{"id":7811,"date":"2021-06-12T00:22:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T22:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2021\/06\/12\/the-chromebook-update-cycle-is-changing-massively-for-the-better\/"},"modified":"2021-06-12T22:01:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T20:01:30","slug":"the-chromebook-update-cycle-is-changing-massively-for-the-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2021\/06\/12\/the-chromebook-update-cycle-is-changing-massively-for-the-better\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chromebook Update Cycle Is Changing Massively, For The Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chromebook users who love new features are going to love the update cycle changes Google has planned for the Chrome OS platform. That\u2019s because, based on recent reports, the cycle is going to get a whole lot shorter sooner than later.<br \/>\nIn fact, as of Chrome OS 96, the cycle will be as short as every four weeks. For comparison, the current upcoming jump from Chrome 92 on July 27 to Chrome OS 93 on September 7 is much longer. A total of 42 days, based on the current six-week-average schedule. Whereas every four weeks puts the updates at every 28 days.<br \/>\nThe underlying goal, according to Google, is to evolve Chrome OS for the \u201cnext decade\u201d to help users get things done. And, more directly, to keep the OS helpful and secure.<br \/>\nEnterprise and Education are getting massive changes too<br \/>\nAs part of this fundamental shift in its approach to the Chrome browser, Google is also splitting off enterprise and education variants. Namely, by creating an entirely new channel for milestone updates.<br \/>\nPrior to this change, there were four channels for Chrome OS to operate on.\u00a0 Those are the user-ready Stable Channel, beta Dev and Beta Channels, and the experimental and unstable Canary Channel.<br \/>\nWith the new Channel for only the biggest milestone updates in place, the platform will be much more stable for enterprise and education users. Especially since those updates will only arrive every six months. Presumably, that\u2019s unless security or privacy issues warrant more frequent updates.<br \/>\nThis update cycle change for Chromebook will come later than for other platforms<br \/>\nOf course, Chrome OS is going to be late to the game for this change. Android, Linux, Mac, and Windows will see Chrome update cycles change as early as Chrome 94. And the Chromebook platform will even be skipping Chrome OS 95 as part of its regular update cycles. That\u2019s so that Google can catch the platform up after years of lagging behind on version updates by two weeks or longer.<br \/>\nAfter the update to the newest cycle, Chrome OS will remain on par with Chrome on other platforms.<br \/>\nThe post The Chromebook Update Cycle Is Changing Massively, For The Better appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/01-Acer-Chromebook-logos-DG-AH-2021.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chromebook users who love new features are going to love the update cycle changes Google has planned for the Chrome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7812,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7813,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811\/revisions\/7813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}