Hello again!!

Through the medium of this post I would like to share with you all the first release version of the websurfx project which was released on the 1st of October.

If you are new, and you don’t know what is websurfx then I would suggest taking a look at my previous post here:

https://programming.dev/post/2678496

Which covers in depth about what the project is and why it exists.

Credits

Before I share with you the changelog, what this release version means and a preview on what we are planning to work on for the next major release v2.0.0. I would first like to thank all our contributors and maintainers because of whom this was all possible. Specially I would like to thank gzsombor and dr410nf1l3 who have been invaluable to the project. Also, Websurfx would not have been possible without alamin655 and xffxff early involvement.

Thanks 💖 to all the people involved in the project

Now, let’s dive straight into what this release version actually means.

What does this release version means

This new release version v1.0.0 means that now the project is out of the development phase, and it has been stabilized and ready for production use and will not change until the next release has been made.

Changelog

The changelog of all the changes can be found here:

https://github.com/neon-mmd/websurfx/releases/tag/v1.0.0

Preview of the goals for the next major release

• Rewriting the search engine’s frontend with leptos framework
• Different levels of privacy to choose from with the help of rust’s conditional compiling features (The discussion on this topic can be found here)
• More engines will be supported.
• Categories would be added to search results like images, news, etc.
• More themes will be provided by default
• Animations for the websurfx frontend.
• Multi language support would be added.
• I2p and tor support will be provided.
• Reduce animations would be added for those who don’t want animations and effects on the frontend.
• And lots more.