Chrome Releases: May 2013

Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Systems will be receiving updates over the next several days.

Some highlights of these changes are:

Several improvements to the Files app, such as added support for files that are Shared with me, Offline, and Recent.
Sync wallpaper between devices.
Updated UI for the [x] close panel icon across infobars, find-in-page, pop-ups and more.
New Immersive browsing mode - browse the web with only 4px of Chrome.
Monitor Rotation and Scaling - you can scale your UI smaller on Arrow and rotate the screen on all Chromebooks.
Touch link highlighting - we now provide feedback on which link you click or button you press.
Notification pop-up message appears when screenshots are taken.
Replaced the Japanese IME with a NaCl extension version downloads a better language model upon actual usage.
Added transliteration IMEs for Indic languages from Google Input Tools.
Updated Pepper Flash to 11.7.700.202

Known Issues:

On Acer C7 Chromebooks, docked mode has been disabled when connecting to an external monitor.
Users connecting via slower 3G connections may be unable to login when creating a new user. Workaround: login as guest or as an existing user. (239139)
Logging in via a captive portal access point does not show a login screen. Workaround: Connect to a different network or login as guest. (237214)

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

The Beta channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.20 (Platform version: 4100.17.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements. Systems will be receiving updates over the next several days.
Some highlights of these changes are:

Several improvements to the Files app, such as added support for files that are Shared with me, Offline, and Recent.

Sync wallpaper between devices.

Updated UI for the [x] close panel icon across infobars, find-in-page, pop-ups and more.

New Immersive browsing mode - browse the web with only 4px of Chrome.

Monitor Rotation and Scaling - you can scale your UI smaller on Arrow and rotate the screen on all Chromebooks.

Touch link highlighting - we now provide feedback on which link you click or button you press.

Notification pop-up message appears when screenshots are taken.

Replaced the Japanese IME with a NaCl extension version downloads a better language model upon actual usage.

Added transliteration IMEs for Indic languages from Google Input Tools.

Updated Pepper Flash to 11.7.700.202

Known Issues:

On Acer C7 Chromebooks, docked mode has been disabled when connecting to an external monitor.

Users connecting via slower 3G connections may be unable to login when creating a new user. Workaround: login as guest or as an existing user. (239139)

Logging in via a captive portal access point does not show a login screen. Workaround: Connect to a different network or login as guest. (237214)

Dev Channel Update

Friday, May 24, 2013

SVN revision log

Google Maps Preview - Globe displays black - crbug.com/243896

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Chrome Beta for Android Update

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Google Translate: When you come across a page written in a language that isn't in the same language as your phone or tablet, look for the translation bar

Fullscreen on tablets: Simply scroll the page to dismiss the toolbar

Support for fullscreen API

New graph showing your estimated bandwidth savings when you use the experimental data compression feature

Mobile friendly error pages

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Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS

Thursday, May 23, 2013

The Stable channel has been updated to 27.0.1453.103 (Platform version: 3912.79.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of new features, bug fixes and security improvements. Machines will be receiving updates over then next several days.
Release Highlights:

Panel windows for chat and more

New Launcher positioning mode

Per App list of open tabs & windows

Horizontal three finger scrub moves between tabs

New folder hierarchy on file manager

Autocomplete in Drive search

Memory management optimization

Enhanced support for common wireless touchpads/mice

Updated Chrome Office Viewer extension

Pepper Flash updated to 11.7.700.202-r2

GTalk plugin updated to 3.15.2.0

Beta Channel Update

Thursday, May 23, 2013

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Stable Channel Update

Thursday, May 23, 2013

The Stable channel has been updated to 27.0.1453.94 only for Windows. This release fixes a GPU-related crash. 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.
Karen GrunbergGoogle Chrome

Admin Console Update

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

expands automatic enrollmentherecontacting support

Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Known Issues:

On Acer C7 Chromebooks, docked mode has been disabled when connecting to an external monitor.
Users connecting via slower 3G connections may be unable to login when creating a new user. Workaround: login as guest or as an existing user. (239139)
Logging in via a captive portal access point does not show a login screen. Workaround: Connect to a different network or login as guest. (237214)

The Dev channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.20 (Platform versions: 4100.17.0) for all platforms except Google Chromebook Pixel. This build contains a number of stability improvements.

Release Highlights:

Fixed several audio level issues (240455, 239128)

Creation of recovery images using imageburner is now fixed (239330)

Fixed layout issues with File Manager (239155, 238702)

Known Issues:

On Acer C7 Chromebooks, docked mode has been disabled when connecting to an external monitor.
Users connecting via slower 3G connections may be unable to login when creating a new user. Workaround: login as guest or as an existing user. (239139)
Logging in via a captive portal access point does not show a login screen. Workaround: Connect to a different network or login as guest. (237214)

Chrome for Android Update

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Fullscreen on phones - Scroll down the page and the toolbar will disappear.

