The 17.1 branch remains in active development, but without feature advancements.Īll the released builds are signed with LineageOS' private keys. On 1 April 2021, the first 18.1 builds were made available, following official announcement.The 16.0 builds are moved to a weekly cadence while the branch remains in active development, but without feature advancements. On 1 April 2020, the first 17.1 builds were made available, following official announcement.
On 1 March 2019, the first 16.0 official builds started to be available, following official announcement.On 24 February 2019, the 14.1 builds were stopped and 15.1 builds moved to a weekly cadence.The 14.1 versions of Lineage OS were to remain in active development, but without feature advancements. On 26 February 2018, the first 15.1 official builds started to be available on certain devices, following official announcement in a blog post.
Prior to the official launch of LineageOS, many developers from XDA had already developed unofficial versions of LineageOS from the source code.
It also retained the old versioning format (for example, Android 7.1 is LineageOS 14.1). Like CyanogenMod, the LineageOS project is developed by many device-specific maintainers and uses Gerrit for its code review process. CyanogenMod was also said to perform better and be more reliable than official firmware releases. CyanogenMod's developers said that it did not contain spyware or bloatware. Many of the features from CyanogenMod were later integrated into the official Android code base.
Features supported by CyanogenMod included native theme support, FLAC audio codec support, a large Access Point Name list, Privacy Guard (per-application permission management application), support for tethering over common interfaces, CPU overclocking, root access, soft buttons and other "tablet tweaks," toggles in the notification pull-down (such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and satellite navigation), and other interface and performance enhancements. The code itself, being both open source and popular, was quickly forked under the new name LineageOS and efforts began to resume development as a community project.ĬyanogenMod offered a number of features and options not available in the official firmware distributed by most mobile device vendors. In her view, the company did not capitalize on the project's success and in 2016 she either left or was forced out as part of a corporate restructure which involved a change of CEO, closure of offices and projects, and cessation of services. to allow commercialization of the project. In 2013, the founder, Stefanie Kondik, obtained venture funding under the name Cyanogen Inc. Although only a subset of total CyanogenMod users elected to report their use of the firmware, as of 23 March 2015, some reports indicated over 50 million people running CyanogenMod on their phones. ĬyanogenMod (often abbreviated "CM") was a popular open-source operating system for smartphones and tablet computers, based on the Android mobile platform. Since its launch, LineageOS development builds are available for 109 phone models with over 2.8 million active installs, having doubled its user base in the months February–March 2017. As with all versions of Android, operating system releases are specific to a single device model. LineageOS was officially launched on 24 December 2016, with the source code available on both GitHub and GitLab. retained the rights to the Cyanogen name, the project rebranded its fork as LineageOS. announced it was discontinuing development and shut down the infrastructure behind the project. It is the successor to the custom ROM CyanogenMod, from which it was forked in December 2016 when Cyanogen Inc.
LineageOS is an operating system for smartphones, tablet computers, and set-top boxes, based on Android with mostly free and open-source software.