2.0.4

Disclaimer Adguard for Mac is not an open source project. We use GitHub as an open bug tracker for users to see what developers are working on.

This is one of the biggest updates in the history of AdGuard for Mac. It introduces the long-due Stealth Mode, an updated UI (including the improved Assistant), integration with CoreLibs — the new enhanced filtering engine — and much more. Give it a try and you'll immediately notice the difference.

[Added] CoreLibs integration #232

This is the first AdGuard for Mac that introduces CoreLibs — the new filtering engine that lies at the core of the filtering process. It is not random that we put this before such huge news as Stealth Mode or new design. The effects of this change will be both big and long lasting.
CoreLibs significantly enhances both ad blocking quality and performance, in comparison to the latest stable version. And since CoreLibs is a cross-platform filtering engine, in addition to these obvious improvements it allows to implement more new features that previously were only available in other AdGuard products.
Worth mentioning that AdGuard for Mac becomes the second AdGuard product to receive the «CoreLibs treatment» after Adguard for Android.

[Added] Stealth Mode #12

Stealth Mode is a special module which sole purpose is to protect your online privacy. It went a long way from an obscure, Windows-exclusive feature, to the centerpiece of almost any AdGuard product in the very near future. This is a logical flow of things as the value of privacy has been rising to the sky for some time now, and the need to protect it becomes apparent.
If you had a chance to use AdGuard for Windows, you will find inside all familiar options. We’ll not clog up the changelog by describing every single one, they are all explained in the tooltips next to them.

[Improved] New UI #346

Finally, we get to the new UI. You may be baffled why it was left until the very end of the changelog, the explanation is very simple: the changes are modest. Both the main screen and the settings menu look different enough, but you won’t have to re-familiarize yourself with the app. Think new, prettier icons, honed styles and so on.
One thing that stands out is the new Assistant, it is miles ahead of the old version in terms of convenience, and allows you to access the web reporter for any filter-related issues on the web pages.
Oh, and another treat, exclusively for Mojave users who prefer dark themes. AdGuard now supports the dark theme, so if you switch to it in your Mac settings, AdGuard will no longer be a black sheep among your applications, pun not intended.

New users will also be greeted with redesigned onboarding screens. They are made more informative and help make first steps and adjust AdGuard according to your needs.

[Added] AdGuard Extra extension #492

In some complicated cases the usual approach with filtering rules just doesn’t work. In particular, in some cases of ad blocker circumvention/ad reinjection. So we came up with an alternative solution — a userscript. For those unfamiliar, userscripts are basically mini programs that modify web pages and augment browsing.

AdGuard Extra does it in a way that makes it harder for websites to employ the circumvention/reinjection techniques. AdGuard for Mac is the first AdGuard product to get this addition, we are thrilled to see it in action and read your feedback on it.

[Changed] Developer ID has been changed #460

Application’s Developer ID has been changed to Adguard Software Limited. This shouldn’t concern you much, but if you are curious why it’s because of the problem we ran into on Mojave. Basically, all new and updated apps on Mojave now have to be notarized. In the future, this will be mandatory for all applications. And part of the notarization process for us was changing the Developer ID.

NOTE: if you currently have AdGuard installed to any folder except for /Applications, the old version will launch after the update anyway. In this case, you need to close and uninstall the old AdGuard. Users who have AdGuard installed to /Applications already can update as usual.

Ad blocking

• [Added] An indicator for modified cookies in the Filtering Log #386
• [Changed] Filtering rules limitations #393
• [Changed] Handling of multiple $replace rules #338
• [Fixed] "Proceed anyway" button does not work #369
• [Fixed] "Rule" is missing from the Filtering Log item details #404
• [Fixed] AdGuard crashes after editing the User filter #436
• [Fixed] Compatibility problems
• [Fixed] Microsoft Edge browser is not filtered #487
• [Fixed] Receiving "Filter activated automatically" notification for already activated filters #366
• [Fixed] Records with empty URL in the filtering log #342
• [Fixed] Some filters become enabled after every app update #437
• [Fixed] Vivaldi browser is not filtered #475
• [Fixed] Whitelist shows comments from User Filter after update #452

