clear-urls-browser-extension/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[1.17.0] - 2020-04-14

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Changed

• Updated some strings of Spanish translation
• Updated some strings of French translation
• Updated some strings of Italian translation
• Updated some strings of Russian translation
• Updated some strings of Swedish translation
• Updated some strings of Turkish translation
• Updated some strings of Ukrainian translation
• Updated some strings of Chinese Simple translation

Fixed

• Fixed a typo in the path to the Datatables JavaScript file
• Fixed #445
• Fixed #462

Added

• Added check for setBadgeTextColor function (only supported in Firefox)

Removed

• Removed browser-polyfill content script import (seems no longer needed)
• Removed old applications value

[1.16.0] - 2020-03-20

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Added

• Added ETag header filtering #362, #440. Hint: Cache must be cleared before first use, to delete the already existing ETags.

Fixed

• Fixed spontaneous disappearance of the badged
• Fixed wrong counting of blocked elements (too little was ;D)

Changed

• Updated all translation
• Changed badged font color to #FFFFFF
• Changed watchdog behavior as follows #428, #431, #429:
  • Increased watchdog interval to 60 seconds
  • Executed watchdog only if ClearURLs is also active
  • Watchdog restarts ClearURLs at most 3 times and only if ClearURLs has rules
• Changed behavior of downloading rules #428, #431, #429:
  • If download of hash file fails and no local rules are available, then ClearURLs displays hash_status_code_5 and deactivates itself
  • If download of rules file fails and no local rules are available, then ClearURLs displays hash_status_code_5 and deactivates itself

[1.15.0] - 2020-02-16

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Changed

• Updated Italian translation by @gioxx

[1.14.0] - 2020-02-01

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Changed

• Changed icon

[1.13.0] - 2020-02-01

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Changed

• Updated some strings of French translation by lucifer

[1.12.0] - 2020-01-29

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Changed

• Updated Russian translation by elfriob
• Updated Spanish translation by @socram

[1.11.0] - 2020-01-06

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Added

• Added hyperlink auditing blocking #184
• Added yandex link fix script, to avoid URL tracking #305

[1.10.0] - 2020-01-03

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Changed

• Updated to Bootstrap 4.3.1
• Updated to jQuery 3.4.1
• Updated to DataTables 1.10.20
• Deleted unnecessary Bootstrap Dialog lib
• Replaced pick-a-color with bootstrap-colorpicker 3.2.0
• Minor corrections on english translation by @Sopor
• Replaced glyphicons with fontawesome 5.12.0

Added

• Added popper.js 1.16.0
• Added Swedish translation by @Sopor

Fixed

• Fixed #338
• Fixed #333
• Fixed #332
• Fixed #307
• Maybe #315 fixed

[1.9.5] - 2019-12-17

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Added

• Added Turkish translation by Ulaş Çakmak

Changed

• Updated some strings of French translation by lucifer

Fixed

• Fixed problem with default RegExp

[1.9.4] - 2019-11-24

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Fixed

• Fixed toolbar icon on startup #102

Added

• Added option to disable/allow domain blocking #294

Changed

• Some refactoring

[1.9.3.1] - 2019-11-15

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Changed

• Changed data and hash URL to GitLab Pages, to prevent hitting the GitLab infrastructure directly #295.

[1.9.3] - 2019-11-15

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Fixed

• Fixed wrong initial rules URL

[1.9.2] - 2019-11-09

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Fixed

• Fixed #290

Changed

• Updated some strings of Italian translation by @gioxx

Added

• Added a minimal version of the data.min.json file where all line breaks and spaces, as well as default values and empty lists are removed.

[1.9.1] - 2019-10-24

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Fixed

• Fixed badged in quiet mode

Added

• Added Italian translation by @gioxx

[1.9.0] - 2019-10-22

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Fixed

• Fixed bug in "history tracking injection protection". This option was not disabled, when the global filter switch are on off
• Fixed #241
• Possible fix for #203

Changed

• Refactoring
• Changed background script loading sequence to prevent that required functions are not yet loaded.

Added

• Added an option to im-/export the log (requires the downloads permission)
• Added an option to im-/export the settings (requires the downloads permission)
• Added information page for blocked sites, when they are called in the main_frame
• Added option to allow referral marketing (#284)
• Added "multiple times URL encodes" recognition
• Added an option to limit the log entries (#56)

[1.8.5] - 2019-09-29

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Fixed

• Fixed #264
• Fixed #262
• Fixed #267

[1.8.4] - 2019-09-26

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Changed

• Force redirects only on main frames
• Added google link fix script, to avoid the sub frame permission for force redirection on google

[1.8.3] - 2019-09-23

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Fixed

• Fixed OR case

[1.8.2] - 2019-09-23

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Changed

• Only redirects, if request is of type main or sub frame to prevent security issues on automatically loaded ressource like images

Fixed

• Fixed #253
• Fixed #254

[1.8.1] - 2019-09-12

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Changed

• Improvements on check for android systems (#206)
• Improvements on storage. Away with periodic save of in-memory data to storage. Instead save when there are actual changes by @tartpvule in (!47)

[1.8.0] - 2019-09-11

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Added

• Added default option to skip URLs with a host in a local range

Fixed

• Fixed #238
• Fixed wrong count on cleaning tool (forgot to count also the total amount of elements at cleaning tool)

Changed

• Improvements on check for android systems (#206)

[1.7.4] - 2019-09-06

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Added

• Added Hungarian translations by @ztoldy2

[1.7.3] - 2019-08-07

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Changed

• Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation by Ramon S.

