75.0.0-SNAPSHOT (In Development)

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  • browser-menu:
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue # - The browser menu will have it’s dynamic width calculated only once, before the first layout.
  • browser-menu
    • 🌟️ BrowserMenu support a bottom collapsed/expandable layout through a new ExpandableLayout that will wrap a menu layout before being used in a PopupWindow and automatically allow the collapse/expand behaviors.
    • To use this set isCollapsingMenuLimit = true for any menu item of a bottom anchored menu.
  • browser-toolbar
  • feature-session
    • 🚒️ **Various issues related to the dynamic toolbar and pull to refresh will be fixed with with GeckoView offering more details about how the touch event will be handled.
  • concept-engine
    • ⚠️ **EngineView#InputResult is deprecated in favor of InputResultDetail which offers more details about how a touch event will be handled.
  • feature-downloads:
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #9964 - Downloads notification strings are not localized.
  • service-nimbus
    • Added getExperimentBranches method to Nimbus for retrieving a list of experiment branches for a given experiment. issue #9895

74.0.0

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  • feature-downloads:
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #9821 - Crash for downloads inferred empty mime types.
  • intent-processing
    • 🌟️ Added support for opening links from ACTION_MAIN Intents. This Intents could the result of Intent.makeMainSelectorActivity(Intent.ACTION_MAIN, Intent.CATEGORY_APP_BROWSER) calls.
  • browser-toolbar
    • 🌟️ Added ToolbarBehaviorController to automatically block the BrowserToolbar being animated by the BrowserToolbarBehavior while the tab is loading. This new class just has to be initialized by AC clients, similar to ToolbarPresenter.
  • feature-downloads:
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #9757 - Remove downloads notification when private tabs are closed.
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #9789 - Canceled first PDF download prevents following attempts from downloading.
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #9823 - Downloads prompts do not show again when a user denies system permission twice.
  • concept-engine,browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly, browser-engine-system
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: EngineSession.enableTrackingProtection() and EngineSession.disableTrackingProtection() have been removed, please use EngineSession.updateTrackingProtection() instead , for more details see issue #9787.
  • feature-push
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Removed databasePath from RustPushConnection constructor and added context. The file path is now queries lazily.
  • feature-top-sites
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Replace TopSitesUseCases.renameTopSites with TopSitesUseCases.updateTopSites which allows for updating the title and the url of a top site. #9599
  • service-sync-autofill
    • Refactors AutofillCreditCardsAddressesStorage from browser-storage-sync into its own component. #9801
  • service-firefox-accounts,browser-storage-sync,service-nimbus,service-sync-logins
    • Due to a temporary build issue in the Application Services project, it is not currently possible to run some service-related unittests on a Windows host. #9731
  • service-firefox-accounts
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Removed the currently unused authorizeOAuthCode from FirefoxAccount API surface.
  • service-nimbus
    • Added UI components for displaying a list of active Nimbus experiments.
  • support-locale
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Extended support for locale changes. The LocaleManager can now handle notifications about Locale changes through LocaleUseCases, which are then reflected in the BrowserStore.
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #17190 - Private browsing notifications are updated with the correct language when the app locale is changed.

73.0.0

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  • All components
    • ⚠️Increased targetSdkVersion to 30 (Android R)
  • browser-toolbar
    • 🌟 Added BrowserToolbarBehavior#forceCollapse to easily collapse the top/bottom toolbar.
  • browser-toolbar
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: BrowserToolbarBottomBehavior is renamed to BrowserToolbarBehavior as it is now a common behavior for toolbars be them placed at the bottom or at the top of the screen.
  • feature-session
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: EngineViewBottomBehavior is renamed to EngineViewBrowserToolbarBehavior as it is now the glue between EngineView and BrowserToolbar irrespective of if the toolbar is placed at the bottom oir at the top of the EngineView.
  • feature-downloads:
    • 🌟 New ShareDownloadFeature will listen for AddShareAction and download, cache locally and then share internet resources.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: This is a breaking change with clients expected to create and register a new instance of the this new feature otherwise the “Share image” from the browser contextual menu will do nothing.
  • support-ktx
    • 🌟 Added Context.shareMedia that allows to easily share a specific locally stored file through the Android share menu.
  • feature-downloads:
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #9441 - Don’t ask for redundant system files permission if not required.
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #9526 - Downloads with generic content types use the correct file extension.
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #9553 - Multiple files were unable to be opened after being download.
  • feature-webauthn
    • 🆕 New component to enable support for WebAuthn specification with WebAuthnFeature.
  • feature-awesomebar
    • added SearchEngineSuggestionProvider that offers suggestion(s) for search engines based on user search engine list
  • browser-storage-sync
    • Added AutofillCreditCardsAddressesStorage implementation of the CreditCardsAddressesStorage interface back by the application-services’ autofill library.
  • concept-engine
    • Added defaultSettings: Settings? parameter to registerTabHandler to supply a default Tracking Policy when opening a new extension tab.
    • When calling onNewTab in registerTabHandler from GeckoWebExtension.kt a default TrackingProtectionPolicy.strict() is supplied to the new GeckoEngineSession. This was added in to avoid WebExtension tabs without any ETP settings.
  • concept-storage
    • Introduced CreditCardsAddressesStorage interface for describing credit card and address storage.
  • support-base
    • Add NamedThreadFactory, a ThreadFactory that names its threads with the given argument.
  • lib-state
    • Add threadNamePrefix parameter to Store to give threads created by the Store a specific name.
  • service-glean
    • 🆙 Updated Glean to version 35.0.0 (changelog)

72.0.0

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  • feature-prompts:
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #9471 - Confirm and alert js dialogs don’t show “OK” and “Cancel” buttons when the message is too long.
  • support-base
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Update the signature of ActivityResultHandler.onActivityResult to avoid conflict with internal Android APIs.
  • feature-addons
    • 🚒 Bug fixed [issue #9484] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/issues/9484) - Handle multiple add-ons update that require new permissions.
  • feature-top-sites
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Replaces includeFrecent with an optional frecencyConfig in TopSitesConfig and TopSitesStorage.getTopSites to specify the frecency threshold for the returned list of top frecent sites see #8690.
  • service-nimbus
  • Upgraded nimbus-sdk to enable getExperimentBranch() (and friends) to be callable from the main thread.
  • Split up updateExperiments() in to two methods: fetchExperiments() and applyPendingExperiments().
  • Exposed setExperimentsLocally() for testing and startup.

71.0.0

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  • feature-prompts:
    • 🚒 Bug fixed [issue #9351] Camera images are available even with “Don’t keep activities” enabled.
  • ui-autocomplete:
    • Pasting from the clipboard now cleans up any unwanted uri schemes.
  • support-utils:
    • 🌟 Added SafeUrl#stripUnsafeUrlSchemes that can cleanup unwanted uri schemes. Interested clients can specify what these are by overwriting “mozac_url_schemes_blocklist”.
  • concept-fetch:
    • 🌟 Added Request#private to allow requests to be performed in a private context, the feature is not support in all Clients check support before using.
  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • 🌟 Added support for Request#private.
  • feature-prompts:
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #9229 - Dismiss SelectLoginPrompt from the current tab when opening a new one ensuring the new one can show it’s own. When returning to the previous tab users should focus a login field to see the SelectLoginPrompt again.
    • PromptFeature now implements UserInteractionHandler.onBackPressed to dismiss loginPicker.
  • browser-session
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #9445 - LinkEngineSessionAction does not consider restoreState result.
  • feature-contextmenu
    • 🌟 New functionality issue #9392 - Add share and copy link context menu options to images.
  • feature-customtabs
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Multiple breaking changes after migrating feature-customtabs to use the browser store, CustomTabIntentProcessor requires AddCustomTabUseCase, CustomTabsToolbarFeature requires the BrowserStore and CustomTabsUseCases for more details see issue #4257.
  • feature-intent
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Multiple breaking changes after migrating feature-intent to use the browser store, TabIntentProcessor requires TabsUseCases and removes the openNewTab parameter, for more details see issue #4279.
  • feature-tabs
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: TabsUseCases now requires SessionStorage for more info see issue #9323.
  • browser-icons
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #7888 - Fixed crash when fetching icon with invalid URI scheme.
  • feature-media
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #9243 - Pausing YouTube Video for A While Causes Media Notification to Disappear.
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #9254 - Headphone control does not pause or play video.
  • support-webextensions
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #9210 - White page shown in custom tab when ublock blocks page.
  • feature-downloads:
    • Allow browsers to change the download notification accent color by providing Style() in AbstractFetchDownloadService, for more information see #9299.
  • feature-accounts-push
    • Rolling back to previous behaviour of renewing push registration token when the subscriptionExpired flag is observed.
  • browser-icons
    • Catch IOException that may be thrown when deleting icon caches.
  • feature-qr
    • QR Scanner can now scan inverted QR codes, by decoding inverted source when the decoding the original source fails.
  • feature-sitepermissions
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: The SitePermissions constructor, now parameter types for autoplayAudible and autoplayInaudible have changed to AutoplayStatus as autoplay permissions only support two status ALLOWED and BLOCKED.
  • feature-app-links
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Migrated this component to use browser-state instead of browser-session. It is now required to pass a BrowserStore instance (instead of SessionManager) to AppLinksFeature.
  • browser-toolbar
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: The API for showing the site permission indicators has been replaced to API to show an dot notification instead, for more information see #9378.
  • service-nimbus
    • Added a NimbusDisabled class to provide implementers who are not able to use Nimbus yet.
  • support-base
    • 🌟 Add an ActivityResultHandler for features that want to consume the result.
  • concept-engine,browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • 🌟 Added a new ActivityDelegate for handling intent requests from the engine.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: EngineSessionState.toJSON() has been removed for more details see issue #8370.
  • browser-engine-gecko(-nightly)
    • Added GeckoActivityDelegate for the GeckoView activityDelegate.
  • feature-tabs
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Removed the TabCounterToolbarButton#privateColor attribute which are replaced by the tabCounterTintColor Android styleable attribute.
  • lib-nearby, feature-p2p, samples-nearby
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Removed Nearby component and related samples.

70.0.0

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  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • Merge day!
      • browser-engine-gecko-release: GeckoView 84.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-beta: GeckoView 85.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-nightly: GeckoView 86.0
  • browser-toolbar
    • 🌟 Added API to show site permission indicators for more information see #9131.
  • browser-awesomebar:
    • Awesomebar can now be customized for bottom toolbar using the [customizeForBottomToolbar] property
  • service-numbus
    • Added a NimbusDisabled class to provide implementers who are not able to use Nimbus yet.

      69.0.0

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  • browser-session
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Session.searchTerms has been removed. Use ContentState.searchTerms (browser-state) instead.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Session.desktopMode has been removed. Use ContentState.desktopMode (browser-state) instead.
  • feature-search
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Use cases in SearchUseCases now take the ID of s session/tab as parameter instead of a Session instance.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: SearchUseCases no longer depends on SessionManager and requires a TabsUseCases instance now.
  • feature-tabs
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Use cases in TabsUseCases that previously returned a Session instance now return the ID of the Session.
  • support-test-libstate
    • Added CaptureActionsMiddleware: A Middleware implementation for unit tests that want to inspect actions dispatched on a Store.
  • feature-sitepermissions
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: The SitePermissionsRules constructor, now requires a new parameter mediaKeySystemAccess.
    • 🌟 Added support for EME permission prompts, see #7121.
  • browser-thumbnail
    • Catch IOException that may be thrown when deleting thumbnails.
  • browser-tabstray
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Support temporary hiding if a tab is selected. For this you should use partial bindings with PAYLOAD_(DONT_)HIGHLIGHT_SELECTED_ITEM; override TabsAdapter#isTabSelected for new item bindings; override TabViewHolder#updateSelectedTabIndicator.
  • concept-tabstray:
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: A new method - isTabSelected was added that exposes to clients an easy way to change what a “selected” tab means.

68.0.0

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  • ℹ️ Note that various AndroidX dependencies have been updated in this release.

  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8464 - Crash when confirming a prompt that was already confirmed
  • feature-downloads
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #9033 - Fix resuming downloads in slow networks more details see the Fenix issue.
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #9073 - Fix crash downloading a file with multiple dots on it, for more details see the Fenix issue.
  • feature-session
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #9109 - Tracking protection shield not getting updated after deleting exception by url Fenix issue.
  • feature-app-links
    • Added handling of PackageItemInfo.packageName NullPointerException on some Xiaomi and TCL devices
  • service-glean
    • 🆙 Updated Glean to version 33.1.2 (changelog)
  • feature-tab-collections:
    • [createCollection] now returns the id of the newly created collection
  • browser-errorpages:
    • ⚠️ The url encoded error page - error_page_js is now clean of inline code. Clients should not rely on inlined code anymore.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Removed the data url encoded error page - error_pages which was already deprecated by error_page_js.

67.0.0

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  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • Merge day!
      • browser-engine-gecko-release: GeckoView 83.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-beta: GeckoView 84.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-nightly: GeckoView 85.0
  • feature-sitepermissions
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8943 Refactor SwipeRefreshFeature to not use EngineSession.Observer, this result in multiple site permissions bugs getting fixed see fenix#8987 and fenix#16411.
  • feature-prompts
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8967 Crash when trying to upload a file see fenix#16537, for more information.
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8953 - Scroll to selected prompt choice if one exists.
  • feature-accounts-push
    • ⚠️ FxaPushSupportFeature now re-subscribes to push instead of triggering the registration renewal process - this is a temporary workaround and will be removed in the future, see #7143.
    • FxaPushSupportFeature now takes an optional crash reporter in the constructor.

66.0.0

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  • accounts-push
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8745 - Remove OneTimeFxaPushReset from FxaPushSupportFeature
      • ⚠️ This is a breaking change because the public API changes with the removal of the class.
  • feature-downloads
  • feature-search
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: SearchUseCases no longer requires a Context parameter in the constructor.
  • feature-sitepermissions
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: The SitePermissionsFeature’s constructor does not requires a sessionManager parameter anymore pass a store instead.
  • browser-session
    • SelectionAwareSessionObserver is now deprecated. All session state changes can be observed using the browser store (browser-state module).
  • feature-addons
    • AddonManager.getAddons() now accepts a new (optional) allowCache parameter to configure whether or not a cached response may be returned. This is useful in case a UI flow needs the most up-to-date addons list, or to support “refresh” functionality. By default, cached responses are allowed.
  • service-nimbus
    • Added new Nimbus rapid experiment library component. This is a Rust based component that is delivered to A-C through the appservices megazord. See the nimbus-sdk repo for more info.

65.0.0

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  • feature-tabs
    • Added TabsUseCases.RemoveTabsUseCase for removing an arbitrary list of tabs.
  • browser-state
    • Added TabListAction.RemoveTabsAction to BrowserAction.
  • feature-downloads
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8823 Downloads for data URLs were failing on nightly and beta more details in the Fenix issue.
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8847 crash when trying to download a file and switching from a normal to a private mode.
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8857 Sometimes it is not possible to dismiss download notifications see Fenix#15527 for more information.
  • feature-sitepermissions
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: The SitePermissionsFeature’s constructor, now requires a new parameter BrowserStore object.
    • 🌟 Moved sitePermissionsFeature from using session to using kotlin flow for observing content and app permission requests#8554
  • feature-addons
    • 🌟️ Added dividers for sections in add-ons list, see #8703.
  • feature-top-sites
    • Added RenameTopSiteUseCase to rename pinned site entries. #8751
  • browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • Adds optional PreferredColorScheme param to GeckoEngineView
    • On GeckoView init call coverUntilFirstPaint() with PreferredColorScheme
  • feature-push
    • Added disableRateLimit to PushConfig to allow for easier debugging of push during development.
    • Made AutoPushFeature aware of the PushConfig.disableRateLimit flag.
  • feature-accounts-push
    • Made FxaPushSupportFeature aware of the PushConfig.disableRateLimit flag.
  • support-base
    • Add LazyComponent, a wrapper around lazy that avoids initializing recursive dependencies until component use.

64.0.0

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  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • Exposes GeckoView CompositorController#ClearColor as Setting
  • browser-engine-system
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Renames blackListFile to blocklistFile.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Renames whiteListFile to safelistFile.
  • feature-addons
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #7879 Crash when the default locale is not part of the translations fields of an add-on
    • ⚠️ Removed Addon.translatedName, Addon.translatedSummary and Addon.translatedDescription and added Addon.translateName(context: Context), Addon.translateSummary(context: Context) and Addon.translateDescription(context: Context)
  • concept-engine
    • ⚠️ Removed TrackingCategory.SHIMMED, for user usability reasons, we are going to mark SHIMMED categories as blocked, to follow the same pattern as Firefox desktop for more information see #8769
  • feature-downloads

63.0.0

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  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • Merge day!
      • browser-engine-gecko-release: GeckoView 82.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-beta: GeckoView 83.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-nightly: GeckoView 84.0
  • feature-addons
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8681 Fenix was consuming a lot of extra space on disk, when an add-on update requires a new permission, more info can be found here ```
  • All components
  • Updated to Kotlin 1.4.10 and Coroutines 1.3.9.

  • Updated to Android Gradle plugin 4.0.1 (downstream projects need to update too).

  • service-glean
    • Glean was upgraded to v33.0.0
      • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Updated to the Android Gradle Plugin v4.0.1 and Gradle 6.5.1. Projects using older versions of these components will need to update in order to use newer versions of the Glean SDK.
  • browser-toolbar
    • Clear tint of tracking protection icon when animatable
  • concept-engine
    • Added MediaSession for the media session API.
    • 🌟 Added a new TrackingCategory.SHIMMED to indicate that content that would have been blocked has instead been replaced with a shimmed file. See more on Fenix #14071
  • browser-engine-gecko(-nightly)
    • Added GeckoMediaSessionController and GeckoMediaSessionDelegate for the media session API.
  • browser-state
    • Added MediaSessionState to SessionState.
    • Added MediaSessionAction to BrowserAction.
  • feature-sitepermissions
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: The SitePermissionsRules’s constructor, now requires a new parameter persistentStorage.
    • 🌟 Added support for the local storage site permission see #3153.
  • browser-toolbar
    • 🌟 Added API to add a click listener to the iconView.
  • feature-prompts
    • The repost prompt now has different text and will also dismiss the pull to refresh throbber.
  • lib-push-firebase
    • Upgrade Firebase Cloud Messaging to v20.3.0.
      • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: RemoteMessage is now non-null in onMessageReceived.

62.0.0

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  • browser-state
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: DownloadState doesn’t support Parcelable anymore.
  • feature-downloads
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8585 fixed regression files not been added to the downloads database system.
    • 🌟 Added new use cases for removing individual downloads (removeDownload) and all downloads (removeAllDownloads).
    • 🌟 Added support for new download GeckoView API.
  • service-glean
    • Glean was upgraded to v32.4.1
      • Update glean_parser to 1.28.6
        • BUGFIX: Ensure Kotlin arguments are deterministically ordered
      • BUGFIX: Transform ping directory size from bytes to kilobytes before accumulating to glean.upload.pending_pings_directory_size
  • feature-customtabs
    • The drawable for the Action button icon in custom tabs is now scaled to 24dp width an 24dp height.
  • support-images
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: ImageLoader and ImageRequest have moved to the concept-base component.
  • browser-session
    • 🚒 Bug fixed: Having a larger number of tabs slows down cold startup see more on #8535 and #7304.
  • browser-toolbar
    • 🚒 Bug fixed: Crash IllegalArgumentException BrowserGestureDetector$CustomScrollDetectorListener see more on #8356
  • feature-qr
    • 🚒 Bug fixed: Pair message show at every scan after you try to login using scan qr see #8537
  • feature-addons
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change for call sites that don’t rely on named arguments:
      • AddonCollectionProvider now supports configuring a custom collection owner (via AMO user ID or name).
      • AddonCollectionProvider now supports configuring the sort order of recommended collections, defaulting to sorting descending by popularity ```kotlin val addonCollectionProvider by lazy { AddonCollectionProvider( applicationContext, client, collectionUser = “16314372” collectionName = “myCollection”, sortOption = SortOption.NAME maxCacheAgeInMinutes = DAY_IN_MINUTES ) }
    • Temporary add-ons installed via web-ext are no longer displayed as unsupported.

61.0.0

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  • browser-session
    • Added “undo” functionality via UndoMiddleware.
  • feature-tabs
    • Added TabsUseCases.UndoTabRemovalUseCase for undoing the removal of tabs.
  • feature-webcompat-reporter
    • Added the ability to automatically add a screenshot as well as more technical details when submitting a WebCompat report.
  • feature-addons
    • Temporary add-ons installed via web-ext are no longer displayed as unsupported.
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8267 Devtools permission had wrong translation. ```
  • concept-menu
    • 🌟 Added AsyncDrawableMenuIcon class to use icons in a menu that will be loaded later.

60.0.0

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  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8431 update Session.trackerBlockingEnabled and SessionState#trackingProtection#enabled with the initial tracking protection state.
  • feature-tabs
    • Added TabsUseCases.removeNormalTabs() and TabsUseCases.removePrivateTabs().
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Removed TabsUseCases.removeAllTabsOfType().
  • browser-session
    • Added SessionManager.removeNormalSessions() and SessionManager.removePrivateSessions().
  • feature-downloads
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8456 Crash SQLiteConstraintException UNIQUE constraint failed: downloads.id (code 1555).
  • service-glean
    • Glean was upgraded to v32.4.0
      • Allow using quantity metric type outside of Gecko (#1198)
      • Update glean_parser to 1.28.5
        • The SUPERFLUOUS_NO_LINT warning has been removed from the glinter. It likely did more harm than good, and makes it hard to make metrics.yaml files that pass across different versions of glean_parser.
        • Expired metrics will now produce a linter warning, EXPIRED_METRIC.
        • Expiry dates that are more than 730 days (~2 years) in the future will produce a linter warning, EXPIRATION_DATE_TOO_FAR.
        • Allow using the Quantity metric type outside of Gecko.
        • New parser configs custom_is_expired and custom_validate_expires added. These are both functions that take the expires value of the metric and return a bool. (See Metric.is_expired and Metric.validate_expires). These will allow FOG to provide custom validation for its version-based expires values.
      • Add a limit of 250 pending ping files. (#1217).
      • Don’t retry the ping uploader when waiting, sleep instead. This avoids a never-ending increase of the backoff time (#1217).

59.0.0

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  • feature-downloads
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8354 Do not restart FAILED downloads.
  • browser-tabstray
    • Removed the BrowserTabsTray that was deprecated in previous releases.
  • service-telemetry
    • This library has been removed. Please use service-glean instead.
  • service-glean
    • Glean was upgraded to v32.3.2
      • Track the size of the database file at startup (#1141).
      • Submitting a ping with upload disabled no longer shows an error message (#1201).
      • BUGFIX: scan the pending pings directories after dealing with upload status on initialization. This is important, because in case upload is disabled we delete any outstanding non-deletion ping file, and if we scan the pending pings folder before doing that we may end up sending pings that should have been discarded. (#1205)
      • Move logic to limit the number of retries on ping uploading “recoverable failures” to glean-core. (#1120)
      • The functionality to limit the number of retries in these cases was introduced to the Glean SDK in v31.1.0. The work done now was to move that logic to the glean-core in order to avoid code duplication throughout the language bindings.
      • Update glean_parser to v1.28.3
        • BUGFIX: Generate valid C# code when using Labeled metric types.
        • BUGFIX: Support HashSet and Dictionary in the C# generated code.
      • Add a 10MB quota to the pending pings storage. (#1100)
      • Handle ping registration off the main thread. This removes a potential blocking call (#1132).
  • feature-syncedtabs
    • Added support for indicators to synced tabs AwesomeBar suggestions.
  • feature-addons
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: The Addon.translatePermissions now requires a context object and returns a list of localized strings instead of a list of id string resources.
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8323 Add-on permission dialog does not prompt for host permissions.

58.0.0

57.0.0

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  • feature-search
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: SearchFeature.performSearch now takes a second parameter.
    • BrowserStoreSearchAdapter and SearchFeature can now take a tabId parameter.
  • feature-top-sites
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Renames TopSiteStorage to PinnedSitesStorage.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Renames TopSiteDao to PinnedSiteDao.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Renames TopSiteEntity to PinnedSiteEntity.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Replaces TopSite interface with a new generic TopSite data class.
    • Implements TopSitesFeature based on the RFC 0006-top-sites-feature.md.
    • Downloads, redirect targets, reloads, embedded resources, and frames are no longer considered for inclusion in top sites. Please see this Application Services PR for more details.
  • lib-push-firebase
    • Removed non-essential dependency on com.google.firebase:firebase-core.
  • lib-crash
    • Crash report timestamp is now set to when the crash occurred.
    • When breadcrumbs limit is reached, oldest breadcrumbs are dropped.
  • feature-toolbar
    • Added ContainerToolbarFeature to update the toolbar with the container page action whenever the selected tab changes.
  • browser-state
    • Added LastAccessMiddleware to dispatch TabSessionAction.UpdateLastAccessAction when a tab is selected.
  • feature-prompts
    • Replaced generic icon in LoginDialogFragment with site icon (keep the generic one as fallback)
  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8240 Crash when dismissing Share dialog.
  • feature-downloads
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: AndroidDownloadManager.download returns a Strings, AndroidDownloadManager.tryAgain requires a Strings id parameter.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: ConsumeDownloadAction requires a Strings id parameter.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: DownloadManager#onDownloadStopped requires a Strings (DownloadState, Long, Status) -> Unit.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: DownloadsUseCases.invoke requires an Strings downloadId parameter.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: DownloadState.id has changed its type from Long to String.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: BrowserState.downloads has changed it’s type from Map<Long, DownloadState> to Map<String, DownloadState>.
    • 🌟 Added support for persisting/restoring downloads see issue #7762.
    • 🌟 Added DownloadStorage for querying stored download metadata.
    • 🚒 Bug issue #8190 ArithmeticException: divide by zero in Download notification.
    • 🚒 Bug issue #8363 IllegalStateException: Not allowed to start service Intent.
  • ui-widgets
    • 🆕 New VerticalSwipeRefreshLayout that comes to resolve many of the issues of the platform SwipeRefreshLayout and filters out other gestures than swipe down/up.

56.0.0

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  • feature-prompts
    • 🌟 Added optional LoginPickerView and onManageLogins params to PromptFeature for a new [LoginPicker] to display a view for selecting one of multiple matching saved logins to fill into a site.
  • concept-tabstray
    • 🌟 Added onTabsUpdated to TabsTray.Observer for notifying observers when one or more tabs have been added/removed.
  • browser-tabstray
    • 🌟 Added the convenience function TabsAdapter.doOnTabsUpdated for performing actions only once when the tabs are updated.
  • feature-app-links
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8169 App links dialog will now call showNow to immediately show the dialog.
  • browser-thumbnails
    • 🌟 Exposed BrowserThumbnail.requestThumbnail API for consumers.
  • browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • 🌟 Added onPaintStatusReset when a session’s paint has been reset.
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8123 Fix history title crash.
  • **browser-engine-gecko-beta and **browser-engine-gecko **
  • concept-menu
    • 🌟 Added MenuStyle class to set menu background and width.
  • browser-menu
    • 🌟 Added style parameter to BrowserMenu.show.
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8223: Fix compound drawable position for RTL.
  • browser-menu2
    • 🌟 Added style parameter to BrowserMenuController.
  • ui-widgets
    • 🌟 Added widget for showing a website in a list, such as in bookmarks or history. The mozac_primary_text_color and mozac_caption_text_color attributes should be set.
  • browser-icons
    • 🌟 Expose BrowserIcons.clear() as a public API to remove all saved data from disk and memory caches.
  • feature-downloads
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8202: Download’s ui were always showing failed status.
  • feature-pwa
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: The SiteControlsBuilder interface has changed. buildNotification now takes two parameters: Context and Notification.Builder.
    • WebAppSiteControlsFeature now supports displaying monochrome icons.
  • service-glean
    • Glean was updated to v32.1.1
      • Support installing glean_parser in offline mode.
      • Fix a startup crash on some Android 8 (SDK=25) devices, due to a bug in the Java compiler.
  • feature-readerview
    • 🚒 Bug fixed issue #8208: Add a link to the original page in Reader Mode.
  • feature-addons
    • 🌟 Feature issue #8200: “users” in add-ons manager should be renamed to “reviews”.

55.0.0

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  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • Fixed issue #7983, crash when a file name wasn’t provided when uploading a file.
  • service-glean
    • Glean was updated to v32.1.0
      • The rate limiter now allows 15, rather than 10, pings per minute.
  • storage-sync
    • Fixed issue #8011 PlacesConnectionBusy: Error executing SQL: database is locked.
  • feature-app-links
    • Fixed issue #8122 App link redirecting to Play Store, rather than to installed app.

54.0.0

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  • concept-menu
    • Added orientation parameter to MenuController.show. Passing null (the default) tells the menu to determine the best orientation itself.
  • browser-menu2
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: BrowserMenuController.show no longer supports the width parameter.
  • feature-app-links
    • Added loadUrlUseCase as a parameter for AppLinksFeature. This is used to load the URL if the user decides to not launch the link in the external app.
  • concept-awesomebar
    • Added AwesomeBar.setOnEditSuggestionListener() to register a callback when a search term is selected to be edited further.
  • browser-toolbar
    • BrowserToolbar.setSearchTerms() can now be called during State.EDIT
  • browser-awesomebar
    • The view of DefaultSuggestionViewHolder now contains a button to select a search term for further editing. Clicking it will invoke the callback registered in BrowserAwesomeBar.setOnEditSuggestionListener()
  • browser-menu
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Removed SimpleBrowserMenuHighlightableItem.itemType. Use a WeakMap instead if you need to attach private data.
  • browser-menu
    • For a11y, BrowserMenuImageSwitch now highlights the entire row, not just the switch
  • concept-engine
    • Added the cookiePurging property to TrackingProtectionPolicy and TrackingProtectionPolicyForSessionTypes constructors to enable/disable cookie purging feature read more about it here.
  • browser-engine-nightly
    • Added cookiePurging to TrackingProtectionPolicy.toContentBlockingSetting.
  • feature-addons
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Unified addons icons design with the one of favicons used all throughout the app. Specifying a different background is not possible anymore.

53.0.0

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  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • Merge day!
      • browser-engine-gecko: GeckoView 79.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-beta: GeckoView 80.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-nightly: GeckoView 81.0
  • feature-downloads
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Removed the following properties from DownloadJobState in AbstractFetchDownloadService and added to DownloadState: DownloadJobStatus (now renamed to DownloadStatus) and currentBytesCopied. These properties can now be read from DownloadState.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Removed the enum class DownloadJobStatus from AbstractFetchDownloadService and moved into DownloadState, and removed the ACTIVE state while introducing two new states called INITIATED and DOWNLOADING.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Renamed the following data classes from BrowserAction: QueuedDownloadAction to AddDownloadAction, RemoveQueuedDownloadAction to RemoveDownloadAction, RemoveAllQueuedDownloadsAction to RemoveAllDownloadsAction, and UpdateQueuedDownloadAction to UpdateDownloadAction.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Renamed queuedDownloads from BrowserState to downloads .
    • Removed automatic deletion of downloads upon a completed download.
    • 🆕 Added support for choosing a third party app to perform a download.
  • browser-menu
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: BrowserMenuItemToolbar.Button.longClickListener is now nullable and defaults to null.
  • concept-menu
    • Added SmallMenuCandidate.onLongClick to handle long click of row menu buttons.
  • service-glean
    • Glean was updated to v31.6.0
      • Limit ping request body size to 1MB. (#1098)
      • BUGFIX: Require activities executed via GleanDebugView to be exported.
  • feature-downloads
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: DownloadsFeature is no longer accepting a custom download dialog but supporting customizations via the promptStyling parameter. The dialog parameter was unused so far. If it’s required in the future it will need to be replaced with a lambda or factory so that the feature can create instances of the dialog itself, as needed.
  • feature-webcompat-reporter
    • Added a second parameter to the install method: productName allows to provide a unique product name per usage for automatic product-labelling on webcompat.com
  • feature-contextmenu
    • Do not show the “Download link” option for html URLs.
    • Uses a speculative check, may not work in all cases.
  • ui-widgets
    • Added shared ImageView style for favicons. The mozac_widget_favicon_background_color and mozac_widget_favicon_border_color attributes should be set, then style="@style/Mozac.Widgets.Favicon" can be added to an ImageView.

