GrapheneOS on Nostr: We built an initial release of GrapheneOS based on Android 17 (2026061700) but aren't ...
We built an initial release of GrapheneOS based on Android 17 (2026061700) but aren't going to release it through our Alpha channel due to discovering a serious upstream bug. Android 17 broke support for sideloading updates via recovery unless the OS images are large enough to exhaust COW space.
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