A bit behind in the news, but Opera Software released a maintenance build of their popular Opera web browser. As always this is a recommended release, as it contains several security fixes as well.

User interface

• "Fraud Protection" renamed to "Fraud and Malware Protection"
• Relative paths not working in the Filename setting for Speed Dial background
• Premature shutdown when using vBulletin's WYSIWYG editor
• Loading an animated png causes high CPU usage with no response from the browser
• yahoo.cn mailproviders SMTP entry not using a submission port
• Changing the default cookie preference to "Accept all cookies"
• Installing Opera 10.60 windows overwrites saved search preferences

Display and Scripting

• Google Calendar compatibility
• Unite listening on UDP 1900 even if UPnP service discovery is off
• Several cases where widgets will not run
• Premature shutdown when loading qq.com
• Setting the onload property of XMLHttpRequest blocks document memory from being garbage collected
• Opera treating binary files as plain text (opening it in the browser instead of showing a download dialog)
• Premature shutdown when loading the Canvas demo
• Printing from print preview results in either a freeze or corrupted page
• Widgets not having access to a network after restart
• "Accept cookies" and "only from the site I visit" settings being incorrect in Preferences dialog
• Premature shutdown occurring on startup of Opera under Windows 98
• Disk cache not working correctly in turbo mode

Security

• Fixed an issue where heap buffer overflow in HTML5 canvas could be used to execute arbitrary code, as reported by Kuzzcc
• Fixed an issue where unexpected changes in tab focus could be used to run programs from the Internet, as reported by Jakob Balle and Sven Krewitt of Secunia
• Fixed an issue where news feed preview could subscribe to feeds without interaction, as reported by Alexios Fakos

You can download Opera 10.61 from Opera's official web site, or if you already have an older release an update notification will appear automatically (or manually from the Help menu).