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Latest chromium security updates when?

Open MathiasT22a opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

When will thorium get latest version of Chromium security updates like ungoogled chromium does it updates when Chromium get security updates and thorium is like 2 major security updates behind Why?

MathiasT22a avatar Sep 03 '24 07:09 MathiasT22a

Buy a 7950x3d, read the guide on how to compile and do it yourself, prob faster than waiting tbh

g-k-m avatar Sep 04 '24 09:09 g-k-m

@g-k-m @MathiasT22a Not as simple as that. Updating to a newer Chromium is what most of the work time takes up. I have to manually rebase each file in the //src directory, by merging my changes with whatever changes have been made upstream since the last rebase.

It's alot of work, and since Chrome/Chromium started going from 6 week major version update schedules, to 4 week, it has been even harder. If you want the latest Chromium the day it is released, I suggest using another Chromium fork that has the infrastructure to do so. However, I always use the latest "minor revision" of whatever I rebase to, which often contains backported security patches from newer versions, so Thorium isn't as insecure as people might think (although it is still less than if I was able to immediately update it as soon as a new major Chromium version comes out).
For example, the latest M126 version contains security patches that have been backported from M127, so It is essentially at the security level of M127, which is only one major version behind.

Alex313031 avatar Sep 17 '24 05:09 Alex313031