Chrome Security updates – shipping security fixes to you faster (weekly)

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https://security.googleblog.com/2023/08/an-update-on-chrome-security-updates.html

To get security fixes to you faster, starting now in Chrome 116, Chrome is shipping weekly Stable channel updates.

Chrome ships a new milestone release every four weeks. In between those major releases, we ship updates to address security and other high impact bugs. We currently schedule one of these Stable channel updates (or “Stable Refresh”) between each milestone. Starting in Chrome 116, Stable updates will be released every week between milestones.

This should not change how you use or update Chrome, nor is the frequency of milestone releases changing, but it does mean security fixes will get to you faster…

* What will Edge and other Chromium browsers do ?

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Alex5723 wrote:

https://security.googleblog.com/2023/08/an-update-on-chrome-security-updates.html

To get security fixes to you faster, starting now in Chrome 116, Chrome is shipping weekly Stable channel updates.

Chrome ships a new milestone release every four weeks. In between those major releases, we ship updates to address security and other high impact bugs. We currently schedule one of these Stable channel updates (or “Stable Refresh”) between each milestone. Starting in Chrome 116, Stable updates will be released every week between milestones.

This should not change how you use or update Chrome, nor is the frequency of milestone releases changing, but it does mean security fixes will get to you faster…

* What will Edge and other Chromium browsers do ?

Its likely the fixes will be incorporated into the Edge builds. Edge already releases updates 3 to 4 times per month so this shouldn’t be hard to add to the routine updates.

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Not sure if Edge is always behind in updates but it seems to have the lowest version numbers. These numbers are, as of Aug 13, 2023.

Google Chrome 115.0.5790.171

Chromium 115.0.5790.131
Chromium 116.0.5845.82

Microsoft Edge 115.0.1901.200

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If only the updates between monthly releases were hotfixes, instead of downloading the whole bloody thing every time there are new security holes plugged.
What of those on low end broadband? not everyone has a fat-pipe connection.._.._._

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