Google Announces Bold New Changes To Chrome OS Release Cycle

In a blog post this morning, Google announced plans to increase its update cadence for Chromebooks. Like Chrome, its operating system will now also follow a four-week Stable channel before moving to the next major milestone release. Android Police reports: Google will deliver fresh features more rapidly to Chromebooks starting with Chrome OS 96 -- all while keeping it stable, secure, and speedy. To adapt to the rigorous update release schedule, Google will skip Chrome OS 95, which will help it bridge the gap between M94 and Chrome's new four-week rollout strategy. Enterprise and education folks can opt enroll in an Extended Stable option for Chromebooks, which will update every 6 months. In light of the new rollout strategy, Google updated its documentation and pushed an update to its release calendar. The company will share plans about the choices Chrome OS administrators will have for milestone updates "in the coming months."

hmmmm

[bloodhawk]

great.... but "- all while keeping it stable, secure, and speedy" that is Marketing Bullshit, at least one of those items will suffer.

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[ChunderDownunder]

Middle management.

Gotta coat all that nonsense with buzzwords such as 'agile' and 'sprint' while they pretend to do work. Programmers spent more time in pointless meetings rather than writing actual code to address real bugs on the public tracker.

And they wonder why useless features such as obscuring the proper URL in the address bar ever get considered, or over in Firefox land they get a needless cosmetic tab and menu bar makeover. Ah but we did implement *something* this month, FFS.

Re:hmmmm

[iggymanz]

but Microsoft is showing leadership with real improvement to windows: rounded corners in the UI. I never thought I'd see such a technological achievement in my lifetime. What's next, popup boxes with error text I can actually cut and paste a segment of to look up before 2040? I can't wait!

Re: hmmmm

[zlives]

How did you find out about the windose 11 feature pack?!!

Who is their biggest market?

[waspleg]

I work K-12. Their updates already constantly break state mandated testing software and other things regularly. This is basically the opposite of what we want.

Let's hope that enough people opt for 6 months

[williamyf]

So that google gets the message about how asinine this 4week release schedule for browser and OS is...

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just what I want - NOT

[cjonslashdot]

So sick of apps changing all the time. You go to use it, and it has changed again. App providers need to realize that our lives donâ(TM)t revolve around them, and people donâ(TM)t want to spend their time re-figuring out how to use something every four weeks.

sure

[GoTeam]

lol, "Bold"!