The Minority Report

If a web browser updates in the forest, does anybody hear it?

A new version of the Opera web browser has been released today which raises the version of the web browser to 9.64 on all supported operating systems. The official changelog describes the update as a security and stability upgrade which means it is recommended to update the web browser as soon as possible. The download is available at the official Opera website, the web browser’s have not caught up with it yet which means that the Check For Update option under Help will not tell the user about the update (yet).

Web Browser: Opera 9.64

Here are the official changes:

Changes and improvements since Opera 9.63
Security

* Fixed an issue where specially crafted JPEG images ccould be used to execute arbitrary code, as reported by Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team; see our advisory
* Fixed an issue where plug-ins could be used to allow cross domain scripting, as reported by Adam Barth; details will be disclosed at a later date.
* Fixed a moderately severe issue; details will be disclosed at a later date.
* Added support for the following platform-specific features:
o DEP (Data Execution Prevention) in Microsoft WindowsXP® with Service Pack 2 and higher and Microsoft Windows Server 2003® with Service Pack 1
o ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) in Microsoft Windows Vista®
* Added Untrusted Rootstore Capability:
o Opera downloads only the detailed information about untrusted (blacklisted) certificates when they are encountered
o If download fails for certificate information in the list, Opera considers any certificate matching the ID as untrusted
* Added version conditional fetching of certificate dependencies from an online repository
* Fixed a problem downloading the CRL (Certificate Revocation List)
* Fixed a problem that could cause SSL to deadlock in one state, hanging the connection
* Fixed a problem that could cause the incorrect calculation of Certificate IDs
* Implemented Extended Validation (EV) for cross-signed EV Root Certificates not shipped by default
* Implemented preshipping of the Entrust 2048 CA (Certificate Authority)
* Implemented Root Certificate fetching from an online repository when an intermediate matches a certificate in the repository
* Improved support for weak encryption when importing .p12 private certificates
* Prevented security information documents from being written to disk

Miscellaneous

* Fixed a problem which created separate feed notifications; Opera now groups them together
* Fixed a problem with inline find when no content was entered and the Enter key was pressed
* Implemented opacity on text styled with hexidecimal color codes
* Installing an external source viewer no longer requires an Opera restart
* Installing Opera sets it as the default browser; this may be reset during the install process

Opera: Opera 9.64 for Windows Changelog