0.8.8.0

[Release notes salvaged from https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.8.0]

Changes & enhancements

Safari

Important (though minor) improvements in request capturing(gorhill/uBlock@d2cc20e)

• Bonus: out-of-the-box support for HTML5 twitch.tv (some users may need to disable Flash to get the HTML5 player)

Core

All dynamic rules are temporary by default: Click the padlock if you want to persist the ruleset for a specific web site.

• The padlock will be visible if and only if there is at least one temporary rule in the pane
• This is really the optimal way to use dynamic filtering, as using this feature is often a matter of trial and error
• This prevents ruleset pollution: your ruleset will be only those which you will have explicitly persisted
• If you Ctrl-click to set/unset a rule, it will be immediately persisted (command ⌘-click on Mac)

µBlock's power button's color is now 450nm-blue-LED: green could lead to confusion given that in the dynamic filtering pane, green is used to denote that network requests won't be blocked.

The assets auto-updater has been rewritten, to work in a more gentle and discrete way

• Assets which need to be updated will be fetch one by one in the background, with a good delay between each fetch (this prevents large peak in memory and network bandwidth usage)
• Once all assets have been updated, they will then all be reloaded using their locally cached copies
• The optimal way to update assets in µBlock is to let auto-update do the job: it is more gentle on resources locally and also more gentle to remote servers

Closed as fixed

Firefox

• [Firefox] Some embedded youtube videos do not work without a global noop rule for youtube
• [Firefox] Popup issues

Safari

• [Safari] Blob: type is included in 3rd party list, even though the path is first party
• [Safari] can't access ublock prefs on fav page

Core

• Could not remove pcbeta's ads
• Domains Connected Count is incorrect
• Malware domains long-lived no longer necessary?
• Support importing RequestPolicy export files
• Reload button on the popup isn't disappearing on internal pages
• Power button should not be green
• Make a preference temporary for just this session
• Element picker can pick its own elements
• When updating, wait for update to complete before discarding memory used by previous filters

0.8.7.0

[Release notes salvaged from https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.7.0]

Closed as fixed:

Firefox:

• [Firefox] Context menu item capitalization

Safari:

• [Safari] Performance and efficiency improvements
• [Safari] Turning off uBlock for domain doesn't make the site load properly, disabling uBlock does
• [Safari] Don't be lenient stopping XHR requests
• [Safari] µBlock breaks when toolbar icon is hidden
• [Safari] Remove site-patch injection at the expense of blocking YouTube Flash ads
• [Safari] Resolve most commonly occurring exception in background page

Core:

• [Regression #665] uBlock 0.8.7.0-dev.5 breaks website
• [Regression #665] 3rd-party filters settings behavior is inconsistent
• Filter list when site inaccessible is not kept
• [Regression #682] "Connected to x distinct domain(s) out of y" gone in 0.8.7.0
  • The statistic has moved to the main pane: Quick guide: popup user interface
• whitelisted stuff in the Romanian List?
• Dynamic filtering's default-deny is unusable
  • This makes µBlock a complete alternative to RequestPolicy
• Cosmetic filtering should be disabled if page is under dynamic filtering allow rule
• contentscript-end.js: remove overhead of short-lived function expression
• Support * * * [action] for dynamic filtering
• µBlock fail, ABP ok
  • One part of the whole issue is fixed. The other part is duplicate of issue #498.
• Can't open datacenter.biathlonresults.com, jQuery was not found
• Element picker's textarea messed up on http://dailycaller.com/
• Create a basic web page to test various net and cosmetic filters at a glance
  • It's there: http://raymondhill.net/ublock/tests.html

0.8.6.0

[Release notes salvaged from https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.6.0]

New:

• Bulgarian translation by antonpenev, avp3000, ecogiko, vladev
  • Found out today that work on this translation had been started since late December and I had missed it: sorry about this
• Korean translation by delightbot
• Latvian translation by 7nolans, spitaligais
• Persian translation by omid3098

Closed as fixed:

Chromium:

• [Chromium] Sometimes web pages may not be cleaned up properly after launch
  • Somehow nobody complained of this regression bug, which probably manifested not that often when µBlock loaded from a selfie
• [Chromium] Chromium bypassing uBlock through behind-the-scene requests
  • [Working on documentation: for now look into request logger drop down list]
  • Behind-the-scene requests can only be filtered if "advanced user" mode is enabled -- though you can examine them in the request logger regardless of mode

Firefox:

• [Firefox] Popup blocker incorrectly closes user clicked window

Safari:

• [Safari] Fix YouTube ClickToPlugin conflict
• [Safari] Big fixes to Safari vAPI stuff
• [Safari] Turning off uBlock for domain doesn't make the site load properly, disabling uBlock does
• [Safari] Safari Extension Gallery

Core:

