2023112900
+The December release of the Android Open Source Project and stock Pixel OS + will be the first quarterly release of Android 14. It will likely be available + this week, but hasn't been published yet. Since there hasn't been a release + yet this month, we're publishing an early December security update based on + the AOSP backports to Android 14.
+ +It's unclear if 6th/7th generation Pixels received a specific Mali GPU + kernel driver patch so we aren't raising the patch level for these until the + official December release is available. We often backport these patches early + but we don't know which patch corresponds to which CVE ID so we can't raise + the claimed patch level. ARM covers up the details publicly and only releases + tarballs for each major revision without the Git commit history or individual + security patch backports they make available to partners, despite partners + being allowed to apply those in public Git repositories. We can often figure + out the patch corresponding to a CVE ID or vice versa through ARM partners + publishing it, but we haven't been able to in this case.
+Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL and Pixel 4a are end-of-life and shouldn't be used anymore due to lack of most security patches for firmware and drivers. We're currently supporting them via a legacy Android 13 branch separate from these @@ -721,6 +738,7 @@
Changes since the 2023112900 release:
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- full 2023-12-01 security patch level (6th/7th generation Pixels may be missing a 2023-11-05 Mali GPU patch so we've frozen the patch level string until the official December update)
- Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro: use more modern target CPU configuration
- System Updater: enable non-low battery requirement for the update job by default
- kernel (Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet, Pixel Fold, Generic 5.10): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision