Release notes for Microsoft Edge Stable Channel

These release notes provide information about new features and non-security updates that are included in the Microsoft Edge Stable Channel.

To understand Microsoft Edge channels, see the Overview of the Microsoft Edge channels.

Note

For the Stable Channel, updates will roll out progressively over one or more days. To learn more, see Progressive rollouts for Microsoft Edge updates.

Microsoft Edge Web Platform constantly evolves to improve user experience, security, and privacy. To learn more, see Site compatibility-impacting changes coming to Microsoft Edge.

Version 118.0.2088.122: November 29, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues for Extended Stable release.

Important

This update to Extended Stable channel contains a fix for CVE-2023-6345, which has been reported by the Chromium team as having an exploit in the wild. For more information, see the Security Update Guide.

Stable channel security updates are listed here.

Version 119.0.2151.97: November 29, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Important

This update to Stable channel contains a fix for CVE-2023-6345, which has been reported by the Chromium team as having an exploit in the wild. For more information, see the Security Update Guide.

Stable channel security updates are listed here.

Version 119.0.2151.93: November 27, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 118.0.2088.109: November 16, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues for Extended Stable release.

Stable channel security updates are listed here.

Version 119.0.2151.72: November 16, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Stable channel security updates are listed here.

Version 118.0.2088.102: November 9, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues for Extended Stable release.

Stable channel security updates are listed here.

Version 119.0.2151.58: November 9, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Stable channel security updates are listed here.

Policy update

Version 119.0.2151.44: November 2, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Stable channel security updates are listed here.

Feature updates

  • Compression Dictionary Transport support. A version of the Compression Dictionary Transport feature is available for sites to use by participating in the associated origin trial. If your network uses a middlebox that inspects network traffic and/or you previously encountered issues with the ZSDCH feature, review the Considerations for zstd-based Shared Dictionary Compression for HTTP page which contains updated guidance.

  • Behavioral changes to the beforeunload event. The behavior of the beforeunload event has changed such that calling preventDefault in a beforeunload event handler triggers a confirmation dialog. Setting returnValue to an empty string in a beforeunload event handler no longer triggers a confirmation dialog. This behavior takes effect starting in Microsoft Edge version 119. Administrators can temporarily opt out of this functionality by disabling the BeforeunloadEventCancelByPreventDefaultEnabled policy.

  • Split screen restore improvements. Split screen allows you to simultaneously work on multiple tasks across two, side-by-side screens in one browsing tab to boost your productivity and multitask more efficiently. Now after the browser is restarted and the previous session is restored, the split tab will also be restored.

  • Additional capability to manage sidebar apps. Administrators can utilize the "sidebar_auto_open_blocked" ExtensionSettings policy field to control the auto-open behavior of sidebar apps. For more information, see Detailed guide to the ExtensionSettings policy.

  • Updates to Microsoft Edge enterprise sync settings page. When the ForceSyncTypes and SyncTypesListDisabled polices are used concurrently, the sync settings page (edge://settings/profiles/sync) accurately show the status for each data type.

Policy updates

New policies

Version 118.0.2088.88: November 2, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues for Extended Stable release.

Version 118.0.2088.76: October 27, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Stable channel security updates are listed here.

Version 118.0.2088.69: October 24, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Feature updates

  • Designer (Preview) in the Microsoft Edge sidebar. All Microsoft Edge users with Manifest version 4.8.5 or higher (users can see their version using edge://sidebar-internals), including those that are working on managed devices, can now add the Designer (Preview) app to the Edge sidebar by clicking on the "+" and setting the Designer (Preview) toggle to on. Designer (Preview) allows you to experience the generative AI capabilities offered by Microsoft Designer https://designer.microsoft.com from inside the Edge browser.

    Designer is a new AI system from Microsoft that generates visual, customizable designs based on your text description and images. This release will be available in English for the following country/regions: Australia, India, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States.

    Administrators can manage sidebar apps including Designer (Preview) icon by using the policies described in Manage the sidebar in Microsoft Edge. The ID for Designer (Preview) app is 2cb2db96-3bd0-403e-abe2-9269b3761041.

Version 118.0.2088.61: October 20, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 118.0.2088.57: October 18, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Feature updates

  • Icon change in Edge sidebar. The Bing icon entry point in the Microsoft Edge sidebar has been changed to the new Copilot icon. No other changes in this experience are expected.

Version 118.0.2088.46: October 13, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Stable channel security updates are listed here.

Announcement: Icon change in Edge sidebar

In an upcoming update to Microsoft Edge, the Bing icon entry point in the Microsoft Edge sidebar will change to the new Copilot icon. No other changes in the experience are expected.

Feature updates

  • Microsoft Edge for Business Banner. Microsoft Edge for Business is a dedicated Microsoft Edge experience built for work that enables admins in organizations to give their users a productive and secure work browser across managed and unmanaged devices. The in-product Microsoft Edge for Business banner is being deprecated and will no longer be visible.

  • Find on page. Searching for a word or phrase on a webpage has become easier with the new smart find update to Find on page. For more information, see Find on page. Now when you search with Find on page, we suggest related matches and synonyms making it effortless to find what you're looking for, even if you misspell a word in your search query. When you search, simply select the suggested word to quickly locate the desired word or phrase on the page. Data is sent to Microsoft for processing. For more information, see Microsoft Edge's Privacy Whitepaper. Administrators can control the availability using the RelatedMatchesCloudServiceEnabled policy.

  • New SmartScreen policy. The ExemptSmartScreenDownloadWarnings policy lets administrators create a dictionary of file type extensions with a corresponding list of domains that are exempted from SmartScreen AppRep warnings. Files with file type extensions specified for domains identified by this policy are still subject to file type extension-based security warnings and mixed-content download warnings.

  • New Microsoft Edge Update policies. The MeteredUpdatesDefault and MeteredUpdates policies allows administrators to control the "Download Updates over metered connections" setting (edge://settings/help). The MeteredUpdatesDefault applies to all apps and MeteredUpdates applies to targeted apps. When a policy is configured to Allow, updates occur on a metered connection, such as cellular connections or others where data usage is controlled.

Policy updates

New policies

Deprecated policies

Version 117.0.2045.60: October 6, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 117.0.2045.55: October 4, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Stable channel security updates are listed here.

Version 117.0.2045.47: September 29, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Important

This update to Stable channel contains a fix for CVE-2023-5217, which has been reported by the Chromium team as having an exploit in the wild. For more information, see the Security Update Guide.

Stable channel security updates are listed here.

Policy updates

New policies

Version 116.0.1938.98: September 29, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Important

This update to Extended Stable channel contains a fix for CVE-2023-5217, which has been reported by the Chromium team as having an exploit in the wild. For more information, see the Security Update Guide.

Stable channel security updates are listed here.

Version 117.0.2045.43: September 25, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 117.0.2045.41: September 23, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 117.0.2045.40: September 22, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 117.0.2045.36: September 19, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 117.0.2045.35: September 19, 2023

Fixed various bugs and performance issues.

Version 109.0.1518.140: September 15, 2023

Note

This update was done for our M109 Windows down-level extended support. We're shipping 109 to Win 7, 8, and 8.1 (including Server 2012 R2 which is based on Win 8.1).

Stable channel security updates are listed here.

See also