Network

• [Added] Stealth Mode parameters to the web reporter link #388
• [Fixed] Stealth Mode actions aren't showed in the Filtering Log #355

UI

• [Added] A description in the Filtering Log for some types of Stealth Mode events #421
• [Added] Indicate that filter is trusted or recommended #445
• [Added] New AdGuard for Mac icon #450
• [Fixed] Blocked 'WebRTC, location API, push API' doesn't show in modified request in filtering log #449
• [Fixed] Two notifications appear after using the manual ad blocking tool #419

Other

• [Added] «Application» column to the Filtering Log #341
• [Added] «Export logs and system info...» option #395
• [Changed] Exception rules created via Assistant now have $document,~extension modifiers #333
• [Changed] Localizations has been updated
• [Changed] The list of apps filtered by default has been updated
• [Changed] Users with an active subscription will not be notified anymore that their license key is soon to expire #329
• [Fixed] adguard-tcpkilldoes not work with the new Chrome version #427
• [Fixed] AdGuard doesn’t start automatically on the system startup #480
• [Fixed] Changes to the filtered apps and extensions are not applied until the protection is restarted manually #354
• [Fixed] Description for “Strip tracking parameters” option #398
• [Fixed] Filtering Log issues #430
• [Fixed] Forwarder applied properly to all links in the app #389
• [Fixed] High CPU usage due to a sync XHR request made by the Assistant #315
• [Fixed] Kext status check does not work properly on macOS 10.14 #337
• [Fixed] Statistics is not counted properly #334
• [Fixed] The app hanged on exit #462
• [Fixed] The list of filtered apps gets reset after an update #473
• [Fixed] Website report is now sent properly via the Assistant #361
• [Improved] Enhanced app accessibility #406
• [Improved] New onboarding screens #385, #407
• [Improved] Refactoring «Launch at Login» #415

2.0.3 Beta

Disclaimer Adguard for Mac is not an open source project. We use GitHub as an open bug tracker for users to see what developers are working on.

CoreLibs is the centerpiece of the upcoming AdGuard 2.0 for Mac update, and we've just discovered some minor problems with it. Nonetheless, we consider them important enough to release one more beta to fix these problems before unleashing the new stable version into the world. We've also made a few localization updates.

2.0.2 Beta

Disclaimer Adguard for Mac is not an open source project. We use GitHub as an open bug tracker for users to see what developers are working on.

Welcome the first AdGuard 2.0 for Mac release candidate! The changes are minimal compared to the recent beta, but there’s one that’s worth your attention: the introduction of AdGuard Extra userscript. By the way, we plan to transition this version into a stable one if everything goes well.

[Added] AdGuard Extra extension #492

In some complicated cases, the usual approach with filtering rules just doesn’t work. In particular, in some cases of ad blocker circumvention/ad reinjection. So we came up with an alternative solution — a userscript. For those unfamiliar, userscripts are basically mini programs that modify web pages and augment browsing.

AdGuard Extra does it in a way that makes it harder for websites to employ the circumvention/reinjection techniques. AdGuard for Mac is the first AdGuard product to get this addition, we are thrilled to see it in action and read your feedback on it.

• [Fixed] Description for “Strip tracking parameters” option #398
• [Fixed] The list of filtered apps gets reset after an update #473
• [Fixed] Vivaldi browser is not filtered #475
• [Fixed] Microsoft Edge browser is not filtered #487
• [Fixed] AdGuard doesn’t start automatically on the system startup #480

2.0.1 Beta

Disclaimer Adguard for Mac is not an open source project. We use GitHub as an open bug tracker for users to see what developers are working on.

When it comes to AdGuard for Mac, we prefer a steady, even methodical approach. Eliminate all bugs, make sure nothing is left unnoticed. This is one of those betas where we clean everything up: fix bugs, improve some of the features and so on. We’ll let it run for a while, monitor it for anything that resembles a missed bug, and if is all is good, we’ll stick a “2.0 stable” label on it.

