It's been a while since the last official release! There have been some changes made since 0.7.4 that are fairly noteworthy, including:

• Complete overhaul of session management
  • Fixed runaway session file creation for public instance maintainers
  • Fixed failure to decrypt subsequent result page queries (i.e. page 2 query appearing as "gAAAAA....")
• Added ability to navigate through results with Tab and Shift+Tab
• Added an "Advanced Search" toggle in search results for quickly switching between countries
  • Can be updated to support other search params, if requested
• Updated filter for sponsored results/advertising content
• Configured language + country is now included in search suggestion requests
• Fixed issues with bolding search terms in result pages
• Added ability to encode configuration in the URL
  • Allows jumping between Whoogle instances (via Farside, for example) and maintaining the same configuration settings
• Fixed issues with result links to Google domains
• Reduced the amount of logging the Tor service outputs by default
• New translations:
  • Thai
  • Kurdish
  • Welsh

And much more!

SourceHut

There's an official "mirror" of the repository on SourceHut at: https://sr.ht/~benbusby/whoogle-search now. It's not technically a "mirror" though, since it does more than just look for changes on GitHub. It's automatically synced with changes pushed to GitHub, but GitHub is also synced with any changes pushed to SourceHut. The two repos are completely interchangeable from a user perspective. If you prefer using SourceHut, feel free to mail in patches, open tickets, etc. If not, feel free to keep using GitHub.

Community Contributions

• Tor password authentication by @MadcowOG in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/746
• Fix a crash with protected Tor control port by @CyberTailor in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/785
• Improve newtab by @jacr13 in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/790
• Remove wildcard imports by @jacr13 in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/791
• Update translations.json by @CAB233 in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/794
• Add more OpenSearch definitions (for images etc.) by @CyberTailor in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/786
• Fixes handling of maps by @jacr13 in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/792
• Use X-Forwarded-Host as url_root when present by @marekful in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/799
• Tor Documentation by @MadcowOG in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/800
• added instance (search.wef.lol) by @J2D9 in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/807
• added new instance to misc/instances.txt by @J2D9 in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/808
• Tor password newline fix by @MadcowOG in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/801
• Fix typos by @kianmeng in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/813
• Fixes read_config_bool to allow several true params by @jacr13 in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/841
• Add Kurdish Translation by @CYAXXX in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/837
• Fixes google unsuported links bad internal redirection by @jacr13 in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/850
• Replaces default reading of environment by @jacr13 in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/848
• Add filter for ads in Vietnamese by @BienAtGitHub in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/847
• Add preferences parameter to url by @jacr13 in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/842
• Fix handling of bangs by @jacr13 in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/851
• Update lang_th by @watchakorn-18k in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/856
• Add ads thai in BLACKLIST by @watchakorn-18k in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/857
• Add ~vern instances (clearnet, onion, i2p) by @gi-yt in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/858
• Removal of search.wef.lol by @Albonycal in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/860
• Updating Readme.md ; Heroku fix and Removed Some Non-Working Public Instances by @hrishikeshp7 in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/864
• Fix autocomplete by @jacr13 in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/866
• changes regex to replace special characters and not chinese characters. Issue-#845 by @Abir10101 in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/865
• Fix error preferences by @jacr13 in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/867
• Fix missing args in docstring by @jacr13 in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/872
• Fix color for light contrast text by @jacr13 in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/873
• Update zh-tw translation by @xatier in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/875
• Added Welsh Translation by @curlpipe in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/876
• Include new ad filter keyword by @xaabi6 in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/879

New Contributors

• @MadcowOG made their first contribution in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/746
• @CAB233 made their first contribution in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/794
• @marekful made their first contribution in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/799
• @J2D9 made their first contribution in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/807
• @kianmeng made their first contribution in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/813
• @CYAXXX made their first contribution in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/837
• @BienAtGitHub made their first contribution in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/847
• @watchakorn-18k made their first contribution in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/856
• @gi-yt made their first contribution in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/858
• @hrishikeshp7 made their first contribution in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/864
• @Abir10101 made their first contribution in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/865
• @xaabi6 made their first contribution in https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/pull/879

Full Changelog: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/compare/v0.7.4...v0.8.0