Chrome Releases: April 2016

Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Friday, April 29, 2016

The Beta channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.91/50.0.2661.94 (Platform version: 7978.66.0/7978.69.0) 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 DeshpandeGoogle Chrome

Stable Channel Update

Thursday, April 28, 2016

The stable channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.94 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 9 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chromium security page for more information.

[$3000][574802] High CVE-2016-1660: Out-of-bounds write in Blink. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.

[$3000][601629] High CVE-2016-1661: Memory corruption in cross-process frames. Credit to Wadih Matar.

[$3000][603732] High CVE-2016-1662: Use-after-free in extensions. Credit to Rob Wu.

[$3000][603987] High CVE-2016-1663: Use-after-free in Blink’s V8 bindings. Credit to anonymous.

[$1000][597322] Medium CVE-2016-1664: Address bar spoofing. Credit to Wadih Matar.

[$1000][606181] Medium CVE-2016-1665: Information leak in V8. Credit to HyungSeok Han.
[$n/a][586820] Low CVE-2016-5168: Side channel information leak in Skia. Credit to Roeland Krak.

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.

As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:

[607652] CVE-2016-1666: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.

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 GovindGoogle Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

The Dev channel has been updated to 51.0.2704.29 (Platform version: 8172.16.0) for all Chrome OS devices except for Lenovo ThinkPad 11e and N20. 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, April 27, 2016

The beta channel has been updated to 51.0.2704.29 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.

Richard Bustamante and Pamela Laree-Ordonez

Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

The dev channel has been updated to 52.0.2716.19 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 MuGoogle Chrome

Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Thursday, April 21, 2016

The Beta channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.87 (Platform version: 7978.62.0) 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 DeshpandeGoogle Chrome

Beta Channel Update

Thursday, April 21, 2016

The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 51 to the beta channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 51.0.2704.22 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.

Anantha Keesara

Google Chrome

Admin Console Update

Thursday, April 21, 2016

configure reportsactive range filter Known issues are available here. Enterprise customers can report an issue by contacting support.
Lawrence Lui Google Chrome

Stable Channel Update

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

The stable channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.87 for Windows and 50.0.2661.86 for Mac, 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

Dev Channel Update

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

The dev channel has been updated to 51.0.2704.19 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 MuGoogle Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

The Dev channel has been updated to 51.0.2704.15 (Platform version: 8172.4.0) for all Chrome OS devices except for some RK3288 systems, such as ASUS Chromebook C201. 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 for Chrome OS

Friday, April 15, 2016

The Beta channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.79 (Platform version: 7978.57.0) 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 DeshpandeGoogle Chrome

Dev Channel Update

Thursday, April 14, 2016

The dev channel has been updated to 51.0.2704.7 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 MuGoogle Chrome

Stable Channel Update

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 50 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Chrome 50.0.2661.75 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 50.

Security Fixes and Rewards

This update includes 20 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chromium security page for more information.

[$7500][590275] High CVE-2016-1652: Universal XSS in extension bindings. Credit to anonymous.

[$5000][589792] High CVE-2016-1653: Out-of-bounds write in V8. Credit to Choongwoo Han.

[591785] Medium CVE-2016-1651: Out-of-bounds read in Pdfium JPEG2000 decoding. Credit to kdot working with HP's Zero Day Initiative.

[$1500][589512] Medium CVE-2016-1654: Uninitialized memory read in media. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.

[$1500][582008] Medium CVE-2016-1655: Use-after-free related to extensions. Credit to Rob Wu.

[$500][570750] Medium CVE-2016-1656: Android downloaded file path restriction bypass. Credit to Dzmitry Lukyanenko.

[$1000][567445] Medium CVE-2016-1657: Address bar spoofing. Credit to Luan Herrera.

[$500][573317] Low CVE-2016-1658: Potential leak of sensitive information to malicious extensions. Credit to Antonio Sanso (@asanso) of Adobe.

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. The total value of additional rewards and their recipients will updated here when all reports have gone through the reward panel.

As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:

[602697] CVE-2016-1659: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.

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 GovindGoogle Chrome

Beta Channel Update

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

The beta channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.75 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 GovindGoogle Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

The Dev channel has been updated to 51.0.2704.0 (Platform version: 8172.1.0) 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

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