136.0.6008.80 – 2026-09-30 blog post

• CHR-10469 Update Chromium on desktop-stable-152-6008 to 152.0.7977.134
• DNA-125752 Crash at ui::WaylandWindowDragController::Drag
• RNA-4516 Allow unpinning tabs by dragging out of pinned tabs section
• RNA-4517 Allow dragging unpinned tabs to pinned tabs
• RNA-4518 Change drag pointer preview when dragging over different sections
• RNA-4557 The VPN badge is not displayed in the address bar
• RNA-4630 Wrong dragged pinned tab preview layout
• RNA-4671 [Vertical tabs] [Win] Tabs context menu is missing when clicking below the tabs
• RNA-4684 Dragging the pinned tab into the regular tabs section with a tab island on the stip only allows user to drop tab into the island
• RNA-4691 Crash when dragging an unpinned tab from pin section back to the unpinned part
• RNA-4775 [Mac] Onboarding is slow and doesn’t respond for some time after the intro
• RNA-4815 Enable #emergency-session-restore on Early Bird
• RNA-4839 [Vertical tabs] Tab favicon displays both red dot and sound/mute indicator in collapsed state during meeting
• RNA-4885 Cannot click on tabs after changing layout from vertical tabs to horizontal

136.0.6008.52 – 2026-09-24 blog post

CHR-9416 Updating Chromium on desktop-stable-* branches
DNA-125722 [Crash] [Windows] gcm::GCMClientImpl::Register
DNA-125725 Crash at signin::IdentityManager::GetPrimaryAccountInfo
RNA-4491 [NetInstaller] Build rebranded installer on buildbot
RNA-4564 After browser restart split-screen from TI is gone
RNA-4623 [NetInstaller] Protect Rebrand changes with a buildflag
RNA-4625 [Windows] Rebranded netinstaller fails to compile
RNA-4671 [Vertical tabs] [Win] Tabs context menu is missing when clicking below the tabs
RNA-4721 Browser do not load new paste protect rules
RNA-4725 Send tracking event upon successful autoconnect
RNA-4752 Enable #side-panel-full-api on all streams
RNA-4789 Revert font changes in onboarding

136.0.6008.22 – 2026-09-17 blog post

• CHR-10453 Update Chromium on desktop-stable-152-6008 to 152.0.7977.120
• DNA-125301 GCM Store may fill up and disable functionalities </li
• DNA-125598 Promote 136 to stable
• DNA-125601 ProtocolHandlersManagerServiceTest.ProtocolHandlerSanityCheck failing on stable branch
• DNA-125603 Traffic lights don’t react on hover on macOS 26
• DNA-125615 [Crash] [Windows] nviewh64.dll | opera::first_run::(anonymous namespace)::RefreshSystemIcons
• DNA-125631 Camera button overlaps Transparency button on hover
• RNA-4340 The ‘x’ button and its hover effect are not centred when collapsed
• RNA-4435 [Color Themes] Slider in Theme editor doesn’t work properly
• RNA-4440 Implement limited session restore
• RNA-4442 Session is removed instead of not loading pages after crash loop
• RNA-4452 Implement sidePanel UI
• RNA-4492 Single tab island created from a split screen link clicking
• RNA-4515 [React settings] Clicking an option in Easy Setup opens the main Settings page instead of the corresponding subpage
• RNA-4527 Close button not visible in collapsed tabs after you click on it
• RNA-4529 Whatsapp panel doesn’t open with a shortcut
• RNA-4530 Add top bar to extension side panel
• RNA-4531 Add preference for changing new tab order
• RNA-4532 Add option to change preference to settings (without React)
• RNA-4533 Add option to change preference to settings (with React)
• RNA-4534 Add option to change preference to Easy Setup
• RNA-4535 Feedback emoji and Settings icon are aligned to the left instead of the right
• RNA-4536 VPN settings popup: Update design
• RNA-4540 Translations for 136
• RNA-4543 [React Settings] Unable to add a custom search engine
• RNA-4544 Crash at TabDesktopMediaList::Refresh
• RNA-4545 Add option to switch position of New Tab button from context menu
• RNA-4549 Bookmarks bar disappears after exiting full screen
• RNA-4551 Add translations for strings in Easy Setup and Settings
• RNA-4552 Label should read “Open new tabs”
• RNA-4562 Can not drag split-screen tab inside tab island
• RNA-4566 Crash at tabs::TabCollection::FindMovePositionRecursive
• RNA-4567 [History] Distance between timestamp and checkbox in history sidepanel is too large
• RNA-4569 Enable #vertical-tabs-new-tab-on-top on all stream
• RNA-4622 ‘Save as PDF’ doesn’t work properly – the page is not captured correctly
• RNA-4628 Empty space is visible, when user closed Opera with AI chat opened
• RNA-4642 [Crash] [Mac OS X] libobjc.A.dylib | opera::BrowserWindowCocoa::GetWidget
• RNA-4644 VPN Autoconnect popup appears topmost without over other applications
• RNA-4650 Increase drag-to-move space
• RNA-4670 Crash after permission approval for ChatGPT extension
• RNA-4683 [Crash] [Mac OS X] opera::SplitScreenMultiDropTargetPopup::OnLayerAnimationEnded