52.0.0

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  • browser-icons
    • Added BrowserIcons.clear() to remove all saved data from disk and memory caches.
  • support-images
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Removed ImageLoader.loadIntoView(view: ImageView, id: String) extension function.
  • service-glean
    • Glean was updated to v31.6.0
      • Implement ping tagging (i.e. the X-Source-Tags header) (#1074). Note that this is not yet implemented for iOS.
      • String values that are too long now record invalid_overflow rather than invalid_value through the Glean error reporting mechanism. This affects the string, event and string list metrics.
      • metrics.yaml files now support a data_sensitivity field to all metrics for specifying the type of data collected in the field.
      • Allow defining which Activity to run next when using the GleanDebugActivity.
      • Implement JWE metric type (#1073, #1062).
      • DEPRECATION: getUploadEnabled is deprecated (respectively get_upload_enabled in Python) (#1046)
        • Due to Glean’s asynchronous initialization the return value can be incorrect. Applications should not rely on Glean’s internal state. Upload enabled status should be tracked by the application and communicated to Glean if it changes. Note: The method was removed from the C# and Python implementation.
      • Update glean_parser to v1.28.1
        • The glean_parser linting was leading consumers astray by incorrectly suggesting that deletion-request be instead deletion_request when used for send_in_pings. This was causing metrics intended for the deletion-request ping to not be included when it was collected and submitted. Consumers that are sending metrics in the deletion-request ping will need to update the send_in_pings value in their metrics.yaml to correct this.
        • Fixes a bug in doc rendering.
  • feature-syncedtabs
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Adds context to the constructor of SyncedTabsFeature.
  • browser-tabstray
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: The BrowserTabsTray is now deprecated. Using a RecyclerView directly is now recommended.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: ViewHolderProvider no longer has a second param.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: TabsAdapter has a styling field TabsTrayStyling.
  • browser-menu2
    • Added new component to replace browser-menu. menu2 uses immutable data types and better integrates with BrowserStore.
  • concept-menu
    • Added concept component to contain data classes for menu items and interfaces for menu controllers.
  • browser-toolbar
    • Added support for the new MenuController interface for menu2. When a menu controller is added to a toolbar, it will be used in place of the BrowserMenuBuilder. The builder will supply items to the MenuController in invalidateMenu if it is kept.
  • feature-containers
    • Adds a ContainerMiddleware that connects container browser actions with the ContainerStorage.
  • feature-app-links
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: add lastUri as a parameter for AppLinksInterceptor.
  • concept-engine, browser-engine-*
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: add lastUri as a parameter for RequestInterceptor.onLoadRequest.
  • support-ktx
    • Added Vibrator.vibrateOneShot compat method.

51.0.0

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  • browser-session
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Removed the following properties from Session: findResults, hitResult, fullScreenMode and layoutInDisplayCutoutMode. The values still exist in BrowserState and can be read from there.
  • support-images
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Removed ImageRequest in favor of ImageSaveRequest and ImageLoadRequest to separate the information passed to methods that load and save images.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: ImageLoader.loadIntoView() now takes an ImageSaveRequest instead of an ImageRequest.
  • browser-thumbnails
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: ThumbnailStorage.saveThumbnail() now takes an ImageSaveRequest instead of an ImageRequest.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: ThumbnailStorage.loadThumbnail() now takes an ImageLoadRequest instead of an ImageRequest.
  • feature-addons
    • AddonManager now receives a WebExtensionRuntime instead of an Engine. This has no impact to consumers of feature-addons as Engine already implements WebExtensionRuntime.
  • browser-session
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Session.Source was moved to browser-state and is now SessionState.Source. No change is required other than fixing imports.
  • browser-engine-beta
    • Added TrackingProtectionPolicy.toContentBlockingSetting extension methods to convert a policy to GeckoView’s ContentBlocking.Setting.
  • browser-engine-nightly
    • Added TrackingProtectionPolicy.toContentBlockingSetting extension methods to convert a policy to GeckoView’s ContentBlocking.Setting.
    • Added checks to not apply the same policy twice if they are the same as already on the engine.
  • feature-pwa
    • Added ManifestStorage.loadShareableManifests to get manifest with a WebAppManifest.ShareTarget.
  • support-ktx
    • Add Activity.reportFullyDrawnSafe, a function to call Activity.reportFullyDrawn while catching crashes under some circumstances.

50.0.0

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  • feature-session
    • Added SessionFeature.release(): Calling this method stops the feature from rendering sessions on the EngineView (until explicitly started again) and releases an already rendering session from the EngineView.
    • Added SessionUseCases.goToHistoryIndex to allow consumers to jump to a specific index in a session’s history.
    • Added flags parameter to ReloadUrlUseCase.
  • support-ktx
    • Adds Bundle.contentEquals function to check if two bundles are equal.
  • concept-engine
    • Added EngineSession.goToHistoryIndex to jump to a specific index in a session’s history.
    • Adds flags parameter to reload.
  • service-glean
    • Glean was updated to v31.4.1
      • Remove locale from baseline ping. (1609968, #1016)
      • Persist X-Debug-ID header on store ping. (1605097, #1042)
      • BUGFIX: raise an error if Glean is initialized with an empty string as the application_id (#1043).
      • Enable debugging features through environment variables. (#1058)
      • BUGFIX: fix int32 to ErrorType mapping. The InvalidOverflow had a value mismatch between glean-core and the bindings. This would only be a problem in unit tests. (#1063)
      • Enable propagating options to the main product Activity when using the GleanDebugActivity.
      • BUGFIX: Fix the metrics ping collection for startup pings such as reason=upgrade to occur in the same thread/task as Glean initialize. Otherwise, it gets collected after the application lifetime metrics are cleared such as experiments that should be in the ping. (#1069)
  • service-location
    • LocationService.hasRegionCached() is introduced to query if the region is already cached and a long running operation to fetch the region is not needed.
  • browser-state
    • Added map of SessionState.contextId and their respective ContainerState in BrowserState to track the state of a container.
  • browser-menu
    • Added an optional longClickListener parameter to BrowserMenuItemToolbar.Button and BrowserMenuItemToolbar.TwoStateButton to handle long click events.

49.0.0

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  • feature-session
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: FullScreenFeature, SettingsUseCases, SwipeRefreshFeature and SessionFeature now require a BrowserStore instead of a SessionManager.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: SessionFeature now requires an EngineSessionUseCases instance.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: TrackingProtectionUseCases now requires a BrowserStore instead of a SessionManager.
  • feature-tabs
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: TabsUseCases.AddNewTabUseCase and TabsUseCases.AddNewPrivateTabUseCase now require a BrowserStore instead of a SessionManager.
  • browser-session
    • SessionManager.getEngineSession() is now deprecated. From now on please read EngineSession instances of tabs from BrowserState.
  • service-sync-logins
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: removed isAutofillEnabled lambda from GeckoLoginStorageDelegate because setting has been exposed through GV
  • concept-engine
    • Adds profiler property with isProfilerActive, getProfilerTime and addMarker Firefox Profiler APIs. These will allow to add profiler markers.
  • support-ktx
    • Adds Resources.getSpanned to format strings using style spans.
    • Adds Resources.locale to get the corresponding locale on all SDK versions.
  • feature-logins
    • 🆕 New component for logins related features.
    • Adds LoginExceptionStorage for storing and accessing save login prompt exceptions.
  • feature-prompts
    • Added an optional LoginExceptions param that a storage layer can implement to check for exceptions before showing a save login prompt.

48.0.0

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  • feature-intent
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: IntentProcessor.process is not a suspend function anymore.
  • feature-search
    • Adds optional parentSession to attach to a new search session in SearchUseCases
  • feature-contextmenu
    • Add “Share image” to context menu.
  • feature-session
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: AbstractCustomTabsService now requires CustomTabsServiceStore.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: httpClient and apiKey have been removed from AbstractCustomTabsService. They should be replaced with building DigitalAssetLinksApi and passing it to relationChecker.
    • Added relationChecker to customize Digital Asset Links handling.
  • feature-pwa
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: TrustedWebActivityIntentProcessor now requires a RelationChecker instead of httpClient and apiKey.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Removed unused API from WebAppShortcutManager: uninstallShortcuts
    • WebAppShortcutManager gained a new API: recentlyUsedWebAppsCount. Allows counting recently used web apps.
  • browser-thumbnails
    • The ThumbnailMiddleware deletes the tab’s thumbnail from the storage when the sessions are removed.
    • BrowserThumbnails waits for the firstContentfulPaint before requesting a screenshot.
  • feature-tabs
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Removes unused ThumbnailsUseCases since we now load thumbnails via ThumbnailLoader. See #7313.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Removes ThumbnailsUseCases as a parameter in TabsFeature and TabsTrayPresenter.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Change the id parameter to accept a new ImageRequest in ImageLoader, which allows consumers of ThumbnailLoader to specify the preferred image size along with the id when loading an image.
  • feature-privatemode
    • Add PrivateNotificationFeature to display a notification when private sessions are open.
  • service-glean
    • Glean was updated to v31.2.3
      • BUGFIX: Correctly format the date and time in the Date header
      • Feature: Add rate limiting capabilities to the upload manager
      • BUGFIX: baseline pings with reason “dirty startup” are no longer sent if Glean did not full initialize in the previous run
      • BUGFIX: Compile dependencies with NDEBUG to avoid linking unavailable symbols. This fixes a crash due to a missing stderr symbol on older Android.
      • BUGFIX: Fix mismatch in events keys and values by using glean_parser version 1.23.0.
  • feature-webnotifications
    • WebNotificationFeature checks the site permissions first before showing a notification.
    • Notifications with a long text body are now expandable to show the full text.
  • feature-addons
    • Add Addon.createdAtDate and Addon.updatedAtDate extensions to get Addon.createdAt and Addon.updatedAt as a Date.

47.0.0

46.0.0

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  • concept-engine
    • Exposed GeckoRuntimeSettings#setLoginAutofillEnabled to control whether login forms should be automatically filled in suitable situations
  • browser-icons
  • feature-downloads
    • On devices older than Q we were not adding downloads to the system download database for more information see #7230
  • browser-storage-sync
    • Added getTopFrecentSites to PlacesHistoryStorage, which returns a list of the top frecent site infos sorted by most to least frecent.
  • local development
    • Enable local Gradle Build Cache to speed-up local builds. Build cache is located in .build-cache/, clear it if you run into strange problems and please file an issue.
  • support-rustlog
    • RustLog.enable now takes an optional [CrashReporting] instance which is used to submit error-level log messages as RustErrorExceptions.
  • feature-push
    • Fixed a bug where we do not verify subscriptions on first attempt.
  • feature-prompts
    • Select a regular tab first if that exists before checking custom tabs.
  • feature-session
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: SettingsUseCases now requires an engine reference, to clear speculative sessions if engine settings change.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: PictureInPictureFeature now takes BrowserStore instead of SessionManager.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: The pipChanged callback has been removed. You should now observe ContentState.pictureInPictureEnabled instead.
  • feature-containers
    • Adds a new storage component to store containers (contextual identities) in a Room database and provides the necessary APIs to get, add and remove containers.
  • feature-webnotifications
    • Adds support for displaying the source URL the WebNotification originated from.
  • feature-tabs
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: TabsFeature now supports providing custom use case implementations. Therefore, an instance of SelectTabUseCase and RemoveTabUseCase have to be provided.
  • support-ktx
    • Added Uri.sameHostAs to check if two Uris have the same host (both http/https, both same domain).
    • Added Uri.sameOriginAs to check if two Uris have the same origin (same host, same port).
    • Added Uri.isInScope to check if a Uri is within one of the given scopes.
  • browser-state
    • Added ContentState.pictureInPictureEnabled to track if Picture in Picture mode is in use.
  • feature-pwa
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: WebAppHideToolbarFeature now takes BrowserStore instead of SessionManager. trustedScopes is now derived from CustomTabsServiceStore and WebAppManifest. setToolbarVisibility should now be used set the visibility of the toolbar.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: onToolbarVisibilityChange has been removed. You should now observe BrowserStore instead.
  • feature-tab-collections:
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: TabCollectionStorage.getCollections now returns Flow instead of LiveData. Use Flow.asLiveData to convert the result into a LiveData again.
  • feature-top-sites:
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: TopSiteStorage.getTopSites now returns Flow instead of LiveData. Use Flow.asLiveData to convert the result into a LiveData again.
  • service-glean
    • Glean was updated to v31.1.1
      • Smaller binary library after a big dependency was dropped
      • Limit the number of upload retries in all implementations
  • support-images:
    • Added ImageLoader API for loading images directly into an ImageView.
  • browser-tabstray:
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: TabsAdapter and DefaultTabViewHolder take an optional ImageLoader for loading browser thumbnails.
    • Fixed a bug in TabsThumbnailView where the scaleFactor was not applied all the time when expected.
  • browser-menu:
    • DynamicWidthRecyclerView will still be able to have a dynamic width between xml set minWidth and maxWidth attributes but we’ll now enforce the following:
      • minimum width 112 dp
      • maximum width - screen width minus a 48dp tappable “exit area”

45.0.0

  • ⚠️ This release can’t be used due to a bad build.

44.0.0

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  • browser-engine-gecko-nightly
  • feature-tabs
    • Added an optional ThumbnailsUseCases to TabsFeature and TabsTrayPresenter for loading a tab’s thumbnail.
  • browser-thumbnails
    • Adds LoadThumbnailUseCase in ThumbnailsUseCases for loading the thumbnail of a tab.
    • Adds ThumbnailStorage as a storage layer for handling saving and loading a thumbnail from the disk cache.
  • feature-push
    • Adds the getSubscription call to check if a subscription exists.
  • browser-engine-gecko-*
    • Fixes GeckoWebPushDelegate to gracefully return when a subscription is not available.
  • feature-session
    • Removes unused ThumbnailsFeature since this has been refactored into its own browser-thumbnails component in #6827.
  • browser-state
    • Adds BrowserState.getNormalOrPrivateTabs(private: Boolean) to get normalTabs or privateTabs based on a boolean condition.
  • support-utils
    • URLStringUtils.isURLLikeStrict, deprecated in 40.0.0, was now removed due to performance issues. Use the less strict and much faster isURLLike instead or customize based on :lib-publicsuffixlist.
  • support-ktx
    • String.isUrlStrict, deprecated in 40.0.0, was now removed due to performance issues. Use the less strict isURL instead or customize based on :lib-publicsuffixlist.
  • service-glean
    • Glean was updated to v31.0.2
      • Provide a new upload mechanism, now driven by internals. This has no impact to consumers of service-glean.
      • Automatically Gzip-compress ping payloads before upload
      • Upgrade glean_parser to v1.22.0

43.0.0

  • Commits
  • Milestone
  • Dependencies
  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • feature-downloads
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: DownloadManager and DownloadService are now using the browser store to keep track of queued downloads. Therefore, an instance of the store needs to be provided when constructing manager and service. There’s also a new DownloadMiddleware which needs to be provided to the store.
     val store by lazy {
      BrowserStore(middleware = listOf(
          MediaMiddleware(applicationContext, MediaService::class.java),
          DownloadMiddleware(applicationContext, DownloadService::class.java),
          ...
      ))
  }
)

val feature = DownloadsFeature(
    requireContext().applicationContext,
    store = components.store,
    useCases = components.downloadsUseCases,
    fragmentManager = childFragmentManager,
    onDownloadStopped = { download, id, status ->
        Logger.debug("Download done. ID#$id $download with status $status")
    },
    downloadManager = FetchDownloadManager(
        requireContext().applicationContext,
        components.store, // Store needs to be provided now
        DownloadService::class
    ),
    tabId = sessionId,
    onNeedToRequestPermissions = { permissions ->
        requestPermissions(permissions, REQUEST_CODE_DOWNLOAD_PERMISSIONS)
    }
)

class DownloadService : AbstractFetchDownloadService() {
  override val httpClient by lazy { components.core.client }
  override val store: BrowserStore by lazy { components.core.store } // Store needs to be provided now
}
    • Fixed issue #6893.
    • Add notification grouping to downloads Fenix issue #4910.
  • feature-tabs
    • Makes TabsAdapter open to subclassing.
  • feature-intent
    • Select existing tab by url when trying to open a new tab in TabIntentProcessor
  • feature-media
    • Adds MediaFullscreenOrientationFeature to autorotate activity while in fullscreen based on media aspect ratio.
  • support-images
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Extracts AndroidIconDecoder, IconDecoder and DesiredSize out of browser-icons into a new component support-images, which provides helpers for handling images. AndroidIconDecoder and IconDecoder are renamed to AndroidImageDecoder and ImageDecoder in support-images.
  • support-utils
    • URLStringUtils.isURLLike() will now consider URLs containing double dash (“–”) as valid.
  • browser-thumbnails
    • Adds ThumbnailDiskCache for storing and restoring thumbnail bitmaps into a disk cache.
  • concept-engine
    • Adds onHistoryStateChanged method and corresponding HistoryItem data class.
  • browser-state
    • Adds history to ContentState to check the back and forward history list.
  • service-glean
    • BUGFIX: Fix a race condition that leads to a ConcurrentModificationException. Bug 1635865
  • browser-menu
    • Added AbstractParentBrowserMenuItem and ParentBrowserMenuItem for handling nested sub menu items on view click.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: WebExtensionBrowserMenuBuilder now returns as a sub menu entry for add-ons. The sub menu also contains an access entry for Add-ons Manager, for which onAddonsManagerTapped needs to be passed in the constructor.
  • feature-syncedtabs
    • When the SyncedTabsFeature is started it syncs the devices and account first.

