Chrome Enterprise weekly – Sep 11, 2022

Chrome 105 is now fully rolled out to all platforms
- There are a few exceptions
  - HP Chromebook x360 11 G1, HP Chromebook 14 G5, HP Chromebook 11 G6 still on 103.0.5060.177
    - These are 2 Major versions behind which is a concern. I’m hoping they will move to M105 soon.
  - HP Elite Dragonfly, is still on 104.0.5112.36
  - Lenovo Chromebook Duet 5, Acer Chromebook 315, HP Chromebook 11a G6, HP Chromebook 14, Acer Chromebook 311, Acer Chromebook Spin 311, Lenovo 14e, Ideapad 3, NEC Chromebook are still on 104.0.5112.110
  - Asus Chromebook Flip CM3200 is still on 104.0.5112.105
LTC (Long term “Candidate”) has been updated to 102.0.5005.117 and includes some serious security fixed documented here.
- Detailed release notes of the features in this LTC build is documented here
M106 has some deprecation listed. Google reminded developers about them here, but you should also take a look at the entire change list documented here to prepare for the next version.
I’m curious how Storage Partitioning would work in the long term. This is now available behind a flag in M105.
ChromeOS set to gain built-in background blur and other video calling features – 9to5google
- Note that while Google Meet has already been doing this for a while, this feature will allow other Video conferencing apps on Chromebook to use this feature now.
Matt from ChromeReady has a good summary of improvements in M105 documented in this article.
Lenovo has announced a new 15inch Chromebook based on 11th Gen Intel chipset. What makes this stand out is that its sporting a 120hz screen – Chrome unboxed.
Lenovo also announced a Chromebox which I’m excited about. Chromeboxes are not very common, but they have a special place in the Enterprise community.

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