
All the released builds are signed with LineageOS' private keys. Prior to the official launch of LineageOS, many developers from XDA had already developed unofficial versions of LineageOS from the source code.
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It also retained the old versioning format (for example, Android 7.1 is LineageOS 14.1).
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Like CyanogenMod, the LineageOS project is developed by many device-specific maintainers and uses Gerrit for its code review process. ( May 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please improve this section by adding secondary or tertiary sources. This section relies excessively on references to primary sources. 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.
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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. ĬyanogenMod offered a number of features and options not available in the official firmware distributed by most mobile device vendors. The code itself, being both open source and popular, was forked under the new name LineageOS and efforts began to resume development as a community project. 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. In March 2015, Forbes indicated over 50 million people were running CyanogenMod on their phones. CyanogenMod users can opt-in to report their use of the firmware. ĬyanogenMod (often abbreviated "CM") was a popular open-source operating system for smartphones and tablet computers, based on the Android mobile platform. In March 2017, it reportedly had one million users with the OnePlus One being the most popular device. 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 CyanogenMod, from which it was forked in December 2016, when Cyanogen Inc. LineageOS is an Android-based operating system for smartphones, tablet computers, and set-top boxes, with mostly free and open-source software.
