Chrome Releases: February 2012

Beta Channel Update

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The Beta channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.45 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame platforms
All

Fixed NTP signed in state is missing (Issue: 112676)

Fixed gmail seems to redraw itself (all white) occasionally (Issue: 111263)

Focus "OK" button on Javascript dialogs (Issue: 111015)

Fixed Back button frequently hangs (Issue: 93427)

Increase the buffer size to fix muted playback rate (Issue: 108239)

Fixed Empty span with line-height renders with non-zero height (Issue: 109811)

More details about additional changes are available in the svn log of all revisions. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Karen Grunberg
Google Chrome

The Dev channel has been updated to 19.0.1055.1 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This build contains stability fixes and updated V8 to 3.9.11.0. 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

Stable Channel Update for Chromebooks

Friday, February 24, 2012

The Stable channel has been updated to 17.0.963.60 (Platform version: 1412.205.0) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).
Release highlights:

Pepper flash: release 11.1.31.310

Stability & security fixes

Known issues:

Deleting 802.1x cert might require a restart to restore access to other wifi networks

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.

Orit Mazor
Google Chrome

Chrome for Android Beta Update

Friday, February 24, 2012

Chrome for Android Beta has been updated to 0.16.4215.215, picking up changes that have gone in through Chrome 16.0.912.77. Beyond the Chrome changes, this update contains:

Android Beam support - now beam URLs from Chrome to other devices with NFC.

Support for additional countries

Compatibility checks to ensure system prerequisites for Chrome are met

Essential bug fixes

Known issues

112923 : No way to toggle between mobile/desktop UA

113140 : Youtube Links Do Not Prompt For Which Application to Use

113132 : Chrome for Android beta doesn't support configured proxy in wi-fi settings

Other notable issues listed here

If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.Srikanth Rajagopalan
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update

Thursday, February 23, 2012

The Dev channel has been updated to 19.0.1049.3 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This build contains following stability and bug fixes:

All

Updated V8 - 3.9.8.0
Marked the Certum Trusted Network CA as an issuer of extended-validation (EV) certificates.
Fixed importing of bookmarks, history, etc. from Firefox 10+.
Fixed issues - 114001, 110785, 114168, 114598, 111663, 113636, 112676

Mac

Worked around lockups of mid-2010 MacBook Pros (dual NVIDIA/Intel GPUs) running 10.7. Please stress test Flash, WebGL and other GPU accelerated content on such machines and file bugs referencing Issue 113703 if issue persists.

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 for Chromebooks

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

The Beta channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.39 (Platform versions: 1660.44.0) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).

This build contains a number of stability and performance improvements. Some highlights of these changes are:

23036 - Caps lock is now triggered via the Shift + Search key combination (instead of the double Shift key combination).
20187 - Fix to reduce machine login time
Two finger click when resting/hovering thumb present fixed (users would see 3 finger clicks instead); Faulty 3 finger click turned off to correct this issue.
25133 - Fix to keyboard tab focus moving too far on login screen.
26201 - Fix to brightness filter in Chrome OS Photo Editor

Known issues:

26278 - Modal dialogs not always rendered properly.

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

Beta Channel Update

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

The Beta channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.39 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame platforms
All

Updated V8 - 3.8.9.8

Fixed several crashes (Issues: 111376, 108688, 114391)

Fixed Firefox browser in Import Bookmarks and Settings drop-down (Issue: 114476)

Sync: Sessions aren't associating pre-existing tabs (Issue: 113319)

Fixed All "Extensions" make an entry under the "NTP Apps" page (Issue: 113672)

Windows

Print Dialog Partly Off Screen w/ Windows 7 Vertical Taskbar (Issue: 112614)
"Recently Closed" menu is missing after restarting Chrome (Issue: 110785)
Fixed Garbled text on the SSL chip displayed in the Omnibox (Issue: 114168)

Mac

Fixed Custom cursor decoding with wrong color (Issue: 114598)

Fixed Custom image cursor makes the cursor disappear altogether (Issue: 111027)

Fixed Chrome on dual-GPU NVIDIA/Intel MacBook Pro hangs browser (Issue 113703)

More details about additional changes are available in the svn log of all revisions. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Karen Grunberg
Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update for Chromebooks

Friday, February 17, 2012

The Beta channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.32 (Platform versions: 1660.34.0) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).

