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Brave V1.34.80 (Jan 6, 2022)

• Added the ability to make the tab audio icon non-clickable using brave://flags/#tab-audio-icon-interactive. (#19979)
  
• Added indications for selected network. (#19651)
  
• [Security] Disabled CNAME uncloaking when DoH is enabled with an HTTPS proxy. (#15038)
  
• Updated error message text when Trezor is not connected. (#19351)
  
• Updated legacy gas controls to allow 0 gas price. (#20103)
  
• Updated price fetching to use contract address when possible. (#19574)
  
• Updated Omaha installer version for Windows to v1.3.36.111. (#11904)
  
• Removed “View on block explorer” button for rejected transactions. (#19454)
  
• Removed text label for the private icon on Private Windows. (#13704)
  
• Fixed crash when disabling Brave Shields in certain cases. (#19958)
  
• Fixed inability to download torrents with WebTorrent. (#19818)
  
• Fixed retry loop for token refill when server responds with 404 to adaptive CAPTCHA request. (#18859)
  
• Fixed issue in hardware wallet connect screen while switching derivation scheme. (#20155)
  
• Fixed error when importing Ledger accounts. (#19451)
  
• Fixed Trezor popup incorrectly reopening in certain cases. (#19858)
  
• Fixed plus icon for RPC URLs not being shown when editing a network. (#19717)
  
• Fixed inability to remove previously entered RPC URLs. (#19782)
  
• Fixed Dapp web compatibility issue with https://studio.manifold.xyz. (#20283)
  
• Fixed issues with voting and creating spaces or proposals on https://snapshot.org Dapp. (#20282)
  
• Fixed tooltip for unsupported networks on brave://wallet being retained on screen. (#19400)
  
• Fixed path names not appearing in the address bar for IPNS addresses. (#18888)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 97.0.4692.71. (#20269) (Changelog for 97.0.4692.71)
  

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​Release Notes V1.35.100 (Feb 2, 2022)​

• Added “wallet_requestPermissions” and “wallet_getPermissions” for compatibility with https://market.x.immutable.com and others. (#19274)
  
• Added web3 “currentProvider” shim for compatibility with both https://snowtrace.io and Trava Staking Program. (#20353)
  
• Added “personal_ecRecover” signing for compatibility with https://loopring.io. (#19621)
  
• Added “Add suggested tokens” panel into Brave Wallet. (#19819)
  
• Added “Ethereum Site Permissions” UI into Brave Wallet. (#19954)
  
• Added ability to modify current network under Brave Wallet. (#19917)
  
• Added UI feedback when copying phrase from “Your recovery phrase” screen under Brave Wallet. (#19021)
  
• Added the ability to set a wallet network as active under brave://settings/wallet/networks. (#19930)
  
• Added tooltip showing exact date and time to transaction history under Brave Wallet. (#19789)
  
• Added plus icon to “Select Network” dropdown which navigates to brave://settings/wallet/networks in a new tab. (#19763)
  
• Added EIP-55 checksum address checks in the send widget. (#19532)
  
• Added display of active transactions and token balances in the panel. (#19533)
  
• Added support for “wallet_watchAsset” method to add suggested tokens. (#17878)
  
• Added notification for Uphold verified users when Customer Due Diligence survey needs to be completed. (#20427)
  
• Added first-party ephemeral storage with domain block functionality. (#19099)
  
• [Security] Added .torrc file into Brave. (#17851)
  
• [Security] Fixed “Allow scripts once” under shields not working in certain cases. #20744) & #20503)
  
• Enabled EIP-1559 Type-2 transactions for Trezor keyring. (#20116)
  
• Improved auto focusing on several input elements throughout Brave Wallet. (#19326)
  
• Improved keyboard accessibility for Brave Wallet. (#20164)
  
• Improved hardware wallet account naming. (#19507)
  
• Implemented common password validation. (#19875)
  
• Updated UI for “Verify recovery phrase” screen to better display 24 word recovery phrases. (#20125)
  
• Updated wallet import flow. (#18534)
  
• Updated rewards payout status messaging. (#18602)
  
