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Brave Browser
UPDATING INFO - Thursday, May 28, 2026
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Brave Release Notes - All Platforms
‘https://brave.com/latest/’
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Brave Browser for Desktop and Android – Information
The following link has good Stable Release info – Brave Browser for Desktop computers and Android devices – CHANGELOG information:
‘https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/blob/master/CHANGELOG_DESKTOP.md’
There, to see the list of stable releases (‘Assets’) for Linux / Mac / Windows computers and for Android devices, click on the [large font size] version number.
Another good source – list of Brave Browser VERSION NUMBERS for desktops and Android; this list includes versions for Brave Beta and Brave Nightly:
‘https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/tags’
There, click on the version number of interest.
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Brave Browser Beta Releases:
‘https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases?q=beta&expanded=true’
Brave Browser Nightly Releases:
‘https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases?q=nightly&expanded=true’
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Brave Browser Release Schedule scheme at GitHub:
‘https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Brave-Release-Schedule’
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Brave Browser Android – Information
The following link has good (but sometimes not up-to-date) - Brave Browser for Android – CHANGELOG information:
‘https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/blob/master/CHANGELOG_ANDROID.md’
To see the list of stable releases (‘Assets’) for Android devices, click on the [large font size] version number, and in the new window, look for installation packages with the APK suffix (‘Pick the APK file suitable for your device’s architecture’).
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Brave Browser iOS – Information
Brave site redirects to:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/brave-browser-search-engine/id1052879175
Brave Browser - iOS - Release Notes:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/blob/master/CHANGELOG_iOS.md
About the pace of Brave Browser (iOS) updates:
Google Chrome (iOS) and Microsoft Edge (iOS), are essentially just wrappers around WebKit on iOS. There is no “Chromium iOS”.
Brave uses WebKit on iOS due to Apple’s requirements and the fact that iOS apps must undergo a review process by Apple before they can be updated on the App Store ← that would be one reason shy Brave Browser (iOS) updates are not events keeping pace with non-iOS Brave Browser versions.
Brave Browser (iOS) does not directly benefit from Chromium’s security updates. Instead, Brave Browser (iOS) relies on WebKit’s security updates, which are handled by Apple. So, if there’s a major security vulnerability in Chromium’s Blink engine ← that does not impact the Brave iOS version directly, because the rendering engine is different.
Apple frequently releases security patches for WebKit through iOS updates, and Brave is still responsible for integrating any relevant changes that relate to privacy or performance.
Brave does implement additional privacy features on top of WebKit, like ad blocking, cookie blocking, and tracking protection. So, while the iOS build doesn’t benefit from Chromium’s security fixes, Brave adds its own security layers to maintain its privacy-first stance.
Some of the more recent release notes, show at the Apple App Store, along with the latest version of Brave Browser iOS:
NOTE: The following apple.com link will probably not work for an Internet browser aboard an Apple iOS device, because: Apple, again ignoring maintenance procedures, such as using a Mac for maintaining Windows OS machines, or using an iPad for maintaining other devices by means of a web browser but not via the App Store app.
‘https://apps.apple.com/us/app/brave-private-web-browser/id1052879175’
There, look for What’s New or Version History
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Chromium - Stable Channel Update - Security Fixes
Example issues: Critical CVE-2026-9872 (“Out of bounds write in GPU”), High CVE-2026-9896 (“Out of bounds write in V8”), Medium CVE-2026-10018 (“Integer overflow in ANGLE”)
Visit directly:
‘https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/search/label/Stable%20updates+Desktop%20Update’
Or visit:
‘https://chromium.woolyss.com/?stb=1#windows-64-bit’
There, look for the text: “Reference: Google Chrome” followed immediately by the Chrome version numbers – in the following example, you would Click on “98.0.4758.102”
That will take you to another web page. Scroll down that page.
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Direct Downloads for All Platforms:
‘Direct download of Brave Browser stable release version - #2 by 289wk’
Direct Downloads for Android:
‘Download installer from Brave only - #3 by 289wk’
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Earlier Brave Browser development used Muon framework in order to ‘leverage’ Chromium (GitHub):
‘https://github.com/brave/muon’
Current Brave Browser - Chromium Rebasing project (GitHub):
‘https://github.com/orgs/brave/projects/20’
Core engine (brave/brave-core repository) for the Brave browser for Android, Linux OS, Mac OS, Windows OS:
‘https://github.com/brave/brave-core’
‘Brave Core is a set of changes, APIs, and scripts used for customizing Chromium to make the Brave browser.’
Brave Components at GitHub:
‘https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Brave-Components’
Brave Browser (brave/brave-browser repository) at GitHub:
‘https://github.com/brave/brave-browser’
Overview
‘This repository holds the build tools needed to build the Brave desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux.’
Brave History, Papers, and Plans
The Road to Brave 1.0
Brave AMA (Ask Me Anything) Series
Brave Blog (and latest news)
Brave, Fingerprinting, and Privacy Budgets
Brave Release Schedule - (Chromium Release Schedule)
Brave Research Papers
Comparing the Network Behavior of Popular Browsers on First-Run
Ephemeral Third-party Site Storage
Fingerprinting Protections
First-Party Sets: Tearing Down Privacy Defenses Just as They’re Being Built
Improving Privacy By Improving Web Compatibility
New Features
Privacy Updates
Web Standards at Brave
Example: Privacy And Competition Concerns with Google’s Privacy Sandbox (Jan. 26, 2022)
About that: “Google resumes shoveling stuff into its ‘Privacy Sandbox’ (Mar. 29, 2022; The Register)”
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Brave Browser - GitHub - Deviations from Chromium (features we disable or remove)
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Chromium itself, is a web browser. From a description at chromium.woolyss.com:
https://chromium.woolyss.com/?stb=1#windows-64-bit
Chromium is a blend of different important open-source projects:
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