My FairPhone4 shows date of last Security Update: September 5. Today’s date is November 24. This cannot continue. I personally do not care about major OS updates like moving from Android 11 to 12. But I purchased my FP4 to use in a corporate network for a client, and their policies no longer accept…

At least some quick fixes for high security Problems like this one: SMS of Death A single malformed WAP Push SMS crashes com.android.phone on Android. Zero-click, remote, drops emergency calls. Patched in the October 2026 Android update.

Forget it, they don’t care. They will supply enough security updates so nobody can accuse them of false advertisement, but that’s all. “Letter of the law” vs. “spirit of the law”.

That’s really, really sad! So I guess the next phone isn’t going to be a Fairphone, because security on mobile devices is one big issue nowadays.

Well, security indeed extremely important and getting more important by the day since IT crime has become a huge market with stunning profits and next to no risk. Why bother with complicated and risky drug trafficking when you can make twice the money with a couple keystrokes? So more and more organ…

Where is the October 2026 security update for the Fairphone 5? Looking at the long list of vulnerabilities, this is not an acceptable situation!

The next Fp5 update is only due in November [image] Software Update: FP5.VT32.C.116.20260903 mobile_phone_with_arrow FYI: This is the last monthly release for Fairphone 5. From now on we will move to bi-monthly updates.

Thanks for your reply. OK, I hadn’t realized that Fairphone is switching to a two-month cycle for security updates for the Fairphone 5. I don’t think this is a good decision on Fairphone’s part; I could live with updates arriving toward the end of the month, but now I’ll have to consider how to hand…

This road map is known since almost the beginnig.

This may have been acceptable in 2020 or even in 2024. It is now 2026. The big difference is the AI tools that did not exist two years ago - it is now possible to turn the code fix diff into a fully weaponised attack in hours after release. Not weeks like before, and not even days. Thus, lagging …

[image] Antz: effectively not being maintained any more What are you talking about? Somthing happening in 7 years? If you really suggest the monthly updates are the same as not maintained, yes go ahead and use Apple or Pixel.

FP Security Updates need to be more frequent

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yvmuell November 7, 2026, 7:48am 897

The next Fp5 update is only due in November