We're able to quickly and safely ship the latest Linux kernel LTS point releases on devices with GKI (Generic Kernel Image) support including the 6th - and 7th generation Pixel phones. At the time of writing on 2022-10-25, - GrapheneOS is using the latest Linux 5.10 LTS release (5.10.149) from - 2022-10-17 for 6th and 7th generation Pixel phones. The stock Pixel OS is on - Linux 5.10.107 from 2022-03-19 with a small number of patches from between - 2022-03-19 and 2022-08-01 backported. This means GrapheneOS provides hundreds - of relevant kernel patches including many security patches not yet included in - the stock OS. It's possible for us to stay several months ahead due to their - approach of moving to new LTS releases only in quarterly releases after a long - freeze and testing process.
+ and 7th generation Pixel phones. At the time of writing on 2023-01-11, + GrapheneOS is using the latest Linux 5.10 GKI LTS release (5.10.161) for 6th + and 7th generation Pixel phones. The stock Pixel OS is on Linux 5.10.107 from + 2022-03-19 with a small number of patches from between 2022-03-19 and + 2022-11-04 backported. This means GrapheneOS provides hundreds of relevant + kernel patches including many security patches not yet included in the stock + OS. It's possible for us to stay several months ahead due to their approach of + moving to new LTS releases only in quarterly releases after a long freeze and + testing process.We often find new vulnerabilities ourselves and report them upstream. We've reported dozens of vulnerabilities for both the generic Android codebase and