Changelog

Changed

• Raised the maximum response length for Anthropic-backed LLM output to 16k tokens, so longer pages are less likely to come back truncated.
• Updated the bundled agent skill to steer AI agents toward using the navigator more often.

Added

• New option to deny specific URLs, preventing them from being visited during a capture.

Changed

• Default URL scoping now allows navigation between a bare domain and its www subdomain (e.g. example.com ↔ www.example.com).
• Improved Android device emulation.
• Clearer, more concise CLI help text.

Fixed

• Help output now points to the correct location for license information.

Added

• Render captures directly in the terminal on terminals that support inline graphics. This covers images, animated images, videos, navigator previews and crawl previews.
• Better browser emulation.

Changed

• Smarter defaults for crawl output types and the emulated device type, based on what you’re capturing.
• Update CEF to 156.0.24.

Fixed

• Android device viewports now account for browser UI around the screen, giving more accurate page dimensions.
• More reliable output when copying captures, which now waits longer for frames to be ready.
• More reliable detection of file downloads during capture.

Added

• Refreshed and expanded the built-in device presets.

Changed

• On Linux, zshot now uses native headless rendering and no longer needs a virtual X display (Xvfb).
• Linux packages and Docker images have fewer system dependencies. Unneeded X11 and Mesa libraries are no longer pulled in.
• The Docker runtime image now explicitly includes fontconfig for more reliable font handling.
• Updated CEF.
• Bundled license files now include the Blink license, and the EULA text has been updated.

Fixed

• Fixed concurrent CDP clients, such as parallel chromedriver sessions, sharing page state with each other.

Removed

• Removed the Xvfb-based virtual display support on Linux. It is superseded by native headless mode.