• [Core] Element picker (nth-child usage)
• [Core] host name not displayed in dynamic filtering frame, when inline-scripting is active..
• [Core] dynamic-net-filtering.js length typos
• [Core] Filters with multiple negated request types
• [Core] Support regular expression-based network filters
  • I just got tired of the suspiciously often-repeated fallacy that uBlock was more efficient because it didn't support regular expression-based filters (only 15 of them in all of EasyList...)
  • µBlock-specific documentation for regex-based filters
• [Core] Romanian list
• [Core] Move µBlock.transposeType() to Chromium's platform-specific code
• [Core] Feature Request: allow µBlock to run on chrome:// urls
  • µBlock is now active regardless of what URL is present in the address bar. For non-HTTP-like URLs, µBlock will create and use a synthetic URL internally, so that these non-standard URLs (about:config, chrome://settings, file:///..., etc.) can be whitelisted and have their own dynamic filtering rules.
  • As far as I can tell this is fully functional for Chromium. There is probably platform-specific code in need of work to have the same feature for Firefox, Safari.

Notes:

• Lots of work from volunteer translators imported from Crowdin

0.8.5.7

[Release notes salvaged from https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.5.7]

Changes:

Local mirroring^[1] has been taken out for the time being. Too many issues which requires non-trivial fixes, while for now I prefer more to spend time on polishing, performance and overall stability.

_{[1] Available when "Experimental features" was enabled.}

Closed as fixed:

• [Firefox] Element picker: pressing escape to exit

0.8.5.6

[Release notes salvaged from https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.5.6]

Closed as fixed

• Images fails to load on solarmovie.so for first time

0.8.5.5

[Release notes salvaged from https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.5.5]

Closed as fixed:

• uBlock doesn't show a blocked request on the request log
  • This was a serious bug: inline script tags could be spuriously disabled for a page. I am completely unsure how much it affected users.
• When downloading a file from any site, uBlock "forgets" the current page
• Safari version publicly available + add developer identifier
• When downloading a file from any site, uBlock "forgets" the current page
• Local mirroring broken
• Remove Chromium-specific language from description
• No indication for locally mirrored resources in the network log

0.8.5.4-beta.0

[Release notes salvaged from https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.5.4-beta.0]

New:

Firefox version.

@Deathamns' notes concerning the Firefox version:

Notes for an official release / things that aren't working well:

For many resources the Firefox version will report double hits on the badge of the toolbar button or in the network log. This is a Firefox thing, and probably this issue is related.

The badge doesn't look good on different systems (OS X for example, see above).
It should look okay for those who use Firefox 36+, but even there moving the toolbar button to the menu-panel may mess it up (both the badge and the menu-panel).

The badge number disappears when navigating through bfcache.

If the current extension ID will not be changed, and custom update URL won't be specified for the pre-release, then once the extension will be sent to AMO, everyone will be automatically updated to that version.

Pop-up blocking is not thoroughly tested. I basically made a few random examples for myself, and only tested those.

I removed my ports/xpi branch, since the code has been pushed to the main project. If you had install scripts, then update their URLs.

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Closed as fixed:

• The blocking of inline javascript does not propagate to frames
• No dir property on the textarea in My Rules tab
• malwaredomains.com
  • µBlock won't fetch the lists from malwaredomains.com, apparently this was causing too high traffic to the server. The lists will be strictly mirrored on Github, and I will update less frequently in order to stay in good standing with Github.
• <style> visibly inserted into XML
• Are you planning on releasing a Firefox port?

0.8.5.3

[Release notes salvaged from https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.5.3]

Closed as fixed:

• Disabling uBlock for this page/site doesn't work anymore
  • µBlock would still apply cosmetic filtering to a whitelisted page

uBlock.chromium_0.8.5.3.zip:

• MD5: 3f1bf48381063476ead9c2c3e09af660
• SHA1: 719e39b9d665f7645e8657d918a137db6d6fc756

0.8.5.2

[Release notes salvaged from https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.5.2]

Changes:

• Pretty much just like 0.8.5.1, but with some more translation work imported from Crowdin.
• This version was submitted to the Opera store.

uBlock.chromium_0.8.5.2.zip:

• MD5: 672ec947747e8ab92aa8cb91ec8bacb2
• SHA1: 33421980accf23a825a7c91cd3dc6c49054e4dbb

0.8.5.1

[Release notes salvaged from https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.8.5.1]

Closed as fixed:

• Blank domain row in Dynamic Filtering table
• Can't click on some Dynamic Filtering domain rows with Torch browser
  • Thanks to @Deathamns for finding the problem

uBlock.chromium_0.8.5.1.zip:

• MD5: d8d07244424526761ea3d4dc23c3902c
• SHA1: 282fa8c9f1e19fef184e43ba39963d0b75df8802