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newmoon (32.0.0-1+stackrpms) obs; urgency=low
* New milestone release:
- Implemented Regular Expression named capture groups.
- Implemented Regular Expression unicode property escapes.
- Re-implemented Regular Expression lookaround/lookbehind (without
crashing this time ;) ).
- Implemented progressive decoding for JPEG-XL.
- Implemented animation for JPEG-XL.
- Renamed CSS offset-* properties to inset-* to align with the latest spec
and the web.
- Fixed CSS inheritance and padding issues in some cases.
- Aligned parsing of incorrectly duplicated HSTS headers with expected
behavior (discard all but the first one).
- Implemented a method to avoid memory exhaustion in case of (very) large
resolution animated images.
- Updated the JPEG-XL and Highway libraries to a recent, stable version.
- Cleaned up some unused CSS prefixing code.
- Improved the ability to link on *nix operating systems with other linkers
than gcc's default.
- Stability improvements (potential crash fixes).
- Security issues addressed: CVE-2023-23598, CVE-2023-23599 and several
others that do not have a CVE number.
- UXP Mozilla security patch summary: 4 fixed, 2 DiD, 19 not applicable.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:40:20 -0500
newmoon (31.4.0-1) obs; urgency=medium
* Upstream updates
* Added support for the JPEG-XL image format.
* Implemented regular expressions lookaround/lookbehind.
* Aligned CORS header parsing with the updated spec. See implementation
notes.
* We no longer fire keypress events for non-printable keys. See
implementation notes.
* Added support for MacOS 13 "Ventura" in the platform, primarily
benefitting White Star.
* Fixed potentially problematic thread locking code on *nix platforms.
* Fixed some small issues in the display and operation of the Web
Developer tools.
* Removed unused but performance-impacting panning and tab animation
measuring code. (telemetry leftovers)
* Improved code for SunOS builds.
* Updated Internationalization data for time zones.
* Fixed a buffer overflow for Mac builds.
* Security issues addressed: CVE-2022-45411 and potential issues
without a CVE number.
* UXP Mozilla security patch summary: 2 fixed, 1 DiD, 1 deferred, 25
not applicable.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Tue, 22 Nov 2022 10:03:10 -0500
newmoon (31.3.1-1) obs; urgency=medium
* Upstream updates
* Added detection suport for the newly-released MacOS 13 (Ventura).
* Fixed a potential heap Use-After-Free risk in Expat. (CVE-2022-40674)
DiD
* Fixed potentially undefined behavior in our thread locking code. DiD
* Fixed a potentially exploitable crash in the refresh driver.
* Fixed potentially undefined behavior when base-64 decoding. DiD
* Implemented a texture size cap for WebGL to prevent potential issues
with some graphics drivers. DiD
* Updated site-specific overrides to address issues with ZoHo.
* UXP Mozilla security patch summary: 1 fixed, 2 DiD, 6 not applicable.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:09:10 -0400
newmoon (31.3.0-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Upstream updates
* Implemented .at(index) JavaScript method on built-in indexables
(Array, String, TypedArray).
* Implemented the use of EventSource in workers.
* Enabled the sending of the Origin: header by default on same-origin
requests.
* Changed how Pale Moon is built. We are now using Visual Studio 2022
on Windows, and have made build system changes to reduce build times
and pressure on the linker on all platforms.
* Changed how Pale Moon handles standalone wave audio files (.wav). See
implementation notes.
* Improved string normalization.
* Updated the handling of CSS "supports" to now accept unparenthesized
strings (spec update).
* Updated the handling of flex containers in web pages for web
compatibility.
* Fixed various issues when building for Mac OS X.
* Fixed various C++ standard conformance issues in the source code.
* Fixed several issues building on SunOS and Linux with various
configurations and gcc versions.
* Fixed an issue with regular expressions' dotAll syntax and usage. See
implementation notes.
* Switched custom hash map to std::unordered_map where prudent.
* Cleaned up and updated IPC thread locking code.
* Removed spacing for accessibility focus rings in form controls to
align styling of them with expected metrics.
* Removed the unnecessary control module for building with non-standard
configurations of the platform.
* Removed the -moz prefix from min-content and max-content CSS keywords
where it was still in use.
