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The Beta channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.57 (Platform version: 7978.36.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements.  A list of changes can be found here.

If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our forum 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).

Ketaki Deshpande
Google Chrome

The Stable channel has been updated to 49.0.2623.111 (Platform version: 7834.66.0/7834.67.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes, an update to Adobe Flash Player (21.0.0.197-r1) and security fixes. Systems will be receiving updates over the next several days.

If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our forum 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).

Josafat Garcia
Google Chrome


The Dev channel has been updated to 51.0.2688.0 (Platform version: 8104.2.0/8104.1.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements.  A list of changes can be found here.

If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our forum 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).

Bernie Thompson
Google Chrome

The beta channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.57 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.A partial list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.


Di Mu

Google Chrome

The dev channel has been updated to 51.0.2693.2 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

A partial list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.


Di Mu
Google Chrome

The Admin console has been updated. Admins can now restrict Chromebooks from connecting to unmanaged networks. Admins can also choose to restrict their devices from connecting to entire interfaces like WiFi or Ethernet.

These settings will apply to devices using version 49 or above.

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

Lawrence Lui
Google Chrome

The stable channel has been updated to 49.0.2623.110 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

A list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.


Krishna Govind
Google Chrome

The Beta channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.50 (Platform version: 7978.29.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements.  A list of changes can be found here.

If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our forum 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).

Ketaki Deshpande
Google Chrome

The stable channel has been updated to 49.0.2623.108 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.



Security Fixes and Rewards

Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.

This update includes 5 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chromium security page for more information.

[$7500][594574] High CVE-2016-1646: Out-of-bounds read in V8. Credit to Wen Xu from Tencent KeenLab.
[$5500][590284] High CVE-2016-1647: Use-after-free in Navigation. Credit to anonymous.
[$5000][590455] High CVE-2016-1648: Use-after-free in Extensions. Credit to anonymous.
[595836] High CVE-2016-1649: Buffer overflow in libANGLE. Credit to lokihardt working with HP’s Zero Day Initiative / Pwn2Own.

As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:
  • [597518] CVE-2016-1650: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.
  • Multiple vulnerabilities in V8 fixed at the tip of the 4.9 branch (currently 4.9.385.33).

Many of our security bugs are detected using AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, Control Flow Integrity or LibFuzzer.


A list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.



Krishna Govind
Google Chrome


The beta channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.49 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.A partial list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.


Di Mu

Google Chrome

The dev channel has been updated to 51.0.2687.0 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.


A partial list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.


Di Mu

Google Chrome

The Beta channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.32 (Platform version: 7978.18.0/7978.18.1/7978.18.2) 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.

If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our forum 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).

Ketaki Deshpande
Google Chrome


The Dev channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.32 (Platform version: 7978.18.0, 7978.18.1, 7978.18.2) for all Chrome OS devices.  This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements. A list of changes can be found here.

If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our forum 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).

Ketaki Deshpande
Google Chrome

The beta channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.37 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.


A partial list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.


Krishna Govind
Google Chrome

The dev channel has been updated to 51.0.2679.0 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

A partial list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.


Krishna Govind
Google Chrome

The Stable channel has been updated to 49.0.2623.95 (Platform version: 7834.60.0) 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:

  • Material Redesign for Media Players 
  • Ability to choose keyboard layout of extension IME 
  • New notifications for dual-role Raiden devices (Chromebook Pixel 2015)
  • Add Video preview and album cover as thumbnails in Files App

If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our forum 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)

Josafat Garcia
Google Chrome

The Beta channel has been updated to 49.0.2623.95 (Platform version: 7834.60.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements.  A list of changes can be found here.

If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our forum 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).

Josafat Garcia
Google Chrome

The Dev channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.20 (Platform version: 7978.10) for all Chrome OS devices except Asus Chromebook C200.  This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements. A list of changes can be found here.

If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our forum 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).

