In November, Google said it removed support for SHA-1 certificates in Chrome 56, but will distinguish between certificates chained to a public Certificate Authority and those chained to local CAs. 98 was released to Google’s Stable channel, which means the software is fully tested by the Chrome OS team. Beta Chrome 57 was introduced in February and included new features CSS grid layout, improved add to home screen, Media Session API. 98 update for Windows, Mac and Linux includes a number of fixes and improvements and will roll out them over the coming days and weeks.

Topping the list of vulnerabilities patched are a memory corruption flaw in the V8 JavaScript engine, a use after free bug found in Google’s Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine, and an out-of-bounds write flaw found in the PDFium component of the Chrome browser. As part of the update, Google thanked nearly two dozen bug hunters with bug bounty payments totaling $38,000. Google released an updated version of its Chrome browser on Thursday to fix nine high-severity vulnerabilities that if exploited could allow adversaries to take control of targeted systems.

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