Chrome Releases: February 2013

Dev Channel Update

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Facebook doesn't always render correctly. [Issue: 177520]

Cancel string is missing on the button from the uninstall dialog. [Issue: 178464]

Mac: After resizing the window, a frameless window can become draggable in the titlebar area [Issue: 159361]

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Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Pepper Flash updated to 11.6.602.171

exFAT support on flash drives

Bluetooth UI improvements in the Status Area to ease connecting and managing bluetooth devices

Updated wallpaper picker UI (New style, All category)

Tab Scrubbing - Use three fingers to target and scrub between tabs - faster than mouse

Added support for ISO base media file format, H.264 video and AAC audio to Widevine Content Decryption Module (CDM).

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Beta Channel Update

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Dharani Govindan
Google Chrome

The Beta channel has been updated to 26.0.1410.19 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains the following:

Fixed drop down options in the bookmark manager. [Issue: 174562]
Don't unpin the normal Chrome shortcut when deleting profile shortcuts. [Issue: 176642]
Fixed cloud print dialog issue which stays open after Print or Cancel pressed. [Issue: 176455]
Fixed cloud print dialog hang when user prints to virtual driver. [Issue: 170301]
Fixed stability crash. [Issue: 176184]
Fixed bookmark manager button which does not respond to selection. [Issue: 177392]
Fixed the size of scroll bars when using the Windows Classic theme. [Issue: 175335]
[Mac] Fixed the issue with omnibox which closes Chrome while typing. [Issue: 175341]
[Linux] Fixed audio issue. [Issue: 158478]

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

Chrome for Android Update

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Google Play

Improved scrolling performance

Increased responsiveness to pinch-zooming on pages

Faster interactive pages thanks to the latest version of the V8 javascript engine

Audio now continues to play while Chrome is in the background

Expanded support for HTML5 features

Support for pausing audio in Chrome when phone is in use (note: this requires an additional permission)

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Chrome Beta for Android Update

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Google Play

(172563) Regression in Google Maps Pinching

(177536) Long pressing on a word then tapping on space bar repeats the same word

(175422) Text deletion issue after using 'Select all' action

Various crash and stability fixes.

Swype keyboard does not automatically insert space between words in omnibox

Disambiguation popup sometimes doesn't show entire link

Text autosizing may break formatting on some sites

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Dev Channel Update

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

The Dev channel has been updated to 27.0.1423.0 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build fixes several known regressions and stability issues.

Known Issues:

Beta Channel Update

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

The Chrome team is happy to announce the promotion of Chrome 26 to the beta channel for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. Chrome 26.0.1410.12 contains a number of new improvements, including:

"Ask Google for suggestions" spell checking feature improvements (e.g. grammar and homonym checking)
Developer preview of app launcher on Windows
Forced compositing mode and threaded compositing on Mac
Desktop shortcuts for multiple users (profiles) on Windows
Updated UI styling of menus on Windows
Asynchronous DNS resolver on Mac and Linux

A full list of changes in this build is 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 Chrome OS

Monday, February 25, 2013

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...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).

Ben Henry
Google Chrome

Known Issues:

Hangout is not working on the new Samsung Chromebook (fix coming soon).

Chrome OS Management Console Update

Friday, February 22, 2013

user policies

Safe Browsing

Google Drive syncing

Google Drive syncing over cellular

Bookmark editing

Spell check service

herecontacting support

Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Thursday, February 21, 2013

YouTube tearing issue has been fixed.

Updated Pepper Flash to 11.6.602.171

Hangout is not working on the new Samsung Chromebook (fix coming soon).

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Dev Channel Update

Thursday, February 21, 2013

The Dev channel has been updated to 26.0.1410.12 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains the following:

Hosted apps in Chrome will always be opened from app launcher. [Issue: 176267]
Added modal confirmation dialog to the enterprise profile sign-in flow. [Issue: 171236]
Fixed a crash with autofill. [Issue: 175454, 176576]
Fixed issues with sign-in. [Issue: 175672, 175819, 175541, 176190]
Fixed spurious profile shortcuts created with a system-level install. [Issue: 177047]
Fixed the background tab flashing with certain themes. [Issue: 175426]
[Mac] Fixed background apps dock menu. [Issue: 175113]
[Mac] Fixed the hang when clicking on extensions' permission link. [Issue: 175071]
[Linux] Fixed broken command line to create extensions with locale info. [Issue: 176187]
[Linux] Fixed crash after clicking through malware warning. [Issue: 173986]

Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS

Thursday, February 21, 2013

The Stable channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.87 (Platform version: 3428.149.2) for Samsung Chromebooks. This build contains a number of new features, bug fixes and security improvements. Machines will be receiving updates over the next several days.