Ketaki Deshpande
Google Chrome

The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 50 to the beta channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 50.0.2661.26 contains our usual under-the-hood performance and stability tweaks, but there are also some cool new features to explore - please head to the Chromium blog to learn more!


A full list of changes in this build is available in the log.  Interested in switching release channels?  Find out how here. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.



Krishna Govind
Google Chrome

The Chrome team is excited to announce the launch of Chrome 49 for Android. Chrome 49.0.2623.91 will be available in Google Play over the next few hours. This release includes more than a barge full of performance and stability fixes. A partial list of other changes in this build are available in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. More information about Chrome for Android is available on the Chrome site.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

The dev channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.18 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.


A partial list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.

Di Mu
Google Chrome

The stable channel has been updated to 49.0.2623.87 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.


Security Fixes and Rewards


Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.


This update includes 3 security fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chromium security page for more information.


[$5000][589838] High CVE-2016-1643: Type confusion in Blink. Credit to cloudfuzzer.
[$3500][590620] High CVE-2016-1644: Use-after-free in Blink. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
[587227] High CVE-2016-1645: Out-of-bounds write in PDFium. Credit to anonymous working with HP's Zero Day Initiative.



Many of our security bugs are detected using AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, Control Flow Integrity or LibFuzzer.

A list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.



Krishna Govind
Google Chrome


The dev channel has been updated to 50.0.2661.11 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

A partial list of changes is available in the log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.


Krishna Govind
Google Chrome

The Beta channel has been updated to 49.0.2623.75 (Platform version: 7834.52.0/7834.53.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements.  A list of changes can be found here.

If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our forum 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).

Josafat Garcia
Google Chrome

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 49 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux.


Chrome 49.0.2623.75 contains a number of fixes and improvements -- a list of changes is available in the log. Watch out for upcoming Chrome and Chromium blog posts about new features and big efforts delivered in 49.


Security Fixes and Rewards

Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. We will also retain restrictions if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.

This update includes 26 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chromium security page for more information.

[$8000][560011] High CVE-2016-1630: Same-origin bypass in Blink. Credit to Mariusz Mlynski.
[$7500][569496] High CVE-2016-1631: Same-origin bypass in Pepper Plugin. Credit to Mariusz Mlynski.
[$5000][549986] High CVE-2016-1632: Bad cast in Extensions. Credit to anonymous.
[$3000][572537] High CVE-2016-1633: Use-after-free in Blink. Credit to cloudfuzzer.
[$3000][559292] High CVE-2016-1634: Use-after-free in Blink. Credit to cloudfuzzer.
[$2000][585268] High CVE-2016-1635: Use-after-free in Blink. Credit to Rob Wu.
[$2000][584155] High CVE-2016-1636: SRI Validation Bypass. Credit to Ryan Lester and Bryant Zadegan.
[$500][560291] High CVE-2015-8126: Out-of-bounds access in libpng. Credit to joerg.bornemann.
[$2000][555544] Medium CVE-2016-1637: Information Leak in Skia. Credit to Keve Nagy.
[$1000][585282] Medium CVE-2016-1638: WebAPI Bypass. Credit to Rob Wu.
[$1000][572224] Medium CVE-2016-1639: Use-after-free in WebRTC. Credit to Khalil Zhani.
[$1000][550047] Medium CVE-2016-1640: Origin confusion in Extensions UI. Credit to Luan Herrera.
[$500][583718] Medium CVE-2016-1641: Use-after-free in Favicon. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.

We would also like to thank all security researchers that worked with us during the development cycle to prevent security bugs from ever reaching the stable channel. An additional $14,500 in rewards were issued for security bugs present on non-stable channels.

As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:
  • [591402] CVE-2016-1642: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.
  • Multiple vulnerabilities in V8 fixed at the tip of the 4.9 branch (currently 4.9.385.26).

Many of our security bugs are detected using AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, Control Flow Integrity or LibFuzzer.


Interested in switching release channels? Find out how.  If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. The community help forum is also a great place to reach out for help or learn about common issues.


Krishna Govind
Google Chrome