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Stable Updated to 23.0.1271.94 for Chrome OS

According to the very recent report from Google Chrome Releases, Chrome team has updated Stable channel to 23.0.1271.94 for all Chrome OS Devices. This update contains new features, bug fixes and security improvements. According to the report Chromebooks will be receiving updates over the next several days. So what are you waiting for? Let's check it out!

Release Highlights:

Updated default apps
Window Manager Enhancements
UI improvements for notifications through the new message area
UI improvements to the out of box experience
UI improvements to the sign-in screen
Device reset from start screen and settings (click here for more details)
Enable key apps offline by default
Cloud-based wallpaper management

Security fixes and rewards:

[$3500] [145525] Medium CVE-2012-5129: heap buffer overflow in GPU process with WebGL. Credit to miaubiz.

For more details on this update, you may check the Chromium security page. "This should be noted that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix" - blog says. I hope you will find yourself calm and happy by getting this update. After all we are Chromigos! ;)

Posted by - Tanmay Patange, Editor, Chromigos.com

Beta channel has been updated to 24.0.1312.27

Another rapid update is coming from Google Chrome Releases. We recently posted an update regrading latest stable channel version 23 for Google Chrome browser, and now we have a news about Beta channel development. The Beta channel has been updated to 24.0.1312.27 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains following updates:

Fixed random Chinese/Japanese characters that are missing in documents printed via the system print dialog on Windows XP SP3. [Issue: 128506]
Fixed memory leak in GPU accelerated canvas. [Issue: 160411]
Fixed console.log which doesn’t output jQuery objects properly. [Issue: 162570]
Fixed stability issues like 161854, 154483, 154462, 153376.

Full details about the changes made in this build by Chrome team are available in the SVN revision log. We're expecting some more cool updates in the next stable release with version 24 from Chrome team. Stay tuned with us!

Original update by - Dharani Govindan, Google Chrome
Update posted here by - Tanmay Patange, Editor, Chromigos.com

Source: [ Google Chrome Releases ]

Stable channel has been updated to 23.0.1271.95

According to the recent update the Stable channel of a Google Chrome browser has been updated to 23.0.1271.95 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and ChromeFrame platforms.

We witnessed several security fixes and rewards as mentioned below. You can get your eyes on the Chromium security page for more detail about this update. "Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix," - blog post says.

[161564] High CVE-2012-5138: Incorrect file path handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Jüri Aedla).
[$7331] [162835] High CVE-2012-5137: Use-after-free in media source handling. Credit to Pinkie Pie.

Chrome team and experts also congratulated Pinkie Pie for completing a challenge named 64-bit exploit. There's no more details are available about this challenge.

Full details about the changes made in this build by Chrome team are available on the SVN revision log. Are you interested in hopping on the stable channel? Just follow Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let them know by filing a bug on a site.

Original update by - Karen Grunberg, Google Chrome.

Update posted here by - Tanmay Patange, Editor, Chromigos.com

Source: [ Google Chrome Releases ]

Dev updated to 25.0.1324.1 for Chrome OS

The Dev channel has been updated to 25.0.1324.1 (Platform versions 3196.4.0) for Samsung Chromebooks. This build contains a number of stability fixes mentioned below:

Release highlights:

Firmware updated to 2965.114

If you find new issues, please let them know by visiting their help site or filing a bug. If you're interested in switching channels, then simply follow 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).

Update has been posted by - Danielle Drew, Google Chrome

Source: [ Google Chrome Releases ]

Chrome for iOS has been updated to Chrome 23

Using an iPhone or iPad? Then you have nothing to worry about your internet browsing experience when there’s a delightful avenue waiting for you. Obviously Google Chrome! Few months back in June, Google announced Chrome for iOS at Google I/O 2012. This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad.

Chrome for iPhone and iPad has been updated to Chrome 23 / 23.0.1271.91. This build brings in a number of new features and fixes to user-reported issues including following changes:

What's New in Version 23.0.1271.91?

Ability to open PDFs in other apps
Support for saving your boarding passes and tickets with Passbook
An option to automatically detect text encoding
Stability and security improvements

Chrome for iOS is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. It requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is also optimized for the latest iPhone 5. Get Chrome for iOS app from iTunes Store.

Update has been posted by - Tanmay Patange, Editor, Chromigos.com

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Beta channel has been updated to 24.0.1312.25

The Beta channel has been updated to 24.0.1312.25 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains following updates:

[Windows 8]: Fixed delete all pinned-to-taskbar shortcuts owned by the uninstalled Chrome. [Issue: 158632]
[Windows 8]: Fixed pin / unpin status if the user cancels an action or pins / unpins from start screen. [Issue: 144332]
Fixed garbled header and footer text in print preview. [Issue: 152893]
Fixed extension action badges with long text. [Issue: 160069]
Disable find if constrained window is shown. [Issue: 156969]
Enable fullscreen for apps windows. [Issue: 161246]
Fixed broken profile with system-wide installation and UserDataDir & DiskCacheDir policy. [Issue: 161336]
Fixed stability crashes like 158747, 159437, 149139, 160914, 160401.

Full details about the changes made in this build by Chrome team are available on their SVN revision log. If you are interested in switching release channels, then just follow Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let them know know by filing a bug. Also stay tuned with Chromigos and don't miss any single update.

