Opera 12.01 security and stability release

August 1, 2012 · by olli

Hey
We have today released 12.01 which is a recommended security update.
We have also been able to fix a mix of regular bugs, crashers, freezers, and a bad nsl issue where Opera suddenly runs out of connections.

We have also fixed a couple of security issues.
Thanks for all the help testing out these fixes guys!!

Find changelogs here:

Windows

Mac

Linux/FreeBSD

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KadaeThursday, August 2, 2012 8:03:56 AM
cvmThursday, August 2, 2012 8:07:01 AM
PfelelepThursday, August 2, 2012 8:07:31 AM
great! Thanks a lot Opera!
AlexeyThursday, August 2, 2012 8:12:26 AM
Hooray! Now full throttle to hardware acceleration!!
Andylee SatoThursday, August 2, 2012 8:14:41 AM
Thanks for great fixes, now looking forward to 12.50 :-P
XombieThursday, August 2, 2012 8:20:26 AM
bachokochoThursday, August 2, 2012 8:20:47 AM
Congratulations Desktop Team!
12.01 - a small step for Opera a giant leap for browsers ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tBOtSPrNik&hd=1
Watch it in 12.01 though, with Marlin you'll find it problematic
Swapnil RustagiThursday, August 2, 2012 8:24:08 AM
Updated using auto-update - Windows XP. Nice work.

Looking forward to Opera 12.50 and waiting for Opera 12.02 to fix DSK-370931 [HTML5DND], DSK-369020 [HTML5DND] and some mentioned by other people in the RC2 post comments.
seronsThursday, August 2, 2012 8:36:55 AM
I still have very slow text input in all text fields in Opera, and almost all text fields on webpages with a few exceptions. This started with 12.00. At that point I cleaned out all opera references I could find in OS X 10.7.4 and reinstalled. I call for an official guide to how to cleanly uninstall Opera in OS X and reinstall it. This bug is very annoying.

edit: I discovered that this is somehow related to a large (1.3 MB) bookmarks file. Is this to be expected with a file of this size, and why is it related in the first place?
Ide StoutjesdijkThursday, August 2, 2012 8:44:28 AM
Even outlook.com works now!
LyonSHThursday, August 2, 2012 8:52:01 AM
No Fixed DSK-366101, Nooooooo....
User-CSS -> no graphics (local) .
Opera 12.00 and 12.01 (Final)

http://www.imageup.ru/img295/1007379/7079fd71.png -
Mimis Mum (MM)Thursday, August 2, 2012 8:52:44 AM
Thank you for your hard work, Team.

Now you can enjoy your well earned summer holidays.
norton2001Thursday, August 2, 2012 8:59:38 AM
Outlook Mail works fine, it's faster too.
Really appreciated everyone, and a full fix for Outlook virtually 36 hours after anyone noticed any problems. Beat that Chrome (Lol)
Brilliant Opera, have wonderful holidays everyone
olliThursday, August 2, 2012 9:03:26 AM
Originally posted by norton2001:

Outlook Mail works fine, it's faster too.
Really appreciated everyone, and a full fix for Outlook virtually 36 hours after anyone noticed any problems. Beat that Chrome (Lol)
Brilliant Opera, have wonderful holidays everyone
We had to patch it using browser.js, it was not a bug in Opera AFAIK
Mimis Mum (MM)Thursday, August 2, 2012 9:04:01 AM
BTW The Site Patching Team has also updated their browser.js
Target version and time stamp of the active browser.js file is Opera Desktop 12.01 core 2.10.289, August 1, 2012. Active patches: 223

Update yours by going to Menu > Help > Check for update. Check your version at http://www.opera.com/docs/browserjs/
Richard MessinaThursday, August 2, 2012 9:05:48 AM
Videos on the video game website IGN do not load. At least for me they don't, I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit with 64-bit Opera 12.01.

Try yourself, http://au.ign.com/videos/2012/08/01/coming-soon-august-2012
bastiThursday, August 2, 2012 9:07:03 AM
no mainbar, no update :/
YroThursday, August 2, 2012 9:11:02 AM
OMG!

Thats what comes in mind when running 12.01 here... I had skiped 12.00 because the bugs but in 12.01 I have an Opera browser wunning with less memory usage (about 280mb with 40 tabs) and no bugs or problems.. Even the Youtube videos was fixed... even the outlook...

How do You do that? o.O

AWASOME!

sorry about my english..
YroThursday, August 2, 2012 9:12:02 AM
When I updated from 11.64 to 12.01 my backward and foward buttons just missed. The I make an restore nav bar so all cool again..
Jordan TrillesThursday, August 2, 2012 9:18:12 AM
As you have said, this build did not include the support for the non SSE2 processor?
TcaoThursday, August 2, 2012 9:19:09 AM
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archive1Thursday, August 2, 2012 9:21:57 AM
Originally posted by norton2001:

Outlook Mail works fine, it's faster too.
Really appreciated everyone, and a full fix for Outlook virtually 36 hours after anyone noticed any problems. Beat that Chrome (Lol)
Brilliant Opera, have wonderful holidays everyone
isnt this still build 1532
geza079Thursday, August 2, 2012 9:27:20 AM
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projectionistThursday, August 2, 2012 9:44:56 AM
where did my almost witty comment go
AlexeyThursday, August 2, 2012 9:45:33 AM
Kind time of the day!
Try to change date (by arrows or calendar).
http://www.discoverychannel.ru/tv-listings
I see a blank page when Opera works as usual.
When Opera works as "turbo", I really can change the date and the TV-program too.
Opera 12.01. Vista x32.
Something wrong with my preferences?
KurtThursday, August 2, 2012 10:21:25 AM
thanks for the good work team....
Jeff ™Thursday, August 2, 2012 10:33:30 AM
Thanks for the fixes and update.
Alessio ReinerThursday, August 2, 2012 10:35:36 AM
same version as RC4? (1532)? So i dont download again.
PraetorianXThursday, August 2, 2012 10:42:38 AM
It's the 1532 build yes.
ВладимирThursday, August 2, 2012 10:50:39 AM
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FhuryThursday, August 2, 2012 10:57:44 AM
Good job all round.

