Google Chrome 153.0.8010.36 Stable Release Fixes 230 Security Issues

What's in this release

This stable channel update brings Chrome to version 153.0.8010.36 on Linux and 153.0.8010.36/.37 on Windows and Mac. Beyond the security work, Google notes the release contains a number of general fixes and improvements, with details available in the official change log. The Chrome and Chromium teams have also indicated that separate blog posts covering new features and larger engineering efforts in version 153 will follow, so some user-facing changes may not be fully documented yet at launch.

Security fixes and rewards

The headline item in this release is a large set of 230 security fixes, as confirmed on the Chrome Security Page. Following Google's standard practice, access to bug details and reward amounts for some of these fixes may remain restricted until a majority of users have updated, or until a shared third-party library dependency used by other projects has also been patched. This is routine policy intended to prevent active exploitation of known issues before fixes are broadly deployed, not an indication of unusual severity for any single bug.

How to update

Chrome updates automatically in the background on most systems and applies the new version the next time the browser restarts. You can confirm you're protected by checking chrome://settings/help, which will show the current version and prompt a manual check for updates if one hasn't already landed. Given the volume of security fixes in this release, it's worth restarting Chrome promptly rather than leaving many tabs open indefinitely, and administrators managing fleets of machines should verify their update channel is pulling the new build on the expected rollout schedule.