Tuesday, 21 March 2017

LineageOS reaches over a million installations, adds more devices to its Pipeline

After end of Cyanogenmod, LineageOS pick from its ashes to create a new community and alternative Android OS. For the past several months, the team has been busy, releasing builds for an immense amount of devices. 



Now, it has been revealed that the team has hit a milestone with over one million installations.To be clear, the team did state that this doesn't necessarily mean that LineageOS has been installed on over a million devices, but that the OS itself has been installed over a million times.

In addition to the announcement, it was revealed that there would be some updates to the OS which are listed below.


Major changes since 6th March

  • Contacts can now be stored locally regardless of whether a contacts provider exists (contact-local-storage)
  • Custom QuickSettings tiles are back! (tiles) Initial tiles are as follows:
  • Caffeine
  • USB Tether
  • Sync
  • Battery saver
  • Ambient display
  • Heads Up
  • Volume Panel
  • ADB over Network
  • March security patches (r25) have been merged

Per usual, Many new builds are going to release this week.

Build roster

kltevzw has been merged into klte. To continue receiving updates, flash the latest klte build, as this is the last week of kltevzw builds.
Removed 14.1 devices
  • Maintainer is no longer active
    • Huawei Ascend Mate 2 - mt2
    • HTC One (GSM) - m7
    • HTC One (Verizon) - m7vzw

Added 14.1 devices
  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (Verizon) - jfltevzw - maintainer: invisiblek
  • Samsung Galaxy S4 (Intl) - jfltexx - maintainer: dimitris
  • LG G5 (Intl) - h850 - maintainer: rashed
  • LG V20 (T-Mobile) - h918 - maintainer: rashed
Added 13.0 devices
  • Motorola Droid 4 - maserati - maintainer: stargo
  • Motorola Droid RAZR (CDMA) - spyder - maintainer: stargo
  • Motorola Droid Bionic - targa - maintainer: stargo
  • Motorola Droid RAZR (GSM) - umts_spyder - maintainer: stargo
  • Motorola Photon Q - xt897 - maintainers: nadlabak, mccreary

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