This "Extended Stable" release will upgrade every eight weeks - thus skipping every other build - but will be serviced by security updates on a two-week tempo. It's unclear, for instance, what voice, if any, Microsoft (and other makers) had in the release acceleration.Īlso per Google's plans, Microsoft will offer a less-frequently updated edition of Edge aimed at commercial customers. The only alternative would have been to delay Edge releases, obviously unacceptable.Īlthough Chromium's work is used by numerous browsers - Brave and Opera, for example, as well as Edge - Google calls most of the shots not only did Google start Chromium, but its engineers continue to dominate its work. company had little choice but to go along with the change to release timing. The likely release date for Edge 94, then, will be September 23, and that of Edge 95, October 21.īecause Microsoft has hitched Edge to Chromium's wagon - the open-source project is responsible for building and maintaining the core technologies for Chrome, and since January 2020, Edge - the Redmond, Wash. Because Google issues updates on Tuesdays, that means Microsoft does on Thursdays. Microsoft has gotten into the habit of releasing the same-numbered Edge two days after the comparable Chrome upgrade. "This change in release cycles is expected to start with Edge 94," Microsoft said, while pointing to a fleshed-out release calendar. The change won't happen overnight, but instead will take place in the fall, when the span between versions 94 and 95 will fall to four weeks.Ĭhrome 94 is set to release Sept. The week prior, Google had declared that it would speed up the release tempo of Chrome to match that of Mozilla's Firefox by reducing the current six-to-eight-week schedule to just four weeks.
"As contributors to the Chromium project, we look forward to the new 4-week major release cycle cadence that Google announced, to help deliver that innovation to our customers even faster," the Edge team wrote in an unsigned March 12 post to a company blog. Microsoft, as expected, has synchronised the release schedule of its Edge browser with Chrome's, which Google had earlier announced would accelerate to an every-four-week cadence.
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