CHROME RELEASES
RELEASE UPDATES FROM THE CHROME TEAM
Chrome Beta for Android
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
The Chrome for Android Beta channel has been updated to 29.0.1547.40 and will be
available in Google Play
over the next few hours. This release has a number of crash fixes as well as the following main fixes:
260804
: Touch is offset on Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0
261531
: "More" button on Color Picker should look more like a button
265492
: Replace “Learn More” link in Data Compression Proxy
263264
: URL bar never hides on prerendered pages
226870
: Add "+" for new tab to the left of the omnibox on phones (experimental)
256943
: Scrolling is stuck on Google News.
257153
: Not all touchMove events are sent to JS handler
Known issues:
259048
: Some WebAudio pages crash
260440
: [X86] Text gets duplicated when entering & unable to delete text in the text fields
252513
: [WebRTC] Camera shows only black & white video not color for many low end devices
263808
: ColorPicker - Add grid lines between colors in simple view
264966
: [Note8] Black flashes while scrolling on a page that has a video being played
A partial list of changes in this build is available in the
SVN revision log
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
. More information about Chrome for Android is available on the
Chrome site
.
Jason Kersey
Google Chrome
Chromecast Update
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Today, we are pushing a bug fix update to Chromecast devices to improve performance, reliability and security. The update will roll out over the next few days and will happen automatically; users do not need to take any action.
- Ambarish Kenghe, Chromecast Product Manager
Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
The Dev channel has been updated to 30.0.1581.2 (platform version: 4476.0.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This release contains several improvements and bug fixes.
Known Issues:
Video glitches on on certain Flash sites. Workaround: Move cursor away from playing window reduces the glitches (
263154
).
Audio flaky when audio is playing on youtube and google voice search is used. (
263549
)
Internal microphone not working for Acer C7
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...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).
Josafat Garcia
Google Chrome
Dev Channel Update
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
The Dev Channel has been updated to 30.0.1581.2 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
This release fixes a number of crashes and other bugs. A full list of changes is available in the
SVN log
. Interested in switching release channels?
Find out how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
.
Karen Grunberg
Google Chrome
Chrome for iOS Update
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Chrome for iOS has been updated to 28.0.1500.16. This update contains improvements to embedded video playback on iOS 5.1 and other bug fixes. The update will be rolling out in the App Store over the next few hours. Known issues are available on the
Chrome support site
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
.
Jason Kersey
Google Chrome
Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
The Stable channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.95 for all Chrome OS devices (Platform version: 4100.86.0 for all devices). This build contains a number of stability and security improvements.
Release Highlights:
Chrome security fixes - please view the
Chrome release announcement
for details.
Crash fixes related to suspend/resume on Samsung Chromebook
Keyboard backlight now turns off properly when watching fullscreen video on Chromebook Pixel (
257827
)
Pepper Flash updated to 11.8.800.94-r10
I
f 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...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).
Danielle Drew
Google Chrome
Stable Channel Update
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
The Stable channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.95 for Chrome Frame, Linux, Mac, and Windows.
Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. This commonly occurs if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.
This update includes
11 security fixes
. Below, we highlight some fixes that were either contributed by external researchers or particularly interesting. Please see the
Chromium security page
for more information.
[$
500
] [
257748
]
Medium
CVE-2013-2881: Origin bypass in frame handling.
Credit to Karthik Bhargavan.
[$
1000
] [
260106
]
High
CVE-2013-2882: Type confusion in V8.
Credit to Cloudfuzzer.
[$
1000
] [
260165
]
High
CVE-2013-2883: Use-after-free in MutationObserver.
Credit to Cloudfuzzer.
[
248950
]
High
CVE-2013-2884: Use-after-free in DOM.
Credit to Ivan Fratric of Google Security Team
.
[
249640
] [
257353
]
High
CVE-2013-2885: Use-after-free in input handling.
Credit to Ivan Fratric of Google Security Team
.
