It is very sad that CyanogenMod is no longer with us due to the breakup of Cyanogen Inc., but thankfully the LineageOS was formed as a continuation of the project. The team has now announced their future plans and the great news is that you can expect LineageOS and various builds to roll out this coming weekend.
The first official builds will be up next week, but no word on supported devices. What we do know is that the team plans to offer weekly updates and will support more than 80 devices.
- The build roster is ever growing, but we are supporting Marshmallow and Nougat capable devices.
- We’ll list the 80+ devices in a separate post.
- Our release cadence will be ‘weekly’ by default (to be nice to all the donated hardware).
- We will NOT be shipping root baked into the ROM.
- Root will be a downloadable zip based install similar to gapps installation (only need to flash it once).
- Home builders that want to bake su back into the ROM can use the command ‘export WITH_SU=true’ prior to building.
- Our official builds will all be signed with a private key for authentication and signature permission control
- This will not break, prevent or stop any ‘unofficial’ builds.
- Key verification info can be found on the wiki Verifying Build Authenticity page
