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Dev and Beta Channels Update for Chromebooks

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

The Beta channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.140 (Platform versions: 1660.98.0) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).
This build is also now available on the Dev channel for Cr-48 Chromebooks.
This build contains a number of stability improvements.
Known issues:

26151: Occasionally, some users experience loss of audio when playing long streaming videos. Rebooting the system restores audio.

26731: When accessibility (verbal feedback) is enabled, viewing different pages causes the CPU usage to go to 100%. Restarting the machine resolves the issue temporarily. Workaround: Disable accessibility with audio feedback.

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

Beta Channel Update

Monday, March 26, 2012

The Beta channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.140 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame platforms
All

Fixed Font settings aren't saved on quit (Issue: 112706)

Fixed IME failure on specific flows with a windowless Flash (Issue: 117758)

Fixed Crash when creating a new tab while the previous one is still loading (Issue: 87176)

Fixed Drag and Drop issues (Issue: 119700)

Chrome Frame

Fixed "Find Next" button does not work as intended (Issue: 112193)

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

Friday, March 23, 2012

The Dev channel has been updated to 19.0.1077.3 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This build contains following updates:

Updated V8 - 3.9.23.0
Fixed dialog boxes in settings. (Issue: 118031)
Fixed flash videos turning white on mac when running with --disable-composited-core-animation-plugins (Issue: 117916)
Change to look for correctly sized favicon when multiple images are provided. (Issue: 118275)
Fixed issues - 116044, 117470, 117068, 117668, 118620

Known Issues

[Mac] Extension and download icons are drawn incorrectly (Issue: 118755)

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

Friday, March 23, 2012

The Beta channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.137 for Windows and Chrome Frame.
This release contains some stability fixes. Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching to the Beta channel? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Karen Grunberg Google Chrome

Dev and Beta Channels Update for Chromebooks

Thursday, March 22, 2012

The Beta channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.120 (Platform versions: 1660.94.0) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48).
This build is also now available on the Dev channel for Cr-48 Chromebooks.
This build contains a number of stability improvements. Some highlights of these changes are:

110127 - The short-cut key for caps lock (Shift + Search) is disabled when an accessibility screen reader is enabled
26028 - Fixes an issue with files not being displayed in File Manager when some file names contain UTF-8 characters (generally accented characters).

Beta Channel Update

Thursday, March 22, 2012

The Beta channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.133 for Windows and Chrome Frame.
This release brings back Swiftshader and gamepad. Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching to the Beta channel? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Karen Grunberg Google Chrome

Stable Channel Update

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

The Chrome Stable channel has been updated to 17.0.963.83 on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. This release fixes issues with Flash games, along with the 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.

Some of the items listed below represent the start of hardening measures based on study of the exploits submitted to the Pwnium competition.

[$1000] [113902] High CVE-2011-3050: Use-after-free with first-letter handling. Credit to miaubiz.

[116162] High CVE-2011-3045: libpng integer issue from upstream. Credit to Glenn Randers-Pehrson of the libpng project.

[$1000] [116461] High CVE-2011-3051: Use-after-free in CSS cross-fade handling. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.

[116637] High CVE-2011-3052: Memory corruption in WebGL canvas handling. Credit to Ben Vanik of Google.

[$1000] [116746] High CVE-2011-3053: Use-after-free in block splitting. Credit to miaubiz.

[117418] Low CVE-2011-3054: Apply additional isolations to webui privileges. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.

[117736] Low CVE-2011-3055: Prompt in the browser native UI for unpacked extension installation. Credit to PinkiePie.

[$2000] [117550] High CVE-2011-3056: Cross-origin violation with “magic iframe”. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.

Also, this single low severity issue was fixed in a previous patch but we forgot to issue proper credit:

[108648] Low CVE-2011-3049: Extension web request API can interfere with system requests. Credit to Michael Gundlach.

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

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