WebOne 0.18.1

[atauenis]

New stable version of WebOne, released on 2 Feb 2026 after 14 commits.

• Added support for online playback of MP3 music via WinPlay3.
• Added fix for MSIE 7.0 initial start page.
• Added fix for Windows 95 initial start page of MSIE 3.0 on some languages.
• Added fix for Windows 98 initial start page of MSIE 4/5 on some languages.
• Added fix for Mozilla 1.x, Netscape 6.x/7.x SSL support (bug WebOne Root Cert import in Netscape 7.1 not working #196).
  • Note: if you're upgrading from previous WebOne versions, it's need to rebuild and reimport WebOne CA Root Certificate.
• Added fix for Google new start page's telemetry flood (bug Warning about 'convert' and slow responses #193).
• Added support for using Yt-dlp with external JS engines to download from YouTube.
  • Specify in your WebOne configuration file at [WebVideoOptions] -> js-runtimes=node or js-runtimes=quickjs, which engine to use. Or don't specify anything if Deno is installed. More details here.
• Fixed passing some arguments to Yt-dlp or FFmpeg, used in Retro Online Video Player.
• (Windows builds) Updated bundled Yt-Dlp version.
• Fixed possible 100% CPU load in case of inability to write messages to log file (bugs Fix high CPU usage from log writer spin-wait, regex recompilation, and byte-by-byte tunnel I/O #197, WebOne constantly consumes CPU on my server #128).
• Improved performance of WebOne in most of cases (PR Fix high CPU usage from log writer spin-wait, regex recompilation, and byte-by-byte tunnel I/O #197; thanks to @paulscan).

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This discussion was created from the release WebOne 0.18.1.