[Changed] Developer ID has been changed #460

Application’s Developer ID has been changed to Adguard Software Limited. This shouldn’t concern you much, but if you are curious why it’s because of the problem we ran into on Mojave. Basically, all new and updated apps on Mojave now have to be notarized. In the future, this will be mandatory for all applications. And part of the notarization process for us was changing the Developer ID.

NOTE: if you currently have AdGuard installed to any folder except for /Applications, the old version will launch after the update anyway. In this case, you need to close and uninstall the old AdGuard. Users who have AdGuard installed to /Applications already can update as usual.

Ad blocking

• [Added] An indicator for modified cookies in the Filtering Log #386
• [Fixed] "Proceed anyway" button does not work #369
• [Fixed] "Rule" is missing from the Filtering Log item details #404
• [Fixed] AdGuard crashes after editing the User filter #436
• [Fixed] Receiving "Filter activated automatically" notification for already activated filters #366
• [Fixed] Records with empty URL in the filtering log #342
• [Fixed] Some filters become enabled after every app update #437
• [Fixed] Whitelist shows comments from User Filter after update #452
• [Fixed] Compatibility problems

Network

• [Added] Stealth Mode parameters to the web reporter link #388
• [Fixed] Stealth Mode actions aren't showed in the Filtering Log #355

UI

• [Added] A description in the Filtering Log for some types of Stealth Mode events #421
• [Added] Trusted filter notification #445
• [Added] New AdGuard for Mac icon #450
• [Fixed] Blocked 'WebRTC, location API, push API' events aren't shown in modified requests in Filtering log #449
• [Fixed] Two notifications appear after using the manual ad blocking tool #419

Other

• [Changed] Users with an active subscription will not be notified anymore that their license key is soon to expire #329
• [Changed] Localizations has been updated
• [Fixed] adguard-tcpkill does not work with the new Chrome version #427
• [Fixed] Changes to the filtered apps and extensions are not applied until the protection is restarted manually #354
• [Fixed] Forwarder applied properly to all links in the app #389
• [Fixed] The app hanged on exit #462
• [Fixed] Filtering Log issues #430
• [Improved] Enhanced app accessibility #406

2.0.0 Beta

Disclaimer Adguard for Mac is not an open source project. We use GitHub as an open bug tracker for users to see what developers are working on.

AdGuard for Mac traditionally doesn’t receive frequent updates, but when it does, it is usually something big. This beta is not an exception, we present to you not one, not two, but three big changes, each one of them would normally be enough to justify a beta update on its own. These changes are CoreLibs integration, new UI and the introduction of Stealth Mode. Let’s jump inside and look at them more closely.

[Added] CoreLibs integration #232

This is the first AdGuard for Mac beta that introduces CoreLibs — the new filtering engine that lies at the core of the filtering process. It is not random that we put this before such huge news as Stealth Mode or new design. The effects of this change will be both big and long lasting.

CoreLibs significantly enhances both ad blocking quality and performance, in comparison to the latest stable version. And since CoreLibs is a cross-platform filtering engine, in addition to these obvious improvements it allows to implement more new features that previously were only available in other AdGuard products.

Worth mentioning that AdGuard for Mac becomes the second AdGuard product to receive the «CoreLibs treatment» after Adguard for Android.

[Added] Stealth Mode #12

Stealth Mode is a special module which sole purpose is to protect your online privacy. It went a long way from an obscure, Windows-exclusive feature, to the centerpiece of almost any AdGuard product in the very near future. This is a logical flow of things as the value of privacy has been rising to the sky for some time now, and the need to protect it becomes apparent.

If you had a chance to use AdGuard for Windows, you will find inside all familiar options. We’ll not clog up the changelog by describing every single one, they are all explained in the tooltips next to them.

[Improved] New UI #346

Finally, we get to the new UI. You may be baffled why it was left until the very end of the changelog, the explanation is very simple: the changes are modest. Both the main screen and the settings menu look different enough, but you won’t have to re-familiarize yourself with the app. Think new, prettier icons, honed styles and so on.

