Evergreen Webview2 ((hot)) -

Only necessary for highly regulated environments (like banking or healthcare) where every single update must be manually validated by a QA team before deployment. In this mode, you bundle a specific version of the runtime, and it never updates. Implementation and Deployment

: On compatible systems, binaries for Microsoft Edge and the Evergreen Runtime are hard-linked, optimizing memory and disk usage. Deployment Best Practices evergreen webview2

This is the standard, automatic-updating runtime. When you deploy an app that uses the Evergreen model, the WebView2 Runtime installs once on the user's machine. From that point forward, Microsoft silently keeps it up to date via Windows Update. evergreen webview2