add a bit more of an explanation for the release

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Daniel Micay 2020-09-10 03:28:21 -04:00
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<li><a href="https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_manifest/releases/tag/QQ3A.200805.001.2020.09.07.01">QQ3A.200805.001.2020.09.07.01</a> (Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, Pixel 3a, Pixel 3a XL, Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL, emulator, generic, other targets)</li>
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<p>This should be the final GrapheneOS release based on Android 10. It ships the
device-independent monthly security patches and migrates over to using the Android 11
branch of the GrapheneOS kernels, which brings all the upstream kernel hardening in
Android 11 along with the full September kernel updates. The remaining patches for the
full 2020-09-05 patch level require finishing the migration to Android 11 in order to
ship the September update for the other device support code. It's possible we could
ship some of this early, but instead we're going to be focusing on finishing the
enormous task of migrating to Android 11. Further help with bringing up support for
the devices with Android 11 and porting over each of the GrapheneOS hardening features
to it would be greatly appreciated. Donations are also extremely helpful. GrapheneOS
has brought on another full time developer using donated funds and there are 3 part
time developers helping with Android 11. We're also collaborating with CalyxOS and
others in the AOSP Alliance to bring up fully signed, production device support.</p>
<p>Pixel 4 kernel tags are not published yet since that's still a work in progress. We
want to fix some side channel mitigation regressions caused by upstream Android 10
hardening work. We can't simply revert the upstream changes since they're important
mitigations too. This should be handled within 24 hours. We'll publish releases and
tags whether or not we get these side channel mitigations working, but the plan is to
finish the work first.</p>
<p>Changes since the 2020.08.07.01 release:</p>
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<li>Vanadium: update Chromium base to 85.0.4183.101</li>
<li>Vanadium: remove unused learn more link from Incognito page</li>
<li>recovery: reject updates with serialno constraints to match the GrapheneOS Updater app</li>
<li>kernel (Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, Pixel 3a, Pixel 3a XL, Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL): update base kernel to Android 11
<li>kernel (Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, Pixel 3a, Pixel 3a XL, Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL): update base kernel to Android 11</li>
<li>SetupWizard: update base to latest CalyxOS SetupWizard</li>
<li>conscrypt: drop temporary upstream revert of version code which was accidentally kept during a rebase</li>
<li>backport fix for USB audio regression from Android 11</li>