When was 17.03 released?
Suddenly it says 17.3 Pro 
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Yeah it seem it has been updated, I've seen the same today
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Has anything changed in version 17.3, so far I haven't noticed anything.
Me niether
Brave was not added for me, why not?
Because I already have Brave installed by myself as Back-Up. So, that doesn't come from Zorin.
ah okay understand
From recollection, by default if you've installed prior to 17.3 you'll keep Firefox as the default, but if you were to reinstall with a 17.3 iso (which idk if it's available yet) that should have Brave as default. I could be wrong on this, but it's the same with how they handled the Firefox shift back to deb originally.
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They've just confirmed that Brave will become the new default browser going forward, but existing installations aren't modified in any way in that regard.
A piece of advice for anyone that sees this warning message during an update after installing Brave following their official instructions:
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'
Head over to the installation page (linked in the post right above mine) and run the third command that you see for Ubuntu installations, with one minor modification:
- echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
+ echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
^^^^^^^^^^
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Huh. Same thing happened to me when I was on Zorin before and I got upgraded to 17.1 unexpectedly, and there wasn't an announcement. Finally, they announced it. I believe I was the first one who asked about 17.1 on these forums (?) after I noticed I was already on 17.1. Some things don't change, I guess ... ha.
I'll have to dig around zorin-appearance and see what changed. I wouldn't have known if it wasn't for this thread lol
kriss@cypher:~$ apt list --upgradable
Listing... Done
base-files/jammy 12ubuntu4.7+zorin2 amd64 [upgradable from: 12ubuntu4.7+zorin1]
gnome-shell-common/jammy,jammy 43.9-0+deb12u2+zorin3 all [upgradable from: 43.9-0+deb12u2+zorin2]
gnome-shell-extension-zorin-screen-keyboard-button/jammy,jammy 2.1.2 all [upgradable from: 2.1.1]
gnome-shell/jammy 43.9-0+deb12u2+zorin3 amd64 [upgradable from: 43.9-0+deb12u2+zorin2]
libnvidia-egl-wayland1/jammy 1:1.1.17-0ubuntu0~gpu22.04.1 amd64 [upgradable from: 1:1.1.9-1.1ubuntu1~zorin1]
libnvidia-egl-wayland1/jammy 1:1.1.17-0ubuntu0~gpu22.04.1 i386 [upgradable from: 1:1.1.9-1.1ubuntu1~zorin1]
libxslt1.1/jammy-updates,jammy-security 1.1.34-4ubuntu0.22.04.3 amd64 [upgradable from: 1.1.34-4ubuntu0.22.04.1]
signal-desktop/xenial 7.47.0 amd64 [upgradable from: 7.46.1]
vivaldi-stable/stable 7.2.3621.67-1 amd64 [upgradable from: 7.2.3621.63-1]
zorin-appearance/jammy,jammy 5.3.7 all [upgradable from: 5.3.6]
zorin-os-default-settings/jammy,jammy 17.4.2 all [upgradable from: 17.3.3]
zorin-os-printer-test-page/jammy,jammy 17.4.2 all [upgradable from: 17.3.3]
The official announcement follows the completion of all packages successfully being uploaded to all regional servers.
Since that process takes quite a bit of time; some regions will see the updates sooner than other regions.
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My video is borked right after the update,
very sluggish browsing via FF, choppy , VM video choppy
i always get nervous for major updates and this is a perfect example 
UPDATE - fixed my video issue -
for those interested
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Switch to Linux Mint. Also, Zorin said to expect the 6.11 kernel, but didn't deliver on that. A genuine shame. After I switched to 6.12 on my own, I was startled at the speed difference between 6.8 and 6.12. I can only imagine what 6.11 would have done for everyone's system performance. But nope. I'm on Mint now. Works great.
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I do have to say that i like Zorin's approach on updates. We get slow but stable updates, rather than more frequent and unstable/unreliable updates. Its nice for those of us that are using Zorin as a daily driver, myself included 
I have tried the other distributions out there, but nothing feels the same after switching away from Zorin lmaoo
I think that is more of an appearance thing..
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I also like Zorin very much. I have tried several distrobitions and am most satisfied with Zorin.
Nevertheless, I continue to use FF as my daily browser but as a flatpak version. Brave is not my favorite.
But Zorin remains the best distro for me as a long time Windows user
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Why that? Zorin OS 17.x is based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and they follow the kernel releases there. So why hurry? If you want to, you can upgrade to a later kernel, just search how it is done on Ubuntu and follow the description. I tried it on one of my machines, it works well.
Besides, if a later kernel brings you speed advantages or not usually depends on your hardware. I have "mature" hardware (my machines are between 4 and 8 years old for the most part), and the drivers in the 6.8 kernel cover my hardware extremely well. Only one tablet computer required a 6.12 kernel if I wanted to use it as a real tablet and not just as a very small laptop, but that is a customized kernel from the project that supports this tablet computer series (MS Surface).
And is there a change log? I read about a new default browser (which is my personal default already before the upgrade). The upgrade was 1.2 MB in size when you come from an updated 17.2 Core version, so there can't be too many changes.
With respect, you're kinda missing the point. On kernel 6.8 in Zorin OS, there was a fair bit of lag and intermittent slowness. I did experience this on my PC. Other users reported the same. After Zorin backtracked on delivering kernel 6.11 as they said for users to expect, I went ahead and tried 6.12 on my own (out of curiosity). The lag and intermittent slowness disappeared. I was surprised. Then it hit me - why was Zorin apparently content to let everyone sit on the 6.8 kernel, especially when users had been reporting lag and slowness? Their stated deliverable for 6.11 (which they, again, backtracked on - let me remind you about that fact) started to look all the worse. No mea culpa. No effort to do the "right thing." No effort to plug in a newer kernel anyway like how Pop!_OS did with 22.04 (System76 went ahead and put in kernel 6.12 themselves; that impressed me), for example. Nothing. It left me with mixed feelings. Enough for me to stop using Zorin out of integrity and principle. I'd even recently ordered a Zorin shirt and a sticker, too. I ended up getting a refund for the Zorin shirt (which I donated) and trashed the sticker. I was disappointed they didn't come out and say, "hey, I know we created expectations for this, but it's not gonna happen after all, so we're very sincerely sorry, and to make up for it, this is what we're gonna do for you guys instead." Nothing. The fact that kernel 6.12 was such a game-changer for me on my previous Zorin install made all the difference. Why wouldn't they want the same for their users all over, especially their paid customers? You think on that for a minute. Just think about it. And maybe you (and others) will see, too. Thanks.