• Disabled viewing “Site Permissions” for Brave Wallet panel in certain cases. (#20094)
  
• Disabled Happiness Tracking Survey (HaTS). (#19685)
  
• Removed “navigator.connection”. (#20122)
  
• Removed known user tracking parameters “igshid” from certain URLs. (#11580)
  
• Removed the “Network”, “Address” and “Account Orb” from the “Add/Switch Network” panel under Brave Wallet. (#19692)
  
• Removed price fetching for assets with a zero balance. (#20280)
  
• Removed permission lifetime options from U2F permission dialog. (#19848)
  
• Reduced BAT threshold before being able to verify Uphold two-way user wallet from 15 to 2 BAT. (#19911)
  
• Reduced disclaimer row padding. (#19449)
  
• Fixed token details not being auto-populated when adding custom asset under Brave Wallet. (#18704)
  
• Fixed unable to sign messages on https://www.cryptokitties.co using Trezor. (#19504)
  
• Fixed token name missing from “Allow Spend” panel under Brave Wallet. (#19556)
  
• Fixed typed data signing issues with https://looksrare.org. (#20541)
  
• Fixed input value not being reset when network is changed. (#19354)
  
• Fixed broken icons for custom network base currency. (#19953)
  
• Fixed redundant ordinal numbers in wallet recovery phrase. (#19813)
  
• Fixed last connected account being selected when multiple accounts are provided for OpenSea. (#19750)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 98.0.4758.87. (#20814) (Changelog for 98.0.4758.87)
  

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Release Notes V1.36.109 (Mar 2, 2022)​

• Added custom RSS support to Brave News. (#13095)
  
• Added Brave Talk widget as the default for the widget stack under New Tab Page. (#20015)
  
• Added signTypedData keyring support for Brave Wallet. (#18833)
  
• Added chain validation to wallet_addEthereumChain API call for Brave Wallet. (#17640)
  
• Added confirmation modal when Brave Wallet is reset. (#18997)
  
• Added “Clear wallet transaction and nonce information” setting for Brave Wallet under brave://settings/wallet. (#19760)
  
• Added the ability to set custom nonce value for Brave Wallet transactions. (#19705)
  
• Added “Decimals of precision” to the add network panel for Brave Wallet. (#19749)
  
• Added support for Brave Wallet to display custom chain and token icons. (#20000)
  
• Added token balances in Brave Wallet panel. (#20179)
  
• Added a “More” menu to the “Wallet Tab Bar” which includes “Lock Wallet”, “Back up now” and “Settings” for Brave Wallet. (#20339)
  
• Added CoingeckoID field into the “Add custom asset” form for Brave Wallet. (#20581)
  
• Added checkmark icon next to the currently selected account under the “Select Account” component for Brave Wallet. (#20549)
  
• Added chainID validation to the network settings page for Brave Wallet. (#20605)
  
• Added several custom chain and token icons into Brave Wallet. (#20687)
  
• Added “Unlimited approval requested” message to the Brave Wallet panel for swap. (#21198)
  
• Added a third option to Ledger accounts to support old derivation paths for Brave Wallet. (#21171)
  
• Added window.ethereum object when reloading pages. (#20993)
  
• Added “Connected sites” button to the “More” menu for Brave Wallet. (#20380)
  
• Added WebSockets connection pool limit when shields are enabled. (#19990)
  
• Updated description on Widevine prompt. (#9907)
  
• Updated P3A pings to use JSON format. (#15967)
  
• Updated UI on “Verify recovery phrase” screen of Brave Wallet to show seed words in red when they are not selected in the correct order. (#19736)
  
• Updated Brave Wallet not supported tooltip messaging to be more specific. (#19815)
  
• Updated the Brave Wallet “Accounts” page to support multiple networks. (#20333)
  
• Updated Crypto Wallet extension to stop when default wallet is set to a different selection. (#20905)
  
• Updated Brave Wallet to use “BlockchainToken.decimals” to limit decimal amounts on input fields based on token. (#20596)
  
• Updated “Open using IPFS” button text to “IPFS”. (#19591)
  
