14 DAY TRIAL // The first Chrome 37 builds are rolling out to avid testers of the browser on all supported platforms featuring fixes that appear to target 64-bit computers in particular, among other things. Chrome 37 arrives shortly after the 35 branch moved to Stable and the 36 series advanced to Beta stage.
Alex Mineer, a relatively new face in the Google Chrome team, makes the news official on the Chrome Releases blog: “The Dev Channel has been updated to 37.0.2008.2 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. A full list of changes is available in the SVN log,” writes Mineer.
Testers visiting the changelog learn that this first build of Chrome 37 “fixes a compile error on Win64 due to C++ warning 4275 occurring because an exported class ViewManagerConnection is deriving from a non exported interface IViewManager.”
Those who go through these release notes on a regular basis are better suited to understand them, this being one of the reasons why development snapshots are reserved for tinkerers, not regular users.
The 37 branch further changes RTCP event mapping to accept both k{A,V}XXX and kXXX event type encodings from the receiver, while old encodings get mapped to the unified types on sender side, according to the documentation accompanying the update.
Chrome 37 also changes receiver reference implementation to always send new unified event types and adds a param in RTCP to indicate whether receiver events from incoming ssrc are audio or video events.
As noted above, development releases are unstable and should only be used for testing and development purposes. For customers looking to try out the latest new features, Google Chrome 36.0.1985.18 Beta is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
The release contains stability and developer improvements, including a new Chrome app launcher for Linux, a number of new apps/extension APIs, and plenty of changes for stability and performance made under the hood.
Finally, regular users who depend on Chrome to carry out their day-to-day work are advised to download and use Google Chrome 35.0.1916.114, the newest and most secure Stable version of the browser, again available for all supported platforms.
Chrome 35 arrived a few days ago with more developer control over touch input, new JavaScript features, and unprefixed Shadow DOM, as well as new apps/extension APIs and the usual performance tweaks. As always, Google credited and even rewarded the people who discovered and reported the most serious security issues.
Download Google Chrome 37.0.2008.2 for Mac OS X