CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

v3.3.18 (2024/05/20)

• Fix LANG ENV for Linux
• Fix Chrome v124+ not closing on Windows. Thanks @RileyXX

v3.3.17 (2024/04/09)

• Fix file descriptor leak in service on quit(). Thanks @zkulis

v3.3.16 (2024/02/28)

• Fix of the subprocess.STARTUPINFO() call. Thanks @ceconelo
• Add FreeBSD support. Thanks @Asthowen
• Use headless configuration properly. Thanks @hashworks

v3.3.15 (2024/02/20)

• Fix looping challenges

v3.3.14-hotfix2 (2024/02/17)

• Hotfix 2 - bad Chromium build, instances failed to terminate

v3.3.14-hotfix (2024/02/17)

• Hotfix for Linux build - some Chrome files no longer exist

v3.3.14 (2024/02/17)

• Update Chrome downloads. Thanks @opemvbs

v3.3.13 (2024/01/07)

• Fix too many open files error

v3.3.12 (2023/12/15)

• Fix looping challenges and invalid cookies

v3.3.11 (2023/12/11)

• Update UC 3.5.4 & Selenium 4.15.2. Thanks @txtsd

v3.3.10 (2023/11/14)

• Add LANG ENV - resolves issues with YGGtorrent

v3.3.9 (2023/11/13)

• Fix for Docker build, capture TypeError

v3.3.8 (2023/11/13)

• Fix headless=true for Chrome 117+. Thanks @NabiKAZ
• Support running Chrome 119 from source. Thanks @koleg and @Chris7X
• Fix "OSError: [WinError 6] The handle is invalid" on exit. Thanks @enesgorkemgenc

v3.3.7 (2023/11/05)

• Bump to rebuild. Thanks @JoachimDorchies

v3.3.6 (2023/09/15)

• Update checkbox selector, again

v3.3.5 (2023/09/13)

• Change checkbox selector, support languages other than English

v3.3.4 (2023/09/02)

• Update checkbox selector

v3.3.3 (2023/08/31)

• Update undetected_chromedriver to v3.5.3

v3.3.2 (2023/08/03)

• Fix URL domain in Prometheus exporter

v3.3.1 (2023/08/03)

• Fix for Cloudflare verify checkbox
• Fix HEADLESS=false in Windows binary
• Fix Prometheus exporter for management and health endpoints
• Remove misleading stack trace when the verify checkbox is not found
• Revert "Update base Docker image to Debian Bookworm" #849
• Revert "Install Chromium 115 from Debian testing" #849

v3.3.0 (2023/08/02)

• Fix for new Cloudflare detection. Thanks @cedric-bour for #845
• Add support for proxy authentication username/password. Thanks @jacobprice808 for #807
• Implement Prometheus metrics
• Fix Chromium Driver for Chrome / Chromium version > 114
• Use Chromium 115 in binary packages (Windows and Linux)
• Install Chromium 115 from Debian testing (Docker)
• Update base Docker image to Debian Bookworm
• Update Selenium 4.11.2
• Update pyinstaller 5.13.0
• Add more traces in build_package.py

v3.2.2 (2023/07/16)

• Workaround for updated 'verify you are human' check

v3.2.1 (2023/06/10)

• Kill dead Chrome processes in Windows
• Fix Chrome GL erros in ASUSTOR NAS

v3.2.0 (2023/05/23)

• Support "proxy" param in requests and sessions
• Support "cookies" param in requests
• Fix Chromium exec permissions in Linux package
• Update Python dependencies

v3.1.2 (2023/04/02)

• Fix headless mode in macOS
• Remove redundant artifact from Windows binary package
• Bump Selenium dependency

v3.1.1 (2023/03/25)

• Distribute binary executables in compressed package
• Add icon for binary executable
• Include information about supported architectures in the readme
• Check Python version on start

v3.1.0 (2023/03/20)

• Build binaries for Linux x64 and Windows x64
• Sessions with auto-creation on fetch request and TTL
• Fix error trace: Crash Reports/pending No such file or directory
• Fix Waitress server error with asyncore_use_poll=true
• Attempt to fix Docker ARM32 build
• Print platform information on start up
• Add Fairlane challenge selector
• Update DDOS-GUARD title
• Update dependencies

v3.0.4 (2023/03/07)

• Click on the Cloudflare's 'Verify you are human' button if necessary

v3.0.3 (2023/03/06)

• Update undetected_chromedriver version to 3.4.6

v3.0.2 (2023/01/08)

• Detect Cloudflare blocked access
• Check Chrome / Chromium web browser is installed correctly

v3.0.1 (2023/01/06)

