But Project Treble – which modularizes Android updates into a platform (Google) and vendor (OEM) structure – not only allows essential framework updates to be rolled out faster, it also ...

Every version of Android has its own OS-specific Time Zone Data module. Android 14 is the fifth release that supports Mainline, so we’re now at version 5 of TZ data.

Google has denied that, but the Pixel change does look to be intentional. On Tuesday, Google released Android 16’s source code to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).