You might get Google Chrome updates a lot faster in future
Google is moving to a four week release cycle for updates beginning with Chrome 94
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Googlehas announced that it will soon be moving to a faster release cycle forChromeupdates as the company now plans to ship a new milestone every four weeks.
For more than a decade, the search giant has shipped a new milestone every six weeks in an effort to improve the security, stability, speed and simplicity of itsbrowser.
However, as Google has improved its testing and release processes for Chrome and began deploying bi-weeklysecurity updatesto improve its patch gap, the Chrome team realized that it could shorten its release cycle and deliver new features even more quickly.
As a result, Google will begin releasing a new milestone every four weeks beginning with the launch of Chrome 94 in the third quarter of this year.
Extended Stable
While consumers will benefit from a faster release schedule, Google’s enterprise customers will likely find it more difficult to update all of their Chrome installations as often.
For this reason, the search giant plans to add a newExtended Stableoption with milestone updates every eight weeks. Security updates on Extended Sable will be released every two weeks to fix important issues but these updates won’t contain any new features or all of the security fixes that the four week option will receive.
When it comes toChrome OS, Google plans to support multiple stable release options as well and the company will be sharing additional details with Chrome OS administrators in the coming months.
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