* Security fixes: CVE-2022-40956 and CVE-2022-40958.
* UXP Mozilla security patch summary: 2 fixed, 11 not applicable.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:09:09 -0400
newmoon (31.2.0-1) obs; urgency=medium
* Changes/fixes:
* Implemented CSS white-space: break-spaces for web compatibility.
* Implemented Intl.RelativeTimeFormat for web compatibility.
* Implemented "Origin header CSRF mitigation". This is still disabled
by default to investigate potential issues with CloudFlare-backed sites.
* Implemented support for async generator methods in JavaScript.
* Added preliminary support for building on Apple Silicon like M1/M2
SoC.
* Added support for building with Visual Studio 2022.
* Improved the handling of CSS "sticky" elements in tables.
* Improved stack size limits on all platforms. See implementation notes.
* Updated function.toString handling to align with the updated
JavaScript spec. This should improve web compatibility.
* Updated Unicode support to Unicode v11, and updated the ICU library
accordingly. Building without ICU is no longer supported.
* Updated many in-tree third-party libraries to pick up various
performance and stability improvements.
* Updated site-specific user-agent overrides to work around issues with
Google fonts, Citi bank (again!) and MeWe.
* Removed some leftover (and unused) telemetry code in the platform and
front-end.
* Fixed an issue with VP9 video playback on Windows on some systems.
* Fixed an issue with the add-ons manager not properly handling empty
update URLs.
* Fixed a major performance regression on *nix based systems due to
incorrect thread handling.
* Fixed volume handling when building with the sndio audio back-end.
* Pale Moon no longer applies content security policies to documents
that are explicitly loaded as data documents or to images. See
implementation notes.
* Cleaned up some unnecessary code from the source tree for unused
build back-ends, Firefox marketplace "apps", and the rather ridiculous
moz://a protocol handler.
* Updated NSS to 3.52.8 to pick up several defense-in-depth security
fixes.
* UXP Mozilla security patch summary: 3 DiD, 12 not applicable.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Wed, 03 Aug 2022 14:09:10 -0400
newmoon (31.1.1-1) obs; urgency=medium
* Changes/fixes:
* Updated the list of blocked external protocol handlers to combat
abuse of OS-supplied services on Windows.
* Fixed a potential issue with revoked site certificates when
connecting through a proxy.
* Updated NSS to 3.52.7 to pick up some security fixes.
* Updated site-specific user agent overrides to work around bad
sniffing practices of dropbox and vimeo.
* Security issues addressed: CVE-2022-34478, CVE-2022-34476,
CVE-2022-34480 DiD, CVE-2022-34472, CVE-2022-34475 DiD, CVE-2022-34473
DiD, CVE-2022-34481 and a memory safety issue that doesn't have a CVE
number.
* UXP Mozilla security patch summary: 4 fixed, 4 DiD, 2 rejected, 11
not applicable.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Mon, 11 Jul 2022 11:34:11 -0400
newmoon (31.1.0-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
* Changes/fixes:
* Added Mojeek as an additional search engine in the browser. See
implementation notes.
* Implemented "nullish coalescing operator" (thanks, FranklinDM!) for
web compatibility.
* Fixed various crash scenarios in XPCOM.
* Fixed an important stability and performance issue related to
hardware acceleration.
* Fixed a long-standing issue where overly-long address bar tooltips
wouldn't break into multiple lines but instead cut off on the right
side.
* Fixed a long-standing issue where dynamic datalist updates for
<select> and similar elements wouldn't properly update the option list.
* Disabled broken links to MDN articles in developer tools.
* Updated media support to include support for libavcodec 59/FFmpeg 5.0
for MP4 playback on Linux (thanks, Travis!)
* Enabled the date picker for <input type=date>. See implementation
notes.
* Re-enabled the use of FIPS mode for NSS. See implementation notes.
* Improved memory handling and memory safety in the JavaScript engine,
further reducing current and future crash scenarios.
* Improved memory handling in the graphics subsystem of Goanna.
* Updated FFvpx to v4.2.7
* Slightly reduced strictness of media checking for improved
compatibility with questionable "gif" video encoders used on major
websites.