Is outlook.com fixed by MS cause i am still on last RC?
1532 = 12.01

Ps why not post the number of the release everytime in the article?
ВладимирThursday, August 2, 2012 10:59:30 AM
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FhuryThursday, August 2, 2012 11:03:38 AM
Originally posted by christoph142:

Originally posted by Fhury:
Is outlook.com fixed by MS cause i am still on last RC?
No, by browser.js (Opera sitepatching team)

Oh interesting... Sorry for the noob question: this can be done without updating Opera?
David KarapetyanThursday, August 2, 2012 11:05:43 AM
http://i.imgur.com/rXjCH.png
Opera 12.01 x64, Windows 8 x64
HWA on, preferred renderer-0
Nvidia GT440, 304.79 driver x64
OpenGL-Backend not supported, unknown error
Please fix
CryioThursday, August 2, 2012 11:16:38 AM
Congrats Opera, for a succesful release of 12.01.

Nice fixes, they were really needed, but unfortunately, Opera 12.00 is still feeling as a regression over 11,6x, so have your well deserved vacation, and then start working on 12.02, to iron out as many bugs as you can.

The faster you can catch up to the competition, the faster you can start leading again. Cheers

(awaiting the next build to post more bugs I found - here's to hoping it's not 12.50)
Ukito1Thursday, August 2, 2012 11:27:33 AM
Why can not deploy the session as a bookmarks?
my issue in forum lost!!
Swapnil RustagiThursday, August 2, 2012 11:34:00 AM
Originally posted by olli:

We had to patch it using browser.js, it was not a bug in Opera AFAIK

So you mean it's a Microsoft fault and I can safely ask at Microsoft forums without having to think about asking to forgive me later if it turns out to be an Opera Core bug?
theredgiantThursday, August 2, 2012 11:36:34 AM
Is Bug DSK-366467 fixed?

@Ukito1: I too feel the sessions should show the tabs/URLs saved within each session.
Swapnil RustagiThursday, August 2, 2012 11:40:10 AM
Originally posted by theredgiant:

Is Bug DSK-366467 fixed?

What was the bug? What was the problem caused?
Obese MauriceThursday, August 2, 2012 11:43:25 AM
Originally posted by olli:

We had to patch it using browser.js, it was not a bug in Opera AFAIK

Can you do the same with 12.50? Please? It's my primary browser.

Edit: Oh, it works now! But I think it's a little slower compared to IE.
archive1Thursday, August 2, 2012 11:48:37 AM
Originally posted by Swapnil99pro:

Originally posted by olli:
We had to patch it using browser.js, it was not a bug in Opera AFAIK

So you mean it's a Microsoft fault and I can safely ask at Microsoft forums without having to think about asking to forgive me later if it turns out to be an Opera Core bug?
he's refering to this http://www.opera.com/docs/browserjs/ outlook.com is still not loading up properly for me. The top color horizontal bar is covering up part of the email panel
AndrewThursday, August 2, 2012 11:51:14 AM
Please implement a Shift + click on scrollbars!

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=255340
XombieThursday, August 2, 2012 11:56:02 AM
"Opera Desktop 12.50 core 2.9.168, August 1, 2012. Active patches: 254"

2.9? Really?
Swapnil RustagiThursday, August 2, 2012 11:57:37 AM
Originally posted by mubaidr:

"Opera Desktop 12.50 core 2.9.168, August 1, 2012. Active patches: 254"

2.9? Really?
Who said 2.9? He must be mistaking 11.50 for 12.50 then.
XombieThursday, August 2, 2012 12:00:01 PM
Originally posted by Swapnil99pro:

Who said 2.9? He must be mistaking 11.50 for 12.50 then.

Its status of my browser js! and did you miss 12.50? in the start?
EricJHThursday, August 2, 2012 12:00:45 PM
Originally posted by Fhury:

Oh interesting... Sorry for the noob question: this can be done without updating Opera?
http://www.opera.com/docs/browserjs/ .
XombieThursday, August 2, 2012 12:02:21 PM
Originally posted by christoph142:

I wanted to ask about this as well, but deemed the Desktop Team blog inappropriate for it... I'll ask this question over on the Sitepatching blog as soon as the blog post for yesterday's patches is online

Please give me link to the blog
Swapnil RustagiThursday, August 2, 2012 12:04:53 PM
Originally posted by mubaidr:

Its status of my browser js!

The status of Browser.js file is determined by the value of "var bjsversion" in the browser.js file.

For, example by browser.js file in 12.01 says:

var bjsversion=' Opera Desktop 12.01 core 2.10.289, August 1, 2012. Active patches: 223 ';

Apparently a small mistake by the browser.js team.
WJThursday, August 2, 2012 12:08:32 PM
Completely froze a brand new MacBook running Mountain Lion 10.8 when I initially open it Uninstalled and tried it again, no go. Has 12.01 even been tested on Mountain Lion.
ChristophThursday, August 2, 2012 12:11:39 PM
Originally posted by mubaidr:

Please give me link to the blog

Here you go
http://my.opera.com/sitepatching/blog/