Release notes from uMatrix

1.4.4

2021-07-20T11:06:58Z

Commits to master since this release.
Commits since 1.4.2.

Fixes

1.4.3b0

2021-07-19T16:01:08Z

Commits to master since this release

To install the dev build for:

Firefox: click uMatrix_1.4.3b0.firefox.signed.xpi
Chromium: install the dev build version in the Chrome store.

The dev build will automatically update to a newer dev build when one becomes available.

New

Ability to reveal the canonical names of aliased hostnames. This is a per-scope setting:

The corresponding switch-based rule is:

cname-reveal: [scope] true

By default, the rule cname-reveal: * true is created in new installations of uMatrix. For existing installations, you will have to add it yourself if you want canonical names to be reported in the matrix everywhere by default. This new feature is supported only in Firefox.

1.4.2

2021-07-19T22:04:22Z

Commits to master since this release.
Commits since 1.4.0.

Fixes

Notes

This version has been submitted to the Chrome Web Store and is currently pending review. It is already available on AMO.

1.4.1b6

2020-02-24T21:26:28Z

Commits to master since this release

To install the dev build for:

Firefox: click uMatrix_1.4.1b6.firefox.signed.xpi
Chromium: install the dev build version in the Chrome store.

The dev build will automatically update to a newer dev build when one becomes available.

New

Ability to reveal the canonical names of aliased hostnames. This is a per-scope setting:

The corresponding switch-based rule is:

cname-reveal: [scope] true

1.4.1b5

2020-01-03T13:56:38Z

Commits to master since this release

To install the dev build for:

Firefox: click uMatrix_1.4.1b5.firefox.signed.xpi
Chromium: install the dev build version in the Chrome store.

The dev build will automatically update to a newer dev build when one becomes available.

New

Ability to reveal the canonical names of aliased hostnames. This is a per-scope setting:

The corresponding switch-based rule is:

cname-reveal: [scope] true

1.4.1b4

2020-01-01T16:50:45Z

Commits to master since this release

To install the dev build for:

Firefox: click uMatrix_1.4.1b4.firefox.signed.xpi
Chromium: install the dev build version in the Chrome store.

The dev build will automatically update to a newer dev build when one becomes available.

New

Ability to reveal the canonical names of aliased hostnames. This is a per-scope setting:

The corresponding switch-based rule is:

cname-reveal: [scope] true

1.4.0

2019-09-05T13:26:13Z

Commits to master since this release.

Changes

A new raw setting has been added: suspendTabsUntilReady. The purpose is exactly the same as the same setting in uBlock Origin, so you can refer to uBO's documentation. That setting is taken into account only with Chromium-based browsers, as Firefox is properly equipped to deal with network requests fired before uMatrix is ready.

Closed as fixed:

Chromium 72+

Cookies leaking temporarily

Core

Pull requests

Show placeholder for blocked frame elements by xofe
More unused code cleaning by rhendric
Cleaning by rhendric
Minor fixes by xofe

1.3.16

2019-02-07T12:49:33Z

Commits to master since this release

Changes

Icons

Little by little I will be migrating from font-based icons toward SVG-based icons. See uBlockOrigin/uMatrix-issues#68

Logger

The popup panel is now tab selector-bound (rather than logger entry-bound), i.e. it is associated with the tab currently selected.

There is a new UI to allow setting rules on a per logger entry basis (click the 3rd column): it is similar in look and use to the matrix UI, but it is minimalist: rules which are relevant only for the current entry in the logger are shown. [Note that I am having second thoughts about that new UI -- hence why I have held on releasing a new stable version, because it still does not give access to the per-scope switches. Ideally I should reuse the popup panel, but this will require refactoring work. However, I can't keep on holding forever a stable release, so for now this will be the solution for dealing with setting rules for tab-less network requests.]

Two columns have been added:

a column to provide the scope in which network requests are made;
a column to provide visual hint for the third-partyness of requests.

The visual to represent tab-less network requests has been modified. Tab-less network requests will now be represented with "curtains" in the 3rd column.

Closed as fixed:

Firefox

"Corrupted Content Error"
Logger not working in sidebar
When pasting multiple lines into the rules editor they are joined together in a single line
Is there a way to disable JavaScript in local file:// for firefox?
- The idea for the fix has been borrowed from NoScript: use a DOM-based <meta http-equiv=...> tag to inject CSP directives. This will apply only to documents fetched using file: scheme.
- The fix requires the API browser.contentScripts, which only Firefox supports.

Core

1.3.14

2018-08-27T12:28:03Z

Closed as fixed:

Firefox

uMatrix uses the false domain 1.wyciwyg-scheme instead of the real one
- uMatrix reports what the Firefox API reports to it: Firefox should be fixed to report seamlessly wyciwyg:// URLs so as to avoid forcing extensions to deal with such URLs, which should be strictly for internal consumption by Firefox.
- Until the issue is fixed in Firefox (if ever), a workaround in uMatrix has been implemented in order to deal with such URLs in a seamless manner in its UI.
- Those URLs still cause quirks however: for example forcing a reload won't work. This is not a uMatrix issue, even Firefox's reload button does not work in such case. The workaround is to click the address bar as if to edit the current URL and press Enter to force a reload.

Core

My rules tab hangs with cloud storage support

1.3.12

2018-07-17T14:05:51Z

Closed as fixed:

Placeholder iframe not shown on particular site using Firefox