Backporting of patches for nougat builds is done by some developers as you can see a thread here
This is not a regular process and is not a long term solution.
The best solution is to upgrade the device. Again the question comes up if upgrading devices which are no longer supported by vendors is a viable process. We are looking at shortlisting a select set of devices from the overall list of supported devices
For non nougat devices the security patches come around mid of every month. Last month we were working on upgrading our build infra and so there were less builds. The testing of the next build is currently underway and we should be releasing the build OTA for all users by next week. It will have the latest cumulative security patches.
We will be optimizing the process to provide users with delta patches- so a user only downloads the updated code instead of the entire build each time. That on a paid connection can be a bit upsetting for most users. Patch delivery will also be faster with this approach.
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