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The most important thing about this State of the Game (Yes, I do realise it's 22 November)

With all of that said, we are realistically looking at a launch window for Terraria 1.4.5 that is between mid December and the end of January.

I expect this community will have a flurry of activity at that time, maybe for good.

Germany is revoking the citizenship of a recently naturalised man of Syrian background in Berlin after he allegedly praised Hamas on Instagram one day after receiving his German passport.

According to reports, he grew up in Berlin from early childhood, obtained German citizenship under the 2024 naturalisation rules and then posted a picture of two Hamas fighters with a Palestine flag and the caption “Heroes of Palestine” with a green heart. Security services flagged the post, and the Berlin immigration authority treated it as evidence that he had violated the declaration he had just signed; a withdrawal notice was issued and sent to his lawyer. If the decision becomes final, he will lose his German citizenship and the authorities would then have to decide in a separate procedure whether he can remain in Germany at all.

Under §35 of the German Nationality Act (StAG), citizenship can be revoked for up to ten years if it was obtained through deception. Under §10(1), applicants must declare that they support the protection of Jewish life, a commitment that administrative practice understands as including Israel’s existence.

France's cybersecurity agency was previously actively using GrapheneOS. They helped us by auditing our code and submitting bug reports such as this one:

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc/issues/133

They also made suggestions for security improvements to improve protection against exploits.

France was actively using GrapheneOS on a national level via ANSSI. They benefited from our open source code available to them for free as it is to everyone else in the world. This makes it all the more ridiculous that French state agencies are now heavily attacking GrapheneOS.

We're being contacted by a bunch of journalists about French law enforcement agencies sending out warnings about GrapheneOS and contacting the media to fearmonger with false and unsubstantiated claims. Meanwhile, ANSSI actively sought out our code to defend their infrastructure.

Every user of Android and other Linux distributions, macOS and iOS in France has benefited from GrapheneOS contributing to open source projects used in these systems. Ideas we came up with for defenses were also deployed in these. French law enforcement literally uses our code.

Based on our update server download statistics, GrapheneOS is approaching 400k users around the world. A majority of those users are in Europe with a large number in France. Only a small handful of people being arrested who use it is in fact strong evidence against their claims.

Meanwhile, the FBI and European law enforcement facilitated years of organized crime in Europe via Operation Trojan Shield while infringing on our copyright and trademarks. How about they start by arresting themselves? See our other thread about this:

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115589833471347871

Here's France's ANSSI agency proposing an exploit protection to defend against apps being exploited:

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1118

Today, our restrictions for Dynamic Code Loading via both memory and storage cover protecting against this and are enforced for the whole base OS.