Pixel 4a (5G), Pixel 5 and Pixel 5a are end-of-life and shouldn't be used anymore due to lack of security patches for firmware and drivers. We provide extended support for harm reduction.
So do I get this update because they are providing extended support or won't I get android 15 based graphene os on my Pixel 5?
@[email protected] It won't be ported to Android 15 because it would require a lot of our resources while creating a lot of regressions for Pixel 5 users. It would take a long time for it to become stable with Android 15 since it has no official support for it and would need a bunch of hacks to make it work. We'd need to switch to using a prebuilt vendor.img built from Android 14 QPR3 and combine that with Android 15. It'd theoretically work but in practice lots of bugs and lots of work.
@[email protected] Pixel 5 has been end-of-life since December 2023 after the last update in November 2023. It hasn't received driver and firmware updates since then. We provided what we could with very limited resources available for insecure devices via the Pixel 5a still being supported, but the Pixel 4a (5G) and Pixel 5 had significant regressions with each quarterly release we had to work around. A15 would cause enormous problems and we don't need to port it to 15 to keep it working for another year.
It won't go past Alpha because we want to fix a few of the minor reported issues before it reaches Beta and then Stable. We should have another release much later today.