• Updated the “Local node” option to read “Brave local IPFS node” for “Method to resolve IPFS resources” setting under brave://settings/ipfs. (#17757)
  
• Updated subresource redirection to be limited on IPFS pages. (#20357)
  
• Updated user cosmetic filtering logic to apply on vetted search engine pages. (#19229)
  
• Updated setting name and description for “Automatically send diagnostic reports” under brave://settings/privacy for clarity. (#19822)
  
• Updated “Hide Brave Rewards button” setting text under brave://settings/appearance to be “Show Brave Rewards icon in address bar”. (#19695)
  
• Temporarily disabled EIP-1559 on Polygon and Avalanche. (#20652)
  
• Disabled background component updater on Windows. (#14105)
  
• Fixed PWA crashes on macOS. (#21302)
  
• Fixed clicking on “Solve” for adaptive CAPTCHA not working in certain cases. (#21311)
  
• Fixed position not being retained when adding a new visible asset to Brave Wallet. (#19352)
  
• Fixed rounded amounts on Brave Wallet transaction confirmation screen. (#19521)
  
• Fixed token name not showing on the Brave Wallet allow spend screen. (#19785)
  
• Fixed focus not being given to search field on swap screen for Brave Wallet. (#19788)
  
• Fixed reset of Brave Wallet not resetting selected chain without browser restart. (#19844)
  
• Fixed incorrect Brave Wallet legacy derivation path. (#19883)
  
• Fixed values being incorrectly truncated under the transaction confirmation screen in Brave Wallet. (#20432)
  
• Fixed formatting issue under Brave Wallet where large values were being converted into metric values. (#20535)
  
• Fixed gas fees not being converted into ETH in the Brave Wallet “Transaction details” panel. (#20941)
  
• Fixed “Maximum fee” under Brave Wallet not being updated when the base fee changes. (#21105)
  
• Fixed display issue with the hardware device selection menu under “Import from hardware wallet” for Brave Wallet when the window has been narrowed. (#20681)
  
• Fixed issues with casting votes with Ledger hardware wallet under https://snapshot.org using Brave Wallet. (#20864)
  
• Fixed “Insufficient Balance” not being displayed after clicking “Send” when input value is greater than available balance in Brave Wallet. (#21094)
  
• Fixed personalSign requests not working after connecting to https://lostpoets.xyz using Brave Wallet. (#20600)
  
• Fixed incorrect gas limit computation on Arbitrum. (#21084)
  
• Fixed “IPFS” button missing from URL bar in certain cases. (#20340)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 99.0.4844.51. (#21370) (Changelog for 99.0.4844.51)
  

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Release Notes V1.36.111 (Mar 7, 2022)​

• Added promotional banner to Brave Wallet. (#21224)
  

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• Fixed not being able to search through assets via the “Buy”, “Send” and “Swap” tabs under Brave Wallet. (#21263)
  

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Release Channel 1.36.116 for Windows and Linux

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• Added Brave Search as the default search engine for Tor windows. (#20583)
  
• Removed the Brave Rewards card from brave://welcome page. (#21400)
  
• Disabled brave://flags/#enable-lens-region-search by default. (#21442 1)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 99.0.4844.74 on Windows and Linux. (#21693) (Changelog for 99.0.4844.74)
  

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Release Channel 1.36.122 (desktop)

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• Upgraded Chromium to 99.0.4844.88. (#21889 1) (Changelog for 99.0.4844.88 2)
  

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Release Channel 1.37.109

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• [Security] Prevent Brave Wallet secrets potentially being saved to disk (credit: Halborn). (#21874)
  
• Added ability to add custom background images for New Tab Page. (#19640 1)
  
• Added ability to enable sidebar via brave://settings/appearance. (#21699)
  
• Added fee oracle for EIP-1559 to estimate priority fees in Brave Wallet. (#20469)
  
• Added swap functionality to Polygon network with 0x in Brave Wallet. (#21264)
  
• Added network icons under the various network selector buttons throughout Brave Wallet. (#20986)
  
