14 DAY TRIAL // The Development branch of Google Chrome, a browser built on the Blink layout engine that aims to be minimalistic and versatile at the same time, is now at version 38.0.2125.0 and is available for all supported platforms.
Google Chrome usually features three distinct branches: Dev, Beta, and Stable. The development branch is where all the new features, changes, and other improvements are implemented. This is a rather big update and users didn't really expect to see so many changes so late in the cycle.
The developers have already pushed quite a few updates for the application, and the software should be getting closer to a switch to the Beta branch. Still, there are quite a few changes, so you might want to test this release first.
According to the developers, new files of omnibox.gypi have been added to components/omnibox/BUILD.gn, shared worker process related codes have been removed, a crash that occurred when interacting the editing popup has been fixed, the Blink engine has been updated, polymer has been updated to version 0.3.5, current_navigation_index has been set correctly for the sync session tabs, support has been added for reporting AudioNode, RenderObject, and Resource object leak, some incorrect comments for Safe Browsing have been fixed, and the access to the FontRenderParams cache has been synchronized.
Also, the profiles sign-in status is now registered to the UMA logs, an unused slider from the user manager tutorial has been removed, dragging the window-title down to switch between windows has been enabled, the VAAPI encoder flag has been turned into a kill switch, the suggestion UI for password management now has a longer timeout period, UMA has been added for the app info dialog, a memory leak in TimedMap has been fixed, an unused switch --enable-errdialogs has been removed, CL adds unit tests have been added for false start connections, a typo has been fixed in the Files.app CRX warning message, and the support for alphaEnabled (transparent windows) API has been enabled.
The Google Chrome developers only provide two kinds of binary files, deb and rpm, and no source. If you are not using a Linux distribution capable of reading this type of files, you will have to wait until it hits your repositories.
Usually, a complete list of changes can be found on the official website.
Download Google Chrome 38.0.2121.3 for Linux Download Google Chrome 38.0.2121.3 for Windows Download Google Chrome 38.0.2121.3 for Mac OS X
Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.