Historical Recap¶

  • 2024/11/30: Imported translations for 22 languages thanks to 31 contributors.
  • 2024/09/09: Imported translations for 4 languages thanks to 4 contributors.
  • 2024/08/17: The CVE patcher gained support for the extended 4.14 support from OpenELA.
  • 2024/07/28: Imported translations for 15 languages thanks to 16 contributors.
  • 2024/07/27: Many of the DivestOS projects were relicensed from GPL-3.0-or-later to AGPL-3.0-or-later.
  • 2024/05/26: GMaps WV was translated into Spanish thanks to @gallegonovato.
  • 2024/05/24: Carrion was translated into Spanish thanks to @vzamanillo.
  • 2024/05/22: Hypatia gained support for scanning screen content for malicious links.
  • 2024/05/20: Work on porting to Android 14 was started.
  • 2024/05/16: The Cloudflare mirror, eeyo.re, was created to enable increased access.
  • 2024/05/09: The GrapheneOS hardened memory allocator was backported and enabled for the 15.1 branch.
  • 2024/04/22: Extirpater was translated into Russian thanks to @yurtpage.
  • 2024/04/20: Carrion, GMaps WV, Hypatia, and MotionLock were translated to Portuguese thanks to @lucasmz.
  • 2024/03/13: Hypatia was translated into Galician thanks to @ghose.
  • 2024/02/27: Hypatia was translated into Czech thanks to @Fjuro.
  • 2024/01/22: Carrion gained support for the FTC robocaller database.
  • 2024/01/14: Work started on our spam call blocker, Carrion.
  • 2023/12/21: Hypatia had database handling overhauled to use more efficient bloom filters.
  • 2023/11/04: Extirpater was translated into French thanks to @Calvineries.
  • 2023/07/09: Hypatia, Extirpater, and IR Remote were translated into Greek thanks to Dimitris Vagiakakos.
  • 2023/05/04: Hypatia was translated into Simplified Chinese thanks to @Sdarfeesh.
  • 2023/05/04: Hypatia was translated into Turkish thanks to @cardpuncher.
  • 2023/03/18: Tavi was granted the 2022 'Outstanding New Free Software Contributor' award by the Free Software Foundation.
  • 2022/10/16: Initial support for building on top of LineageOS 20.0.
  • 2022/07/12: Hypatia was translated into Polish thanks to Marcin MikoÅ‚ajczak.
  • 2022/04/11: Hypatia was translated into Finnish thanks to @huuhaa.
  • 2022/04/06: Initial support for building on top of LineageOS 19.1.
  • 2022/03/17: Hypatia was translated into Afrikaans thanks to Oswald van Ginkel.
  • 2021/10/01: Mulch WebView was created for enhanced security and faster updates.
  • 2021/08/23: Out-of-band WebView updates via an F-Droid repository were made available for rapid security patching in-between build cycles.
  • 2021/07/10: Added many Linux 3.4 CVE patches thanks to @haggertk.
  • 2021/05/04: Hypatia was translated into Russian thanks to @q1011.
  • 2021/03/24: Hypatia was translated into Portuguese thanks to @inkhorn.
  • 2021/03/23: Initial support for building on top of LineageOS 18.1.
  • 2021/03/20: Hypatia was translated into Spanish thanks to Petra Mirelli.
  • 2021/03/09: Hypatia was translated into Italian thanks to @dantecpu.
  • 2021/02/21: Hypatia was translated into French thanks to Jean-Luc Tibaux and Petra Mirelli.
  • 2021/02/03: Added many Linux 3.10 CVE patches thanks to @cygwin.
  • 2021/02/02: Hypatia was translated into German thanks to Petra Mirelli.
  • 2021/01/24: Many Linux CVE patches were imported as part two of the Debian retired tracker import.
  • 2020/12/24: The website gained support for serving multiple builds versions for a device.
  • 2020/12/21: VoLTE support was unbroken.
  • 2020/12/21: The umask for the build scripts was adjusted, fixing many small issues.
  • 2020/12/11: All non-LTS Linux CVE patches were dropped from the repository.
  • 2020/11/06: Added many missing Linux CVE patches missed by the CIP scripts from Debian retired tracker.
  • 2020/10/22: Mull was rebased onto Fenix, based on top of much effort from Relan.
  • 2020/10/15: A critical issue was identified and resolved that affected many devices. It caused slow performance and boot issues. Originally introduced 2018/10/01.
  • 2020/10/11: Initial inclusion of Etar for Calendar.
  • 2020/10/06: Added many Linux 3.4 CVE patches thanks to @haggertk.
  • 2020/09/18: Added many Linux 3.18 CVE patches from the AOSP 3.18 branch using the CIP scripts.
  • 2020/08/07: Initial import of Linux CVE patches from the Civil Infrastructure Platform tracker.
  • 2020/06/17: The start of providing GPG signatures for all builds.
  • 2020/06/14: The CodeAurora CVE patch list was created.
  • 2020/06/12: DivestOS is publicly released, initially on the F-Droid Forum.
  • 2020/06/07: The AOSP CVE patch list was created.
  • 2020/04/14: Initial support for building on top of LineageOS 17.1.
  • 2019/10/18: Automated kernel hardening via command line arguments was introduced.
  • 2019/10/04: Initial import of Linux CVE patches from the Google Project Zero tracker.
