Samsung’s Galaxy S7 series was released in February 2016, and the company officially dropped the device from its update schedules last month. However, the news is that there’s still a new update being seeded out now – the last one and this time for good.
The update ships the May 2020 security patch aimed at fixing a recently discovered flaw exposed by Google’s Project Zero. This flaw affected all of Samsung’s Android devices running Android O(8.x), P(9.0), and Q(10.x) OS.
“A security researcher at Google’s Project Zero (GPZ), an independent security team within Google, has reported vulnerabilities in Samsung devices’ Qmage codec library, a third party solution provided by Quramsoft,” Samsung said in a blog post earlier this month.
The flaw could let an attacker potentially gain access to a Samsung phone without the user ever noticing.
But that won’t be possible after the May 2020 security update, which the company is providing to its affected devices, including the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge.
For the Galaxy S7 series, the update also ships with the April 2020 security patch.
After this update, Samsung is done completely with the Galaxy S7 series for good – unless otherwise. It marks the end of a four-year support period that the company has been providing to the duo.