Announcements

We are launching instant Summary Boxes, together with announcing partnership with Wolfram|Alpha and welcoming Stephen Wolfram to Kagi's board of advisors.

Read everything in our blog post.

note: You may need to enable Summary Boxes in Settings -> Search.

Features

• "Small YouTube" (part of Kagi Small Web) feed has been enhanced with more content, check it out
  (+ RSS feed is available)

• We've added Orion+ member count to our stats page.

• You can now summarise videos directly from the results page via three dots menu. You can even ask questions about it (as with any other result appearing in Kagi search). #3269 @Browsing6853

• We've added keyboard shortcut for activating Quick Answer. Just press q on your keyboard after the results are loaded to get a quick summary of results. #3161 @Browsing6853

• We added access to Mistral Large and Claude 3 Opus to Assistant (please note, the Assistant remains in beta and limited to Ultimate subscribers)
  

Improvements & Bug fixes

• Simplified the onboarding process for Duo & Family accounts via universal invitation links
• Apple Sign In, then Set Password, Breaks Apple Sign In #3330 @hanji
• Handling for Desktop/Mobile Website Versions in Search Results #1727 @Wisely
• Wrong results from currency converter #3366 @ioctl
• Search option bar can be vertically scrolled after reloading if the bar contains Quick Answer button #3328 @sefidel
• When you navigate back, the search query in the More Results button doesn't match the results. #3209 @xorgy
• Cannot click enter in search box android #3315 @KaraZajac
• Wolfram Alpha math result does not meet expectation #3189 @brotis
• Assistant doesn't remember last selected model in some situations #3223 @sefidel
• Further improvements to fix $_latex_inline in quick answer #3225 @bert
• The response None is returned by FastGPT #3343 @AndreL

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/12544593

Alex Deucher:

The HDMI Forum has rejected our proposal unfortunately. At this time an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation is not possible without running afoul of the HDMI Forum requirements.

Alex Deucher:

The HDMI Forum has rejected our proposal unfortunately. At this time an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation is not possible without running afoul of the HDMI Forum requirements.

Feb 27, 2024 - Bangs upgrades, user control enhancements, and colour code widget #

Features

• We've made further progress in enhancing Bangs in the UI. And following the release of our open-source bags repository, the community has contributed by adding and fixing dozens of bangs already! Additionally, we upgraded all bangs to use HTTPS where possible.

• To further enhance user control, we now indicate when there are blocked results for your search queries #2698 @Fernandez)

• We've introduced a new colour code search widget. It displays the selected colour, allows to pick an alternative, and to convert between HSL and RGB formats #118 @yokoffing)

Kagi for Safari 2.2.2

• If you were having issues with Kagi for Safari, make sure you are running the latest version and that 'Engine to redirect' option in extension settings is set to the one used by Safari.
• [Changed] Adopted monochrome icon for toolbar/menu to match Safari icon styles

Improvements and bug fixes

• Kagi Quick Answer now remembers 'Show more" option #3241 @Dustin
• We've introduced a new progress animation for the Assistant's responses (please note, the Assistant remains in beta and limited to Ultimate subscribers)
• Include non-US universities in Academic lens #3303 @rainfallwaterfallweb
• Automatic Kagi Status Page Updates #2914 @happinessattack
• Quotes cannot be used with assistant? #3276 @cardinal086
• Quick answer freezes page #3237 @repelz
• LLM Model Help Chart - Add Cost and Context Window #3049 @CrunchyFritos
• Error summarizing Von Neumann PDF #2978 @CrunchyFritos
• Universal Summarizer on iOS should not scroll horizontally #3251 @equalidea
• Site: search shows fewer results with "personalization" turned off #3040 @Value7609
• Broken search dropdowns #3278 @val
• PDFs appear in image search #3289 @matteoscopel
• Quick Peek breaks with "[ CDATA" in question #3308 @paszek
• Taiwan(tw) bang is missing in region search #3287 @fc
• Site: search shows fewer results with "personalization" turned off #3040 @Value7609
• Jisho bang encodes spaces incorrectly #3245 @adamaveray
• Changelog formatting broken for lists #3280 @VIEWVIEWVIEW

Note: This is a public beta release and will be updated more regularly with regression fixes prior to the Proton 9.0-1 release.

This is the first open beta release of Proton 9.0. In addition to the numerous Wine 9.0 improvements, Proton specific changelog includes:

• Now playable:
  • Dinogen Online
  • Photography Simulator Demo
• Previously playable on Proton Experimental:
  • George McGeehan Gamer Hero
  • The Finals
  • True Reporter. Mystery of Mistwood
  • Road to Vostok Demo
  • WITCH ON THE HOLY NIGHT
  • Lord of the Rings: Gollum
• Fixed Brawhalla showing a security certificate warning.
• Started ignoring system mouse acceleration when using raw input API.
• Fixed TouHou Makuka Sai ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival Part I and II crashing during boss fights.
• Fixed crash in Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories epilogue.
• Improved video playback in BIOMUTANT.
• Fixed Imperiums: Greek Wars launcher.
• Fixed memory leaks that caused Final Fantasy XIV Online launcher crash over long time.
• Fixed crash in Microsoft Flight Simulator when live weather is enabled.
• Improved support for input devices with 8+ axes.
• Fixed Savant - Ascent REMIX hitching during certain animations.
• Fixed Super Robot Wars 30 crashing with languages other than English.
• Fixed Doom Eternal audio crackling on certain setups.
• Fixed Lethal Company, Phasmophobia and other Unity games crashing when a controller with a hat switch is plugged in.
• Improved video playback for the following titles: Lords of the Fallen, Harvestella, and Wayfinder, Sea of Thieves, KING OF FIGHTERS XV.
• Default scaling fixed for The Last Game on Steam Deck
• Fixed audio issues when playing intro video in Airborne Kingdom.
• Fixed Bayonetta crashing on certain systems.
• Fixed Escape from Monkey Island getting minimized on a mouse click.
• Fixed audio controls and spatialization in VRChat with AVPro.
• Updated file distribution method to save disk space.
• Rebased on top of upstream Wine 9.0.
• Updated vkd3d-proton to v2.11.1-49-g32ff676b.
• Updated dxvk to v2.3-47-ge2a46a34.
• Updated dxvk-nvapi to v0.6.4-48-g0951afb.

