| Sorin Jianu | 2fe5026 | 2020-02-20 18:39:16 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | An updater for desktop client software using Chromium code and tools. |
| Sorin Jianu | e7176ad | 2019-03-27 21:51:45 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | |
| Joshua Pawlicki | 33c1f746 | 2022-04-01 16:11:55 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | * The code lives in //chrome/updater. |
| 4 | * The documentation lives in //docs/updater. |
| Sorin Jianu | 7f08e772 | 2022-11-08 22:18:55 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | * Deprecated Design Doc: https://bit.ly/chromium-updater |
| Jagadesh P | fcc819a | 2023-12-19 17:31:11 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | * Please join [chrome-updates-dev@chromium.org](https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chrome-updates-dev) or |
| Sorin Jianu | 2edc242 | 2020-12-04 20:07:52 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | https://chromium.slack.com#updater for topics related to the project. |
| Sorin Jianu | 2fe5026 | 2020-02-20 18:39:16 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | |
| Joshua Pawlicki | 33c1f746 | 2022-04-01 16:11:55 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | The mission of the updater is to keep Chrome (and other software) up to date. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | The updater is built from a common, platform neutral code base, as part of |
| 12 | the Chrome build. The updater is a drop-in replacement for Google |
| 13 | Update/Omaha/Keystone and can be customized by 3rd party embedders to |
| 14 | update non-Google client software, such as Edge. |
| Sorin Jianu | 2fe5026 | 2020-02-20 18:39:16 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | |
| 16 | The desktop platforms include Windows, macOS, Linux. |
