Brave updates are too frequent

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I realize that one can skip a Brave update, however, is it really necessary to issue updates so frequently. They seem to come more than once a week. Unless there is an urgent security patch surely once a month is enough for feature updates.

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This is more or less an industry standard for software companies. Frequent updates have several benefits:

  • The codeis always in a shippable state and the software is always getting better.
  • Releases are lower stress for everyone because they’re not an exception – they are a regular occurrence with a known process.
  • It’s easier for product managers to hold back features that aren’t quite baked because the next release isn’t far away.
  • The work load for developers is more sustainable (there aren’t spans of time with constant late nights).
  • The team can get timely feedback on new ideas and iterate more rapidly.
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Those are all good points. However, four to six week update cycles are common. For example:

Firefox: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar
Chrome: https://www.howtogeek.com/412066/how-often-is-google-chrome-updated/
and Safari is updated much less frequently.

Maybe it’s just an observation effect but it feels as though Brave updates more frequently.

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Major release cycle for stable release is ~3 weeks. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Brave-Release-Schedule

But maybe minor release make it feels like it’s updated too frequent.

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I have “Nightly” channels installed for various browsers on a number of machines … try that sometime : )

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It gets to be obnoxious when I have to update the browser every other day. Every two days it’s another blasted update. It never stops.

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@JEG the browser does not update every two days. That’s just objectively not true. Typically we update once every week unless there is a serious bug or issue in one of the updates, then a “hotfix” may be pushed out to get that issue resolved as quickly as possible.

The Nightly build will have updates (as it’s name implies) once every 24h but that’s to be expected so I assume you’re referring to the stable build. If that’s the case, then it’s once a week for Brave stable.

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