Note: This is a public beta release and will be updated more regularly with regression fixes prior to the Proton 9.0-1 release.

This is the first open beta release of Proton 9.0. In addition to the numerous Wine 9.0 improvements, Proton specific changelog includes:

• Now playable:
  • Dinogen Online
  • Photography Simulator Demo
• Previously playable on Proton Experimental:
  • George McGeehan Gamer Hero
  • The Finals
  • True Reporter. Mystery of Mistwood
  • Road to Vostok Demo
  • WITCH ON THE HOLY NIGHT
  • Lord of the Rings: Gollum
• Fixed Brawhalla showing a security certificate warning.
• Started ignoring system mouse acceleration when using raw input API.
• Fixed TouHou Makuka Sai ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival Part I and II crashing during boss fights.
• Fixed crash in Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories epilogue.
• Improved video playback in BIOMUTANT.
• Fixed Imperiums: Greek Wars launcher.
• Fixed memory leaks that caused Final Fantasy XIV Online launcher crash over long time.
• Fixed crash in Microsoft Flight Simulator when live weather is enabled.
• Improved support for input devices with 8+ axes.
• Fixed Savant - Ascent REMIX hitching during certain animations.
• Fixed Super Robot Wars 30 crashing with languages other than English.
• Fixed Doom Eternal audio crackling on certain setups.
• Fixed Lethal Company, Phasmophobia and other Unity games crashing when a controller with a hat switch is plugged in.
• Improved video playback for the following titles: Lords of the Fallen, Harvestella, and Wayfinder, Sea of Thieves, KING OF FIGHTERS XV.
• Default scaling fixed for The Last Game on Steam Deck
• Fixed audio issues when playing intro video in Airborne Kingdom.
• Fixed Bayonetta crashing on certain systems.
• Fixed Escape from Monkey Island getting minimized on a mouse click.
• Fixed audio controls and spatialization in VRChat with AVPro.
• Updated file distribution method to save disk space.
• Rebased on top of upstream Wine 9.0.
• Updated vkd3d-proton to v2.11.1-49-g32ff676b.
• Updated dxvk to v2.3-47-ge2a46a34.
• Updated dxvk-nvapi to v0.6.4-48-g0951afb.

Note: This is a public beta release and will be updated more regularly with regression fixes prior to the Proton 9.0-1 release.

This is the first open beta release of Proton 9.0. In addition to the numerous Wine 9.0 improvements, Proton specific changelog includes:

• Now playable:
  • Dinogen Online
  • Photography Simulator Demo
• Previously playable on Proton Experimental:
  • George McGeehan Gamer Hero
  • The Finals
  • True Reporter. Mystery of Mistwood
  • Road to Vostok Demo
  • WITCH ON THE HOLY NIGHT
  • Lord of the Rings: Gollum
• Fixed Brawhalla showing a security certificate warning.
• Started ignoring system mouse acceleration when using raw input API.
• Fixed TouHou Makuka Sai ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival Part I and II crashing during boss fights.
• Fixed crash in Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories epilogue.
• Improved video playback in BIOMUTANT.
• Fixed Imperiums: Greek Wars launcher.
• Fixed memory leaks that caused Final Fantasy XIV Online launcher crash over long time.
• Fixed crash in Microsoft Flight Simulator when live weather is enabled.
• Improved support for input devices with 8+ axes.
• Fixed Savant - Ascent REMIX hitching during certain animations.
• Fixed Super Robot Wars 30 crashing with languages other than English.
• Fixed Doom Eternal audio crackling on certain setups.
• Fixed Lethal Company, Phasmophobia and other Unity games crashing when a controller with a hat switch is plugged in.
• Improved video playback for the following titles: Lords of the Fallen, Harvestella, and Wayfinder, Sea of Thieves, KING OF FIGHTERS XV.
• Default scaling fixed for The Last Game on Steam Deck
• Fixed audio issues when playing intro video in Airborne Kingdom.
• Fixed Bayonetta crashing on certain systems.
• Fixed Escape from Monkey Island getting minimized on a mouse click.
• Fixed audio controls and spatialization in VRChat with AVPro.
• Updated file distribution method to save disk space.
• Rebased on top of upstream Wine 9.0.
• Updated vkd3d-proton to v2.11.1-49-g32ff676b.
• Updated dxvk to v2.3-47-ge2a46a34.
• Updated dxvk-nvapi to v0.6.4-48-g0951afb.