Chromium version is older than Chrome

[peterzay]

I installed Chromium and Chrome on the same day within a few hours of each other.

Chromium is Version 48.0.2564.116 Ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit)

Chrome is Version 49.0.2623.75 (64-bit)

Please update as appropriate.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: chromium-browser 48.0.2564.116-0ubuntu1.1229
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-10.25-generic 4.4.3
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
DRM.card0.DP.1:
 edid-base64:
 dpms: Off
 modes:
 enabled: disabled
 status: disconnected
DRM.card0.HDMI.A.1:
 edid-base64:
 dpms: Off
 modes:
 enabled: disabled
 status: disconnected
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
 edid-base64: AP///////wAQrJBAVVJIQxEXAQMONR547g71pVVQniYQUFSlSwBxT4GAqcDRwAEBAQEBAQEBAjqAGHE4LUBYLEUAEyshAAAeAAAA/wBYUEcwSDM0UENIUlUKAAAA/ABERUxMIEUyNDE0SAogAAAA/QA4TB5TEQAKICAgICAgAMg=
 dpms: On
 modes: 1920x1080 1600x900 1280x1024 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 1024x768 800x600 800x600 640x480 640x480 720x400
 enabled: enabled
 status: connected
Date: Sun Mar 6 20:34:46 2016
Desktop-Session:
 'ubuntu'
 '/etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/usr/share/upstart/xdg:/etc/xdg'
 '/usr/share/ubuntu:/usr/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/'
DetectedPlugins:

EcryptfsInUse: Yes
Env:
 'None'
 'None'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-03 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160303)
Load-Avg-1min: 1.18
Load-Processes-Running-Percent: 0.2%
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 660
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-10-generic root=UUID=636759e8-fd72-4397-95be-edc11b77e332 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 10/14/2013
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A11
dmi.board.name: 084J0R
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA11:bd10/14/2013:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron660:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn084J0R:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 660
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b''/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b''/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b''/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b''/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled = b''/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager = b''/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b''
modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted]

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu better.

Since the time of reporting, Chromium has been upgraded to 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.1254 (on Ubuntu 16.04), which is in sync with Google Chrome. I therefore believe this issue can be marked fixed.

Note that there might be a slight delay between the time a new version is released upstream and when it become available as an update in Ubuntu, presumably due to packaging, building, testing et al.