Six out of ten people in the world use the Google Chromeaccording to statcounter🇧🇷 Therefore, caution must be exercised when releasing updates to everyone, precisely to prevent any failure from preventing the browser from functioning properly. To reduce this risk, the Google will release the final build of the new versions to a small group of users before releasing them to the stable channel.
The new cycle, known as “early stable”, came from a statement on the Chrome blog for developers published on Wednesday (21).
According to the company, the change will allow only a select group of people to have access to the stable version before everyone else. Thus, Google will have an extra week to assess whether there will be problems with the update.
“By releasing the stable version to a small percentage of users early, we have a chance to monitor the release before it rolls out to all of our users,” explained🇧🇷
“If any issues are discovered, they can be resolved while the impact is relatively small.”
All this selection will happen randomly. Therefore, you will have the chance to receive the stable versions before everyone else. But if that’s not your case, just wait another week.
Google, on the other hand, did not say how many people will be selected to participate in the pre-launch.
But judging by the browser successthe “small percentage” can mean many.
Change will start in Google Chrome 110
The cycle will be inaugurated soon. According to the statement, the new scheme will already be used in Chrome 110, scheduled for February 2023.
Check out the release schedule:
- Beta: January 12, 2023;
- Early Stable: February 1, 2023;
- Stable: February 7, 2023.
All of this means that a small portion of users will have access to Google Chrome 110 on February 1st.
If all goes well, Google will release the update to everyone a week later.
Remember that the Beta and Canary channels are still available to everyone.
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