14 DAY TRIAL // With Google Chrome 15 now available to everyone, Google is getting ready to push the other two versions of Chrome currently in development upstream, meaning Google Chrome 16 will get rid of the 'dev' label and become beta and Google Chrome 17 will surface in the dev channel.
Google is putting the finishing touches on both versions and both should be landing this week, next week at the most.
For now, Google will keep Google Chrome 15 in both the stable and the beta channels and the two versions will be in sync. Soon though, Google Chrome 16 should be graduating, the team just has a few more bugs to work out.
In the meantime, active development has already moved on with Chrome 17, which is available as a Chromium daily build or if you're using a Canary Build release.
Even though Google pushes major updates every six weeks, development never stops or slows down. New features, bug fixes and tweaks are added to the source code and binary builds of Chromium are created for each.
However, those updates are no longer pushed to the dev channel around the time a new version of Chrome is ready to roll out.
Keen users will notice that the latest updates to Google Chrome dev have only received an increment in the last figure in the version number, going from 16.0.912.0 to 16.0.912.4.
In Chrome 16 Google has continued to work on the redesigned new tab page, that has now been made available to all users via Chrome 15, but there are few notable changes.
The only really interesting things in the latest versions of Chrome are hidden away behind flags. Depending on what progress is made on those features, they may end up being built into Chrome 16, or Chrome 17, but there's no way of knowing for sure with these experimental features.
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