Google Chrome Moving To A Two-Week Release Cycle

Written by Michael Larabel in Google on 3 March 2026 at 03:52 PM EST. 32 Comments
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Google announced today that beginning later this year they are moving the Chrome web browser from its four week release cycle down to a two week release cadence.

Starting in September, Google will move to a two-week release cycle. Google is doing this on the basis that "the web platform is constantly advancing" and they want to move to shipping performance improvements, fixes, and new capabilities even quicker to developers and end users.

The hope is with these smaller two-week releases there will be less disruption and simplifying post-release debugging too.

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This two week cycle is planned to begin with the Google Chrome 153 browser release on 8 September. Details on this change can be found via the Google Chrome developer blog.
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