• Kill Chromium processes properly to avoid defunct/zombie processes
• Update undetected-chromedriver
• Disable Zygote sandbox in Chromium browser
• Add more selectors to detect blocked access
• Include procps (ps), curl and vim packages in the Docker image

v3.0.0 (2023/01/04)

• This is the first release of FlareSolverr v3. There are some breaking changes
• Docker images for linux/386, linux/amd64, linux/arm/v7 and linux/arm64/v8
• Replaced Firefox with Chrome
• Replaced NodeJS / Typescript with Python
• Replaced Puppeter with Selenium
• No binaries for Linux / Windows. You have to use the Docker image or install from Source code
• No proxy support
• No session support

v2.2.10 (2022/10/22)

• Detect DDoS-Guard through title content

v2.2.9 (2022/09/25)

• Detect Cloudflare Access Denied
• Commit the complete changelog

v2.2.8 (2022/09/17)

• Remove 30 s delay and clean legacy code

v2.2.7 (2022/09/12)

• Temporary fix: add 30s delay
• Update README.md

v2.2.6 (2022/07/31)

• Fix Cloudflare detection in POST requests

v2.2.5 (2022/07/30)

• Update GitHub actions to build executables with NodeJs 16
• Update Cloudflare selectors and add HTML samples
• Install Firefox 94 instead of the latest Nightly
• Update dependencies
• Upgrade Puppeteer (#396)

v2.2.4 (2022/04/17)

• Detect DDoS-Guard challenge

v2.2.3 (2022/04/16)

• Fix 2000 ms navigation timeout
• Update README.md (libseccomp2 package in Debian)
• Update README.md (clarify proxy parameter) (#307)
• Update NPM dependencies
• Disable Cloudflare ban detection

v2.2.2 (2022/03/19)

• Fix ban detection. Resolves #330 (#336)

v2.2.1 (2022/02/06)

• Fix max timeout error in some pages
• Avoid crashing in NodeJS 17 due to Unhandled promise rejection
• Improve proxy validation and debug traces
• Remove @types/puppeteer dependency

v2.2.0 (2022/01/31)

• Increase default BROWSER_TIMEOUT=40000 (40 seconds)
• Fix Puppeter deprecation warnings
• Update base Docker image Alpine 3.15 / NodeJS 16
• Build precompiled binaries with NodeJS 16
• Update Puppeter and other dependencies
• Add support for Custom CloudFlare challenge
• Add support for DDoS-GUARD challenge

v2.1.0 (2021/12/12)

• Add aarch64 to user agents to be replaced (#248)
• Fix SOCKSv4 and SOCKSv5 proxy. resolves #214 #220
• Remove redundant JSON key (postData) (#242)
• Make test URL configurable with TEST_URL env var. resolves #240
• Bypass new Cloudflare protection
• Update donation links

v2.0.2 (2021/10/31)

• Fix SOCKS5 proxy. Resolves #214
• Replace Firefox ERS with a newer version
• Catch startup exceptions and give some advices
• Add env var BROWSER_TIMEOUT for slow systems
• Fix NPM warning in Docker images

v2.0.1 (2021/10/24)

• Check user home dir before testing web browser installation

v2.0.0 (2021/10/20)

FlareSolverr 2.0.0 is out with some important changes:

• It is capable of solving the automatic challenges of Cloudflare. CAPTCHAs (hCaptcha) cannot be resolved and the old solvers have been removed.
• The Chrome browser has been replaced by Firefox. This has caused some functionality to be removed. Parameters: userAgent, headers, rawHtml and downloadare no longer available.
• Included proxy support without user/password credentials. If you are writing your own integration with FlareSolverr, make sure your client uses the same User-Agent header and Proxy that FlareSolverr uses. Those values together with the Cookie are checked and detected by Cloudflare.
• FlareSolverr has been rewritten from scratch. From now on it should be easier to maintain and test.
• If you are using Jackett make sure you have version v0.18.1041 or higher. FlareSolverSharp v2.0.0 is out too.