136.0.6001.0 – 2026-08-25 blog post

• DNA-125516 Crash at opera::VerticalTabsPanelGroupCreationDragEventHandler::DetachTargetTabFromPreview
• DNA-125523 Dragged tab creates window on a wrong screen
• DNA-125526 Crash at opera::CrashNotificationPage::PopulateInterstitialStrings
• DNA-125532 [Crash] [Mac OS X] PictureInPictureWidgetFadeAnimator::CancelAndReset
• DNA-125533 Crash at PermissionPromptBubbleBaseView::CreateWidget
• RNA-2097 Option ‘Force dark mode on pages’ resets after changing theme or mode
• RNA-4094 default browser banner showed too soon
• RNA-4174 [React settings] Settings page corners are rounded in split screen view
• RNA-4247 Update font in Mac Installer
• RNA-4271 Update logo on Internal Pages
• RNA-4303 Users still able to reach the old theme editor
• RNA-4349 [Windows] [Debug] Crash in VpnAutoconnectServiceTest
• RNA-4352 Split screen triggered immediately on tab dragging in vertical tabs
• RNA-4362 Address bar search-engine shortcuts (keywords) no longer trigger for non-default search engines
• RNA-4366 Update font in Windows Installer
• RNA-4386 Implement changing volume booster with mouse scroll
• RNA-4389 [Vertical tabs] Moving the only tab in a workspace to another workspace fails when vertical tabs is enabled
• RNA-4392 Top sites are hardly visible
• RNA-4404 Enable #side-panel-api on all streams
• RNA-4414 Tab tooltip is doubled in collapse state
• RNA-4419 No tab island context menu for tab islands created by drag and drop

136.0.5995.0 – 2026-08-19 blog post

• CHR-10406 Update Chromium on master to 152.0.7939.5
• DNA-120419 Crash at opera::TabContextMenuModelDelegate::TabContextMenuModelDelegate
• DNA-125215 Crash at views::BubbleAnchor::GetAnchorRect
• DNA-125260 Crash at opera::oauth2::TokenCacheImpl::Store
• DNA-125460 Crash at opera::SnapViewWidgetDelegate::~SnapViewWidgetDelegate
• DNA-125483 Crash at opera::PinboardPopupView::OnWidgetActivationChanged
• DNA-125494 Crash at opera::SoundsManagerService::OnTabStripModelDestroyed
• DNA-125502 Crash at base::internal::WeakReference::IsValid
• RNA-2097 Option ‘Force dark mode on pages’ resets after changing theme or mode
• RNA-3357 Crash at opera::SplitScreenTabHandler::CreateSplitScreen
• RNA-4045 Increase initial window size
• RNA-4180 Pref for Update Notification should be removed from Sidebar settings
• RNA-4238 Implement animation for creating a tab island with drag and drop
• RNA-4241 Implement changes to make it easier to see active tab
• RNA-4280 [Opera One Themes] Add Saturation Range to specific color frames
• RNA-4290 Empty internal page opera://settings/content/v8
• RNA-4300 [Theme Gallery] Allow multiple themes to be labelled as ‘NEW’
• RNA-4301 [Win] Closing the tab island as the only thing on the vertical strip causes the new tab button to stop working
• RNA-4331 Quick drag-and-drop of a tab creates an empty Tab Island preview group
• RNA-4335 [MacOS] FOLLOW UP The collapse icon is shifting up and down when you expand/collapse the panel
• RNA-4344 Update colors in configuration if not match theme
• RNA-4351 Crash at libc.so.6
• RNA-4356 Pinned vertical tabs icons are not centered
• RNA-4358 When closing a tab scroller moves to the tab on the bottom
• RNA-4364 Do not close Sidebar Tooltip widget synchronously on visibility change
• RNA-4365 Enable #vertical-tabs-new-tab-on-top on Developer
• RNA-4384 Remove separator above ‘Wallpapers’ title in easy setup

