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Release updates from the Chrome team
Stable Channel Update for Chromebooks
Friday, December 16, 2011
The Google Chrome team is happy to announce the release of Chrome 16 on the Stable Channel for
Chromebooks (
Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).
Chrome version 16.0.912.66 (Platform version: 1193.117)
Release highlights:
Read about improvements to Chrome over on the
Google Chome blog
Support for .zip files
Onscreen indication when caps lock is enabled
Warning messages regarding low disk space
Telegu and Kannada languages now supported
Updated Pepper Flash version
Crash fixes
Security updates
If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our
help site
or
filing a bug
. Interested in switching to the Beta channel?
Find out how.
You can submit feedback using ‘Report an issue’ under the wrench menu.
Danielle Drew
Google Chrome
Dev Channel Update for Chromebooks
Friday, December 16, 2011
The Dev channel has been updated to
17.0.963.10
(Platform version: 1412.24) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5 , and Cr-48).
Highlights:
Pepper flash: release 11.1.31.205
Stability improvements
File Browser improvements
New icon for guest session
If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our
help site
or
filing a bug
. You can also submit feedback using "Report an issue" under the wrench icon. Interested in switching to the Dev channel?
Find out how
.
Orit Mazor
Google Chrome
Dev Channel Update
Thursday, December 15, 2011
The Dev channel has been updated to 17.0.963.12 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This release contains stability and feature improvements. F
ull details about what changes are in this release are available in the
SVN revision log
. Interested in switching to a different release channel?
Find out how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
.
Jason Kersey
Google Chrome
Dev Channel Update for Chromebooks
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
The Dev channel has been updated to
17.0.963.6
(Platform versions:
1412.18.0
) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5 , and Cr-48).
This release contains stability and feature improvement.
If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our
help site
or
filing a bug
. You can also submit feedback using "Report an issue" under the wrench icon. Interested in switching to the Dev channel?
Find out how
.
Orit Mazor
Google Chrome
Stable Channel Update
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
The Google Chrome team is happy to announce the arrival of Chrome 16.0.912.63 to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. Chrome 16 contains some really great improvements including enhancements to Sync and the ability to create multiple profiles on a single instance of Chrome
. You can read about it more on the
Google Chome blog
.
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
[
81753
]
Medium
CVE-2011-3903: Out-of-bounds read in regex matching.
Credit to David Holloway of the Chromium development community.
[
95465
]
Low
CVE-2011-3905: Out-of-bounds reads in libxml.
Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).
[$
500
] [
98809
]
Medium
CVE-2011-3906: Out-of-bounds read in PDF parser.
Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.
[$
1000
] [
99016
]
High
CVE-2011-3907: URL bar spoofing with view-source.
Credit to Luka Treiber of ACROS Security.
[
100863
]
Low
CVE-2011-3908: Out-of-bounds read in SVG parsing.
Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.
[
101010
]
Medium
CVE-2011-3909: [64-bit only] Memory corruption in CSS property array.
Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (scarybeasts) and Chu.
[
101494
]
Medium
CVE-2011-3910: Out-of-bounds read in YUV video frame handling.
Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).
[
101779
]
Medium
CVE-2011-3911: Out-of-bounds read in PDF.
Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (scarybeasts) and Robert Swiecki of the Google Security Team.
[$
1000
] [
102359
]
High
CVE-2011-3912: Use-after-free in SVG filters.
Credit to Arthur Gerkis.
[$
1000
] [
103921
]
High
CVE-2011-3913: Use-after-free in Range handling.
Credit to Arthur Gerkis.
[$
1000
] [
104011
]
High
CVE-2011-3914: Out-of-bounds write in v8 i18n handling.
Credit to Sławomir Błażek.
[$
1000
] [
104529
]
High
CVE-2011-3915: Buffer overflow in PDF font handling.
Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
[$
500
] [
104959
]
Medium
CVE-2011-3916: Out-of-bounds reads in PDF cross references.
Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
[
105162
]
Medium
CVE-2011-3917: Stack-buffer-overflow in FileWatcher.
Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Marty Barbella).
[
107258
]
High
CVE-2011-3904: Use-after-free in bidi handling.
Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno) and miaubiz.
