Our community is helping us test the initial release of GrapheneOS based on Android 17. It's working very well for most people with very few issues. We've resolved the main regressions reported to us already. We'll start builds for a 2nd public release based on 17 later today after a few more fixes.

We built an initial release of GrapheneOS based on Android 17 (2026061700) but aren't going to release it through our Alpha channel due to discovering a serious upstream bug. Android 17 broke support for sideloading updates via recovery unless the OS images are large enough to exhaust COW space.

Today is the official release day for Android 17. We've already fully ported GrapheneOS to Android 17 and are in the process of pushing the code to our public repositories. We're building a final official release based on Android 16 QPR2 today and we'll do an initial Android 17 release tomorrow.

Vanadium version 149.0.7827.114.0 released:

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Release 149.0.7827.114.0 · GrapheneOS/Vanadium

Changes in version 149.0.7827.114.0: update to Chromium 149.0.7827.114 enable upstream feature flag for faster default WebView user agent retrieva...

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:

GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

Vanadium version 149.0.7827.114.0 released - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

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In April, Mullvad provided sponsored DataPacket servers for GrapheneOS in Dallas and Frankfurt which each have 50Gbps peak bandwidth capacity. These now serve a large portion of the updates to GrapheneOS users and add a lot of capacity to our other services including our anycast authoritative DNS.

Vanadium version 148.0.7778.178.0 released:

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Release 148.0.7778.178.0 · GrapheneOS/Vanadium

Changes in version 148.0.7778.178.0: update to Chromium 148.0.7778.178 resolve search indexing issues allow adding exceptions from the motion sens...

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:

GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

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WIRED (@WIRED) has gone ahead with publishing an extraordinarily inaccurate article about GrapheneOS. It presents a highly inaccurate history of the GrapheneOS project heavily based on fabrications from James Donaldson. WIRED failed to incorporate most of our responses to his inaccurate claims.

The editors of Wired (@wired.com) appear determined to turn an article about GrapheneOS into a hit piece. Wired contacted James Donaldson, CEO of Copperhead, and appears to be treating his thoroughly debunked fabrications about the history of the project as their primary source. This is outrageous.

/e/ and Murena have been been promoting their products by misleading people about GrapheneOS for years. This has turned into an all out war on GrapheneOS by their company and supporters. We began regularly debunking their inaccurate claims and they try to frame it as aggression.