For what it’s worth, Google started rolling out Android 7 to Nexus devices today.
https://www.android.com/security/overview/
As of today, I’m also using this Account for exactly one year now. So far I’ve neither bought a FP2 nor received an official update for my FP1.
I guess I take a break.
I think it’s not worth to work on Marshmallow anymore as they don’t seem to be near the finish there. So Fairphone should skip Marshmallow and go directly to Nougat. They could provide it as Christmas present if they are fast enough.
I guess that the biggest hope for people who want to be updated as quick as possible would be a successful port of Cyanogen Mod and it looks like some people are working hard right now to make it happen.
That would also be my ideal way to go! 
Even if they are not finished by christmas!
@Douwe I am sure it is too early to say something definte, but I am also sure you talked internally about it. Can you tell us anything? pretty please
Edit: Question to the tech savvy FP users: Is the hardware technically capable/ready for Nougat?
My guess is, the question should rather be: Has Qualcomm already released firmware for the SoC for Nougat.
I think without that, FP will not be able to work on a nougat release.
I don’t think so because FP may have already spent much manpower for Android 6. This effort would be lost. Important to me is the next (Android) leap to be realized as soon as possible. I can hardly remember smartphones having reached this goal. I could live with 6 and I would recommend to save the money and many days of hard work for a small company.
The Sony Xperia Z3 (also with Snapdragon 801) got a preview version of Android 7 Nougat.
It depends. If they are near the finish, they could complete the work and release Marshmallow. If they have to do a lot of work to complete Marshmallow, then it is not worth the effort.
In the long term, a version beyond Marshmallow is needed. Fairphone wants that the FP2 has a lifetime of at least 5 years, that means at least till the end of 2020. I think Marshmallow will be severely outdated then.
It makes me really really sad that Fairphone is not able to provide an up-to-date version of Android. This makes it impossible for me to convince myself to invest in this great concept.
I can only hope that they find a way to address this problem.
FairPhone just now provides still up-to-date lollipop versions, and will definitely provide newer versions. It might even be better they wait with nougat. Remember 5.0 memory leaks and whatever? Took some time until people liked that version. Lollipop is fully supported and patched. Enough for me, and nougat will certainly be an option sometime
I don’t think that the Nougat firmware by Fairphone will be finished tomorrow. When the Nougat firmware is shortly before completion, we will probably know if Nougat has such problems. If not, we have a fast finish then. If yes, Fairphone could hold back the upgrade until Google releases a solution (hoping that this solution has no breaking changes).
I only ask: How long? You don’t only have to look at security updates but also on app compatibility. I think Lollipop will be still good in the rest of 2016 and the first half of 2017. But then, we have to look at these both issues.
Marshmallow and Nougat provide and integrated app permissions manager, what is a great thing, much more efficient that an useless “Privacy impact” app.
The energy management is also much better in Marshmallow and Nougat.
A maintained Lollipop is nice, but planned development and transparency too.
We all know that the Fairphone ressources are limited.
In this case why they not help community to port alternative OS like Cyanogenmod or really open their sources code to contribution?
They are a lot a questions waiting Fairphone answers (binary blobs, legacy, source code management and openess, patch submission,…).
So so, a lot of people want (bad or good) news from the Fairphone 2 team.
How can we ask them a software roadmap ?
We asked yet unfortunatly Fairphone dont want to / cannot communicate about that…
What is a bit disapointing from a fair manufacturer of Android phone.
EDIT :
Or recently on Facebook, Fairphone said :
We currently do not have plans to have Androif N on the Fairphone 2
But they add :
We will get that [Android Marshmallow] on the Fairphone 2, but we can’t say yet when.
Having worked on Firefox OS - which was based on Android - I can tell you that’s a bad idea for a number of reasons. First of all Google has and will always have more resources than Fairphone will be able to muster so playing catch-up means you can end up never finishing a version before the next one comes out. Second you’re dependent on the SoC OEM for support and Qualcomm’s support for Android M is going to be much better tested and more stable than Android N. Lastly Google has been introducing functionality in an incremental way. You need to ensure that functionality works correctly and skipping a version means you’ll have to test it from scratch in the following one if you didn’t manage to finish it in the previous one.
Long story short, skipping a version in general means wasting work and increasing your risks.
edit: Wrong quotation
EDIT August 2018: This information is wrong
The FP2 CAN’T receive Android 7.0 Nougat officially (= with Google services) because Google (= AOSP) dropped support in Android 7.0 Nougat for the msm8974 chipset (which is the Snapdragon 800/801 chipset, which is used in the FP2)
Quote from Myself5 on XDA/Disqus:
If someone here would be able to read the Android Sourcecode, they would know why the Z3 and other msm8974 devices are no longer officially supported.
With 7.0.0, all msm8974 code was removed from AOSP. After all, what you expect is that Sony is supporting a no longer AOSP supported chipset. At what point is that a fair assumption?
Of cause its sad to hear that the Z3 got the N Previews and now is no longer supported, but guess why there was no Preview 4 or 5 either? Probably that was around the time when Google gave the 8974 chipset the boot.
After all, the article is not really well researched in my eyes, and written like its Sonys fault that the 8974 platform is no longer supported. Of cause up to some point it is. But there is also a greater matter, which is not in the hands of Sony at all.
BTW, Sonys Open Devices program will probably find a way sooner or later, its just not something the company can do officially IMO.
And another quote from an XDA article:
Since support for the Vulkan Graphics API is required for a device to pass Google’s Compatibility Test Suite (CTS), any device with a Snapdragon 800/801 will not receive official support for Android Nougat. But since Nougat runs just fine without drivers that support the Vulkan API, you can expect to see unofficial ports for many other MSM8974 devices. The level of functionality of these unofficial ports will widely vary between devices, depending on how open source friendly the device’s hardware is.
So basically a FP Open build would be possible but not one with the Google services included.
The AOSP source of Fairphone is CodeAurora (Qualcomm directly), not Google. Maybe they will support it?
They won’t be able to provide an image with the google services included (as in my previous post) the OS won’t pass Google’s Compatibility Test Suite which requires Vulkan for Android 7.0. So the only hope is, that they create an FP Open image with Android 7.0 (which could take a really long time as the Fairphone software team is much too small to fix all the already existing bugs and get a new version ready)
Oh, I see, the Google chains, err, I meant, Google’s “Compatibility” Test Suite needed for distributing their Google bloat- and spyware, 
