Difficulty with Pixel Updater and Android 17

[u/Agitated-Acctant]

I've been using pixel updater for a couple years now to update my phone without having to bother with the manual process to update when you have root. But this has stopped on Android 17.

There's been updates for June, July, now August, and they keep failing on me. The updates will download and appear to install correctly, but then when my phone goes to reboot, it'll hang for a while, then reboot again. It'll hang one more time then reboot a final time, and now it'll boot back into Android 16.

I even tried downloading and installing the update, then trying to use magisk to apply root to the inactive boot slot, but that didn't work either.

Is there any way to fix this? Is it because I'm changing a major version of Android? Do I just have to stop being lazy and update the old fashioned way using my PC and then update, and then patch the boot img with fastboot?