Simpler searching - Searching from the omnibox will keep your search query visible in the omnibox, making it easier to edit, and show more on your search result page.

Client-side certificate support - You can now access sites that require you to use a certificate and Chrome will allow you to select an installed certificate

Tab history on tablets - Long press the browser back button to view your tab history

And a ton of stability and performance fixes

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Dev Channel Update

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

The Dev channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.20 for Chrome Frame, Mac, Linux, and WindowsThis build addresses some known regressions and stability issues. 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.Anthony LaforgeGoogle Chrome

Stable Channel Release

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Security fixes and rewards:

Please see the Chromium security page for more information. (Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.)

This automatic update includes security fixes. We’d like to highlight the following fixes for various reasons (crediting external researchers, issuing rewards, or highlighting particularly interesting issues):

[$1000] [235638] High CVE-2013-2837: Use-after-free in SVG. Credit to Sławomir Błażek.

[$500] [235311] Medium CVE-2013-2838: Out-of-bounds read in v8. Credit to Christian Holler.

[$1500] [230176] High CVE-2013-2839: Bad cast in clipboard handling. Credit to Jon of MWR InfoSecurity.

[$1000] [230117] High CVE-2013-2840: Use-after-free in media loader. Credit to Nils of MWR InfoSecurity.

[$1000] [227350] High CVE-2013-2841: Use-after-free in Pepper resource handling. Credit to Chamal de Silva.

[$2000] [226696] High CVE-2013-2842: Use-after-free in widget handling. Credit to Cyril Cattiaux.

[$1000] [222000] High CVE-2013-2843: Use-after-free in speech handling. Credit to Khalil Zhani.

[$1000] [196393] High CVE-2013-2844: Use-after-free in style resolution. Credit to Sachin Shinde (@cons0ul).

[$3133.7] [188092] [179522] [222136] [188092] High CVE-2013-2845: Memory safety issues in Web Audio. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.

[$1000] [177620] High CVE-2013-2846: Use-after-free in media loader. Credit to Chamal de Silva.

[$1000] [176692] High CVE-2013-2847: Use-after-free race condition with workers. Credit to Collin Payne.

[$500] [176137] Medium CVE-2013-2848: Possible data extraction with XSS Auditor. Credit to Egor Homakov.

[171392] Low CVE-2013-2849: Possible XSS with drag+drop or copy+paste. Credit to Mario Heiderich.

In addition, our ongoing internal security work was as usual responsible for a wide range of fixes:

[241595] High CVE-2013-2836: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.

Many of the above bugs were detected using AddressSanitizer.

This build also contains a new Adobe Flash build. You can find more information here.

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.

Karen Grunberg
Google Chrome

The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 27 to the Stable Channel. Chrome 27.0.1453.93 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame contains number of new items including:

Web pages load 5% faster on average
chrome.syncFileSystem API
Improved ranking of predictions, improved spell correction, and numerous fundamental improvements for Omnibox predictions. Please see the Help Center for more information on our updated policies.

Security fixes and rewards: Please see the Chromium security page for more information. (Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.)

In addition, our ongoing internal security work was as usual responsible for a wide range of fixes:

[241595] High CVE-2013-2836: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.

Many of the above bugs were detected using AddressSanitizer.

Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Monday, May 20, 2013

The Beta channel has been updated to 27.0.1453.103 (Platform version: 3912.79.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes and stability improvements.
Release Highlights:

Pepper Flash updated to 11.7.700.202

Stability Fixes

Beta Channel Update

Monday, May 20, 2013

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Chrome Beta for Android

Sunday, May 19, 2013

237253: Changing device orientation when trying to use 'Paste' on phone, makes the page unresponsive

237256: Half white background in tab-switcher

241237: "Google: <url>" displayed in the omnibox for yellow padlock URLs

237115: Dark overlay displayed after switching tabs

Fix for some top crashes

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Flash Player Update

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

11.7.700.202If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.Anthony LaforgeGoogle Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Known Issues:

With Acer C7 Chromebooks, when the system is connected to an external monitor and used in docked mode, the CPU usage goes to 100%.

The Dev channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.11 (Platform versions: 4100.7.0) for all platforms except Google Chromebook Pixel. This build contains a number of stability improvements.