* Cleaned up the way file pickers (file open/save/save as dialogs) are
handled on Windows.
* Restored the gMultiProcessBrowser property of the browser for Firefox
extension compatibility. See implementation notes.
* Improved the way data is transferred to and from canvases to prevent
memory safety issues.
* Updated NSS to 3.52.6 to address security issues.
* Reduced blocking severity for some extensions that were marked hard
blockers for GRE (but aren't for UXP).
* Security issues addressed: CVE-2022-31739, CVE-2022-31741, and other
security issues that do not have a CVE number.
* UXP Mozilla security patch summary: 2 fixed, 1 DiD, 26 not applicable.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Mon, 11 Jul 2022 11:33:18 -0400
newmoon (31.0.0-1) obs; urgency=medium
* Major milestone release:
- Once again accepts the installation of legacy Firefox extensions alongside
own Pale Moon exclusive extensions. As always, please note that using
extensions for an old version of a different browser is entirely at your
own risk and we obviously cannot and will not provide much (if any)
support for their use. Firefox extensions will be indicated with an
orange dot in the Add-ons Manager in the browser. This will include the
converted extensions for the few of you who are coming from recalled
versions with -fxguid suffixes.
- Implemented Global Privacy Control, taking the place of the unenforceable
"DNT" (Do Not Track) signal. Through GPC, you indicate to websites that
you do not want them to share or sell your data.
- Implemented "optional chaining" (thanks, FranklinDM!).
- Implemented setBaseAndExtent for text selections.
- Implemented queueMicroTask() "pseudo-promise" callbacks.
- Implemented accepting unit-less values for rootMargin in Intersection
observers for web compatibility, making it act more like CSS margin as one
would expect.
- Improvements to CSS grid and flexbox rendering and display following spec
changes and improving web compatibility.
- Improved performance of parallel web workers in JavaScript.
- Improved display of cursive scripts (on Windows). Good-bye Comic Sans!
- Updated various in-tree libraries.
- "Default browser" controls in preferences has been moved to "General".
- Added support for extended VPx codec strings in media delivery via
MSE (RFC-6381).
- Fixed a long-time regression where the browser would no longer honor
old-style body and iframe body margins when indicated in the HTML tags
directly instead of CSS. This improves compatibility with particularly old and/or archived websites.
- Fixed several crashes and stability issues.
- Added a licensing screen to the Windows installer to clarify the browser's
licensing. In other installations, you may find this licensing statement
in the added license.txt file in the browser installation location.
- Removed all Google SafeBrowsing/URLClassifier service code.
- Restored Mac OS X code and buildability in the platform.
- Removed the non-standard ArchiveReader DOM API that was only ever a
prototype implementation from the platform. This potentially improves
performance on some systems.
- Removed leftover Electrolysis controls that could sometimes trick parts of
the browser into starting in a (very broken) multi-process mode due to
some plumbing for it still being present, if users would try to force the
issue with preferences. Obviously, this was a footgun for power users.
- Removed more Android/Fennec code (on-going effort to clean up our code).
- Removed the Marionette automated testing framework.
- Security issues addressed: CVE-2022-29915, CVE-2022-29911, and several
issues that do not have a CVE number.
- UXP Mozilla security patch summary: 4 fixed, 1 DiD, 19 not applicable.
* Disable all patches.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Sun, 22 May 2022 11:04:46 -0400
newmoon (29.4.4-1+devuan) obs; urgency=medium
- This is a security update.
* Improved application library loading security. DiD
* Fixed an issue in JavaScript serialization. DiD
* Fixed a potential out-of-bounds issue in IndexedDB. DiD
* Fixed a potential issue in widget data handling code. DiD
* Fixed potentially exploitable crashes in handling truncated/corrupt
media files or streams.
* Fixed an issue in the DOM FileReader code.
* Updated NSS to 3.52.3 to address a security issue.
* Fixed the following security issues: CVE-2022-22736, CVE-2022-22741,
CVE-2021-4140, CVE-2022-22746, CVE-2022-22744 and CVE-2022-22747.
* Unified XUL Platform Mozilla Security Patch Summary: 8 fixed, 4 DiD,
17 not applicable.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:02:40 -0500
newmoon (29.4.3-1+devuan) obs; urgency=medium
- This is a security update with a few extras.
