Software update: Opera 8.01

The Norwegian Opera today has a press release in which it announces that it has updated its internet browser of the same name to version 8.01. The program can be used to surf the internet on a Windows, Mac OS X or Linux machine, among other things. The changelog for the Linux version is on this pagethose of Mac OS X 10.2 or later on this one† The changelog for Windows can be read below:

User interface

• The search field on the View bar should now correctly be “Find in page” for all platforms. Please note that when upgrading from previous versions, this release will overwrite search.ini files whose version number is 5 or lower.
• Added search suggestion using the default search engine at the end of the address field auto-complete dropdown.
• Default start-up mode is “Continue from last time”.
• Corrected behavior of Home and End keys when focus is inside a form field.
• Error messages in the JavaScript console now include the name of the document containing the error.
• Solved issue with misplaced progress bar when page bar disables itself (‘show only when needed’).

Display and standards

• Multiple display fixes that improve rendering of the Acid2 test.
• Now correctly handling anchors in URLs for PDF files.
• Improved SVG support.
• SVG without namespaces will now be rendered, but cause an error message to be displayed in the JavaScript console.
• Fixed broken parsing of JavaScript URLs and bookmark buttons with escaped characters causing problems with bookmarklets.
• Corrected handling of the “object” tag.
• Made handling of tables within ‘center’ tags consistent with other browsers.
• Fixed faulty @include and @exclude directive checking in User JavaScript.
• Some improvements to Fit to window width (ERA).
• Multiple scripting fixes.
• Fixed spatial navigation highlighting issue for bi-directional languages.
• Corrected display of Latin-1 characters in bookmark descriptions.
• Fixed handling of the altKey event.
• Improvements to XMLHttpRequest support, added support for XMLHttpRequest.setRequestHeader.
• Corrected handling of the HTTP status code “204 no content” to be in compliance with RFC 2616. The document view will not change when the request has been sent.
• Introduced Browser JavaScript, a JavaScript file that fixes the rendering of certain Web pages and page elements that malfunction in Opera. The feature is disabled by default, but users who wish to test it may enable download and use by setting Browser JavaScript=1 in the [User Prefs] section of opera6.ini. Opera will then check for updates weekly. Please note that enabling the feature in its current implementation may impact performance. For further information about Browser JavaScript, see: Browser JavaScript Explained. For further information about opera6.ini, see Opera6.ini Explained.

Security

• Fixed XMLHttpRequest redirect vulnerability reported in Secunia Advisory 15008.
• Fixed cross-site scripting vulnerability reported in Secunia Advisory 15411.
• Fixed cross-site scripting vulnerability in location header when automatic redirection is disabled. Vulnerability reported in Secunia Advisory 15423.
• Fix for variant of window injection vulnerability reported in Secunia Advisory 13253
• Fixed information disclosure weakness causing file path information to be sent when using the GET form method. Security Focus Bugtraq ID #12723.
• Improved accuracy of security bar. Also modified security icon behavior: when a certificate is accepted manually after a warning, the security level of the connection is set to 1.
• Fixed issue with wrong referrers being sent to sites in browsing history.
• Fixed erroneous display of certificate names containing ampersands.
• Solved problem with collapsed address bars for some pop-ups missing indication of security level.

miscellaneous

• Sent email can now be imported.
• Multiple stability improvements.
• Fixed update notification to handle a new release installed over an older version.
• Fixed problems with downloading and installing setups from outside the opera.com domain.
• Fixed problem using secure NNTP connections.

Windows-specific

• Minor Voice related fixes.