tilefinch changelog

• Clearer, more compact YouTube pages, with better channel and playlist information, improved account feedback, and updated translations.
• More reliable playback and captions, clearer player controls and errors, and smoother page navigation.

• Browse YouTube channels with Home, Videos, Shorts and Playlists tabs, clearer live and upcoming stream labels, and more Up next suggestions.
• Play videos from more websites, with better video detection, smoother playback and more reliable recovery after connection drops.

• Faster D-pad navigation and more responsive page updates, with clearer focus outlines.
• Improved form controls, grids, inline styling and page rendering.
• More reliable tab restoration and settings, with additional low-memory stability fixes.

• More responsive browsing and improved layouts, fonts, images and icons.
• More reliable YouTube sign-in, playlists and timed video links.
• Expanded interface translations with smaller language downloads and clearer download recovery.
• Better low-memory stability and recovery from interrupted downloads and cache writes.

• Faster startup. The full startup improvement requires the updated launcher from the install ZIP; in-app updates remain compatible but don't get the startup improvement.
• Smoother video playback and faster YouTube loading and search processing, with fewer startup audio interruptions and fewer player-menu hitches.

• Download files directly to the Memory Stick with pause, resume, retry, and cancellation; preview and install compatible homebrew ZIPs, and manage downloads and installed apps separately.
• More responsive browsing, improved page rendering and Basic/Reader views, and reduced memory use with better low-memory recovery.

• More responsive focus navigation and faster loading on complex pages.
• Improved page layouts, text spacing, images, icons, and visual effects.
• Better Basic and Reader views, with more complete long articles and preserved links.
• Improved styling and reliability when memory is limited.

• More reliable YouTube sign-in, with clearer recovery and optional privacy-safe diagnostics.
• Faster player menus and smoother page updates.
• Improved memory handling and stability on script-heavy pages.

• Playlist playback with Next/Previous, an optional Auto next toggle, and a queue.
• More responsive YouTube navigation and player menus, with clearer controls and improved playback recovery.

• Expanded interface language support.
• Clearer guidance for certificate errors and correcting the PSP’s date and time.

• More responsive scrolling, focus navigation, and browser controls while pages load.
• Improved page layouts, images, icons, and text, with new website font options.
• Clearer YouTube search filters and compact video actions.
• Improved low-memory handling and stability.

• Chapter markers and a chapter picker in the video player.
• Faster seeking and more reliable playback recovery.
• Clearer translated player controls and smarter rotation options.
• Search filters, scroll, and focus are preserved when returning from a video.

• Added support for Watch Later, playlists, channel subscription, search filters, and selectable video chapters for YouTube

• Sign in to YouTube for recommendations and subscriptions, with optional saved login and Sign out.
• Like and unlike videos, and see available watch progress.
• Translated YouTube controls and smoother background updates that preserve your place.
• Improved page layouts, text, icons, images, and browsing reliability.

• More accurate page layouts, images, icons, and dynamically updated styling.
• Clearer Basic and Reader views, with better article selection, tables, navigation, and image handling.
• Preview images for supported video cards that would otherwise appear blank.
• Reduced memory use for page styling.
• Improved ad blocking and additional reliability fixes.

• Portrait video rotation and center-crop support.
• Optional topics on the YouTube homepage.
• Downloadable interface languages, including translated menu-navigation instructions.
• Faster Reader switching and lower memory use on image-heavy pages.
• Better connection diagnostics and additional stability fixes.

• Larger and script-heavy sites now open, with a lighter Basic view offered when a page is too heavy for the PSP.
• Faster loading and revisits on JavaScript-heavy sites, with fewer pauses.
• More pages display correctly.
• Treadline arena improvements.
• Pages in languages the built-in fonts don't cover, like Russian, Japanese or Arabic, now offer to install the matching language pack.
• Note: this update changes a file_kb=512 setting in boot.cfg to the new default of 4096 once.

