The implosion of Cyanogen, Inc., has reached its zenith. The company is shutting down all services related to CyanogenMod, effectively killing the open source community project, and since Cyanogen, Inc., owns all the trademarks regarding Cyanogen, the community project can’t continue operating as-is.
As a result, CyanogenMod has forked itself into LineageOS, and plans to continue doing what it does best.
Embracing that spirit, we the community of developers, designers, device maintainers and translators have taken the steps necessary to produce a fork of the CM source code and pending patches. This is more than just a ‘rebrand’. This fork will return to the grassroots community effort that used to define CM while maintaining the professional quality and reliability you have come to expect more recently.
I hate saying “I told you so” but… Who am I kidding – I love saying “I told you so”.
I told you so.
An implosion with a zenith!?
Rather an explosion at the apogee.
Sad to see it go. When I still had my Galaxy S and Samsung were refusing to update it beyond Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), I found that CM were doing an ICS (or was it Jelly Bean by then?) ROM for it and it was great. Ran so much faster than Gingerbread even though it didn’t have some of Samsung’s added features. Drained the battery like nobody’s business, though, unless I turned mobile data off.
Since then I’ve had a Galaxy Nexus, then a Nexus 4, 5 and 5X and all but the last I’ve had CM on. Whenever I’ve had stock Android I always missed the extra features of CM, like being able to configure the bottom of the screen buttons and the config buttons. As CM was open source I hope Google will incorporate some of these features into stock Android (or market it as an “advanced” version of Android if it’s thought too technical for the average user).
Darn. I hope upgrading from CM to Lineage will be straightforward…
http://lineageos.org
If you say “I told you so”, then at least link to the source where that statement is to be seen.
Edited 2016-12-25 18:05 UTC
Did anyone here really expect anything other than this?
Not after Microsoft money showed up…
I expected them to rush to market with at least 1 phone model with decent hardware. Looks like they only got 2 budget phones that would never matter 2 years later. Google and Apple signed the death certificate when they enabled blocking app permissions through the OS, removing over 90% of peoples’ needs to root phones.
The project’s website went dark this morning — CyMod team tweeted that Cyanogen had turned off their servers and Gerrit, probably as a reaction to their “fork in the road” blog post.
Almost lost my Christmas turkey over this news.
Had to revert my phone immediately from 7.1 to 6.0 as there wasn’t going to be anymore updates and I needed a fully functioning phone.
Really sucks though.
Can’t wait for what comes next. 🙂
The download site is still up but is scheduled to be taken down no later than 31st December, which suggests it could be down at any point before then.
No way of telling the quality of future releases so now is potentially your last chance to grab the last build from the 18th
https://download.cyanogenmod.org
I’m hoping that someone at lineage has a backup of all of CM’s work and project pages, docs etc.
Anyone know if someone’s working on mirroring the download.cm site?
I’m guessing that since the cyanogenmod trademark is owned by cyanogen inc. that all references will need to be scrubbed before being released by other parties.