Author Archives: Prudhvikumar Bommana

Beta Channel Update for Desktop

The Beta channel has been updated to 97.0.4692.45 for Windows, Mac and Linux.

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 issues, 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 BommanaGoogle Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Desktop

The Dev channel has been updated to 98.0.4736.0 for Linux, Windows and Mac coming soon

A partial list of changes is available in the 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.


Prudhvikumar Bommana

Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update for Desktop

 The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 97 to the Beta channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 97.0.4692.20 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 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 issues, 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 BommanaGoogle Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Desktop

The Dev channel has been updated to 97.0.4692.20 for Windows, Mac and Linux

A partial list of changes is available in the 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.



Prudhvikumar Bommana

Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Desktop

The Dev channel has been updated to 97.0.4692.8 for Windows, Mac and Linux

A partial list of changes is available in the 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.



Prudhvikumar Bommana

Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Desktop

The Dev channel has been updated to 97.0.4688.2 for Mac and Linux, Windows coming soon.

A partial list of changes is available in the 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.



Prudhvikumar Bommana

Google Chrome

Extended Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The Extended Stable channel has been updated to 94.0.4606.113 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.


Prudhvikumar Bommana
Google Chrome

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The Stable channel has been updated to 95.0.4638.69 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. 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.


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 8 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chrome Security Page for more information.


[$10000][1259864] High CVE-2021-37997 : Use after free in Sign-In. Reported by Wei Yuan of MoyunSec VLab on 2021-10-14

[$7500][1259587] High CVE-2021-37998 : Use after free in Garbage Collection. Reported by Cassidy Kim of Amber Security Lab, OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp. Ltd. on 2021-10-13

[$1000][1251541] High CVE-2021-37999 : Insufficient data validation in New Tab Page. Reported by Ashish Arun Dhone on 2021-09-21

[$N/A][1249962] High CVE-2021-38000 : Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Intents. Reported by Clement Lecigne, Neel Mehta, and Maddie Stone of Google Threat Analysis Group on 2021-09-15

[$N/A][1260577] High CVE-2021-38001 : Type Confusion in V8. Reported by Kunlun Lab via Tianfu Cup on 2021-10-16

[$N/A][1260940] High CVE-2021-38002 : Use after free in Web Transport. Reported by @__R0ng of 360 Alpha Lab, 漏洞研究院青训队 via Tianfu Cup on 2021-10-16

[$TBD][1263462] High CVE-2021-38003 : Inappropriate implementation in V8. Reported by Clément Lecigne from Google TAG and Samuel Groß from Google Project Zero on 2021-10-26

Google is aware that exploits for CVE-2021-38000 and CVE-2021-38003 exist in the wild. 

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.


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

[1264537] Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives


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

Beta Channel Update for Desktop

 The Beta channel has been updated to 96.0.4664.27 for Windows, Mac and Linux.



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 issues, 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

Dev Channel Update for Desktop

The Dev channel has been updated to 97.0.4681.0 for Mac, Windows and Linux coming soon.

A partial list of changes is available in the 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.



Prudhvikumar Bommana

Google Chrome