User:Itskieran/sandbox

This list of versions only shows notable version changes. AdBlock maintain their own changelog, which can be found in their source code and on their options page inside the extension.

Discontinued

Stable Channel (Chrome, Safari, Opera)

Beta Channel (Chrome)

If no beta channel version is specified, it is the same as the stable channel.

Version number	Date released	Summary of changes
1.3.11	3 Feb 2010	Added ad blocking of YouTube ads (but no other video ads)
1.4	5 Apr 2010	Improved the code used for filtering out ads
1.4.30	10 Jun 2010	The Safari version was released, using the same code base, at this release
2.0	16 Jun 2010	Rather than just hiding ads, AdBlock began to not download them, by using a new feature of Chrome v6
2.0.2	16 Jun 2010	Added EasyPrivacy (a filter list that blocks tracking scripts) to the list of recommended lists in the AdBlock options
2.0.4	17 Jun 2010	Added support of the "abp:subscribe" URL syntax that allows websites to let users click on a link to subscribe to a filter list. This only worked in Chrome at the time
2.0.7	18 Jun 2010	Added a wizard to check causes of ads showing when users report an ad to the AdBlock team
2.0.12	23 Jul 2010	When a user is manually blocking an ad, the on-screen popup helping them to do it shows them exactly what gets blocked, by updating the page in real time
2.0.15	24 Jul 2010	To help ease load on the servers that host the filter lists, AdBlock added support for expiration dates in the list code
2.0.22	16 Aug 2010	Fixed issues with blocking ads in Safari, and improved memory usage on both Chrome and Safari
2.1	29 Aug 2010	Added support for multiple languages. Only Dutch and German translations of the original English were available
2.1.5	3 Sep 2010	Added French, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Polish and Chinese translations
2.1.6	4 Sep 2010	Added options in the right-click menu of websites
2.1.7	4 Sep 2010	Reduced Chrome's RAM usage when a beta option was enabled
2.1.8	5 Sep 2010	Allowed users to disable the right-click menu items
2.2	3 Oct 2010	Added support for a toolbar button, packaged as a separate extension.
2.2.7	23 Oct 2010	Added more languages, now at 18 (translation updates are added every time a new release is made, so doesn't get recorded in the changlog much)
2.2.8	20 Nov 2010	Reduces Chrome RAM usage
2.2.13	3 Dec 2010	Automatically subscribed non-English speakers to the appropriate language-specific filter list
2.2.19	15 Dec 2010	Added information to the donation request page to let users know that AdBlock is Michael Gundlach's full-time job
2.2.21	22 Dec 2010	Improved the YouTube ad blocking functionality
2.2.23	27 Dec 2010	Reduced RAM usage in Chrome and increased the speed of AdBlock
2.2.28	20 Jan 2011	Allowed pages to be whitelisted using the official syntax used by Adblock Plus
2.2.30	8 Feb 2011	Allowed users to whitelist Google search ads
2.3	10 Feb 2011	Added a toolbar button in the main extension, as Chrome added support for hiding buttons, retiring the separate extension
2.3.10	9 Mar 2011	Intentionally hid the right-click menu in the Chrome Extensions Gallery
2.3.19	23 Mar 2011	Showed the donation request page to Safari users when they install AdBlock
2.4	3 May 2011	Added many speed improvements—reportedly, the extension is twice as fast, while loading less memory per tab
2.4.1	5 May 2011	Told users who the people who translated AdBlock into their language are, on the options page
2.4.3	10 May 2011	Made the install / donation-request page clearer and easier to understand
2.4.7	28 May 2011	Translated the installaion page
2.4.17	11 Jul 2011	Now warns users who have subscribed to many filter lists that the lists will slow them down
2.5	8 Dec 2011	Blocks the download of all advertising resources, including ads in videos and in Flash
2.5.21	16 May 2012	Added "CatBlock", an April Fools' joke. Hidden only as "minor bugfixes" in the changelog
2.5.36	14 Jun 2012	Updated to manifest version 2
2.5.39	6 Aug 2012	Added an icon for Apple's Retina displays on Safari
2.5.55	14 Jan 2013	Added an icon for Retina displays on Chrome
2.5.62	26 Apr 2013	Added links to shar AdBlock to the toolbar button menu
2.6	24 Jun 2013	Simplified the Filter Lists page in the options and added a count of blocked ads to the toolbar button menu and the button itself
2.6.5	23 Aug 2013	Links to the support website and code repositories were changed to point to the new sites Notified users about a crowdfunding campaign to create ads for AdBlock Changed the block counter on the toolbar button to grey to avoid it looking like a notification from another extension, such as email counters
2.6.8	23 Sep 2013	Removed the notification about the crowdfunding campaign
2.6.11	25 Oct 2013	Allowed the extension to popup "survey" messages to test out certain features
2.6.15	27 Nov 2013	Added "Fanboy's Annoyances" to the list of recommended filter lists
2.6.16	29 Nov 2013	Changed all references to the old chromeadblock.com site to the new getadblock.com site
2.6.31	6 May 2014	Allowed users to whitelist specific YouTube channels of their choosing, so that they don't have to enable ads on all YouTube channels
2.7	6 Jun 2014	Changed the design of the options page to look more like the getadblock.com website. 2.7 also added a new "support" tab with links to the code and the support site
2.7.4	20 Jun 2014	Let users access he changelog from the support tab in the options page, which uses the "CHANGELOG.txt" file in the code
2.7.7	11 Jul 2014	A complete refresh of the support tab was made, including a pre-populated bug reporting page
2.7.13	27 Aug 2014	Added "AdBlock warning removal" as a recommended filter list
2.8	28 Aug 2014	A new tab directing to getadblock.com/beta opens every time the Beta version of AdBlock is updated, which lists most important changes for that update
2.9	17 Sep 2014	Added a feature to allow users to synchronize their settings/filter lists/custom filters using Dropbox
2.10	6 Oct 2014	Provided the Chrome popup menu for Safari users, who previously had to use a normal-style menu Changed the colour of buttons in the ad blocking and page whitelisting wizards as many users thought the new design made the buttons look disabled
2.11	13 Oct 2014	In the 'Report an Ad' feature, the extension will perform a check for known malware domains in the list of resources on the page. If resources from a known malware site are found, the user is notified, and the a link with removal instructions is provided
2.12	22 Oct 2014	Added the ability to see the name of any non-default filter lists they have subscribed to
2.13	31 Oct 2014	Allowed the user to disable specific filters from their filter lists, which is useful for disabling whitelist filters, which can't normally be overridden
2.14	24 Nov 2014	Removed the optional Spanish-language filter list from the extension, as it caused many bugs with many websites
2.15	9 Dec 2014	Allowed Safari users to view the resource list, something which only Chrome and Opera users had access to before