Overview
- Starting this year, official Android Open Source Project code will ship in Q2 and Q4 instead of on a roughly quarterly schedule.
- The next AOSP source release is slated for summer 2026 under the new cadence.
- Google frames the change as delivering more stable baselines for downstream integration by matching its trunk-stable process.
- Phandroid reports the Q2 drop will serve as the major update and Q4 as a smaller one, while monthly security patches continue on dedicated branches.
- Developer workflows are changing as the aosp-main branch becomes read-only with work moving to android-latest-release, and end users are expected to notice little immediate difference.