• Faster loading and responses on JavaScript-heavy sites.
• More responsive dynamic styling, page updates, and images.
• Improved navigation reliability and memory handling.

• Made long pages usable sooner, with more responsive focus, scrolling, and menus while loading continues.
• Improved layout, text, and WebGL rendering on complex pages and games.
• Added per-site storage controls with optional Memory Stick persistence and safer recovery.
• Reduced browsing and playback overhead, with additional stability fixes.

• Improved page layout and computed-style compatibility on complex sites.
• Improved PSP cursor responsiveness, UI rendering, and frame scheduling.
• Hardened JavaScript memory handling and runtime diagnostics.

• Fixed dynamic styling and motion handling on large pages.
• Improved Worker and origin-private storage performance and memory use.

• Improved compatibility for Workers, embedded frames, Web Crypto, storage, and other modern web APIs.
• Reduced JavaScript memory use and improved stability on script-heavy pages.
• Fixed additional frame updates, session-data clearing, and platform API behavior.

• Improved Worker and browser event ordering on complex pages.
• Additional compatibility and stability fixes.

• Improved compatibility and reliability for Workers, embedded frames, and browser events.
• Updated the PSP network stack with the latest security fixes.

• Faster, more memory-efficient web response handling.
• Improved reliability for Fetch, Streams, text decoding, and IndexedDB.

• Improved compatibility and reliability for Workers, Fetch, IndexedDB, embedded frames, and other dynamic Web APIs.
• Reduced routine Memory Stick writes and fixed additional lifecycle, memory, and stability issues.

• Improved fixed text-field sizing and CSS table layout.
• Playback-position saving is now off by default, with options to enable it or clear saved positions.

• More responsive browsing and improved network reliability.
• Faster video descriptions and comments, with corrected scroll positioning.
• Weekly automatic update checks enabled by default.

• Faster, more responsive page loading and navigation.
• Reduced memory use on complex pages.
• Additional playback and stability fixes.

• Faster startup and more responsive page loading, scrolling, and focus navigation.
• Improved video loading and playback.
• Improved compatibility and reliability for Workers, WebAssembly, embedded frames, and dynamic styles.
• Additional memory and stability fixes.

Tilefinch 0.1.15

• Added basic WebAssembly and Web Worker support for more modern sites.
• Improved complex-page reliability, fallback, Reader mode, and history recovery.
• Added native playback cards for pages that declare playable video.
• Improved JavaScript memory use and hardened browsing, media, and offline-game lifecycles.

• Improved WebGL and Canvas game speed, input response, frame pacing, audio, visual stability, and installed-game startup.
• Added Treadline Arena, an installable 3D tank game prototype.
• Improved complex and long-page browsing by preserving useful page content when scripts fail and offering contextual recovery through Basic view.
• Made Reader mode more reliable and useful.

• Added theme support with a visual theme designer
• Improved YouTube audio, subtitle switching, and subtitle rendering
• Fixed source of overlay flicker and startup A/V skew

• Improved YouTube live-stream and premiere support.
• Added audio and subtitle track selection plus preferred, alternate, original, and PSP-system language ranking. Captions remain off until selected.
• Added Gamepad API, expanded Canvas 2D and Web Audio support, and started WebGL support.
• Added installable offline web apps with size previews, update and reinstall status, uninstall controls, icons, and bounded manifest presentation.

• Adds an optional XMB Internet Browser redirection plugin, tested with ARK-4.
• Adds isolated Wi-Fi sign-in for captive portals.
• Adds YouTube live streams and premieres, with more reliable playback, seeking, and buffering.
• Expands Canvas 2D, bidirectional and Arabic-family page text, Reader mode, and long-page rendering.
• Adds clearer recovery actions, richer site information, and resumable downloads.
• Improves PSP chrome rendering and HOME-button exit behavior.

