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# Brave 1.98: Chromium 156 underneath

Stable Brave on the fleet is now 1.98.60, on Chromium 156. CSS random() and scroll-snap pairs arrive, one CSS property goes; TLS unchanged.

[Brave](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/browsers/brave) stable · 1.97.59 → 1.98.60 · 2026-10-23

Brave released 1.98.60 on 2026-10-21, and new `brave` sessions on the fleet now run it instead of 1.97.59. Its Chromium base moves from 155.0.8059.85 to 156.0.8078.48 (Brave release notes, measured), so web platform changes follow Chrome 156 ([Chrome 156 post](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/updates/chrome-156)).

## New

-   **Chromium 156.0.8078.48** (Brave release notes, "Release v1.98.60 (Chromium 156.0.8078.48)"; the browser reports the same version).
-   **New CSS that pages can feature-test:** `random()` and `scroll-snap-type: pair`, measured by our probe.
-   Brave's desktop changelog has no 1.98 entry yet, so this post lists only what we measured.

## Removed or changed

-   **`text-decoration-skip-spaces` is gone:** `CSS.supports` reported it on 1.97 and not on 1.98, as in Chrome 156.

## What sites see / detection

-   **User agent and client hints:** `Chrome/156.0.0.0` in the user agent (Brave doesn't add its own token), and the `Sec-CH-UA` brands change from `Brave 155, Chromium 155, Not(A:Brand 24` to `Not:A-Brand 8, Chromium 156, Brave 156`. Brave keeps reporting reduced full versions (`156.0.0.0`).
-   **TLS and HTTP/2 unchanged:** the JA4 hash, the full TLS fingerprint hash and the HTTP/2 fingerprint are identical to 1.97.
-   **Canvas still differs per session:** the canvas hash in the table below changed because Brave farbles canvas for every session, not because of the version ([case 66](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/cases/fingerprint-stability-across-launches)).
-   **Bot checks unchanged:** bot.sannysoft.com flagged one check (WebGL Renderer) before and after.

## For scraping

-   Nothing to change in your code: launch options, the Playwright 1.60 client and `wsUrl` are the same, and every Playwright feature we test still works.

## Measured on the fleet

The same probe ran against 1.97.59 and 1.98.60 on the fleet, each when it went live: identity, TLS and HTTP/2 fingerprint, web platform features, Playwright features and bot checks. Host-dependent values (cores, memory, timings) are left out. Brave farbles canvas per session, so a canvas hash change is expected between any two sessions.

### What the site sees: identity

|  | Before | After |
| --- | --- | --- |
| User agent | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86\_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/155.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86\_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/156.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 |
| Client hint brands | Brave 155, Chromium 155, Not(A:Brand 24 | Not:A-Brand 8, Chromium 156, Brave 156 |
| Client hint full versions | Brave 155.0.0.0, Chromium 155.0.0.0, Not(A:Brand 24.0.0.0 | Not:A-Brand 8.0.0.0, Chromium 156.0.0.0, Brave 156.0.0.0 |

### Web platform features added

-   CSS `random()` (Chrome 156)
-   CSS `scroll-snap-type: pair` (Chrome 156)

### Web platform features removed

-   CSS `text-decoration-skip-spaces` (Chrome 155)

### Fingerprint values

|  | Before | After |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canvas hash | a5c031b6 | be759088 |

Raw diff

```
{
  "engine": "brave",
  "label": "stable",
  "from": "1.97.59",
  "to": "1.98.60",
  "browser_version": {
    "before": "155.0.8059.85",
    "after": "156.0.8078.48"
  },
  "changes": {
    "identity": [
      {
        "field": "user_agent",
        "before": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/155.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
        "after": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/156.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
      },
      {
        "field": "client_hint_brands",
        "before": "Brave 155, Chromium 155, Not(A:Brand 24",
        "after": "Not:A-Brand 8, Chromium 156, Brave 156"
      },
      {
        "field": "client_hint_full_versions",
        "before": "Brave 155.0.0.0, Chromium 155.0.0.0, Not(A:Brand 24.0.0.0",
        "after": "Not:A-Brand 8.0.0.0, Chromium 156.0.0.0, Brave 156.0.0.0"
      }
    ],
    "network": [],
    "features": {
      "added": [
        {
          "key": "css_random",
          "label": "CSS `random()` (Chrome 156)"
        },
        {
          "key": "css_scroll_snap_pair",
          "label": "CSS `scroll-snap-type: pair` (Chrome 156)"
        }
      ],
      "removed": [
        {
          "key": "css_text_decoration_skip_spaces",
          "label": "CSS `text-decoration-skip-spaces` (Chrome 155)"
        }
      ]
    },
    "playwright": {
      "broke": [],
      "fixed": []
    },
    "fingerprint": [
      {
        "field": "canvas_hash",
        "before": "a5c031b6",
        "after": "be759088"
      }
    ],
    "bot_checks": {
      "newly_failed": [],
      "newly_passed": [],
      "failed_before": 1,
      "failed_after": 1
    },
    "plain_http": [],
    "launch": {
      "before_ms": 445,
      "after_ms": 775
    }
  },
  "host_dependent_ignored": [
    "hardware_concurrency",
    "device_memory",
    "launch/connect/page timings"
  ]
}
```

### Sources

-   [Brave v1.98.60 release (GitHub, 2026-10-21)](https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.98.60)

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