Post #3798656
2026-07-14 02:41 UTC
The vast majority of vulnerabilities are now being discovered internally by Google for Android and Chrome. These are largely being discovered with AI. The subset deemed Critical severity and an imminent risk will be backported to 16 and 17. Bare minimum security support for older releases is over.
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@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social 2026-07-14 02:43
Bare minimum Android security patches now require being on Android 16, 16 QPR2 or 17 and quickly moving to Android 18 when it's released. Once Android 18 is released, it will be the only release with current High and Critical severity patches. Serious support for older Android releases has ended.