Google Chrome Releases

Chrome Beta Update
05.09.11
Beta updates, release

The Google Chrome team is happy to announce the release of Chrome 12 to the Beta Channel for all platforms.  Chrome 12.0.742.30 includes a number of new features and updates, including:

  • Hardware accelerated 3D CSS
  • New Safe Browsing protection against downloading malicious files
  • Ability to delete Flash cookies from inside Chrome
  • Launch Apps by name from the Omnibox
  • Integrated Sync into new settings pages
  • Improved screen reader support
  • New warning when hitting Command-Q on Mac
  • Removal of Google Gears
Beta and Stable Channel Update - The Beta and Stable channels have been updated to 11.0.696.65
05.06.11
Beta updates, release, Stable updates
The Beta and Stable channels have been updated to 11.0.696.65 for the Macintosh, Windows, Linux and Chrome Frame platforms

The following bugs were fixed:

  • After deleting bookmarks on the Bookmark managers, the bookmark bar doesn't display properly with existing bookmarks. (Issue 80580).
  • About Google Chrome window shows unknown channel for 11.0.696.57 (Issue 80683).
  • Chrome/Mac seems to clobber focus when uploading attachments to Gmail with the flash-based uploader (Issue 77172).
  • Also included is an updated version of Flash Player 10.2.
Dev Channel Update - The Chrome Dev channel has been updated to 12.0.742.30 for all platforms
05.06.11
Dev updates, release
The Chrome Dev channel has been updated to 12.0.742.30 for all platforms.  This release contains an updated version of Flash.
 
Chrome Dev Channel Update
05.05.11
Dev updates, release

The Chrome Dev channel has been updated to 12.0.742.21 for all platforms. This release contains fixes for a number of UI, performance, and stability issues.  It also contains an update for Mac [bug 80602] that fixes garbage being displayed when the accelerated compositor was active.  This primarily affected 3D CSS transforms and WebGL content.

Chrome Dev Channel Update
05.02.11
Dev updates, release

The Chrome Dev channel has been updated to 12.0.742.16 for all platforms.  This release continues to address UI and performance issues, as well as a fix for non-Aero themes on Windows. The full list of changes is available from the SVN revision log. If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug. Want to change to another Chrome release channel?

Chrome OS Beta Channel Update - The Chrome OS Beta channel has been updated to the latest R11 release 0.11.257.201
05.02.11
Chrome OS, release

The Chrome OS Beta channel has been updated to the latest R11 release 0.11.257.201 including Chrome update (11.0.696.57).

Beta and Stable Channel Update
04.28.11
Beta updates, release, Stable updates
The Beta and Stable channels have been updated to 11.0.696.60 for the Windows platform
The following bug was fixed:
  • REGRESSION: Windows painting issue while switching Chrome 11 window with overlapped app. (Issue 74604).
If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug.
Want to change to another Chrome release channel? Find out how.
Dev Channel Update - The Chrome Dev channel has been updated to 12.0.742.12 for all platforms
04.28.11
Dev updates, release

The Chrome Dev channel has been updated to 12.0.742.12 for all platforms.  This release continues to address UI and performance issues, as well as updates the Sync preferences UI. The full list of changes is available from the SVN revision log. If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug. Want to change to another Chrome release channel? Find out how.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Chrome Stable Update
04.27.11
release, Stable updates

The Google Chrome team is happy to announce the arrival of Chrome 11.0.696.57 to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame.  Chrome 11 contains some really great improvements including speech input through HTML.

 
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.

We’re pleased to associate a record $16,500 of rewards with this patch.

  • [61502] High CVE-2011-1303: Stale pointer in floating object handling. Credit to Scott Hess of the Chromium development community and Martin Barbella.
  • [70538] Low CVE-2011-1304: Pop-up block bypass via plug-ins. Credit to Chamal De Silva.
  • [Linux / Mac only] [70589] Medium CVE-2011-1305: Linked-list race in database handling. Credit to Kostya Serebryany of the Chromium development community.
  • [$500] [71586] Medium CVE-2011-1434: Lack of thread safety in MIME handling. Credit to Aki Helin.
  • [72523] Medium CVE-2011-1435: Bad extension with ‘tabs’ permission can capture local files. Credit to Cole Snodgrass.
  • [Linux only] [72910] Low CVE-2011-1436: Possible browser crash due to bad interaction with X. Credit to miaubiz.
  • [$1000] [73526] High CVE-2011-1437: Integer overflows in float rendering. Credit to miaubiz.
  • [$1000] [74653] High CVE-2011-1438: Same origin policy violation with blobs. Credit to kuzzcc.
  • [Linux only] [74763] High CVE-2011-1439: Prevent interference between renderer processes. Credit to Julien Tinnes of the Google Security Team.
  • [$1000] [75186] High CVE-2011-1440: Use-after-free with tag and CSS. Credit to Jose A. Vazquez.
  • [$500] [75347] High CVE-2011-1441: Bad cast with floating select lists. Credit to Michael Griffiths.
  • [$1000] [75801] High CVE-2011-1442: Corrupt node trees with mutation events. Credit to Sergey Glazunov and wushi of team 509.
  • [$1000] [76001] High CVE-2011-1443: Stale pointers in layering code. Credit to Martin Barbella.
  • [$500] [Linux only] [76542] High CVE-2011-1444: Race condition in sandbox launcher. Credit to Dan Rosenberg.
  • [76646] Medium CVE-2011-1445: Out-of-bounds read in SVG. Credit to wushi of team509.
  • [$3000] [76666] [77507] [78031] High CVE-2011-1446: Possible URL bar spoofs with navigation errors and interrupted loads. Credit to kuzzcc.
  • [$1000] [76966] High CVE-2011-1447: Stale pointer in drop-down list handling. Credit to miaubiz.
  • [$1000] [77130] High CVE-2011-1448: Stale pointer in height calculations. Credit to wushi of team509.
  • [$1000] [77346] High CVE-2011-1449: Use-after-free in WebSockets. Credit to Marek Majkowski.
  • [77349] Low CVE-2011-1450: Dangling pointers in file dialogs. Credit to kuzzcc.
  • [$2000] [77463] High CVE-2011-1451: Dangling pointers in DOM id map. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.
  • [$500] [77786] Medium CVE-2011-1452: URL bar spoof with redirect and manual reload. Credit to Jordi Chancel.
  • [$1500] [79199] High CVE-2011-1454: Use-after-free in DOM id handling. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.
  • [79361] Medium CVE-2011-1455: Out-of-bounds read with multipart-encoded PDF. Credit to Eric Roman of the Chromium development community.
  • [79364] High CVE-2011-1456: Stale pointers with PDF forms. Credit to Eric Roman of the Chromium development community.

We would also like to thank miaubiz, kuzzcc, Sławomir Błażek, Drew Yao and Braden Thomas of Apple Product Security and Christian Hollier for working with us during the development cycle and helping prevent bugs from ever reaching the stable channel.

Beta Channel Update
04.26.11
Beta updates, release

The Beta channel has been updated to 11.0.696.57 for Macintosh, Windows, Linux and Chrome Frame platforms

The following bugs were fixed

  • REGRESSION: left property broken with position:fixed elements in RTL documents. (Issue 80216).
  • REGRESSION: Bottom of window Border is drawn 1 Pixel Higher than it should be (Issue 79640).
  • REGRESSION: Chromium window goes beyond the screen for non-Aero themes (Issue 80391).

You can find full details about the changes that are in this version of Chrome 11 in the SVN revision log.

If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug.

Want to change to another Chrome release channel? Find out how.

Karen Grunberg