[Feature]: Google Chrome 'Early' Stable Release

[AScott-WWF]

What is your feature request?

Currently Google have 5 release channels, (Chrome browser release channels) - Stable, Extended stable, Beta, Dev and Canary - Evergreen offers all of these.

Last December Google published the following Blog Change in release schedule from Chrome 110 this details their plan to do an 'Early Stable Release' - approx 6 days before the Stable Release was published - it infers this will fundamentally be the same product.

The challenge as we have found today (Friday 6th October) is a new Early Stable Release has been published (v
118.0.5993.54), this is the first time I am aware of this happening since the Blog linked above was published, We have discovered this is published in the Stable Release Channel.
We are hesitant to deploy this to all devices
If you see the RSS Feed from Google (I've attached a screen grab below), they do appear to differentiate between 'Early Stable Release' (Early Stable Update for Desktop in screen grab) and 'Stable Release' (Stable Channel Update for Desktop in screen grab):

So this feature request is sort of a change to how Evergreen works to allow us as admins to grab the appropriate version to allow us to manage who we deploy the Early Stable release to and who remains on the current Stable release.
I am aware what I'm asking may not be possible without Google specifically creating a new 6th channel e.g. 'Early Stable Channel', but... Can Evergreen be modified to somehow differentiate between a Stable Release and an Early Stable Release?

Thanks in Advance.

Have you tested against the current version?

• Yes, I've updated Evergreen and tested against the current version.

Have you reviewed the documentation?

• Documentation at: https://stealthpuppy.com/evergreen/

[aaronparker]

Evergreen is using the channels feed provided by Google. I don't think that Google publishes an early stable as a channel:

(irm -uri "https://versionhistory.googleapis.com/v1/chrome/platforms/win64/channels").channels | fl

name        : chrome/platforms/win64/channels/extended
channelType : EXTENDED

name        : chrome/platforms/win64/channels/stable
channelType : STABLE

name        : chrome/platforms/win64/channels/beta
channelType : BETA

name        : chrome/platforms/win64/channels/dev
channelType : DEV

name        : chrome/platforms/win64/channels/canary
channelType : CANARY

name        : chrome/platforms/win64/channels/canary_asan
channelType : CANARY_ASAN

[aaronparker]

For reference, here's what Evergreen currently returns:

$ Get-EvergreenApp GoogleChrome | ft

Version        Architecture Channel  Type URI
-------        ------------ -------  ---- ---
118.0.5993.54  x64          beta     msi  https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/beta/googlechromebetastandaloneenterprise64.msi
118.0.5993.54  x86          beta     msi  https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/beta/googlechromebetastandaloneenterprise.msi
120.0.6050.0   x86          canary   exe  https://dl.google.com/update2/installers/ChromeSetup.exe
119.0.6034.6   x64          dev      msi  https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/dev/googlechromedevstandaloneenterprise64.msi
119.0.6034.6   x86          dev      msi  https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/dev/googlechromedevstandaloneenterprise.msi
116.0.5845.228 x64          extended msi  https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/googlechromestandaloneenterprise64.msi
116.0.5845.228 x86          extended msi  https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/googlechromestandaloneenterprise.msi
118.0.5993.54  x64          stable   msi  https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/googlechromestandaloneenterprise64.msi
118.0.5993.54  x64          stable   zip  https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/GoogleChromeEnterpriseBundle64.zip
118.0.5993.54  x86          stable   msi  https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/googlechromestandaloneenterprise.msi

[AScott-WWF]

Yes apologies Evergreen does currently offer all 5 Channels (So I've updated my original text above)
N.B. I had mine filtered on Architecture = "x64" and Type = "msi" - I hadn't twigged that Canary is only offered as x86 and in exe format.
And yes your finding mirrors what I have discovered, Google doesn't publish early stable in it's own channel... I am not sure whether what I'm asking is easy or actually possible.

[aaronparker]

Unfortunately there's no release date in the update feed - that would be ideal. There may be a secondary feed that could be use to find the dates.