14 DAY TRIAL // Google announced on Tuesday the promotion of the Chrome 65 web browser to the stable channel for all supported operating systems, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows.
Google Chrome 65.0.3325.146 is now the latest stable version of the Chromium-based web browser, and it introduces two new APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for web developers, namely CSS Paint API and ServerTiming API, which Google announced during the beta stages of development.
Of course, this new stable Chrome release also brings various other improvements to several of web browser's components, including the Blink engine, as well as numerous security fixes. According to Google. a total of 45 security vulnerabilities have been addressed in the Chrome 65 release.
"The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 65 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks. Chrome 65.0.3325.146 contains a number of fixes and improvements," said Krishna Govind. "This update includes 45 security fixes."
Google Chrome 65 now rolling out to Linux, Mac, and Windows users
Among the security fixes included in the Google Chrome 65 release, we can mention two use after free vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player, a user after free vulnerability in the Blink engine, a race condition, an integer overflow and a type confusion in the V8 engine, as well as a heap buffer overflow and a buffer overflow in Skia.
It also addresses object lifecycle issues in Chrome Custom Tab, a couple of incorrect permissions on shared memory, a stack buffer overflow in Skia, a CSP bypass through extensions, an integer overflow in PDFium, a heap buffer overflow in WebGL, a Mark-of-the-Web bypass, and wrong handling of URL fragment identifiers in the Blink engine.
Overly permissive cross-origin downloads were fixed as well in Chrome 65, which also addresses a timing attack when using SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) filters, a URL Spoof in OmniBox, an information disclosure via texture data in WebGL and IPC call, incorrect processing of AppManifests, and an XSS in interstitials.
More details about these security fixes are available in the release announcement posted by Google. Meanwhile, we recommend that you go ahead and download Chrome 65 for GNU/Linux, macOS or Windows right now through our website and install it as soon as possible on your personal computer.
Update: Google also announced the release of the Chrome 65 web browser for Android devices with built-in ad blocker and severl other improvements.