The Dev channel has been updated to 27.0.1425.0 for Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame and 27.0.1425.2 for Windows.

This build fixes the following issues:

• Facebook doesn't always render correctly. [Issue: 177520]
• Cancel string is missing on the button from the uninstall dialog. [Issue: 178464]
• Mac: After resizing the window, a frameless window can become draggable in the titlebar area [Issue: 159361]

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.

Karen Grunberg
Google Chrome

The Beta channel has been updated to 26.0.1410.15 (Platform version: 3701.30.0) for all Chromebooks except the new Samsung Chromebook (coming soon). This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements.

Some highlights of these changes are:

• Pepper Flash updated to 11.6.602.171
• exFAT support on flash drives
• Bluetooth UI improvements in the Status Area to ease connecting and managing bluetooth devices
• Updated wallpaper picker UI (New style, All category)
• Tab Scrubbing - Use three fingers to target and scrub between tabs - faster than mouse
• Added support for ISO base media file format, H.264 video and AAC audio to Widevine Content Decryption Module (CDM).

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

Ben Henry
Google Chrome

The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 25 to the Stable Channel for Android. Chrome 25.0.1364.123 is currently rolling out to Google Play over the next few hours. This update contains a huge number of changes over the previous release, including:

• Improved scrolling performance
• Increased responsiveness to pinch-zooming on pages
• Faster interactive pages thanks to the latest version of the V8 javascript engine
• Audio now continues to play while Chrome is in the background
• Expanded support for HTML5 features
• Support for pausing audio in Chrome when phone is in use (note: this requires an additional permission)

This update also picks up other important stability and performance fixes since the last release, along with some minor UI adjustments. Known issues are available on the Chrome support site.

Interested in other release channels of Chrome for Android? A Beta channel is now available and can be run side by side with Stable. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. More information on Chrome for Android is available on the Chrome site.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Chrome Beta for Android has been updated to 25.0.1364.122 on Google Play. This build will be rolling out over the next few hours. This update contains a number of fixes, including:

• (172563) Regression in Google Maps Pinching
• (177536) Long pressing on a word then tapping on space bar repeats the same word
• (175422) Text deletion issue after using 'Select all' action
• Various crash and stability fixes.

Known Issues:

• Swype keyboard does not automatically insert space between words in omnibox
• Disambiguation popup sometimes doesn't show entire link
• Text autosizing may break formatting on some sites

A partial list of changes in this build is available in the SVN revision 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 26.0.1410.15 (Platform version: 3701.30.0) for all Chrome OS devices except the new Samsung Chromebook. This release contains a few stability improvements.

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

• Safe Browsing
• Google Drive syncing
• Google Drive syncing over cellular
• Bookmark editing
• Spell check service

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

Lawrence Lui
Google Chrome

The Dev channel has been updated to 26.0.1410.12 (Platform version: 3701.23.0) for all Chrome OS devices except CR-48. In addition to increased stability, this build also has some notable improvements.

Updates:

• YouTube tearing issue has been fixed.
• Updated Pepper Flash to 11.6.602.171

Known Issues:

• Hangout is not working on the new Samsung Chromebook (fix coming soon).

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

Ben Henry
Google Chrome

The Stable channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.87 (Platform version: 3428.149.2) for Samsung Chromebooks. This build contains a number of new features, bug fixes and security improvements. Machines will be receiving updates over the next several days.

Release Highlights:

• Updated Flash to 11.6.602.169
• HTML5 Content Decryption Module (CDM) with WebM support
• Fix to Samsung Chromebook device freezes or crashes on some systems when trying to resume after suspend
• Extended Desktop Mode (multi-monitors) now supported
• App Launcher now supports re-ordering
• Intelligent Window positioning (if you don't manually move your windows, we will arrange them to show you more at all times)
• Tap dragging is now a user preference.
• Encrypted Media Extensions are enabled by default
• Modifications to the system tray to display accessibility options.
• Improved power consumption on ARM devices
• Numerous UI improvements and crash fixes
• Improved accessibility controls in the status area, out of box experience, and login page

Known Issues:

• When connecting to a wifi captive portal, logging out and adding a new user will show the captive portal overlay but never hide it. Workaround: Logout and login again.

