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<p><em>This page is a placeholder for this newly created site and will soon be
replaced with a proper explanation of the OS and the roadmap for it including evolving
beyond beyond being a hardened fork of the Android Open Source Project into an OS
without the Linux kernel at the core. There will also be proper documentation on using
the OS and coverage of relevant hardware, firmware and software security
topics.</em></p>
<h1>GrapheneOS</h1>
<p>GrapheneOS is an open source privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android
app compatibility. Many past features of the project still need to be ported to the
current releases. The project is in the 5th year of development and has been reborn as
a non-profit open source project not strongly associated with any specific company or
organization. It will take some time for the pieces to come into place turning it into
a much broader and more sustainable project with a strong development team. There are
multiple organizations and companies in the process of backing this new incarnation of
the hardened mobile OS project. Official Releases are available on the
<a href="/releases">releases page</a> and installation instructions are on the
<a href="/install">install page</a>.</p>
app compatibility.</p>
<p>Official Releases are available on the <a href="/releases">releases page</a> and
installation instructions are on the <a href="/install">install page</a>.</p>
<p>See the <a href="https://github.com/GrapheneOS">GitHub organization</a> for sources
of the OS sub-projects including the cutting edge
of the OS and various standalone sub-projects including the cutting edge
<a href="https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc/blob/master/README.md">new
hardened memory allocator</a>.</p>
hardened memory allocator</a> and other projects.</p>
<p>The official GrapheneOS releases are supported by the
<a href="https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Auditor/releases">Auditor app</a> and
<a href="https://attestation.app/">attestation service</a> for hardware-based
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support for your own builds.</p>
<p>The sources are available via the
<a href="https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_manifest">manifest on GitHub</a>.</p>
<h2>Early stage of development</h2>
<p>GrapheneOS is a privacy / security research and engineering project that has been
under way for over 5 years. It recently became rebranded as GrapheneOS and is taking a
different direction based on obtaining funding for the research and development work
as a non-profit open source project rather than being a company. The reborn project is
still in a very early stage and lots of the past work on privacy and security has not
yet been restored for the new incarnation of the OS.</p>
<p>The grapheneos.org site is very new and is currently being put together. It will
have lots of additional documentation and tutorials in the future along with coverage
of various software, firmware and hardware privacy/security topics.</p>
<p>GrapheneOS is being supported with funding and developers from various companies
and other organizations interested in contributing to this shared base for a feature
rich private and secure mobile operating system able to run many existing
applications. It will take more time to organize and deploy these resources in order
for the project to have a strong development team with proper infrastructure behind
it.</p>
<h2>Roadmap</h2>
<p>Details on the roadmap of the project will be posted on the site in the near
future. In the long term, it aims to move beyond a hardened fork of the Android Open
Source Project. Achieving the goals requires moving away from relying the Linux kernel
as the core of the OS and foundation of the security model. It needs to move towards a
microkernel-based model with a Linux compatibility layer, with many stepping stones
leading towards that goal including adopting virtualization-based isolation.</p>
<p>Hardware and firmware security are core parts of the project, but it's currently
limited to research and submitting suggestions and bug reports upstream. In the long
term, the project will need to move into the hardware space.</p>
<h2>Device support</h2>
<p>In the current early stage of the project, GrapheneOS provides production releases
for the Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL. It will support