Google has released its Chrome 107 browser. At the same time, a stable release of the free Chromium project became available.

The Extended Stable branch will be supported for eight weeks.

Major changes in Chrome 107 include:

Support for the ECH (Encrypted Client Hello) mechanism to develop ESNI (Encrypted Server Name Indication) and encryption of TLS session parameter information such as the requested domain name;

inclusion of support for hardware acceleration of H.265 video decoding (HEVC);

trimming information in the HTTP User-Agent header and the navigator.userAgent, navigator.appVersion, and navigator.platform JavaScript parameters on Windows.