Chrome Releases

Beta Channel Update

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The Beta channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.33 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame platforms
All

Updated V8 - 3.8.9.6

Fixed several crashes (Issues: 110943, 110234, 110176, 108986)

Sync: Conflicting sync entries should not be committed (Issue: 82236)

Back button frequently hangs (Issue: 93427)

Fixed Speech input bubble borders don't closing (Issues: 98323, 112194)

Improved the quality of the omnibox

Mac

Fixed Gap between download shelf and vertical scrollbar (Issue: 111266)

More details about additional changes are available in the svn log of all revisions. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Karen Grunberg
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Chromebooks

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The Dev channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.32 (Platform versions: 1660.34.0) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).

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

24450 - For users enrolled in an enterprise, the time zone setting is now editable by any user.
25604, 20612- Fixes issues where using an incorrect proxy, or when there is limited connectivity would cause a spinner icon to be infinitely shown on the login screen.
26127 - Fixes issues with streaming videos not being able to play in full screen mode.
Crash fixes

Known issues:

25971 - Occasionally when switching tabs, the screen will not redraw the content to the new tab. Occurs most frequently when one tab contains Flash content. 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 Stable Update

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The Chrome Stable channel has been updated to 17.0.963.56 on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This release fixes a number of stability and security issues in Chrome, and also includes a new version of Flash. More info on the Flash update is available from Adobe.

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.

[105803] High CVE-2011-3015: Integer overflows in PDF codecs. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (scarybeasts).

[$500] [106336] Medium CVE-2011-3016: Read-after-free with counter nodes. Credit to miaubiz.

[$1000] [108695] High CVE-2011-3017: Possible use-after-free in database handling. Credit to miaubiz.

[$1000] [110172] High CVE-2011-3018: Heap overflow in path rendering. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.

[110849] High CVE-2011-3019: Heap buffer overflow in MKV handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (scarybeasts) and Mateusz Jurczyk / Gynvael Coldwind of the Google Security Team.

[111575] Medium CVE-2011-3020: Native client validator error. Credit to Nick Bray of the Chromium development community.

[$1000] [111779] High CVE-2011-3021: Use-after-free in subframe loading. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.

[112236] Medium CVE-2011-3022: Inappropriate use of http for translation script. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Jorge Obes).

[$500] [112259] Medium CVE-2011-3023: Use-after-free with drag and drop. Credit to pa_kt.

[112451] Low CVE-2011-3024: Browser crash with empty x509 certificate. Credit to chrometot.

[$500] [112670] Medium CVE-2011-3025: Out-of-bounds read in h.264 parsing. Credit to Sławomir Błażek.

[$1337] [112822] High CVE-2011-3026: Integer overflow / truncation in libpng. Credit to Jüri Aedla.

[$1000] [112847] High CVE-2011-3027: Bad cast in column handling. Credit to miaubiz.

The bugs [106336], [106336], [110172], [110849], [111779] and [112847] were detected using AddressSanitizer.

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

Dev Channel Update

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

The Dev channel has been updated to 19.0.1041.0 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This build contains following stability and bug fixes:

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

Beta Channel Update for Chromebooks

Monday, February 13, 2012

The Beta channel has been updated to 17.0.963.54 (Platform versions: 1412.186) 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 for Chromebooks

Friday, February 10, 2012

The Dev channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.29 (Platform versions: 1660.20.0) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).

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

Updated Pepper Flash version

25865 - Fixes to crashes generated and blank screen being seen after browser crash

Improvements to video playback from File Browser

Known issues:

Issue on signing out: Please note that in some circumstances if you are connected via a proxy, signing out of your Chrome OS session may not work. Users may see 8 or more seconds of a blank screen followed by being returned to the previous signed in state. If you encounter this problem, please submit a feedback report (Wrench > Report an Issue) mentioning this issue. Please include the tag '#CantSignOut' and the approximate time you encountered this issue. Workaround: Shutdown the machine using either the power button or the Wrench menu > Sign out option, and restart the machine to login as a different user.

26127: Videos do not play in full screen mode. This affects multiple sites including YouTube and others.

Dev Channel Update

Friday, February 10, 2012

The Dev channel has been updated to 19.0.1036.7 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This build contains following updates:

All

Updated V8 - 3.9.4.0
Fix: open incognito windows at exit created extra normal windows when the session was restored [r120554]
Show spelling suggestions for misspelled words from the online spellchecker provided by Google (only after users opt into sending text to the service) (r120959).
When translating a page, get the code and translation via HTTPS. (r120113)

Windows

Fix a visual artifact when UI bubbles fade [r119916]
Fix an infrequent crash on repaint [r120196]
Fix 3D acceleration on computers with NVIDIA Optimus graphics [r120651]
Use Google’s online spellchecker to identify misspelled words as well as provide suggestions, for pasted text only. (r120959).
Fixed a crash that could occur if a page was closed while playing audio [r120749].

Linux

Use Google’s online spellchecker to identify misspelled words as well as provide suggestions, for pasted text only. (r120959).

Known Issues

Sub-dialogs do not work in Settings [Issue: 113505, et al].

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