Google has recently announced a major change in the development cycle of its Chrome browser. The company shared that it will now release new versions of Chrome every two weeks, as opposed to the previous practice of releasing updates every four weeks. This new schedule is set to kick off on September 8, with the release of Chrome 153 under the old timeline.
The decision to shorten the development cycle comes with the aim of delivering new features, bug fixes, and optimizations to users and web application developers at a faster pace. Google believes that more frequent releases will not compromise quality, reduce the risk of update failures, and simplify the debugging process by introducing fewer changes in each release.
Notably, Extended Stable builds will continue to be generated once every 8 weeks for users who require more time to update. Meanwhile, stable releases and beta versions will start rolling out every two weeks, with development on the Dev and Canary branches maintaining the same pace of daily Canary builds and dev builds tested 1-2 times a week.