Google Chrome Releases

Beta Channel Update for Chromebooks

2012-02-13T20:43:00.000-08:00

The Beta channel has been updated to 17.0.963.54 (Platform versions: 1412.186) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).

This update fixes a number of stability and UI issues.

If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our help site or filing a bug. Interested in switching channels? Find out how. You can submit feedback using ‘Report an issue’ under the wrench menu.

Orit Mazor
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Chromebooks

2012-02-10T15:59:00.000-08:00

The Dev channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.29 (Platform versions: 1660.20.0) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).

This build contains a number of stability improvements. Additional changes:

Updated Pepper Flash version
25865 - Fixes to crashes generated and blank screen being seen after browser crash
Improvements to video playback from File Browser

Known issues:

Issue on signing out: Please note that in some circumstances if you are connected via a proxy, signing out of your Chrome OS session may not work. Users may see 8 or more seconds of a blank screen followed by being returned to the previous signed in state. If you encounter this problem, please submit a feedback report (Wrench > Report an Issue) mentioning this issue. Please include the tag '#CantSignOut' and the approximate time you encountered this issue. Workaround: Shutdown the machine using either the power button or the Wrench menu > Sign out option, and restart the machine to login as a different user.
26127: Videos do not play in full screen mode. This affects multiple sites including YouTube and others.

If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our help site or filing a bug. Interested in switching channels? Find out how. You can submit feedback using ‘Report an issue’ under the wrench menu.

Danielle Drew
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update

2012-02-10T14:21:00.000-08:00

The Dev channel has been updated to 19.0.1036.7 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This build contains following updates:

All

Updated V8 - 3.9.4.0
Fix: open incognito windows at exit created extra normal windows when the session was restored [r120554]
Show spelling suggestions for misspelled words from the online spellchecker provided by Google (only after users opt into sending text to the service) (r120959).
When translating a page, get the code and translation via HTTPS. (r120113)

Windows

Fix a visual artifact when UI bubbles fade [r119916]
Fix an infrequent crash on repaint [r120196]
Fix 3D acceleration on computers with NVIDIA Optimus graphics [r120651]
Use Google’s online spellchecker to identify misspelled words as well as provide suggestions, for pasted text only. (r120959).
Fixed a crash that could occur if a page was closed while playing audio [r120749].

Linux

Use Google’s online spellchecker to identify misspelled words as well as provide suggestions, for pasted text only. (r120959).

Known Issues

Sub-dialogs do not work in Settings [Issue: 113505, et al].

Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Dharani Govindan
Google Chrome

Chrome Beta Release

2012-02-09T12:04:00.000-08:00

The Chrome team is happy to announce the arrival of Chrome 18.0.1025.11 to the Beta Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame.

Chrome 18 contains some really great improvements including GPU accelerating 2D Canvas, and enabling 3D content for older GPUs. More on what's new at the Official Chrome Blog and the Chromium Blog.

You can find full details about the changes that are in Chrome 18 in the SVN revision log. If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug. Want to change to another Chrome release channel? Find out how.

Karen Grunberg
Google Chrome

Stable Channel Update

2012-02-08T09:00:00.000-08:00

The Chrome team is excited to announce the release of Chrome 17 to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. 17.0.963.46 contains a number of new features including:

New Extensions APIs
Updated Omnibox Prerendering
Download Scanning Protection
Many other small changes

Security fixes and rewards:
Please see the Chromium security page for more detail. Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix

[73478] Low CVE-2011-3953: Avoid clipboard monitoring after paste event. Credit to Daniel Cheng of the Chromium development community.

[92550] Low CVE-2011-3954: Crash with excessive database usage. Credit to Collin Payne.

[93106] High CVE-2011-3955: Crash aborting an IndexDB transaction. Credit to David Grogan of the Chromium development community.

[103630] Low CVE-2011-3956: Incorrect handling of sandboxed origins inside extensions. Credit to Devdatta Akhawe, UC Berkeley.

[$1000] [104056] High CVE-2011-3957: Use-after-free in PDF garbage collection. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.

[$2000] [105459] High CVE-2011-3958: Bad casts with column spans. Credit to miaubiz.

[$1000] [106441] High CVE-2011-3959: Buffer overflow in locale handling. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.

[$500] [108416] Medium CVE-2011-3960: Out-of-bounds read in audio decoding. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.

