📋 Release Changelog

Stay up to date with the latest features, improvements, and revisions to WeBook.

v9.1.1 Store Stable
Released: July 17, 2026
🚀 Core Performance & Features
  • Group Editor Integration: Added right-click context menu on saved groups to edit them directly inside the expanded "Create Tab Group" panel. Users can rename, change color, check open tabs to add, or uncheck to delete tabs in a unified UI with automatic bookmark folder synchronization.
v9.1.0
Released: July 17, 2026
🚀 Core Performance & Features
  • Background Search Indexing: Moved the indexing loop to the background service worker. Search index analysis continues running persistently in the background even if the extension popup is closed by the user, resuming dynamically upon restarts.
  • AI-Powered Semantic Search: Integrated a natural language search query feature (the "Ask AI" button) enabling conceptual matches for complex questions like "any markdown file reader in windows".
  • Clean Import Wiping: Implemented a full browser bookmark and storage cache wipe preceding JSON backup imports to prevent duplicates and ensure a clean replace.
  • Robust Backup Imports: Resolved an issue where importing a JSON backup with custom tab groups would fail to load in the groups tab due to synchronous type validator errors in Chrome's Bookmarks API. Added automated fallbacks for legacy/empty groups.
🔍 Optimizations & UI Refinements
  • Tag Synchronization: Prevented redundant webpage scraping and API calls by skipping search indexing for already-tagged bookmarks and reusing existing tags during organization.
  • UI Styling & Overflow Fix: Styled the Ask AI button with WeBook's lime green branding and fixed button flex overrides to resolve input bar layout overflow issues.
v9.0.0
Released: July 2026
🚀 Core Performance & Features
  • Resumable Background Tasks: Implemented auto-resume capabilities for Bulk Organizer and Broken Link Checker. Task states (pending queues, success/error counts, processed items) are stored persistently in local storage and automatically resumed on browser startup or extension updates.
  • Manual "Analyze Bookmarks" Onboarding: Adds an onboarding indexing card on the Search tab for first-time users. Indexes all existing bookmarks using fast fallback tags and kicks off a concurrent background scraper for webpage metadata.
  • Progressive UI Progress Bar: Displays real-time progress percentages and bookmark counts during initial index analysis.
  • JSON Import & Bulk Organize Bypass: Automatically marks indexing as done after JSON imports or library organizations in the Activity tab to allow immediate search access.
🔍 Search & Tagging Enhancements
  • Relevance Scoring & Domain Grouping: Search results are scored based on query matches (Exact Title, Substring, URL, Tags) and grouped under domain headers.
  • Recency & Click Frequency Boosting: Popular clicked bookmarks and recently added bookmarks receive a search scoring boost.
  • 15-Tag Limit Support & Clean Activity Tags: Expands tag indexing capability to 15 (up from 5) for background scraping, folder classification, and backups, while displaying only the top 3 visual tags per bookmark in the activity list.
v8.2.0
Released: July 2026
✨ New Features
  • Right-Click Context Menu & Inline Editing: Added custom context menu options for search results (Open Incognito, Copy URL, Edit Bookmark, Delete Bookmark), replacing the legacy double-click gesture with context-menu-driven inline editing.
  • Search Hover Folder Location: Displays the bookmark folder path when hovering over search results to easily locate saved links.
  • Local MV3 Favicon API: Upgraded to the modern Chrome MV3 API (chrome://favicon2) for styling and loading local/remote favicons dynamically.
🛠️ Enhancements & Bug Fixes
  • Layout Scrollbar Fixes: Removed unnecessary scrollbars from the Link Checker success card and empty Saved Groups container by auto-collapsing cards and utilizing responsive layout styles.
  • SVG Fallback Fix: Fixed quote collision bugs in onerror fallback SVG handlers by encoding them to Base64 strings.
  • Alignment & De-duplication: Fixed vertical alignments for search result favicons, badges, and layout heights, and added de-duplication to link checks.
v8.1.0
Released: July 2026
✨ Enhancements & Maintenance
  • Privacy Focus: Cleaned up public changelogs and tracking logs to focus exclusively on extension improvements and user-facing features.
  • Codebase Maintenance: Upgraded version configuration and internal assets to v8.1.0 to support dynamic server updates.
v8.0.0
Released: July 2026
🚀 Chrome Web Store Listing
  • Official Store Availability: WeBook is now listed in the Chrome Web Store! Users no longer need to download manual ZIP files or sideload extensions. All installations and automatic updates are securely handled through Chrome.
  • Removed ZIP Option: Cleaned up manual installation interfaces and ZIP downloads from the landing site for a streamlined, single-click install experience.
✨ New Features
  • Metascraper Integration: Scrapes site descriptions, YouTube metadata, Amazon product names, and Open Graph tags locally before categorizing. AI classifications are now context-rich, producing better folders.
  • Weekly Free Key Drop: Integrated an automated license system that drops a fresh free license key every Sunday at 00:00 UTC. Live countdown timers have been added to the landing page.
  • Optimized Tab Groups: Saved tab groups are now written to Other Bookmarks to prevent cluttering the user's primary Favorites Bar.
v7.0.0
Released: June 2026
✨ New Features
  • Tab Groups Management: Save all open tabs in a group with custom titles and color labels. Preview, expand, and restore your tab groups in a click from the popup.
  • Embedded backups: Exports and backups now pack tab metadata directly in JSON, letting users restore tab groups on any Chrome install.
  • Smart Tag Blocklist: Blocks over 80 generic and filler tags (like "tech", "web", "internet"), ensuring your tags represent specific technologies or brand names.
  • Accordion UI: Collapse/expand accordion panels on Import/Export and Create Group menus to keep the popup compact.
v6.0.0
Released: June 2026
✨ Core Features
  • AI Categorization: Automatically organizes bookmarks into standard or existing custom folders using OpenRouter.
  • Duplicate Checker: Identifies and warns when saving identical URLs, keeping bookmark structures tidy.
  • Broken Link Checker: Scans the library for dead URLs returning 4xx or 5xx codes, with bulk-deletion tools.
  • Export/Import HTML: Standard Netscape HTML export/import support for cross-browser portability.
v5.0.0
Released: June 2026
🔍 Search & Filter
  • Real-Time Search: Added search input in popup to filter saved bookmarks dynamically by title, URL, or folder name.
  • Visual Folders: Redesigned folder displays with colored tabs and custom icons to improve readability.
v4.0.0
Released: June 2026
🎨 UI Refinements & Background Saving
  • Grid Popup Layout: Swapped layout to structured grids, prioritizing fast click interactions and space-saving headers.
  • Quick Actions: Added direct hotkeys and click actions to open active URLs in new tabs or delete them instantly from the popup.
v3.0.0
Released: June 2026
📂 Custom Structure & Tagging
  • Custom Folder Creation: Create, rename, and organize folders manually within the popup settings.
  • Keywords & Tags: Introduced custom manual tags to categorize bookmarks beside their target directory.
v2.0.0
Released: June 2026
⚙️ Context Menus & Settings
  • Right-Click Context Menu: Right-click anywhere on a webpage to send the URL straight to WeBook.
  • Settings Panel: Introduced popup configuration preferences for folder targets and storage paths.
v1.0.0
Released: June 2026
🚀 Initial Launch
  • Hello WeBook: The initial launch of the extension! Clean popup to save active Chrome tabs straight to local bookmark folders.