Adguard 7.18.1 -7.18.4778.0- Stable May 2026

Mira leaned back. Her hands were shaking.

Mira was the lead maintainer for Adguard’s core filtering logic. She wasn’t a hero. She was a woman who had spent the last eighteen months arguing about regex efficiency on GitHub. But she was also the only one who understood the rhythm of the filter engine—the way version handled SSL pinning exceptions. Adguard 7.18.1 -7.18.4778.0- Stable

Mira pulled up the changelog one more time: Fixed: rare race condition in TLS handshake emulation (issue #4778). Improved: stealth mode pattern matching for CNAME cloaking. Updated: CoreLibs to 7.18.4778.0 – Stable. That innocuous little number——was her secret weapon. Mira leaned back

She typed back: “Stable release. Patch notes in the morning.” She wasn’t a hero

She hadn't told anyone. Not her PM, not legal. It was technically a violation of five different compliance rules. But she’d labeled it as "experimental telemetry" in the commit.

Tokyo: 47,000 updated. Attack signature detected. Neutralized. London: 89,000 updated. Reverse payload deployed. Honeypot active. New York: 112,000 updated. CNAME cloaking bypassed.