

📦 Install

The release workflow attaches these packages:

• Chrome / Edge: rayburst-connect-2.1.4-chromium-mv3.zip. Extract it, enable Developer mode on the browser's extensions page, then choose Load unpacked.
• Firefox: rayburst-connect-2.1.4-firefox-mv3.zip. For temporary testing, extract it and load manifest.json through about:debugging → This Firefox → Load Temporary Add-on. Regular installation uses the signed Firefox Add-ons listing.

Browser store submissions are separate from this GitHub Release.

Full changelog: v2.1.3...v2.1.4

Original source

What's Changed

The floating window now shows always, only while downloading, or never, and takes links and torrents dropped on it. This beta also fixes a crash when adding a task on Linux under X11, CJK text whose tops were cut off, and a jagged tray icon on Windows.

✨ New Features

• Floating window modes — Settings → General → "Floating window": "Always", "While Downloading" or "Off"; the orb's right-click menu and the tray menu switch it too, so a hidden orb comes back from the tray. "While Downloading" leaves out paused and seeding tasks (#726)
• Drop to download — drop links, magnet links or .torrent files on the orb to open them in the new-task window (#726)

🛠 Improvements

• The floating orb is larger (#726)
• Settings fade out above the action bar, so a row cut by the window's edge no longer looks like clipped text (#723)
• If you turned the floating window on in an earlier beta, pick a mode again: the switch became a choice of three

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed adding a task crashing the app on Linux under X11 (#725)
• Fixed the tops of Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters being cut off in buttons, headings and lists (#723)
• Fixed the Windows tray icon looking jagged, including after a change of display scale (#728)
• Fixed the floating orb on Linux sitting in an invisible 200 × 200 px window that caught clicks

📦 Downloads

Platform Architecture File macOS Apple Silicon · Intel .dmg Windows x64 · ARM64 -setup.exe Linux x64 · ARM64 .AppImage .deb .rpm Original source

What's Changed

A floating speed window, a new-task window that appears instantly and shows each download's size before it starts, moving unfinished downloads to another folder, and Thunder links working again. The bundled engine moves to aria2-next 3.0.4.

✨ New Features

• Floating window — an optional orb that stays on top with the overall speed ringed by progress; click it for a panel to pause or resume each download, drag it anywhere (Settings → General → Tray & Dock → "Floating window") (#718)
• Size and name before downloading — the new-task window reads each link's size and file name the way the download will request them, and counts them against the folder's free space (#718)
• Move unfinished downloads — Task details → "Save to" → "Move to…": a running download pauses, its files move (across disks too) and it resumes (#696)
• Mark unfinished files — Settings → Downloads: unfinished downloads end in .ray until they complete (#721)
• Remove records when complete — "Keep completed records" can now remove a record as soon as the download finishes; files stay (#722)

🛠 Improvements

• Bundled engine updated to aria2-next 3.0.4
• The new-task window is prepared at startup and only hidden when closed, so it appears without delay, with a smoother entrance
• Taken file names are numbered name (1).ext, as browsers and file managers do (#709)
• A typed file name is used exactly as written, extension included; "Look up filename" became "Refresh"
• The connections field shows the cap a site rule applies and names the rule (#719)
• Save and Discard in Settings appear only when something changed and slide in; "Save & Apply" is now "Apply" (#723)
• DNS-over-HTTPS presets reach their resolvers by IP address, so finding the resolver needs no plain DNS lookup
• With the browser extension 2.1.4, the browser releases a download as soon as the Rayburst dialog shows it (#720)
• Transparent windows are back on Linux; the panels that blurred their background use a plain translucent one (#705, #650)
• After a KDE panel restart, the main window no longer pops up; it shows only if the tray stays gone for 10 s (#707)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed Thunder (thunder://) links failing with "Unsupported URI"
• Fixed every failed submission in the new-task window being reported as "The engine is starting"
• Fixed start at login on Windows still failing silently: the entry no longer carries the \?\ prefix Explorer cannot start; the next launch repairs it (#716)

📦 Downloads

Platform Architecture File macOS Apple Silicon · Intel .dmg Windows x64 · ARM64 -setup.exe Linux x64 · ARM64 .AppImage .deb .rpm Original source

Rayburst Connect 2.1.3 fixes two bugs. In Chrome, Edge and other Chromium browsers, the browser no longer downloads the file in the background while the Rayburst dialog waits for confirmation. In Firefox, memory no longer keeps growing on pages that stream media, such as live streams.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Chromium: while the Rayburst dialog waited for confirmation, the browser kept downloading the same file in the background and only dropped it after the dialog was confirmed. The browser's download is now paused until Rayburst answers. It is cancelled once the dialog is confirmed or dismissed, and resumes in the browser if the dialog times out. The Invalid downloadId error on the extensions page is gone too (rayburst#717)
• Firefox: on pages that keep loading media, such as a Bilibili live stream, the media list was saved again for every new segment, and Firefox's memory could grow past 2 GB. The list is now saved at most once a second, and extension pages no longer receive a copy of it on every save (#97)

📦 Install

The release workflow attaches these packages:

• Chrome / Edge: rayburst-connect-2.1.3-chromium-mv3.zip. Extract it, enable Developer mode on the browser's extensions page, then choose Load unpacked.
• Firefox: rayburst-connect-2.1.3-firefox-mv3.zip. For temporary testing, extract it and load manifest.json through about:debugging → This Firefox → Load Temporary Add-on. Regular installation uses the signed Firefox Add-ons listing.

