Chrome Releases

Beta Channel Update

Thursday, October 6, 2011

The Beta channel has been updated to 15.0.874.83 for Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeFrame platforms

All

Updated V8 - 3.5.10.16
Only deliver extension messages to contexts that care (96544, 76571)
Fix scrolling of full-frame pdf docs in accelerated compositing mode (93482)

Mac

Fixed PDF printing so headers and footers will only be added for HTML pages. (95225)
Fix speech input keyboard shortcut (97902)

More details about additional changes are available in the svn log of all revisions.

You can find out about getting on the Beta channel here: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry

Karen Grunberg
Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update for Chromebooks

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

The Google Chrome team is happy to announce the release of Chrome 15 on the Beta Channel for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).

Chrome version 15.0.874.51 (Platform version: 1011.43)

Release highlights:

A number of functionality and stability fixes
Update the Netflix plugin to 1.2.6
Update Pepper Flash
A New Web UI login
A new New Tab Page

Known issues:

Painting issues while scrolling down in PDF plugin (Issue: 18521)
3G activate successfully but with connection error (Issue: 18875 )
WebUI: Device offline message on X-86 machines even though network connected (Issue: 20014)
Web UI Login slows down boot by ~580 ms (Issue: 20187)
Gobi 3K activation fails and displays error page on Chrome OS (Issue: 20204)
Gobi 2K shows error for the first time activation before zip code page (Issue: 20525)

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’ under the wrench menu.

Josafat Garcia
Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

The Beta channel has been updated to 15.0.874.81 for Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeFrame platforms

All

Updated V8 - 3.5.10.15
Match main window notification subscription/unsubscription in BookmarkBarController
Fixed a deadlock induced by this pref being set in response to bookmark sync events (97955)
Enable floating bookmarks bar for NTP4 for M15 beta branch (98572)

Windows

Prevent a rendering error on Windows where content behind Chrome may render in front of the Chrome window (97808)
Added heuristic for fixing the alpha channel when reading clipboard images on Windows (97160)

Mac

Fixed bug where dragging bookmark-lets containing mixed character escape sequences (89394, 86643, 82283)
Fixed bug where previously minimized windows will re-minimize (97238)

Stable Channel Update

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

The Stable channel has been updated to 14.0.835.202 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This release contains Adobe Flash Player 11, along with the stability and security fixes listed below.

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.

[$1000] [93788] High CVE-2011-2876: Use-after-free in text line box handling. Credit to miaubiz.
[$1000] [95072] High CVE-2011-2877: Stale font in SVG text handling. Credit to miaubiz.
[$2000] [95671] High CVE-2011-2878: Inappropriate cross-origin access to the window prototype. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.
[96150] High CVE-2011-2879: Lifetime and threading issues in audio node handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).
[$4500] [97451] [97520] [97615] High CVE-2011-2880: Use-after-free in the v8 bindings. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.
[$1500] [97784] High CVE-2011-2881: Memory corruption with v8 hidden objects. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.
[98089] Critical CVE-2011-3873: Memory corruption in shader translator. Credit to Zhenyao Mo of the Chromium development community.

Full details about what changes have been made in this release are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching to another channel? 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, October 3, 2011

The Dev channel has been updated to 16.0.899.0 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame.

All

Updated V8 - 3.6.4.1
FTP: fixed compatibility issue with ftp.comconlink.co.za, issue 98212
HTML5 audio uses faster method of communications between host and renderer, thus reducing lag for Javascript <audio> objects; should be most noticeable in games, issue 61022
Fixed many known stability issues.

Windows

Fixed a regression where pages couldn’t receive Esc key events, issue 97568

Mac

Tweaks to the multiuser avatar menu

Linux

Fixed compile error with Heimdal, r103369

Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching to the Beta or Stable channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Dharani Govindan
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Updates for Chromebooks

Monday, October 3, 2011

Highlights:

Updated Chrome version
New 3-part version number format
Cisco L2TP over IPSec is now supported
Pepper Flash version updated to 11.0.31.200

Known issues:

Issue 21112: Flash player will no longer play video after exiting from full screen mode. Workaround: Refresh the tab playing the video.
Issue 21016: OS version number on the login screen and the About page show as "0.0".

If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our help site or filing a bug. You can also submit feedback using "Report an issue" under the wrench icon. Interested in switching to the Dev channel? Find out how.

Danielle DrewGoogle Chrome

Stable and Beta Channel Updates

Saturday, October 1, 2011

The Chrome Stable channel has been updated to 14.0.835.187, and the Beta channel has been updated to 15.0.874.58. These updates should help repair Chrome installs that were broken due to the issue with Microsoft Security Essentials, discussed on the Chrome Blog. If you find any new issues, please let us know by filing a bug.
Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

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