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All Brave Release Notes (30)
- Mar 4, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Mar 4, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Mar 5, 2026
Release Notes v1.87.192 (Mar 4, 2026)
- Upgraded Chromium to 145.0.7632.160. (#53338) (Changelog for 145.0.7632.160)
- Feb 24, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Feb 24, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Feb 25, 2026
Release Notes 1.87.191 (Feb 24, 2026)
- Upgraded Chromium to 145.0.7632.120. (#53082) (Changelog for 145.0.7632.120)
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- Feb 19, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Feb 19, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Feb 20, 2026
Release Notes 1.87.190 (Feb 19, 2026)
Fixed template injection in procedural cosmetic filtering as reported on HackerOne by howtoplay. (#52875)
Fixed memory leak on page refresh in certain cases. (#51705)
Fixed extension favicon being overwritten by Brave’s New Tab Page favicon. (#52865)
Fixed inability to open the 3 dots menu on Brave News articles. (#52814)
Upgraded Chromium to 145.0.7632.109. (#52962) (Changelog for 145.0.7632.109)
- Feb 14, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Feb 14, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Feb 15, 2026
Release Notes v1.87.188 (Feb 14, 2026)
Release notes
Fixed custom homepage address being displayed incorrectly in certain cases. (#52819)
Fixed New Tab Page (NTP) and Rewards panel appearing blank in certain locales due to translation strings being incorrectly interpreted. (#52836) & (#52837)
Upgraded Chromium to 145.0.7632.76. (#52842) (Changelog for 145.0.7632.76)
- Feb 12, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Feb 12, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Feb 14, 2026
Release Notes v1.87.186 (Feb 12, 2026)
Brave unveils a broad update with new Web3 features, UI refreshes, and stability fixes across Leo and Rewards. Highlights include account separators, quotes warnings, Zcash deshielding, Cardano improvements, updated UIs, and a Chromium bump.
Web3
- Added separator for Testnet accounts in the “Create account” modal. (#51298)
- Added “Minimum amount” and “Maximum amount” warning message for quotes on the “Buy” screen. (#51498)
- Added support for Zcash deshielding (Shielded -> Transparent) transactions. (#45875)
- Improved performance on the “Edit Visible Assets” modal. (#51519)
- Improved Cardano transaction encoding. (#51477)
- Updated “Trezor Connect” support. (#50647 & #36575)
- Updated Cardano icon to display correctly in dark theme. (#46848)
- Updated Cardano minimum send value to 1 ADA. (#46753)
- Updated the Cardano transaction fee calculation algorithm. (#51121)
- Updated “Sign In With Ethereum” panel to new UI. (#51216)
- Updated “Sign In With Ethereum” error panel to new UI. (#51217)
- Updated the “Decrypt Message Request” panel to new UI. (#51338)
- Updated the “Provide Public Encryption Key” panel to new UI. (#51337)
- Updated the “Backup wallet” string in the settings menu. (#51507)
- Fixed page crash which occurred when Rabby Wallet and uBlock Origin extensions are installed. (#45871)
- Fixed unnecessary “Shield” and “Unshield” warnings. (#51762)
- Fixed issue where tokens may display empty icons in certain cases. (#52519)
Leo
- Added support for auto-discovery of Ollama Lists under BYOM. (#39492)
- Updated “Qwen” model labels and removed “Gemma” and “Deepseek R1” models. (#51790)
- Fixed consecutive citations not rendering correctly in Brave Leo responses. (#52497)
Rewards
- Added UI to help Gemini users migrate to other Brave Rewards payout account providers (Gemini sunsetted). (#50590)
- Updated the “Go to my Account” link for self-custody Brave Rewards users from Solana Explorer to Solscan. (#50517)
General
- Added the ability to “Copy download link” from the download panel. (#48436)
- Added “Show VPN Tray Icon” setting under brave://settings/system for Windows. (#50991)
- Improved adblocking. (#51063)
- Improved adblock performance by adding resource sharing support. (#50368)
- Improved scriptlet handling. (#51448)
- Improved pinned tabs layout when using vertical tabs. (#51055 & #50974)
