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
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.
info now shows the cached build that will launch AND the server's latest
Pro version on separate lines, so the two can no longer silently diverge
(a customer saw info report latest while launch ran a stale cache).
- Pro version resolution: unpinned launch prefers the server latest when it
is newer than or replaces a missing cached build, else stays on cache;
advances the version marker so info and later offline launches match.
- update command is license-aware: a valid Pro key updates the Pro binary,
everyone else updates free.
- Replace the fire-and-forget Pro background update thread with a foreground
rate-limited check (one network call/hour), honoring CLOAKBROWSER_AUTO_UPDATE=false.
- A valid Pro license never falls back to the free binary: get_effective_version
returns None when no Pro build is cached; resolution fails loudly instead.
- Tampering signal (BinaryVerificationError) surfaces verbatim on the unpinned
upgrade path — the cached-Pro fallback is only for transient download failures.
- get_effective_version(pro) requires the binary be executable, so info can't
report a build launch would reject.
- info --quick stays network-free (skips the server latest lookup); prints a
'not downloaded yet' line instead of 'None' when offline with no cache.
- Align the JS .last_update_check marker to seconds (Python/.NET parity).
- Mirror across Python, JS, and .NET wrappers; add update/CLI tests.
- Pass the resolved license key via environment (CLOAKBROWSER_LICENSE_KEY)
when launching the Chromium binary so the Pro binary can authenticate.
- Inject key when a custom user_env is provided with default file source:
Playwright replaces (not merges) the child env, which can drop HOME and
prevent the binary from finding ~/.cloakbrowser/license.key.
- Normalize user_env by filtering None/undefined values consistently across
Python, JS, and .NET wrappers.
- Add HomeDirOverride test seam to the .NET wrapper for cache path mocking.
The version-check request (get_pro_latest_version) now sends the platform
tag so the server can return a per-OS LATEST pointer, letting us advance
one OS at a time. Mirrored across Python, JS, and .NET clients; older
clients send no header and keep tracking the global LATEST floor.
The macOS Pro build (darwin arm64 + Intel) is now served alongside Linux and
Windows, so a Pro license downloads the latest binary on macOS like every
other platform.
Reverts the v0.4.2 stopgap that, on macOS only, silently fell back to the free
binary when the Pro download returned 404 (there was no macOS Pro build yet). A
valid license now hard-fails on any Pro download error on every platform — no
silent downgrade — restoring the wrapper's stated invariant. Applied across the
Python, JS, and .NET wrappers; removes the now-unused DownloadHttpError type and
its tests.
README: macOS listed as available for Pro.
CloakHQ