42.0.0

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  • Dependencies
  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • browser-state
    • Adds firstContentfulPaint to ContentState to know if first contentful paint has happened.
  • service-glean
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Glean’s configuration now requires explicitly setting an http client. Users need to pass one at construction. A default lib-fetch-httpurlconnection implementation is available. Add it to the configuration object like this: val config = Configuration(httpClient = ConceptFetchHttpUploader(lazy { HttpURLConnectionClient() as Client })). See PR #6875 for details and full code examples.
  • browser-store
    • Added webAppManifest property to ContentState.
  • feature-qr
    • Added CustomViewFinder, a View that shows a ViewFinder positioned in center of the camera view and draws an Overlay
    • Added optional String resource scanMessage param to QrFeature for adding a message below the viewfinder
  • service-experiments
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Mako’s configuration now requires explicitly setting an http client. Users need to pass one at construction.
  • feature-prompts
    • Added mozacPromptLoginEditTextCursorColor attribute to be able to change cursor color of TextInputEditTexts from mozac_feature_prompt_login_prompt.

41.0.0

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  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • feature-tabs
    • Fixed issue #6907. Uses MediaState when mapping BrowserState to tabs.
  • concept-tabstray
    • For issue #6907. Adds Media.State to Tab
  • feature-session
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Added optional crashReporting param to [PictureInPictureFeature] so we can record caught exceptions.
  • feature-downloads
  • feature-addons
    • Added optional addonAllowPrivateBrowsingLabelDrawableRes DrawableRes parameter to AddonPermissionsAdapter.Style constructor to allow the clients to add their own drawable. This is used to clearly label the WebExtensions that run in private browsing.
  • browser-menu
    • BrowserMenu will now support dynamic width based on two new attributes: mozac_browser_menu_width_min and mozac_browser_menu_width_max.
  • browser-tabstray
    • Added optional itemDecoration DividerItemDecoration parameter to BrowserTabsTray constructor to allow the clients to add their own dividers. This is used to ensure setting divider item decoration after setAdapter() is called.
  • service-glean
    • Glean was updated to v29.1.0
      • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: glinter errors found during code generation will now return an error code.
      • The minimum and maximum values of a timing distribution can now be controlled by the time_unit parameter. See bug 1630997 for more details.
  • feature-accounts
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Refactored component to use browser-state instead of browser-session. The FxaWebChannelFeature now requires a BrowserStore instance instead of a SessionManager.
  • lib-push-fcm, lib-push-adm, concept-push
    • Allow nullable encoding values in push messsages. If they are null, we attempt to use aes128gcm for encoding.
  • browser-toolbar
    • It will only be animated for vertical scrolls inside the EngineView. Not for horizontal scrolls. Not for zoom gestures.
  • browser-thumbnails
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Migrated this component to use browser-state instead of browser-session. It is now required to pass a BrowserStore instance (instead of SessionManager) to BrowserThumnails.

40.0.0

  • Commits
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  • Dependencies
  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • browser-tabstray
    • Converts TabViewHolder to an abstract class with DefaultTabViewHolder as the default implementation.
    • Replaces layoutId with viewHolderProvider in the TabsAdapter for allowing tab customization.
  • concept-engine
    • Adds Fingerprinter to the recommended Tracking protection policy.
  • support-locale
    • Adds Android 8.1 to the check in setLayoutDirectionIfNeeded inside LocaleAwareAppCompatActivity
  • feature-top-sites
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Added isDefault to the top site entity, which allows application to specify a default top site that is added by the application. This is called through TopSiteStorage.addTopSite.
      • If your application is using Nightly Snapshots of v40.0.0, please test that the Top Sites feature still works and update to the latest v40.0.0 if any schema errors are encountered.
  • feature-push
    • Simplified error handling and reduced non-fatal exception reporting.
  • support-base
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: CrashReporting allowing adding support for recordCrashBreadcrumb without lib-crash dependency.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Breadcrumb has moved from lib-crash to this component.
  • support-utils
    • URLStringUtils.isURLLikeStrict is now deprecated due to performance issues. Consider using the less strict isURLLike instead or creating a new method using :lib-publicsuffixlist.
  • support-ktx
    • String.isUrlStrict is now deprecated due to performance issues. Consider using the less strict isURL instead or creating a new method using :lib-publicsuffixlist.
  • browser-menu
    • Added SimpleBrowserMenuHighlightableItem which is a simple menu highlightable item (no images/icons).
  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
  • service-firefox-accounts
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: FxaAccountManager.withConstellation puts the DeviceConstellation within the same scope as the block so you no longer need to use the it reference.
  • feature-syncedtabs
    • Moved SyncedTabsFeature to SyncedTabsStorage.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: The new SyncedTabsFeature now orchestrates the correct state needed for consumers to handle by implementing the SyncedTabsView.
  • browser-thumbnails
    • 🆕 New component for capturing browser thumbnails.
    • ThumbnailsFeature will be deprecated for the new BrowserThumbnails in a future.

39.0.0

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  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • All components
    • Increased targetSdkVersion to 29 (Android Q)
  • browser-session
    • SnapshotSerializer no longer restores source of a Session, added Session.Source.RESTORED
  • feature-downloads
  • support-locale
    • Added fix for respecting RTL/LTR changes when activity is recreated in Android 8
  • feature-sitepermissions
  • ui-widgets
    • 🆕 New component for standardized Mozilla widgets and styles. A living style guide will be published soon that helps explain design choices made.
    • First version includes styling for buttons: NeutralButton, PositiveButton, and DestructiveButton
  • feature-addons
    • Added AddonsManagerAdapter.updateAddon and AddonsManagerAdapter.updateAddons to allow partial updates.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: AddonsManagerAdapterDelegate.onNotYetSupportedSectionClicked(unsupportedAddons: ArrayList<Addon>) is changed to AddonsManagerAdapterDelegate.onNotYetSupportedSectionClicked(unsupportedAddons: List<Addon>).
    • Fixed issue #6685, now DefaultSupportedAddonsChecker will marked any newly supported add-on as enabled.
    • Added Addon.translatedSummary and Addon.translatedDescription to ease add-on translations.
    • Added Addon.defaultLocale Indicates which locale will be always available to display translatable fields.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: AddonManager.enableAddon and AddonManager.disableAddon have a new optional parameter source that indicates why the extension is enabled/disabled.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Map<String, String>.translate now is marked as internal, if you are trying to translate the summary or the description of an add-on, use Addon.translatedSummary and Addon.translatedDescription.
  • feature-toolbar
    • Disabled autocompleting when updating url upon entering edit mode in BrowserToolbar.
  • feature-media
    • Muted media will not start the media service anymore, causing no media notification to be shown and no audio focus getting requested.
  • feature-fullscreen

    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Added viewportFitChanged to support Android display cutouts.

    • feature-qr

      • Moved AutoFitTextureView from support-base to feature-qr.
  • feature-session
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Added viewportFitChanged to FullScreenFeature for supporting Android display cutouts.
  • feature-qr
    • Moved AutoFitTextureView from support-base to feature-qr.
  • service-sync-logins
    • Adds fun LoginsStorage.getPotentialDupesIgnoringUsername for fetching list of potential duplicate logins from the underlying storage layer, ignoring username.
  • feature-customtabs
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Removed handleError in CustomTabWindowFeature constructor
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Added onLaunchUrlFallback to CustomTabWindowFeature constructor
  • browser-tabstray
    • The iconView is no longer required in the template.
    • The URL text for items may be styled.
  • service-glean
    • Glean was updated to v28.0.0
      • The baseline ping is now sent when the application goes to foreground, in addition to background and dirty-startup.
  • Developer ergonomics
    • Improved autoPublication workflow. See https://mozac.org/contributing/testing-components-inside-app for updated documentation.
  • browser-search
    • Added getSearchTemplate to reconstruct the user-entered search engine url template

38.0.0

  • Commits
  • Milestone
  • Dependencies
  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • Merge day!
      • browser-engine-gecko-release: GeckoView 75.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-beta: GeckoView 76.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-nightly: GeckoView 77.0
  • feature-session
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Added optional customTabSessionId param to [PictureInPictureFeature] so consumers can use this feature for custom tab sessions.
  • support-locale
    • Updates updateResources to always update the context configuration
  • feature-toolbar
    • Added forceExpand to [BrowserToolbarBottomBehavior] so consumers can expand the BrowserToolbar on demand.
  • feature-addons
    • Added AddonPermissionsAdapter.Style and AddonsManagerAdapter.Style classes to allow UI customization.
  • service-accounts-push
    • Fixed a bug where the push subscription was incorrectly cached and caused some GeneralErrors.
  • feature-addons
    • Added DefaultAddonUpdater.UpdateAttemptStorage allows to query the last known state for a previous attempt to update an add-on.
  • feature-accounts-push
    • Re-subscribe for Sync push support when notified by onSubscriptionChanged events.
  • support-migration
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: FennecMigrator now takes Lazy references to storage layers.
  • concept-storage, service-sync-logins
    • 🆕 New API: PlacesStorage#warmUp, SyncableLoginsStorage#warmUp - allows consumers to ensure that underlying storage database connections are fully established.
  • feature-customtabs
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: add parameter handleError to CustomTabWindowFeature constructor
      • This is used to show an error when the url can’t be handled
    • CustomTabIntentProcessor to support Browser.EXTRA_HEADERS.
  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • Fixed a memory leak when using a SelectionActionDelegate on GeckoEngineView.
  • feature-share
    • Added RecentAppsStorage.deleteRecentApp and RecentAppsDao.deleteRecentApp to allow deleting a RecentAppEntity
  • feature-p2p
    • Add new P2PFeature to send URLs and web pages through peer-to-peer networking.
  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly, **browser-engine-system
    • Added GeckoEngineView#getInputResult() to return an EngineView.InputResult indicating how a MotionEvent was handled by an EngineView.
  • concept-engine
    • Will expose a new InputResult enum through getInputResult() indicating how an EngineView handled user’s MotionEvent.
    • See above changes to browser-engine-*.
  • browser-toolbar
    • BrowserToolbarBottomBehavior is now solely responsible to decide if the dynamic nav bar should animate or not.
    • See above changes to browser-engine-*, concept-engine.
  • feature-session
    • SwipeRefreshLayout will now trigger pull down to refresh only if the website is scrolled to top and it itself did not consume the swype event.
    • See above changes to browser-engine-*, concept-engine.
    • Added androidx_swiperefreshlayout as a dependency because google_materials dependency was incremented to version 1.1.0 which no longer includes SwipeRefreshLayout
  • lib-crash
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: added support-base dependency.
  • support-base
    • CrashReporting allowing adding support for submitCaughtException without lib-crash dependency.
  • browser-tabstray
  • Added ability to let consumers pass a custom layout of TabViewHolder in order to control layout inflation and view binding.
  • Added an optional URL view to the TabViewHolder to display the URL.
  • Will expose a new layout parameter which allows consumers to change the tabs tray layout.

  • Will only display a URL’s hostname instead of the entire URL

  • browser-session
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: SessionManager.runWithSessionIdOrSelected now returns the result from the block it executes. This is consistent with runWithSession.
  • feature-push
    • Allow nullable AutoPush messages to be delivered to observers.
  • service-glean
    • Glean was updated to v27.1.0
      • Breaking change: The regular expression used to validate labels is stricter and more correct.
      • BUGFIX: baseline pings sent at startup with the dirty_startup reason will now include application lifetime metrics (#810)
      • Add more information about pings to markdown documentation:
        • State whether the ping includes client id;
        • Add list of data review links;
        • Add list of related bugs links.
      • gradlew clean will no longer remove the Miniconda installation in ~/.gradle/glean. Therefore clean can be used without reinstalling Miniconda afterward every time.
      • Glean will now detect when the upload enabled flag changes outside of the application, for example due to a change in a config file. This means that if upload is disabled while the application wasn’t running (e.g. between the runs of a Python command using the Glean SDK), the database is correctly cleared and a deletion request ping is sent. See #791.
      • The events ping now includes a reason code: startup, background or max_capacity.

37.0.0

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  • Milestone
  • Dependencies
  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • lib-state, browser-state
    • Added the ability to add Middleware instances to a Store. A Middleware can rewrite or intercept an Action, as well as dispatch additional Actions or perform side-effects when an Action gets dispatched.
  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • Updated removeAll() from TrackingProtectionExceptionFileStorage to notify active sessions when all exceptions are removed.
    • Added GeckoPort.senderUrl which returns the associated content URL.
  • feature-accounts
    • It should now be possible to log-in on stable, stage and china FxA servers using a WebChannel flow.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: FxaWebChannelFeature takes a ServerConfig as 4th parameter to ensure incoming WebChannel messages are sent by the expected FxA host.
  • feature-sitepermissions
    • Fixed issue #6299, from now on, any media requests like a microphone or a camera permission will require the system permissions to be granted before a dialog can be shown.
  • service-sync-logins
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: DefaultLoginValidationDelegate, GeckoLoginStorageDelegate constructors changed to take Lazy<LoginsStorage> instead of LoginsStorage, to facilitate late initialization.
  • service-firefox-accounts
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: GlobalSyncableStoreProvider#configureStore changed to take Lazy<SyncableStore> instead of SyncableStore, to facilitate late initialization.
  • feature-session
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: HistoryDelegate constructor changed to take Lazy<HistoryStorage> instead of HistoryStorage, to facilitate late initialization.
  • concept-engine
    • Added: DataCleanable a new interface that decouples the behavior of clearing browser data from the Engine and EngineSession.
  • feature-sitepermissions
    • Fixed #6322, now SitePermissionsStorage allows to indicate an optional reference to DataCleanable.
  • browser-menu
    • Added canPropagate param to all BrowserMenuHighlights, making it optional to be displayed in other components
    • Changed BrowserMenuItem.getHighlight to filter the highlights which should not propagate.
  • feature-share
    • Changed primary key of RecentAppEntity to activityName instead of packageName
      • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: all calls to app.packageName should now use app.activityName

36.0.0

  • Commits
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  • Dependencies
  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • Merge day!
      • browser-engine-gecko-release: GeckoView 74.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-beta: GeckoView 75.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-nightly: GeckoView 76.0
  • feature-addons
    • Added DefaultSupportedAddonsChecker which checks for add-ons that were previously unsupported, and creates a notification to let the user known when they are available to be used.
  • feature-push
    • AutoPushFeature now properly notifies observers that they have changed by the Observer.onSubscriptionChanged callback.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: RustPushConnection.verifyConnection now returns a list of subscriptions that have changed.

