Chrome Releases: October 2016

Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Monday, October 31, 2016

The Dev channel has been updated to 56.0.2903.0 (Platform version: 8941.0.0) 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 vertical dots in the upper right corner of the browser).Grace KihumbaGoogle Chrome

Chrome for Android Update

Monday, October 31, 2016

available in Google Playhere659492CriticalCredit to Robert Miller and Georgi Geshev from MWR Labs, working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative659477HighCredit to Tencent Keen Security Lab, working with Trend Micro's Zero Day InitiativeChrome Security Page 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.

Alex Mineer
Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Monday, October 31, 2016

The Beta channel has been updated to 55.0.2883.29 (Platform version: 8872.27.0) for all Chrome OS devices except Cr-48 and some Acer C7 Chromebooks. 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 vertical dots in the upper right corner of the browser).

Bernie Thompson

Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Desktop

Thursday, October 27, 2016

The dev channel has been updated to 56.0.2902.0 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.

Richard BustamanteGoogle Chrome

Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

The Stable channel has been updated to 54.0.2840.79 (Platform version: 8743.76.0) for all Chrome OS devices except HP Chromebook 13 G1, Acer Chromebook 14 for Work and Thinkpad 13 Chromebook. 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:

New Alt-Tab UI when switching between windows

Quick View feature in Files App to preview files

New setting opt-in to show Input Method menu on shelf

Read only policy for external USB/SD storage devices

UI improvements for user removal from the start screen

Security Fixes: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.[657609] High CVE-2016-5195 Race condition in copy-on-write breakage of private read-only memory mappingsIf 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 vertical dots in the upper right corner of the browser).Josafat GarciaGoogle Chrome

Beta Channel Update for Desktop

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

The beta channel has been updated to 55.0.2883.28 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

Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

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Dev Channel Update for Desktop

Friday, October 21, 2016

The dev channel has been updated to 56.0.2896.3 for Windows and 56.0.2897.0 for 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 BustamanteGoogle Chrome

Chrome Beta for Android Update

Thursday, October 20, 2016

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Beta Channel Update for Desktop

Thursday, October 20, 2016

The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 55 to the beta channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 55.0.2883.21 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 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.

Di MuGoogle Chrome

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

Thursday, October 20, 2016

The stable channel has been updated to 54.0.2840.71 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks.
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.
Richard Bustamante Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

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Chrome for Android Update

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

available in Google Play

View article suggestions for you on the new tab page

Play media in the background for sites that support it

Update saved passwords when you change or reset your password

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Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

The Dev channel has been updated to 55.0.2883.17 (Platform version: 8872.15.0) for all Chrome OS devices except for Cr-48. 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 vertical dots in the upper right corner of the browser).

Bernie Thompson
Google Chrome

Introducing Chrome Canary for Android!

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

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Dev Channel Update for Desktop

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

The dev channel has been updated to 55.0.2883.18 for Mac and Linux, and 55.0.2883.19 for Windows.
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, October 13, 2016

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Dev Channel Update for Desktop

Thursday, October 13, 2016

The dev channel has been updated to 55.0.2883.11 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 GovindGoogle Chrome

Beta Channel Update for Desktop

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

The beta channel has been updated to 54.0.2840.59 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 BustamanteGoogle Chrome

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 54 to the stable channel - 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

Chrome 54.0.2840.59 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 54.

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 21 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chrome Security Page for more information.

[$7500][645211] High CVE-2016-5181: Universal XSS in Blink. Credit to Anonymous

[$5500][638615] High CVE-2016-5182: Heap overflow in Blink. Credit to Giwan Go of STEALIEN

[$3000][645122] High CVE-2016-5183: Use after free in PDFium. Credit to Anonymous

[$3000][630654] High CVE-2016-5184: Use after free in PDFium. Credit to Anonymous

[$3000][621360] High CVE-2016-5185: Use after free in Blink. Credit to cloudfuzzer

[$1000][639702] High CVE-2016-5187: URL spoofing. Credit to Luan Herrera

[$3133.7][565760] Medium CVE-2016-5188: UI spoofing. Credit to Luan Herrera

[$1000][633885] Medium CVE-2016-5192: Cross-origin bypass in Blink. Credit to haojunhou@gmail.com

[$500][646278] Medium CVE-2016-5189: URL spoofing. Credit to xisigr of Tencent's Xuanwu Lab

[$500][644963] Medium CVE-2016-5186: Out of bounds read in DevTools. Credit to Abdulrahman Alqabandi (@qab)

[$500][639126] Medium CVE-2016-5191: Universal XSS in Bookmarks. Credit to Gareth Hughes

[$N/A][642067] Medium CVE-2016-5190: Use after free in Internals. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG

[$500][639658] Low CVE-2016-5193: Scheme bypass. Credit to Yuyang ZHOU (martinzhou96)

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:

[654782] CVE-2016-5194: 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.

Richard BustamanteGoogle Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

The Dev channel has been updated to 55.0.2883.7 (Platform version: 8872.6.0, 8872.6.2) for all Chrome OS devices except for Acer Chromebook 13 (CB5-311). 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 vertical dots in the upper right corner of the browser).

Bernie Thompson
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Desktop

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

The dev channel has been updated to 55.0.2883.9 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 Desktop

Thursday, October 6, 2016

The dev channel has been updated to 55.0.2882.4 for Windows and 55.0.2882.0 for 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

Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Thursday, October 6, 2016

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Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS

Thursday, October 6, 2016

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Beta Channel Update for Desktop

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

The beta channel has been updated to 54.0.2840.50 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

Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

The Dev channel has been updated to 55.0.2878.0 (Platform version: 8860.0.0, 8861.0.0) for all Chrome OS devices except for Acer Chromebase 24 and Acer Chromebook 13 (CB5-311). 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 vertical dots in the upper right corner of the browser).

Bernie Thompson
Google Chrome

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Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Chrome for Android Update

Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Dev Channel Update for Desktop

Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS

Beta Channel Update for Desktop

Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Dev Channel Update for Desktop

Chrome Beta for Android Update

Beta Channel Update for Desktop

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Chrome for Android Update

Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Introducing Chrome Canary for Android!

Dev Channel Update for Desktop

Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Dev Channel Update for Desktop

Beta Channel Update for Desktop

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

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