Arc's homepage now points visitors to Dia, the browser the same team left to build. Windows users cannot follow yet - and Arc keeps working in the meantime.
Arc shipped a new build on 30 July 2026, and it is the same kind of release Arc has been shipping for over a year.
Version 1.117.0 moves to Chromium 151.0.7922.47 with security and stability fixes, and nothing else.
What changed this time is the website, not the browser.
Arc still works and still gets Chromium security rebases, so nothing breaks today. It will not get new features, because the team that made it is building Dia instead.
Arc's homepage now points visitors to Dia instead, but Dia is Mac-only. Windows users have no official replacement until the Windows build lands, which The Browser Company said on 29 July is coming this autumn.
What the banner actually says
The Arc homepage headline now reads "Meet Dia, the next evolution of Arc". Beneath the download buttons sits a line that is unusually blunt for a product page.
"Arc receives Chromium updates only. For active security patches and enterprise-grade protection, download Dia instead."
That is an unusually candid thing to put on your own download page, and it settles a question Arc users have been asking for a year.
How Arc got here
The Browser Company stopped active development on Arc in May 2025, when its chief executive published an open letter explaining the team was moving to Dia, an AI-first browser. Atlassian completed its acquisition of the company in October 2025.
Arc was never shut down, and that is the confusing part. It is maintained rather than developed, which means the Chromium rebases keep landing while the feature list stays frozen.
What this means if you use Arc
Practically, very little changes this week. Arc launches, renders modern sites, installs Chrome extensions and picks up the Chromium security fixes that matter most.
The catch is longer term. Arc Max, the built-in AI features, runs on servers belonging to a product nobody is developing, and server-side features are the first thing to go quiet when a product is wound down.
There is no deadline here and no reason to panic-switch. Treat this as a browser you should plan to leave eventually, not one you need to abandon tonight.
If you want to move now
Dia is the official answer, but only on macOS, and only on Apple Silicon at that. There is a Windows waitlist, and the company has been promising a Windows build for months.
On Windows, the closest maintained match to Arc's layout is Zen Browser, which carries workspaces, vertical tabs and split view in a Firefox-based shell.
If you would rather stay on Chromium, Vivaldi covers similar ground with heavier customisation, and our browsers section lists the rest.
Arc 1.117.0 is still available here if you are staying put for now.
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