Complete changelog:

• Bump version 2.0.0
• Set puppeteer timeout half of maxTimeout param. Resolves #180
• Add test for blocked IP
• Avoid reloading the page in case of error
• Improve Cloudflare detection
• Fix version
• Fix browser preferences and proxy
• Fix request.post method and clean error traces
• Use Firefox ESR for Docker images
• Improve Firefox start time and code clean up
• Improve bad request management and tests
• Build native packages with Firefox
• Update readme
• Improve Docker image and clean TODOs
• Add proxy support
• Implement request.post method for Firefox
• Code clean up, remove returnRawHtml, download, headers params
• Remove outdated chaptcha solvers
• Refactor the app to use Express server and Jest for tests
• Fix Cloudflare resolver for Linux ARM builds
• Fix Cloudflare resolver
• Replace Chrome web browser with Firefox
• Remove userAgent parameter since any modification is detected by CF
• Update dependencies
• Remove Puppeter steath plugin

v1.2.9 (2021/08/01)

• Improve "Execution context was destroyed" error handling
• Implement returnRawHtml parameter. resolves #172 resolves #165
• Capture Docker stop signal. resolves #158
• Reduce Docker image size 20 MB
• Fix page reload after challenge is solved. resolves #162 resolves #143
• Avoid loading images/css/fonts to speed up page load
• Improve Cloudflare IP ban detection
• Fix vulnerabilities

v1.2.8 (2021/06/01)

• Improve old JS challenge waiting. Resolves #129

v1.2.7 (2021/06/01)

• Improvements in Cloudflare redirect detection. Resolves #140
• Fix installation instructions

v1.2.6 (2021/05/30)

• Handle new Cloudflare challenge. Resolves #135 Resolves #134
• Provide reference Systemd unit file. Resolves #72
• Fix EACCES: permission denied, open '/tmp/flaresolverr.txt'. Resolves #120
• Configure timezone with TZ env var. Resolves #109
• Return the redirected URL in the response (#126)
• Show an error in hcaptcha-solver. Resolves #132
• Regenerate package-lock.json lockfileVersion 2
• Update issue template. Resolves #130
• Bump ws from 7.4.1 to 7.4.6 (#137)
• Bump hosted-git-info from 2.8.8 to 2.8.9 (#124)
• Bump lodash from 4.17.20 to 4.17.21 (#125)

v1.2.5 (2021/04/05)

• Fix memory regression, close test browser
• Fix release-docker GitHub action

v1.2.4 (2021/04/04)

• Include license in release zips. resolves #75
• Validate Chrome is working at startup
• Speedup Docker image build
• Add health check endpoint
• Update issue template
• Minor improvements in debug traces
• Validate environment variables at startup. resolves #101
• Add FlareSolverr logo. resolves #23

v1.2.3 (2021/01/10)

• CI/CD: Generate release changelog from commits. resolves #34
• Update README.md
• Add donation links
• Simplify docker-compose.yml
• Allow to configure "none" captcha resolver
• Override docker-compose.yml variables via .env resolves #64 (#66)

v1.2.2 (2021/01/09)

• Add documentation for precompiled binaries installation
• Add instructions to set environment variables in Windows
• Build Windows and Linux binaries. resolves #18
• Add release badge in the readme
• CI/CD: Generate release changelog from commits. resolves #34
• Add a notice about captcha solvers
• Add Chrome flag --disable-dev-shm-usage to fix crashes. resolves #45
• Fix Docker CLI documentation
• Add traces with captcha solver service. resolves #39
• Improve logic to detect Cloudflare captcha. resolves #48
• Move Cloudflare provider logic to his own class
• Simplify and document the "return only cookies" parameter
• Show message when debug log is enabled
• Update readme to add more clarifications. resolves #53 (#60)
• issue_template: typo fix (#52)

v1.2.1 (2020/12/20)

• Change version to match release tag / 1.2.0 => v1.2.0
• CI/CD Publish release in GitHub repository. resolves #34
• Add welcome message in / endpoint
• Rewrite request timeout handling (maxTimeout) resolves #42
• Add http status for better logging
• Return an error when no selectors are found, #25
• Add issue template, fix #32
• Moving log.html right after loading the page and add one on reload, fix #30
• Update User-Agent to match chromium version, ref: #15 (#28)
• Update install from source code documentation
• Update readme to add Docker instructions (#20)
• Clean up readme (#19)
• Add docker-compose
• Change default log level to info

v1.2.0 (2020/12/20)

• Fix User-Agent detected by CouldFlare (Docker ARM) resolves #15
• Include exception message in error response
• CI/CD: Rename GitHub Action build => publish
• Bump version
• Fix TypeScript compilation and bump minor version
• CI/CD: Bump minor version
• CI/CD: Configure GitHub Actions
• CI/CD: Configure GitHub Actions
• CI/CD: Bump minor version
• CI/CD: Configure Build GitHub Action
• CI/CD: Configure AutoTag GitHub Action (#14)
• CI/CD: Build the Docker images with GitHub Actions (#13)
• Update dependencies
• Backport changes from Cloudproxy (#11)