Pixel 8a with the latest May 2024 update is running Android 14 QPR1 with backported security patches instead of Android 14 QPR2.
Android 14 QPR2 was released in March 2024 and is by far the largest quarterly release so far due to being the first trunk-based quarterly release.
We're definitely not going to backport all the changes we've made since March to Android 14 QPR1. That means we can't simply make the usual device support branch to support it. It's going to need to start out being treated as if it's an end-of-life device in extended support.
The Pixel 8a doesn't currently meet our expectations. We haven't decided if we want to move development resources from working on new features to providing experimental support for a device with a botched launch. It would be a lot more efficient to wait for it to be fixed first.
It might get fixed in the June release. We could put in a bunch of effort to get experimental support for it in the next 24 hours but that will come at a big cost and it won't be anywhere close to something we can consider a production release due to what they released, not us.
