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.
GrapheneOS
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 - releases page and installation instructions are on the - install page.
+ app compatibility. +Official Releases are available on the releases page and + installation instructions are on the install page.
See the GitHub organization for sources - of the OS sub-projects including the cutting edge + of the OS and various standalone sub-projects including the cutting edge new - hardened memory allocator.
+ hardened memory allocator and other projects.The official GrapheneOS releases are supported by the Auditor app and attestation service for hardware-based @@ -53,6 +41,32 @@ support for your own builds.
The sources are available via the manifest on GitHub.
+Early stage of development
+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.
+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.
+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.
+Roadmap
+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.
+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.
Device support
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