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42.0.0-SNAPSHOT (In Development)

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  • Gecko

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  • 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.

41.0.0

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  • Gecko

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  • 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.

  • 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

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  • Gecko

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  • 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

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  • 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

  • browser-search

    • Added getSearchTemplate to reconstruct the user-entered search engine url template

38.0.0

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  • 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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  • Gecko

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  • 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

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  • Gecko

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  • 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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  • 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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  • Gecko

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Gecko

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  • 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.
    // 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>()
// ...
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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  • Gecko

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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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  • Gecko

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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.

27.0.0

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  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • 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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  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • 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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  • Gecko

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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

  • Commits

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  • Gecko

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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

  • Commits

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  • Gecko

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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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  • Gecko

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  • feature-addons

    • ⚠️ This is a breaking change:
    • Renamed to AddOnsCollectionsProvider to AddOnCollectionProvider and added caching support:
    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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  • Gecko

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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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  • Gecko

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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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  • Gecko

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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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  • Gecko

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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:
    // 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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  • Gecko

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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

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  • 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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  • Gecko

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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

  • Configuration

  • 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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  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • 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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  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • 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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  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • 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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  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • 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

  • Commits

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  • Dependencies

  • Gecko

  • Configuration

  • 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

  • Commits

  • Dependencies

  • 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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  • Gecko

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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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  • Gecko

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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

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  • Gecko

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  • 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

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  • Gecko

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  • 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]({{ site.baseurl }}/changelog/archive).