Chrome Releases

Beta Channel Update

Thursday, November 4, 2010

The Chrome Beta channel has been updated to 8.0.552.28 for all platforms. This release contains a number of bug fixes, as well as features like our new bundled PDF viewer, more sync services, and improved plug-in handling. This release also contains a new version of Flash. Full details about the changes are available 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.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Stable Channel Update

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Security fixes and rewards:the Chromium security page

[51602] High Use-after-free in text editing. Credit to David Bloom of the Google Security Team, Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno) and Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).

[$1000] [55257] High Memory corruption with enormous text area. Credit to wushi of team509.

[$1000] [58657] High Bad cast with the SVG use element. Credit to the kuzzcc.

[$1000] [58731] High Invalid memory read in XPath handling. Credit to Bui Quang Minh from Bkis (www.bkis.com).

[$500] [58741] High Use-after-free in text control selections. Credit to “vkouchna”.

[$1000] [Linux only] [59320] High Integer overflows in font handling. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.

[$1000] [60055] High Memory corruption in libvpx. Credit to Christoph Diehl.

[$500] [60238] High Bad use of destroyed frame object. Credit to various developers, including “gundlach”.

[$500] [60327] [60769] [61255] High Type confusions with event objects. Credit to “fam.lam” and Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).

[$1000] [60688] High Out-of-bounds array access in SVG handling. Credit to wushi of team509.

Dev Channel Update

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Mac

Make sure the dock icon is updated after closing an incognito window with an in-progress download (Issue 48391)

Linux

Fix incorrect border colors in incognito mode. (Issue 52815)

Security

Require a user gesture when opening file choose dialog and make sure file choose dialog from invisible windows can not be displayed (Issue 58319)

Known Issues

REGRESSION: Windows media player for Firefox doesn't load - Issue 61603

Regression:accelerated compositing slows down the whole machine - Issue 61520

google.com/wave : "Page Unresponsive" dailog box appears - Issue 61533

myspace.com : Cannot enter a character in Comments field - Issue 61513

log of all revisions.http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channelhttp://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry

Dev Channel Update

Friday, October 29, 2010

The Chrome Dev channel has been updated to 8.0.552.23 for all platforms. This release addresses a number of stability and polish issues found in the previous release as well as the following:

Various fixes for browser sign-in
[r64308] Fix importing from Firefox on first run on Mac when it’s the default browser. (Issue 61112)
Disable accelerated 2D canvas

Full details about the changes are available 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.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

The Chrome Dev channel has been updated to 8.0.552.18 for all platforms. This release addresses a number of stability and polish issues found in the previous release. It also has moved the work on 3D acceleration back to about:flags.
Full details about the changes are available 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.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update

Thursday, October 21, 2010

The Chrome Dev channel has been updated to 8.0.552.11 for all platforms. It contains a number of stability and other improvements including:

about:labs moved to about:flags

New Tab Page cleanup

Various Chrome Frame fixes for non-en-US locales

Stable Channel Update

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Update: Google Chrome Frame, 7.0.517.43, has been release to stable and beta channels.
Google Chrome 7.0.517.41 has been released to the stable and beta channels for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Updates from the previous stable release include:

Hundreds of bug fixes

An updated HTML5 parser

File API

Directory upload via input tag

More information on these and other changes in Chrome 7 can be found on the Google Chrome blog. Download Chrome today!

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.

[48225] [51727] Medium Possible autofill / autocomplete profile spamming. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).

[48857] High Crash with forms. Credit to the Chromium development community.

[50428] Critical Browser crash with form autofill. Credit to the Chromium development community.

[$500] [51680] High Possible URL spoofing on page unload. Credit to kuzzcc; plus independent discovery by Jordi Chancel.

[53002] Low Pop-up block bypass. Credit to kuzzcc.

[53985] Medium Crash on shutdown with Web Sockets. Credit to the Chromium development community.

[Linux only] [54132] Low Bad construction of PATH variable. Credit to Dan Rosenberg, Virtual Security Research.

[$500] [54500] High Possible memory corruption with animated GIF. Credit to Simon Schaak.

[Linux only] [54794] High Failure to sandbox worker processes on Linux. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans).

[56451] High Stale elements in an element map. Credit to Michal Zalewski of the Google Security Team.

In addition, we would like to credit Aki Helin of OUSPG and kuzzcc for finding bugs during the development cycle such that they never reached a stable build.

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