Pixel 4a (5G), Pixel 5 and Pixel 5a are end-of-life and shouldn’t be used anymore due to lack of security patches for firmware and drivers. We provide extended support for harm reduction.

We need more people to use the Beta channel and quickly report regressions in the new releases before they reach Stable. If you’re using the Alpha or Beta channels, please join the testing chat room on either Matrix, Discord or Telegram and report regressions in new releases. Our public testing process only works if regressions are reported before the release reaches Stable. For releases with urgent compatibility and security fixes, we try to get it through public testing in 24 hours so we need reports of regressions right away. We’ve moved 5th generation Pixels to legacy extended support around a month early since we’re not getting the feedback we would need to have confidence in shipping the next round of multicast leak blocking for them. They’re insecure legacy devices regardless.

Tags:

• 2024091900-redfin (Pixel 4a (5G), Pixel 5)
• 2024091900 (Pixel 5a, Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet, Pixel Fold, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8a, emulator, generic, other targets)
• 2024091900-caimito (Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 9 Pro Fold)

Changes since the 2024091700 release:

• temporarily revert multicast leak blocking firewall due to causing legacy 5th gen devices to lose compatibility with IPv6-only carriers along with causing certain compatibility issues with IPv6 on Wi-Fi
• temporarily revert multicast leak blocking eBPF filter extensions until app compatibility is addressed in a similar way as the Network permission mimics non-security errors