A few weeks ago - six to be precise - the Chrome development team promised that, going forward, a new version of the browser would be released about every month and a half. Keeping to their word, the stable channel has been updated, bringing Chrome up to version 7.
Though the build number is getting bumped up, there's a disappointingly small number of new features. What there is, though, is a huge number of bug fixes and under-the-hood tweaks that should improve the browsing experience in terms of both speed and stability.
According to the official announcement, 826 individual bugs were fixed with this release across all parts of the browser.
Otherwise, the only major additions are support for AppleScript for UI automation under OSX and a new way of dealing with and managing sites that are blocked from creating cookies. In addition, the new version implements the HTML5 parsing algorithm, the File API and directory upload.
It's a little disappointing that Google has almost arbitrarily increased the version number because a specific date has passed instead of using it to mark a significant development milestone. However, there's probably only so much that can be included in each new release now that the development cycle has been halved to only six weeks.
The latest stable build - version 7.0.517.41 - is available now for Windows, Linux and OSX directly from Google. More details on the specific changes can be found at the Chrome Releases blog.