Release Highlights:

Updated Flash to 11.6.602.169

HTML5 Content Decryption Module (CDM) with WebM support

Fix to Samsung Chromebook device freezes or crashes on some systems when trying to resume after suspend

Extended Desktop Mode (multi-monitors) now supported

App Launcher now supports re-ordering

Intelligent Window positioning (if you don't manually move your windows, we will arrange them to show you more at all times)

Tap dragging is now a user preference.

Encrypted Media Extensions are enabled by default

Modifications to the system tray to display accessibility options.

Improved power consumption on ARM devices

Numerous UI improvements and crash fixes

Improved accessibility controls in the status area, out of box experience, and login page

Known Issues:

When connecting to a wifi captive portal, logging out and adding a new user will show the captive portal overlay but never hide it. Workaround: Logout and login again.

Chrome Beta for Android

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Google Play

[174665] Text selection and text input handles appear at incorrect positions

Tilt scrolling now works on tab switcher mode

Some frequently occurring crashes have been fixed

More improvements to scrolling performance and fling speed

Chrome not responding on cold start after changing language to RTL

Swype keyboard does not automatically insert space between words in omnibox

Disambiguation popup sometimes doesn't show entire link

Text autosizing may break formatting on some sites

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Stable Channel Update

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Chrome 25 to the Stable Channel

Improvements in managing and securing your extensions

Better support for HTML5 time/date inputs

JavaScript Web Speech API support

Better WebGL error handling

And lots of other features for developers

Security fixes and rewards: the Chromium security page

[$1000] [172243] High CVE-2013-0879: Memory corruption with web audio node. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.

[$1000] [171951] High CVE-2013-0880: Use-after-free in database handling. Credit to Chamal de Silva.

[$500] [167069] Medium CVE-2013-0881: Bad read in Matroska handling. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.

[$500] [165432] High CVE-2013-0882: Bad memory access with excessive SVG parameters. Credit to Renata Hodovan.

[$500] [142169] Medium CVE-2013-0883: Bad read in Skia. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.

[172984] Low CVE-2013-0884: Inappropriate load of NaCl. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans).

[172369] Medium CVE-2013-0885: Too many API permissions granted to web store.

[Mac only] [171569] Medium CVE-2013-0886: Incorrect NaCl signal handling. Credit to Mark Seaborn of the Chromium development community.

[171065] [170836] Low CVE-2013-0887: Developer tools process has too many permissions and places too much trust in the connected server.

[170666] Medium CVE-2013-0888: Out-of-bounds read in Skia. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).

[170569] Low CVE-2013-0889: Tighten user gesture check for dangerous file downloads.

[169973] [169966] High CVE-2013-0890: Memory safety issues across the IPC layer. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans).

[169685] High CVE-2013-0891: Integer overflow in blob handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Jüri Aedla).

[169295] [168710] [166493] [165836] [165747] [164958] [164946] Medium CVE-2013-0892: Lower severity issues across the IPC layer. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans).

[168570] Medium CVE-2013-0893: Race condition in media handling. Credit to Andrew Scherkus of the Chromium development community.

[168473] High CVE-2013-0894: Buffer overflow in vorbis decoding. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).

[Linux / Mac] [167840] High CVE-2013-0895: Incorrect path handling in file copying. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Jüri Aedla).

[166708] High CVE-2013-0896: Memory management issues in plug-in message handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).

[165537] Low CVE-2013-0897: Off-by-one read in PDF. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind, both from Google Security Team.

[164643] High CVE-2013-0898: Use-after-free in URL handling. Credit to Alexander Potapenko of the Chromium development community.

[160480] Low CVE-2013-0899: Integer overflow in Opus handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Jüri Aedla).

[152442] Medium CVE-2013-0900: Race condition in ICU. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).

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Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

The Beta channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.87 (Platform version: 3428.149.2) for Samsung Chromebooks. This build contains a wifi fix.

Change in this version:

Fixed an issue where, when connecting to wifi using some 5GHz access points on Samsung Chromebooks, the system was unable to reconnect to the wifi access point after suspend/resume.

Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

The Stable channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.87 (Platform version: 3428.149.0 for all Chrome OS Devices except for Samsung Chromebooks. This build contains a number of new features, bug fixes and security improvements. Machines will be receiving updates over the next several days.

