Package Details: helium-browser-bin 0.7.4.1-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/helium-browser-bin.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: helium-browser-bin
Description: Private, fast, and honest web browser based on Chromium
Upstream URL: https://github.com/imputnet/helium-linux
Licenses: GPL-3.0-only AND BSD-3-Clause
Submitter: playleft
Maintainer: playleft
Last Packager: playleft
Votes: 31
Popularity: 10.39
First Submitted: 2025-09-14 12:03 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-12-13 08:10 (UTC)

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zuzavo commented on 2025-12-09 19:24 (UTC)

rafnov, downgrade only checks pacman database and this isn't the case. This package is in the AUR. On the other hand, more info about your issue is needed.

rafnov commented on 2025-12-07 16:34 (UTC)

New updates of Helium and Cromite break scrolling thing, /usr/bin/downgrade does not find packages...

Genesis commented on 2025-11-19 09:41 (UTC) (edited on 2025-11-19 09:41 (UTC) by Genesis)

Hey @playleft, so sorry for flagging this as out of date, that was a mistake on my part, I was checking the wrong upstream repo and on the helium-linux repo, the 0.6.6.1 release is marked as pre-release. Sorry again!

akawshi commented on 2025-11-16 06:42 (UTC)

最新版のレイアウトが壊れていたのでこちらを使うことにしました どうもありがとう

playleft commented on 2025-11-14 12:41 (UTC)

distrayer,

This package has been tracking Latest releases only per standard packaging conventions since version 0.6.3.1. Beta releases (i.e., Pre Releases) should be packaged under helium-browser-beta-bin. Since my previous comment the developers have confirmed this release life cycle via email:

our releases start off as “pre-release”, and we eventually mark them as “latest” after some time to make sure they are working as expected.

While I'm not currently maintaining the beta package on the AUR, you can pull the PKGBUILD from my GitHub on branch update-0651. You can refer to the latest comments for more information on packaging.

Cheers,

Sam

distrayer commented on 2025-11-14 12:03 (UTC)

What is the reason for not updating this package to 0.6.5.1?

playleft commented on 2025-11-08 13:41 (UTC) (edited on 2025-11-08 13:44 (UTC) by playleft)

Hello everyone,

Release 0.6.4.1 contains some notable changes:

  1. Added support for aarch64 architecture.
  2. Now including the Ungoogled Chromium license from the upstream build process.
  3. PKGBUILD updated to reflect upstream packaging per: https://github.com/imputnet/helium-linux/pull/96
  4. PKGBUILD updates added to public README: https://github.com/s6muel/helium-browser-bin

Since Helium 0.6.3.1 this packaging is strictly tracking stable/latest releases as reflected here: https://github.com/imputnet/helium-linux/releases/latest

Cheers,

Sam

NZ_Wanderer commented on 2025-11-01 09:39 (UTC)

Hmm, well doing "yay" in terminal doesn't mention anything about an update of Helium to 0.6.x and my browser tells me it is still 0.5.8.1 so I guess I am not effected by this.. If for now if yay tells me there an update I will wait until it is mentioned in here that it safe to do it :)

Baird commented on 2025-11-01 07:13 (UTC)

Got it—thanks for maintaining the package!

Since imputnet/helium (not imputnet/helium-linux) already has version 0.6.2, it seems likely that helium-linux will follow with a stable release soon.

Just my thought: it might be a better idea to wait for that and then release version 0.6.2.1-2, especially since we can easily roll back by editing the PKGBUILD ourselves. (Afterr all, we are all Arch users 🤣)

playleft commented on 2025-11-01 05:43 (UTC)

Baird,

Thanks for your input. I agree with you and mispackaging is an oversight on my behalf. It's just going on Saturday evening here, so please allow me some time to investigate whether it's the best approach to rollback to 0.5.8.1 (i.e., current stable release) or to keep this release for now. I will contact the AUR mailing list wizards sometime this evening to establish the best way forwards. Input is welcome here too. :)

My main concern right now is pushing an "older" version to users who already have updated, and I'm not sure how AUR helpers will respond. In short, I want to make sure the impacts of this are understood before making changes so that users can be informed.

For clarification and for the sake of standardisation as you pointed out, this packaging will only include the stable releases going forwards. Prerelease packaging should be under the relevant AUR package.

I will provide an update here as soon as I know more.

Thanks again!

Sam

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