QPR1 Beta 1 - CP31.260403.005.A1

Track: QPR1 Beta | Predecessor: Android 17 stable | Milestone: September 2026 stable

The first QPR1 build, laying groundwork for clipboard policy, factory reset protection improvements, and the policy serialisation framework.

DPC capabilities

• Universal clipboard policy (provisional) - new constants and a permission for controlling clipboard sharing across devices. The policy defines allowed and disallowed states, though no DPM API or enforcement path is wired up yet - this is scaffolding
• Key generation failure constant - a new constant for key generation failures provides clearer error reporting when certificate key pair generation fails

Other enterprise changes

• Factory reset protection hardening (provisional) - a new flag for hardening the active FRP check, aiming to strengthen post-wipe management continuity on managed devices
• User wipe broadened (provisional) - the flag controlling device wipes when a user cannot be removed was renamed from a narrow "last admin" scope to a broader "user that cannot be removed" scope, covering more edge cases on shared devices
• Policy serialisation framework - initial serialisers for package-level policies landed, establishing the plumbing for typed policy persistence. These were later replaced by a more robust handler in Beta 2
• DPM role qualification tightened - the device policy management role holder qualification bypass was tightened to only apply during multi-user management, rather than a generic "device managed" check
• Watch strong auth timeout (provisional) - a new flag for increasing the strong authentication timeout on watches, relevant for wearable enterprise deployments