What's new

• Tilefinch starts faster.
• YouTube seeking and recovery from interrupted video connections are more reliable.
• HTTPS certificate errors now provide clearer guidance.
• YouTube videos start directly from results, while the info control opens the watch page.

Important update note

Starting with this release, install the full ZIP and replace the Tilefinch boot app as well as the browser files. An in-app update alone does not update the boot app.

See the README for installation instructions and known limitations.

What's new

• The info control beside a YouTube result now opens the watch page without starting playback.
• Selecting the main result card still starts the video directly, while the thumbnail on the watch page remains an explicit play control.

See the README for installation instructions and known limitations.

What’s new

• In-app updates are faster. Tilefinch now moves more update data per frame and avoids an unnecessary verification pass while retaining package and per-file integrity checks.
• Improved YouTube startup when an abandoned page or its thumbnails are still using the shared network worker.
• Improved thumbnail loading after transient failures and reduced background work while browsing.
• Improved playback recovery from temporary PSP audio-decoder refusals.

See the README for installation instructions and known limitations.

What’s new

• YouTube videos start faster. Selecting a result now opens the video directly, and audio/video setup overlaps to remove an avoidable wait. Use the info button when you want the full details page instead.
• Improved the appearance and compatibility of mobile websites.
• Added native playback for audio embedded in web pages.
• Improved reliability when loading websites and starting or controlling media.

See the README for installation instructions and known limitations.

What’s new

• Improved YouTube playback, seeking, navigation, buffering recovery, and thumbnail performance; added audio-only playback and compact results.
• Added generic page-video and bounded HLS support, plus an optional build-time software-decoder add-on that remains separate from official releases.
• Replaced site-specific Reader profiles with bounded content analysis and added lazy-image sourcing for server-rendered pages.
• Reorganized menus around page tools, library, settings, and diagnostics; added signed installation of up to eight recent releases.
• Expanded mobile CSS, typography, compositing, Cyrillic, and Extended Latin support while preserving Wikipedia performance and fidelity.
• Hardened native media geometry, AAC channel bounds, script degradation, and aggregate backdrop-filter work.

See the README for installation instructions and known limitations.

• Improved YouTube startup and recovery when the shared transport worker is busy or a delivery candidate stalls.
• Added photographed diagnostic reports with exact, bounded QR rendering and complete multipart recovery for large logs.

0.1.4

• Improved player-control redraw stability during interactive seeking.
• Localized YouTube result and watch metadata from the PSP language and date settings without delaying native startup.
• Improved navigation responsiveness by promptly retiring abandoned page requests before the next page starts.
• Accepted larger real-world response cookie sets while preserving bounded, fail-closed redirect handling.
• Reduced cooperative YouTube parsing work on PSP.

What changed

• Improved YouTube playback recovery when a delivery URL serves only an unusable prefix or rejects later byte ranges.
• Added a bounded 360p-to-240p fallback and more complete last-error details for prolonged buffering and terminal media failures.

See the README for installation instructions.

Tilefinch 0.1.2 expands PSP TLS compatibility.

• Adds trust anchors used by more of the top-site and accepted-resource corpus.
• Keeps Let's Encrypt coverage through ISRG Root X1.
• Adds a native-Mbed-TLS site audit to the release process so future certificate-chain gaps are caught before publishing.

Download tilefinch-v0.1.2-psp.zip for a normal installation. Existing signed-update installations can update in-app.

Tilefinch 0.1.1 improves first-run networking and field diagnostics on real PSP hardware.

• Fixes certificate verification for GitHub's current TLS certificate chain.
• Automatically recovers when the configured PSP connection profile is missing.
• Adds a Wi-Fi profile selector under Options → System, including saved SSID names.
• Records more useful network, curl, TLS, timeout, and connection-profile details in the last-error report.

Download tilefinch-v0.1.1-psp.zip for a normal installation. Existing signed-update installations can update in-app.

Initial release.