One thing that stands out is the new Assistant, it is miles ahead of the old version in terms of convenience, and allows you to access the web reporter for any filter-related issues on the web pages.

Oh, and another treat, exclusively for Mojave users who prefer dark themes. AdGuard now supports the dark theme, so if you switch to it in your Mac settings, AdGuard will no longer be a black sheep among your applications, pun not intended.

New users will also be greeted with redesigned onboarding screens. They are made more informative and help make first steps and adjust AdGuard according to your needs.

Ad blocking

[Changed] Filtering rules limitations #393
[Changed] Handling of multiple $replace rules #338

Other

[Added] «Application» column to the Filtering Log #341
[Added] «Export logs and system info...» option #395
[Changed] Users with an active subscription will not be notified anymore that their license key is soon to expire #329
[Changed] Exception rules created via Assistant now have $document,~extension modifiers #333
[Fixed] High CPU usage due to a sync XHR request made by the Assistant #315
[Fixed] Statistics is not counted properly #334
[Fixed] Kext status check does not work properly on macOS 10.14 #337
[Fixed] Website report is now sent properly via the Assistant #361
[Improved] Refactoring «Launch at Login» #415
[Improved] New onboarding screens #385, #407

1.5.14

Disclaimer Adguard for Mac is not an open source project. We use GitHub as an open bug tracker for users to see what developers are working on.

In the anticipation of the AdGuard for Mac v2.0 big update (which is coming at the beginning of the 2019 and will have loads of new features), we really want to acquaint as many people with it as possible. And the biggest driving factor here is, of course, the ability to use the product in your native language. It was nothing but unfair that we deprived our French, Danish and Norwegian-speaking users of that opportunity. We apologize and add respective localizations to AdGuard for Mac for you to enjoy. See you next year with AG for Mac v2.0!

• [Changed] Localizations has been updated #322

1.5.13 Beta

Disclaimer Adguard for Mac is not an open source project. We use GitHub as an open bug tracker for users to see what developers are working on.

In the anticipation of the AdGuard for Mac v2.0 big update (which is coming at the beginning of the 2019 and will have loads of new features), we really want to acquaint as many people with it as possible. And the biggest driving factor here is, of course, the ability to use the product in your native language. It was nothing but unfair that we deprived our French, Danish and Norwegian-speaking users of that opportunity. We apologize and add respective localizations to AdGuard for Mac for you to enjoy. See you next year with AG for Mac v2.0!

• [Changed] Localizations has been updated #322

This is a necessary beta version, tonight we will push this beta into release channel.

1.5.12

Disclaimer Adguard for Mac is not an open source project. We use GitHub as an open bug tracker for users to see what developers are working on.

A small update for v1.5. We have temporarily disabled support for the dark theme on Mojave OS for version 1.5, since we were focused on the technical part of the development for the new version 2.0. In the upcoming major v2.0 update big changes are expected, but as for now:

• [Changed] Disable dark mode on Mojave OS #379
• [Changed] Localizations has been updated
• [Fixed] No default filters on clean install #360
• [Fixed] Welcoming UI and app menu are broken in dark mode on Mojave #359

1.5.11 Beta

Disclaimer Adguard for Mac is not an open source project. We use GitHub as an open bug tracker for users to see what developers are working on.

A small update for v1.5. We have temporarily disabled support for the dark theme on Mojave OS for version 1.5 since we were focused on the technical part of the development for the new version 2.0. In the upcoming major v2.0 update big changes are expected, but as for now:

• [Fixed] Disable dark mode on Mojave OS #379
• [Fixed] No default filters on clean install #360
• [Fixed] Welcoming UI and app menu are broken in dark mode on Mojave #359

This is a necessary beta version, tonight we will push this beta into release channel.

1.5.10

Disclaimer Adguard for Mac is not an open source project. We use GitHub as an open bug tracker for users to see what developers are working on.

A small but important update that resolves to issues:

• [Fixed] AdGuard does not filter new Chrome 72 builds #349
• [Fixed] AdGuard does not filter Brave Browser 0.55 unless you add it manually to the list of filtered apps #351