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

Danielle Drew
Google Chrome

Chrome Beta for Android has been updated to 25.0.1364.108 on Google Play. This build will be rolling out over the next few hours. This update contains a number of fixes, including:

• [174665] Text selection and text input handles appear at incorrect positions
• Tilt scrolling now works on tab switcher mode
• Login to LinkedIn desktop site works
• Some frequently occurring crashes have been fixed
• More improvements to scrolling performance and fling speed

Known Issues:

• Chrome not responding on cold start after changing language to RTL
• Swype keyboard does not automatically insert space between words in omnibox
• Disambiguation popup sometimes doesn't show entire link
• Text autosizing may break formatting on some sites

A partial list of changes in this build is available in the SVN revision 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 Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 25 to the Stable Channel. Chrome 25.0.1364.97 for Windows and Linux, and 25.0.1364.99 for Mac contain a number of new items including:

• Improvements in managing and securing your extensions
• Better support for HTML5 time/date inputs
• JavaScript Web Speech API support
• Better WebGL error handling
• And lots of other features for developers

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] [172243] High CVE-2013-0879: Memory corruption with web audio node. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
• [$1000] [171951] High CVE-2013-0880: Use-after-free in database handling. Credit to Chamal de Silva.
• [$500] [167069] Medium CVE-2013-0881: Bad read in Matroska handling. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
• [$500] [165432] High CVE-2013-0882: Bad memory access with excessive SVG parameters. Credit to Renata Hodovan.
• [$500] [142169] Medium CVE-2013-0883: Bad read in Skia. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
• [172984] Low CVE-2013-0884: Inappropriate load of NaCl. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans).
• [172369] Medium CVE-2013-0885: Too many API permissions granted to web store.
• [Mac only] [171569] Medium CVE-2013-0886: Incorrect NaCl signal handling. Credit to Mark Seaborn of the Chromium development community.
• [171065] [170836] Low CVE-2013-0887: Developer tools process has too many permissions and places too much trust in the connected server.
• [170666] Medium CVE-2013-0888: Out-of-bounds read in Skia. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).
• [170569] Low CVE-2013-0889: Tighten user gesture check for dangerous file downloads.
• [169973] [169966] High CVE-2013-0890: Memory safety issues across the IPC layer. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans).
• [169685] High CVE-2013-0891: Integer overflow in blob handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Jüri Aedla).
• [169295] [168710] [166493] [165836] [165747] [164958] [164946] Medium CVE-2013-0892: Lower severity issues across the IPC layer. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans).
• [168570] Medium CVE-2013-0893: Race condition in media handling. Credit to Andrew Scherkus of the Chromium development community.
• [168473] High CVE-2013-0894: Buffer overflow in vorbis decoding. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).
• [Linux / Mac] [167840] High CVE-2013-0895: Incorrect path handling in file copying. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Jüri Aedla).
• [166708] High CVE-2013-0896: Memory management issues in plug-in message handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).
• [165537] Low CVE-2013-0897: Off-by-one read in PDF. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind, both from Google Security Team.
• [164643] High CVE-2013-0898: Use-after-free in URL handling. Credit to Alexander Potapenko of the Chromium development community.
• [160480] Low CVE-2013-0899: Integer overflow in Opus handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Jüri Aedla).
• [152442] Medium CVE-2013-0900: Race condition in ICU. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).

We’ve also resolved a high severity security issue by disabling MathML in this release. The WebKit MathML implementation isn’t quite ready for prime time yet but we are excited to enable it again in a future release once the security issues have been addressed.

Many of the above bugs were detected using AddressSanitizer.

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

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.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

The Beta channel has been updated to  25.0.1364.87 (Platform version: 3428.149.2) for Samsung Chromebooks. This build contains a wifi fix.

Change in this version:

• Fixed an issue where, when connecting to wifi using some 5GHz access points on Samsung Chromebooks, the system was unable to reconnect to the wifi access point after suspend/resume.

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

Danielle Drew
Google Chrome

The Stable channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.87 (Platform version: 3428.149.0 for all Chrome OS Devices except for Samsung Chromebooks. This build contains a number of new features, bug fixes and security improvements. Machines will be receiving updates over the next several days.

Release Highlights:

• Updated Flash to 11.6.602.169
• HTML5 Content Decryption Module (CDM) with WebM support
• Extended Desktop Mode (multi-monitors) now supported
• App Launcher now supports re-ordering
• Intelligent Window positioning (if you don't manually move your windows, we will arrange them to show you more at all times)
• Tap dragging is now a user preference.
• Encrypted Media Extensions are enabled by default
• Modifications to the system tray to display accessibility options.
• Improved accessibility controls in the status area, out of box experience, and login page
• Numerous crash fixes, stability improvements, security enhancements, and more

Known Issues:

• When connecting to a wifi captive portal, logging out and adding a new user will show the captive portal overlay but never hide it. Workaround: Logout and login again.

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

Danielle Drew
Google Chrome

The Beta channel has been updated to  25.0.1364.87 (Platform version: 3428.149.0) for all Chromebooks and Chromeboxes. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements.

Some highlights of these changes are:

• Updated Pepper Flash version to 11.6.602.169
• Update to ChromeVox accessibility component
• Improvements to suspend while using an external monitor

Known Issues:

• On Samsung Chromebooks connecting using some 5GHz wifi access points, the system may be unable to reconnect to that access point after suspend/resume. Workaround: Restart the Chromebook and reconnect to the access point.
  

