AdguardTeam/AdguardForWindows v8.0.0-beta-6

8.0 beta 6

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Disclaimer AdGuard for Windows is not an open-source project. We use Github as an open bug tracker for users to see what developers are working on.

Beta 6 focuses on squashing bugs and optimizing performance, bringing us another step closer to the official v8.0 release.

A huge thank you to everyone sending in bug reports — your feedback is exactly what helps us polish the app.

Changelog

Fixes

• The settings screen is blank after updating from v7.22.6 to a beta or nightly version #5920
• High CPU and memory usage #5754
• App crashes while scrolling through the Protection section #5878
• The Adguard service causes high CPU usage and writes huge data into logs #5902
• Block trackers and Remove tracking parameters from URLs toggles stay disabled after reenabling Tracking protection #5713
• After updating to the latest Nightly build, the Safe Browsing database cannot be updated #5972
• Browser Assistant shows Edge as the default browser instead of Firefox #5867
• The UI exhibits instability when managing rules in a long scrollable list #5638
• Custom DNS servers do not show up in the custom servers list after reinstalling the app and importing settings #5874
• AdGuard causes excessive disk writes #5781
• SockFilter driver prevents traffic filtering on websites #5935
• Language-specific filters don’t activate automatically when language-specific ad blocking is enabled #5890
• User rules cannot be deleted and duplicates are created #5882
• AdGuard 8 Nightly crashes with an AccessViolationException during system shutdown via Alt+F4 #5941
• Changelog is not displayed during the update #5901
• Update fails with exit code 1638 #5886
• Language-specific ad blocking filters disable randomly #5811
• AdGuard duplicates user rules multiple times #5800

Sciter (UI engine)

• Sciter updated to v1.0.1150 #5959

CoreLibs (filtering engine)

• CoreLibs updated to v1.21.38 #5956

Improvements

• The Do Not Track feature no longer injects DNT headers into browsers that do not support them #1982
• AdGuard intercepts local.adguard.org queries locally to prevent leaking #1854
• HTTP/3 filtering is enabled by default for stable versions #2015

Fixes

• High latency (~400ms) in QUIC/HTTP/3 filtering causing protocol fallback to HTTP/2 #2062

Scriptlets (JavaScript enhancement for filtering rules)

• Scriptlets updated to v2.2.16

Improvements

• Added a new prevent-constructor scriptlet #461
• Added a new prevent-navigation scriptlet #532
• Added a new remove-request-query-parameter scriptlet #329
• prevent-addEventListener — added a new optional parameter to control addEventListener overriding #550
• prevent-xhr — set responseURL on state 2 and skip first state if onreadystatechange was declared after open call #485
• trusted-create-element — added Trusted Types API support #507
• trusted-replace-xhr-response and prevent-xhr — randomized internal properties of thisArg.shouldBePrevented #386
• Added Trusted Types API support for Firefox #528

Fixes

• set-constant and trusted-set-constant — incorrect stack trace matching #500
• spoof-css — the mocked function is detected at t.hi098123.com #422
• trusted-click-element — Cloudflare captcha is broken when the >>> combinator is used #491
• trusted-suppress-native-method — grouping in the Regexp matcher does not work correctly #473
• xml-prune, trusted-replace-fetch-response, trusted-replace-xhr-response — improper XHR credentials and event handling #486

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