CHROME RELEASES
RELEASE UPDATES FROM THE CHROME TEAM
Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS
Thursday, March 31, 2016
The Beta channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.57 (Platform version: 7978.36.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements. A list of changes can be found
here
.
If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our
forum
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).
Ketaki Deshpande
Google Chrome
Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS
Thursday, March 31, 2016
The Stable channel has been updated to 49.0.2623.111 (Platform version: 7834.66.0/
7834.67.0
) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes, an update to Adobe Flash Player (21.0.0.197-r1) and security fixes.
Systems will be receiving updates over the next several days.
If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our
forum
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 for Chrome OS
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
The Dev channel has been updated to 51.0.2688.0 (Platform version: 8104.2.0/8104.1.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements. A list of changes can be found
here
.
If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our
forum
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).
Bernie Thompson
Google Chrome
Beta Channel Update
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
The beta channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.57 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
A partial list of changes is available in the
log
. Interested in
switching
release channels? Find out
how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
. The
community help forum
is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
Di Mu
Google Chrome
Dev Channel Update
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
The dev channel has been updated to 51.0.2693.2 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
A partial list of changes is available in the
log
. Interested in
switching
release channels? Find out
how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
. The
community help forum
is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
Di Mu
Google Chrome
Admin Console Update
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
The Admin console has been updated. Admins can now
restrict
Chromebooks from connecting to unmanaged networks. Admins can also choose to restrict their devices from connecting to entire interfaces like WiFi or Ethernet.
These settings will apply to devices using version 49 or above.
Known issues are available
here
. Enterprise customers can report an issue by
contacting support
.
Lawrence Lui
Google Chrome
Stable Channel Update
Monday, March 28, 2016
The stable channel has been updated to 49.0.2623.110 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
A list of changes is available in the
log
. Interested in
switching
release channels? Find out
how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
. The
community help forum
is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
Krishna Govind
Google Chrome
Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS
Thursday, March 24, 2016
The Beta channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.50 (Platform version: 7978.29.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements. A list of changes can be found
here
.
If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our
forum
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).
Ketaki Deshpande
Google Chrome
Stable Channel Update
Thursday, March 24, 2016
The stable channel has been updated to 49.0.2623.108 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Security Fixes and Rewards
Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.
This update includes
5 security fixes
. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the
Chromium security page
for more information.
[$7500][
594574
]
High
CVE-2016-1646: Out-of-bounds read in V8.
Credit to Wen Xu from Tencent KeenLab.
[$5500][
590284
]
High
CVE-2016-1647: Use-after-free in Navigation.
Credit to anonymous.
[$5000][
590455
]
High
CVE-2016-1648: Use-after-free in Extensions.
Credit to anonymous.
[
595836
]
High
CVE-2016-1649: Buffer overflow in libANGLE.
Credit to lokihardt working with HP’s Zero Day Initiative / Pwn2Own.
As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:
[
597518
] CVE-2016-1650: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.
Multiple vulnerabilities in V8 fixed at the tip of the 4.9 branch (currently 4.9.385.33).
Many of our security bugs are detected using
AddressSanitizer
,
MemorySanitizer
,
Control Flow Integrity
or
LibFuzzer
.
A list of changes is available in the
log
. Interested in
switching
release channels? Find out
how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
. The
community help forum
is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
Krishna Govind
Google Chrome
Beta Channel Update
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
The beta channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.49 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
A partial list of changes is available in the
log
. Interested in
switching
release channels? Find out
how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
. The
community help forum
is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
Di Mu
Google Chrome
Dev Channel Updates
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
The dev channel has been updated to 51.0.2687.0 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
A partial list of changes is available in the
log
. Interested in
switching
release channels? Find out
how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
. The
community help forum
is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
Di Mu
Google Chrome
Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS
Friday, March 18, 2016
The Beta channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.32 (Platform version: 7978.18.0/7978.18.1/7978.18.2) 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.
If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our
forum
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).
Ketaki Deshpande
Google Chrome
Dev channel update for Chrome OS
Friday, March 18, 2016
The Dev channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.32 (Platform version: 7978.18.0, 7978.18.1, 7978.18.2) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements. A list of changes can be found
here
.
If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our
forum
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).
Ketaki Deshpande
Google Chrome
Beta Channel Update
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
The beta channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.37 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
A partial list of changes is available in the
log
. Interested in
switching
release channels? Find out
how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
. The
community help forum
is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
Krishna Govind
Google Chrome
Dev Channel Update
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
The dev channel has been updated to 51.0.2679.0 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
A partial list of changes is available in the
log
. Interested in
switching
release channels? Find out
how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
. The
community help forum
is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
Krishna Govind
Google Chrome
Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
The Stable channel has been updated to 49.0.2623.95 (Platform version: 7834.60.0) 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:
Material Redesign for Media Players
Ability to choose keyboard layout of extension IME
New notifications for dual-role Raiden devices (Chromebook Pixel 2015)
Add Video preview and album cover as thumbnails in Files App
If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our
forum
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
Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS
Thursday, March 10, 2016
The Beta channel has been updated to 49.0.2623.95 (Platform version: 7834.60.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements. A list of changes can be found
here
.
