I recently installed e os and I want to relock the bootloader. I did check the dates of e os and Android before migrating, and I think e os was newer, but only by a couple of days (if I understood correctly).
Now I’m kinda hesitant to relock because I don’t want my device to brick so I’d rather wait until a new version of e os gets released.
My questions are, it’s the security updates that matter correct? Not an entire e os update?
And second, when can it expect a new update to be released? I can’t seem to find a schedule.
This is a new hazard which maybe started inconveniencing AOSP builds a lot in the past six months, maybe Google don’t want to make it too easy for us.
The /e/OS cycle is roughly monthly but it does tend to lag Android by a significant period (/e/OS testing of a build cannot start till the relevant security updates are released).
The main answers to your questions and predicament will need some careful reading of https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/. You can see that the cycle here is based on a monthly cycle but …
around 1st for “security patch level vulnerability details”
I was going to continue around 5th for “framework”, roughly what we had about ~ May to October.
However if you read for November we see mentioned 1st Nov : security patch level vulnerability details, then a section of FAQ and then what is new to me:
Version Date Notes
1.0 November 3, 2025 Bulletin Published
1.1 November 14, 2025 Bulletin updated
When /e/OS 3.3 comes out we can expect a “November 2025 AOSP Security patch”.
To be more specific in what I guess is your situation. If you unlocked your Fairphone Android when Android SPL was 5-October-2025 then /e/OS 3.3 with Android SPL 1-November-2025 (or any other date forward of this) will be safe to lock.
I was too lazy to write the Android version down (dumb I know), but I installed the latest eos version (3.2-a15) yesterday, and before I did that I updated Android to the latest version.
Are you saying I should probably wait until 3.3 is released to lock?
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