In v1.4.8 the validation scheme for url inputs was changed, causing valid URLs with semicolons, which previously passed the filter, to become invalid

Our application handles the generation of long urls with messy query strings to be used in advertising, so it's important to us that esoteric characters remain supported. Semicolons are valid URL characters

You can reproduce the error at the angular code example for a url input, try entering

http://www.test.com/asdf;df
http://www.test.com/asdf?asd=f;df=df

The fix is simply to add a semicolon to the last chunk of the validation regex here