Chrome Enterprise and Education release notes

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ChromeOS 137 release summary

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ChromeOS updates

• Face Control policy on ChromeOS 

  With ChromeOS 137, we introduce a new policy, FaceGazeEnabled, to allow admins to have more control over access to Face Control on an organizational level. 

  For more details, see Use facial gestures & head movements to control your Chromebook with Face control.

• Crosstalk cancellation 

  Crosstalk cancellation provides an immersive audio experience when using the internal speaker. Users can feel the audio surrounding their head instead of coming from the geometric position of the internal speaker. Any playable audio content benefits from this feature, especially when playing games or watching videos with spatialized audio. Users can feel all around direction as if wearing a headset.

• ChromeVox keyboard shortcut to caption audio with braille devices 

  ChromeVox now enables a command that displays spoken text as braille captions on connected (USB or Bluetooth) braille displays. 

  The ChromeVox command is Search + O + C and stands for Search Open Captions. 

  The braille command is space + dots 1-4-7. For more details, see Use a braille device with your Chromebook - Google Accessibility Help. 

• Event-based log collection 

  For event-based log collection, when an event occurs—for example, an OS crash or update failure—you'll see a notification on the device details page. You can also view device events in the device details page, to see when events occurred and to get detailed information. Google uploads any logs relevant to the specific event type, which makes troubleshooting more efficient.

  To enable this feature:

  • Turn on the Device system log upload setting.
  • Turn on OS update status reporting—For the Report device OS information setting, select OS update status.
  • Turn on device telemetry reporting on crash information—For the Report device telemetry setting, select Crash information.

  These uploads can happen at most two times per day on one device.

  

Upcoming ChromeOS changes

• Chrome apps changes 

  Starting with ChromeOS 138,  planned for stable release on July 22nd, admin-installed Chrome apps in kiosk sessions will be disabled by default. A new policy, KioskChromeAppsForceAllowed, will be available prior to the release of ChromeOS 138 for administrators to re-enable Chrome apps in kiosk sessions. With this policy turned on, Chrome apps in kiosk sessions will be supported through ChromeOS 150.

  Additionally, as a reminder, as early as ChromeOS 139, planned for stable release on August 19th, user-installed Chrome apps will stop working. 

  For more details, see End of support for Chrome apps.

• Upcoming Native Client (NaCl) deprecation 

  ChromeOS 138 will be the final release to support Native Client (NaCl) in managed environments with the NaCl allow policy enabled. For devices on the Long-term Support (LTS) channel with this policy active, NaCl support will continue until the LTS Last Refresh in April 2026.