uBlock/CHANGELOG.md

Fixes / changes

• Use raw string for regex patterns in python scripts
• Improve noeval-if scriptlet
• Improve trusted-set-local-storage-item scriptlet
• Fix potential corruption when reading serialized data
• Improve remove-[attr|class] scriptlets
• Improve dashboard layout at high zoom factor
• Add a console pane to the logger
• Improve spoof-css scriptlet
• Fix bad date computation in auto-comment feature
• Fix regression breaking import of file:// lists
• Add trusted-replace-outbound-text scriptlet
• Improve [trusted-]set-cookie scriptlets

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1.57.2

Fixes / changes

• Fix stray lists in redesigned cache storage

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1.57.0

Fixes / changes

• Do not block large media resources when loaded as top-level document
• Properly manage cache storage regarding managed user filters
• Improve [trusted-]set-cookie scriptlets
• Fixed Belgian and Nepali flags for Windows Chromium users (by @DandelionSprout)
• Mind that tabs.sendMessage can throw
• Improve set-cookie scriptlet
• Append wildcard character only when filter starts & ends with /
• Fix failure to create popup logger window sometimes
• Improve json-prune-related scriptlets
• Support maximizing editor to viewport size
• Add advanced setting to force popup panel orientation
• Add checkboxes to "My filters" pane
• Assume UTF-8 when no encoding can be looked up
• Fix issue with "My filters" pane on mobile
• Support aborting "Pick" mode in element picker
• Remove sections with no lists in "Filter lists" pane
• Add "Social widgets", "Cookie notices" sections in "Filter lists" pane
• No longer disable generic cosmetic filters by default on mobile
• Improve spoof-css scriptlet
• Make asset updater compatible with non-persistent background page
• Move dragbar to the top of element picker dialog
  • Move "Quit" button to top bar in element picker
• Add advanced setting requestStatsDisabled
• First lookup matching stock lists when importing URLs
• Reset filter lists in worker when creating filters via "Block element"
• Remove trusted-source requirement when using badfilter
• Redesign cache storage
• Don't match network filter-derived regexes against non-network URIs
• Remove obsolete trusted directives
• Support logging details of calls to json-prune-fetch-response
• Escape special whitespace characters in attribute values

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1.56.0

Fixes / changes

• Mind that multiple uritransform may apply to a single request
• Fix incorrect built-in filtering expression in logger
• Fix improper invalidation of valid uritransform exception filters
• Improve prevent-addEventListener scriptlet
• Fix Chartbeat flicker control div's (by @ryanbr)
• Fix potential exfiltration of browsing history by a rogue list author through permissions=
• Ignore event handler-related attributes in set-attr scriptlet (suggested by @distinctmondaylilac)
• Fix potential exfiltration of browsing history by a rogue list author through csp= (reported by @distinctmondaylilac)
• Output scriptlet logging information to the logger
• Fix decompiling of scriptlet parameters
• Add support for extraMatch in trusted-click-element scriptlet
• Remove minimum height constraint from "My filters" pane
• Unregister all scriptlets when disabling uBO on a specific site
• Allow uritransform to process the hash part of a URL
• Remember presentation state of "My rules" pane
• Fix improperly assembled !#include sublists
• Mark procedural filters with pseudo-elements selector as invalid
• Prevent access to picker when "My filters" is not enabled
• Provide visual feedback when applying changes in "Filter lists" pane
• Empty query parameters must still use =
• Add support to toggle no-scripting switch with keyboard shortcut
• Do not exceed rate-limited calls to handlerBehaviorChanged()
• Shield some code paths against potentially tampered global properties (in scriptlets)
• Do not prevent applying changes when lists are updating
• Add elements vararg to prevent-addEventListener scriptlet
• Do not use tab character as field separator (in logger)
• Prevent :others() from hiding html tag

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1.55.0

Fixes / changes

• Discard repeating adjacent entries in the logger
• Mind drop events in filter expression field of logger
• Improve xml-prune scriptlet
• Fix message entries overflowing in logger
• Add support for application/x-javascript in replace= option
• Extend support for differential updates to imported lists
• Add detection of mismatched !#if-!#endif in linter
• Support links to update lists which are differential update-friendly
• Remove "Purge all caches" button from "Filter lists" pane
• Add support for all list token in updater-link feature
• Fix logging of broad exception filter #@#+js()
• Improve no-xhr-if scriptlet
• Ensure cache storage backend is selected before access
• Fix popup panel rendering when embedded in logger
• Add visual hint in support information re. differential update
• Remove obsolete web accessible resources
• Rename urltransform to uritransform
• Vertically expand/collapse in steps in dom inspector
• Reset the DOM inspector when URL in top context changes
• Support shadow-piercing combinator >>> in trusted-click-element
• Isolate DOM inspector layers from page context
• Refactoring: Replace DOM events with broadcast channels
• Support non-default sticky lists
• Add enableLazyLoad function (by @spazmodius )
• Change frequency of save-to-storage blocking stats
• Improve prevent-fetch scriptlet
• Catch cases of ! Expires: field with no value

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1.54.0

New

Differential update of filter lists, as a result of discussions at https://github.com/AdguardTeam/FiltersCompiler/issues/192. Resulting spec is here.

The goal is to NOT be ranked among the "most popular projects" by bandwidth usage (as per jsDelivr's public stats):

It is expected that differential updates will lower both requests and bandwidth usage.

To benefit the much shorter update period enabled by differential updates, you must let uBO auto-update the filter lists. Forcing a manual update will prevent differential updates until the next time a list auto-update.

Fixes / changes

• Enable path for native has() selector in Firefox
• Allow scriptlets to be injected in about:blank
• Fix faulty as vararg in set-constant scriptlet
• Add support to redirect to noop.json
• More improvements to the google-ima shim script (by @kzar)
• All exceptions filters are exempt from requiring a trusted source
• Add trusted-set-session-storage-item scriptlet
• Allow the use of quotes in set-cookie scriptlet
• Allow the use of quotes in set-(local|session)-storage-item
• Add ability to trigger cookie removal on specific events
• Ensure CSSTree does not hold a reference onto last parsed string
• Lower minimum Expires value to 4h
• Properly reset needle length in unserialized buffer
• Add additional flags to regional lists (by @DandelionSprout)
• Harden scriptlets which need to serialize function code into string
• Reset g regexes before use in rmnt/rpnt scriptlets
• Apply response filtering according to mime type
• Add t/f to set-cookie (by @ryanbr)
• Have urltransform= use the same syntax as replace=
• Implement network filter option replace= (Firefox only because filterResponseData)
• Prevent evaluating the SNFE until fully loaded
• Add support for differential update of filter lists

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