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

• Video input

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

Lawrence Lui
Google Chrome

Chrome Beta for Android has been updated to 25.0.1364.47 on Google Play. This build will be rolling out over the next few hours. This update contains a number of fixes, including:

• 143146 - Support for chrome://flags!

Known Issues:

The Beta channel has been updated to  25.0.1364.46 (Platform version: 3428.92.0) for Samsung Series 5 550, Samsung Series 5, Acer C7 and Acer AC700, cr-48  and Samsung Series 3 Chromebox. This build contains a number of bug fixes and feature enhancements.


Some highlights of these changes are:

The Beta channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.45 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains improvements in stability and fixes for few other issues. There is one known issue:

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

The Beta channel has been updated to  25.0.1364.33 (Platform version: 3428.65.0) for Samsung Series 5 550, Samsung Series 5, Acer C7 and Acer AC700, cr-48  and Samsung Series 3 Chromebox. This build contains a number of bug fixes and feature enhancements.  Machines will receive this update over the next several days.

Some highlights of these changes are:

The Dev channel has been updated to 26.0.1386.0 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains following updates:

• Fixed marking notifications when opened and closed (Issue: 169388)
• Fixed web popup menus (Issue: 166832)
• Fixed renderer form_autofill_util changes to support Checkboxes and Radiobuttons (Issue: 157636)
• Fixed decoding of URL in bookmark editor (Issue: 165648)
• Added the preferences and UI to make the launcher opt-inable (Issue: 151676)
• Added incognito visualization to items in the new app menu (Issue: 169842)
• Renamed the magnifier names: "Full" -> "Entire screen", "Partial" -> "Lens" (Issue: 166832)
• Enable webkit preference for Chromium to disallow unsafe plugin pasting (Issue: 112325)
• Fixed thumbnail view on Drive (Issue 170022)
• Fixed crash bug in BookmarkEditorView (Issue 167385)

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.

Chrome Beta for Android has been updated to 25.0.1364.37 on Google Play. This build will be rolling out over the next few hours. This update contains a number of fixes, including:

• 165783: Enable compositing scrollable frames on Android
• 168368: Chrome progress bar should be displayed as soon as the user clicks a link
• 165244 - Text handler jumps or disappears when moving
• 162486 - iframe scrolling broken

Known Issues:

The Beta channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.36 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains improvements in stability and fixes for few other issues. There is one known issue:

• [170318] The Chrome Apps Browser Demo does not render correctly.

The Dev channel has been updated to 26.0.1384.2 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains improvements in stability and fixes for few other 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.

The Dev channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.33 (Platform version: 3428.65.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a numbers of stability and feature enhancements.  Some highlights of these changes are:

• Improved power consumption on arm devices 
• UI fixes 
• Crash fixes 

Known Issues:

• In some situations, Chrome Sync may not sync any data. Workaround: Restart system and perform sync again (167090) 

Chrome Beta for Android has been updated to 25.0.1364.33 on Google Play. This build will be rolling out over the next few hours. This update contains a number of fixes, including:

Using your voice to search on your computer or phone is handy, but there’s so much more you can do with voice commands. Imagine if you could dictate documents, have a freestyle rap battle, or control game characters with your browser using only your voice. With today’s Chrome Beta release, this future is closer than you think.

With the inclusion of the Web Speech API for developers, users can start enjoying new, interactive experiences with web apps, like in this demo where you can compose an email by speaking. With this new JavaScript API, developers can integrate speech recognition into their web apps. So, in the near future you’ll be able to talk apps into doing all sorts of things.

To make sure your Chrome installation isn’t being slowed down, today’s Chrome Beta will automatically disable some extensions on Windows that may have been added by third party programs without proper acknowledgement from users. The original intent was to give people an option to add useful extensions when installing applications, but unfortunately this feature has been widely abused by third parties who added extensions without user consent. A notification will appear with the option to re-enable the affected extensions.

The Chrome Team is excited to announce our first Beta channel release of Chrome for Android, based on Chrome 25. You can download version 25.0.1364.8 from Google Play (note, please use the direct link, you will not find it via the search function in Google Play). Similar to our other platforms, Chrome Beta for Android offers a preview of new features and enhancements currently in development. You can install both Chrome and Chrome Beta side by side on the same device.