- Updated the New Tab Page favicon to monochrome. (#51381)
- Updated mouseover target for the vertical tabs bar to allow for easier opening when vertical tabs are hidden. (#50847)
- Removed “Index other search engines” setting from brave://settings/search. (#51656)
- Removed known tracking parameter “syclid” from certain URLs. (#50532)
- Removed extra padding on left side window border when vertical tabs are hidden. (#51056)
- Fixed crash which occurred when trying to load https://www.yahoo.com in certain cases. (#52594)
- Fixed crash which occurred when selecting “Open here” button from the omnibox dropdown after enabling brave-://flags/#brave-omnibox-tab-switch-by-default. (#51501)
- Fixed incorrect path being used when using UserDataDir policy on Windows. (#41854)
- Fixed unable to resize maximized window using top border when vertical tabs enabled on Windows. (#51554)
- Fixed tab names being blank on Linux in certain cases. (#51884)
- Fixed blank title bar being displayed in fullscreen on macOS. (#32549)
- Fixed hidden elements on the New Tab Page being clickable when the search widget has focus. (#51558)
- Upgraded Chromium to 145.0.7632.45. (#52554) (Changelog for 145.0.7632.45)
- Feb 4, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Feb 4, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Feb 14, 2026
Release Notes v1.86.148 (Feb 4, 2026)
Release Notes
Fixed background media playback stopping when switching tabs, minimizing Brave, or locking the device. (#51881)
Upgraded Chromium to 144.0.7559.133. (#52516) (Changelog for 144.0.7559.133)
- Feb 4, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Feb 4, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Feb 5, 2026
Release Notes v1.86.148 (Feb 4, 2026)
Release Notes
Fixed missing “Memo” field on the “Confirm Send” screen for Zcash. (#52303)
Fixed crash which occurred when using “Quick Commands” in certain cases on macOS. (#52462)
Upgraded Chromium to 144.0.7559.133. (#52516) (Changelog for 144.0.7559.133)
- Jan 28, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Jan 28, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Jan 29, 2026
- Modified by Releasebot:Feb 14, 2026
Release Notes v1.86.146 (Jan 28, 2026)
Fixed crash when opening a new tab page in certain cases. (#52283)
Upgraded Chromium to 144.0.7559.110. (#52315) (Changelog for 144.0.7559.110)
- Jan 27, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Jan 27, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Jan 29, 2026
Release Notes 1.86.144 (Jan 27, 2026)
Brave rolls out a broad update with new features and fixes. Swipe to dismiss the Shields dialog, new premium models in Brave Leo, auto-open keyboard for new tabs, UI performance boosts, landscape tweaks for iPad, wallet and QR fixes, share icon polish, and a Chromium upgrade to 144.
Release Notes
Implemented the ability to dismiss/close the “Brave Shields & Privacy” settings modal using swiping gesture when accessed from the Brave Shields panel. (#50774)
Updated the tabs in tab tray to be larger when viewed in landscape for iPad users. (#49081)
Added several new premium models in Brave Leo. (#49218)
Added “Auto-Open Keyboard” setting that automatically brings up the keyboard when opening new tabs. (#50031)
Improved cosmetic filtering performance for mutated elements. (#48517)
Fixed Private Tabs being visible in the app switcher when tab tray is opened. (#52144)
Fixed not being able to dismiss the wallet backup modal after other Brave Wallet screens were shown. (#51270)
Fixed QR code camera view from rotating 90 degrees when sync flow is launched in landscape mode. (#50206)
Fixed the share icon opacity in the toolbar during hide transition. (#50645)
Upgraded Chromium to 144.0.7559.97. (#52147)(Changelog for 144.0.7559.97)
- Jan 21, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Jan 21, 2026
- First seen by Releasebot:Jan 22, 2026
Release Notes v1.86.142 (Jan 21, 2026)
Release notes
Re-added “brave-keyring” as a dependency of “brave-browser” on Linux. (#52057)
Removed “Web3” from the “Explorer” tab of Brave Wallet. (#50897)
Upgraded Chromium to 144.0.7559.97. (#52147) (Changelog for 144.0.7559.97)