Hi All,

I'm happy to make available the first BETA version of Odyssey 1.25. This is a result of a year of work, much of it spent on porting Odyssey to work directly on WebKit and updating engine to latest version.

Requirement to use this version of Odyssey it to ran Icaros 2.03 or compatible system.

Before using Odyssey 1.25 you need to update some of your system components. The archive containing them is available here:

http://download.aros3d.org/software/AROS-components-20150917.zip

Odyssey 1.25 can be downloaded from here:

http://download.aros3d.org/software/owb-aros-1.25-20160326.zip

Do not copy the Odyssey 1.25 on top of your Odyssey 1.23 installation. Treat it as separate application!

Changes:

31.08.2015: Odyssey Web Browser 1.25 BETA 1
- Updated to WebKit r183664 (May 2015). (AROS)
- Ported Odyssey directly on top of WebKit repository. (Common)
- Enable HTML5 video feature. (AROS)
- Bookmarks management panel has been made functional (needs updated MUI components). (AROS)
- Cookies management panel has been made functional (needs updated MUI components). (AROS)
- Fixed "second download crash". (AROS)
- Updated to ffmpeg 2.6.2. (AROS)
- Fixed problem with Odyssey not remembering window width after closing. (AROS)
- Fixed problem with pressing enter not beeing handled in search window. (AROS)
- Added a "gracefull exit" option on crash of Odyssey allowing to close the application and free memory. (AROS)
- It is possible to disable JavaScript Just-in-Time compiler using NO_JSC_JIT tooltype. (Common)
- WebKit codes revision is now presented in AboutBox. (Common)
- Disabled WebWorkers support. (Common)
- Browser spoofing agents are updated for Firefox and Chrome. (Common)
- Added option to disable/enable MP4 support (enabled by default). (Common)
- Fixed crash when closing bookmarks panel (needs updated MUI components). (AROS)
- Double-clicking on bookmarks opens it in current tab. (AROS)
- Fixed list-related code that was trashing memory. (AROS)
- Lists (download, mime settings, history) now have a scroll bar (needs updated MUI components). (AROS)
- Fixed "division by zero" error in Quick Links handling (Common)

Known issues:
- If Google remembers your user, but not password, it is not possible to log in - you need to clear cookies

17.09.2015: Update to AROS-components
- opening or closing a tab does not cause flicker anymore
- switching between tabs does not cause flicker anymore
- tabs area enlarged so that button or icon are not damaged by rounded edges
- opening a new tab via middle button (link click) makes this tab inactive by default

26.09.2015: Instruction on how to configure sound so that Odyssye does not block other applications:

Copy AROS:Storage/AHI/device.audion to AROS:Devs/AHI
Copy AROS:Storage/AudioModes/DEVICE to AROS:Devs/AudioModes
Restart AROS
Go to AROS:Prefs/AHI
For "Music Unit" select a new entry called "Unit 0: 16 bit stereo++"
For "Unit 0" keep your correct audio driver selected as it was before
Save

Odyssey (and other applications that use AHI low level access) will no longer block audio.

1.12.2015: Update to Odyssey (only executable changed)
- sound is not longer slightly delayed versus video

7.12.2015: Update to Odyssey (only executable changed)
- fixed HTML check boxes and lists to render
- unified look & feel of check boxes and radio boxes
- updated Italian catalog by saimo79
- HTML documentation by saimo79
- engine updated to r185045 (end of May)

16.12.2015: Update to Odyssey (only executable changed)
- engine updated to r187682 (end of July) - this is the last engine update before 1.25 release
- update updated version of fontconfig (2.11.1)

26.12.2015: Update to Odyssey (only executable changed)
- user scripts work again

30.12.2015: Update to Odyssey (only executable changed)
- logging to www.blogger.com works (clear all cookies first)

16.01.2016: Update to Odyssey (only executable changed)
- fixed messages console to display messages
- made aligned allocation not take additional memory
- made memory allocator work better with fragmented memory
- fixed major memory leak where Frames were not released together with their JS data - memory no longer continously consumed while browsing
- fixed a number of small memory leaks
- implemented a more agreesive memory freeing strategy which keeps allocated memory as low as possible

6.03.2016: Update to Odyssey (only executable changed)
- added russion catalog
- fixed setting proxy user/password
- enabled disk cache for content - requires changing model to Document Browser

26.03.2016: Update to Odyssey (only executable changed)
- re-enabled WebWorker support
- enabled loading Google Spreadsheet application
- enabled working Google application (Draw, Drive, etc) - some may need spoofing
- disk cache is now working correctly (please clear your existing cache)
- switched internal threading support to pthread

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Nice work, hope OS4 devs keep Odyssey updated, I surprise Fab has'nt made a Odyssey update in a while for MorpthOS even. But nice to see Aros guys getting ahead for a change.

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Fab was also working on compiling this version, but he had some Java Script engine endianess problems that were blocking PPC version.

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@deadwood

I hope kas1e will port it for AmigaOS4.1

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i dont know but on osx ppc everything is working .
the endianess of jscript was fixed some monts ago by the dev of leopard webkit ppc (the same guy who port euae jit on osx) .

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@deadwood

It is possible to download the source code somewhere? Thank you!

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It's available here:
https://github.com/deadwood-pl/OdysseyWebBrowser

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Well finally a normal public repository for OWB .. maybe kas1e can now upload his OS4 specific changes in it ...

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Nice :)

I really hope for an update for OS4 as well. Our Odyssey is 2 years old now and more and more pages start to fail due to the aging webkit engine. And a stability fix for the media player would be nice so it can actually be used without having to reboot the machine afterwards....

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The repo has been up for more than a year, it's just that it wasn't advertised anywhere. It's not like anyone was looking for it though :)

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If fab and deadwood will allow, i will be happy to add os4 changes to the repo. But probably better to wait when mos version will be out, as it will mean working ppc-jit.

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Right on. It's probably worth looking into the leopard webkit sources, since they are endian-savvy already.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/leopard-webkit/files/600/Sources/

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@deadwood

Thank you very much for all your hard work.
While Odyssey itself will get the main attention the mui/zune updates are also important for AROS.

Have downloaded, but haven't tried as yet. Will do so shortly.

@kas1e

JS-JIT would be AWESOME!
Then the Office online and live mail etc would really start to become useful

But do we have a compiler that can compile the new webkit with all those C++11 features?

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samo79 wrote: Well finally a normal public repository for OWB

Odyssey...

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deadwood wrote: Fab was also working on compiling this version, but he had some Java Script engine endianess problems that were blocking PPC version.

The JS JIT for PPC/MorphOS was a project initially initiated by a bounty (in late 2013), accepted by Bigfoot. Progress was made but no progress reported in 1.5 years.

You can confirm that Fab has taken over this effort as part of the general Odyssey development?

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Deniil715 wrote: do we have a compiler that can compile the new webkit with all those C++11 features?

Well, AFAIK Odyssey 1.24 (released 15-Apr-2014) was compiled with GCC 4.7.3 for this reason.

@deadwood

BTW, what's with that rushing out a BETA version, with known (and quite notable) unfixed issues?

To make some headlines of you being "first"?

@TRIPOS

you praise MorphOS "NG" without anything available yet

so deadwood has the right to be the "first"

@TRIPOS

Where would 4.7.3 have come from since it's not on adtools?

Edit: I thought you were referring to the OS4 port (1.23) and not the latest MOS port (1.24). I'll see if I can find any clues in the OS4 binary.
Edit2: Looks like the OS4 port of 1.23 used gcc 4.4.3

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