Google Chrome Releases

Stable and Beta Channel Updates
09.02.10
Beta updates, release, Stable updates
Google Chrome 6.0.472.53 has been released to the stable and beta channels for Windows, Mac, and Linux.  Updates from the previous stable release include:
  • Updated UI
  • Form Autofill
  • Syncing of extensions and Autofill data
  • Increased speed and stability

More information on these and other changes in Chrome 6 can be found on the Google Chrome blog. Download Chrome today!

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.

  • [34414] Low Pop-up blocker bypass with blank frame target. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno) and “ironfist99”.
  • [37201] Medium URL bar visual spoofing with homographic sequences. Credit to Chris Weber of Casaba Security.
  • [41654] Medium Apply more restrictions on setting clipboard content. Credit to Brook Novak.
  • [45659] High Stale pointer with SVG filters. Credit to Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team.
  • [45876] Medium Possible installed extension enumeration. Credit to Lostmon.
  • [46750] [51846] Low Browser NULL crash with WebSockets. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (SkyLined), Google Chrome Security Team (Justin Schuh) and Keith Campbell.
  • [$1000] [50386] High Use-after-free in Notifications presenter. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.
  • [50839] High Notification permissions memory corruption. Credit to Michal Zalewski of the Google Security Team and Google Chrome Security Team (SkyLined).
  • [$1337] [51630] [51739] High Integer errors in WebSockets. Credit to Keith Campbell and Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).
  • [$500] [51653] High Memory corruption with counter nodes. Credit to kuzzcc.
  • [51727] Low Avoid storing excessive autocomplete entries. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).
  • [52443] High Stale pointer in focus handling. Credit to VUPEN Vulnerability Research Team (VUPEN-SR-2010-249).
  • [$1000] [52682] High Sandbox parameter deserialization error. Credit to Ashutosh Mehra and Vineet Batra of the Adobe Reader Sandbox Team.
  • [$500] [53001] Medium Cross-origin image theft. Credit to Isaac Dawson.

This release also fixes [51070] (Windows kernel bug workaround; credit to Marc Schoenefeld), which was incorrectly declared fixed in version 5.0.375.127.

In addition, we would like to credit Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno), James Robinson (Chromium development community), Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar), Aki Helin of OUSPG, Fred Akalin (Chromium development community), Anna Popivanova, “myusualnickname”, Michal Zalewski of the Google Security Team, kuzzcc and Aaron Boodman (Chromium development community) for finding bugs during the development cycle such that they never reached a stable build.

Beta Channel Update
08.27.10
Beta updates, release
The beta channel for Chrome has been updated to 6.0.472.51 for all platforms. It contains many stability fixes, UI updates, and some additional translation work.
Dev Channel Update
08.25.10
Dev updates, release
The Dev channel has been updated to 7.0.503.0 for Windows, Mac and Chrome Frame; 7.0.503.1 for Linux.  Some of the updates:
The Beta channel has been updated to 6.0.472.41 for Windows, Mac and Chrome Frame
08.20.10
Beta updates, release

The Beta channel has been updated to 6.0.472.41 for Windows, Mac and Chrome Frame. It contains additional stability fixes, UI updates, and an updated set of translations. More details about additional changes are available in the svn revision log.

You can find out how to use the different Chrome channels at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

Google Chrome 5.0.375.127 has been released to the Stable Channel on Windows, Mac, and Linux
08.19.10
release, Stable updates

Google Chrome 5.0.375.127 has been released to the Stable Channel on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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.
Aside from the listed security bugs fixed in Chromium, we have also deployed a workaround for a critical vulnerability where the root cause lies in an external component. Credit and $1337 to Marc Schoenefeld for enabling us to work around another Windows kernel bug [51070].

  • [$1337] [45400] Critical Memory corruption with file dialog. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.
  • [$500] [49596] High Memory corruption with SVGs. Credit to wushi of team509.
  • [$500] [49628] High Bad cast with text editing. Credit to wushi of team509.
  • [$1000] [49964] High Possible address bar spoofing with history bug. Credit to Mike Taylor.
  • [$2000] [50515] [51835] High Memory corruption in MIME type handling. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.
  • [$1337] [50553] Critical Crash on shutdown due to notifications bug. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.
  • [51146] Medium Stop omnibox autosuggest if the user might be about to type a password. Credit to Robert Hansen.
  • [$1000] [51654] High Memory corruption with Ruby support. Credit to kuzzcc.
  • [$1000] [51670] High Memory corruption with Geolocation support. Credit to kuzzcc.
The Dev channel has been updated to 6.0.495.0 for all platforms
08.17.10
Dev updates, release

The Dev channel has been updated to 6.0.495.0 for all platforms.

All

  • [r55669] Fixed some minor issues with css custom cursor rendering (Issue: 51709)
  • Re-enable the link to disable individual plug-ins in a group. (Issue: 51597)
  • [r55596] Fixed playback rate for WebM/VP8 on certain content. (Issue: 51014)

Windows

  • See All

Mac

  • [r56026] Opening downloaded items from the download shelf now behaves as expected (Issues 32921,50263)

Linux

  • See All

Known Issues

The Beta channel has been updated to 6.0.472.36 for all platforms
08.16.10
Beta updates, release

 

The Beta channel has been updated to 6.0.472.36 for all platforms. This release contains the following updates:
All
  • More UI Polish
  • Stability Fixes
  • [r55562] Re-enable the link to disable individual plug-ins in a group. (Issue: 51597)

Mac

  • [r55585] Insert the Update Chrome item to existing Wrench menus when notified. (Issue: 50659)

Chrome Frame

More details about additional changes are available in the svn log.


You can find out about getting on the Dev channel at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug at http://crbug.com/new.
Jason Kersey

Dev Channel Update
08.13.10
Dev updates, release

The Dev channel has been updated to 6.0.490.1 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame platforms

All

  • Late binding enabled for SSL sockets: High priority SSL requests are now always sent to the server first.
  • Fixed focus problems with restoring from minimize (Issue 48917)
  • Fixed Cannot add an address properly in the "AutoFill options" dialog box (Issue 50047)
  • Several fixes and checks relating to syncing extensions (Issue 46516, Issue 49346, Issue 46516, Issue 49346, Issue 50567)
  • Click-to-play is now behind the --enable-click-to-play command line switch.
  • Fixed several issues with click-to-play (Issue 49686, Issue 49836)
Google Chrome 6.0.472.33 has been released to the Beta Channel for all platforms
08.11.10
Beta updates, release
Google Chrome 6.0.472.33 has been released to the Beta Channel for all platforms.
Updates from the previous beta include:
  • Updated UI
  • Form Autofill
  • Syncing of extensions and Autofill data
  • Increased speed and stability

These changes and more in Chrome 6 Beta are explained in more detail on the Google Chrome Blog.

To switch to the Beta channel, you can download Google Chrome

Google Chrome 5.0.375.126 has been released to the Stable channel on Linux, Mac, and Windows
08.10.10
release, Stable updates

 

Google Chrome 5.0.375.126 has been released to the Stable channel on Linux, Mac, and Windows. This version contains an updated version of the Flash plugin.