- Pro Stable to 151.0.7922.108.6 (Linux + Windows); macOS on 151.0.7922.108.3
- Patch count to 87; platform tables to Chromium 151 across all rows
- Document macOS persona and --fingerprint-transparent-proxy / --fingerprint-portable-cookies
- Font Setup: add Mac fonts block and Docker (/usr/local/share/fonts) paths
The download is signature/checksum-verified before extraction, so the
per-member path/symlink sanitization was redundant. Extract archives as-is
across all three wrappers (Python, JS, .NET), tar and zip.
- Python: filter="fully_trusted" (pins legacy behavior; 3.14 defaults to
"data"), plain zip extractall
- JS: drop the tar filter callback; inline the one-line extractTar
- .NET: TarFile/ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory; remove orphan ResolveSafeEntryPath
- Drop the obsolete traversal/symlink tests
Add a Mac fonts count to `cloakbrowser info` next to the existing Windows
font check, in the Python, JS, and .NET wrappers. Counts the macOS core
font set via fc-list on Linux and prints Mac fonts: n/20 with a conditional
nudge when incomplete. Tests added in all three wrappers.
The banner wrote '->' and em dashes straight to stderr. On a cp1252/strict
console (UK/EU-locale Windows) that raised UnicodeEncodeError and aborted the
binary-download path, blocking license apply and profile launch in the Manager.
Swap the banner glyphs to ASCII and route the writes through a swallow-all
helper so a cosmetic banner can never abort a launch. Same treatment in the JS
and .NET wrappers plus the Windows-font warning. Regression tests added across
all three (ASCII-only + cp1252-no-crash).
Increase the default GeoIP resolution timeout from 5 to 20 seconds across the Python, JavaScript, and .NET wrappers.
Fail the launch when requested GeoIP resolution times out, cannot load its database, cannot complete a lookup, or leaves timezone or locale unresolved. Explicit timezone and locale overrides remain valid without an egress-IP result.
Add parity coverage for the new timeout and failure behavior.
A supplied license key the server rejects, or one that cannot be validated
(server unreachable, no cache), now raises instead of silently downloading the
free binary. No-key (keyless) and valid-key (Pro) paths unchanged. Python, JS,
and .NET, with mirror tests in each.
Removing the Playwright fallback closed a main-world read leak but left every
get_by_* locator raising UnsupportedHumanizeSelectorError. Reimplement the four
cheap engines in the isolated-world resolver so those locators work again.
Selector engines (shared resolver, byte-identical in all three wrappers):
- internal:testid and internal:attr (placeholder/alt/title). The i flag is a
case-insensitive substring on the raw attribute value; test ids stay strict.
- internal:text. Exact compares the full normalized subtree text, unlike the
public text= engine which compares immediate fragments.
- internal:label, resolving aria-labelledby, then aria-label, then .labels.
- internal:role and >> chaining stay unsupported; the error now names what is
supported and the workaround.
Text parity fixes in __elementText, checked against playwright-core:
- drop a <br> to newline branch Playwright does not have
- concatenate shadow-root text into the host, which Playwright does
- give the public text= engine Playwright's self/selfAndChildren rule, since
contains() cannot see into a shadow root and kept the host as a match
Target identity: payloads carry a per-world generation (protocol v2). The world
is rebuilt on navigation and its id counter restarts, so an id alone could name
a different element. Generation is bounded to Int32, which the .NET wrapper
requires.
force=True now skips the pointer check entirely, matching Playwright, instead of
suppressing only the coverage rejection.
Also: drop dead _BOX_OP, _ACTIONABLE_OP and readSnapshot, and add a test
asserting the three hand-copied resolver literals stay identical and free of
characters that would terminate their host string literals.
Verified against Playwright's own locator resolution in a real browser:
20/20 engine parity, 7/7 text parity.
Derive actionable geometry from rendered text and visible descendants when an element has no box of its own. Preserve existing geometry behavior for normal elements and exclude hidden descendant content. Add Python, JavaScript, and .NET unit and browser regressions covering text, nested content, visibility, and humanized clicks.
Port the proven Python interaction behavior to the JavaScript wrapper.
- align selector resolution and actionability semantics
- preserve exact targets across delayed interactions
- improve text, state, and open shadow tree consistency
- add regression coverage for ordering, mutation races, and force behavior
`cloakbrowser info` printed a bare seat count with no denominator, so a
customer could not tell whether they were at capacity (#513). It also
collapsed six distinct outcomes into one "unavailable": unreachable,
timeout, invalid key, inactive licence, rate limited, and the server
reporting the count as unknown while degraded.
