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> full 2025-06-05 Pixel security patch level based on Android 16 backports (full Android 2025-06-05 patch level was provided in an earlier release)
The second one should have been 2025-06-01?
@[email protected] No, what's written there is correct. This release provides the Pixel 2025-06-05 patch level. An earlier release provided the Android 2025-06-05 patch level. Those are distinct things. The displayed patch level is Android + Pixel for Pixels. We usually just mark the full combined patch level in the release notes. In many cases when we ship the 2025-06-01 patch level, that's also the Android 2025-06-05 patch level but not Pixel until the Pixel release is out and incorporated.
@[email protected] ahh the difference sits on Android vs Pixel. Thanks.
@[email protected] We added a note about when the full 2026-06-05 Android patch level was shipped to clarify this. Backported the Mali kernel driver update from Android 16 covered the 2025-06-05 Android patch level but not the 2025-06-05 Pixel patch level mainly because that includes RIL patches and we needed to backport those too. We also don't know if the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth patches in the Pixel bulletin are in the drivers or firmware so we updated the firmware in the most recent release too.
@[email protected] We need to do another release today to fix an issue with the RIL backports but then it should be good to make it through Alpha and Beta testing to reach Stable, unlike the most recent release which had call related regressions reported very quickly in Alpha testing which are now resolved.