Where are the monthly security releases in Open OS?

[AnotherElk]

@anarcat

What’s the plan to fix the Linux kernel in Fairphone OS? Is that just a problem in FP Open or does that also affect the core OS?

Some insight from the maintainer of TWRP on the Fairphone 2 …

@z3ntu

Is FP using an outdated kernel

As is every other Android device. The situation has gotten better with new SOCs though, so it doesn’t apply as strongly to new devices.

@z3ntu

The only place where I know some people are looking at those kernels is at LineageOS where people are backporting patches to make the kernel run newer Android versions, but even there each person just cherry-picks patches from a random kernel there. A common codebase with these vendor kernels is just impossible without spending way too much time on it.