Google heeft versie 32 van zijn webbrowser Chrome uitgebracht. Google Chrome is beschikbaar in drie verschillende uitvoeringen: stable, beta en dev, en ditmaal is de stabiele uitvoering bijgewerkt. Nieuw in versie 32 is onder meer dat er in het tabblad aangegeven wordt wanneer er van geluid, video en casting gebruik gemaakt wordt, worden bestanden die malware bevatten automatisch geblokkeerd en is het uiterlijk in de Metro-interface aangepast. Daarnaast zijn er verbeteringen met betrekking tot stabiliteit en prestaties aangebracht en wordt de nieuwste versie van Adobe's Flash Player meegeleverd. Het volledige changelog van deze release is hieronder te vinden.
Stable Channel Update
The Chrome Team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 32 to the Stable channel. 32.0.1700.76 for Windows and Chrome Frame and 32.0.1700.77 for Mac and Linux. This release contains a number of fixes and improvements, including:You can read more about these changes at the Chrome blog.
- Tab indicators for sound, webcam and casting
- A different look for Win8 Metro mode
- Automatically blocking malware files
- A number of new apps/extension APIs
- Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance
Flash Player has been updated to 12.0.0.41, which is included w/ this release.This update includes 11 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were either contributed by external researchers or particularly interesting. Please see the Chromium security page for more information.
Security Fixes and Rewards
[249502] High CVE-2013-6646: Use-after-free in web workers.
[326854] High CVE-2013-6641: Use-after-free related to forms.of OUSPG.
[324969] High CVE-2013-6642: Address bar spoofing in Chrome for Android.
[321940] High CVE-2013-6643: Unprompted sync with an attacker’s Google account.
[318791] Medium CVE-2013-6645 Use-after-free related to speech input elements.
As usual, our ongoing internal security work responsible for a wide range of fixes:Many of the above bugs were detected using AddressSanitizer.
- [333036] CVE-2013-6644: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.
Known issuesA partial list of changes is available in the SVN log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
- Keyboard input is not working correctly in Windows 8 metro mode. This may impact IMEs, RTL layouts. (164964)
- Trackpad users may not be able to scroll horizontally. (332797)
- Drag and drop files into Chrome may not work properly. (332579)
- Closing Tab by pressing the ‘x’ button may not work. (332334)
- On some machines the browser UI can flicker when resizing the window. (305432)
- Opening another profile using the profile icon switcher in Win8 mode results in the new window being opened on the Desktop instead of in Win8 mode. (325919)
- Chrome conflicts with Norton Software including Identity Safe Toolbar. (327110)
- Windows 8 mode is not yet supported on HiDPI devices and Windows 8 mode is not supported on machines without hardware acceleration (160457 and 332503).
- Using Nvidia's Stereoscopic 3D feature turns Chrome pink. Users should disable this feature in Nvidia's control panel to restore normal functionality(319115).