Browser store submissions are separate from this GitHub Release.

Full changelog: v2.1.2...v2.1.3

Original source

Rayburst Connect 2.1.2 works with older desktops again: Rayburst 4.0 and Motrix Next 3.8 or later take downloads from it, alongside the current Rayburst 4.1 (4.1.0-beta.5). Updating the desktop to Rayburst 4.1 is still recommended, as only it supports every feature. This release also fixes downloads from pages that leave through a redirect, such as Tencent Meeting.

✨ New

• Older desktops: Rayburst 4.0 and Motrix Next 3.8+ connect and take downloads again. With them the popup shows task counts without the task list, and Motrix Next receives direct media files only, as it has no media support. Motrix Next before 3.8 has no browser API and is not supported.
• Update notice: an older desktop shows a notice with a link to the latest Rayburst. In the popup it can be closed and stays closed for that version; in the connection settings it stays.
• Start Rayburst Through a Browser Link (Legacy): Options → Behavior. When on, Rayburst is started by opening its rayburst:// link (motrixnext:// for Motrix Next) in a tab, as before Native Messaging, instead of through Native Messaging. It is off by default. If Native Messaging cannot start the desktop, the popup offers to switch.

🛠 Improvements

• The extension starts the desktop it last connected to, Rayburst or Motrix Next, and falls back to the other if that one is not installed
• The popup opens directly in its final state instead of growing and then shrinking while it checks the connection

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed downloads from pages that leave with a script redirect, such as the Tencent Meeting download page: the page itself was saved instead of the installer, which then could not be opened (rayburst#711)

📦 Install

The release workflow attaches these packages:

• Chrome / Edge: rayburst-connect-2.1.2-chromium-mv3.zip. Extract it, enable Developer mode on the browser's extensions page, then choose Load unpacked.
• Firefox: rayburst-connect-2.1.2-firefox-mv3.zip. For temporary testing, extract it and load manifest.json through about:debugging → This Firefox → Load Temporary Add-on. Regular installation uses the signed Firefox Add-ons listing.

Browser store submissions are separate from this GitHub Release.

Full changelog: v2.1.1...v2.1.2

Original source

What's Changed

Start at login works again for install paths that contain spaces, and the bundled engine moves to aria2-next 3.0.3, which keeps large downloads on Windows fast and responsive.

🛠 Improvements

• Bundled engine updated to aria2-next 3.0.3
• Task progress shows one decimal and is rounded down, so a task never reads 100% before it finishes
• The add-task window is closed when you confirm or dismiss it, instead of staying hidden in the background
• The browser extension's download settings ("Extension download behavior" and the .torrent action) moved to Settings → Advanced → Browser Extension
• The toolbar actions now fade in place together with the page title when you switch views

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed start at login on Windows when Rayburst is installed in a path with spaces, such as D:\Program Files: Windows showed an "Open with" dialog and Rayburst did not start. The next launch repairs an existing registration, and turning start at login off in Task Manager is respected (#716)
• Fixed large downloads on Windows slowing down, stalling the interface and taking long to delete: files are created sparse again with the default allocation
• Fixed zero-length files failing with HTTP 416 on servers that support ranges

📦 Downloads

Platform Architecture File macOS Apple Silicon · Intel .dmg Windows x64 · ARM64 -setup.exe Linux x64 · ARM64 .AppImage .deb .rpm Original source

What's Changed

Every window is now opaque and framed by the system. This fixes flickering and partly drawn windows on Linux with WebKitGTK 2.54.

🛠 Improvements

• The add-task window is now a plain native window whose height follows its content
• Window backgrounds follow the theme, so a resizing window never flashes white

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed flickering and partly drawn windows on Linux with WebKitGTK 2.54 (#650, #705)
• Linux with the NVIDIA driver: the WebKitGTK DMA-BUF renderer is turned off automatically, so windows no longer stay blank

📦 Downloads

Platform
Architecture
File

• macOS
  • Apple Silicon · Intel
  • .dmg
• Windows
  • x64 · ARM64
  • -setup.exe
• Linux
  • x64 · ARM64
  • .AppImage .deb .rpm

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