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Installer files 3.26.0
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Release notes
## Vale in the browser
v3.26.0 is the first release that ships Vale as a WebAssembly module. It's the same engine as the CLI, built for a JavaScript host：a browser, a browser extension, or Node. It runs with no server and no filesystem.
Each release now includes `vale_3.26.0_wasm.tar.gz`, which holds `vale.wasm` and the `wasm_exec.js` loader that matches it. The host passes the `.vale.ini` as a string and loads styles, vocabularies, and packages into an in-memory filesystem. Vale then lints:
• Markdown, MDX, MyST, Quarto, Org, HTML, and plain text, natively.
• YAML, JSON, and TOML, through Views.
• AsciiDoc, XML, and any other converted format whose HTML the host produces with a JavaScript converter. `ValeConverterOptions` returns the arguments that make that HTML match what the CLI would produce.
`ValeSuggest` resolves an alert's fixes, and `ValeResolveConfig` reports which rules each section turns on, turns off, or changes the level of. Source-code linting needs tree-sitter, which uses CGo, so it stays CLI-only.
See the [WebAssembly docs](https://docs.vale.sh/topics/wasm) for the full API.
## Thank you, FLOSS/fund
Vale received a $10,000 grant from [FLOSS/fund](https://floss.fund/blog/second-tranche-2025-anniversary/) to support Vale's expansion to the web. Grants like this keep Vale free and independent. Thank you to FLOSS/fund for supporting open-source infrastructure.
## Changelog
• e2d4374b fix：Create bin/ before copying the wasm loader into it
• 0897e7f2 fix：A sentence or title capitalization rule no longer slows with each exception
• 8b9bfb97 feat：Resolve a configuration in the browser build
• bd1c0ba3 fix：An ignored class covers an image's alt text
• 305eba39 feat：string-config and in-memory entry points
• 8e5de35a feat：A Config reads its assets through a filesystem of its own
• 9eeba2d2 fix：Run a `Transform` stylesheet with no network, writes, or directories
• 0f91a651 feat：Lint a converted format in the browser from the host's HTML
• cb27bdeb feat：Build Vale for the browser
