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TL;DR
- Google has released Android 17 QPR1 as part of the September Pixel Drop, but GrapheneOS says the update contains APIs and other changes that aren’t being made available to the wider Android ecosystem at the same time.
- GrapheneOS also claims Google is withholding some security fixes for standard Android components from other OEMs until Android 17 QPR2 arrives in December.
Google has released the stable Android 17 QPR1 update as part of the September Pixel Drop. While the new software brings a range of features and changes to supported Pixel phones, folks over at GrapheneOS are accusing Google of gatekeeping some of the latest Android features and security fixes from other Android manufacturers and AOSP-based projects.