GrapheneOS Foundation Suggests Improvements For Early Security Patch Previews
Our security preview releases have provided the December 2025 security patches for the Android Open Source Project since September 2025. December 2025 security patches are now public and being integrated into our regular releases while our security previews have up to March 2026.
A bunch of the patches previously scheduled for December 2025 were made optional and deferred to future months so they're not listed in the public bulletin. That's why even our September 2025 security preview releases list CVEs which are still not public in December 2025.
The reason patches get deferred is because OEMs aren't capable of quickly integrating, testing and shipping patches. When issues are identified including an OEM having trouble with it, they'll often defer it to a future month. Our security previews can continue shipping these.
GrapheneOS is the only Android-based OS providing the full security preview patches. Samsung ships a small subset of their flagship devices. Pixel stock OS gets a portion of it early but we aren't sure exactly how much since they don't follow their guidelines for listing patches.
Providing our security preview patches is a lot of work for us. It requires a full time developer spending a significant fraction of their time on it. It's hard to understand why large companies can't keep up with these patches but what matters is that we can provide them early.
Android security preview patches are currently backports to Android 13, 14, 15 and 16. Since GrapheneOS is based on Android 16 QPR1, we need to forward port the patches from 16 to 16 QPR1. Our understanding is they're going to start backporting to some quarterly releases too.
Android 16 QPR2 appears to be the first quarterly release of Android which is going to be shipped by non-Pixel devices. If that's the case, they'll need to start providing security preview patches backported to it too. It's not clear if it will happen for every quarterly release.
Spending a significant amount of time on this is part of the reason GrapheneOS feature development has slowed down. Expanding our servers and now migrating away from OVH is another. We'll be hiring more people and improving our organization structure to get things moving better.
We would greatly prefer it if patches were disclosed to OEMs 1 week ahead instead of 2-4 months ahead so our security preview releases would only need to exist for a week and regular releases would get the patches much faster. OEMs should just hire far more people and do better.
Fixing old Android code, integrating with the upcoming Thunderbird Pro, and making a balanced iOS roadmap are all part of our mobile development goals in 2026.
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State of the Thunder 14: The 2026 Mobile Roadmap - The Thunderbird Blog
In the penultimate State of the Thunder for 2025, we're walking through our plans and priorities for the Android AND iOS apps in 2026.Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
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Over November 2025, I've been able to contribute to @gnome, and it was a pleasure!
I focused on GNOME Clocks, with the goal of making it as good as possible for GNOME 50. I focused on #accessibility, #linuxmobile and all sorts of bug fixes and features, as well as issue and MR triaging.
I also fixed some tiny issues in #GTK and #libadwaita, and helped make gettext-pseudolocale as good as possible.
I hope to find more free time to make GNOME Clocks 50 dependable as a mobile clocks app.
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Edit: Got it, thanks BlueLegend and Bri.
Mentioning people I know have been contributing to this. In 2024, I made a project in NVGt called FlashFiles, which was quite interesting for my skills at that time. Sadly due to my weird nature back then I deleted it, and only have a few outdated sounds, binarys or a weird old source from april with the most major changes missing. Does anyone still have an old backup/repo clone of this somewhere and would be willing to send it over in DM? I wanna look back on it. And also sorry for deleting it with no comment back then, I don't understand myself from back then. I appreciate your time. And bevore you ask, yup the repo is sadly also long gone and I can't seem to recover it.
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We have to apologize as the statement that "Meta AI will read your private messages" is wrong.
Meta will use your conversation with its AI to show you personalized ads. Here's the Meta announcement: about.fb.com/news/2025/10/impr…
Improving Your Recommendations on Our Apps With AI at Meta
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Amazon is testing 30-minute deliveries
Amazon is starting to test ultra-fast deliveries that aim to drop household goods at your doorstep in 30 minutes or less.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
Pořád budu jezdit do práce na kole. Ale už to asi nebude nejrychlejší volba. Nejzábavnější a nejekologičtější volbou zůstane dál. A až nasněží, bude se to hodit.
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We’re launching an end-of-year fundraising campaign with a simple goal: to reach 1,500 Friends of GNOME. And we need your help!
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This week we’ll also be sharing and celebrating accomplishments of GNOME over the past year here on the fediverse; be sure to follow #FriendsOfGNOME!
