In Android 11 we continue to increase the security of the Android platform. We have moved to safer default settings, migrated to a hardened memory allocator, and expanded the use of compiler mitigations that defend against classes of vulnerabilities and frustrate exploitation techniques.
An overview of the security-related changes in Android 11.
Too bad the majority of sub $300 phones won’t be seeing any of this for a couple of years as the OEMs won’t update the OS, just look at how many phones being sold on Amazon right now are Android 8 or 9. Hell my own phone is barely a year and a half old (Umidigi A3 Pro) and I won’t be seeing this until I buy a new phone when this one dies as I haven’t seen a single update since I bought the thing.
I thought that “OEMs never update” issue would be solved when I bought the wife a phone with Android One which is supposed to get 3 years of updates but…nope, other than a couple of security patches she is on the same version of Android 9 it came with OOTB. Say what you want about MSFT but Google really needs to follow their lead and at least put out security patches (and force the OEMs via contract to allow security updates from a Google repo) for 5 years after they release an OS because with the amount of power even budget phones have these days making them ewaste not because they can’t run the latest and greatest but simply because nobody ever patches the fucking thing is just stupid and wasteful