Opera 9.63 Released

A new version of the Opera web browser has been released on the last day of 2008. Opera 9.63 is an update to the current official release version of Opera. The update is a recommended security and stability upgrade. The new version can be downloaded directly from the official Opera website where it is available for all supported operating systems.

Existing Opera users can alternatively use the Check For Updates option in the Help menu to download Opera 9.63. The only other changes are one addition to the opera:config menu which can be set to close tabs by double-clicking on them. There are also four additions to the mail, news and chat functions of Opera.

List of security changes and improvements:

• Manipulating text input contents can allow execution of arbitrary code
• HTML parsing flaw can cause Opera to execute arbitrary code
• Long hostnames in file: URLs can cause execution of arbitrary code
• Script injection in feed preview can reveal contents of unrelated news feeds
• Built-in XSLT templates can allow cross-site scripting
• Fixed an issue that could reveal random data
• SVG images embedded using tags can no longer execute Java or plugin content
• Opera now imports .p12 private certificates

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Thursday January 1, 2009 -
Tags:Opera, opera browser, opera release, opera security, opera update, web browser

Responses so far:

1. Zachary says:

   January 1, 2009 at 2:26 pm

   Opera 9.63 has been out for a couple weeks now, actually.

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2. Martin says:

   January 1, 2009 at 2:44 pm

   I somehow got my Opera release tracker messed up.. Thanks for the info

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