Release Highlights:

Updated Flash to 11.6.602.169

HTML5 Content Decryption Module (CDM) with WebM support

Extended Desktop Mode (multi-monitors) now supported

App Launcher now supports re-ordering

Intelligent Window positioning (if you don't manually move your windows, we will arrange them to show you more at all times)

Tap dragging is now a user preference.

Encrypted Media Extensions are enabled by default

Modifications to the system tray to display accessibility options.

Improved accessibility controls in the status area, out of box experience, and login page

Numerous crash fixes, stability improvements, security enhancements, and more

Known Issues:
When connecting to a wifi captive portal, logging out and adding a new user will show the captive portal overlay but never hide it. Workaround: Logout and login again.

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...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).

Danielle Drew
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

The Dev channel has been updated to 26.0.1410.10 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains the following:

Fixed cookie jar transfer regression. [Issue: 176513]
Fixed enable bad language translation detection reports for secure pages. [Issue: 176457]
[Linux] Fixed a crash while printing a pdf. [Issue: 175514]
Fixed crash while closing tab during tab capture. [Issue: 175275]
[Linux] Fixed the panel issue which does not accept keyboard input when it is minimized and expanded. [Issue: 175858]
Fixed issue in allowing extension permissions to be viewed from extension settings page. [Issue: 170742]
Fixed display of CSS3 transformed area which doesn't line up with hit-testing area. [Issue: 157961]
Fixed scroll bar and combo box UI issue. [Issue: 175335]
Fixed alternate NTP which overlap dev tools with bookmark bar. [Issue: 173205]

Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Friday, February 15, 2013

The Beta channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.87 (Platform version: 3428.149.0) for all Chromebooks and Chromeboxes. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements.

Some highlights of these changes are:

Updated Pepper Flash version to 11.6.602.169

Update to ChromeVox accessibility component

Improvements to suspend while using an external monitor

Known Issues:

On Samsung Chromebooks connecting using some 5GHz wifi access points, the system may be unable to reconnect to that access point after suspend/resume. Workaround: Restart the Chromebook and reconnect to the access point.

Chrome Beta for Android Update

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Google Play

More improvements to reduce flicker and graphical corruption

Resolution for some frequently occurring crashes

Better memory management

174665: Text selection and text input handles appear at incorrect positions

171103: Login issues on certain sites including linkedin.com and hotmail.com

Lower resolution/blurry content takes time to sharpen during rapid scrolling on certain websites

Graphical corruption and flicker on some sites, particularly on maps.google.com

Text autosizing may break formatting on some sites

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Chrome OS Management Console Update

Thursday, February 14, 2013

The Chrome OS Management Console in the administrator control panel has been updated. This update brings new features:

Device Organizational Units: This feature allows administrators to apply different device settings for different sets of Chrome Devices.

More dynamic Delegated Administration: Admin roles can now be restricted to specific organizational units and sections of the Management Console.

Known issues are available here. Enterprise customers can report an issue by contacting support.

Lawrence Lui
Google Chrome

Stable Channel Update

Thursday, February 14, 2013

The Stable channel has been updated to 24.0.1312.71 for Windows Standalone Enterprise. This build contains an updated Flash (11.6.602.167). 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

Thursday, February 14, 2013

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Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Mouse pointer doesn't change to i-beam or highlight text (175191) Workaround: Use keyboard shortcuts to highlight text (Ctrl+Shift+arrows)

Fix for frequent lockup problem (173558)
Improvements to Flash video on the new Samsung Chromebook.
Updated Pepper Flash to 11.6.602.169
Firmware update for the new Samsung Chromebook. Note: A screen with Chrome Logo and a critical update notification will show after update restarts. It will reboot by itself after firmware update completes.

Known Issues:

Mouse pointer doesn't change to i-beam or highlight text (175191) Workaround: Use keyboard shortcuts to highlight text (Ctrl+Shift+arrows)

Beta Channel Update

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

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Dev Channel Update

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Display an info banner on the clear browsing data dialog if the browsing data was cleared within the last 24h (Issue: 164600)

Added possibility to history to group domains by week or month (Issue:170690)

Added wallpaper picker icon (Issue:168913)

Made wallpaper images immutable (Issue:173724)

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Stable Channel Update

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

The Stable channel has been updated to 24.0.1312.70 for Linux platform. This release contains an update to Flash (11.6.602.167). This Flash update has been pushed to Windows, Mac, and Chrome Frame platforms through component updater.

