In April 2024, Pixels shipped a partial implementation of our January 2024 proposal for firmware-based reset attack protection. Fastboot mode now zeroes RAM before enabling USB. This successfully wiped out the After First Unlock state exploit capabilities of two commercial exploit tools.

A post from the developer of WireGuard on the severe security flaws and lack of trustworthiness of F-Droid:

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wireguard inclusion policy violation (auto-updates w/o explicit user consent) (#3110) · Issues · F-Droid / Data · GitLab

Per https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Inclusion_Policy/ The software must not download additional executable binary files (e.g. addons, auto-updates, et...

This led to them including a self-update system which was openly implemented and documented. F-Droid was unaware they'd shipped it for half a year, and by then WireGuard had essentially escaped from in their words being held hostage by F-Droid. This was a rare case where an app used developer signing keys via their flawed reproducible builds system. Most don't.

Vanadium version 132.0.6834.122.0 released:

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Release 132.0.6834.122.0 · GrapheneOS/Vanadium

Changes in version 132.0.6834.122.0: update to Chromium 132.0.6834.122 A full list of changes from the previous release (version 132.0.6834.79.2)...

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog. Forum discussion thread:

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Vanadium version 132.0.6834.122.0 released - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

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Revolut is specifically banning GrapheneOS by checking for the build machine hostname and username being set to grapheneos. We've changed these to build-host and build-user. Combined with another change, this allow our users to log in to it again until they roll out Play Integrity API enforcement.

Vanadium version 132.0.6834.79.0 released:

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Release 132.0.6834.79.0 · GrapheneOS/Vanadium

Changes in version 132.0.6834.79.0: update to Chromium 132.0.6834.79 A full list of changes from the previous release (version 131.0.6778.260.0) ...

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog. Forum discussion thread:

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Vanadium version 132.0.6834.79.0 released - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

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