Release Highlights:

Fixed several issues where File Manager panes were displayed blank. (239152, 239155)

Improved trackpad performance on Cr-48 systems (238778)

Fix to allow formatting a USB drive from the File Manager (239120)

Fix to allow viewing content of external storage (236743)

Updated Pepper Flash version to 11.7.700.202-r4

Known Issues:

With Acer C7 Chromebooks, when the system is connected to an external monitor and used in docked mode, the CPU usage goes to 100%.

Dev Channel Update

Monday, May 13, 2013

The Dev channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.11 for Chrome Frame, Mac, Linux, and WindowsThis build addresses some known regressions and stability issues. 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.Anthony LaforgeGoogle Chrome

Chrome Beta for Android

Friday, May 10, 2013

222030 : White bar appears above the on-screen keyboard

236667 : For long search queries, omnibox is displaying the end of the query instead of the beginning

239602 : When there is a yellow padlock, query in the omnibox should show padlock, google: query

232926: Facebook entire page is highlighted when menu is selected

Fixes for a few top crashes

237115: Dark overlay observed when switching tabs

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Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Known Issues:

Audio not transferring to external monitor on HDMI hotplug on New Samsung Chromebook (239641)

The Beta channel has been updated to 27.0.1453.83 (Platform version: 3912.63.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes and stability improvements.
Release Highlights:

Stability fixes

Known Issues:

Audio not transferring to external monitor on HDMI hotplug on New Samsung Chromebook (239641)

Dev Channel Update

Thursday, May 9, 2013

The Dev channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.5 for Linux, Windows, and Chrome Frame and 28.0.1500.6 for MacThis build addresses some known regressions and stability issues. 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.Anthony LaforgeGoogle Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Known Issues:

In some situations, interacting with the File Manager (trying to attach files or browsing to other directories) may cause the File Manager panes to be blank. (239152, 239155)
Sometimes the audio levels do not remain consistent (238391, 239128)
Some systems are unable to create recovery images using imageburner (239330). Workaround: Create a recovery system using the instructions here from a Windows, Mac or Linux system.
The option to format a USB drive from the File Manager is not visible (239120)
Can't view content of external storage (236743): Workaround: Enable File.app's legacy UI in about:flags

The Dev channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.4 (Platform versions: 4100.1.0 or 4100.2.0 depending on platform) for all Chromebooks. This build contains a number of stability improvements.
Release Highlights:

Fixed some crashes during playback, replay or seeking of Flash videos (236531)

Known Issues:

In some situations, interacting with the File Manager (trying to attach files or browsing to other directories) may cause the File Manager panes to be blank. (239152, 239155)
Sometimes the audio levels do not remain consistent (238391, 239128)
Some systems are unable to create recovery images using imageburner (239330). Workaround: Create a recovery system using the instructions here from a Windows, Mac or Linux system.
The option to format a USB drive from the File Manager is not visible (239120)
Can't view content of external storage (236743): Workaround: Enable File.app's legacy UI in about:flags

Beta Channel Update

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

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Dev Channel Update

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

The Dev channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.2 for Mac and 28.0.1500.3 for Linux, Windows, and Chrome FrameThis build addresses some known regressions and stability issues. Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how.Known issue:238069If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.Anthony LaforgeGoogle Chrome

Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Thursday, May 2, 2013

The Beta channel has been updated to 27.0.1453.76 (Platform version: 3912.52.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes and stability improvements.

Some highlights of these changes are:

Pepper Flash updated to 11.7.700.194

Stability fixes

Dev Channel Update

Thursday, May 2, 2013

The Dev channel has been updated to 28.0.1496.0 for Linux, Mac, Windows, and Chrome FrameThis build addresses some known regressions and stability issues. 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.Anthony LaforgeGoogle Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Known Issues:

Clicking on the Settings button in the tray does not open the Settings page (235226)
Chrome may crash in some instances when logging into a captive portal from the login page (237214)

The Dev channel has been updated to 28.0.1494.8 (Platform version: 4068.1.0) for all Chromebooks except CR-48, which have been updated to 28.0.1494.8 (Platform version: 4068.2.0). This build contains a number of bug fixes and feature enhancements.
Release Highlights:

More design improvements and bug fixes for the Files app

Sync wallpaper between devices

Replaced the Japanese IME with a NaCl extension version downloads a better language model upon actual usage

Added transliteration IMEs for Indic languages from Google Input Tools

Known Issues:

Chrome Beta for Android Update

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

225243: Links opened from other applications that do redirects do not load

232878: Video play icon not aligned properly on nbcnews.com

235755: Fullscreen tab cropped in tab switcher

Crash fixes

Embedded videos may be jittery on ICS devices

Typed character gets deleted sometimes on password fields

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Beta Channel Update

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

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