Adds SessionSeats (active, limit, state, reason) and getSessionSeats to
all three wrappers; get_active_session_count keeps its signature and
delegates. The limit is read from the server, never derived from the plan
name, and falls back to the old bare count when absent.
Python, JS and .NET renderers verified byte-identical.
Humanized actions could fail with an element-not-attached error after a
navigation driven by a click or form submit, since the checks only refreshed
on goto. Now refresh on any main-frame navigation. Python, JS
Playwright/Puppeteer, and .NET. Regression from 0.5.6.
A fully-visible element above/below the target zone on a page pinned at
that boundary can never reach the zone, so the scroll loop ran the full
budget (~7s/click) doing nothing. Bail when it's fully visible and the
page can't scroll toward the zone. Ported to JS, Python (sync+async),
and .NET with regression tests.
page.selectOption re-dispatches to the main frame's selectOption, which
patchSingleFrame routes back to page.selectOption. Binding the saved
original to the page looped forever; bind it to the main frame's native
method instead. Adds a regression test.
_iter_frames / iterFrames only walked the main frame and its direct
children, so a frame nested 2+ levels deep that already existed when
patching ran was never humanized. The frameattached listener covers
frames added after patching, so this only affected pre-existing deep
frames (e.g. manual patch_page/patch_context on a loaded page).
Recurse the full frame tree; the _human_patched guard keeps it
idempotent. Python + JS; .NET wraps frames lazily and is unaffected.
Forward caller-provided press delays through humanized page, frame, locator, element handle, and keyboard paths across Python, JavaScript, and .NET.
Use each automation library's native press operation for shortcut chords while retaining the existing humanized pre-press timing and focus behavior.
Python + JS wrappers. Add a stealth_dom / stealthDom module: reimplements the
common Playwright selector grammar (css, :has-text, text=, xpath=, trailing
>> nth=N) for direct DOM resolution in the isolated execution context, with a
fallback to the regular Playwright read for grammar it can't resolve. World
reads are wrapped so a world/CDP failure falls back rather than propagating out
of the humanized action.
ensure_actionable, ensure_stable, scroll geometry (_get_element_box + the
no_viewport window-size read), and check_pointer_events now read through it,
sync and async. Selector-based main-page actions (click/dblclick/hover/type/
fill/focus/press) are covered; ElementHandle and sub-frame paths unchanged.
JS routes Locator actions through frame methods, so main-frame locator clicks
now delegate to the humanized page methods (which use the shared helpers)
instead of the frame-scoped Playwright reads; sub-frames unchanged.
Tests: builders + parse, the rewired helpers' branching via a mock isolated
world, a Node-driven check of the shipped resolver JS selector semantics, and a
guard that main-frame locator clicks delegate to the humanized page path.
- humanize frames created after page load across Python and JavaScript\n- keep sync, async, Playwright, and Puppeteer paths idempotent\n- wrap .NET frame lifecycle event payloads without raw frame leaks\n- add cross-wrapper unit and browser regression coverage
Wire the existing launch()-time geoip resolver into the info/doctor command
across Python, JS, and .NET. With --proxy, info resolves the exit IP and the
timezone/locale a launch would apply (caching the GeoIP DB if absent) and prints
them in text and --json. Plain info is unchanged (no network) and now hints at
the flag. Adds diagnostics tests in all three suites.
An element scrolled into view can be pushed off screen again while we wait
for a reflowing page to settle. Nothing scrolled a second time, so the click
was dispatched outside the viewport and hit nothing, with no error raised.
Also stop the pointer-events check from turning a confirmed miss back into
'undetermined' when a late probe times out, which let that click through.
Measured on a page reflowing 10-25s: silent miss at ~32s before, clean click
now. Static pages and pages reflowing past the timeout are unchanged.
A concurrent-session denial resolves after the CDP handshake, so the browser
exits with a live connection already established. The launch-failure path never
sees it and the user gets a bare TargetClosedError on their first call (#477).
The binary records the license exit code (76-79) to a per-launch file whose path
the wrapper passes via CLOAKBROWSER_LICENSE_STATUS_FILE. The wrapper reads it
when a guarded call throws and re-raises the correct CloakBrowserLicenseError.
