After 105th major version which was launched now four weeks and one day ago, since launches are usually on Tuesday, Google launched yesterday Tuesday (in Spain) Chrome 106. In the releases page, the company only mentions as novelties those that are related to security, and in this sense 20 patches have been added. In the same page link to the corresponding «log», where they already give more details of the changes introduced.
The bad thing about these logs is that the information is not as easy to read as the list of new features that Mozilla usually publishes, so it doesn't hurt to take a look at the chrome status page. It is on this page where they provide the closest thing to a current news list, and where we see that in Chrome 106 there are few interesting changes for the end user.
Most outstanding novelties of Chrome 106.
- Support for CSS "ic" units.
- The persistent quota on offline storage has been abandoned.
- Support for non-ASCII characters in cookie domain attributes has also been deprecated.
- Forces CORS on the signed swap prerecord subresource. This changes the request mode and credential mode of prefetch requests used in prefetch+load subresources over the signed HTTP exchange.
- API Intl.NumberFormat v3, with these new features:
- Adds 3 new functions to format number ranges: formatRange / formatRangeToParts / selectRange.
- Grouping of Enum.
- New rounding/precision options.
- Rounding priority.
- Interpret strings as decimals.
- rounding modes.
- Negative display sign.
- Support for SerialPort BYOB (Bring Your Own Buffer) reader. This updates the underlying data source for the ReadableStream provided by a SerialPort to be a readable byte stream. This change is compatible with existing code that calls port.readable.getReader() with no parameters. Developers can detect support for BYOB readers by calling getReader({ mode: 'byob' }) as older implementations will throw a TypeError when the new parameter is passed.
- Remove the -webkit prefix from the hypehate-character CSS property. This is for web design, and designers will no longer need to add the -webkit prefix if they want the property to work in Chrome 106+.
Chrome 106 has been available for just under 24 hours, so can now be downloaded from the official website for all supported systems. From there Linux users have DEB and RPM packages, but it's also available at Flatub and AUR, the second for Arch Linux-based distributions.