[$1000] [108871] Critical CVE-2011-3961: Race condition after crash of utility process. Credit to Shawn Goertzen.

[$500] [108901] Medium CVE-2011-3962: Out-of-bounds read in path clipping. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.

[109094] Medium CVE-2011-3963: Out-of-bounds read in PDF fax image handling. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.

[109245] Low CVE-2011-3964: URL bar confusion after drag + drop. Credit to Code Audit Labs of VulnHunt.com.

[109664] Low CVE-2011-3965: Crash in signature check. Credit to Sławomir Błażek.

[$1000] [109716] High CVE-2011-3966: Use-after-free in stylesheet error handling. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.

[109717] Low CVE-2011-3967: Crash with unusual certificate. Credit to Ben Carrillo.

[$1000] [109743] High CVE-2011-3968: Use-after-free in CSS handling. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.

[$1000] [110112] High CVE-2011-3969: Use-after-free in SVG layout. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.

[$500] [110277] Medium CVE-2011-3970: Out-of-bounds read in libxslt. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.

[$1000] [110374] High CVE-2011-3971: Use-after-free with mousemove events. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.

[110559] Medium CVE-2011-3972: Out-of-bounds read in shader translator. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).

The bugs [105459], [106441], [108416], [108901], [109716], [109743], [110112], [110277], [110374] and [110559] were detected using AddressSanitizer.

In addition, we would like to thank miaubiz, Drew Yao and Braden Thomas of Apple, Sławomir Błażek, Aki Helin of OUSPG, Chamal de Silva and Atte Kettunen of OUSPG for working with us in the development cycle and preventing bugs from ever reaching the stable channel. Various rewards were issued, including a top $3133.70 reward to Aki Helin.

More detailed updates are available on the Chrome Blog. Full details about what changes are in this release are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in hopping on the stable channel? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update for Chromebooks

2012-02-07T19:49:00.000-08:00

The Beta channel has been updated to 17.0.963.51 (Platform versions: 1412.174) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).

Dev Channel Update

2012-02-07T18:03:00.001-08:00

The Dev channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.7 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This build contains following stability and bug fixes:

Users can now sync NTP icons to their profile and keep their order across different instances of chrome. [Issues: 111277, 100737, 61447]
Pointer Lock / Mouse Lock is implemented behind a flag (see about:flags). Mac only bug fix when closing a tab. [Issue: 111860]
Fixed stability crashes [Issue: 112590, 112116, 111968, 110909]

Dev Channel Update for Chromebooks

2012-02-07T15:43:00.000-08:00

The Dev channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.6 (Platform versions: 1660.13.0) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).

This build contains a number of stability improvements. Additional changes:

Introduces new Verizon activation and top-up portal featuring many user-requested improvements:

Enables recurring billing as the default for pre-paid monthly plans
Greatly simplifies the Verizon activation and top-up process
Allows purchase of additional data prior to current bundle expiration
Eliminates credit card requirement for free 100MB plan

Updated Pepper Flash version
Fix for Hangouts issue 25559

Known issues:

25592 - Sometimes when resuming the machine after closing the lid, the machine displays a blank (black backlit) screen. Restarting the machine is required.
25642 - Selecting Time & Date options from time drop-down does not display the Time & Date Settings. Workaround: Go to Under the Hood -> Advanced Settings
25971 - Occasionally when switching tabs, the screen will not redraw the content to the new tab. Workaround: Closing all tabs or restarting the machine resolves the issue.

Chrome for Android Beta 1

2012-02-07T10:00:00.000-08:00

The Chrome team is excited to announce the release of our first beta of Chrome for Android! Based on Chrome 16.0.915.75, Chrome for Android (0.16.4130.199) brings an all new browsing experience to your phone or tablet running Ice Cream Sandwich. More on what’s new can be found on the Chrome for Android page. Developers who want to learn more about working with Chrome for Android can check out the new developer site for working with mobile. More detailed updates are available on the Chrome Blog. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Srikanth Rajagopalan
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update

2012-02-02T17:55:00.000-08:00

The Dev channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.3 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This build contains following stability and bug fixes:

Fixed URL handling of settings page. [Issue: 111900]
Fixed crash when unpacking extension. [Issue: 112301]
Fixed the case where the utility process crashes after all plugins have been loaded. [Issue: 111935]