  • 2019/09/25: Most signing keys were switched to RSA-4096.
  • 2019/09/13: Per-device signing keys were introduced.
  • 2019/08/28: Delta OTA support was introduced.
  • 2019/08/27: Image signing was overhauled.
  • 2019/08/05: Initial inclusion of Open Camera and Simple Mobile Tools Gallery.
  • 2019/07/05: IPv6 privacy extensions were enabled on all devices.
  • 2019/06/02: First versions to stop sending the IMSI to the SUPL, discovered by @MSe1969.
  • 2019/05/23: The .org was obtained.
  • 2019/05/13: Initial import of many Linux CVE patches from the Red Hat CVE tracker.
  • 2019/05/08: Initial work on restoring verified boot support in LineageOS began.
  • 2019/04/04: The GrapheneOS hardened memory allocator was included for use on supported devices.
  • 2019/03/12: PicoTTS was first patched to make it functional again.
  • 2019/03/04: Initial support for building on top of LineageOS 16.0.
  • 2019/03/04: Initial support for WireGuard was added.
  • 2019/02/02: The website is overhauled onto SBNR.
  • 2019/01/31: The Static But Not Really (SBNR) project is born out of the DivestOS website as a standalone minimal website framework.
  • 2018/12/18: Support for building on top of LineageOS 11.0 was restored and rebased.
  • 2018/10/20: Tor support was added to the OTA updater.
  • 2018/09/11: Filesystem discards were enabled on /data.
  • 2018/08/08: A-GPS MSA was disabled across all devices for increased privacy.
  • 2018/07/13: The vendor overlay was created for more easily applying select changes.
  • 2018/06/24: DivestOS finally received its own boot animation.
  • 2018/06/17: The provisioner repository was created for quickly installing recommended apps via F-Droid.
  • 2018/05/29: Initial import of Linux CVE patches from the Syzkaller tracker.
  • 2018/05/21: Analytics libraries were degraded by injecting AndroidManifest overrides.
  • 2018/05/13: The website is overhauled to use mini.css.
  • 2018/05/11: Malware scanning via ClamAV support was added to the build scripts.
  • 2018/04/28: Initial patches to support DNS66 loading defaults from system.
  • 2018/04/01: The proprietary LOSCoins malware was removed before ever being included in DivestOS.
  • 2018/03/13: The PrebuiltApps repo was created for including official/F-Droid builds of apps.
  • 2018/03/08: F-Droid signed-off on the inclusion of F-Droid into the system.
  • 2018/03/04: LineageOS signed-off on the re-branding being sufficient.
  • 2018/02/13: Initial support for building on top of LineageOS 15.1.
  • 2018/01/04: Very basic Spectre mitigations were automatically applied to 3.10 kernels.
  • 2018/01/03: Very basic Spectre mitigations were applied to Mull.
  • 2017/12/25: Mull came into existence.
  • 2017/12/13: Veritas, now called Hypatia, was created as the first FOSS real-time malware scanner for Android systems.
  • 2017/12/09: Automatic kernel hardening via defconfig overrides was introduced.
  • 2017/11/21: Initial work on building Firefox for Android without blobs began.
  • 2017/11/11: A script for deblobbing separate /firmware partitions was created.
  • 2017/11/10: Initial automatic applying of Linux incrementals.
  • 2017/11/07: Creation of our initial original Linux CVE patch list.
  • 2017/11/02: Initial versioning of CVE patches to reduce breakage.
  • 2017/10/30: Utilizing the new CVE patcher, all devices were mitigated against KRACK.
  • 2017/10/29: Introduction of automatic kernel CVE patching for all devices.
  • 2017/10/29: The CVE downloader/patcher project was created.
  • 2017/10/14: The repositories were re-licensed to GPLv3.
  • 2017/09/10: Extirpater saw its initial port to Android.
  • 2017/08/01: A commit references a patch made four years earlier? Not too sure about this one.
  • 2017/06/15: Silence was included in the images.
  • 2017/06/04: Start of work on automated kernel CVE patching.
  • 2017/06/04: The project was re-branded into DivestOS.
  • 2017/05/30: OTA updates became supported.
  • 2017/02/25: The dedicated website was created.
  • 2017/01/25: The first revision of our automated deblobber was created.
  • 2017/01/04: Public images were discontinued again.
  • 2016/12/27: Work starts on rebasing onto LineageOS from CyanogenMod.
  • 2016/12/21: The monorepo for what is now called DivestOS was created.
  • 2016/07/10: Earliest recorded date of removing the proprietary AmbientSDK malware from our CyanogenMod 13.0 builds.
  • 2016/04/26: The recommended apps lists was released as a Gist on GitHub.
  • 2016/03/19: Public images return, supporting 8 devices.
  • 2016/03/03: Earliest recorded date of our UnifiedNlp backend, MergedWiFiNLP, utilizing simple CSV files.
  • 2016/01/01: Public images were discontinued.
  • 2015/11/20: First builds signed using proper release-keys.
  • 2015/11/19: A PaX enabled kernel is successfully booted on bacon, based on work and with help from Daniel Micay.
  • 2015/04/01: Our first CyanogenMod 12.1 based images made available.
  • 2014/12/31: The earliest recorded date of publicly offering custom images. They were based off of CyanogenMod 12 and available for five devices.

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