Hello Brave Community,
TL;DR
To address an error we encountered when merging Chromium 115 into master, we’ve updated all of our channels to new version numbers:
- Release Channel will go from 1.53.x to 1.56.x
- Beta Channel will go from 1.54.x to 1.57.x
- Nightly Channel will go from 1.55.x to 1.58.x
Why is Brave making this change?
When we merged Chromium 115 into master, we merged with an incorrect minor version number (55 instead of 54). A few of our automated builds then ran before we discovered and corrected this issue. Unfortunately, this caused an issue on Android and Windows, as some users downloaded the affected Nightly and Beta versions, which now had a higher version number than expected. This prevented those users from downloading new updates, as the version check would detect that they already had a “newer” version of Brave installed.
The affected versions are 1.54.72 to 1.54.77.
In order to work around this problem, Brave will change all channels to new version numbers. This will allow all platforms to detect and install the correct version. Note that although the version numbers will change (i.e. increase by three), you should not see any changes in the browser itself, nor should this change have any other effect other than allowing you to update properly. The new version numbers for each build are as follows:
- Release Channel will go from 1.53.x to 1.56.x
- Beta Channel will go from 1.54.x to 1.57.x
- Nightly Channel will go from 1.55.x to 1.58.x
Thank you for being a loyal Brave user.
Sincerely,
The Brave product team