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Starting in 2026, Android Open Source Project (AOSP) will publish source code twice yearly in Q2 and Q4 to align with trunk stable development. Developers should use the android-latest-release manifest branch instead of aosp-main for building and contributing, as it will always reference the most recent AOSP release.