In addition, our ongoing internal security work was as usual responsible for a wide range of fixes:
[
261701
]
High
CVE-2013-2886: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.
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
.
Anthony Laforge
Google Chrome Team
Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS
Friday, July 26, 2013
The Dev channel has been updated to 30.0.1573.6 (platform version: 4443.3.0/4443.4.0 for cr-48) for all platforms except the Google Pixel, Samsung Chromebook Series 5 550, and Samsung Chromebox. This release contains a several updates and bug fixes.
Known Issues:
Video glitches on on certain Flash sites. Workaround: Move cursor away from playing window reduces the glitches (
263154
).
Audio flaky when audio is playing on youtube and google voice search is used. (
263549
)
Bluetooth: Cannot connect A2DP audio devices (
262227
)
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...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).
Josafat Garcia
Google Chrome
Chrome Beta for Android
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
The Chrome for Android Beta channel has been updated to 29.0.1547.32 and will be
available in Google Play
over the next few hours. This release has a number of stability improvements as well as the following fixes:
260804
: Touch is offset on Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0
238928
: Chrome UX issues for QVGA devices
256201
: date/time input min/max constraints are off by one
256232
: Date input - unable to enter a date before 1970-01-01 in date or datetime-local fields
260238
: Time input - unable to enter time between 00:00 & 00:59
183830
: Japanese websites appearing in inappropriate fonts on Android
Known issues:
259048
: Some WebAudio pages crash
247153
: Graphical corruptions while scrolling on Galaxy Nexus/ICS and Galaxy Tab 2/ICS
256858
: [RazrM] Flashes observed on entering and exiting fullscreen (user initiated)
255469
: Old embed code YouTube videos are not displayed
260440
: [X86-Intel] Text gets duplicated when entering & unable to delete text in the text fields
A partial list of changes in this build is available in the
SVN revision log
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
. More information about Chrome for Android is available on the
Chrome site
.
Jason Kersey
Google Chrome
Beta Channel Update
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
The Beta Channel has been updated to 29.0.1547.32 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome Frame. This release fixes a number of crashes and other bugs. A full list of changes is available in the
SVN 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
Beta Channel Release for Chrome OS
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
The Beta channel has been updated to 29.0.1547.32 (Platform version: 4319.39.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements.
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...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).
Ben Henry
Google Chrome
Dev Channel Update
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
The Dev Channel has been updated to 30.0.1573.2 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame.
This release fixes a number of crashes and other bugs. A full list of changes is available in the
SVN log
. Interested in switching release channels?
Find out how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
.
Karen Grunberg
Google Chrome
Beta Channel Release for Chrome OS
Friday, July 19, 2013
The Beta channel has been updated to 29.0.1547.32 (Platform version: 4319.32.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements. Systems will be receiving updates over the next several days.
Some highlights of these changes are:
Kernel 3.8 landed on Pixel and Samsung 550.
New “immersive” mode - hit the fullscreen button to hide the toolbar and shelf and until you hover at the top for a more immersive browsing experience
Pin apps to the shelf using Drag and Drop from the Launcher
Consumer Kiosk Mode allows you to build your own Chrome OS powered kiosk
Default wallpaper selection will sync across all your devices
Monitor Scaling allows you to scale the UI
Two-finger history navigation
App launcher Search just got cleverer
It will dynamically learn what you search for
Apps are more prominent
It will search within the web store if no matching app is installed
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...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).
Ben Henry
Google Chrome
Chrome for Android Update
Friday, July 19, 2013
Chrome for Android has been updated to 28.0.1500.94. This version contains minor bug fixes. A partial list of changes in this build is available in the
SVN 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 Release for Chrome OS
Thursday, July 18, 2013
The Dev channel has been updated to 29.0.1547.23 (platform version: 4319.32.0) for all platforms. This release stability and bug fixes.
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...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).
