Google Chrome is a

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developed by

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. The development process is split into different "release channels", each working on a build in a separate stage of development. Google Chrome provides four channels: Stable, Beta, Dev, and Canary. Chrome is generally updated every three to four weeks for major releases as well as stable builds for minor releases.

Versions

The following table summarizes the release history for the Google Chrome web browser.

Notes

* Release date is the date of the first release. All channels have subsequent updates which are not shown. For release, update history se
Google Chrome Releases
* Old development and beta builds are not shown after they become stable releases. * The first stable release in macOS and Linux was Google Chrome 5.0.375. The first stable release on Android was Chrome 18.0.1025123 (Chrome for Android). * Chrome 21 was the last supported version on Mac OS X 10.5. * As of Chrome 26, Linux installations of the browser may be updated only on systems that support GCC v4.6 and GTK v2.24 or later. Thus systems such as Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS, Debian 6's 2.20, and RHEL 6's 2.18 are now among those marked as deprecated. * Chrome 34 was the last supported version to run on older processors that lacked SSE2. * Chrome 42 was the last version supported on Android Ice Cream Sandwich * Chrome 49 released on 2016-03-02 was the last version supported on

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, 10.7, and 10.8. * As of Chrome 59, Linux Chrome defaults to GTK+3. Older versions of Linux, e.g. RHEL 6 or CentOS 6, with only GTK+2 support, are not able to run this version of Chrome. Red Hat's GTK+2 build of Firefox ESR is probably the last remaining regularly updated browser on RHEL 6/CentOS 6. * Standalone builds can be found on Google'
Chromium Browser Continuous build server
* Chrome 67 was the last version supported on OS X 10.9, however, Google's download page offers version 65. * Chrome 71 was the last version supported on Android Jelly Bean * Chrome 81 was the last version supported on

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. * Version 82 was skipped due to the

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. * Chrome 87 was the last version supported on OS X 10.10. * Chrome 88 was the last supported version to run on older processors that lacked

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. * Chrome 95 was the last version supported on Android Lollipop. * Chrome 103 was the last version supported on

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and

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. * Chrome 106 was the last version supported on

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. * Chrome 109 was the last version supported on

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and Windows 8.1.

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