Dev Channel Update

2012-01-31T16:53:00.000-08:00

The Dev channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.1 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This build contains the following updates:

All

Updated V8 - 3.8.9.0
Moved the ‘privacy’ extension API out of experimental (Issue: 88030)

Mac

Fixed bookmarks menu being empty after switching profile. (Issue: 111034)

Perform Lion navigation gestures in the right window (Issues: 102541, 110655)

Fixed momentum scrolling that’s broken in iframes. (Issue: 112085)

Fixed Devtools closing in wrong tab when clicking close after resize. (Issue: 111206)

Known Issues

Settings revamp is still a work-in-progress. Please file issues at crbug.com.

Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Dharani Govindan
Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update

2012-01-30T13:46:00.000-08:00

The Beta channel has been updated to 17.0.963.46 for all platforms including Chromebooks (Platform versions: 1412.150). This update fixes a number of stability and UI issues. For Chromebook users, it also includes a new version of Pepper Flash. Full details about what changes are in this version of Chrome are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how on Chrome / Chromebooks. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a Chrome or Chrome OS bug.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Chromebooks

2012-01-27T13:53:00.000-08:00

The Dev channel has been updated to 18.0.1017.3 (Platform versions: 1625.0.0) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).

This build contains a number of performance, stability and security improvements. Additional changes:

Fixes to login problems that users may have encountered on machines that were shipped with versions R11 and earlier.
Updated Pepper flash version.

Known issues:

25557 & 25559 - Hangouts will not display video of yourself or participants on Chromebooks. Audio does work, and other Hangout participants will be able to see you if video is enabled. This problem does not affect GTalk Video.
25509 - Occasionally when switching tabs, the screen will not redraw the content to the new tab. Workaround: Closing all tabs or restarting the machine resolves the issue.

Beta Channel Update for Chromebooks

2012-01-25T19:27:00.000-08:00

The Beta channel has been updated to 17.0.963.43 (Platform versions: 1412.142) for Chromebooks (Samsung Series 5 , and Cr-48).

Highlights:

This update fixes a number of stability and UI issues.
Introduces new Verizon activation and top-up portal featuring many user-requested improvements:

Enables recurring billing as the default for pre-paid monthly plans
Greatly simplifies the Verizon activation and top-up process
Allows purchase of additional data prior to current bundle expiration
Eliminates credit card requirement for free 100MB plan

Beta Channel Update

2012-01-25T16:47:00.001-08:00

The Beta channel has been updated to 17.0.963.44 for all platforms other than Chrome OS. This update fixes a number of stability and UI issues. Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update

2012-01-24T17:52:00.000-08:00

The Dev channel has been updated to 18.0.1017.2 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This build contains the following updates:

All

Updated V8 - 3.8.7.1
Enable linear scaling for Chrome Remote Desktop’s scale-to-fit feature. (issue 93451)
Fixed popup windows issue (Issue: 106967)
Fixed crashes in extension binding (Issue: 110694)
When Strict Transport Security mandates that HTTPS certificate errors must be fatal, add a string telling the user why. (Issue: 110191)

Mac

Fixed flashing window while deleting profile (Issue: 108801)

Stable Channel Update for Chromebooks

2012-01-24T14:23:00.000-08:00

The Stable channel has been updated to 16.0.912.77 (Platform versions: 1193.194.0) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).

This build contains a number of performance, stability and security improvements. Additional fixes include:

24748 - Device not scanning for networks
23518 - No UI notification given on connection timeout

Stable Channel Update

2012-01-23T15:00:00.000-08:00

The Stable channel has been updated to 16.0.912.77 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame

Security fixes and rewards:
Please see the Chromium security page for more detail. Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.

[$1000] [106484] High CVE-2011-3924: Use-after-free in DOM selections. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.

[$3133.7] [107182] Critical CVE-2011-3925: Use-after-free in Safe Browsing navigation. Credit to Chamal de Silva. *

[108461] High CVE-2011-3928: Use-after-free in DOM handling. Credit to wushi of team509 reported through ZDI (ZDI-CAN-1415).

[$1000] [108605] High CVE-2011-3927: Uninitialized value in Skia. Credit to miaubiz.

[$1000] [109556] High CVE-2011-3926: Heap-buffer-overflow in tree builder. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.

