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What is Google Security patch?

As an open source system, Android has always been open to mobile phone manufacturers around the world, including MIUI on Xiaomi smartphones. Many mobile phone manufacturers have developed their own deeply customized systems based on native Android. It is precisely because of this open source feature that Android is subject to network attacks caused by security vulnerabilities. In order to avoid such problems, Google launched the "Patch Reward Program" as early as 2013. The program covers many open source software, including the Android open source project. Since 2015, Google has applied a security patch to Android every month, with the aim of allowing you to have a safer mobile phone experience. Therefore, we can see the "Google Security Patch Level" in the mobile phone parameter interface. Its version naming rule is the time when Google launched this patch. In fact, in order to ensure that you can obtain a safe mobile phone use condition, MIUI has a complete security protection mechanism, and it also actively synchronizes the patches released by Google in the system version upgrade. Therefore, you do not need to worry about being attacked because the security patch level has not been updated to the latest version.