RequestPolicy Changelog

What's new in RequestPolicy 0.5.28.1-signed.1-signed

Jan 12, 2017
  • Improvements:
  • Added lv-LV (Latvian) translation (thanks to Aleksandrs Ledovskis).
  • Added "Support RequestPolicy" menu item
  • Misc:
  • Removed research study code.

New in RequestPolicy 0.5.28b2 (Jan 12, 2017)

  • Improvements:
  • Added lv-LV (Latvian) translation (thanks to Aleksandrs Ledovskis).
  • Added "Support RequestPolicy" menu item
  • Misc:
  • Removed research study code.

New in RequestPolicy 0.5.28b1 (Jan 12, 2017)

  • Improvements:
  • Added lv-LV (Latvian) translation (thanks to Aleksandrs Ledovskis).
  • Misc:
  • Removed research study code.

New in RequestPolicy 0.5.27.1-signed.1-signed (Jan 12, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • URLs entered in the location bar began triggering redirect notifications starting with Firefox 16.
  • Locales:
  • Added : eu, it, sk-SK
  • Updated: fr
  • Renamed: tr -> tr-TR
  • Other:
  • Added implementation of opt-in telemetry that is part of my academic research.

New in RequestPolicy 0.5.27b2 (Jan 12, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • URLs entered in the location bar began triggering redirect notifications starting with Firefox 16.
  • Locales:
  • Added : eu, it, sk-SK
  • Updated: fr
  • Renamed: tr -> tr-TR
  • Other:
  • Added implementation of opt-in telemetry that is part of my academic research.

New in RequestPolicy 0.5.27b1 (Jan 12, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • URLs entered in the location bar began triggering redirect notifications starting with Firefox 16.
  • Locales:
  • Added : eu, it, sk-SK
  • Updated: fr
  • Renamed: tr -> tr-TR
  • Other:
  • Added implementation of opt-in telemetry that is part of my academic research.

New in RequestPolicy 0.5.26.1-signed.1-signed (Jan 12, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Links from Firefox's new about:newtab page were blocked.
  • Links from view-source pages were blocked. This fix is only partial: cross-domain links that aren't otherwise whitelisted are still blocked.

New in RequestPolicy 0.5.26b1 (Jan 12, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Links from Firefox's new about:newtab page were blocked.
  • Links from view-source pages were blocked. This fix is only partial: cross-domain links that aren't otherwise whitelisted are still blocked.

New in RequestPolicy 0.5.25.1-signed.1-signed (Jan 12, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Requests to moz-filedata: and blob: were blocked. This caused problems with, for example, pdf.js.
  • Extension compatibility:
  • Dr. Web Link Checker's popup window had blocked content that couldn't be easily whitelisted.

New in RequestPolicy 0.5.25b2 (Jan 12, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Requests to moz-filedata: URLs were blocked.
  • Requests to blob: URLs were blocked.
  • Extension compatibility:
  • Add compatibility rules for Dr. Web Link Checker

New in RequestPolicy 0.5.8 (Jul 29, 2009)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Relative path meta refreshes from within frames refreshed relative to the URI of the top-level document, not the framed document.

New in RequestPolicy 0.3.5 (Jan 5, 2009)

  • Bug fixes:
  • After requesting a page whose uri contained a fragment ("#"), the RequestPolicy icon would sometimes not indicate blocked content even though the menu items correctly showed the blocked destinations.
  • Improvements:
  • Updated initial setup whitelist items.
  • Global names in code made more specific.

New in RequestPolicy 0.3.4 (Dec 28, 2008)

  • Bug fixes:
  • The "Allow [origin] to [destination]" menu item had been broken in a previous release.

New in RequestPolicy 0.3.0 (Dec 23, 2008)

  • Improvements:
  • First time usage brings up a window that allows common sites to be automatically whitelisted.

New in RequestPolicy 0.2.4 (Dec 22, 2008)

  • Improvements:
  • Added ability to manually add sites to whitelist through preferences window.
  • Added visual indication of blocked images (can be disabled through preferences).

New in RequestPolicy 0.2.2 (Dec 12, 2008)

  • Added a request log that can be enabled to show all blocked and allowed requests.

New in RequestPolicy 0.2.1 (Dec 11, 2008)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Deletion of old, unused preferences was failing.

New in RequestPolicy 0.2.0 (Dec 10, 2008)

  • Improvements:
  • New preferences window pane allows viewing whitelisted origins, destinations, and origins-to-destinations and selectively removing items.
  • New preferences window panes allow exporting and importing of whitelist.
  • Added color and an icon to the "other origins" menu item to make it stand out more.
  • Translations:
  • Added de-DE (for menu only).
  • Added pt-BR (for menu only).

New in RequestPolicy 0.1.13 (Dec 8, 2008)

  • Allow privileged cross-site XHR's done by extensions such as Greasemonkey.

New in RequestPolicy 0.1.11 (Dec 5, 2008)

  • Improvements:
  • Changed default icon to a smaller icon.
  • Added a preferences dialog where the icon can be changed back to the larger icon.
  • Bug fixes:
  • After choosing "Temporarily allow all requests", only the window that this was performed in showed visual indication of this setting. Now, all currently open windows indicate this setting. The next release will also fix this in newly opened windows.