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Google plans to accelerate Chrome s release schedule to match rival Firefox s every-four-week cadence.
The Mountain View, Calif. company will also offer a new release channel, dubbed Extended Stable, that will be refreshed every eight weeks, aimed at enterprises weary of frequent deployments. As we have improved our testing and release processes for Chrome and deployed bi-weekly security updates to improve our patch gap, it became clear that we could shorten our release cycle and deliver new features more quickly, Alex Mineer, technical program manager, Chrome operations, wrote in a March 4 post to the Chromium blog.
Goggle s reasoning for the new tempo was identical to Mozilla s rationale for speeding up Firefox in September 2019. Then, two Mozilla officials cited the same more-stuff-faster grounds. We re adjusting our cadence to increase our agility, and bring you new features more quickly, said Ritu Kothari and Yan Or, the Firefox release management team leader and senior
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Google to speed up Chrome s release cycle to four weeks ANI | Updated: Mar 06, 2021 15:14 IST
Washington [US], March 6 (ANI): Google is working on speeding up the release cycle of Chrome updates to four weeks from the current six-week period in order to improve the security, speed, and stability of the browser application.
As per The Verge, starting with Chrome 94 in Q3, 2021, Google will release milestones of its browser every four weeks, instead of every six weeks. This is the first time Google has sped up its Chrome release schedule for more than a decade. As we have improved our testing and release processes for Chrome, and deployed bi-weekly security updates to improve our patch gap, it became clear that we could shorten our release cycle and deliver new features more quickly, explained Alex Mineer, a technical program manager at Chrome.
Google will release milestones of its browser every four weeks, instead of every six weeks. This is the first time Google has speed up its Chrome release schedule for more than a decade. The decision is in the direction to improve the security, speed, and stability of the browser application.