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Update brave to 1.8.86
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Authored by Jacalz on Apr 30 2020, 5:51 PM.
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Summary

Changelog:

  • Added Binance widget to the New Tab Page.
  • Added support for referral background images and top sites on the New Tab Page.
  • Added the ability to import extensions from Chrome.
  • Added "Customize" text to the New Tab Page dashboard settings icon.
  • Enhanced privacy by farbling convertToBlob.
  • Updated text for "Device recognition" to "Fingerprinting" on Brave Shields panel and brave://settings/shields.
  • Updated category text on ads history panel from "untargeted" to "general".
  • Improved publisher list load time.
  • Improved top site tiles on the New Tab Page.
  • Switched from "Prebake Cookie" to "Easylist Cookie" list.
  • Removed ability to import data from legacy Brave (muon).
  • Removed autoplay allow list to match Chromium behavior.
  • Disabled ScrollToTextFragment.
  • Fixed Brave ads server retry logic running into an infinite loop in certain cases causing performance issues.
  • Fixed issue where attention percentage would display as zero on rewards panel.
  • Fixed crash when enabling IPFS on Linux.
  • Fixed multiple web compatibility issues related to fingerprinting protection.
  • Fixed inability to use Twitter in certain cases when "Cross-site cookies blocked" is selected from Brave Shields.
  • Fixed missing translation on the New Tab Page title.
  • Upgraded Chromium to 81.0.4044.129.

Security:

  • High CVE-2020-6462: Use after free in task scheduling.
  • High CVE-2020-6461: Use after free in storage.
Test Plan
  • Browsed a couple sites and made sure that it worked correctly.

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Jacalz added a project: Restricted Project.Apr 30 2020, 5:51 PM
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Apr 30 2020, 8:04 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.