| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/zen-browser-bin.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | zen-browser-bin |
| Description: | Official package for Zen, a privacy-focused, feature packed Firefox-based web browser |
| Upstream URL: | https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop |
| Licenses: | MPL-2.0 |
| Conflicts: | zen-browser |
| Provides: | zen-browser |
| Submitter: | ptr1337 |
| Maintainer: | Larvey (NextWorks) |
| Last Packager: | Larvey |
| Votes: | 341 |
| Popularity: | 11.57 |
| First Submitted: | 2024-07-30 12:11 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2026-10-09 20:38 (UTC) |
@jshap Hi sorry about that! This package is mainly maintained via automation as lots of users would complain about the package not updating quickly enough due to my timezone being so different than the zen team.
It seems that the zen team removed/unreleased a release, so the automation assumed the newest version at the time (1.19.12b) was newer than 1.19.13b
Hopefully this doesn't happen again but if it does I'll try and come up with a solution that fixes that.
Hey, seems like you did commits for 1.19.12b -> 1.19.13b -> 1.19.12b -> 1.19.13b. For future reference you cannot push downgraded versions in the pkgver nor can you push a new version with the same pkgver and have it get picked up by people. Every commit you make to the AUR which is expected to be built by people needs to increment the pkgver in some way or people won't be notified of the changes.
For the case where you're pushing 1.19.13b -> 1.19.13b, you should bump the pkgrel so the visible package version in the AUR will go 1.19.13b-1 to 1.19.13b-2 and people will see there's a new commit.
If in the future you do have to do 1.19.12b -> 1.19.13b -> 1.19.12b, technically you should bump the epoch so the build would go like 1.19.12b -> 1.19.13b -> 1:1.19.12b, but to be honest unless it is pulled from upstream and it's expected that the next version will be a long way away you should avoid the epoch as it's sort of a sign that someone really messed up.
Wiki article on allowable PKGBUILD movements https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#Version
Thank you for keeping track of this package!
The sha256 checksum for zen-browser-1.19.13b-1-x86_64.tar.xz is failling upon updating the package.
This update was released way too early, the download is still not available.
@rhynzler @qexat
this release is still building in their CI, you have to wait until it's done https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/actions/runs/25806125449
Note for the maintainer, if this package is updated automatically, consider bumping its version after the CI is done.
1.19.13b is a tag, not a release, that's why doesn't exists when downloading https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/releases/tag/1.19.13b
zen-browser 1.19.13b-1 does not seem to exist. the download results in HTTP 404. the github page shows 1.19.12b-2 as the last release, and other zen-browser packages are also on the version 1.19.12b-2
This doesn't need ffmpeg4.4 anymore. 8.1 works fine.
@Larvey. consider updating the .desktop file with localizations.
I made a localized version here: https://gist.github.com/nixxo/a5de8154f334f55b3154597fc4ef0790 taken from the firefox one.
@xuanhh That was most likely an upstream bug in 1.19.4b. Seems to be fixed in 1.19.5b.
Pinned Comments
Larvey commented on 2026-07-26 14:05 (UTC) (edited on 2026-07-26 14:06 (UTC) by Larvey)
Seems that somebody has made malicious requests to merge this package into "ffmpeg-full", as well as to orphan this image. Please note that this is NOT a valid request, and that you should not install whatever ffmpeg-full is.
Hopefully AUR will deny these requests, but please be alert and double check when updating packages.
Larvey commented on 2025-08-04 15:08 (UTC)
@ratbox
The releases on the AUR are done automatically every hour. The issue is that sometimes the zen team does a release, then the script runs and updates the AUR package. And then they undo/remove the release. If this happens again simply wait another hour and the script will automatically update the AUR repo with the newest published version.
Thank you for understanding
Markil3 commented on 2025-07-18 20:16 (UTC)
For those coming from https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/7EZTJXLIAQLARQNTMEW2HBWZYE626IFJ/, note that the malware is from zen-browser-PATCHED-bin. This package has not been compromised.