Adblock Plus and (a little) more
Heads Up: A new way to keep up with Adblock Plus releases! · 2024-10-23 15:20 by Jens Rösler
We are changing the way we share extension updates with you. From now on, we won’t be posting individual release announcements on the blog for every new version. But don’t worry, you won’t miss a thing!
Adblock Plus 4.8 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2024-10-15 13:49 by Thomas Greiner
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Note: Due to third-party store review policies, it may take a while until the update is made available to everyone.
The highlights of this release is that the popup allowlisting button now does 7
day smart allowlisting. It also contains a potential fix for a bug where some
users are reporting no longer having any subscriptions.
Changes
- We no longer test the MV2 build of our extensions on Chrome 129 and later, since it disables MV2 extensions by defaults.
- Enable user counting functionality
- Updated snippets to 1.6.0
- Upgraded to SDK version 1.15.0
- Updated snippets to 1.7.0
- Changed popup allowlist behaviour to 7 days smart allowlist (EXT-339)
- Attempt to fix issue when no subscriptions are enabled (due to corrupted data), restoring to default subscriptions (EXT-375)
Adblock Plus 4.7.1 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2024-09-24 17:00 by Thomas Greiner
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Note: Due to third-party store review policies, it may take a while until the update is made available to everyone.
This release contains only minor updates and under-the-hood changes.
Adblock Plus 4.7 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2024-09-11 11:49 by Alexandru Mihai
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Updated snippets version and minor improvements.
Changes
- Upgraded to SDK version 1.12.0
- Updated snippets to 1.5.0
Adblock Plus 4.6 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2024-08-27 13:14 by Ursa Kacar
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This release updates snippets and brings some under the hood changes and smaller improvements to the extension.
Changes
- Updated list of partners for web APIs
Snippets changes
- Unified the logic to proxy the fetch API, preventing strip-fetch-query-parameter and replace-fetch-response from interfering with each other
- Removed redundant debugLogs in skip-video
- Added to all success debugLogs the snippet name and the passed arguments, so that every success debugLog shows the filter that worked
- Improved the logic that checks whether pseudo elements are visible for hide-if-contains-visible-text
- Improved json-prune: now it can handle both arrays and nested objects with a placeholderNotes for filter developers
Adblock Plus 4.5.1 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2024-08-13 16:28 by Thomas Greiner
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This release contains only minor updates and under-the-hood changes.
Adblock Plus 4.5 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2024-07-30 17:22 by Brent Montrose
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This release adds support for Sentry remote logging, Smart Allowlisting, and One Click Allowlisting with Filters expiration.
User interface changes
- Added support for sending background page errors to Sentry.
- Fixed: Auto open the update campaign for FF users.
Filter changes
Upgraded EWE to 1.10.0 (release notes: 1.10.0), which includes the following changes:
- Added support for Smart Allowlisting.
- Added support for One Click Allowlisting with Filters expiration.
- Added an opt-out mechanism for the user counting telemetry.
- Fixed: Attempting to add a filter that has already been added no longer throws an error.
Adblock Plus 4.4 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2024-07-16 14:30 by Rowan Deysel
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New snippets, more blocked info, in product messaging fixes.
Changes
- Updated extension description
- Fix: Inject IPM-related script on document_start, not _end
- Upgraded @eyeo/snippets to 1.4.0 (release notes)
- Add number of blocked requests to injection info (abp#1640)
Adblock Plus 4.3 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2024-07-02 13:12 by Ursa Kacar
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This release includes a notification to our Firefox users about recent changes about updates to the extension, improvements to our IPM system, support for CDP functionality and the latest webext engine version
Latest changes
- Auto open the update campaign for FF users (EE-680)
- Updated the extension engine dependency to 1.8.0 (EE-632)
- Support CDP functionality (EE-632)
- Add special handling to allowlisting API for Softonic domains (EE-625, RL-181)
- Fix regression introduced by node-fetch upgrade (EE-630)
- Added further filter list diff update error messages (abp#1678)
- Introduce IPM delete command (abp#1540)
Adblock Plus 4.2 for Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera · 2024-06-11 15:12 by Dorel Gabor
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This release introduces support for showing premium features in the pop-up menu. MR