cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/9939705
Pixel 4a (5G) and Pixel 5 are end-of-life and shouldn’t be used anymore due to lack of security patches for firmware and drivers. We provide extended support for harm reduction.
Tags:
- 2023123000-redfin (Pixel 4a (5G), Pixel 5)
- 2023123000 (Pixel 5a, Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet, Pixel Fold, emulator, generic, other targets
Changes since the 2023121200 release:
- Keyboard: add new implementation of multi-locale spell checking support to fix crashes and other issues
- Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: add Android Auto support with the compatibility layer eliminating the need for most of the permissions and a permission menu with 4 toggles for granting the minimal special access required for wired Android Auto, wireless Android Auto, audio routing and phone calls
- Settings: remove confusing mention of Android Auto from Connected devices screen
- exempt non-app system processes from Sensors permission enforcement (fixes some issues including gpsd crashes)
- fix Bluetooth auto-turn-off race condition to avoid crashes
- work around upstream race condition bug in biometric service
- disable support for pre-approving PackageInstaller sessions due to incompatibility with Network permission toggle
- fix several upstream bugs in handling crash reports mainly to improve our user-facing crash reporting system
- use GrapheneOS Widevine provisioning proxy by default
- add settings for changing Widevine provisioning server
- add configuration for setupdesign and setupcompat libraries to improve system UI theme
- kernel (Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet, Pixel Fold, Generic 5.10): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision including update to 5.10.204
- kernel (Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Generic 5.15): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision including update to 5.15.142
- kernel (Generic 6.1): initial port of GrapheneOS changes for use with emulator builds
- force disable network ADB in early boot to improve verified boot security (no user-facing change since it’s currently disabled by default later in the boot process, but not robustly)
- Vanadium: update to version 120.0.6099.115.0
- Vanadium: update to version 120.0.6099.144.0
- AppCompatConfig: update to version 2
- GmsCompatConfig: update to version 88
- GmsCompatConfig: update to version 89
- GmsCompatConfig: update to version 90
- Auditor: update to version 78
Would you please be able to post this on the issue tracker, if not already there?
I don’t want to create a new account only for that. I want to preserve my privacy :) If they had their source code on Codeberg, I would already posted that issue.