[1.7.2] - 2019-08-07

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Changed

• Updated japanese translation by @Shitennouji

[1.7.1] - 2019-08-04

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Added

• Added new setting to data.min.json to set if redirects should be enforced via a "tabs.update" (#221)
• Added #220
• Added #218

Fixed

• Fixed YouTube ad redirection bug (#221)
• Fixed #217

[1.7.0] - 2019-07-30

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Added

• Added support for raw rules to cleaning also parts from URL-path

Fixed

• Fixed misspelling in german translation

[1.6.9] - 2019-07-29

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Fixed

• Fixed error in fields RegExp

[1.6.8] - 2019-07-28

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Changed

• Improvements on check for android systems (#206)

Fixed

• #205

[1.6.7] - 2019-07-25

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Fixed

• #175 by @yukulele
• #196
• #204

[1.6.6] - 2019-06-14

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Fixed

• #171
• #195

[1.6.5] - 2019-06-12

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Added

• Added support for fragment cleaning

Fixed

• #171
• #191
• #192
• #193
• #194

[1.6.4] - 2019-05-07

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Added

• Added Polish translation by @alekksander

[1.6.3] - 2019-05-06

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Added

• Added redirection from #181

Changed

• Update french translation by @hydrargyrum
• Update chinese translation

[1.6.2] - 2019-04-26

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Added

• Added rules from #172
• Added rules from #176
• Added rules from #178

Fixed

• #170
• #162
• #163

[1.6.1] - 2019-04-14

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 22

Changed

• Chinese translations by @yipinghuang
• French translations

[1.6] - 2019-04-11

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 28

Added

• Added listener to the browser history to prevent tracking with the history.pushState method
• Added webNavigation and tabs permissions, for the new feature
• Added switches in settings to enable and disable the context menu entry and the history listener
• Added tool to clean URLs, that was pasted into a textbox
• Added icon for new tool to clean URLs

Fixed

• #40, see also https://curl.kevinroebert.de
• #103, see also https://curl.kevinroebert.de

Changed

• Changed clipboard-helper.js path to be absolute to prevent problems
• Changed rewrite of old GitHub links to the new data.min.json and rules.min.hash
• Config icon is now bigger and above the config label
• Update Traditional Chinese Translation by @yipinghuang

[1.5.8] - 2019-04-10

Compatibility note

• Require Firefox >= 55
• Require Chrome >= 28

Added

• Added context menu entry, to clean and copy links into clipboard

[1.5.4] - 2019-04-08

Fixed

• Changed icon format from svg into png to support Chrome

[1.5.3] - 2019-04-03

Removed

• Removed the tab permission, because it is not required for all used methods on the tabs api

[1.5.2] - 2019-04-01

Added

• Added new screenshots of the ClearURLs popup

Changed

• Replaced webextension-polyfill v.0.3.1 with the new version v0.4.0
• Updated the Chrome version of ClearURLs to the newest version
• Changed ClearURLs to support both Firefox and Chrome, without generating every time to different source codes
• Changed the GitLab-CI to build the Chrome version automatically from the Firefox version
• Replaced the old screenshots in the README with new ones

Removed

• Removed the old ClearURLs Chrome version

[1.5.1.6a] - 2019-03-27

Fixed

• Added own flat function and a function that removes empty fields from arrays to support Waterfox

[1.5.1.5a] - 2019-03-18

Fixed

• Bugfix to support Android devices again

[1.5.1a] - 2019-03-14

Added

• Added unlimitedStorage permissions to prevent storage restrictions (which will come in future versions of firefox) and to have enough space for user generated rules

Changed

• Changed the regex interpretation for better performance

[1.5a] - 2019-03-14

Added

• New rules file data.min.json that is a minimized version of the old one
• New technique to get data from the local storage
• The command pattern has been implemented so that ClearURLs also works in private mode
• Automatically generating hash for data.min.json file with GitLab-CI
• Add start and end delimiters to rules
• Preparations for costume rules

Changed

• Storage improvements, better performance
• Splitted core file into multiple pieces for better overview
• Minimize rules length

Fixed

• #124

Removed

• Warning in private mode (no longer necessary)
• Removed Report URL function

[1.3.4.2] - 2019-02-01

Changed

• Updated Ukrainian translation from @a-polivanchuk

[1.3.4.0] - 2018-10-08

Added

• Added more request types, as proposed in #106

Updated

• Updated french translation