Chrome 25 on Android brings a slew of updates and improvements over our current Chrome 18 based stable channel, including better HTML5 support and JavaScript performance. That said, non-Stable channel releases can sometimes be bumpy, and our new Beta release is no exception. The following are some of the larger known issues in today’s release:

• Performance is sluggish, noticeably on Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S
• Frequent freeze on devices with specific versions of Qualcomm GPU driver
• Text autosizing may break formatting on some sites
• 164632 - Editing bookmark feature is broken
• 165244 - Text position handler jumps or disappears when moving
• 163439 - Clicking on links in yahoo.com not navigating on Nexus 7
• 166233 - Unable to submit comments on Facebook posts in desktop version of Facebook
• 165244 - Text handler jumps or disappears when moving
• 167351 - Youtube video controls are lost after returning from fullscreen video mode
• 162486 - iframe scrolling broken

The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 24 to the stable channel. Chrome 24.0.1312.52 has been updated for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame.

This is the first Stable release with support for MathML, thanks to WebKit volunteer Dave Barton. This release also contains an update to Flash (11.5.31.137) as well as improvements in speed and stability. You can find out more about Chrome 24 on the Official Chrome Blog and the Official Chromium Blog.

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.

• [$1000] [162494] High CVE-2012-5145: Use-after-free in SVG layout. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. 
• [$4000] [165622] High CVE-2012-5146: Same origin policy bypass with malformed URL. Credit to Erling A Ellingsen and Subodh Iyengar, both of Facebook. 
• [$1000] [165864] High CVE-2012-5147: Use-after-free in DOM handling. Credit to José A. Vázquez. 
• [167122] Medium CVE-2012-5148: Missing filename sanitization in hyphenation support. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Justin Schuh). 
• [166795] High CVE-2012-5149: Integer overflow in audio IPC handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans). 
• [165601] High CVE-2012-5150: Use-after-free when seeking video. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno). 
• [165538] High CVE-2012-5151: Integer overflow in PDF JavaScript. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk, with contribution from Gynvael Coldwind, both of Google Security Team. 
• [165430] Medium CVE-2012-5152: Out-of-bounds read when seeking video. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno). 
• [164565] High CVE-2012-5153: Out-of-bounds stack access in v8. Credit to Andreas Rossberg of the Chromium development community. 
• [Windows only] [164490] Low CVE-2012-5154: Integer overflow in shared memory allocation. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans). 
• [Mac only] [163208] Medium CVE-2012-5155: Missing Mac sandbox for worker processes. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Julien Tinnes). 
• [162778] High CVE-2012-5156: Use-after-free in PDF fields. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk, with contribution from Gynvael Coldwind, both of Google Security Team. 
• [162776] [162156] Medium CVE-2012-5157: Out-of-bounds reads in PDF image handling. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk, with contribution from Gynvael Coldwind, both of Google Security Team. 
• [162153] High CVE-2013-0828: Bad cast in PDF root handling. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk, with contribution from Gynvael Coldwind, both of Google Security Team. 
• [162114] High CVE-2013-0829: Corruption of database metadata leading to incorrect file access. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Jüri Aedla). 
• [Windows only] [162066] Low CVE-2013-0830: Missing NUL termination in IPC. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Justin Schuh). 
• [161836] Low CVE-2013-0831: Possible path traversal from extension process. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Tom Sepez). 
• [160380] Medium CVE-2013-0832: Use-after-free with printing. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar). 
• [154485] Medium CVE-2013-0833: Out-of-bounds read with printing. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar). 
• [154283] Medium CVE-2013-0834: Out-of-bounds read with glyph handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar). 
• [152921] Low CVE-2013-0835: Browser crash with geolocation. Credit to Arthur Gerkis. 
• [150545] High CVE-2013-0836: Crash in v8 garbage collection. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar). 
• [145363] Medium CVE-2013-0837: Crash in extension tab handling. Credit to Tom Nielsen. 
• [Linux only] [143859] Low CVE-2013-0838: Tighten permissions on shared memory segments. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Palmer). 

Many of the above bugs were detected using AddressSanitizer.

The security issues in V8 have been fixed in v8-3.14.5.3.

We’d also like to thank Atte Kettunen and Sławomir Błażek for working with us during the development cycle and preventing security regressions from ever reaching the stable channel. Rewards were issued.

The Dev channel has been updated to 25.1364.26 (Platform version: 3428.49.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of stability fixes and feature enhancements.

Some highlights of these changes are:

• Fixes to several recent bugs in Google Docs 
• Audio is now working for spoken feedback 
• Several fixes related to multi-monitor extended desktop display (163812, 35796) 
• Fix to some pages' scrolling jumping to the top of the page (166943) 
• Several crash fixes 

Known Issues:

• In some situations, Chrome Sync may not sync any data. Workaround: Restart system and perform sync again. (167090) 
• The login screen when resuming from a locked state may be off-center. (167215) 

The Dev channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.26 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This update contains additional stability fixes. 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.
 

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