Finally, if you’re already a Friend of GNOME or join this month, please join us in posting with #FriendsOfGNOME as well so that we can thank you. 😊
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This post was contributed by the Fundraising Committee from the GNOME Foundation. This week we are launching an end-of-year fundraising campaign with a simple goal: to reach 1,500 Friends of GNOME...mariamaj (GNOME Foundation)
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Really, this is just to make it official, because as I see it, GNOME has been a friend of mine for a long time already 😜
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I'm afraid not currently. You keep your followers and follows, bookmarks, lists, and blocks, but you start with fresh history.
As usual, @FediTips has excellent information on transferring to another instance. Basically, everything on their site (and in the masto feed) is gold.
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Transferring your Mastodon account to another server | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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"Starting today, December 2, 2025, we are launching the public beta of Eloquence for Android. To ensure a smooth experience and gather valuable feedback, we’re releasing the beta in stages. This means we’ll be gradually inviting more users over time, starting with a limited group and expanding step by step.
Join the beta from the following link: play.google.com/store/apps/det…
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A testing version of this app hasn't been published yet or isn't available for this account.
If you've been invited to become a tester, make sure you're signed in to the account that was invited to the testing program. If you've been invited to a Google Group as part of the program, make sure you've joined the Group."
British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie
Survey also reveals Britons’ favourite festive film, views on tear-jerkers and family cinema tripsNadia Khomami (The Guardian)
Call for papers — BSDCan
BSDCan is a technical BSD conference held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.www.bsdcan.org
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There's a first time for everything. Just had to deny a registration request on the official OctoPrint plugin repository as the plugin the author tried to register turned out to be pretty much completely vibe coded. And in the end, even their communication seemed to be the output of an LLM.
Unbelievably bad quality: tons of bugs, dead code, (future) vulnerabilities, ... I honestly haven't yet seen this amount of shittiness from a human developer, no matter how clueless.
I hate this future.
I'm a Google Workspace admin, and a team member sent me a screenshot showing that a message they wanted to send was being blocked because it violated an organizational policy-- which was news to me-- I hadn't put in place to block messages based on their content.
Turns out Google Workspace now warns by default when the message content mentions gender identity.
multiple choice.
- At home (56%, 38 votes)
- Out walking (17%, 12 votes)
- Whendriving (20%, 14 votes)
- With family/friends (listen together) (4%, 3 votes)
- Any time I have a spare moment (19%, 13 votes)
- I can never find the right time (4%, 3 votes)
- Never really thought about it (1%, 1 vote)
- I haven't found a podcast I'm interested in (11%, 8 votes)
- I don't have time for podcasts (11%, 8 votes)
- What's a podcast? (4%, 3 votes)
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Not listed:
* While my computer updates.
* While scooping cat boxes
* While brushing my teeth
* On public transit
* While playing sudoku
This is not exhaustive.
dafe0d5b - Aoc day 2.
Task 1: use std::cmp::{max, min}; use std::fs::read_to_string; fn main() { let - dafe0d5bcontrolc.com
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Petey the Penguin (A Quirky AI Song about a Penguin trying to find a new home)
Petey the Penguin” is a quirky, nerdy alt-pop story-song about a heat-stressed penguin who moves to Florida, instantly regrets it, and eventually relocates t...YouTube
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Weck den Tiger in dir mit dem No Spoons-Tiger! Rawr! 🐯 ihr könnt ihn auf T-Shirt, Hoodie, Sweatshirt, Tasse oder als Artprint bekommen 😊.
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"For several reasons, we won’t be continuing with Material UI. Instead, we’ll be using our own homegrown Bolt UI."
why?! I want apps to fit the OS and not doing their own "branding"… one of the reasons I decided to use #k9mail in the first place…
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in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •thanks for the reply.
I tried joining the topicbox but didn't get the confirmation email =,=
also another thing - I just noticed that you reworked sidebar and from previous, handy one with list of the accounts on the left span and then folders next to it you made it to single strip with account selector on the top which is slightly more annoying to use and requires more taps - previously it was just 2 (tap on the account and then select folder) and now it's 3 (tap on the dropdown, select account, select folder)… why do it? most people have only a bunch of accounts that would easily fit into the sidestrip…
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in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Silmathoron ⁂
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox • • •Well, if I'm honest, I'm unsure about the UI as I dont really care and would rather see time spent on other things, but the rest sounds good!
For calendar, please integrate with the android calendar, don't redo you own thing!
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