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Driving Developer Excellence: Inside the Program Sprints

The Gemini Enterprise Developer Experience (DevEx) program conducts ongoing sprint testing of end-to-end developer workflows to identify and rapidly resolve friction points without relying on internal shortcuts. This recent sprint focused on optimizing enterprise AI governance, including refining setup prerequisites, securing extension configurations, and clarifying policy enforcement mechanics to ensure a smoother, more reliable deployment. Developers can now leverage updated documentation and standardized code samples to improve their experience with Agent Gateway and Semantic Governance configurations.

Chrome for Android Update

  Hello Everyone! We've just released Chrome 153 (153.0.8010.27) for Android to a small percentage of users. It'll become available on Google Play over the next few days. You can find more details about early Stable releases here.

This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Harry Souders
Google Chrome

Introducing comprehensive audit logs for Gemini Notebook in the Workspace Admin console

Google Workspace administrators can now access comprehensive audit logs for Gemini Notebook in the Admin console, providing greater insights into how the application is used across their organizations. This update introduces full visibility into Gemini Notebook actions, allowing administrators to review usage and audit data access in the security investigation tool and audit and investigation tool.



Gemini Notebook log events in the ‘Audit and Investigation’ tool in the Admin console.

Additional details

Administrators can track a wide range of user actions across multiple categories, including notebook visibility, user identity, IP address, and resource context. These audit logs can be exported and reviewed using BigQuery or accessed directly within the Admin console using the security investigation tool. These monitoring capabilities help administrators meet regulatory compliance requirements, understand collaboration patterns, and protect company data within their digital environments.

Note: While audit log storage itself follows standard Workspace regional routing policies, Gemini Notebook user data—such as notebooks, sources, and chat histories—is stored globally and does not currently support data regionalization.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Availability

  • Available to all Google Workspace customers that have access to the security investigation tool and audit and investigation tool

Resources

  • Google Workspace Admin Help: Gemini Notebook log events

Early Stable Update for Desktop

The Stable channel has been updated to 153.0.8010.27/.28 for Windows. Mac is coming shortly , as part of our early stable release to a small percentage of users. A full list of changes in this build is available in the log.

You can find more details about early Stable releases here.

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.


Srinivas Sista

Google Chrome

Chrome for Android Update

  Hi, everyone! We've just released Chrome 152 (152.0.7977.82) for Android. It'll become available on Google Play over the next few days. 

This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.


Android releases contain the same security fixes as their corresponding Desktop releases (Windows & Mac: 152.0.7977.82/83 Linux: 152.0.7977.82) unless otherwise noted.

Krishna Govind

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The Stable channel has been updated to 152.0.7977.82/.83 for Windows and Mac and 152.0.7977.82 for Linux, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the Log 


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 12 security fixes. Please see the Chrome Security Page for more information.


[$1,000][542403045] High CVE-2026-85046: Type confusion in V8. Reported by Salvatore Gulizia (nickname: Serotav) on 2026-08-04

[N/A][502304489] High CVE-2026-85052: Out of bounds read in CrashReporting. Reported by Google on 2026-04-13
[N/A][533502257] High CVE-2026-85043: Incomplete cleanup in Network. Reported by Google on 2026-07-10
[TBD][540357382] High CVE-2026-85048: Use after free in Compositing. Reported by Ngoc Hieu on 2026-07-29
[TBD][547819997] High CVE-2026-85045: Race condition in V8. Reported by Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, XBOW on 2026-08-17
[N/A][549350408] High CVE-2026-85050: Out of bounds write in WebGL. Reported by Google on 2026-08-20
[TBD][552689418] High CVE-2026-85053: Improper resource exposure in CacheStorage. Reported by Salvatore Gulizia (Serotav) on 2026-08-26
[N/A][553119925] High CVE-2026-85042: Use after free in DevTools. Reported by Google on 2026-08-26
[N/A][553345874] High CVE-2026-85049: Use after free in Skia. Reported by Google on 2026-08-27
[N/A][553449113] High CVE-2026-85051: Type confusion in Compositing. Reported by Google on 2026-08-27
[N/A][513790581] Medium CVE-2026-85047: Improper input validation in Transactions Platform. Reported by Google on 2026-05-16
[N/A][517482830] Medium CVE-2026-85044: Use of released resource in Mobile. Reported by Google on 2026-05-28

Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2026-85046 exists in the wild.

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.


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.

Srinivas Sista
Google Chrome