The Dev channel has been updated to 14.0.825.0 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome Frame and all Chromebooks.  Updates include:

All

• Updated V8 - 3.4.12.1

Known Issues - Chromebooks

• Some File Browser actions crashes the browser (17728)
• Browser crash on login after kernel crash (17731)
• Getting black regions while displaying NBC site (17727)

The Google Chrome team is happy to announce the release of Chrome 13 Beta for Chrome OS Beta Channel for CR-48 (R13 release 0.13.587.43 with Chrome 13.0.782.37).

Release highlights:
- L2TP IPSec with pre-shared key support
- More SSH options in crosh
- 802.1x support
- Fix mounting of Android USB

Known issues:
- 17189 - Hitting ESC key does not close File Browser
- Users connecting to Verizon may have trouble connecting after suspend/resume of their machine.
- 17157 - Enterprise: A system attempting to be enrolled may give an error message. This only occurs on systems that have been autoupdated from R11 to R12 or higher. Workaround: Wait at least 1 second after seeing the login screen before pressing Ctrl-Alt-e to enroll the machine. Recovery: Systems that do encounter this problem will need to be re-imaged.
- 16367 - Wifi profile does not list any networks after sign out/sign in or reboot. This occurs when connecting to a wifi network requiring a password, and deselecting the option to share the password network. Workaround: Disable & re-enable the wifi resolves the problem.

 

In addition to all new Chrome 12 Stable new features (see Chrome 12 blogpost), there are several great Chrome OS improvements including:

• New localization
• Flash 10.2.158.27
• Power Management optimization
• Audio fixes

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] [77493] Medium CVE-2011-2345: Out-of-bounds read in NPAPI string handling. Credit to Philippe Arteau.
• [$1000] [84355] High CVE-2011-2346: Use-after-free in SVG font handling. Credit to miaubiz.
• [$1000] [85003] High CVE-2011-2347: Memory corruption in CSS parsing. Credit to miaubiz.
• [$500] [85102] High CVE-2011-2350: Lifetime and re-entrancy issues in the HTML parser. Credit to miaubiz.
• [$500] [85177] High CVE-2011-2348: Bad bounds check in v8. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.
• [$1000] [85211] High CVE-2011-2351: Use-after-free with SVG use element. Credit to miaubiz.
• [$1000] [85418] High CVE-2011-2349: Use-after-free in text selection. Credit to miaubiz.

The Chrome Dev channel has been updated to 14.0.803.0 for all platforms.  This release has the following changes and notes:

All

• Updated V8 - 3.4.6.2
• [r90216] Change the meaning of third-party cookie blocking to allow whitelists (Issue 82039)

Mac

• Relaunches do not work in this release.  You will need to manually relaunch Chrome following a forced update, an about:flags change, or any other action that attempts to relaunch the browser. (Issue 87646)

Linux

• [r90417] Remove the Global Bookmarks menu by default on Ubuntu Natty, in an attempt to fix minute long startup regression on desktop environments that use dbusmenu. (Issue 86715)

The Dev channel has been updated to 14.0.797.0 for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chrome Frame platforms

All

• Updated V8 - 3.4.4.0

Windows

• Improved support for the textarea element with screen readers.

Mac

• Improved support for the textarea element with VoiceOver.

Resolved Issues

• Print workflow: Chrome Frame displays both Print Dialog and Print Preview (Issue: 86226)
• Crash when canceling print (Issue: 86229)
• Mouse back and forward buttons stopped working  (Issue: 84836)

The Dev channel has been updated to 14.0.794.0 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame platforms

All

• Updated V8 - 3.4.3.0
• When installing items from the chrome webstore, we now always prompt with a native confirmation dialog.
• Fix for failing navigation with chrome://newtab showing.

Mac

• Fixed “invalid server certificate” errors for some secure websites whose CRLs or OCSP responses are signed by untrusted root CAs.

Linux

• Added a makeshift multiprofile button.

Security

• DNSSEC authenticated HTTPS supported.
• Intermittent connectivity issues with broken SSLv3 servers fixed.

Known Issues

• When reloading a page reached via a HTTP POST operation (such as the confirmation page following a form submit during an online transaction), the whole browser will crash (Issue: 86119)
• volume controls are not functioning on keyboard (issue: 84961)