* Restored the FUEL abstraction library again.
* Added some extra sanity checks to timers and text fragments. DiD
* Added a potential crash safeguard in program threading logic. DiD
* Fixed the following security issues: CVE-2021-43537, CVE-2021-43541,
CVE-2021-43536, CVE-2021-43545 and CVE-2021-43542.
* Unified XUL Platform Mozilla Security Patch Summary: 5 fixed, 3 DiD,
10 not applicable.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Tue, 04 Jan 2022 12:54:49 -0500
newmoon (29.4.2-1+devuan) obs; urgency=medium
- This is a security update.
* Fixed a spec compliance issue with IDN that could potentially cause
confusion of domain names.
* Fixed several intermittent thread sanity issues. DiD
* Fixed a potential UAF risk in certain situations in networking. DiD
* Fixed a potential crash risk (not exposed). DiD
* Fixed a potential spoofing risk using form validation.
(CVE-2021-38508)
* Fixed a script sandbox escape issue through XSLT. (CVE-2021-38503)
* Unified XUL Platform Mozilla Security Patch Summary: 3 fixed, 1
already applied, 4 DiD, 7 not applicable.
- Force using gcc-10
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Tue, 11 Nov 2021 09:09:16 -0500
newmoon (29.4.1-1+devuan) obs; urgency=medium
- This is a security update.
* Fixed potential crashes. DiD
* Fixed a potential indirect exploit of Microsoft Internet Explorer.
(CVE-2021-38492)
* Unified XUL Platform Mozilla Security Patch Summary: 1 fixed, 2 DiD,
8 not applicable.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Tue, 14 Sep 2021 21:02:17 -0400
newmoon (29.4.0-2+devuan) obs; urgency=medium
- Rebuild, with dh $@ --without autoreconf so it can actually build.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Sat, 11 Sep 2021 22:33:42 -0400
newmoon (29.4.0-1+devuan) obs; urgency=medium
- This is a development, bugfix and security release
* Implemented promise.allSettled().
* Implemented global origin on windows and workers.
* Improved performance of memory allocations.
* Updated libcubeb to the current development version.
* This improves OSS compatibility and addresses potential crashes, performance issues and security issues.
* Updated SQLite to 3.36.0.
* Improved thread safety of the web content cache. DiD
* Added several fixes to avoid potential crashes and security issues. DiD
* Unified XUL Platform Mozilla Security Patch Summary: 5 DiD, 12 not applicable.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Tue, 17 Aug 2021 18:43:23 -0400
newmoon (29.3.0-1+devuan) obs; urgency=medium
- This is a development, bugfix and security release.
* "Web Developer" is now called "Developer Tools" in the menus.
* Updated and aligned about:home, the QuickDial page and logopage
styling.
* Re-organized the privacy category in the preferences window.
* Enabled brotli compression for http for sites that support it. See
implementation notes.
* Implemented EventTarget as a constructor.
* Updated Windows 10 toolkit styling.
* Updated the port blacklist (removed 10080). See implementation notes.
* CSS: Implemented calc() and animation support for stroke-dashoffset.
* Added support for checking boolean preferences to chrome CSS style
sheets, to support more advanced theming options.
* Added support for dynamic dark color capable themes in CSS.
* Updated ResizeObserver implementation to a more recent specification.
See implementation notes.
* Removed a metric ton of Macintosh code.
* Removed obsolete system theme support from the layout engine.
* Fixed several crashes.
* Linux: blocked particularly old versions of Mesa/Nouveau drivers due
to issues.
* Security issues addressed: CVE-2021-30547 and several other issues
that don't have a CVE number.
* Unified XUL Platform Mozilla Security Patch Summary: 3 fixed, 3 DiD,
2 deferred (DiD), 12 not applicable.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Mon, 19 Jul 2021 19:11:44 -0400
newmoon (29.2.1-1+devuan) obs; urgency=medium
- This is a small bugfix release.
* Worked around an issue with autocomplete popups sometimes failing to
work (and added some debug console logging to it in case it happens to
help find the root cause)
* Fixed an issue with DOM mouse scrolling throwing errors.
