пятница, 9 января 2009 г.

Google Chrome Release Channels

Original: Google Chrome Release Channels

Release early, release often. We think that's the best way to develop software that delights people. With Google Chrome, we want to release fewer features more often instead of making you wait 12 months for the next Major Dot-Oh Release Jam-Packed With Features. We can get your feedback faster, fix things faster, and release new improvements as soon as they're ready. We want Google Chrome to stay nimble so it can keep pace with changes in the sites and web apps you use. 

Because we don't have those big Dot-Oh release milestones on the calendar, we don't have long periods of Beta testing new features. Instead we use automatic update channels to release Google Chrome to a community of early adopters. The channels are essentially a never-ending Beta test and a continuous feedback loop that lets us rapidly develop new i ures usually require some manual configuration to be enabled. Still, simply using Dev channel releases is an easy (practically zero-effort) way for anyone to help improve Google Chrome.
To get more actively involved with Google Chrome, subscribe to the Dev or Beta channel. Just run a little program (found here) and that's it. After that, you'll automatically get early access updates.

If you're ready to try some new stuff, we've just released a Dev channel update that has a new version of WebKit, a new network stack, and some features like form autocomplete (read about it here). It's less polished than what Dev channel users have been getting during Google Chrome's Beta, so we've moved all of our

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