Chrome Releases
Release updates from the Chrome team
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
Dev Channel Update
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
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
K
nown 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.
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
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
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
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:
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.
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
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.
[$
1
3
3
7
] [
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:
Make speech input bubble borders close with the bubble [Issue:
112194
]
Fixed stability issues [Issues:
113531
,
113492
,
113654
,
113546
,
113847
,
114011
]
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
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.
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
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].
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
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
Labels
Admin Console
43
Android WebView
19
Beta
21
Beta update
4
Beta updates
1991
chrome
15
Chrome Dev for Android
122
Chrome for Android
923
Chrome for iOS
362
Chrome for Meetings
5
Chrome OS
1149
Chrome OS Flex
22
Chrome OS Management
12
Chromecast Update
6
ChromeOS
194
ChromeOS Flex
191
Desktop Update
1083
dev update
266
Dev updates
1491
Early Stable Updates
45
Extended Stable updates
121
Flash Player update
5
Flex
1
Hangouts Meet hardware
5
LTS
84
stable
9
Stable updates
1212
Archive
2024
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2023
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2022
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2021
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2020
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2019
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2018
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2017
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2016
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2015
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2014
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2013
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2012
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2011
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2010
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2009
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Aug
Jul
Jun
May
Apr
Mar
Feb
Jan
2008
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sep
Give us feedback in our
Product Forums
.