for more detail. Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.

The Chrome team is happy to announce our latest Stable release, 8.0.552.215. In addition to the over 800 bug fixes and stability improvements, Chrome 8 now contains a built in PDF viewer that is secured in Chrome’s sandbox. As always, it also contains our latest security fixes, listed below. This release will also be posted to the Beta Channel.

Credit to Yang Dingning from NCNIPC, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans), based on earlier testcases from Mozilla and Microsoft (MSVR).

Make sure the “dangerous file types” list is uptodate with the Windows platforms.

We would like to offer special thanks -- and a number of rewards -- to Aki Helin of OUSPG for his extensive help with the new PDF feature. We’d also like to extend thanks to Sergey Glazunov and Marc Schoenefeld for finding bugs during the development cycle such that they never reached a stable build.

Full details about the changes are available in the

SVN revision log

. If you find new issues, please let us know by

filing a bug

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Jason Kersey

Google Chrome