Google Chrome 49.0.2623.112 Stable
Nadia Grubb
The Stable channel has been updated to 120.0.6099.56 for Windows and Mac as part of our early stable release to a small percentage of users. A full list of changes in this build is available in the log.
As a Chrome administrator, you can choose when to roll out Chrome browser updates to your users by placing them on a release channel. Chrome browser provides 5 channels: Stable, Extended stable, Beta, Dev, and Canary.
Users on the Extended stable channel get feature updates less frequently, but still receive security fixes. If you manually update to new releases of Chrome and want a slower release cadence, you might prefer the Extended stable channel.
The release channels for chrome range from the most stable and tested (Stablechannel) to completely untested and likely least stable (Canary channel). Youcan run all channels alongside all others, as they do not share profiles withone another. This allows you to play with our latest code, while still keeping atested version of Chrome around.
Before you switch, you should make a backup of your profile (bookmarks, mostvisited pages, history, cookies, etc). If you ever want to switch back to a morestable channel, your updated profile data might not be compatible with the olderversion.Make a copy of the User Data\Default directory (for example, copy it to'Default Backup' in the same location). The location depends on your operatingsystem:
Important: If you use your Chromebook at work or school and you switch from Dev to Beta or Beta to Stable through a powerwash, your Chromebook won't update right away. Your software will update when your new, more stable software version matches the version that's already installed on your Chromebook. Your apps, data and settings won't be deleted.
In order to be able to install it, we need some standalone installer that is available in dl.google.com. The problem is that directories are forbidden and the exact URL of the file should be provided. To construct the full URL to the download file, we need to find the full version from here _chrome/stable/main/base/google-chrome-stable?id=202706&page=1 .If take Version: 85.0.4183.102-1, our standalone installer URL will be -> -chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable_85.0.4183.102-1_amd64.deb
Specific chrome browser versions are not possible using the official dl.google.com repository. Google removed old versions from the repository which leads to just have one available version (the stable), it can be also a APT issue.
This is sad because developers use specific browser drivers compatible with required chrome version. In my case the CI always fails once in a weak because google removes specific versions from the repository... really really sad T.T
Visit the site -chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable_xxx_amd64.deb replacing "xxx" section with the exact version number you've obtained in step 1. For example if we want Google Chrome version 109.0.5414.119-1 the url would look like this: -chrome-stable/google-chrome-stable_109.0.5414.119-1_amd64.deb
I'm pretty sure the main problem is the google-chrome-stable package lives in a third party repository which isn't inside my /etc/apt/sources.list file by default. Also, I think both apt and apt-get share the same config file. Is this right?
Chrome Browser also maintains every other milestone branch for four additional weeks by backporting important security fixes to create an extended stable channel, where a new milestone is shipped every eight weeks. During the first four weeks of this milestone, both stable and extended stable are shipped identical releases; see the channel lifecycle to learn more. The extended stable channel is only available to enterprises on the Windows and Mac platforms, and can be enabled via enterprise policies. Biweekly refreshes are shipped to extended stable.
While extended stable is only shipped to Windows and Mac, security fixes that are relevant to any Chrome Browser platforms will be landed on the extended stable branch for use by embedders. It's important to note that while the team will make an effort to backport all important security fixes to extended stable, complex and risky changes as well as larger features that improve security (e.g. Site Isolation) may not be viable to backport and will only be available on the stable channel; as such, using the stable channel and stable branches is recommended for any team where security is a primary concern.
Stable cut is the day that our stable release candidate build will be generated. This build is then shipped to beta to gather user feedback for one week. Any changes that land after stable cut may or may not be included in the stable release, and thus all stable blocking issues must be fixed by stable cut.
After four weeks in the beta channel, the new milestone is shipped to the stable channel for the first time. The rollout is staged over time so that any early issues that arise can be addressed before they reach all users. The new release generally reaches all users within one to two weeks unless major issues arise that cannot be addressed quickly.
The stable channel is refreshed every week, and the extended stable channels is refreshed every two weeks. These refreshes typically contain important security fixes as well as any urgent regression fixes that may be available at the discretion of the release team.
While a milestone branch is active, branch infrastructure (e.g. branch CQ) will be kept active, and important security fixes will be considered for backport. An endpoint which describes currently active branches and their respective channels is under consideration, and if built will be available ahead of launch of the new extended stable channel and the four week release cycle.
The release announcement was originally scheduled for September 3, 2008, and a comic by Scott McCloud was to be sent to journalists and bloggers explaining the features within the new browser.[29] Copies intended for Europe were shipped early and German blogger Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped made a scanned copy of the 38-page comic available on his website after receiving it on September 1, 2008.[30][31] Google subsequently made the comic available on Google Books,[32] and mentioned it on their official blog along with an explanation for the early release.[33] The product was named "Chrome" as an initial development project code name, because it is associated with fast cars and speed. Google kept the development project name as the final release name, as a "cheeky" or ironic moniker, as one of the main aims was to minimize the user interface chrome.[34][35]
The browser was first publicly released, officially as a beta version,[36] on September 2, 2008, for Windows XP and newer, and with support for 43 languages, and later as a "stable" public release on December 11, 2008. On that same day, a CNET news item drew attention to a passage in the Terms of Service statement for the initial beta release, which seemed to grant to Google a license to all content transferred via the Chrome browser.[37] This passage was inherited from the general Google terms of service.[38] Google responded to this criticism immediately by stating that the language used was borrowed from other products, and removed this passage from the Terms of Service.[15]
Chrome quickly gained about 1% usage share.[33][39][40] After the initial surge, usage share dropped until it hit a low of 0.69% in October 2008. It then started rising again and by December 2008, Chrome again passed the 1% threshold.[41] In early January 2009, CNET reported that Google planned to release versions of Chrome for OS X and Linux in the first half of the year.[42] The first official Chrome OS X and Linux developer previews were announced on June 4, 2009,[43] with a blog post saying they were missing many features and were intended for early feedback rather than general use.[44] In December 2009, Google released beta versions of Chrome for OS X and Linux.[45][46] Google Chrome 5.0, announced on May 25, 2010, was the first stable release to support all three platforms.[47]
In December 2022, it announced the transition would be paused "in order to address developer feedback and deliver better solutions to migration issues." In November 2023, Google announced it would resume the transition to Manifest V3; support for Manifest V2 extensions will be removed entirely from non-stable builds of Chrome beginning June 2024.[109][104]
The first production release on December 11, 2008 marked the end of the initial Beta test period and the beginning of production. Shortly thereafter, on January 8, 2009, Google announced an updated release system with three channels: Stable (corresponding to the traditional production), Beta, and Developer preview (also called the "Dev" channel). Where there were before only two channels: Beta and Developer, now there were three. Concurrently, all Developer channel users were moved to the Beta channel along with the promoted Developer release. Google explained that now the Developer channel builds would be less stable and polished than those from the initial Google Chrome's Beta period. Beta users could opt back to the Developer channel as desired.
Each channel has its own release cycle and stability level. The Stable channel updated roughly quarterly, with features and fixes that passed "thorough" testing in the Beta channel. Beta updated roughly monthly, with "stable and complete" features migrated from the Developer channel. The Developer channel updated once or twice per week and was where ideas and features were first publicly exposed "(and sometimes fail) and can be very unstable at times". [Quoted remarks from Google's policy announcements.][217][218][219]
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