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Difference between OS and Platform versions in ChromeOSSolved

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2 months ago

Hey all!
I was browsing through the device details for one of our ChromeOS devices in Hexnode, and I noticed two separate fields: Platform version and OS version.

At first glance, they seem related, but the numbers are totally different.
For example, one of our Chromebooks shows:

Platform version: 16092.98.0
OS version: 124.0.6367.93

Could anyone clarify what each one actually refers to? Are they just two ways of referring to the same thing, or do they serve different purposes? I couldn’t find a clear explanation in the google docs.

Thanks in advance!

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cullen

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2 months ago

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Hey! This actually tripped me up a while ago too.

From what I’ve gathered, the OS version is basically the Chrome browser version bundled into ChromeOS (like 124.x etc.), while the Platform version is more of a build identifier used internally by Google to track firmware and system-level changes in the underlying OS stack.

So yeah, they’re related but not interchangeable.

Here’s a rough analogy I’ve used to explain it:

Think of OS version as “What Chrome version is the user running?”
And Platform version as “Which build of the OS image was installed?”

Unfortunately, even Google’s own documentation isn’t super clear about the distinction.

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josiah

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1 month ago

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+1 to what @cullen said.

To add, each ChromeOS update releases with both an OS version and a corresponding platform version, but the platform version doesn’t follow the same semantic versioning logic.

So, the numbers don’t align directly, but each OS version is built on top of a specific platform version. I believe the reason Google maintains the platform version as a separate identifier is because they can update the underlying ChromeOS system components without necessarily changing the Chrome browser version. In some cases, different platform versions may still include the same Chrome version on them.

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