January 2026
v1.16.0
v1.16.0 deepens Dia's tab story with new ways to make your workspace feel settled, organized, and tailored to how you actually work. Pin the projects that matter most, grow into Tab Groups with a familiar click, and tune tab behavior from a dedicated home in Settings. Here's what's new:
- Pin the tab groups that anchor your day. You can now pin tab groups to the top of the sidebar or the leading edge of the tab strip.
- Command‑click into a tab group. Command‑clicking a link from a tab now opens that link in a new tab group, instead of just a standalone background tab. The original page and the new tab live together in that group, so a simple "open in new tab" gesture quietly becomes a lightweight project space.
- Shortcut to open a new tab in a group. Option‑Command‑T now opens a new tab inside your current tab group instead of next to it so you can keep related work together.
- A Tabs pane in Settings. Tab‑related preferences now live together in a dedicated Tabs pane in Settings. Switch between sidebar and top bar layouts, and adjust Tab Group behaviors like automatic meeting grouping from one place.
- Recently closed groups are easy to restore. When you close a tab group, it now shows up in the Recently Closed section in Tab Overflow and History menus. If you close a project group a bit too aggressively—or just want to revisit yesterday's setup—you can bring it back in a couple of clicks.
- Profile indicators and menus that feel more at home. The profile indicator now lives more subtly inside the pinned tabs tray and sidebar header, with refined theme colors that make windows feel cohesive without shouting for attention. Context menus for empty spaces in the sidebar and top bar have also been standardized, so common actions are easier to find no matter where you right‑click.
- Default profiles are easier to set. Making a profile your default is now a clear, first‑class action from the Profiles pane in Settings.
- Manifest V2 extensions are phasing out. Starting in v1.17, Dia will no longer supports legacy Manifest V2 extensions. With a built‑in ad blocker in place and the ecosystem moving toward Manifest V3, this keeps Dia aligned with modern extension standards and improves security and stability over time.
v1.15.0
Dia v1.15.0 is a polish-heavy release focused on the small upgrades to the features you use every day. Here's what's new:
- Google Meet PiP share fix. Clicking Share in Picture‑in‑Picture now returns you to the Meet tab so the share dialog is accessible.
- Automatic reload after turning off ad block. Pages now automatically reload when ad block is disabled to avoid stale content.
- Option to delete Chats. You can now Delete chat conversations from Chat history with the right click context menu.
- Slack scraping improvements. Dia now reads more structured content for channels and threads when you attach Slack to a Chat.
- New Tab Page theming. The New Tab Page now uses your profile color, with a theme‑colored gradient animation under the command bar that fades in and shimmers.
- Tahoe Liquid Glass designs. Refined visuals for macOS Tahoe with polished corners and a new glass‑style app icon.
- F12 opens Developer Tools. You can now open DevTools with F12 and bind function keys (F1–F12) as shortcuts.
- Tab Handoff. Open tabs from your iPhone directly in Dia on Mac via macOS Handoff.
- Confirm dialog loop protection. Tabs stuck in repeated confirmation dialogs can now be closed without locking the entire window.
- Bookmark Bar menus auto‑size. Dropdown menus now auto‑size up to 600px, making long document titles easier to read.
- Select and copy dialog text. You can now select and copy text from dialog titles and messages for debugging and support.
Thank you for continuing to use Dia! We're already looking forward to bringing you more updates next week.
v1.14.0
Dia v1.14.0 is all about showing up and staying organized with Tab Groups for Meetings and a (big) handful of quality of life improvements across the browser. Here's what's new:
- Tab Groups for Meetings. Tab Groups for Meetings ship in this release, keeping your meeting tabs and related links together. Now when you join a meeting, Dia automatically creates a Meeting tab group to keep your call anchored and your meeting resources together. As you open meeting-related links, Dia drops them into the meeting's group, and the group can show how much time is left when you're close to the end. After the meeting ends, it becomes a normal tab group, with auto-cleanup behaviors so meeting groups don't turn into clutter.
- Mention Tab Groups in Chat. You can @-mention Tab Groups in assistant queries to attach all the tabs at once. Think of a tab group as a context container for bringing your work to Chat.
- Tab Group refinements. Close out tab groups in sidebar mode with a click of the X and right click to copy all URLs in a group.
- Profile-wide Tab Search. ⌘-shift-A now searches across all windows in the current profile, not just the current window.
- Customize your tabs with emojis. Choose a custom emoji/icon for any tab so it's easier to spot.
- Default profile management. Change which profile is default and delete any non-default profile (including the initial one).
- Cleaner assistant links. Links in assistant responses now show favicons, cleaned-up titles, and informative hover tooltips.
- More reliable search fetching. Assistant Google search scraping now uses rate limits and delays to avoid triggering reCAPTCHAs.
- YouTube summaries in Chat. Open Chat on any YouTube video for a pre-generated summary of the video.
- New status page. Visit status.diabrowser.com to check the status of Dia.
- Extension search engines fixed. Extensions that provide custom search shortcuts work properly again.
- Duplicating pinned tabs. Duplicating a pinned tab now opens a normal tab instead of another pinned one.
- Popups behave more like tabs. Popups now support printing, Find in Page, and ⌘+shift+C copy.
This week includes a bump to Chromium 144, which includes improvements to security, stability, and performance.
v1.13.1
Dia v1.13.0 kicks off the new year by tidying up the everyday details in Dia.
- Tab groups improvements. Closed tab groups now overflow into a simple button instead of crowding your strip. Group menus show icons and colors to make destinations easier to spot, and new groups drop you straight into renaming so you can label projects in the moment. Command‑click‑created single‑tab groups automatically ungroup once only the original tab remains, so quick one‑offs don’t linger.
- A calmer side panel. The side panel has a refined look and no longer flickers when you move between tabs with different side panel states, keeping context changes feeling smooth and steady.
- Better ad block coverage. Ad blocker blocklists have been updated to give you better coverage while reducing odd breakages on the sites you rely on.
- No more missing favicons. Dia now pre‑warms the favicon cache on launch so icons appear right away as you restore tabs and windows. A Notion‑specific favicon bug has also been resolved, so workspaces show up with the right identity.
- Bookmarks that are easier to file. When you save a bookmark, the interstitial now shows the full folder tree inline, making it faster to drop links into the right place without digging.
- Lists in Chat that read cleanly. Chat now renders bulleted and numbered lists with correct markers and indentation, avoids hard‑to‑read lists‑in‑tables, and can auto‑correct slightly off list formatting so your writing and pasted content stay legible.
- More resilient Notion attachments. We've shipped a series of page scrapping improvements for more reliable attachments from Notion and other tools.
- A cleaner look for meeting reminders. Meeting reminders now use richer, platform‑specific branding.