AdGuard For Mac Updates & Release Notes

Great news! Version 2.18 brings a noticeable step forward in performance, stability, and compatibility. One of the main highlights is support for three new AI-powered browsers: ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity Comet, and Dia. Now you can enjoy clean, ad-free browsing there as well.

We’ve also updated the system requirements:
AdGuard for Mac now supports macOS 12 and later.
Alongside that, we refreshed the Filter List Manager, polished many internal processes, and fixed a number of issues to make everyday app use smoother and more reliable.

Changelog

Improvements

• Added support for the Dia browser
• Added support for OpenAI’s Atlas browser
• Added support for Perplexity’s Comet browser
• Updated FLM to v2.3.5

Fixes

• Settings window position resets after after restarting the app
• Adding a new user rule during the search causes the application to crash
• App com.adguard.mac.adguard requests local network access multiple times
• Trusted Type error when blocking an element on YouTube via Safari Assistant
• AdGuard is not fully synced with the latest Assistant before a release

CoreLibs (Filtering engine)

Improvements

• CoreLibs updated to v1.18.36
• Added support for ABP’s CSS injection syntax
• Allowed removing content with empty attribute
• Improved content-script performance by using browser cache properly
• Improved performance of content-script loading
• Removed complicated heuristics for the $domain modifier
• Added zstd encoding support

Fixes

• Filtering disabled because it may affect website performance (new.lewd.ninja)
• Some extensions stopped working with CoreLibs 1.18
• $removeparam does not work in pair with the $domain modifier
• Some React-based sites fail to load due to Minified React error
• $urltransform combined with $~3p doesn’t modify the request URL if opened directly in the address bar
• Filter UDP under Linux

DnsLibs (DNS filtering engine)

• DnsLibs updated to v2.6.20

Scriptlets (JavaScript enhancement for filtering rules)

Improvements

• Scriptlets updated to v2.2.8
• Added more examples to scriptlet docs
• Added new scriptlet: trusted-replace-argument
• Improved href-sanitizer — added support for uBO arguments
• Improved prevent-fetch — added ability to set random response content
• Improved set-cookie and set-cookie-reload — added support for the denied value
• Improved set-cookie — added empty object value
• Updated AGTree to v3

Fixes

• trusted-set-cookie-reload — infinite reload when values constantly change
• inject-css-in-shadow-dom — scriptlet fails if adoptedStyleSheets is overridden
• json-prune — does not correctly handle null values when checking the specified key
• prevent-element-src-loading — TrustedScriptURL is not defined in Firefox
• spoof-css — incorrect DOMRect values
• trusted-replace-node-text — incorrectly output ' , but not '
• trusted-replace-node-text — some quotes are escaped incorrectly
• trusted-set-constant — more precise string value detection
• trusted-suppress-native-method — reset isMatchingSuspended when stack is not matched
• Scriptlet compilation error in Safari 15 due to unsupported regex lookbehind