Google has promoted Chrome 153 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac, and Linux, with the rollout to proceed over the coming days and weeks. The update brings the browser to version 153.0.8010.36 on Linux and 153.0.8010.36/.37 on Windows and Mac, according to the Chrome Releases announcement.
The release carries 230 security fixes. Five of those hold a critical rating: four sit in WebGL and one in Cast. Google says access to bug details may be restricted until most users have updated, and restrictions may remain if the flaw exists in a third-party library that other projects depend on.
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The update also addresses dozens of high-severity flaws, including use-after-free bugs in ANGLE, V8, and Views, a double-free flaw in PDFium, plus a type confusion bug in V8 and an authorization error in Network. Several medium-severity issues are patched too, covering problems in Autofill, Extensions, and V8. Google listed bounty payments for some of the reports credited to outside researchers, in individual amounts such as $500, $2,500 and $5,000.
This stable release follows an early stable build of Chrome 153 that Google pushed to a small percentage of Windows users earlier this month, with Mac support to follow. That early release was version 153.0.8010.27/.28. The current update supersedes Chrome 152, which Google updated for desktop earlier this month.
Google notes that a list of changes is available in the log, and it promises upcoming blog posts about new features and major efforts delivered in Chrome 153.
