Chrome Releases

Chrome Beta Release

Thursday, February 9, 2012

The Chrome team is happy to announce the arrival of Chrome 18.0.1025.11 to the Beta Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame.

Chrome 18 contains some really great improvements including GPU accelerating 2D Canvas, and enabling 3D content for older GPUs. More on what's new at the Official Chrome Blog and the Chromium Blog.

You can find full details about the changes that are in Chrome 18 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.

Karen Grunberg
Google Chrome

Stable Channel Update

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

The Chrome team is excited to announce the release of Chrome 17 to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. 17.0.963.46 contains a number of new features including:

New Extensions APIs

Updated Omnibox Prerendering

Download Scanning Protection

Many other small changes

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

[73478] Low CVE-2011-3953: Avoid clipboard monitoring after paste event. Credit to Daniel Cheng of the Chromium development community.

[92550] Low CVE-2011-3954: Crash with excessive database usage. Credit to Collin Payne.

[93106] High CVE-2011-3955: Crash aborting an IndexDB transaction. Credit to David Grogan of the Chromium development community.

[103630] Low CVE-2011-3956: Incorrect handling of sandboxed origins inside extensions. Credit to Devdatta Akhawe, UC Berkeley.

[$1000] [104056] High CVE-2011-3957: Use-after-free in PDF garbage collection. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.

[$2000] [105459] High CVE-2011-3958: Bad casts with column spans. Credit to miaubiz.

[$1000] [106441] High CVE-2011-3959: Buffer overflow in locale handling. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.

[$500] [108416] Medium CVE-2011-3960: Out-of-bounds read in audio decoding. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.

[$1000] [108871] Critical CVE-2011-3961: Race condition after crash of utility process. Credit to Shawn Goertzen.

[$500] [108901] Medium CVE-2011-3962: Out-of-bounds read in path clipping. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.

[109094] Medium CVE-2011-3963: Out-of-bounds read in PDF fax image handling. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.

[109245] Low CVE-2011-3964: URL bar confusion after drag + drop. Credit to Code Audit Labs of VulnHunt.com.

[109664] Low CVE-2011-3965: Crash in signature check. Credit to Sławomir Błażek.

[$1000] [109716] High CVE-2011-3966: Use-after-free in stylesheet error handling. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.

[109717] Low CVE-2011-3967: Crash with unusual certificate. Credit to Ben Carrillo.

[$1000] [109743] High CVE-2011-3968: Use-after-free in CSS handling. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.

[$1000] [110112] High CVE-2011-3969: Use-after-free in SVG layout. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.

[$500] [110277] Medium CVE-2011-3970: Out-of-bounds read in libxslt. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.

[$1000] [110374] High CVE-2011-3971: Use-after-free with mousemove events. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.

[110559] Medium CVE-2011-3972: Out-of-bounds read in shader translator. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).
The bugs [105459], [106441], [108416], [108901], [109716], [109743], [110112], [110277], [110374] and [110559] were detected using AddressSanitizer.

In addition, we would like to thank miaubiz, Drew Yao and Braden Thomas of Apple, Sławomir Błażek, Aki Helin of OUSPG, Chamal de Silva and Atte Kettunen of OUSPG for working with us in the development cycle and preventing bugs from ever reaching the stable channel. Various rewards were issued, including a top $3133.70 reward to Aki Helin.

More detailed updates are available on the Chrome Blog. Full details about what changes are in this release are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in hopping on the stable channel? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update for Chromebooks

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

The Beta channel has been updated to 17.0.963.51 (Platform versions: 1412.174) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).
This update fixes a number of stability and UI issues.

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.

Orit Mazor
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

The Dev channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.7 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This build contains following stability and bug fixes:

Users can now sync NTP icons to their profile and keep their order across different instances of chrome. [Issues: 111277, 100737, 61447]
Pointer Lock / Mouse Lock is implemented behind a flag (see about:flags). Mac only bug fix when closing a tab. [Issue: 111860]
Fixed stability crashes [Issue: 112590, 112116, 111968, 110909]

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

Dharani Govindan
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Chromebooks

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

The Dev channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.6 (Platform versions: 1660.13.0) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).

This build contains a number of stability improvements. Additional changes:

Introduces new Verizon activation and top-up portal featuring many user-requested improvements:

Enables recurring billing as the default for pre-paid monthly plans
Greatly simplifies the Verizon activation and top-up process
Allows purchase of additional data prior to current bundle expiration
Eliminates credit card requirement for free 100MB plan

Updated Pepper Flash version

Fix for Hangouts issue 25559

Known issues:

25592 - Sometimes when resuming the machine after closing the lid, the machine displays a blank (black backlit) screen. Restarting the machine is required.

25642 - Selecting Time & Date options from time drop-down does not display the Time & Date Settings. Workaround: Go to Under the Hood -> Advanced Settings

25971 - Occasionally when switching tabs, the screen will not redraw the content to the new tab. Workaround: Closing all tabs or restarting the machine resolves the issue.

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.

Danielle Drew
Google Chrome

Chrome for Android Beta 1

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

The Chrome team is excited to announce the release of our first beta of Chrome for Android! Based on Chrome 16.0.915.75, Chrome for Android (0.16.4130.199) brings an all new browsing experience to your phone or tablet running Ice Cream Sandwich. More on what’s new can be found on the Chrome for Android page. Developers who want to learn more about working with Chrome for Android can check out the new developer site for working with mobile. More detailed updates are available on the Chrome Blog. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Srikanth Rajagopalan
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update

Thursday, February 2, 2012

The Dev channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.3 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This build contains following stability and bug fixes:

Fixed URL handling of settings page. [Issue: 111900]
Fixed crash when unpacking extension. [Issue: 112301]
Fixed the case where the utility process crashes after all plugins have been loaded. [Issue: 111935]

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