Google Scaling Back Support For The CR-48?

Interesting development with today’s Chrome OS dev update: for the first time in the history of the Chrome OS project, Google’s own CR-48 reference device is not receiving the latest version of their experimental operating system. From the release announcement:

The Dev channel has been updated to 19.0.1055.3 (Platform version: 1861.3.0) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, and Samsung Series 5).

Highlights:

Introducing new full-screen video and audio player New file formats supported: rar, tar, tar.gz, and tar.bz2 Combined settings pages (still under development) Known issues:

Issue 25642: Selecting “Open Date and time options” from Time drop-down does not open the Date/Time settings page Issue 26778: Deleting a certificate causes chrome to crash Issue 27094 in chromium-os: Cannot connect to 802.1x network using EAP_TLS Issue 26823: wpa_supplicant crashes Addressing the concerns of the community on the “Chromebook Central” Google Group, community manager Melissa Daniels had the following to say about this rather high-profile omission...

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