Brave Browser Updates

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Release Channel 1.84.135

Release Notes​

• Fixed "Tor windows" section not appearing under "brave://settings/privacy" if Tor was disabled when upgrading to Chromium 142. (#50608)
  
• Fixed "New Tab Page (NTP) Favorites" being replaced with "Frequently Visited" when upgrading to Chromium 142. (#49593)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 142.0.7444.135. (#50683) (Changelog for 142.0.7444.135)
  

Release Release v1.84.135 (Chromium 142.0.7444.135) · brave/brave-browser

[harlan4096]

Release Notes v1.84.139 (Nov 12, 2025)

• Updated empty state actions on the “Account Details” page. (#50357)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 142.0.7444.163. (#50768) (Changelog for 142.0.7444.163)
  

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Release Release v1.84.139 (Chromium 142.0.7444.163) · brave/brave-browser

[harlan4096]

Release Notes v1.84.141

(Nov 18, 2025)​

• Fixed selected “Payment Method” for Meld not being passed to the Widget. (#50739)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 142.0.7444.176. (#50891) (Changelog for 142.0.7444.176)
  

Release Release v1.84.141 (Chromium 142.0.7444.176) · brave/brave-browser

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Release Notes v1.85.111 (Dec 3, 2025)​

Web3​

• Updated the “Choose Asset” color under the “Send” modal UI to make primary action more obvious. (#50949)
  
• Updated UI to expand to full screen view for “Buy”, “Send”, “Swap”, “Bridge”, and “Deposit”. (#50931)
  
• Fixed Cardano mainnet not being listed as a “Primary network” in the “Filters and display settings” modal. (#49530)
  
• Fixed broken clipboard button on “Confirm Recipient” screen. (#50935)
  
• Fixed the “Transaction Details” not displaying when clicked under the “Asset Details” screen. (#50544)
  
• Fixed issue where disabling the Zcash flag disabled Cardano account creation in the “Create Account” modal. (#50001)
  
• Fixed incorrect wallet graphics color scheme on Windows. (#49053)
  

Leo​

• Added “Skills” feature to Brave Leo. (#49622)
  
• Added “Task UI” to Brave Leo chat. (#49797)
  
• Added UI for attaching bookmarks to conversations. (#48882)
  
• Added the ability to add history as attachments by using the “@” mentions widget. (#48886)
  
• Added the ability to add bookmarks as attachments by using the “@” mentions widget. (#48885)
  
• Improved Brave Leo handling for GitHub files. (#50068)
  

General​

• Added a Brave favicon to brave://newtab. (#49614)
  
• Added a “Browser not supported” issue category for the webcompat reporter. (#49865)
  
• Added flag under brave://flags#brave-filled-bookmark-folder-icon to enable yellow folder icons on Windows. (#50605)
  
• Added “Show rounded corners on main content areas” setting under brave://settings/appearance (being rolled out in phases using Griffin starting at 15%). (#47506)
  
• Added the ability to allow any page to ask for localhost permission when brave://flags/#brave-localhost-access-permission is enabled. (#49241)
  
• [Security] Improved IKEv2 VPN configuration parameters on Windows. (#50062)
  
• [Security] Enabled WASM Interpreter when JIT is disabled. (#48501)
  
• Improved adblocking. (#50641)
  
• Improved performance of Brave News by updating how Brave News stores large images. (#48874)
  
• Updated rounded corners UI to have proper padding when split view is active on macOS. (#49204)
  
• Updated the margin between vertical tabs and tab contents when the vertical tab bar is expanded on hover. (#50558)
  
• Updated color scheme handling for themes. (#40863)
  
• Fixed crash which occurred when brave://flags/#brave-news-feed-update was disabled. (#50249)
  
• Fixed inability to drag and drop vertical tabs into groups when targeted group only contains a single tab. (#41278)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 143.0.7499.40. (#50985) (Changelog for 143.0.7499.40)
  

Release Release v1.85.111 (Chromium 143.0.7499.40) · brave/brave-browser

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Release Notes v1.85.116 (Dec 11, 2025)​

• Disabled premium models in “Skills” dropdown for non-premium users. (#51171)
  
• Fixed error being displayed to non-premium users in certain cases when selecting a new model from the “Change model for answer” drop down. (#51002)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 143.0.7499.110. (#51374) (Changelog for 143.0.7499.110)
  

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Release Release v1.85.116 (Chromium 143.0.7499.110) · brave/brave-browser

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Release Notes v1.85.117 (Dec 17, 2025)​

• Fixed broken NFT icons on the “Edit Visible Assets” modal. (#51445)
  
• Fixed broken token icons on the “Portfolio” page. (#51407)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 143.0.7499.146. (#51522) (Changelog for 143.0.7499.146)
  

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Release v1.85.117 (Chromium 143.0.7499.146) · brave/brave-browser

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Release Notes v1.85.118 (Dec 19, 2025)​

• Fixed token visibility changes between the “Portfolio” page and panel views. (#51540)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 143.0.7499.169. (#51562) (Changelog for 143.0.7499.169)
  

Release Release v1.85.118 (Chromium 143.0.7499.169) · brave/brave-browser

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Release Channel v1.85.120 (not ready yet via auto-update...)

Release Notes​

Web3​

• Removed gradient background from Brave Wallet. (#51577)
  
• Fixed missing percent symbol for the balance difference on the "Portfolio" page. (#51563)
  

General​

• [Security] Updated Picture-in-Picture (PiP) to display origin as reported on HackerOne by frozzipies. (#51668)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 143.0.7499.192. (#51796) (Changelog for 143.0.7499.192)
  

Release Release v1.85.120 (Chromium 143.0.7499.192) · brave/brave-browser

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Release Notes v1.86.139 (Jan 15, 2026)​

Web3​

• Added support for Zcash Testnet. (#50116)
  
• Updated UI for the “Cancel Transaction” confirmation panel. (#49719)
  
• Fixed macOS issue where switching apps using “Cmd + Tab” closed the wallet panel. (#50976)
  
• Fixed incorrect Cardano account being shown on the “Buy Crypto” screen. (#50790)
  

 Leo​

• Added support for rich results from Brave Search. (#50812)
  
• Added several new premium models in Brave Leo. (#49218)
  
• Replaced “Llama 3.1 8b” with “Qwen 14B” in the recommended model list. (#50958)
  
• Fixed list numbers not being displayed correctly in Brave Leo responses. (#50467)
  

 General​

• Added an “ask” keyword shortcut for “Ask Brave Search” in the URL bar. (#49179)
  
• Added “Always hide tab close button” setting under brave://settings/appearance. (#25077)
  
• Improved rounded corners on macOS. (#51057 & #49755)
  
• Improved display of sidebar on mouseover when rounded corners are enabled. (#50490)
  
• Increased the maximum number of top site tiles on the New Tab Page from 48 to 120. (#50468)
  
• Updated vertical tab strip to expand on mouseover when Brave is not in focus. (#50838)
  
• Fixed collapsed tab groups being expanded when moving via drag and drop. (#50898)
  
• Fixed inability to disable hidden lists in brave://settings/shields/filters. (#49207)
  
• Upgraded Chromium to 144.0.7559.59. (#51836) (Changelog for 144.0.7559.59)
  

Release Release v1.86.139 (Chromium 144.0.7559.59) · brave/brave-browser

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Release Notes v1.86.142 (Jan 21, 2026)​

• 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)
  

Release Release v1.86.142 (Chromium 144.0.7559.97) · brave/brave-browser