* Fixed a race with network detection routines firing incorrectly when
resuming from standby.
* Fixed a crash when using large uploads through DOM.
* Fixed an issue where the menulist-button on editable menulist widgets
was not visible on GTK3.
* Reduced the number of reported "important preferences" in
troubleshooting information, excluding individual printer details.
* Fixed an issue with the JS JIT compiler not tracing debugger
environments (DiD).
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Wed, 09 Jun 2021 08:51:28 -0400
newmoon (29.2.0-1+devuan) obs; urgency=medium
* This is a development and bugfix release.
- Starting with this version, we will no longer be supporting
unmaintained legacy Firefox extensions that are not updated
for/targeting Pale Moon directly.
- Please see https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=26657
for details.
* Changes/fixes:
- When opening tabs from the History side bar, Pale Moon will now
warn you about the action if it would result in opening many tabs at
once.
- Pale Moon now offers "Open All in Tabs" on bookmark folders
even if there is only one sub-item in it, for UI consistency.
- Added media format controls in the Content category of
Preferences.
- Added controls for preferred color scheme. See implementation
notes.
- Updated several site-specific user-agent overrides for web
compatibility.
- Removed the ability to accept Firefox IDs for extension
installation.
- Removed conditional Macintosh code from the application front-end.
- Updated the AV1 reference library to 2.0.
- Cleaned up more Android code from the platform.
- Updated the embedded emoji font to cater to even more
race-dependent profession emoji.
- Fixed an overflow in clip paths, potentially causing them to be
rendered incorrectly.
- Added CSS values smooth, high-quality and pixelated to the
image-rendering keyword.
- Implemented Intl.NumberFormat.formatToParts() to allow
deconstruction of localized number formats by scripts.
- Reinstated the dom.details_element.enabled preference and fixed a
rendering issue with summary/details html elements.
- Fixed an issue with CSP .nonce attributes on elements.
- Security issues addressed: CVE-2021-29946 DiD and CVE-2021-23994
DiD.
- Unified XUL Platform Mozilla Security Patch Summary: 2 DiD, 14
not applicable.
* Implementation notes:
- This version adds support for the prefers-color-scheme CSS
keyword. This keyword is a media query keyword that indicates to
websites whether your content styling preference is "light" or "dark".
Unlike other browsers where this will be tied to your system color
scheme and determined automatically (which might be a point on which
you can be fingerprinted, so this would be a privacy concern), we've
decided to give the user control through Preferences -> Content ->
Colors where you will find a new control to indicate your user
preference (it defaults to "light" for everyone). While this control
also gives you the option to disable this feature and effectively not
support the keyword, be aware that this might cause issues on some
websites that do not provide styling for "unspecified" color scheme
preferences.
- In the future we may add an "automatic" option similar to other
browsers in case you regularly switch your system application style
from light to dark and v.v.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:56:07 -0400
newmoon (29.1.1-1+devuan) obs; urgency=medium
* Changes/fixes:
- Updated NSS to fix certificate import and keygen regressions.
- Removed restrictions for units of width/height attributes on SVG elements.
- Enabled scrollbar-width CSS keyword by default.
- Security issues addressed: CVE-2021-23981 and a DiD fix for potential document parser confusion.
- Unified XUL Platform Mozilla Security Patch Summary: 2 DiD, 9 not applicable.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Thu, 01 Apr 2021 12:53:29 -0400
newmoon (29.1.0-1+devuan) obs; urgency=medium
* New features:
- Language packs for the following newly-supported languages:
Arabic (ar), Chinese Traditional (zh-TW), Croatian (hr), Danish (da),
Finnish (fi), Galician (gl), Indonesian (id), Icelandic (is), Japanese
(ja), Romanian (ro), Serbian (cyrillic) (sr), Slovenian (sl), Thai (th)
- Implemented String.prototype.replaceAll().
- Implemented JSON superset proposal.
- Implemented well-formed JSON stringify.
- Implemented numeric separators in JavaScript.
* Changes/fixes:
- Updated timezone data to 2021a.
- Updated the wording and inclusion of more select license blocks
in about:license.
- Updated some site-specific user-agent overrides for web
compatibility.
- Updated the lz4 library for performance and security updates.
