GrapheneOS version 2023020200 released

GrapheneOS

GrapheneOS version 2023020200 released: https://grapheneos.org/releases#2023020200.

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.

Albatross

My phone is showing up to date with 2023012500, it doesn't seem to be able to find the new release -- is there a likely reason for that?

psynusoidal

Albatross it's still in the beta channel

Albatross

psynusoidal That would explain it. Thanks. I wondered if it might be related to that, but it wasn't immediately obvious to me that this was the case when clicking on the link.

malatoi

Just updated my Pixel 6 and everything went fine. Thanks for your efforts, dear GrapheneOS team!

dlb

So is this stable release. Can I change repo to beta and update ?

unwat

dlb

You can change between alpha, beta, and stable anytime you want.

spiral

unwat
It looks like they dropped the ability for owner to install apps from one secondary profile to another, major bummer as I had just restructured a new device to have an "app" secondary profile...

f13a-6c3a

spiral it's in the release notes

unwat

spiral

I agree that it's a bummer, but I understand why they removed it. Based on the release notes it looks like they want to add it back after figuring out how to implement it in a safer way.

spiral

f13a-6c3a
yes i saw, thanks

Albatross

Looks like it went release overnight. Installed without any issues so far.

Blastoidea

Albatross
Same here.

Serg

Thank you!

Graphite

unwat

Is there a way to hold off auto updating until I've got time to read release notes and accept all the changes?

uid0gid0

Graphite

Set the auto-update app to "unmetered only", and mark your network as "metered".

matchboxbananasynergy

Graphite You can disable the updater and enable it when you want to update:

https://grapheneos.org/usage#updates-disabling

uid0gid0

matchboxbananasynergy

Won't it break things if you skip quite a few incremental updates though?
At least when not disabling it completely, I saw that it will at least notify you of an
available update but won't auto download/install it, as opposed to a disabled app
which will then have to fetch all the delta updates and apply them one after another.

unwat

uid0gid0

It's my understanding that the updater app will only apply an incremental update if one is available. It'll use a full update if not.

The updater app checks for updates using this format: [device name]-incremental-[current version number]-[target version].zip. Like I found three incremental updates for the Pixel 6:

oriole-incremental-2023012500-2023020200.zip
oriole-incremental-2023011000-2023020200.zip
oriole-incremental-2023010300-2023020200.zip

So, if I had version 2022122700 on my phone then it would use the full update.

Here's stuff I checked for my answer:
https://grapheneos.org/build#generating-delta-updates
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_packages_apps_Updater/blob/13/src/app/seamlessupdate/client/Service.java

uid0gid0

unwat
Thanks, for some reason in my case (on a stable channel P4a) I found that skipping a minor
weekly update, and installing another one, will cause 2 updates and 2 reboots meaning it will
prefer to do 2 deltas instead of a full one.

I personally prefer to apply only the monthly Android security patch, rather the weekly GOS releases.
However it's not an option to choose such a release channel, so I stick with "extra-stable" in my case.