Releases: gorhill/uBlock
0.8.5.0
[Release notes salvaged from https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.5.0]
Changes:
- Revamped dynamic filtering -- more power to the user (see some details in #433)
- Users have the last word over what if blocked/allowed
- Useful to:
- Un-break web sites without having to completely turn off µBlock
- [more examples of useful usage]
- New network request logger
- Network requests are logged in real-time
- The network request log is no longer a tab in the dashboard, it is its own browser tab
- Typically you will want to detach the logger's browser tab in order to get a separate window
- No more switch to turn on the logging of network requests
- if a logger is opened, requests will be logged
- if a logger is closed, requests won't be logged, and whatever was logged is flushed from memory
- Allows µBlock to use memory more efficiently: network requests are logged if and only if they are being observed, while before they were logged unconditionally for every single tab (when logging was enabled)
- The network request logger has been written with efficiency in mind: there is very little overhead when using it
- Reorganized dashboard:
- The Settings tab is now the default one
- An "I am an advanced user" setting in the Settings tab
- The Statistics tab is gone
- A new "My rules" tab, from where you can see/edit your dynamic filtering rules
- The back up/restore/reset buttons have moved from the About tab to the Settings tab
- Ability to force-refresh the web page through the popup UI
- Especially useful when using dynamic filtering, as one can check the effect of dynamic filter configuration on a page without having to quit the popup menu
- This can sort of mitigate Chromium's memory leak since you can now refresh the page without having to quit the popup, and further keep toggling filters to see their effects on the page
Closed as fixed:
- Expand/refactor dynamic filtering
- Unable to copy paste url from statistics window
- Click to unblock temporarily a frame
- A UI to see/edit dynamic filters in the "Your filters" tab in the dashboard
- Dynamic filtering: is the ability to filter 1st-party
iframe
really needed? - Support
elemhide
filter option
Notes:
- Keep in mind that with the new revamped dynamic filtering feature, repeated access to the popup UI of µBlock is more likely than before, and thus this means Chromium issue #441500 is becoming more and more crippling for advanced users of µBlock. Unfortunately, there is really nothing I can do.
- Starring the issue may help, not sure.
uBlock.chromium_0.8.5.0.zip:
- MD5:
09259708b0ae029b7f0b1733b5afeb45
- SHA1:
e9ca222cd3f011db71198f4133e9885a7f90956b
0.8.2.8
[Release notes salvaged from https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.2.8]
Changes:
- New language available: Catalan thanks to bahco on Crowdin
- "Fanboy's Social Blocking List" no longer selected by default for fresh installs
- Sorry for the fast pace of updates these last two days, just trying to be sure new users are having a good first experience with the extension
uBlock.chromium_0.8.2.8.zip:
- MD5:
225e7d56cf2da5fb5680708e9fad0111
- SHA1:
169024a2eff9dcf0d26680f79b426bcce2847c2e
0.8.2.7
[Release notes salvaged from https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.2.7]
Closed as fixed:
- Need a stale page store janitor: found entries with no tab counterparts
- In plain language, fixed potential memory leaks
uBlock.chromium_0.8.2.7.zip:
- MD5:
7b2442bd83f8915c832104b1d06a6003
- SHA1:
7b2990ef8d39dbf2aedfab62185123e24f4b045c
0.8.2.6
[Release notes salvaged from https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.2.6]
Closed as fixed:
- Disappearing Gmail Labels
- This was actually really a different bug than the one reported before -- though it exhibited the same symptoms here
- I consider the bug fixed here to be worst:
- Generally uBlock loads fast enough so that web pages are properly filtered when the browser is launched
- However, since it loads fast enough, this meant that content scripts were injected twice into already opened web pages when launching Chromium
- Content scripts are injected manually once uBlock has launched, because many users didn't like already opened web pages to have ads right after launching the browser
- So not only this affected launch performance, but this also caused some bad side effects into web page already opened at launch time
- Now uBlock's content scripts detect whether they are already injected, and bail out immediately if so
uBlock.chromium_0.8.2.6.zip:
- MD5:
2237d7407f1d394aa248482da4a35a2e
- SHA1:
5ff470d7e5bab63fde7e16cd8ae55f5459e530d1
0.8.2.5
[Release notes salvaged from https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.2.5]
Closed as fixed:
uBlock.chromium_0.8.2.5.zip:
- MD5:
884f5448e2b3b7d772b9700c0eac44ab
- SHA1:
988a45506e7d4d446703bbabd3bc17db6f717c33
0.8.2.4
[Release notes salvaged from https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.2.4]
Will release to the stores later today when I am confident there is no regression.
Closed as fixed:
- Github Issue
- 563 cosmetic filters in EasyList and 194 cosmetic filters in "Fanboy's Social Blocking List" were potentially affected by this bug: some DOM elements could unduly disappear from a page
- It appears that the filters found in "Fanboy's Social Blocking List" were the ones most likely to be affected by the bug (see #456)
- Cosmetic filter cache: convert watermark-based pruning trigger to time-based pruning trigger
- Concretely, this will make uBlock use memory in a more savvy way with regard to cosmetic filtering cache. It's a code area I had not revisited since the first commit.
Other changes:
- Improved performance of MD5 hash function
- JsPerf: MD5 Shootout
- The MD5 hash function is used when pulling resource from Github repo, to ensure integrity; and for local mirroring, to ensure mirror-able resources are cached only once.
uBlock.chromium_0.8.2.4.zip:
- MD5:
83ac9dc95b28fee768bd319cb8cb5aac
- SHA1:
c47f5ab43bfa993cd0bb45f3da8f547509273d8f
0.8.2.3
[Release notes salvaged from https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.2.3]
Changes:
- Put back
nb
as a target locale (along withno
).
uBlock.chromium_0.8.2.3.zip:
- MD5:
7e0b2737c251d0c12699c4a228fbd1ec
- SHA1:
f12685754b6f4f846790aa8d47d55f82b01b0ad0
0.8.2.2
[Release notes salvaged from https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.2.2]
Closed as fixed:
0.5.5.0
[Release notes salvaged from https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.5.5.0]
Closed as fixed:
- Exception in onBeforeRequest on
sodaplay.com/creators/soda/items/constructor
- This bug could in rare instances prevent net request filters from being blocked (or allowed in case of net request exception filters) for some net request URLs.
- Element picker overlay not covering the whole document for some web pages
- "Your Filters" should take precedence over 3rd-party filters
- New filter option:
important
, which means exception filters will be ignored - The
important
option applies only to block filters - Example:
||google-analytics.com^$important
= block Google Analytics, ignore all exceptions that could cancel this rule - The
important
option does not apply to exception filters, this ensures that nothing can override animportant
block rules: this guarantees that no external filter lists will have the ability to override your custom block rules marked asimportant
.
- New filter option: