Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape
Chrome has officially switched from a four- to a two-week release schedule, as Google promised earlier this year, with Tuesday’s launch of Chrome 153 on desktop, iOS, and Android.
The shift to faster releases is tied to Chrome’s evolving security strategy in the AI era, the company explained. As automated AI tools and community bug reports have pushed up the volume of patches and updates, Google says that a shorter release cycle makes it easier to manage security fixes.
This is also critical because faster-moving threats, some of which can also be attributed to AI, can be better addressed by shrinking the window between landing a fix in the public codebase and getting that fix to end users, the company notes.
A shorter release schedule would help keep the “N-day” patch gap — the gap between when a security vulnerability is known and when it gets patched — as small...
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