Pake 3.11.5 fixes Wayland blank screens, adds incognito mode

If your Tauri wrapper has been blanking out on Wayland or crashing on macOS when you open a second window, Pake 3.11.5 is the sort of release worth pulling in fast. The new build, Pake V3.11.5, landed with 14 fixes and enough user-visible cleanup to matter for anyone shipping a Linux or cross-platform hobby app.

The biggest Linux fix is the one people will notice first: Pake now defaults to disabled WebKit compositing mode on Linux, which addresses blank and white screens on Wayland sessions that do not have GPU acceleration. That is the kind of bug that turns a polished launcher into a broken window on first run, especially when you are testing on a mixed Linux setup instead of a glossy desktop demo.

Pake also pushed in a proper incognito flag. The new incognito mode keeps cookies, local storage, and cache from surviving between launches, which makes it a cleaner fit for one-off wrappers, throwaway demos, and app shells that should not remember state. Alongside that, the release adds width and height flags so build-time window dimensions are no longer hard-coded guesswork.

The macOS side got its own set of real fixes. Pake added native dock badges through the Web Badging API for sites that call navigator.setBadge(), and it fixed a crash tied to new-window by stopping duplicate WKUserContentController script-handler registration. The release also mentions fixes for native menu items, notification onclick callbacks, Apple Silicon build issues, Windows ICO transparency, file-extension handling, and x.com search-bar rendering at narrow widths, which shows how broad the cleanup pass was.

The release also tightens the packaging story that makes Pake interesting in the first place. tw93’s README says the tool turns any webpage into a desktop app with one command across macOS, Windows, and Linux, and that it is built with Rust and Tauri. The same README pitches Pake as nearly 20 times smaller than Electron packages, typically around 5 MB, while Tauri frames itself as a way to build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop and mobile apps with a web frontend. Pake 3.11.5 keeps that promise a little more believable by cutting down the rough edges that matter when you are actually trying to ship. The release even changed CN mirror behavior to explicit opt-in with PAKE_USE_CN_MIRROR=1, which should stop surprise build failures from automatic domain detection.