35.0.0

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  • Dependencies
  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • feature-sitepermissions
    • Fixed #5616 issue now when a new exception is added if the sitePermissionsRules object is present its values are going to be taken into consideration as default values for the new exception.
  • feature-awesomebar
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Refactored component to use browser-state instead of browser-session. Feature and SuggestionProvider implementations may require a BrowserStore instance instead of a SessionManager now.
  • feature-intent
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Removed IntentProcessor.matches() method from interface. Calling process() and examining the boolean return value is enough to know whether an Intent matched.
  • feature-downloads
    • Fixed APK downloads not prompting to install when the notification is clicked.
  • service-location
    • Created LocationService interface and made MozillaLocationService implement it.
    • RegionSearchLocalizationProvider now accepts any LocationService implementation.
    • Added LocationService.dummy() which creates a dummy LocationService implementation that always returns null when asked for a LocationService.Region.
  • feature-accounts-push
    • Add known prefix to FxA push scope.
  • browser-toolbar
    • Add the possibility to listen to menu dismissal through setMenuDismissAction in DisplayToolbar
  • concept-storage
    • New interface: LoginsStorage, describes a logins storage. A slightly cleaned-up version of what was in the service-sync-logins.
  • service-sync-logins
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Refactored AsyncLoginsStorage, which is now called SyncableLoginsStorage. New class caches the db connection, and removes lock/unlock operations from the public API.
  • feature-tabs
    • Fixed close tabs callback incorrectly invoked on start.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Added defaultTabsFilter to TabsFeature for initial presenting of tabs.
      • TabsFeature.filterTabs also uses the same filter if no new filter is provided.
  • browser-session
    • SessionManager will now close internal EngineSession instances on memory pressure when onTrimMemory() gets called
    • SessionManager.onLowMemory() is now deprecated and SessionManager.onTrimMemory(level) should be used instead.
  • browser-engine-system
    • Updated tracking protection lists for more details see #6163.
  • concent-engine, browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly, browser-engine-system
    • Add additional HTTP header support for EngineSession.loadUrl().

34.0.0

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  • Dependencies
  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • concept-tabstray
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Removed dependency on browser-session and introduced tabs tray specific data classes.
  • browser-tabstray
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Refactored component to implement updated concept-tabstray interfaces.
  • feature-tabs
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Refactored component to use browser-state instead of browser-session.
    • Added additional method to TabsUseCases to select a tab based on its id.
  • feature-contextmenu
    • Adds optional shareTextClicked lambda to DefaultSelectionActionDelegate which allows adding and dispatching a text selection share action
  • browser-icons
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Migrated this component to use browser-state instead of browser-session. It is now required to pass a BrowserStore instance (instead of SessionManager) to BrowserIcons.install().
  • support-webextensions
    • Emit facts on installed and enabled addon ids after web extension is initialized.
  • feature-app-links
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: alwaysAllowedSchemes is removed as a parameter for AppLinksInterceptor.
    • Added engineSupportedSchemes as a parameter for AppLinksInterceptor. This allows the caller to specify which protocol is supported by the engine.
      • Using this information, app links can decide if a protocol should be launched in a third party app or not regardless of user preference.
  • feature-sitepermissions
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: add parameters autoplayAudible and autoplayInaudible to SitePermissionsRules.
      • This allows autoplay settings to be controlled for specific sites, rather than globally.
  • concept-engine
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: remove deprecated GeckoView setting allowAutoplayMedia
      • This should now be controlled for individual sites via SitePermissionsRules
    • Fixed a bug that would cause TrackingProtectionPolicyForSessionTypes to lose some information during transformations.
  • feature-downloads
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: customTabId is renamed to tabId.
  • feature-contextmenu
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: customTabId is renamed to tabId.
  • browser-menu
    • Emit fact on the web extension id when a web extension menu item is clicked.
  • feature-push
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change:
      • Removed APIs from AutoPushFeature: subscribeForType, unsubscribeForType, subscribeAll.
      • Removed PushType enum and it’s internal uses.
      • Use the new ✨ subscribe and unsubscribe APIs.
  • feature-accounts-push
    • Updated FxaPushSupportFeature to use the new AutoPushFeature APIs.
  • concept-sync
  • ⚠️ This is a breaking change:
  • DeviceEvent and related classes were expanded/refactored, and renamed to AccountEvent.

  • DeviceConstellation “event” related APIs were renamed to be “command”-centric.

  • service-firefox-accounts
  • ⚠️ This is a breaking change:
  • FxaAccountManager.registerForDeviceEvents renamed to FxaAccountManager.registerForAccountEvents.

33.0.0

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  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • feature-share
    • Added database to store recent apps
    • Added RecentAppsStorage to handle storing and retrieving most-recent apps
  • service-glean
    • Glean was updated to v25.0.0:
      • General:
        • ping_type is not included in the ping_info any more (#653), the pipeline takes the value from the submission URL.
        • The version of glean_parser has been upgraded to 1.18.2:
          • Breaking Change (Java API) Have the metrics names in Java match the names in Kotlin. See Bug 1588060.
          • The reasons a ping are sent are now included in the generated markdown documentation.
      • Android:
        • The Glean.initialize method runs mostly off the main thread (#672).
        • Labels in labeled metrics now have a correct, and slightly stricter, regular expression. See label format for more information.

32.0.0

  • Commits
  • Milestone
  • Dependencies
  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • Merge day!
      • browser-engine-gecko-release: GeckoView 73.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-beta: GeckoView 74.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-nightly: GeckoView 75.0
  • browser-engine-gecko-nightly, concept-engine
    • Updated WebPushHandler and GeckoWebPushHandler to accept push scopes for onSubscriptionChanged events.
  • WebExtensions refactor
    • The Web Extensions related methods have been refactored from Engine into a new WebExtensionRuntime interface.
    • The Engine interface now implements the WebExtensionRuntime interface.
    • WebCompatFeature has been updated to receive a WebExtensionRuntime instead of a Engine as install method parameter.
  • lib-crash
    • Now supports adding telemetry crash reporting services. Telemetry services will not require to prompt
    • the user since it is restricted by the telemetry preference of the user. 
      CrashReporter(
  services = services,
  telemetryServices = telemetryServices,
  shouldPrompt = CrashReporter.Prompt.ALWAYS,
  promptConfiguration = CrashReporter.PromptConfiguration(
      appName = context.getString(R.string.app_name),
      organizationName = "Mozilla"
  ),
  enabled = true,
  nonFatalCrashIntent = pendingIntent
)
  • feature-search
    • Adds DefaultSelectionActionDelegate, which may be used to add new actions to text selection context menus.
      • It currently adds “Firefox Search” or “Firefox Private Search”, depending on whether the selected tab is private.
    • Adds SearchFeature, which consumes search requests made by other components. ```kotlin // Example usage

    // Attach DefaultSelectionActionDelegate to the EngineView override fun onCreateView(parent: View?, name: String, context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet): View? = when (name) { EngineView::class.java.name -> components.engine.createView(context, attrs).apply { selectionActionDelegate = DefaultSelectionActionDelegate( components.store, context, “My App Name” ) }.asView() }

    // Use SearchFeature to attach search requests to your own code private val searchFeature = ViewBoundFeatureWrapper() // ... searchFeature.set( feature = SearchFeature(components.store) { when (it.isPrivate) { false -> components.searchUseCases.newTabSearch.invoke(it.query) true -> components.searchUseCases.newPrivateTabSearch.invoke(it.query) } }, owner = this, view = layout ) ```

  • service-glean
    • Glean was updated to v24.2.0:
      • Add locale to client_info section.
      • Deprecation Warning Since locale is now in the client_info section, the one in the baseline ping (glean.baseline.locale) is redundant and will be removed by the end of the quarter.
      • Drop the Glean handle and move state into glean-core (#664)
      • If an experiment includes no extra fields, it will no longer include {"extra": null} in the JSON payload.
      • Support for ping reason codes was added.
        • The metrics ping will now include reason codes that indicate why it was submitted.
        • The baseline ping will now include reason codes that indicate why it was submitted. If an unclean shutdown is detected (e.g. due to force-close), this ping will be sent at startup with reason: dirty_startup.
      • The version of glean_parser has been upgraded to 1.17.3
      • Collections performed before initialization (preinit tasks) are now dispatched off the main thread during initialization.
  • feature-awesomebar
    • Added showDescription parameter (default to true) to SearchSuggestionProvider constructors to add the possibility of removing search suggestion description.
  • support-migration
    • Emit facts during migration.

31.0.0

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  • feature-awesomebar
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Added resources parameter to addSessionProvider method from AwesomeBarFeature and to SessionSuggestionProvider constructor for accessing strings.

30.0.0

29.0.0

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  • feature-error-pages
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: ErrorResponse now has two data classes: Content (for data URI’s) and Uri (for encoded URL’s)
      • This will require a change in RequestInterceptors that override onErrorRequest.
      • Return the corresponding ErrorResponse (ErrorResponse.Content or ErrorResponse.Uri) as ErrorResponse can no longer be directly instantiated.
    • Added support for loading images into error pages with createUrlEncodedErrorPage. These error pages load dynamically with javascript by parsing params in the URL
    • ⚠️ To use custom HTML & CSS with image error pages, resources must be located in the assets folder
  • feature-prompts
    • Save login prompts will no longer be closed on page load
  • lib-crash
    • Glean reports now distinguishes between fatal and non-fatal native code crashes.
  • feature-pwa
    • Added ability to query install state of an url.
    • Added ability load all manifests that apply to a certain url.
    • Added ability to track if an PWA is actively used.

28.0.0

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  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • Merge day!
      • browser-engine-gecko-release: GeckoView 72.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-beta: GeckoView 73.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-nightly: GeckoView 74.0
  • feature-session
      • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: TrackingProtectionUseCases.fetchExceptions: now receives a (List<TrackingProtectionException>) -> Unit instead of a (List<String>) -> Unit to add support for deleting individual exceptions.
      • Added: TrackingProtectionUseCases.removeException(exception: TrackingProtectionException): now you can delete an exception without the need of having a Session by calling removeException(trackingProtectionException).
  • service-glean
    • Glean was updated to v24.1.0:
      • Breaking Change An enableUpload parameter has been added to the initialize() function. This removes the requirement to call setUploadEnabled() prior to calling the initialize() function.
      • A new metric glean.error.preinit_tasks_overflow was added to report when the preinit task queue overruns, leading to data loss. See bug 1609482
      • The metrics ping scheduler will now only send metrics pings while the application is running. The application will no longer “wake up” at 4am using the Work Manager.
      • The code for migrating data from Glean SDK before version 19 was removed.
      • When using the GleanTestLocalServer rule in instrumented tests, pings are immediately flushed by the WorkManager and will reach the test endpoint as soon as possible.
      • The Glean Gradle Plugin correctly triggers docs and API updates when registry files change, without requiring them to be deleted.
      • parseISOTimeString has been made 4x faster. This had an impact on Glean migration and initialization.
      • Metrics with lifetime: application are now cleared when the application is started, after startup Glean SDK pings are generated.
      • ⚠️ This is a breaking change:
        • The public method PingType.send() (in all platforms) have been deprecated and renamed to PingType.submit().
      • Rename deletion_request ping to deletion-request ping after glean_parser update
      • BUGFIX: The Glean Gradle plugin will now work if an app or library doesn’t have a metrics.yaml or pings.yaml file.
  • feature-app-links
    • AppLinksInterceptor can now be used without the AppLinksFeature. Set the new parameter launchFromInterceptor = true 
      AppLinksInterceptor(
  applicationContext,
  interceptLinkClicks = true,
  launchInApp = { true },
  launchFromInterceptor = true
)
    • Introduce a ContextMenuCandidate to open links in the corresponding external app, if installed
  • concept-storage
    • Added classes related to login autofill
      • LoginStorageDelegate may be attached to an Engine, where it can be used to save logins.
      • LoginValidationDelegate may be used to read and update currently saved logins.
  • feature-prompts
    • PromptFeature may now optionally accept a LoginValidationDelegate. If present, it users will be prompted to save their information after logging in to a website.
    • PromptFeature now accepts a false by default isSaveLoginEnabled lambda to be invoked before showing prompts. If true, users will be prompted to save their information after logging in to a website.
    • Prompts will now be closed automatically when pages have mostly loaded
  • service-sync-logins
    • Added GeckoLoginStorageDelegate. This can be attached to a GeckoEngine, where it will be used to save user login credentials.
    • GeckoLoginStorageDelegate now accepts a false by default isAutofillEnabled lambda to be invoked before fetching logins. If false, logins will not be fetched to autofill.
  • service-firefox-accounts
    • signInWithShareableAccountAsync now takes a reuseAccount parameter, allowing consumers to reuse existing session token (and FxA device) associated with the passed-in account.
  • support-migration
    • New Telemetry Notice
    • Added a ‘migration’ ping, which contains telemetry data about migration via Glean. It’s emitted whenever a migration is executed.
    • Added MigrationIntentProcessor for handling incoming intents when migration is in progress.
    • Added AbstractMigrationProgressActivity as a base activity to block user interactions during migration.
  • browser-menu
    • Added MenuButton to let the browser menu be used outside of BrowserToolbar.
  • browser-menu
    • Added new MenuController and MenuCandidate items that replace BrowserMenuBuilder and BrowserMenuItem.
      • Menu candidates are pure data classes and state changes are done by submitting a new list of menu candidates, rather than mutating menu items.
      • The current state of a BrowserMenuItem can be converted to a menu candidate with asCandidate(Context).
      • MenuController replaces both BrowserMenuBuilder and BrowserMenu, and handles showing the menu and adjusting the displayed items.
      • MenuView lets the menu be used outside of popups.
      • Menu candidates add support for buttons inside menu options, text to the side of a menu option, and improved a11y.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Added asCandidate method to BrowserMenuItem interface.
  • browser-toolbar
    • Added support for the new menu controller through the DisplayToolbar.menuController property.

27.0.0

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  • feature-remotetabs was renamed to feature-syncedtabs
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change:
    • RemoteTabsFeature is now SyncedTabsFeature, and some method names have corresponding changes.
    • RemoteTabsStorageSuggestionProvider is now SyncedTabsStorageSuggestionProvider.
  • service-glean
    • Glean was updated to v22.1.0 (Full changelog)
      • Attempt to re-send the deletion ping on init even if upload is disabled.
      • Introduce the InvalidOverflow error for TimingDistributions.
    • Glean now provides a Gradle plugin for automating the conversion from metrics.yaml and pings.yaml files to Kotlin code. This should be used instead of the deprecated Gradle script. See integrating with the build system docs for more information.
  • feature-app-links
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change:
    • Feature now contains two parts. One part is the AppLinksFeature, the other part is RequestInterceptor. 
      // add this call in the RequestInterceptor
context.components.appLinksInterceptor.onLaunchIntentRequest(engineSession, uri, hasUserGesture, isSameDomain)
  • support-telemetry-sync
    • Added new telemetry ping, to support password sync: passwords_sync.
  • service-firefox-accounts
    • 🕵️ New Telemetry Notice
    • Added telemetry for password sync, via the new passwords_sync in support-telemetry-sync
  • sync-logins
    • 🕵️ New Telemetry Notice
    • Added telemetry for password sync, via the new passwords_sync in support-telemetry-sync
    • The service-sync-logins component now collects some basic performance and quality metrics via Glean. Applications that send telemetry via Glean must ensure they have received appropriate data-review before integrating this component.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: The ServerPassword fields username, usernameField and passwordField can no longer by null. Use the empty string to indicate an absent value for these fields.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: The AsyncLoginsStorageAdapter.inMemory method has been removed. Use AsyncLoginsStorageAdapter.forDatabase(":memory:") instead.
  • samples-sync
    • Added support for password synchronization (not reflected in the UI, but demonstrates how to integrate the component).
  • browser-menu
    • Added BrowserMenuHighlightableSwitch to represent a highlightable item with a toggle switch.
  • lib-crash
    • Now supports performing action after submitting crash report. 
      crashReporter.submitReport(Crash.fromIntent(intent)) {
  stopSelf()
}
  • support-ktx
    • Added Context.getDrawableWithTint extension method to get a drawable resource with a tint applied.
      • String.isUrl is now using a more lenient check for improved performance. Strictly checking whether a string is a URL or not is supported through the new String.isUrlStrict method.
  • support-base
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change:
    • Removed helper for unique notification id.
    • Added helper for providing unique stable Int ids based on a String tag to avoid id conflicts between components and app code. This is now for any id, not just notification id.
    • Added new API that allows user to request for the next available id using the same tag.
    // Get a unique id for the provided tag
val id = SharedIdsHelper.getIdForTag(context, "mozac.my.feature")

// Get the next unique id for the provided tag
val id = SharedIdsHelper.getNextIdForTag(context, "mozac.my.feature")
  • browser-errorpages
    • Added support for bypassing invalid SSL certification.