Ben Henry
Google Chrome
Dev Channel Update
Thursday, July 18, 2013
The Dev Channel has been updated to 30.0.1568.2 for Windows, Mac, and Chrome Frame. And to 30.0.1568.0 for Linux.
This release fixes a number of crashes and other bugs. A full list of changes is available in the
SVN log
. Interested in switching release channels?
Find out how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
.
Karen Grunberg
Google Chrome
Chrome for iOS Update
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
The Chrome team is excited to
announce Chrome 28
for iPhone and iPad. Chrome 28.0.1500.12 contains a number of new features including:
Improved interoperability with many other Google Apps
Voice Search enhancements
Fullscreen for iPad
Data usage savings (rolling out over time)
Access to browser history
Lots of stability improvements and other bug fixes
The update will be rolling out in the App Store over the next few hours. Known issues are available on the
Chrome support site
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
.
Jason Kersey
Google Chrome
Dev Channel Update
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
The Dev Channel has been updated to 30.0.1566.2 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame.
This release fixes a number of crashes and other bugs. A full list of changes is available in the
SVN log
. Interested in switching release channels?
Find out how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
.
Karen Grunberg
Google Chrome
Chrome Beta for Android
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
The Chrome Team is happy to announce the promotion of Chrome 29 to the beta channel for Android. Chrome 29.0.1547.23 contains many improvements including:
Support for WebRTC, a web platform feature to enable real-time voice and video communications
Faster page loads
Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance
Find out more at the Chrome and Chromium blogs. A full list of changes in this build is available in the
SVN 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 for Chrome OS
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
The Dev channel has been updated to 29.0.1547.22 (platform version: 4319.28.0) for all platforms. This release stability and bug fixes.
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...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).
Ben Henry
Google Chrome
Beta Channel Update
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
The Chrome Team is happy to announce the promotion of Chrome 29 to the beta channel for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. Chrome 29.0.1547.22 contains many improvements including:
Improved Omnibox suggestions
A number of new apps/extension APIs
Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance
Find out more at the
Chrome
and
Chromium
blogs. A full list of changes in this build is available in the
SVN 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
Monday, July 15, 2013
The Dev Channel has been updated to 29.0.1547.22 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This release fixes a number of crashes and other bugs. A full list of changes is available in the
SVN 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
Stable Channel Update
Friday, July 12, 2013
The Stable channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.72 for Windows.
It includes a fix to an
issue
that was blocking Chrome from loading content, for certain users.
Interested in switching release channels?
Find out how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
.
Anthony Laforge
Google Chrome
Dev Channel
Thursday, July 11, 2013
The Dev Channel has been updated to 29.0.1547.18 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This release fixes a number of crashes and other bugs. A full list of changes is available in the
SVN 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
Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS
Thursday, July 11, 2013
The Stable channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.68 for all Chrome OS devices (Platform version: 4100.68.0 for all devices except Cr-48, which was updated to 4100.78.0). This build contains a number of feature enhancements, bug fixes and security improvements. Machines will be receiving updates over the next several days.
Release Highlights:
Numerous crash fixes and performance improvements.
Speed improvements for the Files app, along with support for files that are Shared with me and Recent on Google Drive.
Monitor Rotation and Scaling - you can scale your UI smaller and rotate the screen on all Chromebooks.
Notification pop-up message appears when screenshots are taken. Clicking on the notification will bring you right to the screenshot.
Replaced the Japanese IME with a NaCl extension version downloads a better language model upon actual usage.
Added transliteration IMEs for Indic languages from Google Input Tools.
Touch link highlighting on Chromebook Pixel - we now provide feedback on which link you click or button you press.
Updated Chrome Office Viewer (Beta) extension
Pepper Flash updated to 11.8.800.94
Known issues:
On Acer C7 Chromebooks, docked mode has been disabled when connecting to an external monitor.
I
f 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...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).
Danielle Drew
Google Chrome
Chrome for Android Update
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 28 to the Stable channel. Chrome for Android 28.0.1500.64 contains a number of new features including:
Google Translate - When reading web pages in other languages, Chrome will automatically detect and offer to translate them to your language
Fullscreen on tablets - Similar to phones, simply scroll down the page and the toolbar will disappear.