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

Chrome Beta for Android Update

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Google Play

173232: Chrome does not load pages on Samsung Galaxy S2

158633: Overaggressive tap disambiguation popup

167089: Blank screen when opening links from external apps

Resolution for some frequently occurring crashes

171103: Login issues on certain sites including linkedin.com and hotmail.com

174665: Text selection and text input handles appear at incorrect positions

Lower resolution/blurry content takes time to sharpen during rapid scrolling on certain websites

Graphical corruption and flicker on some sites, particularly on maps.google.com

Text autosizing may break formatting on some sites

Continuing sad tabs/tab crashes, especially on tablets

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Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

The Beta channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.68 (Platform version: 3428.127.0) for all Chromebooks and Chromeboxes. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements.

Some highlights of these changes are:

Updated Netflix plugin

Fixed issue with printing menu crashing immediately on launch (166629)

Change to keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-M now minimizes windows

Updated Pepper Flash version to 11.5.31.140

HTML5 Content Decryption Module (CDM) with WebM support

Improvements to network notifications shown (170011)

Fix to device freeze when tab pressed at login (169956)

Fix to allow Chrome Office Viewer to open files containing % or spaces in the name (168341)

Known Issues:
172749 - For Samsung Series 5 Chromebooks, a sync error prompt doesn't pop up for account with custom passphrase

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...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).

Danielle Drew
Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

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Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Stable Channel Update

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

The Stable channel has been updated to 24.0.1312.60 for Windows Standalone Enterprise. This build fixes a known issue. 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 Chrome OS

Monday, February 4, 2013

Updates:

Audio on HDMI has been fixed and is now working.
Various crash fixes, e.g. 173253
Netflix is working again.

Known issues include:

Occasional lockup on the new Samsung Chromebook. Workaround: power cycle device.
A few Flash video sites do not work correctly on the new Samsung Chromebook.

Updates:

Audio on HDMI has been fixed and is now working.
Various crash fixes, e.g. 173253
Netflix is working again.

Known issues include:

Occasional lockup on the new Samsung Chromebook. Workaround: power cycle device.
A few Flash video sites do not work correctly on the new Samsung Chromebook.

Dev Channel Update

Monday, February 4, 2013

The Dev channel has been updated to 26.0.1403.0 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains following updates:

Introduced a different variable icon for VPN (Issue: 172317)
Enabled showing Google now notifications in Chrome (Issue: 164227)
Implemented drag URL onto Home Button to set homepage (Issue: 152210)
Enabled speech bubble for platform apps (Issue: 164382)
Added UI to printing selection with print preview (Issue: 83098)
Added backup URL support for safe browsing data requests (Issue: 155753)
Added support for Chrome's identity API (Issue: 134213)
Enabled showing a modal dialog (instead of a bubble) for one-click sign in confirmation window (Issue: 171330)
Added search token to omnibox in Mac (Issue: 163190)
Changed the gray omnibox suggest color to black (Issue: 172142)
Fixed a crash in the DXVA decoder in Chrome (Issue: 171673)
Fixed the hierarchy arrow for nested bookmark folders for Mac (Issue: 111101)
Fixed showing of the profile picture in the uber tray when user clicks (Issue: 140961)
Fixed bug causing tab favicon media indicator to not turn off (Issue: 171077)
Fixed unintended first item selection when focusing using mouse (Issue: 172283)
Hided action box while typing in an omnibox (Issue: 157232)
Hided new Autofill UI when the user moves the window (Issue: 171673)
Reverted the appearance of simple notifications (Issue: 172358)
Disabled the "Open All in Incognito window" in Context menu for invalid urls (Issue: 106609)

Tanya Radeva
Google Chrome

Stable Channel Update

Monday, February 4, 2013

The Stable channel has been updated to 24.0.1312.68 for Linux. This build contains the fix for Pepper Flash. 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

Chrome Beta for Android Update

Friday, February 1, 2013

Google Play

Updated graphics architecture that greatly improves fast scrolling on large pages

163439 - yahoo.com page links are not working

166233 - Cannot submit comments on facebook posts or pictures

169616 - Keyboard pops up after Chrome is closed

170653 - Scroll position is reset momentarily when double-tapping in footer/gutter on some pages

Lower resolution/blurry content takes time to sharpen during rapid scrolling on certain websites.

Graphical corruption and flicker on some sites, particularly on maps.google.com (reloading the page can mitigate this issue).

Text autosizing may break formatting on some sites.

169918: Text selection and text input handles appear at incorrect positions

158633: Overaggressive tap disambiguation popup

Increased number of sad tabs/tab crashes.

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