Post #3798659
2026-07-14 02:31 UTC
Google recently informed OEMs of greatly reduced security support for older releases of Android. For the vast majority of discovered vulnerabilities, only Critical severity issues deemed to be an imminent risk will be backported at all and only to the most recent 2 major yearly releases (16 and 17).
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@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social 2026-07-14 02:34
Externally reported vulnerabilities will currently still follow the same policy for backports as before. High and Critical severity vulnerabilities reported to Google by external parties will be backported to releases going back around 3 years (currently 14, 15, 16 and the current latest stable 17).