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Alex313031 / Thorium-Win

Chromium fork for Windows named after radioactive element No. 90; Windows builds of https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium
https://thorium.rocks/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Latest chromium security updates when? #267

Open MathiasT22a opened 2 months ago

MathiasT22a commented 2 months ago

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?

g-k-m commented 2 months ago

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

Alex313031 commented 2 months ago

@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.