The bugs
[
95465
]
,
[
100863
], [
101494
], [
102359
], [
103921
] and [
105162
]
were detected using
AddressSanitizer
.
In addition, we would like to thank miaubiz, Eric Bidelman, and Sławomir Błażek for working with us in the development cycle and preventing bugs from ever reaching the stable channel. Various rewards were issued.
Thanks for using Chrome! If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
.
Have a happy holiday season!
Anthony Laforge
Google Chrome
Dev Channel Update for Chromebooks
Friday, December 9, 2011
The Dev channel has been updated to
17.0.963.2
(Platform versions: 1412.5.0 and 1412.7.0) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5 , and Cr-48).
Highlights:
Updated
Chrome version
(stability and feature improvements)
Pepper flash: release 11.1.31.202
Update Chromevox (features and bug fixes)
Known issues:
Issue
23560
: Power button does not respond (rare).
Issue
23908
: chrome://system output truncated after "touchpad_activity"
Issue
23244
: Browser context menu is displayed when right-clicking on File browser window
Issue
23379
: Selected text disappears in file browser
Issue
23571
: Angry birds : graphics problems
Issue
23802
: Crash: Chrome crash on enabling and disabling Capslock (or) accessibility
Issue
23848
: Playing youtube video in gtalk window causes all gtalk windows to disappear
If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our
help site
or
filing a bug
. You can also submit feedback using "Report an issue" under the wrench icon. Interested in switching to the Dev channel?
Find out how
.
Orit Mazor
Google Chrome
Beta Channel Update for Chromebooks
Thursday, December 8, 2011
The Google Chrome team is happy to announce the release of Chrome 16 on the Beta Channel for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).
Chrome version 16.0.912.63 (Platform version: 1193.105.0)
Release highlights:
Stability & security fixes
Known issues:
23151
- Signing in with a custom encryption passphrase does not prompt users to fill in the passphrase.
Workaround
: If sync is not happening and you have an encryption passphrase for your account data, go to the Settings > Personal Stuff tab to fill in the passphrase.
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
Thursday, December 8, 2011
The Dev channel has been updated to 17.0.963.2 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This release contains stability and feature improvement. F
ull details about what changes are in this release are available in the
SVN revision log
. Interested in switching to a different release 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
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
The Beta channel has been updated to 16.0.912.63 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame.
For an overview of key features in this release check out the
Google Chrome Blog
. Interested in switching to the Beta or Stable channels? You can also take a look at the
changelog
to see what happened in this release since .59.
Find out how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
.
Anthony Laforge
Google Chrome
Dev Channel Update
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
The Dev channel has been updated to 17.0.963.0 for all platforms. This release has the following updates:
All Platforms
Updated V8 - 3.7.12.6
r113121
Omnibox suggestions will now be prerendered if our confidence of the user following the suggestion is high.
Support for <meta name=”referrer”>
Content Settings (in Options, Under the Hood) now has UI for “Mouse Cursor”, which controls the Mouse Lock API permissions.
r110556
F
ixed a renderer crash that could happen when opening a new tab with many tabs open.
WebKit Issue 73056
- Small fix for BiDi selection.
WebKit Issue 63903
- Fixed WebKit's implementation of bdo, bdi, and output elements to match HTML5 spec section 10.3.5.
Windows
r111156
- Desktop shortcuts will be created for each user account, to launch Chrome with that account active.
Mac
The PDF viewer now renders nicer looking text.
r111426
- Plugins using the Core Animation rendering model are now rendered through Chrome’s compositor rather than directly to the screen. This should have no user visible side effects; please file bugs and cc:
kbr@chromium.org
if any unexpected issues are seen with plugin rendering on Mac.
Known Issues
Extension/App/Themes installs on Linux/ChromeOS are currently not working. This includes sync-driven installs. (
Bug 106599
)
Full details about what changes are in this release are available in the
SVN revision log
. Interested in switching to a different release 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
Thursday, December 1, 2011
The Beta channel has been updated to 16.0.912.59 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame.
For an overview of key features in this release check out the
Google Chrome Blog
. Interested in switching to the Beta or Stable channels? You can also take a look at the
changelog
to see what happened in this release since .41.
Find out how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
.
Anthony Laforge
Google Chrome
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