tinymonster Guys let's relax for a moment. Knowing that open source releases would only be half annual doesn't tell us that there's going to be odd-numbered proprietary releases. I actually see this as a positive change if that's true. The releases would be like Ubuntu or something, which is also half annual.
Viewpoint0232 AcclaimSublevel19 naibed This isn't accurate. If there would be proprietary odd-numbered releases of Android, the stock Pixel OS is gonna have them, and the firmware would match it, but GrapheneOS needs up-to-date firmware for security. GrapheneOS also needs an up-to-date OS for security design improvements and security patches. I guess an OS outdated by up to one month is better than by up to three months, there would be less security design and security patches missing. But then, they'd still need to backport the latest firmware to the last open source AOSP release, and if they fail at that, we'd lack very important security fixes, and we're kinda doomed.
The article says this is meant for stability. I assume it means they're not gonna want to release unstable odd-numbered proprietary releases, so I wanna believe it's the former case than the latter.