Overview
- Chrome 153 is rolling out to desktop, Android and iOS as the first Stable release on the new two-week cadence and Chrome 154 is available in Beta with a planned Stable release soon.
- Google says the faster schedule will shrink the “N-day” patch gap by shortening the time between a fix landing in the public codebase and that fix reaching users.
- The company links the change to a rise in automated AI testing and community bug reports that are surfacing more issues and increasing the volume of required patches.
- For teams that cannot update every two weeks, Google offers an Extended Stable channel that delivers major feature updates every eight weeks while backporting security fixes weekly.
- Chrome’s shift is already prompting other browsers to speed their schedules, and the move could change how quickly web standards and AI-driven features evolve across the wider web.