Release notes

Version 1.5.0 (2026-02-20)

  • Added dark mode
  • Enabled dynamic link functions to return multi-line strings (in addition to arrays of URLs)
  • Enhanced the favicon tools/download page to use the favicon fetch service (if configured) as a fallback
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the caching of discovered favicons in the local storage
  • Performed technical maintenance (migrated to launchpad, switched to ECMAScript modules, fixed linting issues)

Version 1.4.3 (2024-06-14)

  • Fixed unhandled initialization exception when a search bucket has no main (non-search) shortcut
  • Tweaked shortlist CSS colors to work with the latest Dark Reader release

Version 1.4.2 (2024-04-20)

  • Tweak CSS colors to work with the latest Dark Reader release

Version 1.4.1 (2024-02-03)

  • Re-generated documentation with latest MkDocs version (upgrading jQuery from 2 to 3)

Version 1.4 (2022-11-04)

  • Introduced dynamic bookmarks
  • Added the ability to dynamically generate a variable number of links
  • Updated and documented the TypeScript typings
  • Performed technical maintenance (stricter linting and refactoring)

Version 1.3.1 (2022-09-23)

  • Tweaked the homepage's suggestion filter (avoiding unnecessary full-text searches)

Version 1.3 (2022-09-11)

  • Added support for search buckets
  • Improved the suggestion list for non-query keywords
  • Performed technical maintenance (linting, deprecations, updated typings)

Version 1.2.2 (2021-08-07)

  • Fixed an issue that caused domains to be listed under missing favicons even if the favicon had already been downloaded
  • Added a TypeScript declaration file (shortycut.d.ts) for the ShortyCut API to the data (template) folder

Version 1.2.1 (2021-08-01)

  • Added a CORS header to the web server to allow resources to be accessed from all origins
  • Fixed an issue that prevented domains without favicons from being displayed in the list view when using a fetch service

Version 1.2 (2020-10-09)

  • Improved the favicon loading speed by preloading all images on startup and caching their known locations in the browser's local storage
  • Added favicons to the interactive selection list displayed when accessing keywords with multiple links

Version 1.1 (2020-09-26)

  • Added the ability to load additional JavaScript files, so that large shortcut collections can be spread across multiple files
  • Added support for dynamic links, which allow keywords to redirect to different pages based on the search term
  • Improved the way how hotkeys are selected, favoring letters that are uppercase or appear at the beginning of words
  • Improved the homepage's ability to lock itself to a pinned browser tab by opening links to the manual in new tabs
  • Improved the accessibility of the menu through the keyboard when using a browser extension like Vimium
  • Fixed an issue that could cause POST links to fail or send wrong data if the search term contained special characters like & or %
  • Fixed an issue with the homepage's no-focus mode where control keys like Alt and Ctrl would still put the focus on the input field

Version 1.0 (2020-08-16)

  • Initial release