• Added swaps for BSC, Avalanche, Optimism, Fantom, and Celo in Brave Wallet. (#21473)
  
• Added ability to disable Brave Wallet icon in the toolbar by right clicking and selecting “Hide Brave Wallet icon on toolbar”. (#19514)
  
• Added ability to hide balances via “hide” button under Brave Wallet. (#20838)
  
• Added network identifications to portfolio assets in Brave Wallet. (#20902)
  
• Added tool-tip to send button in Brave Wallet when button is in a disabled state. (#21053)
  
• Added message in Brave Rewards that warns users they have 90 days to claim ad earnings and solve CAPTCHA. (#17133 2)
  
• Added ability to to override page elements with “!important” styles using cosmetic filtering. (#20177 1)
  
• Added current version of IPFS component extension to brave://ipfs. (#18493)
  
• Improved selection of RPC URLs after input from chainlist.org with variables and wss:// (Affects Arbitrum). (#20958)
  
• Improved the webcompat reporter. (#20095)
  
• Improved adblocking by applying generic cosmetic filters from brave://adblock into “Standard” shields blocking mode. (#20855)
  
• Updated PageInfo version 2 to support IPFS links. (#19421)
  
• Updated IPFS toolbar icon to match both “Tor” and “Onion Available” icons. (#21092)
  
• Updated IPFS DNSLink URL resolution to “/ipns/”. (#20567)
  
• Moved IPNS menu items into a separate menu under the IPFS context menu. (#16998)
  
• Removed the “microsoft-edge” protocol from brave://settings/system. (#21553)
  
• Removed resize limitation for picture-in-picture windows. (#20789)
  
• Fixed DevTools setting changes not persisting once Brave is closed. (#20491)
  
• Fixed tipping with Gemini logging users out in certain cases. (#21591)
  
• Fixed update popup being displayed during the Sparkle update process on macOS. (#9562)
  
• Fixed transaction confirmation button in Brave Wallet not being disabled if estimated gas limit is zero. (#20259)
  
• Fixed Brave Wallet randomly crashing when current network is set as Arbitrum. (#21109)
  
• Fixed error when importing accounts using hardware wallets after Brave Wallet was reset via brave://settings/wallet. (#21137)
  
• Fixed the default wallet setting needing a new tab when moving from “Brave Wallet” setting to “Brave Wallet (prefer extensions)”. (#21571)
  
• Fixed styling issue in Brave Wallet that prevented the swap container from dynamically updating due to the errors being displayed. (#21061)
  
• Fixed addresses being duplicated when multiple keyrings are enabled in Brave Wallet. (#21015)
  
• Fixed various precision issues while formatting amounts in Brave Wallet. (#20994)
  
• Fixed transaction status not being updated in certain cases for pending transactions in Brave Wallet. (#21300 1)
  
• Fixed insufficient liquidity not being displayed on the swap button in Brave Wallet even though browser console logs the error. (#20467)
  
• Fixed assets with zero balance not being displayed in various panels in Brave Wallet. (#20955)
  
• Fixed URLs not being correctly redirected to the correct URL after unlocking Brave Wallet. (#19820)
  
• Fixed settings icon not being displayed correctly in Brave Wallet when dark theme is being used. (#20859)
  
• Fixed several Brave Wallet onboarding issues. (#19957)
  
• Fixed MetaMask importer being shown even though MetaMask wallet hasn’t been created. (#20799)
  
• Fixed DNSLink redirecting to either IPNS or IPFS depending on whether a DNS-CNAME-to-IPFS or DNS-IPNS-to-IPFS redirect is involved. (#20320)
  
• Fixed IPFS onboarding does not validate postmessage origin. (#21234)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 100.0.4896.60. (#21953) (Changelog for 100.0.4896.60)
  

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Release Channel 1.37.111​

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• Upgraded Chromium to 100.0.4896.79. (#22077 3) (Changelog for 100.0.4896.79 3)
  

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Release Channel 1.37.113​

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• Added default browser first time dialog on Windows. (#21464 1)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 100.0.4896.88. (#22221) (Changelog for 100.0.4896.88 1)