26.0.0

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  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • Merge day!
      • browser-engine-gecko: GeckoView 71.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-beta: GeckoView 72.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-nightly: GeckoView 73.0
  • browser-engine-system and browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • Added EngineView.canClearSelection() and EngineView.clearSelection() for clearing the selection.
  • feature-accounts
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Migrated FxaPushSupportFeature to the feature-accounts-push component.
  • feature-sendtab
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: This component is now deprecated. See feature-accounts-push.
  • feature-accounts-push
    • 🆕 New component for features that need Firefox Accounts and Push, e.g. Send Tab.
    • SendTabFeature and SendTabUseCases have been migrated here.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: SendTabFeature no longer takes an instance of AutoPushFeature.
      • FxaPushSupportFeature is now needed for integrating Firefox Accounts with Push support.
  • support-test-libstate
    • 🆕 New component providing utilities to test functionality that relies on lib-state.
  • browser-errorpages
    • Removed list items semantics to improve a11y for unordered lists, preventing items being read twice.
  • support-locale
    • Add resetToSystemDefault and getSystemDefault method to LocaleManager

25.0.0

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  • feature-downloads
    • Makes DownloadState parcelizable so that it can be passed to FetchDownloadManager when completed
  • feature-remotetabs
    • Add new RemoteTabsFeature to view tabs from other synced devices and upload our own.
    • Add RemoteTabsStorageSuggestionProvider class to match remote tabs in awesomebar suggestions.
  • support-migration
    • Added Fennec login migration logic.
  • service-sync-logins
    • AsyncLoginsStorage interface gained a new method: importLoginsAsync, used for bulk-inserting logins (for example, during a migration).

24.0.0

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  • browser-errorpages
    • Added strings for “no network connection” error pages
  • browser-menu
    • Replaced BrowserMenuHighlightableItem.Highlight with BrowserMenuHighlight.HighPriority to highlight a menu item with some background color. Highlight has been deprecated.
    • Added BrowserMenuHighlight.LowPriority to highlight a menu item with a dot over the icon.
  • storage-sync
    • Added RemoteTabsStorage for synced tabs.
  • service-firefox-accounts
    • Removed StorageSync interface as it is superseded by the sync manager.
  • service-glean
    • Glean was updated to v21.3.0 (Full changelog)
      • Timers are reset when disabled. That avoids recording timespans across disabled/enabled toggling.
      • Add a new flag to pings: send_if_empty.
      • Upgrade glean_parser to v1.12.0.
      • Implement the deletion request ping in Glean.

23.0.0

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  • feature-downloads
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change:
    • Renamed to OnDownloadCompleted to OnDownloadStopped for increased clarity on when it’s triggered
  • browser-state
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: DownloadState doesn’t include the property filePath in its constructor anymore, now it is a computed property. As the previous behavior caused some situations where fileName was initially null and after assigned a value to produce filePath values like “/storage/emulated/0/Download/null” for more info.
  • feature-prompts and feature-downloads
  • service-firefox-accounts
    • Account profile cache is now used, removing a network call from most instances of account manager instantiation.
    • Fixed a bug where account would disappear after restarting an app which hit authentication problems.
    • Deprecated the StorageSync class. Please use the SyncManager class instead.
  • service-glean
    • Glean was updated to v21.2.0
      • Two new metrics were added to investigate sending of metrics and baseline pings. See bug 1597980 for more information.
      • Glean’s two lifecycle observers were refactored to avoid the use of reflection.
      • Timespans will now not record an error if stopping after setting upload enabled to false.
      • The GleanTimerId can now be accessed in Java and is no longer a typealias.
      • Fixed a bug where the metrics ping was getting scheduled twice on startup.
      • When constructing a ping, events are now sorted by their timestamp. In practice, it rarely happens that event timestamps are unsorted to begin with, but this guards against a potential race condition and incorrect usage of the lower-level API.
      • Metrics that can record errors now have a new testing method, testGetNumRecordedErrors.
      • The experiments API is no longer ignored before the Glean SDK initialized. Calls are recorded and played back once the Glean SDK is initialized.
      • String list items were being truncated to 20, rather than 50, bytes when using .set() (rather than .add()). This has been corrected, but it may result in changes in the sent data if using string list items longer than 20 bytes.
  • support-base
    • Deprecated BackHandler interface. Use the UserInteractionHandler.onBackPressed instead.
    • Added generic UserInteractionHandler interface for fragments, features and other components that want to handle user interactions such as ‘back’ or ‘home’ button presses.

22.0.0

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  • feature-addons
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change:
    • Renamed to AddOnsCollectionsProvider to AddOnCollectionProvider and added caching support: ```kotlin val addOnsProvider by lazy { // Keeps addon collection response cached and valid for one day AddOnCollectionProvider(applicationContext, client, maxCacheAgeInMinutes = 24 * 60) }

    // May return a cached result, if available val addOns = addOnsProvider.getAvailableAddOns()

    // Will never return a cached result val addOns = addOnsProvider.getAvailableAddOns(allowCache = false) ```

  • lib-nearby
    • 🆕 New component for communicating directly between two devices using Google Nearby API.
  • sample-nearby-chat
    • 🆕 New sample program demonstrating use of lib-nearby.
  • feature-customtabs
    • ⚠️ CustomTabWindowFeature now takes Activity instead of Context.
  • concept-sync, service-firefox-accounts
    • OAuthAccount@authorizeOAuthCode method is now authorizeOAuthCodeAsync.
  • service-firefox-accounts
    • For supported Android API levels (23+), FxaAccountManager can now be configured to encrypt persisted FxA state, via secureStateAtRest flag on passed-in DeviceConfig. Defaults to false. For lower API levels, setting secureStateAtRest will continue storing FxA state in plaintext. If the device is later upgraded to 23+, FxA state will be automatically migrated to an encrypted storage.
    • FxA state is stored in application’s data directory, in plaintext or encrypted-at-rest if configured via the secureStateAtRest flag. This state contains everything that’s necessary to download and decrypt data stored in Firefox Sync.
    • An instance of a CrashReporter may now be passed to the FxaAccountManager’s constructor. If configured, it will be used to report any detected abnormalities.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change:
    • Several FxaAccountManager methods have been made internal, and are no longer part of the public API of this module: createSyncManager, getAccountStorage.

21.0.0

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  • feature-downloads
    • Added tryAgain which can be called on the feature in order to restart a failed download.
  • lib-dataprotect
    • Added new SecureAbove22Preferences helper class, which is an encryption-aware wrapper for SharedPreferences. Only actually encrypts stored values when running on API23+.
  • service-firefox-accounts
    • Support for keeping SyncEngine.Passwords engine unlocked during sync. If you’re syncing this engine, you must use SecureAbove22Preferences to store encryption key (stored under “passwords” key), and pass an instance of these secure prefs to GlobalSyncableStoreProvider.configureKeyStorage.
  • concept-sync
    • Added new LockableStore to facilitate syncing of “lockable” stores (such as SyncableLoginsStore).
  • feature-sitepermissions
    • Added a new get operator to SitePermissions to facilitate the retrieval of permissions. 
      val sitePermissions = SitePermissions(
        "dev.mozilla.org",
        notification = ALLOWED,
        savedAt = 0)

sitePermissions[Permission.LOCATION] //  ALLOWED will be returned
  • engine-gecko-nightly
    • Adds setDynamicToolbarMaxHeight ApI.
  • feature-push
    • Added unsubscribeAll support from the Rust native layer.

20.0.0

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  • browser-session, feature-customtabs, feature-session, feature-tabs
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: The WindowFeature and CustomTabWindowFeature components have been migrated to browser-state from browser-session. Therefore creating these features now requires a BrowserStore instance (instead of a SessionManager instance). The windowRequest properties have been removed Session so window requests can now only be observed on a BrowserStore from the browser-state component. In addition, WindowFeature was moved from feature-session to feature-tabs because it now makes use of our TabsUseCases and this would otherwise cause a dependency cycle.
  • feature-downloads
    • Added ability to pause, resume, cancel, and try again on a download through the DownloadNotification.
    • Added support for multiple, continuous downloads.
    • Added size of the file to the DownloadNotification.
    • Added open file functionality to the DownloadNotification.
      • Note: you must add a FileProvider to your manifest as well as file_paths.xml. See SampleBrowser for an example.
      • To open .apk files, you must still add the permission android.permission.INSTALL_PACKAGES to your manifest.
    • Improved visuals of SimpleDownloadDialogFragment to better match SitePermissionsDialogFragment.
      • SimpleDownloadDialogFragment can similarly be themed by using PromptsStyling properties.
    • Recreated download notification channel with lower importance for Android O+ so that the notification is not audibly intrusive.
  • feature-webnotifications
    • Adds feature implementation for configuring and displaying web notifications to the user 
      WebNotificationFeature(
  applicationContext, engine, icons, R.mipmap.ic_launcher, BrowserActivity::class.java
)
  • service-glean
    • Bumped the Glean SDK version to 19.1.0. This fixes a startup crash on Android SDK 22 devices due to missing stderr.
  • concept-engine
    • Adds support for WebPush abstraction to the Engine.
    • Adds support for WebShare abstraction as a PromptRequest.
  • engine-gecko-nightly
    • Adds support for WebPush in GeckoEngine.
  • support-webextensions
    • Adds support for sending messages to background pages and scripts in WebExtensions.
  • service-firefox-accounts
    • Adds authorizeOAuthCode method for generating scoped OAuth codes.
  • feature-push
    • ⚠️ The AutoPushFeature now throws when reaching exceptions in the native layer that are unrecoverable.
  • feature-prompts
    • Adds support for Web Share API using ShareDelegate.
  • experiments
    • Fixes a crash when the app version or the experiment’s version specifiers are not in the expected format.
  • engine, engine-gecko-*, support-webextensions
    • Added support browser.tabs.remove() in web extensions. 
      val engine = GeckoEngine(applicationContext, engineSettings)
engine.registerWebExtensionTabDelegate(object : WebExtensionTabDelegate {
override fun onCloseTab(webExtension: WebExtension?, engineSession: EngineSession) {
  store.state.tabs.find { it.engineState.engineSession === engineSession }?.let {
    store.dispatch(RemoveTabAction(tab.id))
  }
}
})

19.0.1

19.0.0

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  • browser-toolbar
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Refactored the internals to use ConstraintLayout. As part of this change the public API was simplified and unused methods/properties have been removed.
  • feature-accounts
    • Add new FxaPushSupportFeature for some underlying support when connecting push and fxa accounts together.
  • browser-state
    • Added externalAppType to CustomTabConfig to indicate how the session is being used.
  • service-glean
    • The Rust implementation of the Glean SDK is now being used.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: the GleanDebugActivity is no longer exposed from service-glean. Users need to use the one in mozilla.telemetry.glean.debug.GleanDebugActivity from the adb command line.
  • lib-push-firebase
    • Fixes a potential bug where we receive a message for another push service that we cannot process.
  • feature-privatemode
    • Added new feature for private browsing mode.
    • Added SecureWindowFeature to prevent screenshots in private browsing mode.
  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • Merge day!
      • browser-engine-gecko: GeckoView 70.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-beta: GeckoView 71.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-nightly: GeckoView 72.0
  • feature-push
    • The AutoPushFeature now checks (once every 24 hours) to verify and renew push subscriptions if expired after a cold boot.

18.0.1

18.0.0

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  • browser-menu
    • Adds the ability to create a BrowserMenuCategory, a menu item that defines a category for other menu items
  • concept-engine
    • Adds the setting forceUserScalableContent.
  • engine-gecko-nightly
    • Implements the setting forceUserScalableContent.
  • feature-prompts
    • Deprecated PromptFeature constructor that has parameters for both Activity and Fragment. Use the constructors that just take either one instead.
    • Changed sessionId parameter name to customTabId.

17.0.0

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  • feature-contextmenu
    • The “Save Image” context menu item will no longer prompt before downloading the image.
  • concept-engine
    • Added WebAppManifest.ShareTarget data class.
  • lib-crash
    • Now supports sending caught exceptions. Use the ‘submitCaughtException()’ to send caught exceptions if the underlying crash reporter service supports it. 
      val job = crashReporter.submitCaughtException(e)
  • engine, engine-gecko-nightly, engine-gecko-beta, engine-gecko
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Renamed WebExtensionTabDelegate to WebExtensionDelegate to handle various web extensions related engine events: 
      GeckoEngine(applicationContext, engineSettings).also {
it.registerWebExtensionDelegate(object : WebExtensionDelegate {
    override fun onNewTab(webExtension: WebExtension?, url: String, engineSession: EngineSession) {
      sessionManager.add(Session(url), true, engineSession)
    }
})
}
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Redirect source and target flags are now passed to history tracking delegates. As part of this change, HistoryTrackingDelegate.onVisited() receives a new PageVisit data class as its second argument, specifying the visitType and redirectSource. For more details, please see PR #4268.
  • support-webextensions
    • Added functionality to make sure web extension related events in the engine are reflected in the browser state / store. Instead of attaching a WebExtensionDelegate to the engine, and manually reacting to all events, it’s now possible to initialize WebExtensionSupport, which provides overridable default behaviour for all web extension related engine events: ```kotlin // Makes sure web extension related events (e.g. an extension is installed, or opens a new tab) are dispatched to the browser store. WebExtensionSupport.initialize(components.engine, components.store)

    // If dispatching to the browser store is not desired, all actions / behaviour can be overridden: WebExtensionSupport.initialize(components.engine, components.store, onNewTabOverride = { _, engineSession, url -> components.sessionManager.add(Session(url), true, engineSession) }) ```

  • browser-menu
    • Fixes background ripple of Switch in BrowserMenuImageSwitch

16.0.0

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  • feature-awesomebar
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: AwesomeBar.Suggestion now directly takes a Bitmap for the icon param rather than a Unit.
  • feature-pwa
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Intent sent from the WebAppShortcutManager now require the consumption of the SHORTCUT_CATEGORY in your manifest
  • feature-customtabs
    • ‘CustomTabIntentProcessor’ can create private sessions now.
  • browser-session, browser-state, feature-prompts
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: The feature-prompts component has been migrated to browser-state from browser-session. Therefore creating a PromptFeature requires a BrowserStore instance (instead of a SessionManager instance). The promptRequest property has been removed Session. Prompt requests can now only be observed on a BrowserStore from the browser-state component.
  • tooling-detekt
    • Published detekt rules for internal use. Check module documentation for detailed ruleset description.
  • feature-intent
    • Added support for NFC tag intents to TabIntentProcessor.
  • firefox-accounts, service-fretboard
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Due to migration to WorkManager v2.2.0, some classes like WorkManagerSyncScheduler and WorkManagerSyncDispatcher now expects a Context in their constructors.
  • engine, engine-gecko-nightly and engine-gecko-beta
    • Added WebExtensionsTabsDelegate to support browser.tabs.create() in web extensions. 
      GeckoEngine(applicationContext, engineSettings).also {
it.registerWebExtensionTabDelegate(object : WebExtensionTabDelegate {
    override fun onNewTab(webExtension: WebExtension?, url: String, engineSession: EngineSession) {
      sessionManager.add(Session(url), true, engineSession)
    }
})
}

15.0.0

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  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • browser-session, browser-state, feature-contextmenu, feature-downloads
      • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Removed the download property from Session. Downloads can now only be observed on a BrowserState from the browser-state component. Therefore ContextMenuUseCases and DownloadsUseCases now require a BrowserStore instance.
  • support-ktx
    • Adds Resources.Theme.resolveAttribute(Int) to quickly get a resource ID from a theme.
    • Adds Context.getColorFromAttr to get a color int from an attribute.
  • feature-customtabs
    • Added CustomTabWindowFeature to handle windows inside custom tabs, PWAs, and TWAs.

