Changelog

What changed in each version, newest first.

0.4.4 — August 2026

No more error report after an update. Pages you already had open keep the previous version's panel until you reload them — that part is normal, and always was — but it was filing an error each time you clicked one. It now steps aside quietly instead.

Your hottest tabs stay hottest after a restart. Heat and last-used times were being handed to whichever tab happened to reopen in the same slot, so the order came back quietly wrong every time you restarted the browser.
The panel stops opening when you only sweep past it. Moving the pointer quickly toward the edge — heading for the scrollbar, or just crossing the screen — could open it on the way past. It now opens only if the pointer is still there when it arrives.
Closed lists tabs you actually closed. It was showing recently visited pages that simply weren't open, which is not the same thing.
Reopening a window full of tabs is lighter. Restoring a session saved and redrew once per tab; now it does both once for the whole batch.

Better search results. The closest match comes first now, instead of whichever matching tab happened to be hottest.
Several words, any order. auth jira and jira auth both find the same tab, and each extra word narrows the list. Typos still land: athn finds Authentication.
Search is no longer reshuffled by the current view, sort or time filter while you type — they dim and step aside until the box is empty. This also fixes an open tab going missing from its own search when a narrow time filter was set.
The panel's controls stay readable over busy pages. The header is now held more opaque than the list below it.
Faster typing in the search box with hundreds of tabs open.
Rate us link in Settings, now that vatra is on the store.
Fixed: the buttons down the left strip weren't quite aligned with each other.

First public release.

The open-hearth mark and one warm scale — gold through grey — carrying every heat and age signal in the panel.
Closed view. Recently closed pages, one click to rekindle.
Alt+S opens the panel with the search box focused, from anywhere.
Chrome's native side panel as an alternative. The overlay can't appear on chrome:// pages, the Web Store, the PDF viewer or a blank new tab; there, vatra opens in the browser's own sidebar. Choosable outright in Settings → Panel type.
Site icons come from Chrome's local cache, so browsing the panel contacts nothing.
Fixed: the panel disappearing on some web apps, ghosting behind it while scrolling, and the keyboard shortcut going dead in a window until restart.

Versions before 0.4.0 were development builds and were never released.