Adguard Release Notes

July 4, 2024

We’re happy to share with you the fresh version of AdGuard for Windows! For v7.18, we made it our goal to give you the best possible ad filtering experience, and we’d like to believe we have succeeded.

Let’s start with great news for all Windows 11 users: AdGuard now blocks the ads that Microsoft started incorporating into the Start menu on Windows 11. This feature can be enabled from the Ad Blocker tab of the settings.

Back to fighting more ‘conventional’ ads: we have updated the CoreLibs filtering engine, along with other components. With these updates, we have introduced new modifiers and scriptlets that will help filter developers create better and more powerful filtering rules against ads and trackers. As a bonus, there will be less crashes now! You can be sure that AdGuard will protect you at all times without fail.

But the good news doesn’t stop there! We have also updated our network drivers to improve AdGuard’s compatibility with other network-based apps.

July 3, 2024

Apple fixed its iOS 17 bug that was limiting the number of Safari content-blocking rules, which contradicted their own Safari Content Blocking API documentation. That lets us remove our temporary workaround for that problem. In short, that means you can finally enable a large number of filters without them crashing, thanks to the fact that all of the 900K rules (provided by 6 AdGuard content blockers) are available again, as they are supposed to. Also, we updated Scriptlets — one of the essential libraries needed for the app’s stable performance.

If you are using iOS 17, please note that for this fix to work you need to update to the latest iOS. If you are using iOS 16 and below, this bug doesn’t affect you.

July 3, 2024

Apple fixed its iOS 17 bug that was limiting the number of Safari content-blocking rules, which contradicted their own Safari Content Blocking API documentation. That lets us remove our temporary workaround for that problem. In short, that means you can finally enable a large number of filters without them crashing, thanks to the fact that all of the 900K rules (provided by 6 AdGuard content blockers) are available again, as they are supposed to. Also, we updated Scriptlets — one of the essential libraries needed for the app’s stable performance.

If you are using iOS 17, please note that for this fix to work you need to update to the latest iOS. If you are using iOS 16 and below, this bug doesn’t affect you.

June 5, 2024

This update brings our YouTube player’s usability to a whole new level: we added background playback, recommended videos, quality settings, and much more. Not so unskippable now, are you, ads? On top of that, this version includes some nice fixes for overall app performance, including the Android TV version.

A ton of improvements for AdGuard’s YouTube player

Just look at what’s available now:

Change video quality, playback speed, and subtitle settings using the gear ⚙ button

AG player video settings

Picture-in-picture mode is now supported, which means you can shrink the video to a small window and keep playing it in the background while using other apps. Great for such things as listening to music or podcasts

Picture-in-picture mode

View recommendations at the end of the video, while paused, or by tapping the lower right corner of the player (availability depends on the video)

AG player recommended videos

Double-tap the right or left side of the screen to skip 10 seconds forward or back correspondingly

Quick reminder: to launch the AdGuard player, choose any video in the YouTube app, tap Share and select AdGuard Player (it’s likely that you will need to scroll right and tap More first). …

May 17, 2024

Improved Firewall functionality and on-the-fly DoH filtering are the highlights of AdGuard v4.4 for Android. After extensive testing, we are ready to introduce the new version to you.

Firewall on fire

We like to think that we make the Internet cleaner and more enjoyable for users. But we are not ashamed to admit that sometimes we can send annoying notifications ourselves. Users have reported that they find using Firewall inconvenient: there are just too many notifications. As a result, people are turning them off for good in the system preferences.

In response, we have improved Firewall functionality. Now you can customize and turn off firewall notifications for all applications or specific ones. Don’t want to get notifications about Chrome connections? Open the notification shade, tap a notification about Chrome, and then tap Mute. All Firewall notifications for this app will be disabled.

Alternatively, you can go to Protection → Firewall → Notificationsand toggle off notifications for individual apps.

DoH requests be flying …

April 18, 2024

The AdGuard v2.14 for Mac features the usual bug-fixes-for-better-performance changes, but not only that! This time, the star of the show is the CoreLibs update, which brings improvements to the app overall, with two notable features in particular. First up, we’ve fine-tuned the Encrypted ClientHello support. Yes, it’s still in the experimental phase, but our team has identified several issues that were holding back the seamless activation of ECH by default. With this release, we’ve addressed them and paved the way for enhanced performance. Additionally, the updated CoreLibs now provide the ability to filter DNS-over-HTTPS requests on the fly. This means that AdGuard by default won’t redirect DoH queries to another DNS server, and instead queries will still be sent to the server chosen in the browser. The old behavior may be restored by turning off network.dns.filter.secure.request.transparently.enabled in the advanced settings. This update also includes other minor changes. If you’d like to, feel free to dig into each one of them by reading our extensive changelog below.