The blog post is dated September 2, 2016, and it claims:
> Today Chrome's stable channel was updated with a new HTTPS UI.
But I remember noticing these changes at least a week ago if not longer. The Chrome Stable channel link he used supports me in this as it's dated July 20, 2016.
Yeah, I agree. For the record, I'm on Linux and I noticed the change yesterday. According to my package manager's log, I upgraded Chrome from 52 to 53 yesterday around 10am (8am UTC).
I'm on Chrome 52 on Mac and I don't see the "i" icon when using plain http. All I see is a very plain looking 'blank page' icon to the left of the URL.
> Today Chrome's stable channel was updated with a new HTTPS UI.
But I remember noticing these changes at least a week ago if not longer. The Chrome Stable channel link he used supports me in this as it's dated July 20, 2016.