136.0.5988.0 – 2026-08-12 blog post

• DNA-125460 Crash at opera::SnapViewWidgetDelegate::~SnapViewWidgetDelegate
• RNA-1113 When increasing display scaling, the VPN icon becomes black
• RNA-2052 Web view corners are not rounded in private window
• RNA-4046 Onboarding – Content doesn’t fit the window
• RNA-4169 Add tab / pinned tooltip delay
• RNA-4177 The collapse icon is shifting up and down when you expand/collapse the panel
• RNA-4201 Vertical tabs panel becomes black/white after opening DevTools (with sidebar on hide/auto-hide mode)
• RNA-4208 Remove the Sharing Point feature
• RNA-4237 Implement drag and drop to create tab island (without animations)
• RNA-4238 Implement animation for creating a tab island with drag and drop
• RNA-4239 Implement ‘new tab in tab island’ button
• RNA-4240 Animate transitions for adding new tab to tab island
• RNA-4249 Update Opera Logo in installer
• RNA-4255 Recording icon is cutted
• RNA-4256 Speaker icon doesn’t have hover efect
• RNA-4279 Opera visibly lagging
• RNA-4280 [Opera One Themes] Add Saturation Range to specific color frames
• RNA-4284 Linkage error on Mac in chromium/src/media/base
• RNA-4292 [Crash] [Windows] ui::(anonymous namespace)::ThreadedTransformTransition::OnStart
• RNA-4295 [Make Opera Yours] Widget is shown to existing users and after completing onboarding
• RNA-4298 Tab island positioning issue when switching between vertical and horizontal
• RNA-4299 Wrong colors for add new tab into tab islands(vertical tabs)
• RNA-4324 [Search Engines] Opera triggers inactive search shortcuts in address bar
• RNA-4334 Enable #opera-one-rebranding on Developer
• RNA-4336 Artefact appears after hovering over tabs

136.0.5981.0 – 2026-08-05 blog post

• DNA-125257 Software H.264 encoder reconfiguration errors
• DNA-125434 Add feature flag to enable Chromium browser-initiated auto-PiP
• DNA-125441 [macOS] Flaky Media tests
• DNA-125442 [macOS] Flaky test ViewsDragEventHandlerTest.*
• RNA-3884 Add transition animation to update notification popup — full popup appearance after ‘Remind me tomorrow’
• RNA-4144 Opening a new tab adds it to the start of the tab strip
• RNA-4146 Implement animation on creating a new tab
• RNA-4165 Translations for O135
• RNA-4202 [Crash] [Mac OS X] extensions::TabsQueryFunction::BuildTabList
• RNA-4215 [Settings One] Appearance: 2 settings changes in Chromium 151
• RNA-4216 No tooltip appearing for tab (in collapsed fav icon state) in splitscreen mode
• RNA-4217 Unable to launch Opera Developer O136 on macOS Monterey 12.7.6
• RNA-4221 [Split screen] Dropping a tab on top or bottom drop area splits tabs vertically instead of horizontally
• RNA-4229 Crash when using split screen in vertical tabs
• RNA-4233 Position of a split screen changes after switching from vertical tabs to horizontal
• RNA-4258 Crash at extensions::TabsQueryFunction::BuildTabList
• RNA-4262 Session lost on browser restart

136.0.5975.0 – 2026-07-30 blog post

• CHR-10391 Update Chromium on master to 151.0.7912.0
• DNA-125212 Page crash on opera://location-internals
• RNA-3884 Add transition animation to update notification popup — full popup appearance after ‘Remind me tomorrow’
• RNA-3924 [History] Make history tabs respect locale hour format
• RNA-4154 [Win] Address bar context menu is missing when vertical tabs are enabled
• RNA-4155 [Vertical tabs] “Add new tab” button activates on mouse release instead of mouse press
• RNA-4160 [Vertical tabs] Collapse and search buttons activate on mouse release instead of mouse press
• RNA-3891 Hovering over any link in the second window doesn’t show the URL preview
• RNA-4059 Automatically connect and disconnect from VPN on network changes
• RNA-4143 Move ‘new tab’ button to be at the top
• RNA-4147 Update icon of search tabs in horizontal tab strip
• RNA-4172 Some strings in Settings are shifted/misaligned
• RNA-4184 ChatGPT extension should be not loadable for private mode
• RNA-4187 “Search in tabs” button loads centered on the tab bar after switching from vertical to horizontal tab strip
• RNA-4199 YT video detach is red on hover
• RNA-4203 Crash at PermissionPromptBubbleBaseView::CreateWidget

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