| Website | https://daniel.micay.dev |
| https://twitter.com/DanielMicay | |
| GitHub | https://github.com/thestinger |
| Matrix | https://matrix.to/#/@strcat:grapheneos.org |
I'm moving from this account to @DanielMicay on the new official GrapheneOS https://grapheneos.social/ instance. See the post from @GrapheneOS about this:
I'm moving from @DanielMicay to this account on the new official GrapheneOS https://grapheneos.social/ instance. See the post from @GrapheneOS about this:
GrapheneOS version 2022112500 released: https://grapheneos.org/releases#2022112500.
See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.
Forum discussion thread:
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/2008-grapheneos-version-2022112500-released
GrapheneOS Camera app version 57 released: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Camera/releases/tag/57.
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:
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/1970-grapheneos-camera-app-version-57-released
Trying our best to get people following us on Twitter to move to https://discuss.grapheneos.org/, our Matrix chat rooms #community:grapheneos.org and Mastodon to follow w@[email protected].
I expect the Twitter Community feature is going to be killed soon since it's underused and barely known about, so we made a post there encouraging people to move to https://discuss.grapheneos.org/. The response is discouraging, especially since only members in our Twitter community were shown it, so we didn't expect such a negative response.
People there have managed to turn Twitter into a US political issue where they see leaving it for self-hosted and/or federated alternatives not built on sucking up user data and maximizing engagement with algorithms as being what they call 'woke'. Depressing.
GrapheneOS version 2022111800 released: https://grapheneos.org/releases#2022111800.
See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.
Forum discussion thread:
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/1908-grapheneos-version-2022111800-released
We had to create a new #grapheneos:grapheneos.org chat room to work around state reset bugs in Matrix protocol / server software. Previous room had ~15000 members and is redirected through the room upgrade, but it's not seamless. You need to explicitly join the new room.
List of our public chat rooms is available at https://grapheneos.org/contact#community… with links to join through the official Element web client if you're new to Matrix. It's as good a time as any to join our chat rooms. A positive side to needing a room upgrade is that the main room is faster.
GmsCompatConfig version 16 is now in the stable channel of our app repository. It resolves the Play Store trying to update itself and Play services to unsupported versions. It's now back to requesting user install an update which only adds split packages.
We're not planning on addressing this for the legacy 3rd generation Pixels which are completely insecure at this point due to lack of full security updates. You can keep sandboxed Google Play working there by rejecting requests by the Play Store to update it, or reinstalling it.
If you accepted these self-update requests from the Play Store on legacy 3rd generation Pixels, you need to uninstall both Play Store and Play services followed by reinstalling them from our app repository. Don't uninstall/reinstall GSF or you'll also need to uninstall/reinstall every other app depending on GSF directly including most of the apps depending on Play services. GSF only gets updates alongside major Android releases and isn't updated via the Play Store in practice.
Accepting those update requests is fine with GmsCompatConfig v16 again.
We do it this way is so that we're responsible for testing and approving each Play services and Play Store update through our app repository while still supporting installing additional split packages for these apps with extra locales, etc. via the Play Store. Works well again.
We've retracted our recommendation to use fastboot from the android-tools package on Arch Linux. It's broken for flashing the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro.
We currently only recommend using the official platform-tools package or building fastboot from GrapheneOS or AOSP from source.
We've updated https://grapheneos.org/install/cli to remove that recommendation. Most users are installing GrapheneOS via our easy to use web installer at https://grapheneos.org/install/web instead where we provide the fastboot implementation via fastboot.js library created based on GrapheneOS funding.
It's unfortunate that seemingly every Linux distribution has broken Android SDK packages because they insist on checking out the sources their own way and using a custom build system instead of the official one. It's easy to build these tools properly if you do it normally.
Daniel Micay
GrapheneOS
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