  • feature-tab-collections

    • Behavior change: In a collection List is now ordered descending by creation date (newest tab in a collection on top)
  • feature-session, engine-gecko-nightly and engine-gecko-beta
    • Added api to manage the tracking protection exception list, any session added to the list will be ignored and the the current tracking policy will not be applied.
      val useCase = TrackingProtectionUseCases(sessionManager,engine)

  useCase.addException(session)

  useCase.removeException(session)

  useCase.removeAllExceptions()

  useCase.containsException(session){ contains ->
      // contains indicates if this session is on the exception list.
  }

  useCase.fetchExceptions { exceptions ->
      // exceptions is a list of all the origins that are in the exception list.
  }
  • support-sync-telemetry
    • 🆕 New component containing building blocks for sync telemetry.
  • concept-sync, services-firefox-accounts ⚠️ This is a breaking change
    • Internal implementation of sync changed. Most visible change is that clients are now allowed to change which sync engines are enabled and disabled.
    • FxaAccountManager#syncNowAsync takes an instance of a reason instead of startup boolean flag.
    • SyncEnginesStorage is introduced, allowing applications to read and update enabled/disabled state configured SyncEngines.
    • SyncEngine is no longer an enum class, but a sealed class instead. e.g. SyncEngine.HISTORY is now SyncEngine.History.
    • DeviceConstellation#setDeviceNameAsync now takes a context in addition to new name.
    • FxaAuthData now takes an optional declinedEngines set of SyncEngines.

14.0.1

14.0.0

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  • Gecko

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  • feature-customtabs
    • Now the color of the tracking protection icon adapts to color of the toolbar.
  • feature-session, engine-gecko-nightly and engine-gecko-beta
    • Added a way to exposes the same amount of trackers as Firefox desktop has in it tracking protection panel via TrackingProtectionUseCases.
      val useCase = TrackingProtectionUseCases(sessionManager,engine)
  useCase.fetchTrackingLogs(
      session,
      onSuccess = { trackersLog ->
          // A list of all the tracker logger for this session
      },
      onError = { throwable ->
          //A throwable indication what went wrong
      }
  )
  • browser-toolbar
    • Resized icons on the toolbar see #4490 for more information.
    • Added a way to customize the color of the tracking protection icon via BrowserToolbar. 
      val toolbar = BrowserToolbar(context)
toolbar.trackingProtectionColor = Color.BLUE
  • All components
    • Increased androidx.browser version to 1.2.0-alpha07.
  • feature-media
    • Playback will now be stopped and the media notification will get removed if the app’s task is getting removed (app is swiped away in task switcher).
  • feature-pwa
    • Adds WebAppHideToolbarFeature.onToolbarVisibilityChange to be notified when the toolbar is shown or hidden.
  • engine-gecko-nightly
    • Added the ability to exfiltrate Gecko categorical histograms.
  • support-webextensions
    • 🆕 New component containing building blocks for features implemented as web extensions.
  • lib-push-amazon
    • Fixed usage of cache version of registration ID in situations when app data is deleted.
  • tools-detekt
    • New (internal-only) component with custom detekt rules.
  • service-glean
    • ⚠ This is a breaking change: Glean.initialize() must be called on the main thread.

13.0.0

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  • All components
    • Updated Kotlin version from 1.3.40 to 1.3.50.
    • Updated Kotlin Coroutine library version from 1.2.2 to 1.3.0.
  • browser-session
    • Clear session icon only if URL host changes.
  • feature-pwa
    • Adds WebAppUseCases.isInstallable to check if the current session can be installed as a Progressive Web App.
  • feature-downloads
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: The feature-downloads component has been migrated to browser-state from browser-session. Therefore creating a DownloadsFeature requires a BrowserStore instance (instead of a SessionManager instance) and a DownloadsUseCases instance now.
  • feature-contextmenu
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: The feature-contextmenu component has been migrated to browser-state from browser-session. Therefore creating a ContextMenuFeature requires a BrowserStore instance (instead of a SessionManager instance) and a ContextMenuUseCases instance now.
  • service-glean
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: applications need to use ConceptFetchHttpUploader for overriding the ping uploading mechanism instead of directly using concept-fetch implementations.
  • feature-tabs
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Methods that have been accepting a parent Session parameter now expect the parent id (String).
  • browser-menu
    • Adds the ability to create a BrowserMenuImageSwitch, a BrowserMenuSwitch with icon
  • feature-accounts
    • Added ability to configure FxaWebChannelFeature with a set of FxaCapability. Currently there’s just one: CHOOSE_WHAT_TO_SYNC. It defaults to false, so if you want “choose what to sync” selection during auth flows, please specify it.

12.0.1

12.0.0

  • Commits
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  • Dependencies
  • Gecko

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  • browser-engine-gecko-nightly, browser-engine-gecko-beta and browser-engine-gecko
    • The TrackingProtectionPolicy.recommended() and TrackingProtectionPolicy.strict() policies are now aligned with standard and strict (respectively) policies on FireFox desktop, for more details see the issue #4349.
  • browser-engine-gecko-nightly and browser-engine-gecko-beta
    • The TrackingProtectionPolicy.select function now allows you to indicate if strictSocialTrackingProtection should be activated or not. When it is active blocks trackers from the social-tracking-protection-digest256 list, for more details take a look at the issue #4320 
      val policy = TrackingProtectionPolicy.select(
strictSocialTrackingProtection = true
)
  • context-menu
    • Exposed title tag from GV in HitResult. Fixes [#1444]. If title is null or blank the src value is returned for title.
  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • Merge day!
      • browser-engine-gecko-release: GeckoView 69.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-beta: GeckoView 70.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-nightly: GeckoView 71.0
  • feature-toolbar
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: The feature-toolbar component has been migrated to browser-state from browser-session. Therefore creating a ToolbarFeature requires a BrowserStore instance instead of a SessionManager instance now.
  • lib-crash
    • Now supports Breadcrumbs. Use the ‘recordCrashBreadcrumb()’ to record Breadcrumbs if the underlying crash reporter service supports it. 
      crashReporter.recordCrashBreadcrumb(
  CrashBreadcrumb("Settings button clicked", data, "UI", Level.INFO, Type.USER)
)
  • browser-engine-gecko-nightly and browser-engine-gecko-beta
    • The TrackingProtectionPolicy.strict() now blocks trackers from the social-tracking-protection-digest256 list, for more details take a look at the issue #4213
  • browser-session
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: getSessionId and EXTRA_SESSION_ID has moved to the feature-intent component.
  • feature-intent
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: TabIntentProcessor has moved to the processing sub-package, but is still in the same component.
  • browser-engine-gecko
    • Like with the nightly and beta flavor previously this component now has a hard dependency on the new universal GeckoView build that is no longer architecture specific (ARM, x86, ..). With that apps no longer need to specify the GeckoView dependency themselves and synchronize the used version with Android Components. Additionally apps can now make use of APK splits or Android App Bundles (AAB).
  • browser-engine-servo
    • ❌ We removed the browser-engine-servo component since it was not being maintained, updated and used.
  • concept-sync, service-firefox-accounts
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change:
    • SyncConfig’s syncableStores has been renamed to supportedEngines, expressed via new enum type SyncEngine.
    • begin* OAuthAccount methods now return an AuthFlowUrl, which encapsulates an OAuth state identifier.
    • AccountObserver:onAuthenticated method now has authType parameter (instead of newAccount), which describes in detail what caused an authentication.
    • GlobalSyncableStoreProvider.configureStore now takes a pair of Pair<SyncEngine, SyncableStore>, instead of allowing arbitrary string names for engines.
    • GlobalSyncableStoreProvider.getStore is no longer part of the public API.
  • feature-push
    • Added more logging into AutoPushFeature to aid in debugging in release builds.
  • support-ktx
    • Added variant of Flow.ifChanged() that takes a mapping function in order to filter items where the mapped value has not changed.
  • feature-pwa
    • Adds the ability to create a basic shortcut with a custom label
  • browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • Adds support for exposing Gecko scalars through the Glean SDK. See bug 1579365 for details.
  • support-utils
    • Intent.asForegroundServicePendingIntent(Context) extension method to create pending intent for the service that will play nicely with background execution limitations introduced in Android O (e.g. foreground service).
  • concept-sync
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: action param of AuthType.OtherExternal is now optional. Missing action indicates that we really don’t know what external authType we’ve hit.

11.0.0

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  • browser-icons
    • Ensures icons are not cached on the disk in private sessions.
  • browser-menu
    • Added startImage to Highlight of HighlightableMenuItem, which allows changing the startImage in addition to the endImage when highlighted
    • Highlight properties of HighlightableMenuItem startImage and endImage are now both optional
  • lib-state
    • Added Store extensions to observe State using Kotlin’s Flow API: Store.flow(), Store.flowScoped().
  • support-ktx
    • Added property delegates to work with SharedPreferences.
    • Added Flow.ifChanged() operator for filtering a Flow based on whether a value has changed from the previous one (e.g. A, A, B, C, A -> A, B, C, A).
  • feature-customtabs
    • Added CustomTabsServiceStore to track custom tab data in AbstractCustomTabsService.
  • feature-pwa
    • Added support for hiding the toolbar in a Trusted Web Activity.
    • Added TrustedWebActivityIntentProcessor to process TWA intents.
    • Added CustomTabState.trustedOrigins extension method to turn the verification state of a custom tab into a list of origins.
    • Added WebAppHideToolbarFeature.onTrustedScopesChange to change the trusted scopes after the feature is created.
  • service-telemetry
    • This component is now deprecated. Please use the Glean SDK instead. This library will not be removed until all projects using it start using the Glean SDK.
  • browser-session, feature-intent
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Moved Intent related code from browser-session to feature-intent.
  • feature-media
    • The Intent launched from the media notification now has its action set to MediaFeature.ACTION_SWITCH_TAB. In addition to that the extra MediaFeature.EXTRA_TAB_ID contains the id of the tab the media notification is displayed for.

10.0.1

  • Commits
  • Dependencies
  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • browser-menu
    • Added startImage to Highlight of HighlightableMenuItem, which allows changing the startImage in addition to the endImage when highlighted
    • Highlight properties of HighlightableMenuItem startImage and endImage are now both optional
  • Imported latest state of translations.

10.0.0

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  • feature-toolbar
    • Toolbar Menu is now closed on exiting the app.
  • support-test-appservices
    • 🆕 New component for synchronizing Application Services’ unit testing dependencies used in Android Components.
  • service-location
    • Added RegionSearchLocalizationProvider - A SearchLocalizationProvider implementation that uses a MozillaLocationService instance to do a region lookup via GeoIP.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: An implementation of SearchLocalizationProvider now returns a SearchLocalization data class instead of multiple properties.
  • service-glean
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Glean.handleBackgroundEvent is now an internal API.
    • Added a QuantityMetricType (for internal use by Gecko metrics only).
  • browser-engine-gecko(-beta/nightly), concept-engine
    • Added simplified Media.state derived from Media.playbackState events.
  • lib-push-adm, lib-push-firebase, concept-push
    • Added isServiceAvailable to signify if the push service is supported on the device.
  • concept-engine
    • Added WebNotification data class for the web notifications API.
  • browser-engine-system
    • Fixed issue 4191 where the recommended() tracking category was not getting applied for SystemEngine.
  • concept-engine, browser-engine-gecko-nightly and browser-engine-gecko-beta:
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: TrackingProtectionPolicy does not have a safeBrowsingCategories anymore, Safe Browsing is now a separate setting on the Engine level. To change the default value of SafeBrowsingPolicy.RECOMMENDED you have set it through engine.settings.safeBrowsingPolicy.
    • This decouples the tracking protection API and safe browsing from each other so you can change the tracking protection policy without affecting your safe browsing policy as described in this issue #4190.
    • ⚠️ Alert for SystemEngine consumers: The Safe Browsing API is not yet supported on this engine, this will be covered on #4206. If you use this API you will get a UnsupportedSettingException, however you can use a manifest tag to activate it.
      <manifest>
  <application>
      <meta-data android:name="android.webkit.WebView.EnableSafeBrowsing"
                 android:value="true" />
      ...
   </application>
  </manifest>

9.0.0

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  • browser-menu
    • Updated the styling of the menu to not have padding on top or bottom. Also modified size of BrowserMenuItemToolbar to match BrowserToolbar’s height
  • feature-media
    • Do not display title/url/icon of website in media notification if website is opened in private mode.
  • concept-engine and browser-session
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: TrackingProtectionPolicy removes the categories property to expose two new ones trackingCategories: Array<AntiTrackingCategory> and safeBrowsingCategories: Array<SafeBrowsingCategory> to separate the tracking protection categories from the safe browsing ones.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: TrackingProtectionPolicy.all() has been replaced by TrackingProtectionPolicy.strict() to have similar naming conventions with GeckoView api.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Tracker#categories has been replaced by Tracker#trackingCategories and Tracker#cookiePolicies to better report blocked content see #4098.
    • Added: Session#trackersLoaded A list of Trackers that could be blocked but has been loaded in this session.
    • Added: Session#Observer#onTrackerLoaded Notifies that a tracker that could be blocked has been loaded.
  • browser-toolbar
    • HTTP sites are now marked as insecure with a broken padlock icon, rather than a globe icon. Apps can revert to the globe icon by using a custom BrowserToolbar.siteSecurityIcon.
  • service-firefox-accounts, concept-sync
    • FxaAccountManager, if configured with DeviceCapability.SEND_TAB, will now automatically refresh device constellation state and poll for device events during initialization and login.
    • FxaAccountManager.syncNowAsync can now receive a debounce parameter, allowing consumers to specify debounce behaviour of their sync requests.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change:
    • Removed public methods from DeviceConstellation and its implementation in FxaDeviceConstellation: fetchAllDevicesAsync, startPeriodicRefresh, stopPeriodicRefresh.
    • DeviceConstellation#refreshDeviceStateAsync was renamed to refreshDevicesAsync: no longer polls for device events, only updates device states (e.g. new devices, name changes)
    • pollForEventsAsync no longer returns the events. Use the observer API instead: 
      val deviceConstellation = autheneticatedAccount()?.deviceConstellation() ?: return
deviceConstellation.registerDeviceObserver(
object: DeviceEventsObserver {
  override fun onEvents(events: List<DeviceEvent>) {
      // Process device events here.
  }
}, lifecycleOwner, false)
// Poll for events.
deviceConstellation.pollForEventsAsync().await()
  • browser-session
    • Removed deprecated CustomTabConfig helpers. Use the equivalent methods in feature-customtabs instead.
  • support-ktx
    • Removed deprecated methods that have equivalents in Android KTX.
  • concept-sync, service-firefox-account
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change
    • In OAuthAccount (and by extension, FirefoxAccount) beginOAuthFlowAsync no longer need to specify wantsKeys parameter; it’s automatically inferred from the requested scopes.
    • Three new device types now available: tablet, tv, vr.

8.0.0

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  • service-glean
    • Timing distributions now use a functional bucketing algorithm that does not require fixed limits to be defined up front.
  • support-android-test
    • Added WebserverRule - a junit rule that will run a webserver during tests serving content from assets in the test package (#3893).
  • browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • The component now exposes an implementation of the Gecko runtime telemetry delegate, glean.GeckoAdapter, which can be used to collect Gecko metrics with the Glean SDK.
  • browser-engine-gecko-beta
    • The component now handles situations where the Android system kills the content process (without killing the main app process) in order to reclaim resources. In those situations the component will automatically recover and restore the last known state of those sessions.
  • browser-toolbar
    • Changed BrowserToolbar.siteSecurityColor to use no icon color filter when the color is set to Color.TRANSPARENT.
    • Added BrowserToolbar.siteSecurityIcon to use custom security icons with multiple colors in the toolbar.
  • feature-sendtab
    • Added a SendTabFeature that observes account device events with optional support for push notifications.
    SendTabFeature(
  context,
  accountManager,
  pushFeature, // optional
  pushService // optional; if you want the service to also be started/stopped based on account changes.
  onTabsReceiver = { from, tabs -> /* Do cool things here! */ }
)
  • feature-media
    • MediaFeature is no longer showing a notification for playing media with a very short duration.
    • Lowered priority of media notification channel to avoid the media notification making any sounds itself.

