It’s a new version of Chrome, and there are at least 42 good reasons to install it, namely the 42 security issues Chrome 51.0.2704.63 addresses.
The release announcement doesn’t mention any new features, so although the full change log is another massive, browser-killing abomination, I’m going to leave parsing it as an exercise for readers.
50.0.2661.102 is the latest version of Chrome, and it includes fixes for five security issues, as well as about thirty other minor changes. See the full change log for details.
A total of thirty-one changes are listed in the log for Chrome 50.0.2661.94. Nine of the changes address security vulnerabilities.
If you use Chrome, make sure it’s up to date. Click the hamburger menu icon at the top right, then choose Help > About. If Chrome isn’t already the latest version, this should trigger an update.
The change log for Chrome 50.0.2661.87 lists just over forty differences from the previous version. None of them seem particularly interesting, and none are related to security. So this is not an urgent update.
According to the full change log, 8748 changes were made to Chrome for version 50.0.2661.75. At least twenty of those changes are related to security, so this is an important update.
With this many changes, it seems reasonable to expect that one or two of them might be worth pointing out, but the release notes only say that there are a number of fixes and improvements, and to “Watch out for upcoming Chrome and Chromium blog posts about new features and big efforts delivered in 50.”
Rather than spend several days reading the details of all 8748 changes, I’ll wait for further announcements from Google. If I discover anything interesting, I’ll add it here.
Version 49.0.2623.112 of Google’s web browser is now available. For most users, the browser will update itself automatically.
The new version doesn’t seem to include any security fixes, but it does address a few other, minor bugs. Additional details are available in the full change log.
At what point does an update qualify as pointless? The full change log for Chrome 49.0.2623.110 contains six items, two of which involve merely changing the version number. Another publishes a small change in dependencies. One is literally about compatibility with Windows NT4. There’s nothing here that justifies all the data movement associated with mass-updating a popular piece of software like Chrome.
But hey, I guess I shouldn’t complain. I’d rather be at the “too many updates” end of that particular spectrum.
What you really need to know about the new Chrome version is that none of the issues addressed relate to security.
Earlier this week, Google announced another new version of Chrome.
Version 49.0.2623.108 addresses five security issues, so if you use Chrome, you should make sure it’s up to date. Click the browser’s ‘hamburger’ menu at the top right, then select Help > About Google Chrome. If you’re not running the latest version, Chrome will start the update process automatically.
The full log lists about sixty changes in the new version, but nothing particularly interesting.
Fixes for three serious security vulnerabilities make Chrome 49.0.2623.87 an important update. Check your version to make sure it’s up to date, by navigating to chrome://help/. Chrome will offer to update itself if you’re running an older version.
The full change log provides additional details.
There are fixes for at least twenty-six security issues in the latest version of Chrome, 49.0.2623.75.
The release announcement lists the most important security fixes, while making it clear that the full details may not be made available until the majority of users have had a chance to update.
The full change log for Chrome 49 seems to go on forever. I tried to find the end of it, but gave up after a few pages. At least it doesn’t try to load in one page, since that would probably crash most browsers. Presumably if Google had made any really interesting changes in Chrome 49, they would have been mentioned in the announcement.
boot13