If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our
forum
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 for Chrome OS
Thursday, March 10, 2016
The Dev channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.20 (Platform version: 7978.10) for all Chrome OS devices except Asus Chromebook C200. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements. A list of changes can be found
here
.
If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our
forum
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).
Ketaki Deshpande
Google Chrome
Beta Channel Update
Thursday, March 10, 2016
The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 50 to the beta channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 50.0.2661.26 contains our usual under-the-hood performance and stability tweaks, but there are also some cool new features to explore - please head to the
Chromium
blog
to learn more!
A full list of changes in this build is available in the
log
. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how
here
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
.
The
community help forum
is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
Krishna Govind
Google Chrome
Chrome for Android Update
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
The Chrome team is excited to announce the launch of Chrome 49 for Android. Chrome 49.0.2623.91 will be
available in Google Play
over the next few hours. This release includes more than a barge full of performance and stability fixes. A partial list of other changes in this build are available in the
Git 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
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
The dev channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.18 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
A partial list of changes is available in the
log
. Interested in
switching
release channels? Find out
how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
. The
community help forum
is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
Di Mu
Google Chrome
Stable Channel Update
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
The stable channel has been updated to 49.0.2623.87 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Security Fixes and Rewards
Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.
This update includes
3 security fixes
that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the
Chromium security page
for more information.
[$5000][
589838
]
High
CVE-2016-1643: Type confusion in Blink.
Credit to cloudfuzzer.
[$3500][
590620
]
High
CVE-2016-1644: Use-after-free in Blink.
Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
[
587227
]
High
CVE-2016-1645: Out-of-bounds write in PDFium.
Credit to anonymous working with HP's Zero Day Initiative.
Many of our security bugs are detected using
AddressSanitizer
,
MemorySanitizer
,
Control Flow Integrity
or
LibFuzzer
.
A list of changes is available in the
log
. Interested in
switching
release channels? Find out
how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
. The
community help forum
is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
Krishna Govind
Google Chrome
Dev Channel Update
Thursday, March 3, 2016
The dev channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.11 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
A partial list of changes is available in the
log
. Interested in
switching
release channels? Find out
how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
. The
community help forum
is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
Krishna Govind
Google Chrome
Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS
Thursday, March 3, 2016
The Beta channel has been updated to 49.0.2623.75 (Platform version: 7834.52.0/7834.53.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements. A list of changes can be found
here
.
If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our
forum
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
Stable Channel Update
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 49 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Chrome 49.0.2623.75 contains a number of fixes and improvements -- a list of changes is available in the
log
. Watch out for upcoming
Chrome
and
Chromium
blog posts about new features and big efforts delivered in 49.
Security Fixes and Rewards
Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.
This update includes
26 security fixes
. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the
Chromium security page
for more information.
[$8000][
560011
]
High
CVE-2016-1630: Same-origin bypass in Blink.
Credit to Mariusz Mlynski.
[$7500][
569496
]
High
CVE-2016-1631: Same-origin bypass in Pepper Plugin.
Credit to Mariusz Mlynski.
[$5000][
549986
]
High
CVE-2016-1632: Bad cast in Extensions.
Credit to anonymous.
[$3000][
572537
]
High
CVE-2016-1633: Use-after-free in Blink.
Credit to cloudfuzzer.
[$3000][
559292
]
High
CVE-2016-1634: Use-after-free in Blink.
Credit to cloudfuzzer.
[$2000][
585268
]
High
CVE-2016-1635: Use-after-free in Blink.
Credit to Rob Wu.
[$2000][
584155
]
High
CVE-2016-1636: SRI Validation Bypass.
Credit to Ryan Lester and Bryant Zadegan.
[$500][
560291
]
High
CVE-2015-8126: Out-of-bounds access in libpng.
Credit to joerg.bornemann.
[$2000][
555544
]
Medium
CVE-2016-1637: Information Leak in Skia.
Credit to Keve Nagy.
[$1000][
585282
]
Medium
CVE-2016-1638: WebAPI Bypass.
Credit to Rob Wu.
[$1000][
572224
]
Medium
CVE-2016-1639: Use-after-free in WebRTC.
Credit to Khalil Zhani.
[$1000][
550047
]
Medium
CVE-2016-1640: Origin confusion in Extensions UI.
Credit to Luan Herrera.
[$500][
583718
]
Medium
CVE-2016-1641: Use-after-free in Favicon.
Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
We would also like to thank all security researchers that worked with us during the development cycle to prevent security bugs from ever reaching the stable channel. An additional $14,500 in rewards were issued for security bugs present on non-stable channels.
As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:
[
591402
] CVE-2016-1642: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.
Multiple vulnerabilities in V8 fixed at the tip of the 4.9 branch (currently 4.9.385.26).
Many of our security bugs are detected using
AddressSanitizer
,
MemorySanitizer
,
Control Flow Integrity
or
LibFuzzer
.
Interested in switching release channels?
Find out how
. If you find a new issue, please let us know by
filing a bug
. The
community help forum
is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.
Krishna Govind
Google Chrome
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