Discrimination is on the file, not the error type, so a genuine crash is never
mislabelled. Fail-safe (no key or unwritable dir -> feature off) and
backward-compatible (old binaries never write the file).
Guarded surfaces: new_page/new_context, a persistent context's already-open
pages (goto + the wait family), and Puppeteer user-created contexts. Orphaned
denial files are swept at mint time; an observed code is cached in-process so a
concurrent second call can't miss it; the .NET reader parses as tolerantly as
Python/JS.
Implemented across Python, JavaScript (Playwright + Puppeteer), and .NET, with
unit tests. Reproduced end-to-end with a real over-cap denial.
Playwright's launch defaults switch off a feature stock Chrome ships enabled.
When the Windows font-metrics profile is requested, re-enable it so the feature
set matches a real browser rather than a test harness. Merged into any existing
--enable-features value instead of appending a second flag.
Python, JS and .NET wrappers.
Node pools HTTPS connections by destination, so a second launch() in the
same process reused the first proxy's tunnel to the echo service and
inherited its exit IP, timezone and locale.
Chromium only handles --version on POSIX, so on Windows the switch is
ignored and a browser starts instead of printing. The 10s probe then
timed out and a healthy install was reported as broken, flashing a
window on screen each run.
Probe with --no-startup-window there: it exits immediately, opens no
window, and a broken binary still exits non-zero. No version is
reported on Windows, as nothing is printed. Linux and macOS unchanged.
Test uses a stub that hangs unless the flag is passed, mirroring the
real binary rather than a print-and-exit stub.
A license.key or cached Pro marker in the developer's cache dir resolved the
box as Pro, flipping version-gated defaults (headless no_viewport, inline proxy
auth) and failing 9 Python + 4 JS tests locally. Both suites now run against a
temp cache dir.
Add a preview release channel system to all wrappers (Python, JavaScript, .NET),
allowing users to opt into newer binary builds before they go stable.
- Python: preview/stable channel resolution in download, launch, CLI
(install, update, clear-cache), and license validation
- JavaScript: preview/stable channel in CLI, launch, license, and config
- .NET: preview/stable channel in CLI, license, diagnostics, and config
- All wrappers: channel fallback indicator, auto-update gate,
CLOAKBROWSER_RELEASE_CHANNEL env var support
- Harden channel resolution: reuse the resolution sidecar on offline lookups,
defensive marker/JSON parsing, atomic version-marker writes, a launch-time
preview-to-stable fallback notice, channel-aware info download URL, and
Python/JS/.NET parity for the fallback default
- Binary 150.0.7871.114.4 changelog (Linux x64 + arm64)
- Updated READMEs, CHANGELOG, and tests for all wrappers
Node derives Host from the proxy hostname unless set explicitly; strict
backconnect proxies reject the mismatch, silently falling back to the
gateway's geo instead of the real exit IP.
cloakbrowser login gets a free key via GitHub sign-in (or saves a paid key); logout reverts. Launch banner and info are now tier-aware (keyless / free / pro). A free key drops any version pin so it always gets the latest build (server force-serves latest; a pinned manifest would fail checksum). Python, JS, and .NET kept in sync. README documents the free tier + commands.
A raw --fingerprint-timezone/--lang/--fingerprint-locale in args is now
promoted to an explicit value in maybe_resolve_geoip, so geoip only fills
the values the user did not set. Mirrors the timezone=/locale= param path.
Python, JS, and .NET, with tests.
geoip.py used Path.rename which cannot overwrite on Windows, so a stale
DB never refreshed and every launch re-downloaded ~70 MB in a loop. No
lock meant concurrent launches each fired their own download.
- Python: os.replace + threading.Lock (initial + background paths)
- .NET: File.Move(overwrite) + SemaphoreSlim guard
- JS: shared in-flight promise (rename already overwrites)
- tests: overwrite + concurrent single-download coverage
pyproject: bump classifier to Production/Stable
Points the READMEs at 150 as the latest Pro binary (71 patches, all five
platforms) and bumps the Pro major in the launch banner and the info
upgrade hint across Python, JS, and .NET.
A Pro license now gets a "Sessions: N seats in use" line, answering
"how many sessions do I have running?" without asking support.
Never cached (a cached count is a wrong count), skipped under --quick to
keep `info` network-free, and prints "unavailable" rather than a made-up
number when the count cannot be determined.
Python, JS and .NET.
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