NOTE 9 April update finally out.

[BOSSGOGG]

After a strange 2 month hiatus, my Note 9 finally updated to the latest security patch today.

This is a critical patch from google that has had some press for the holes it patches.

This is the first time since my S8+ nearly 2 years ago that I have had a single month missed.

Also included the wide selfie mode.

( should be noted that mine is an unlocked BTU device on O2)

[MI5]

Your updates will be totally reliant on Samsung to push them out to you.
O2 won't be involved at all in the process.

[BOSSGOGG]

Correct.
But historically BTU is within a few days of O2U, EVR et al.

Promising that one of the varients has been updated past February. The rest will be among shortly.

[Foddersin]

BTU and XEU otherwise non-carrier specific firmware is generally always released before a carrier-specific release, purely due to the testing a carrier will do before giving the manufacturer the tumbs up to release.

[BOSSGOGG]

Yeah. The past few Carrier releases have been within a week or so of the BTU release, some a couple of days different.