luakit - browser framework

Summary of changes in 2026.05.06:

• Luakit builds on FreeBSD out of the box (removed install -D .. usage in the Makefile).
• Begun documenting the C source code with doxygen. If you have doxygen & graphvis installed run `make doc` to build the documentation (html only by default). View the online version here.
• Fix bug in cookie code (not setting session cookies correctly).
• luakit.set_selection(..) syntax changed from set_selection(text [, selection]) to set_selection([selection,] text).
• luakit.uri_encode(..) now takes a second argument of allowed characters to leave unescaped in the string to be encoded. See g_uri_escape_string.
• Similarly the luakit.uri_decode(..) takes a second argument of illegal characters which should not appear in the unescaped string. If illegal characters are found the uri_decode function returns nil. See g_uri_unescape_string.
• Refactor luakit.spawn(..) to not leak memory or leave items on the stack on error.
• Verbose errors on cookie creation failure.
• Fix build errors on Archlinux for people updating to libwebkit-1.4
• Remove need for the callback_data struct in clib/sqlite3.c. Do the row counting in the main sqlite3_t struct.
• If unable to determine uri domain name (in the case of non-http uris) use "all" so that domain properties continue to work (or rather reset).
• s/luakit_t globalconf/globalconf_t globalconf/
• Ignore keys for 250ms after a successful follow to prevent stray keys from activating other binds. The exact delay can be configured by placing follow.ignore_delay = 500 in your rc.lua where 500 is the new ignore delay in milliseconds. To disable all key ignoring set the delay to 0.
• Another follow.lua refactor to use more standards compliant JavaScript code. Following was failing on sites which enforce non-quirks mode (I.e. http://rsget.pl/).

Summary of changes in 2011.05.06-r1:

• Allow overriding of the MANPREFIX and DOCDIR Makefile variables from the shell while each maintains the correct DESTDIR install prefix (for packagers).
• Fixed the right-click lock X input bug present in webkit-gtk >= 1.4 versions. We needed to connect to the "unrealize" GtkMenu signal and then destroy all context menu items we created before the menu items and sub-menus are un-realized.
• Rename luaH_next to luaH_mtnext to prevent linker errors on some systems (luaH_next is a symbol in liblua.so).
• Do not add history items when "enable-private-browsing" webview property set.
• Need the --export-dynamic linker option on some systems otherwise luakit crashes with symbol reference errors when loading dynamically linked lua modules (I.e. lfs.so from luafilesystem).

More information can be found in the git commit logs.

You can browse the luakit-2011.05.06-r1 source code here:

https://github.com/mason-larobina/luakit/tree/2011.05.06-r1

Or download the luakit-2011.05.06 source tarball from here:

https://github.com/mason-larobina/luakit/tarball/2011.05.06-r1

Special thanks to the following people for contributing to this release: Fabian Streitel, Stefan Bolte and Thorsten Wissmann.