Hello,
I recently compiled Chromium for Windows and went straight to version 142.0.7444.180. Instead of the public stable version from Google as listed here: https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/releases?platform=Windows.
What I don't understand is why everyone, always uses only the official stable patch and not newer ones in the same branch.
As I understand it, 142.0.7444.180, for example, has already fixed the security vulnerabilities of 142.0.7444.176 (High CVE-2025-13223, CVE-2025-13224).
Since both CVEs are fixed starting at 142.0.7444.175, all later builds on that same 142.0.7444 branch (including 142.0.7444.176 and 142.0.7444.180) inherit those patches unless they were explicitly reverted, and there is no indication of any revert in public advisories or the security notes.
That means it can only be beneficial for security to use newer patches, right?
I suspect that it may be more unstable, but when it comes to security-oriented browsers, I see it differently.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something and someone can explain it better?
Do I miss something when I jump several releases ahead? That would mean that the changes are not cumulative.