gorhill / uBlock

Commits to master since this release

To install the stable build:

• Firefox: Click uBlock0_1.29.2.firefox.signed.xpi
  • uBO works best on Firefox.
• Chromium: Install from the Chrome store (CWS): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm
  • For Chromium version 54 and older, it is necessary to enable "Experimental JavaScript" at chrome://flags/#enable-javascript-harmony.
• Edge: Install from Microsoft Store: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/odfafepnkmbhccpbejgmiehpchacaeak
  • The Microsoft Store version of uBO is published by Nik Rolls
• Opera: Install from Opera addons: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/ublock/

Fixes:

• Add argument to nowoif scriptlet
• Fix regression in set-constant scriptlet

Commits to master since this release

To install the stable build:

• Firefox: Click uBlock0_1.29.0.firefox.signed.xpi
  • uBO works best on Firefox.
• Chromium: Install from the Chrome store (CWS): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm
  • For Chromium version 54 and older, it is necessary to enable "Experimental JavaScript" at chrome://flags/#enable-javascript-harmony.
• Edge: Install from Microsoft Store: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/odfafepnkmbhccpbejgmiehpchacaeak
  • The Microsoft Store version of uBO is published by Nik Rolls
• Opera: Install from Opera addons: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/ublock/

Closed as fixed:

Chromium

• Performance regression in rendering of dashboard pane

Firefox

• Open tabs can be closed when opening a webpage from about:newtab

Core

• Use ISO8061 dates in user filter comments
• Support new Chromium based Edge in pre-parsing directives
• Do not triggers strict blocking for wildcard-only patterns
• Improve/refine syntax highlighter, specifically:
  • Fix properly reporting invalid filter options
  • Add syntax highlighting/auto-completion for preparsing directives
  • Add CoreMirror's code-folding ability to list editor/viewer
• Reverse lookup fails for filter of type example.com##*
• New filter parser creates unexpected network filter from malformed cosmetic filter
• Avoid loading "!#include" filepaths that are wrapped into "!#if" tags that exclude the browser's environment
• Use "Trusted sites" instead of "Whitelist"
• Element picker suggests unhelpful network rule
• Logger shows names of scriptlet as different ones if short-hand is used
• A problem with cyrillic characters
• Adding csp to logger's filter expression picker
• Cosmetic filters in about:blank iframe
• Adguard French filter
• Can't use set-constant.js multiple times for same parent property

Notable commits with no entry in issue tracker:

• Remove experimental click-to-load disqus scriptlets
• Improve annotations for search operations in CodeMirror editor
• Consolidate filter list reverse lookup code into a single file
• Allow :upward() operator to select html element
• Instantiate procedural filterer instance on demand only
• Deprecate pseudo user styles code
• Mind discarded status of tabs when internally handling them
• Do not let grow subframe dictionary grow unbound
• Consider an empty pattern with anchors to be dubious
• Add static filter parser checklist
• Fix highligthing of FQDN match in logger
• Add support to compare delay against literal Number.NaN in nossif/nostif

Commits to master since this release

To install the stable build:

• Firefox: Click uBlock0_1.28.4.firefox.signed.xpi
  • uBO works best on Firefox.
• Chromium: Install from the Chrome store (CWS): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm
  • For Chromium version 54 and older, it is necessary to enable "Experimental JavaScript" at chrome://flags/#enable-javascript-harmony.
• Edge: Install from Microsoft Store: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/odfafepnkmbhccpbejgmiehpchacaeak
  • The Microsoft Store version of uBO is published by Nik Rolls
• Opera: Install from Opera addons: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/ublock/

Closed as fixed:

• Add cdn.jsdelivr.net mirror for urlhaus blocklist
• Remove repo.or.cz from list of CDNs for urlhaus blocklist
• Fix spurious rejection of some AdGuard redirect filters
• Fix the reporting of invalid static extended filters in the logger
• Fix improper rejecting fitlers with $all,~document options

Commits to master since this release

To install the stable build:

• Firefox: Click uBlock0_1.28.2.firefox.signed.xpi
  • uBO works best on Firefox.
• Chromium: Install from the Chrome store (CWS): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm
  • For Chromium version 54 and older, it is necessary to enable "Experimental JavaScript" at chrome://flags/#enable-javascript-harmony.
• Edge: Install from Microsoft Store: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/odfafepnkmbhccpbejgmiehpchacaeak
  • The Microsoft Store version of uBO is published by Nik Rolls
• Opera: Install from Opera addons: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/ublock/

Changes:

Both stock malware domain lists, which are enabled by default in uBO, have been replaced by URLhaus Malicious URL blocklist, which is now enabled by default in uBO.

