Im proud to announce that Avant Browser 11.6 is coming out of private beta and is available for download by the public as of this morning. If you do not feel comfortable testing pre-release software please continue to use the latest stable version of Avant, 11.5 Build 21.

This will also include the changelog from the private beta as well and whats been fixed since the beta started.

Avant Browser 11.6 Build 8 (Beta) released 3-19-08.

Changelog:

• Added a function to close left & right tabs of the current one
• Fixed the bug where the help menu disappears after switching back from full desktop & full screen mode
• Detached the up-right icons from the tabs bar
• Added an option to tick & untick the mouse gesture trail
• Fixed the keywords encoding error while setting yahoo as standard search engine
• Fixed the bug where you cannot delete avant.exe while uninstalling Avant
• Fixed the bug where the login dialog cannot show up under some conditions
• Fixed the bug where you cannot switch tabs while continuously opening a lot of tabs
• Fixed the bug where you cannot successfully import the bookmarks with special codes from FireFox
• Fixed the encoding error while importing bookmarks
• Fixed the confliction issue with the DEP technology of Windows Server 2008(Longhorn)
• Fixed the display error of some pages with frame structure
• Perfected the performance of the mouse gesture
• Perfected RSS function

Download

There is not a USB version of this build.

Avant Browser 11.6 Build 4 (Beta) released 12-12-07.

Changelog:

• Improved Download Manager
• Added some Google Translations
• Added the function of saving page as image
• Added the function of saving page as text
• Added the function of setting new window's default zoom size
• Added the function of renewing the default configuration of Avant
• Added the hot key Ctrl+shift+Z to reopen the latest closed page
• Fixed the title coding and items sorting errors in RSS
• Fixed the error that cannot switch focus to the page from address bar
• Fixed the keyword coding error in Baidu search engine
• Fixed the auto-complete error in search bar
• Fixed the bug that cannot totally clean out the recent history records
• Arranged the location of the buttons in up right corner under Full Screen & Full Desktop mode

Avant Browser 11.6 Build 2 (Beta) released 10-23-07.

Changelog:

• [Feature] Built-in Download Manager
• [Change] Add an option to turn on or turn off the download manager.
• [Change] Add rename file function after file has finished downloading.
• [Fix] Fixed the download manager window disappearing bug while using the scrollwheel on the mouse.
• [Fix] Closing the download manager will not terminate the downloading task.
• [Change] Redesigned User Interface of Download Manager.
• [Fix] Fixed the bug where the main system buttons would disappear when you went Full Screen or Full Desktop.

Note that if the .default folder is placed in the same folder where Avant is installed, it will be the USB version.

Avant Browser 11.6 Beta 4 released 12 December 2007. Link to download in the first post.

Avant Browser 11.6 Beta 8 released March 19, 2008.