- Improved performance of JSON stringify.
- Further improved support for building on FreeBSD.
- Fixed a regression where changes to useragent compatibility
required a restart to take effect.
- Fixed a regression where AES-GCM in WebCrypto ("subtle" crypto
API) wasn't working.
- This could make certain login procedures fail to work.
- Fixed a full browser deadlock when page scripting would flood
browsing history with rapid location state changes.
- Disabled AV1 codec use by default again since our implementation
has significant streaming issues (particularly audio) that needs
further work.
- Added required interaction with file/folder open dialog boxes on
html file input elements on some operating systems to avoid malicious
content tricking users into uploading sensitive files unintentionally
(related to CVE-2021-23956).
- Added a font sanity check to avoid triggering a potential
vulnerability on unpatched Windows operating systems (related to
CVE-2021-24093).
- Security issues addressed: CVE-2021-23974, CVE-2021-23973 and
several memory safety hazards that don't have CVE numbers.
- Unified XUL Platform Mozilla Security Patch Summary: 4 fixed, 2
DiD, 19 not applicable.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Tue, 02 Mar 2021 21:53:23 -0500
newmoon (29.0.1-1+devuan) obs; urgency=medium
* Changes/fixes:
- Fixed a browser crash when manipulating frame trees.
- Fixed an issue with depth textures in ANGLE.
- Updated the SSOAU for YouTube Studio.
- Security issue addressed: ZDI-CAN-12197.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Mon, 15 Feb 2021 11:20:33 -0500
newmoon (29.0.0-1+devuan) obs; urgency=medium
* New major milestone release:
- Implemented Intl.PluralRules API for JavaScript.
- Added a frequently-requested preference (browser.tabs.allowTabDetach) to
disable "tearing off" of tabs (meaning dragging them outside of the tab
bar resulting in them being made into their own window).
- Added FLAC as a recognized filetype-by-extension.
- Implemented basic support for the scrollbar-width CSS keyword. See
implementation notes.
- Added preliminary support for modern FreeBSD builds.
- Selectively enabled core features of the DOM Animations API.
- Enabled AV1 video support by default (previously built but not enabled in
releases).
- Added support for pointer events.
- Added support for the SVG transform-box property.
- Added support for the inputmode property for forms to enable
context-sensitive display of soft keyboards.
- Enabled shutting down of the file I/O worker when idle for a while
(resource optimization).
- Enabled blocking of auto-play of media in the background by default.
- We now offer official GTK3 builds for Linux alongside the GTK2 builds.
- Partial (and as of yet, not acceptably functional) implementation of
Google WebComponents. See implementation notes.
Changes/fixes:
- Updated NSPR to 4.29.
- Updated NSS to 3.59.
- Disabled legacy database format for storage of certificates and passwords.
- Updated several site-specific user-agent overrides for web compatibility.
- Improved styling of the "find in page" bar to avoid unreadable text on
some system themes.
- Removed a large chunk of Android-specific code.
- Split gkmedias.dll back out from xul.dll.
- Cleaned up a number of redundant and obsolete code paths.
- Fixed a regression with the Performance API.
- Fixed an initialization issue in the browser when users would
force-disable certain types of caching.
- Fixed a crash when attempting to save a file from FTP that could be
displayed in the browser.
- Fixed the root cause of an issue with JavaScript module loading causing
crashes. See implementation notes.
- Fixed a rare initialization issue for the print preview window causing it
to not display.
- Fixed a crash on Mac when text input was not secure.
- Disabled the Storage Manager API by default.
- Disabled the <menuitem> html tag by default. If you still need this, you
can re-enable it with the preference dom.menuitem.enabled in about:config.
- Fixed a memory safety issue related to XUL trees (CVE-2021-23962).
- Implemented several defense-in-depth measures to improve stability and
future security.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Tue, 02 Feb 2021 19:04:30 -0500
newmoon (28.17.0-1+devuan) obs; urgency=low
* This is a development, bugfix and security update.
- Changed the way dates and times are formatted in the UI to
properly adhere to the user's regional settings in the O.S.
- Re-enabled the DOM Filesystem API for web compatibility.
- Moved the global user-agent override to the networking component.
See implementation notes.