Update has been posted by - Dharani Govindan, Google Chrome

Source [ Google Chrome Releases ]

Beta Updated to 23.0.1271.94 for Chrome OS

The Beta channel has been updated to 23.0.1271.94 (Platform version 2913.224.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of stability fixes.

Release highlights:

Pepper Flash updated to release 11.3.31.519 ARM
Network stability changes

If you find new issues, please let them know by visiting their Chrome build developers help site or filing a bug. If you are interested in switching channels, then just follow Find out how. You can even submit your feedback feedback using ‘Report an issue...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).

Update has been posted by - Josafat Garcia and Ben Henry, Google Chrome

Source: [ Google Chrome Releases ]

Stable channel has been updated to 23.0.1271.91

This update has been posted originally on Google Chrome releases. The Stable channel has been updated to 23.0.1271.91 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and ChromeFrame platforms.

This version fixes several issues including:

No audio from Flash content when speaker configuration is set to Quadraphonic (Issue: 159924)
Aw, Snap renderer crash on Windows Server 2003 (Issue: 160559)

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.

Occasionally, we issue special rewards for bugs outside of Chrome, particularly where the bug is very severe and/or we are able to partially work around the issue:

[$1000] [152746] High CVE-2012-5131: Corrupt rendering in the Apple OSX driver for Intel GPUs. Credit to Justin Drake.

And back to your regular scheduled rewards:

[$1000] [156567] High CVE-2012-5133: Use-after-free in SVG filters. Credit to miaubiz.

[$500] [148638] Medium CVE-2012-5130: Out-of-bounds read in Skia. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.

[155711] Low CVE-2012-5132: Browser crash with chunked encoding. Credit to Attila Szász.

[158249] High CVE-2012-5134: Buffer underflow in libxml. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Jüri Aedla).

[159165] Medium CVE-2012-5135: Use-after-free with printing. Credit to Fermin Serna of Google Security Team.

[159829] Medium CVE-2012-5136: Bad cast in input element handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).

Many of the above bugs were detected using AddressSanitizer. Full details about what changes are in this release are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in hopping on the stable channel? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Karen Grunberg

Google Chrome

Dev updated to 25.0.1324.1 for Chrome OS

Update has been posted originally from Google Chrome Releases. The Dev channel has been updated to 25.0.1324.1 (Platform versions 3196.3.0) for Samsung Chromebooks. This build contains a number of stability fixes.

Release highlights:

Fix for an issue which caused users to occasionally be unable to login until the system was rebooted.
Pepper Flash updated to releases 11.5.31.105 for new Samsung Chromebooks and 11.5.31.109 for all other platforms
App List now supports re-ordering
Extended Desktop Support (extend your desktop / mirror displays)Intelligent Window positioning (if you don't manually move your windows, we will arrange them to show you more at all times)

Known issues:

Audio on some systems may be distorted when playing a single audio stream for a long period of time, or when playing audio on multiple tabs. (Issue 35464)
"Allow proxies for shared networks" is enabled by default. (Issue 157420)
New Samsung Chromebook systems may be unable to connect via ethernet in some situations. Workaround: Restart the system with the ethernet connected to the Chromebook. (Issue 36328)
On the Settings tab when modifying your avatar image, or when creating a new user, the camera LED may remain illuminated for several seconds after leaving the page.

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

Update Courtesy [ Google Chrome Releases ]

Cloud Computing - The Future of Technology

From past few days, indeed months, the cloud computing technology is hovering rapidly over our head since we got introduced with some recent upgrades in the modern everyday technology. In the simple words, cloud computing defines the working and integration of your everyday computing tasks and servers. Founding such systems is not a new deal, as Internet based virtual drives or simply servers are there in the story since last two decades.

However, the cloud will evolve to take up a greater fraction on the duties, till then the only things to be existed at your side will be an input and output devices. Such devices are the most important part of the story to complete your computing tasks. Whatever they should be. A laptop or just a tiny phone. Its just good if they are enough capable of doing such cloud computing tasks.

We are quite familiar with OnLive. They’re offering a cloud gaming platform and a cloud desktop solution. Without any doubt, they’re synchronized, rendered, and stored on remote servers and delivered via the Internet. It is an on demand cloud gaming server, where your network speed is the only limit at your side. So the more bandwidth you have, the more flawless experience you will achieve. With sophisticated stream compression techniques at work, OnLive plans to invade all your devices with games and other computationally intensive applications like 3D modeling and animation.

Final piece in the cloud puzzle is to be discussed here is Homomorphic Encryption. That is the only reason why major corporations are not willing to adopt the cloud due to its lack of security. Although data can be encrypted while sending to the cloud server. It cannot directly process the data which is there in the encrypted form, and thus it must have to get decrypted before processing. That’s why most of the companies are not very comfortable with Homomorphic Encryption.

So, what we need is an an encryption standard which would allow the server to manipulate the data in its encrypted form. When the resultant is decrypted on client side, it gives the required result. This Homomorphic Encryption would finally lead to mass adoption of cloud tech.

Image Courtesy [ thetechnofreak.com ]

Article written by Varun Kaushik, Senior Writer, Chromigos.com