

Browse the web with more reliable protection thanks to the rewritten Microsoft Defender SmartScreen library for Microsoft Edge on Windows and macOS. Stable channel security updates are listed here. Version 1.37: October 6, 2022įixed various bugs and performance issues. Version 1.42: October 10, 2022įixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 1.52: October 20, 2022įixed various bugs and performance issues for Stable and Extended Stable release. To learn more, see Site compatibility-impacting changes coming to Microsoft Edge. Microsoft Edge Web Platform constantly evolves to improve user experience, security, and privacy. To learn more, see Progressive rollouts for Microsoft Edge updates. Bleeping Computer reports that Chrome 85 fixes a high severity code execution vulnerability.For the Stable Channel, updates will roll out progressively over one or more days.Support for App shortcuts for common tasks that Progressive Web Applications may make use of.New Media Feeds API that allows sites to return a feed of personalized media recommendations.Chrome uses strict-origin-when-cross-origin as the default policy as the default policy instead of no-referrer-when-downgrade to avoid showing the "full URL of the originating document including full path and query parameters alongside every navigation and subresource request".In addition, forcing sites to opt-in to SameSite=None gives the user agent the ability to provide users more transparency and control over tracking. This change would allow developers to be protected by default, while allowing sites that require state in cross-site requests to opt-in to the status quo’s less-secure model.

In other words, developers are vulnerable to CSRF attacks by default. €œSameSite†is a reasonably robust defense against some classes of cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks, but developers currently need to opt-into its protections by specifying a SameSite attribute. Additionally, SameSite helps against some forms of cross-site request forgery attacks: The attribute SameSite=None will be ignored if Secure is not specified.