- Worked around crashes and run-time issues with module scripts.
See implementation notes.
- Fixed a website layout issue with table-styled elements
potentially overlapping when placed inside a flexbox.
- Fixed some code logic issues with websockets.
- Fixed a regression when waking the computer from standby causing
high CPU usage in some uncommon situations.
- Updated the list of prohibited ports the browser can use. See
implementation notes.
- Updated root certificates.
- Windows: Changed the way downloaded files without an extension
are handled. See implementation notes.
- Mac-beta: Improved version detection of MacOS including Big Sur.
- Security issues addressed: CVE-2020-26978 and CVE-2020-35112.
- Unified XUL Platform Mozilla Security Patch Summary: 2 fixed, 1
deferred to the next release, 16 not applicable.
- The global user-agent override was moved to the networking
component where it is actually implemented. The new preference name is
network.http.useragent.global_override. Please note that using a
blanket override is normally (very) counterproductive and does not, in
fact, help much with privacy. It would also override the compatibility
modes (Native/Gecko/Firefox) in Pale Moon. As such, the browser will
now warn you if the user-agent is globally overridden (in preferences)
and allow you to easily reset that override and re-enable the various
compatibility modes.
- Module scripting caused some persistent and very hard to track
browser crashes that we've narrowed down to a specific optimization in
the JavaScript JIT (Just-In-Time) compiler (IonMonkey). This
optimization is now disabled by default but if you need that little
extra performance (usually only noticed in very optimized code or some
benchmarks) then you can re-enable it, trading in stability, by setting
the new preference javascript.options.ion.inlining to true.
- Prohibited ports: Pale Moon maintains a blacklist of ports the
browser may normally not connect to on servers, to mitigate abusive web
scripting employing your browser as an attack bot on servers (e.g. by
connecting to mail servers or what not), NAT slipstreaming, and similar
security issues. To more thoroughly prevent known abusable ports on
servers, this list was extended with a number of additional default
ports for various non-http protocols.
- Downloaded files without a file extension: When a file without an
extension is downloaded, we will now open the download folder where you
may choose to take any specific action manually, instead of trying to
execute it as a program or through an associated program.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Fri, 18 Dec 2020 13:52:12 -0500
newmoon (28.16.0-1+devuan) obs; urgency=low
* This is a development and security update to the browser.
* Note for Linux users: With CentOS 6 going end-of-life, this
version will be the last for which we will be building 32-bit Linux
official binaries to download. While your distribution may choose to
continue offering 32-bit versions of the browser, built from source
by the maintainers, we won't be offering any further official 32-bit
Linux binaries on our website. Please check with your distribution's
package maintainers to know if further 32-bit support will be
available on your particular flavor of Linux.
- Aligned CSS tab-size with the specification and un-prefixed it.
- Updated Brotli library to 1.0.9.
- Updated JAR lib code.
- Optimized UI code, resulting in smaller downloads and less
space consumed on disk.
- Changed the default Firefox Compatibility version number to
68.0 (since versions ending in .9 makes some frameworks unhappy,
refusing access to users)
- Cleaned up HPKP leftovers.
- Disabled the DOM filesystem API by default.
- Removed Phone Vibrator API.
- Fixed an issue where the software uninstaller would not remove
the program files it should.
- Fixed a devtools crash related to timeline snapshots.
- Fixed an issue in Skia that could cause unsafe memory access.
[DiD]
- Fixed several data race conditions. [DiD]
- Fixed an XSS vulnerability where scripts could be executed when
pasting data into on-line editors.
- Linux: Fixed an overflow issue in freetype.
- Security issues addressed: CVE-2020-26960, CVE-2020-26951,
CVE-2020-26956, CVE-2020-15999 and several others that do not have a
CVE designation.
- Unified XUL Platform Mozilla Security Patch Summary: 4 fixed, 4
defense-in-depth, 3 rejected, 20 not applicable.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Wed, 25 Nov 2020 09:13:05 -0500
newmoon (28.15.0-1+devuan) obs; urgency=low
* This is a standard development and bugfix release.
- Implemented support for CSS caret-color.
- Implemented support for un-prefixed ::selection CSS pseudo-element styling.
- Fixed another potential crashing scenario in ResizeObservers.
