Google heeft versie 29 van zijn webbrowser Chrome uitgebracht. Google Chrome is beschikbaar in drie verschillende uitvoeringen: stable, beta en dev, en ditmaal is de stabiele uitvoering bijgewerkt. In versie 29 zijn onder meer verbeteringen aangebracht in de omnibox, is het mogelijk om je profiel te resetten en zijn er natuurlijk weer de nodige stabiliteits- en prestatieverbeteringen aangebracht. Het volledige changelog van deze release is hieronder te vinden.
Stable Channel Release
The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 29 to the Stable channel for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. Chrome 29.0.1547.57 contains a number of fixes and improvements, including:Security Fixes and Rewards
- Improved Omnibox suggestions based on the recency of sites you have visited
- Ability to reset your profile back to its original state
- Many new apps and extensions APIs
- Lots of stability and performance improvements
Note: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. This commonly occurs if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.
This update includes 25 security fixes. Below, we highlight some fixes that were either contributed by external researchers or particularly interesting. Please see the Chromium security page for more information.In addition, our ongoing internal security work was as usual responsible for a wide range of fixes:
- [181617] High CVE-2013-2900: Incomplete path sanitization in file handling.
- [254159] Low CVE-2013-2905: Information leak via overly broad permissions on shared memory files.
- [257363] High CVE-2013-2901: Integer overflow in ANGLE.
- [260105] High CVE-2013-2902: Use after free in XSLT.
- [260156] High CVE-2013-2903: Use after free in media element.
- [260428] High CVE-2013-2904: Use after free in document parsing.
A partial list of changes is available in the SVN log. Interested in switching to a different release channel? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
- [274602] CVE-2013-2887: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives (Chrome 29).