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New Google Chrome 80.0.3987.87 released. See first post for more details.![]()
Howdy folks,
This is an update on our earlier decision to pause our branch and release schedule. As we adapt our future milestone schedules to the current change in schedule, we have decided to skip the M82 release to ensure we keep users safe and focus all efforts on maintaining stability.
Here are some of the immediate actions based on the above decision:
- We will abandon current M82 branches, remove infra support, and stop testing/merges to the branches
- We will not push any new M82 releases to Dev, and we will stop stabilization for Beta
- We will move Dev channel to M83 asap
- We will keep Beta channel on M81 until M83 is ready to be promoted
Once M81 is cleared to release to Stable, we expect to adjust our future milestone schedules, including possibility shifting M83 forward to target an earlier branch and Stable date.
With the above changes, we will continue to focus on keeping the trunk/master healthy. Please continue supporting and helping on tasks associated with that goal. There are no changes to the existing requests to land safe changes, and avoid risk.
We expect to provide another update next week around our anticipated next steps and timing around releasing M81, and branching for M83. Thanks again for your patience and support.
Jason
Source: Google Groups
We previously paused upcoming releases for Chrome and Chrome OS. Today we’re sharing an update as we’re now resuming releases with an adjusted schedule:
- M83 will be released three weeks earlier than previously planned and will include all M82 work as we cancelled the M82 release (all channels).
- Our Canary, Dev and Beta channels have or will resume this week, with M83 moving to Dev, and M81 continuing in Beta.
- Our Stable channel will resume release next week with security and critical fixes in M80, followed by the release of M81 the week of April 7, and M83 ~mid-May.
- We will share a future update on the timing of the M84 branch and releases.
We continue to closely monitor that Chrome and Chrome OS are stable, secure, and work reliably. We’ll keep everyone informed of any changes on our schedule on this blog and will share additional details on the schedule in the Chromium Developers group, as needed. You can also check our schedule page for specific dates for each milestone at any time.
Thanks everyone for the help and patience during this time.
Google Chrome
Source: Chrome Releases: Chrome and Chrome OS release updates