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

Danielle Drew
Google Chrome

Chrome Beta for Android has been updated to 25.0.1364.87 on Google Play. This build will be rolling out over the next few hours. This update contains a number of fixes, including:

• More improvements to reduce flicker and graphical corruption
• Resolution for some frequently occurring crashes
• Better memory management

Known Issues:

• 174665: Text selection and text input handles appear at incorrect positions
• 171103: Login issues on certain sites including linkedin.com and hotmail.com
• Lower resolution/blurry content takes time to sharpen during rapid scrolling on certain websites
• Graphical corruption and flicker on some sites, particularly on maps.google.com
• Text autosizing may break formatting on some sites

A partial list of changes in this build is available in the SVN revision 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 Chrome OS Management Console in the administrator control panel has been updated. This update brings new features:

• Device Organizational Units: This feature allows administrators to apply different device settings for different sets of Chrome Devices.
• More dynamic Delegated Administration: Admin roles can now be restricted to specific organizational units and sections of the Management Console.

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

Lawrence Lui
Google Chrome

The Dev channel has been updated to 26.0.1410.5 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains an instability fix in the WebCore (Issue: 175307) and the network: (Issue: 174720) components.

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.

Tanya Radeva
Google Chrome

The Dev channel has been updated to 26.0.1410.4 (Platform version: 3701.0.0) for all Chrome OS devices.  In addition to increased stability, this build also has some notable updates.

Updates:

The Beta channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.84 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains improvements in stability and performance. 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.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

The Dev channel has been updated to 26.0.1410.3 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains following updates:

• Display an info banner on the clear browsing data dialog if the browsing data was cleared within the last 24h (Issue: 164600) 
• Added possibility to history to group domains by week or month (Issue:170690) 
• Added wallpaper picker icon (Issue:168913) 
• Made wallpaper images immutable (Issue:173724) 

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.

Tanya Radeva
Google Chrome

Chrome Beta for Android has been updated to 25.0.1364.74 on Google Play. This build will be rolling out over the next few hours. This update contains a number of fixes, including:

• 173232: Chrome does not load pages on Samsung Galaxy S2
• 158633: Overaggressive tap disambiguation popup
• 167089: Blank screen when opening links from external apps
• Resolution for some frequently occurring crashes

Known Issues:

• 171103: Login issues on certain sites including linkedin.com and hotmail.com
• 174665: Text selection and text input handles appear at incorrect positions
• Lower resolution/blurry content takes time to sharpen during rapid scrolling on certain websites
• Graphical corruption and flicker on some sites, particularly on maps.google.com
• Text autosizing may break formatting on some sites
• Continuing sad tabs/tab crashes, especially on tablets

A partial list of changes in this build is available in the SVN revision 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 Beta channel has been updated to  25.0.1364.68 (Platform version: 3428.127.0) for all Chromebooks and Chromeboxes. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates and feature enhancements.

Some highlights of these changes are:

• Updated Netflix plugin
• Fixed issue with printing menu crashing immediately on launch (166629)
• Change to keyboard shortcut: Ctrl-M now minimizes windows
• Updated Pepper Flash version to 11.5.31.140
• HTML5 Content Decryption Module (CDM) with WebM support
• Improvements to network notifications shown (170011)
• Fix to device freeze when tab pressed at login (169956)
• Fix to allow Chrome Office Viewer to open files containing % or spaces in the name (168341)

Known Issues:

• 172749 -  For Samsung Series 5 Chromebooks, a sync error prompt doesn't pop up for account with custom passphrase

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

Danielle Drew
Google Chrome

The Beta channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.68 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains improvements in stability and performance. 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 26.0.1403.0 (Platform version: 3658.0.0) for all Chrome OS devices.

Chrome Beta for Android has been updated to 25.0.1364.64 on Google Play. This build will be rolling out over the next few hours. This update contains a number of fixes, including:

• Updated graphics architecture that greatly improves fast scrolling on large pages 
• 163439 - yahoo.com page links are not working 
• 166233 - Cannot submit comments on facebook posts or pictures 
• 169616 - Keyboard pops up after Chrome is closed 
• 170653 - Scroll position is reset momentarily when double-tapping in footer/gutter on some pages 

Known Issues:

• Lower resolution/blurry content takes time to sharpen during rapid scrolling on certain websites. 
• Graphical corruption and flicker on some sites, particularly on maps.google.com (reloading the page can mitigate this issue). 
• Text autosizing may break formatting on some sites. 
• 169918: Text selection and text input handles appear at incorrect positions 
• 158633: Overaggressive tap disambiguation popup 
• Increased number of sad tabs/tab crashes. 

A partial list of changes in this build is available in the SVN revision 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