Tag Archives: Desktop Update

Chrome Beta for Desktop Update

The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 119 to the Beta channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 119.0.6045.9 contains our usual under-the-hood performance and stability tweaks, but there are also some cool new features to explore - please head to the Chromium blog to learn more!

A partial list of changes is available in the Git log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. 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.

Prudhvi Bommana
Google Chrome

Chrome Beta for Desktop Update

The Beta channel has been updated to 118.0.5993.54 for Windows, Mac and Linux.

A partial list of changes is available in the Git log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. 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.

Daniel Yip
Google Chrome

Chrome Beta for Desktop Update

The Beta channel has been updated to 118.0.5993.54 for Windows, Mac and Linux.

A partial list of changes is available in the Git log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. 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.

Daniel Yip
Google Chrome

Early Stable Update for Desktop

The Stable channel has been updated to 118.0.5993.54 for Windows and Mac 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.


Daniel Yip

Google Chrome

Early Stable Update for Desktop

The Stable channel has been updated to 118.0.5993.54 for Windows and Mac 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.


Daniel Yip

Google Chrome

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

 The Stable channel has been updated to 117.0.5938.149 for Mac and Linux and 117.0.5938.149/.150 for Windows, 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 1 security fix. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chrome Security Page for more information.


[$8000][1485829] High CVE-2023-5346: Type Confusion in V8. Reported by Amit Kumar on 2023-09-22


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.


Many of our security bugs are detected using AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer, Control Flow Integrity, libFuzzer, or AFL.


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.


Prudhvikumar Bommana
Google Chrome

Chrome Dev for Desktop Update

The Dev channel has been updated to 119.0.6034.6 for Windows, Mac and Linux.

A partial list of changes is available in the Git log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. 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.

Prudhvi Bommana
Google Chrome

Extended Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The Extended Stable channel has been updated to 116.0.5845.228 for Windows and Mac which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.

A full list of changes in this build is available in the log. 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.


Daniel Yip
Google Chrome

Chrome Beta for Desktop Update

The Beta channel has been updated to 118.0.5993.32 for Windows, Mac and Linux.

A partial list of changes is available in the Git log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. 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.

Daniel Yip
Google Chrome

Stable Channel Update for Desktop



The Stable channel has been updated to 117.0.5938.132 for Windows, Mac and 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 10 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chrome Security Page for more information.


[$NA][1486441] High CVE-2023-5217: Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx. Reported by Clément Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group on 2023-09-25

[$TBD][1478889] High CVE-2023-5186: Use after free in Passwords. Reported by [pwn2car] on 2023-09-05

[$2000][1475798] High CVE-2023-5187: Use after free in Extensions. Reported by Thomas Orlita on 2023-08-25

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.


Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2023-5217 exists in the wild.


As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:
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.


[1486724] Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives

Many of our security bugs are detected using AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer, Control Flow Integrity, libFuzzer, or AFL.


Srinivas Sista

Google Chrome