After the official release of the stable version of Chrome 95, Google shifted the focus of development to the next version. Today, Chrome 96 has entered the Beta channel version. Next year, Chrome will usher in its 100th version. To ensure a smooth transition, a new experimental Flag has been added to the Chrome 96 Beta version, which forces the main version to be advertised as the 100th version.
This new option for developers will set the HTTP user agent string of the Chrome browser to Chrome 100 to help developers test their websites/web applications based on this three-digit version number. Since some very old scripts may only check two major numbers, Google developers added this option in advance to help capture any areas that might not handle the three-digit major version number correctly.
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An interesting change in Chrome 96 Beta is the introduction of priority hints through an important attribute that allows automatic/low/high values. Priority prompts are used to help set the importance of the resources being loaded. The Chrome 96 Beta version also brings backward caching, CSS :autofill pseudo-classes, font composition CSS properties, new media query prefers-contrast, and various WebAssembly improvements to the desktop.
For more details on the changes to the Chrome 96 Beta version, please see the Chromium.org blog. More details about the new features of Chrome 96 can be found on ChromeStatus.com. The stable version of Chrome 96.0 will be released around November 16.