If Google sticks to its yearly refresh routine, then we will more than likely see the Pixel 4 lineup later this year. And now we have our first reference of the handset out there in the wild courtesy of a Google employee.

Direct references to a “Pixel 4” have been discovered within the Android Open Source Project, or AOSP. At the time of publication, it has been revealed that Google employee Andrey Konovalov has made two references to Pixel 4 within AOSP, as it relates to changes made to Android’s Linux kernel.

Here’s the important bit:

“We want this on 4.14 and 4.19 as well, and some patches are indeed needed there. The plan was to first deploy this on Pixel 3 and make sure that everything actually works. Then move on to Pixel 4 and so on. If I had a Pixel 4 device, I probably wouldn’t have bothered with 4.9 in the first place.”

Now, this does seem to confirm that Google is working on a Pixel 4. But, plans can change, so it’s possible that while the safe bet is we’ll see a Pixel 3 successor later this year, we still may not. And while Konovalov does confirm a Pixel 4 exists in some capacity, there are no additional details to go along with it. All we have to go on is the name, and that’s it for now.

It will be interesting to see how Google handles the leaks this year. There is no doubt that the Pixel 3 lineup was one of the more frequently leaked handsets in recent memory, leaving Google little to actually announce last year. Will we see the same thing happen this year?

If so, we probably don’t have long to wait before the leaks kick into gear.