This build contains a number of new features, as well as security & stability improvements. Some highlights of these changes are:

Updated Pepper Flash version
Improvement to wifi stability
Improved system hardening [Yama support, etc]
File manager improvements
Crash fixes

Known issues:

25971 - Occasionally when switching tabs, the screen will not redraw the content to the new tab. Occurs most frequently when one tab contains Flash content. Workaround: Closing all tabs or restarting the machine resolves the issue.

Stable Channel Update for Chromebooks

Thursday, February 16, 2012

The Google Chrome team is happy to announce the release of Chrome 17 on the Stable Channel for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48). You can read more about the Chrome version 17.0.963.54 (Platform version: 1412.186.0)

Release highlights:

Read about improvements to Chrome over on the Google Chome blog

Fixed CVE-2012-0056 kernel: proc: /proc/<pid>/mem mem_write insufficient permission checking

Verizon activation and top-up portal

Update Pepper Flash

New photo editor

File browser improvements

OpenVPN support

Stability & security fixes

Beta Channel Update

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The Beta channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.33 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame platforms
All

Updated V8 - 3.8.9.6

Fixed several crashes (Issues: 110943, 110234, 110176, 108986)

Sync: Conflicting sync entries should not be committed (Issue: 82236)

Back button frequently hangs (Issue: 93427)

Fixed Speech input bubble borders don't closing (Issues: 98323, 112194)

Improved the quality of the omnibox

Mac

Fixed Gap between download shelf and vertical scrollbar (Issue: 111266)

More details about additional changes are available in the svn log of all revisions. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Karen Grunberg
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Chromebooks

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The Dev channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.32 (Platform versions: 1660.34.0) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).

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

24450 - For users enrolled in an enterprise, the time zone setting is now editable by any user.
25604, 20612- Fixes issues where using an incorrect proxy, or when there is limited connectivity would cause a spinner icon to be infinitely shown on the login screen.
26127 - Fixes issues with streaming videos not being able to play in full screen mode.
Crash fixes

Known issues:

Chrome Stable Update

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The Chrome Stable channel has been updated to 17.0.963.56 on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This release fixes a number of stability and security issues in Chrome, and also includes a new version of Flash. More info on the Flash update is available from Adobe.

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.

[105803] High CVE-2011-3015: Integer overflows in PDF codecs. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (scarybeasts).

[$500] [106336] Medium CVE-2011-3016: Read-after-free with counter nodes. Credit to miaubiz.

[$1000] [108695] High CVE-2011-3017: Possible use-after-free in database handling. Credit to miaubiz.

[$1000] [110172] High CVE-2011-3018: Heap overflow in path rendering. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.

[110849] High CVE-2011-3019: Heap buffer overflow in MKV handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (scarybeasts) and Mateusz Jurczyk / Gynvael Coldwind of the Google Security Team.

[111575] Medium CVE-2011-3020: Native client validator error. Credit to Nick Bray of the Chromium development community.

[$1000] [111779] High CVE-2011-3021: Use-after-free in subframe loading. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.

[112236] Medium CVE-2011-3022: Inappropriate use of http for translation script. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Jorge Obes).

[$500] [112259] Medium CVE-2011-3023: Use-after-free with drag and drop. Credit to pa_kt.

[112451] Low CVE-2011-3024: Browser crash with empty x509 certificate. Credit to chrometot.

[$500] [112670] Medium CVE-2011-3025: Out-of-bounds read in h.264 parsing. Credit to Sławomir Błażek.

[$1337] [112822] High CVE-2011-3026: Integer overflow / truncation in libpng. Credit to Jüri Aedla.

[$1000] [112847] High CVE-2011-3027: Bad cast in column handling. Credit to miaubiz.

The bugs [106336], [106336], [110172], [110849], [111779] and [112847] were detected using AddressSanitizer.

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

Dev Channel Update

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

The Dev channel has been updated to 19.0.1041.0 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This build contains following stability and bug fixes:

Beta Channel Update for Chromebooks

Monday, February 13, 2012

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

Friday, February 10, 2012

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.

Dev Channel Update

Friday, February 10, 2012

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].

Chrome Beta Release

Thursday, February 9, 2012

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

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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

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