That is a total of twelve weeks of support for the Stable channel. The most recent four-week Stable build along with the two previous Stable updates will receive support from Microsoft. The four-week or eight-week release cycles mean a change in the overall support cycle for Microsoft Edge for Business. Support Cycle for Microsoft Edge for Enterprise Updates If no policy is established for Microsoft Edge updates, then it will default to the four-week Stable channel. Opting into the Extended Stable release channel for Microsoft Edge for Enterprise is controlled via group policy or in Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM), if that is used for endpoint management in the organization. Managing the Microsoft Edge for Enterprise Update Channel However, in between those even-numbered releases, any security patches and other fixes will be shipped in real time.
According to Microsoft, those releases every eight weeks will be the even numbered versions of Microsoft Edge for Enterprise.įeatures that are added in the odd-numbered version updates will be made available in the Extended Stable channel with the next even numbered update. The new Microsoft Edge Stable channel release schedule will go into effect with Version 94 of Microsoft Edge for Enterprise in the Stable channel. Here is how Microsoft Edge for Enterprise builds will get released based on either a four-week or eight-week release cadence: Microsoft Edge Stable and Extended Stable Release Cycles This new release option makes Stable channel updates available every eight weeks. Microsoft then announced the addition of an Extended Stable channel for those organizations that prefer a lengthier browser update cycle. That sequence of releases remained the norm until March, when the cadence shifted to four week intervals to match a new major release cycle announced by Google for the Chromium Project. When Microsoft Edge for Enterprise was made available as a stable release back in January 2020, it also adopted the six-week update cycle used by the Beta channel. Any organizations that participate in pre-release testing for Microsoft Edge in the Canary (daily updates), Developer (weekly updates), and Beta (six-week update cycle) channels will not see any differences in release cadence for those development channels.
This change only impacts organizations that peg their browser updates to the Stable channel of the chromium-based browser.
Microsoft has made changes to their Microsoft Edge for Enterprise stable channel browser which will allow organizations to select the release cycle that best suits the organization’s tolerance for upgrade frequency and time between new versions.
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