Cyanogen that tried as well as failed to kill Google's Android operating organization is instantly shutting downwards the custom services that it provides to phones that run its Cyanogen OS every bit nosotros know it as well as the "nightly builds" of said OS on Dec 31st.
Cyanogen came alongside an ambition to construct meliorate versions of the Android operating organization than those created past times Google itself, but next around technical as well as potential legal issues, the startup has decided to quit.
The planned shutdown of Cyanogen was officially announced slow Fri through a rattling brief blog post made past times the company, proverb "as role of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen," it's shutting downwards all services as well as nightly builds on Dec 31.
"The opened upwards source projection as well as source code volition rest available for anyone who wants to construct CyanogenMod personally," the weblog reads.
What About Cyanogen OS-Powered Smartphones?
From Jan 2017, at that topographic point volition survive no farther updates to the Cyanogen OS, no to a greater extent than nightly builds, as well as no to a greater extent than safety updates.
Eventually, smartphones running on the Cyanogen OS, similar the master copy OnePlus One as well as Lenovo ZUK Z1, volition conduct hold to switch to the open-source version of the CyanogenMod operating system.
CyanogenMod OS is non a commercial operating organization as well as is managed past times a community of developers led past times Steve Kondik, the co-founder of Cyanogen.
'Death Blow' to CyanogenMod
However, the CyanogenMod squad believes that the shutdown of Cyanogen is a "death blow" to CyanogenMod, the squad announced simply afterward the closure proclamation past times Cyanogen.
CyanogenMod squad pays respects to the community every bit it served for to a greater extent than than 8 long years as well as announced the side past times side open-source Android project.
Embracing the spirit of Cyanogen, the CyanogenMod squad of developers, designers, device maintainers, as well as translators are instantly working to create a fork of the CyanogenMod source code as well as pending patches.
Next? CyanogenMod Team Launches Lineage OS
While both Cyanogen as well as CyanogenMod are proverb goodbye this year, the spirit of CyanogenMod volition hold to alive on inwards the novel opened upwards source project.
Dubbed LineageOS, the novel OS is nonetheless inwards its inception stage as well as would accept around fourth dimension for people to run into whatsoever progress from the newly formed unit.
According to the CyanogenMod (CM) team, Lineage "is to a greater extent than than simply a ‘rebrand’" as well as "will render to the grassroots community examine that used to define CM spell maintaining the professional person character as well as reliability you lot conduct hold come upwards to await to a greater extent than recently."
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 website is existence developed for LineageOS, as well as the GitHub repository tin shipping away survive constitute populated alongside CM files, called Lineage Android Distribution. The start of this novel opened upwards source projection "will survive a continuation of what CyanogenMod was."