- Fixed several crashes in the DOM Fetch API.
- Fixed a crash in table pagination.
- Security issues fixed: CVE-2020-15680 (VG-VD-20-115) and several memory safety hazards.
- Unified XUL Platform Mozilla Security Patch Summary: 1 fixed, 2 defense-in-depth, 12 not applicable.
* reenable jemalloc to match palemoon.
* disable eme to match palemoon.
* so now newmoon's only changes are config location and branding.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:05:31 -0400
newmoon (28.14.2-3+devuan) obs; urgency=low
* disable all use-system options to see if stability returns
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:58:17 -0400
newmoon (28.14.2-2+devuan) obs; urgency=low
* revert to gtk2 to see if stability returns
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Fri, 23 Oct 2020 22:40:55 -0400
newmoon (28.14.2-1+devuan) obs; urgency=low
* Update version
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Mon, 05 Oct 2020 09:07:33 -0400
newmoon (28.13.0-5+devuan) obs; urgency=medium
* Import bluemoon icons from Gord N. Squash
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:16:08 -0400
newmoon (28.13.0-4+devuan) obs; urgency=low
* Import xfce-helper/palemoon.desktop from stevep@mxlinux.org release
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:43:04 -0400
newmoon (28.13.0-3+devuan) obs; urgency=medium
* This is a compatibility, bugfix and security update. Special thanks
to our new code contributors this cycle (you know who you are)!
- Updated the included site-specific user-agent overrides for a
number of websites that need them.
- Rewritten the browser's padlock code to use more modern APIs and
provide more accurate security status indication.
- Now also with localized tooltips!
- Fixed a missing close button on the undo prompt after removing a
thumbnail from the QuickDial new tab page.
- Fixed an issue with the alternative stylesheet menu in the
browser's UI not working.
- Implemented the use of intrinsic aspect ratios for images to
improve layout during load and page positioning.
- Added a preference to the use of node.getRootNode and disabled by
default. See implementation notes.
- Added CSS -webkit-appearance as an alias for -moz-appearance to
improve compatibility with websites that only try to use
Chrome-specific keywords to style standard form elements.
- Updated the SQLite library to 3.33.0.
- Reinstated precise floating point precision model in JavaScript
for those alternate builders who foolishly try to use the inaccurate
"fast" model.
- Improved spec compliance of modular JavaScript use (ECMAScript
modules).
- Changed media errors to be a more generic response, and added a
preference (media.sourceErrorDetails.enabled) to enable detailed error
reporting of media errors for debugging purposes.
- Previously, detailed errors were provided by default which could
lead to privacy issues.
- Improved code stability of the AbortController implementation.
- Fixed a race condition in the secure connection library (NSS).
- Security issues fixed: CVE-2020-15664, CVE-2020-15666,
CVE-2020-15667, CVE-2020-15668 and CVE-2020-15669.
- Unified XUL Platform Mozilla Security Patch Summary: 4 fixed, 1
defense-in-depth, 1 rejected, 9 not applicable.
* Implementation notes
- In 28.11.0 we introduced node.getRootNode because some websites
would fail with an error if this function was not present.
Unfortunately, this caused problems with other sites that (incorrectly)
assume Google WebComponents are available when this utility function is
present (feature detection gone wrong). While it is considered by some
to be part of the Google WebComponents implementation, it actually has
utility value outside of that use. Because of the problems caused,
we've added a preference and disabled it by default, fixing these kinds
of websites.
- When needed, you can re-enable this function with
dom.getRootNode.enabled
- This should improve web compatibility by default yet still allow
users to enable this function for websites that use its utility but do
not use WebComponents.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Fri, 04 Sep 2020 19:50:02 -0400
newmoon (28.12.0-2+devuan) obs; urgency=low
* Forked from palemoon. This is an experimental release
that does everything that the original dev team would
consider wrong, including:
- use gtk3 exclusively
- enable webrtc
- enable system libraries for everything possible
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Thu, 27 Aug 2020 16:55:11 -0400
newmoon (28.12.0-1+devuan) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* First release of newmoon.
-- B. Stack <bgstack15@gmail.com> Wed, 05 Aug 2020 14:43:18 -0400
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