August 8, 2023 By Abner Li
To better address the security patch gap, Google announced today that Chrome is now adopting weekly Stable channel updates.
Google’s browser gets major “milestone” updates every four (previously six) weeks, like going from version 100 to 101. In the past, Chrome would get a “Stable Refresh” update to “address security and other high impact bugs” in-between milestones every two weeks.
This is now changing to occur weekly between milestones, starting with Google Chrome 116 on desktop and mobile, so that security updates get to end users much faster.