New user interface for right-to-left (RTL) languages - An optimized interface for RTL languages including Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew
Plenty of stability and performance fixes
A partial list of changes in this build is available in the
SVN revision log
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
. More information about Chrome for Android is available on the
Chrome site
.
Jason Kersey
Google Chrome
Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
The Dev channel has been updated to 29.0.1547.16 (platform version: 4319.16.0) for all platforms. This release contains a few important updates and bug fixes.
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...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).
Ben Henry
Google Chrome
Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
The Beta channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.68 (Platform version: 4100.68.0 for all platforms except Cr-48, which has 4100.78.0) for
all Chrome OS devices.
This build contains a number of stability enhancements.
Some highlights of these changes are:
Pepper Flash updated to 11.8.800.94
Fix to address the battery charging notification being displayed indefinitely in some situations.
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...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).
Danielle Drew
Google Chrome
Stable Channel Update
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Update:
We are separately updating users to Flash Player 11.8.800.97 via our component updater.
The Stable channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.71 for Windows, Macintosh and Chrome Frame platforms.
Security fixes and rewards:
Please see
the Chromium security page
for more information. (Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.)
This automatic update includes security fixes. We’d like to highlight the following fixes for various reasons (crediting external researchers, issuing rewards, or highlighting particularly interesting issues):
[$
21,500
] A special reward for Andrey Labunets for his combination of CVE-2013-2879 and CVE-2013-2868 along with some (since fixed) server-side bugs.
[
252216
]
Low
CVE-2013-2867: Block pop-unders in various scenarios.
[
252062
]
High
CVE-2013-2879: Confusion setting up sign-in and sync.
Credit to Andrey Labunets
.
[
252034
]
Medium
CVE-2013-2868: Incorrect sync of NPAPI extension component.
Credit to Andrey Labunets
.
[
245153
]
Medium
CVE-2013-2869: Out-of-bounds read in JPEG2000 handling.
Credit to Felix Groebert of Google Security Team
.
[$
6267.4
] [
244746
] [
242762
]
Critical
CVE-2013-2870: Use-after-free with network sockets.
Credit to Collin Payne.
[$
3133.7
] [
244260
]
Medium
CVE-2013-2853: Man-in-the-middle attack against HTTP in SSL.
Credit to
Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and Karthikeyan Bhargavan from Prosecco at INRIA Paris
.
[$
2000
] [
243991
] [
243818
]
High
CVE-2013-2871: Use-after-free in input handling.
Credit to miaubiz
.
[Mac only] [
242702
]
Low
CVE-2013-2872: Possible lack of entropy in renderers.
Credit to Eric Rescorla
.
[$
1000
] [
241139
]
High
CVE-2013-2873: Use-after-free in resource loading.
Credit to miaubiz
.
[Windows + NVIDIA only] [$
500
] [
237611
]
Medium
CVE-2013-2874: Screen data leak with GL textures.
Credit to “danguafer”
.
[$
500
] [
233848
]
Medium
CVE-2013-2875: Out-of-bounds-read in SVG.
Credit to miaubiz
.
[
229504
]
Medium
CVE-2013-2876: Extensions permissions confusion with interstitials.
Credit to Dev Akhawe
.
[
229019
]
Low
CVE-2013-2877: Out-of-bounds read in XML parsing.
Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG
.
[
196636
]
None
: Remove the “viewsource” attribute on iframes.
Credit to Collin Jackson
.
[
177197
]
Medium
CVE-2013-2878: Out-of-bounds read in text handling.
Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG
.
In addition, our ongoing internal security work was as usual responsible for a wide range of fixes:
[
256985
]
High
CVE-2013-2880: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives (Chrome 28).
Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the
SVN revision log
and the
Chrome Chrome Blog
. Interested in switching release channels?
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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