Last week, we released the final CM-13.0 releases, updated to the latest security patches, in anticipation of what follows. Yesterday, Cyanogen Inc (Cyngn) announced that they were shutting down the infrastructure behind CyanogenMod (CM). This is an action that was not unpredictable given the public departure of Kondik (cyanogen himself) from the company,...

We’ve been improving some of the CM infrastructure recently… * All sites and services force https now (much needed). Thanks again to Cloudflare for the continued support. * Upgraded our Gerrit instance to 2.13.2 * Build servers now compile and upload in parallel, which should give us much more capacity. Previously this happened as a single step,...

It’s been a long wait, but tonight we will kick off the first CM14.1 nightly builds (based on Android 7.1) for a handful of devices. It’s still very early on for this release and a number of features (like Themes) aren’t available yet, but development is progressing. The devices which are part of the first push: angler (Nexus 6P) bullhead (Nexus...

Cyanogen Inc is hosting the 2nd annual CyanogenMod Developer Summit on October 23 2016. Hosted in Hurst Texas this year, following the largely popular Big Android BBQ, the 2016 CM Dev Summit will build on the success of last year’s inaugural summit. This year, we’re excited to open the event up to the larger CM community, offering up an opportunity...

DEF CON 24 is officially in the books, so what better time to release a new CM snapshot, full of new features and security updates? These releases were branched on August 1st, 2016 (branch stable/cm-13.0-ZNH5Y) and bring our snapshot releases up from Android 6.0.1 r17 to Android 6.0.1 r61. The first thing you should notice is our new custom boot &...

I wanted to quickly address the circus of misinformation which has sprung up recently, particularly for everyone who uses CM or has been involved with the project. tl;dr: CyanogenMod isn’t going anywhere, nor has Cyanogen Inc. discontinued it’s efforts towards the goal of bringing it to a larger audience. It’s been seven years since I released the...