Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL and Pixel 4a are end-of-life and shouldn’t be used anymore due to lack of most security patches for firmware and drivers. We provide extended support for harm reduction with the displayed patch level frozen at the last obtainable value
Tags:
- 2023100100-coral (Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL)
- 2023100100 (Pixel 4a, Pixel 4a (5G), Pixel 5, Pixel 5a, Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, emulator, generic, other targets)
- 2023100100-tangorpro (Pixel Tablet)
- 2023100100-felix (Pixel Fold)
Changes since the 2023091800 release:
- fix upstream bug auto-dismissing crash dialogs
- improve readability of native crash reports
- Settings: remove Private DNS setting for secondary users since it’s not currently per-profile like VPN configuration but rather is global like Wi-Fi configuration
- Settings: remove connectivity check setting for secondary users
- Dialer: disable false gesture detection for answering calls until the faulty implementation in the AOSP Dialer app is replaced
- hardened_malloc: improve fatal error reporting to include the abort message in Android crash reports
- Messaging: work around upstream null pointer exception bug
- libvpx: apply patch for CVE-2023-5217 to the standalone AOSP libvpx library, which was already fixed in the 117.0.5938.140.0 release of Vanadium
- Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL: add upstream sensor-related app compatibility fix from the September release already included for other devices
- kernel (Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet, Pixel Fold): add upstream build reproducibility fix
- GmsCompatConfig: update to version 75
- GmsCompatConfig: update to version 76
- Vanadium: update to version 117.0.5938.140.0
- replace GrapheneOS themes stub app with AOSP themes stub app with our configuration ported over to it (AOSP didn’t used to include a themes stub app
What the hell? A phone I bought two years ago (in a store mind you, not second hand) is EOL now?
The older Pixels (up to Pixel 5a) only get three years of security updates, and the 4a got released in August of 2020 (the non-a model even earlier), so… yes, its EOL now.
Pixel 6 and 7 series get five years of Security updates, and the upcoming 8 series is rumored to get seven years.