Chrome 135 is out with security updates and new features

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Google Chrome 135 Stable is now available for all supported platforms. The new version of Google's browser is a security and feature update.

Users on unmanaged devices should receive the update automatically. Desktop users may speed up the installation by selecting Menu > Help > About Google Chrome, or by loading the address chrome://settings/help directly in the address bar.

Chrome should pick up the update automatically when the page is opened. A restart is required to finish the update.

Chrome 135: security changes



Google says that it fixed 14 security issues in the desktop version of Chrome and the mobile Android version.  Nine of the security issues were reported by external researchers, and only those are revealed publicly by Google. The aggregate severity rating is high, which means that there are not any critical issues that were reported openly to Google.

Google does not mention exploits in the wild, which means that the company has not seen signs of malware actors exploiting one of the vulnerabilities already in attacks.

Chrome 135 includes a new privacy feature: HTST Tracking Prevention.

Websites and services may use HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) to declare themselves accessible only through security connections. It is declared by sites via the Strict-Transport-Security HTTP response header field and may also be declared through other means.

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