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Google will now only release Android source code twice a year (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 5 days ago by misk@piefed.social to c/opensource@programming.dev

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[–] NaibofTabr 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

the company will keep publishing security patches each month on a dedicated security-only branch for relevant OS releases just as it does today

Ok, so this is mostly going to affect new feature releases. It might not be a bad thing really, as it will be easier for downstream projects to keep up with a 6-month release cycle.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So GrapheneOS and any other OS that cares a bit about security need to ship proprietary updates.

And if this is everything of 6 months, this is pretty insane

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Security updates are still monthly. It’s only the feature updates. Are you really that enthralled with ensuring you have the latest feature updates every 6 months?

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 days ago

So security updates are open source? Not like security preview releases that are under embargo?

Well that makes it less problematic. Android apps are independent from the core OS and half of the people is running old versions, so the ecosystem doesnt really depend on the latest and greatest.

Still shit, but less bad.