7.0.0

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  • Gecko

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  • browser-menu
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: BrowserMenuHighlightableItem now has a ripple effect and includes an example of how to pass in a drawable properly to also include a ripple when highlighted
  • feature-accounts
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change:
    • The FirefoxAccountsAuthFeature no longer needs an TabsUseCases, instead is taking a lambda to allow applications to decide which action should be taken. This fixes #2438 and #3272.
       val feature = FirefoxAccountsAuthFeature(
       accountManager,
       redirectUrl
   ) { context, authUrl ->
      // passed-in context allows easily opening new activities for handling urls.
      tabsUseCases.addTab(authUrl)
   }

   // ... elsewhere, in the UI code, handling click on button "Sign In":
   components.feature.beginAuthentication(activityContext)
  • browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • Now supports window requests. A new tab will be opened for target="_blank" links and window.open calls.
  • browser-icons
    • Handles low-memory scenarios by reducing memory footprint.
  • feature-app-links
    • Fixed #3944 causing third-party apps being opened when links with a javascript scheme are clicked.
  • feature-session
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change:
    • The WindowFeature no longer needs an engine. It can now be created using just: 
       val windowFeature = WindowFeature(components.sessionManager)
  • feature-pwa
    • Added full support for pinning websites to the home screen.
    • Added full support for Progressive Web Apps, which can be pinned and open in their own window.
  • service-glean
    • Fixed a bug inTimeSpanMetricType that prevented multiple consecutive start()/stop() calls. This resulted in the glean.baseline.duration being missing from most baseline pings.
  • service-firefox-accounts
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: AccountObserver.onAuthenticated now helps observers distinguish when an account is a new authenticated account one with a second newAccount boolean parameter.
  • concept-sync, service-firefox-accounts:
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Added OAuthAccount@disconnectAsync, which replaced DeviceConstellation@destroyCurrentDeviceAsync.
  • lib-crash
    • ⚠️ Known issue: Sending a crash using the MozillaSocorroService with GeckoView 69.0 or 68.0, will lead to a NoSuchMethodError when using this particular version of android components. See #4052.

6.0.2

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  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • service-glean
    • Fixed a bug inTimeSpanMetricType that prevented multiple consecutive start()/stop() calls. This resulted in the glean.baseline.duration being missing from most baseline pings.

6.0.1

6.0.0

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  • support-utils
    • Fixed #3871 autocomplete incorrectly fills urls that contains a port number.
  • feature-readerview
    • Fixed #3864 now minus and plus buttons have the same size on reader view.
  • browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • The component now handles situations where the Android system kills the content process (without killing the main app process) in order to reclaim resources. In those situations the component will automatically recover and restore the last known state of those sessions.
    • Now supports window requests. A new tab will be opened for target="_blank" links and window.open calls.
  • service-location
    • 🆕 A new component for accessing Mozilla’s and other location services.
  • feature-prompts
    • Improved month picker UI, now we have the same widget as Fennec.
  • support-ktx
    • Deprecated ViewGroup.forEach in favour of Android Core KTX.
    • Deprecated Map.toBundle() in favour of Android Core KTX bundleOf.
  • lib-state
    • Migrated Store.broadcastChannel() to Store.channel()returning a ReceiveChannel that can be read by only one receiver. Broadcast channels have a more complicated lifetime that is not needed in most use cases. For multiple receivers multiple channels can be created from the Store or Kotlin’s ReceiveChannel.broadcast() extension method can be used.
  • support-android-test
    • Added LeakDetectionRule to install LeakCanary when running instrumented tests. If a leak is found the test will fail and the test report will contain the leak trace.
  • lib-push-amazon
    • 🆕 Added a new component for Amazon Device Messaging push support.
  • browser-icons
    • Changed the maximum size for decoded icons. Icons are now scaled to the target size to save memory.
  • service-firefox-account

  • Added isSyncActive(): Boolean method to FxaAccountManager

  • feature-customtabs
    • CustomTabsToolbarFeature now optionally takes Window as a parameter. It will update the status bar color to match the toolbar color.
    • Custom tabs can now style the navigation bar using CustomTabsConfig.navigationBarColor.
  • feature-sendtab
    • 🆕 New component for send tab use cases.
      val sendTabUseCases = SendTabUseCases(accountManager)

  // Send to a particular device
  sendTabUseCases.sendToDeviceAsync("1234", TabData("Mozilla", "https://mozilla.org"))

  // Send to all devices
  sendTabUseCases.sendToAllAsync(TabData("Mozilla", "https://mozilla.org"))

  // Send multiple tabs to devices works too..
  sendTabUseCases.sendToDeviceAsync("1234", listof(tab1, tab2))
  sendTabUseCases.sendToAllAsync(listof(tab1, tab2))
  • support-ktx
    • Added Collection.crossProduct to retrieve the cartesian product of two Collections.
  • service-glean
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Glean.enableTestingMode is now internal. Tests can use the GleanTestRule to enable testing mode. Updated docs available here.
  • feature-push
    • Added default arguments when registering for subscriptions/messages.

5.0.0

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  • All components
    • Increased compileSdkVersion to 29 (Android Q)
  • feature-tab
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Now TabsUseCases.SelectTabUseCase is an interface, if you want to rely on its previous behavior you could keep using TabsUseCases.selectTab or use TabsUseCases.DefaultSelectTabUseCase.
  • feature-awesomebar
    • SessionSuggestionProvider now have a new parameter excludeSelectedSession, to ignore the selected session on the suggestions.
  • concept-engine and browser-session
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Function signature changed from Session.Observer.onTrackerBlocked(session: Session, blocked: String, all: List<String>) = Unit to Session.Observer.onTrackerBlocked(session: Session, tracker: Tracker, all: List<Tracker>) = Unit
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Function signature changed from EngineSession.Observer.onTrackerBlocked(url: String) = Unit to EngineSession.Observer.onTrackerBlocked(tracker: Tracker) = Unit
    • Added: To provide more details about a blocked content, we introduced a new class called Tracker this contains information like the url and categories of the Tracker. Among the categories we have Ad, Analytic, Social,Cryptomining, Fingerprinting and Content.
  • browser-icons
    • Added BrowserIcons.loadIntoView to automatically load an icon into an ImageView.
  • browser-session
    • Added IntentProcessor interface to represent a class that processes intents to create sessions.
    • Deprecated CustomTabConfig.isCustomTabIntent and CustomTabConfig.createFromIntent. Use isCustomTabIntent and createFromCustomTabIntent in feature-customtabs instead.
  • feature-customtabs
    • Added CustomTabIntentProcessor to create custom tab sessions from intents.
    • Added isCustomTabIntent to check if an intent is for creating custom tabs.
    • Added createCustomTabConfigFromIntent to create a CustomTabConfig from a custom tab intent.
  • feature-downloads
    • FetchDownloadManager now determines the filename during the download, resulting in more accurate filenames.
  • feature-intent
    • Deprecated IntentProcessor class and moved some of its code to the new TabIntentProcessor.
  • feature-push
    • Updated the default autopush service endpoint to updates.push.services.mozilla.com.
  • service-glean
    • Hyphens - are now allowed in labels for metrics. See 1566764.
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Timespan values are returned in their configured time unit in the testing API.
  • lib-state
    • Added ability to pause/resume observing a Store via pause() and resume() methods on the subscription
    • When using observeManually the returned Subscription is in paused state by default.
    • When binding a subscription to a LifecycleOwner then this subscription will automatically paused and resumed based on whether the lifecycle is in STARTED state.
    • When binding a subscription to a View then this subscription will be paused until the View gets attached.
    • Added Store.broadcastChannel() to observe state from a coroutine sequentially ordered.
    • Added helpers to process states coming from a Store sequentially via Fragment.consumeFrom(Store) and View.consumeFrom(Store).
  • support-ktx
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking behavior change: JSONArray.mapNotNull is now an inline function, changing the behavior of the return keyword within its lambda.
    • Added View.toScope() to create a CoroutineScope that is active as long as the View is attached. Once the View gets detached the CoroutineScope gets cancelled automatically. By default coroutines dispatched on the created [CoroutineScope] run on the main dispatcher
  • concept-push, lib-push-firebase, feature-push
    • Added deleteToken to the PushService interface.
    • Added the implementation for it to Firebase Push implementation.
    • Added forceRegistrationRenewal to the AutopushFeature for situations where our current registration token may be invalid for us to use.
  • service-firefox-accounts
    • Added AccountMigration, which may be used to query trusted FxA Auth providers and automatically sign-in into available accounts.

4.0.1

  • Commits
  • Dependencies
  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • service-glean
    • Hyphens - are now allowed in labels for metrics. See 1566764.

  • Imported latest state of translations.

  • support-rusthttp
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: The application-services (FxA, sync, push) code now will send HTTP requests through a kotlin-provided HTTP stack in all configurations, however it requires configuration at startup. This may be done via the neq support-rusthttp component as follows:
    import mozilla.components.support.rusthttp.RustHttpConfig
// Note: other implementions of `Client` from concept-fetch are fine as well.
import mozilla.components.lib.fetch.httpurlconnection.HttpURLConnectionClient
// some point before calling rust code that makes HTTP requests.
RustHttpConfig.setClient(lazy { HttpURLConnectionClient() })
    • Note that code which uses a custom megazord must call this after initializing the megazord.

4.0.0

  • Commits
  • Milestone
  • Dependencies
  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • browser-engine-gecko, browser-engine-gecko-beta, browser-engine-gecko-nightly
    • Merge day!
      • browser-engine-gecko-release: GeckoView 68.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-beta: GeckoView 69.0
      • browser-engine-gecko-nightly: GeckoView 70.0
  • browser-engine-gecko-beta
    • Like with the nightly flavor previously (0.55.0) this component now has a hard dependency on the new universal GeckoView build that is no longer architecture specific (ARM, x86, ..). With that apps no longer need to specify the GeckoView dependency themselves and synchronize the used version with Android Components. Additionally apps can now make use of APK splits or Android App Bundles (AAB).
  • feature-media
    • Added MediaNotificationFeature - a feature implementation to show an ongoing notification (keeping the app process alive) while web content is playing media.
  • feature-downloads
    • Added custom notification icon for FetchDownloadManager.
  • feature-app-links
    • Added whitelist for schemes of URLs to open with an external app. This defaults to mailto, market, sms and tel.
  • feature-accounts
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Public API for interacting with FxaAccountManager and sync changes
    • FxaAccountManager now has a new, simplified public API.
    • BackgroundSyncManager is longer exists; sync functionality exposed directly via FxaAccountManager.
    • See component’s README for detailed description of the new API.
    • As part of these changes, token caching issue has been fixed. See #3579 for details.
  • concept-engine, browser-engine-gecko(-beta/nightly).
    • Added TrackingProtectionPolicy.CookiePolicy to indicate how cookies should behave for a given TrackingProtectionPolicy.
    • Now TrackingProtectionPolicy.select allows you to specify a TrackingProtectionPolicy.CookiePolicy, if not specified, TrackingProtectionPolicy.CookiePolicy.ACCEPT_NON_TRACKERS will be used.
    • Behavior change: Now TrackingProtectionPolicy.none() will get assigned a TrackingProtectionPolicy.CookiePolicy.ACCEPT_ALL, and both TrackingProtectionPolicy.all() and TrackingProtectionPolicy.recommended() will have a TrackingProtectionPolicy.CookiePolicy.ACCEPT_NON_TRACKERS.
  • concept-engine, browser-engine-system
    • Added useWideViewPort in Settings to support the viewport HTML meta tag or if a wide viewport should be used. (Only affects SystemEngineSession)
  • browser-session
    • Added SessionManager.add(List<Session>) to add a list of Sessions to the SessionManager.
  • feature-tab-collections
    • ⚠️ These are breaking changes below:
    • Tab.restore() now returns a Session instead of a SessionManager.Snapshot
    • TabCollection.restore() and TabCollection.restoreSubset() now return a List<Session> instead of a SessionManager.Snapshot
  • support-ktx
    • Added onNextGlobalLayout to add a ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener that is only called once.

3.0.0

  • Commits
  • Milestone
  • Dependencies
  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • feature-prompts
    • Improved file picker prompt by displaying the option to use the camera to capture images, microphone to record audio, or video camera to capture a video.
    • The color picker has been redesigned based on Firefox for Android (Fennec).
  • feature-pwa
    • Added preliminary support for pinning websites to the home screen.
  • browser-search
    • Loading search engines should no longer deadlock on devices with 1-2 CPUs
  • concept-engine, browser-engine-gecko(-beta/nightly), browser-engine-system
    • Added EngineView.release() to manually release an EngineSession that is currently being rendered by the EngineView. Usually an app does not need to call release() manually since EngineView takes care of releasing the EngineSession on specific lifecycle events. However sometimes the app wants to release an EngineSession to immediately render it on another EngineView; e.g. when transforming a Custom Tab into a regular browser tab.
  • browser-session
    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change: Removed “default session” behavior from SessionManager. This feature was never used by any app except the sample browser.
  • feature-downloads
    • Added FetchDownloadManager, an alternate download manager that uses a fetch Client instead of the native Android DownloadManager.
  • support-ktx
    • Deprecated String.toUri() in favour of Android Core KTX.
    • Deprecated View.isGone and View.isInvisible in favour of Android Core KTX.
    • Added putCompoundDrawablesRelative and putCompoundDrawablesRelativeWithIntrinsicBounds, aliases of setCompoundDrawablesRelative that use Kotlin named and default arguments.

2.0.0

  • Commits
  • Milestone
  • Dependencies
  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • browser-toolbar
    • Adds focus() which provides a hook for calling editMode.focus() to focus the edit mode urlView
  • browser-awesomebar
    • Updated DefaultSuggestionViewHolder to have a style more consistent with Fenix mocks.
    • Fixed a bug with InlineAutocompleteEditText where the cursor would disappear if a user cleared an suggested URL.
  • lib-state
    • A new component for maintaining application, screen or component state via a redux-style Store. This component provides the architectural foundation for the browser-state component (in development).
  • feature-downloads
    • onDownloadCompleted no longer receives the download object and ID.
  • support-ktx
    • Deprecated Resource.pxToDp.
    • Added Int.dpToPx to convert from density independent pixels to an int representing screen pixels.
    • Added Int.dpToFloat to convert from density independent pixels to a float representing screen pixels.
  • support-ktx
    • Added Context.isScreenReaderEnabled extension to check if TalkBack service is enabled.
  • browser-icons
    • The component now ships with the tippy-top-sites top 200 list for looking up icon resources.
  • concept-engine, browser-engine-gecko(-beta/nightly), feature-session, feature-tabs
    • Added to support for specifying additional flags when loading URLs. This can be done using the engine session directly, as well as via use cases:
    // Bypass cache
sessionManager.getEngineSession().loadUrl(url, LoadUrlFlags.select(LoadUrlFlags.BYPASS_CACHE))

// Bypass cache and proxy
sessionUseCases.loadUrl.invoke(url, LoadUrlFlags.select(LoadUrlFlags.BYPASS_CACHE, LoadUrlFlags.BYPASS_PROXY))

1.0.0

  • Commits
  • Milestone
  • Dependencies
  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • 🛑 Removed deprecated components (See blog posting):
    • feature-session-bundling
    • ui-progress
    • ui-doorhanger
  • concept-engine, browser-engine-gecko(-beta/nightly), browser-engine-system
    • Added Engine.version property (EngineVersion) for printing and comparing the version of the used engine.
  • browser-menu
    • Added endOfMenuAlwaysVisible property/parameter to BrowserMenuBuilder constructor and to BrowserMenu.show function. When is set to true makes sure the bottom of the menu is always visible, this allows use cases like #3211.
    • Added onDimiss parameter to BrowserMenu.show function, called when the menu is dismissed.
    • Changed BrowserMenuHighlightableItem constructor to allow for dynamically toggling the highlight with invalidate().
  • browser-toolbar
    • Added highlight effect to the overflow menu button when a highlighted BrowserMenuHighlightableItem is present.
  • feature-tab-collections
    • Tabs can now be restored without restoring the ID of the Session by using the restoreSessionId flag. An app may prefer to use new IDs if it expects sessions to get restored multiple times - otherwise breaking the promise of a unique ID.
  • browser-search
    • Added getProvidedDefaultSearchEngine to SearchEngineManager to return the provided default search engine or the first search engine if the default is not set. This allows use cases like #3344.
  • feature-tab-collections
    • Behavior change: TabCollection instances returned by TabCollectionStorage are now ordered by the last time they have been updated (instead of the time they have been created).
  • lib-crash
    • Restrictions to background activity starts in Android Q+ make it impossible to launch the crash reporter prompt after certain crashes. In those situations the library will show a “crash notification” instead. Clicking on the notification will launch the crash reporter prompt allowing the user to submit a crash report.

For older versions see the changelog archive.