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Brave 1.69.153 changelog:
Web3
- Added support for Solana Compressed NFTs (cNFTs). (#39408)
- Added support for Solana Priority Fees. (#35866)
- Added an image preview to the “Add NFT” modal. (#39092)
- Added LiFi support for “Swap” transactions on Gnosis. (#40407)
- Added “View on block explorer” option to the “Account Details” menu. (#39655)
- Added a “More” menu to Portfolio actions. (#38935)
- Added a loading spinner to the “Select account” prompt when address is being generated for BTC or ZCash. (#38931)
- Added a “Refresh Quote” button to the “Swap” and “Bridge” screens. (#39513)
- Added info tooltip to the “Price impact” section for “Swap” and “Bridge”. (#39683)
- Added “Group by collection” option to NFT display settings. (#38865)
- Added the ability to load more than 50 NFTs in a Portfolio. (#39970)
- Added a “Watch-Only” label to NFT grid items. (#39652)
- Added a watch list message to unowned NFTs on the “NFT Details” screen. (#39653)
- Added “New quote” countdown ticker for “Swap” and “Bridge” transactions. (#34583)
- Enabled Bridge support for Brave Wallet. (#38527)
- Implemented “Choose quote provider” modal for “Swap” and “Bridge” transactions. (#39472)
- Implemented “Max slippage” modal for “Swap” and “Bridge” transactions. (#39514)
- Implemented 0x as provider for ExactOut “Swap” transactions when provider is set to “Auto”. (#39070)
- Improved display of ZEC addresses and additional details when using dark theme. (#35827)
- Increased estimated Solana priority fee compute budget by 10%. (#39498)
- Updated Brave Wallet to use LiFi provider for EVM swaps. (#36436)
- Updated Brave Wallet to prevent edits to pre-filled NFT information. (#39929)
- Updated Brave logo in Brave Wallet. (#39059)
- Updated UI for the “Account” list. (#38923)
- Removed support for IPFS local node and ipfs:// scheme. (#37735)
- Removed deprecated Goerli Network from default network list. (#37369)
- Fixed panel crash which occurred when attempting to lookup EIP1159 estimates for non EVM or FIL transactions. (#38970)
- Fixed in ability to transfer Solana NFTs. (#40489)
- Fixed issue where editing an NFT was adding a new token instead of updating the existing token. (#39921)
- Fixed issue where editing an owned NFT would be re-added when switching between “NFT” and “Portfolio” views. (#36197)
- Fixed the “Send” button on the “NFT” details screen not being displayed for owned EVM NFTs. (#39882)
- Fixed missing space between the message and “Learn more” link on the SPL send token confirmation screen. (#39159)
- Fixed issue where expanding “Activity” view from panel didn’t reset view in panel and loaded “Portfolio” in expanded view. (#38949)
General
- Added the ability to “Bring Your Own Model” (BYOM) to Brave Leo. (#38646)
- Added a Brave Leo icon to the toolbar and hamburger menu. (#39713)
- Added “Sidebar” settings to the top level in the hamburger menu. (#38708)
- Added “Show full screen reminder to press Esc on exit” under brave://settings/system. (#38928)
- Added YouTube “si” parameter to the “Copy Clean Link” filter. (#33037)
- [Security] Implemented process hardening for the Brave VPN services on Windows. (#39230)
- [Security] Implemented a trusted source check for “Elevator::InstallVPNServices”. (#39029)
- [Security] Updated code to use JSON serialization to escape all unsafe symbols in SpeedReader. (#39499)
- [Security] Limited extension features to allow listed extensions. (#39478)
- Enabled Web Serial by default. (#38791)
- Improved adblocking by supporting “:remove”, “:remove-attr”, and “:remove-class” adblock filter syntax. (#33881)
- Increased size of the “Delete browsing data” modal. (#38898)
- Updated adblocking to apply generic “$removeparam” rules to document, subdocument, or xhr requests by default. (#38753)
- Updated WebTorrent library version. (#35385)
- Removed “Hangouts” from brave://settings/extensions. (#39660)
- Removed known tracking parameter “_branch_match_id” and “_branch_referrer” from URLs. (#39575)
- Fixed crash which occurred on navigation in certain cases. (#38333)
- Fixed selecting “Bring all tabs to this window” incorrectly moving Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) into the window as tabs. (#40287)
- Fixed local Brave Leo models incorrectly attaching page contents to system prompt. (#39525)
- Fixed side panel open and close animation not working properly in certain cases. (#39376)
- Fixed the Brave News RSS dialog not being closed when clicking the RSS button in the URL bar. (#37216)
- Upgraded Chromium to 128.0.6613.85. (#40586)
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