The bugs 106484, 107182, 108461, and 109556 were detected using AddressSanitizer.
* Bug 107182 was fixed in 16.0.912.75 but accidentally excluded from the release notes.

Full details about what changes have been made in this release are available in the SVN revisions log. Interested in switching to another channel? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Anthony Laforge
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Chromebooks

2012-01-20T15:23:00.000-08:00

The Dev channel has been updated to 18.0.1010.2 (Platform versions: 1590.2.0) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).

This build contains a number of performance, stability and security improvements. Additional changes:

Improvement to wifi stability.
Improved system hardening [Yama support, etc]

Known issues:

25144 - External storage devices fail to automount. Workaround: Login using Guest mode and automount of the device will work.
Machines shipped with R11 and earlier versions may encounter problems with users being able to login to the machine. This may also occur after the user changes their password. Workaround: You may recover either from erasing the stateful partition or performing a machine recovery. Instructions can be found here.

Beta Channel Update for Chromebooks

2012-01-19T17:16:00.000-08:00

The Beta channel has been updated to 17.0.963.38 (Platform versions: 1412.121 and 1412.123) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).

Beta Channel Release

2012-01-18T16:30:00.000-08:00

The Beta channel has been updated to 17.0.963.38 for all platforms other than Chrome OS. This update fixes a number of stability and UI issues. Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update

2012-01-17T18:14:00.000-08:00

Update: Enabling getusermedia, PeerConnection and MediaStream functionality behind switch --enable-media-stream. (r117430)

The Dev channel has been updated to 18.0.1010.1 for Windows and Chrome Frame; 18.0.1010.0 for Mac and Linux. This build contains the following updates:

All

The PDF plugin now adds ‘Rotate Clockwise’ and ‘Rotate Counterclockwise’ commands to context menus, so users can more easily view documents scanned horizontally.
Updated the first-run bubble text and added a link to change the current search engine. (Issue: 117521)
Fixed HTML5 showing download bar in fullscreen mode. (Issue: 99673)

Mac

Fixed issue where Cmd-W would close the whole window in fullscreen mode. (Issue: 109793)
Fixed best-fit-window-zoom. (Issue: 104170)

Beta Channel Update for Chromebooks

2012-01-12T18:26:00.000-08:00

The Beta channel has been updated to 17.0.963.33 (Platform versions: 1412.87 and 1412.88) for Chromebooks (Samsung Series 5 , and Cr-48).

Beta Channel Update

2012-01-11T16:00:00.000-08:00

The Beta channel has been updated to 17.0.963.33 for all platforms other than Chrome OS. This update fixes a number of stability and UI issues. Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update

2012-01-10T20:41:00.000-08:00

The Dev channel has been updated to 18.0.1003.1 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains the following updates:

All

Updated V8 - 3.8.4.1

Fixed several crashes (Issues 106869, 104046, 106989, 107574, 106891, 108687, 107171, 109002)

When a profile is synced, use GAIA name + GAIA photo for avatar - Use Google OAuth userinfo API to get profile information (Issue: 91241)

Added support for manifest_version attribute for extensions (Issue: 62897)

Eliminate drawing glitch on WebUI radio controls. (Issue: 105755)

Fixed regression with extension omnibox API where whitespace would get trimmed (Issue: 106355)

Fix page zoom for plug-in documents (Issues: 106013, 106228)

Fix race condition in extension service that causes extensions installed (Issue: 101935)

Folders in the wrench menu and application menu are greyed out (Issue: 109196)

Better error handling in audio wave out. (Issue: 108685)

Made URL filter for web request API mandatory (Issue: 106590)

Reject weak RSA and DSA keys when validating certificate chains for HTTPS; related UI (r114879, r116442, r115924)

Windows

Popups opened from a maximized window should now be unmaximized (Issue: 106967)

Hide panels in presence of full screen app for windows. (Issue: 102731)

Provide windows notification of thread termination (Issues: 107974, 103209)

Abort in-flight load tasks if the DB has been closed. (Issue: 106722)

Linux

Native Client applications should now work on Linux systems where /dev/shm is mounted with the “noexec” option, such as Gentoo (r113228).

Fixed issue where Google Chrome does not start on RHEL 6 and derivative Linux distributions. (r116534)

Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log.
Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Dharani Govindan
Google Chrome