For existing installations, both removed malware lists will be moved to the Custom section if you still have them enabled. It is recommended you remove these lists from your Custom lists -- only you can do this, uBO does not remove lists which are currently enabled. It may take a few days before you are updated with the new default stock lists.

Closed as fixed:

• Remove Malware Domain List
  • Remove Malware domains
  • Remove Malware Domain List

Commits to master since this release

To install the stable build:

• Firefox: Click uBlock0_1.28.0.firefox.signed.xpi
  • uBO works best on Firefox.
• Chromium: Install from the Chrome store (CWS): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm
  • For Chromium version 54 and older, it is necessary to enable "Experimental JavaScript" at chrome://flags/#enable-javascript-harmony.
• Edge: Install from Microsoft Store: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/odfafepnkmbhccpbejgmiehpchacaeak
  • The Microsoft Store version of uBO is published by Nik Rolls
• Opera: Install from Opera addons: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/ublock/

Changes:

"My filters" pane

Improved syntax highlighting of static filters in "My filters" and asset viewer. Additionally, in "My filters":

• Ability to toggle commenting out of filter(s) by pressing the Tab key
• Auto-completion using Ctrl-Space, this works for:
  • Static filter options
  • Resource names for redirect= option
  • Procedural operators for cosmetic/HTML filters
  • Scriptlet names for ##+js filters

Static extended filter syntax

##script:inject(...), which has been deprecated in favor of ##+js(...) for more than two years, is no longer supported. Similarly, ##script:contains(...) which has been deprecated in favor of ##^script:has-text(...) is no longer supported.

Dynamic filtering

You can skip this section if you didn't opt-in to "I am an advanced user" or you are otherwise not a user of dynamic filtering.

It's no longer possible to point-and-click to create allow (green) rules from within the popup panel by default. This change is motivated by seeing way too many cases of improper usage of dynamic filtering in which users are creating allow (green) rules where noop (gray) rules should have been used.

Creating allow rules has serious consequences as these override blocking static filters and can potentially disable other advanced filtering ability such as HTML filtering and scriptlet injection -- often used to deal with anti-blocker mechanisms; to the point where misusing allow rules can easily cause a user to be less protected than when using uBO with default settings/lists.

Here are typical cases of misuse out of countless I have seen in the wild, including many of them being presented as a reference solution while they actually made things worst. Very recently I even had to correct a technical blog post telling people to use allow rules to override block rules, with no mention of noop rules -- which are the default way to override block rules, while allow rules are to be used in rare, exceptional circumstances. For reference, after years using medium/hard mode, I still have zero allow rules in my permanent ruleset.

You can get back temporarily the ability to create allow rules from within the popup panel by tapping twice the Ctrl key. In some browser versions^[1], double-tapping the Ctrl key does not work, in such case you can recover the ability to create allow rules by changing the advanced setting filterAuthorMode to true.

[1] Tor Browser; Firefox with privacy.resistFingerprinting set to true.

Closed as fixed:

Chromium 65

• Broken popup panel in Chromium 65

Chromium

• Use default_public_interface_only in Chromium-based browsers

Core

• Cookie-remover.js does not remove a cookie
• A possibility of using default system fonts for uBlock Origin?
• Some RegExp filters are not parsed properly
• Add support for entity-matching in domain= filter option

Notable commits with no entry in issue tracker:

• Fix edge case involving filter with a single wildcard
• Add support for wildcard/array in json-prune
• Fix matching of filters with trailing ^|
• Make the creation of allow rules in panel an opt-in feature
• Add ability to lock firewall height to basic pane height
• Fix uselessly allocating one extra WASM page
• Replace FilterPlainHostname with composite filter

Commits to master since this release

To install the stable build:

• Firefox: Click uBlock0_1.27.10.firefox.signed.xpi
  • uBO works best on Firefox.
• Chromium: Install from the Chrome store (CWS): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm
  • For Chromium version 54 and older, it is necessary to enable "Experimental JavaScript" at chrome://flags/#enable-javascript-harmony.
• Edge: Install from Microsoft Store: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/odfafepnkmbhccpbejgmiehpchacaeak
  • The Microsoft Store version of uBO is published by Nik Rolls
• Opera: Install from Opera addons: https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/ublock/

Closed as fixed:

• Soft hyphens in language files