Summarized Changelog:
- Added Privacy Preserving Product Analytics (P3A).
- Added auto-contribute support for GitHub.
- Added separate tip banner for monthly contributions to creators.
- Added the ability to opt-in to user private Brave ads for Cayman Islands.
- Added fingerprinting exception for 1Password.
- Added setting to "Use Google Services for Push Messaging" in brave://settings.
- Removed known user tracking parameters from query strings.
- Temporarily disabled Safe Browsing for downloads until we can get it to stop sending url-requests.
- Disabled Motion Sensors by default.
- Disabled Web Background Synchronization by default.
- Fixed certain cases where users are stuck in the wallet verification flow for Brave Rewards.
- Fixed inability to tweet after completing an inline tip on Reddit.
- Fixed ad notifications being displayed while browser is in full screen mode.
- Fixed inability to import from Firefox.
- Fixes for private window with Tor and Brave Rewards.
- Fixed CORS issue with atlassian.net.
- Upgraded Chromium to 79.0.3945.74.
Security:
- The update to chromium 79.0.3945.74 brings 51 security fixes. The following ones are the ones of critical severity:
- CVE-2019-13725
- CVE-2019-13726