Happy new year everyone!

In 2025 GrapheneOS implemented:

- A network location provider for highly reliable location position without using Google's service and a geocoding service.

- Support for Android 16, QPR1 and QPR2 after Google's removal of device support and releases for all current Pixel devices.

- Heavily improved our automated porting tooling and server infrastructure.

- Our first security preview releases allowing users to recieve embargoed security patches for Critical/High CVEs a few months before stock Android.

- Closed out some VPN leaks from Android.

- Enabling experimental support for the developer option Terminal virtual machine manager app and other features like GUI support.

- Several improvements to Private Spaces, including use in secondary users, ending session for them, and installing available apps.

- Established a ASN for GrapheneOS and a highly reliable and widespread global network for GrapheneOS services.

This year should have some significant improvements with GrapheneOS, especially on the usage and accessibility front. There is also a lot of future Android features that will be key in delivering this, such as a fully working Desktop Mode. May this year wish us well.

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Can someone inform me about what the removal of device support by google means exactly for graphene os? I don't quite understand ...

AOSP (Android Open Source Project) used to include source binarys for pixel phones making it very easy to build custom ROMs for pixels. but for the new pixels, Android (Google) removed that very useful code making it way harder for ROM developers aka GrapheneOS.