Chrome Releases: August 2010

Beta Channel Update

Friday, August 27, 2010

The beta channel for Chrome has been updated to 6.0.472.51 for all platforms. It contains many stability fixes, UI updates, and some additional translation work.
Interested in seeing all the changes? Check out the full svn revision log.
Change the release channel you are currently on.
Found a bug? Please let us know!
Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

The Dev channel has been updated to 7.0.503.0 for Windows, Mac and Chrome Frame; 7.0.503.1 for Linux. Some of the updates:

All

[r56615] IP addresses typed into the omnibox now work when offline. (Issue: 39830)

Mac

More tweaks and polish to the Wrench menu (Issues 48679, 51643)

Chrome Frame

Many stability fixes

More details about additional changes are available in the svn revision log. If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug. Find out more about changing your Chrome channel.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update

Friday, August 20, 2010

The Beta channel has been updated to 6.0.472.41 for Windows, Mac and Chrome Frame (Updated - Linux also now available). It contains additional stability fixes, UI updates, and an updated set of translations. More details about additional changes are available in the svn revision log.

You can find out how to use the different Chrome channels at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Stable Channel Update

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Google Chrome 5.0.375.127 has been released to the Stable Channel on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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.
Aside from the listed security bugs fixed in Chromium, we have also deployed a workaround for a critical vulnerability where the root cause lies in an external component. Credit and $1337 to Marc Schoenefeld for enabling us to work around another Windows kernel bug [51070].

[$1337] [45400] Critical Memory corruption with file dialog. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.

[$500] [49596] High Memory corruption with SVGs. Credit to wushi of team509.

[$500] [49628] High Bad cast with text editing. Credit to wushi of team509.

[$1000] [49964] High Possible address bar spoofing with history bug. Credit to Mike Taylor.

[$2000] [50515] [51835] High Memory corruption in MIME type handling. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.

[$1337] [50553] Critical Crash on shutdown due to notifications bug. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.

[51146] Medium Stop omnibox autosuggest if the user might be about to type a password. Credit to Robert Hansen.

[$1000] [51654] High Memory corruption with Ruby support. Credit to kuzzcc.

[$1000] [51670] High Memory corruption with Geolocation support. Credit to kuzzcc.

If you find issues, please let us know: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

The Dev channel has been updated to 6.0.495.0 for all platforms.

All

[r55669] Fixed some minor issues with css custom cursor rendering (Issue: 51709)
Re-enable the link to disable individual plug-ins in a group. (Issue: 51597)
[r55596] Fixed playback rate for WebM/VP8 on certain content. (Issue: 51014)

Windows

See All

Mac

[r56026] Opening downloaded items from the download shelf now behaves as expected (Issues 32921, 50263)

Linux

See All

Known Issues

Chrome Frame: fixed a crash during upgrade

More details about additional changes are available in the svn log of all revision.

You can find out about getting on the Dev channel here: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry

Anthony Laforge
Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update

Monday, August 16, 2010

The Beta channel has been updated to 6.0.472.36 for all platforms. This release contains the following updates:

All

More UI Polish
Stability Fixes
[r55562] Re-enable the link to disable individual plug-ins in a group. (Issue: 51597)

Mac

[r55585] Insert the Update Chrome item to existing Wrench menus when notified. (Issue: 50659)

Chrome Frame

[r55941] Fix Chrome Frame upgrade from old to new beta. (Issue: 51620)

More details about additional changes are available in the svn log.

You can find out about getting on the Dev channel at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug at http://crbug.com/new.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update

Friday, August 13, 2010

All

Late binding enabled for SSL sockets: High priority SSL requests are now always sent to the server first.

Fixed focus problems with restoring from minimize (Issue 48917)

Fixed Cannot add an address properly in the "AutoFill options" dialog box (Issue 50047)

Several fixes and checks relating to syncing extensions (Issue 46516, Issue 49346, Issue 46516, Issue 49346, Issue 50567)

Click-to-play is now behind the --enable-click-to-play command line switch.

Fixed several issues with click-to-play (Issue 49686, Issue 49836)

Mac

Various tweaks and fixes to the Wrench menu (Issue 49356, Issue 49996, Issue 49716, Issue 49448)

Fix a bug with the Custom Homepages preference (Issue 49320)

Linux

Fixed broken thumbnail images in new tab window (Issue 48066)

Known Issues

Incognito downloads are not showing up in the incognito downloads page: Issue 51955

log of all revisions.http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channelhttp://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry

Beta Channel Update

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Google Chrome 6.0.472.33 has been released to the Beta Channel for all platforms.
Updates from the previous beta include:

Updated UI
Form Autofill
Syncing of extensions and Autofill data
Increased speed and stability

These changes and more in Chrome 6 Beta are explained in more detail on the Google Chrome Blog.

To switch to the Beta channel, you can download Google Chrome

If you find issues, please let us know: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Stable Channel Update

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Google Chrome 5.0.375.126 has been released to the Stable channel on Linux, Mac, and Windows. This version contains an updated version of the Flash plugin.

If you find issues, please let us know: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry

Jason KerseyGoogle Chrome

Dev Channel Update

Friday, August 6, 2010

The Chrome Dev Channel has been updated to 6.0.472.25 for all platforms. It includes the following changes:

All

UI Updates
Stability Fixes

Windows

(Issue 50577) Launching Chrome after installing may not work correctly if other browsers are running and set as default

Known Issues

More details about additional changes are available in the svn log of all revisions.

You can find out about getting on the Dev channel here: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry

Jason Kersey

Google Chrome

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