Thanks for the feedback! The old Settings page didn't return anything for "version" either, but this seems like something worth special-casing.

Also noting that "Update" could be a good one to special-case.

9460.34.0 (Official Build) beta-channel veyron_minnie
Firmware
Google_Veyron_Minnie.6588.237.0

Searched for change channel, build, version
Searched for change to stable/dev channel, version, build
Searched for channel, version, build, about chrome os, update

Result: No search results found

UX

First you have to know to go look under the 3 hamburger settings.

The About Chrome OS under settings is not even in blue, like users are used to.

Then you have to click on "detailed build information". 

As a long time Chrome OS user, this is absolutely not user friendly, especially when a search produces no results whatsoever.

As I mentioned in #2, searching for those things did not work on the old settings page either. We are looking into special casing these queries, as well as having the sidenav expanded by default.

In the mean time, you can get to this information by:
1) Going through the sidenav (which is where version info lives in most apps)
2) Using the Chrome menu: Help > About Chrome OS
3) By going directly to chrome://help

tbuck, I get it but it's a big change all of a sudden and users are going to have trouble just like me ;)

Sidenav expanded by default would help a lot.

#CBC-RS/TC-watchlist

728355 - MD Settings - ChromeOS version and Details on one screen - chromium - Monorail
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=728355

711130 - Can't grab quickly grab Chrome/ChromeOS/ARC Version for bugs - chromium - Monorail
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=711130

(Bulk Edit) Adding the new conops Chrome OS hotlist to all open issues with the "#CBC-RS/TC-watchlist" tag, our former tracking tag.