Lineage OS is marking a sentimental milestone with this release, as the project will celebrate 10 years on December 24, 2026. The community of developers, maintainers, contributors, and users behind the project has kept many devices alive over that time, and the team thanked supporters for their continued patronage and belief in the project.
Work on an updated Lineage OS based on Android 17 has moved quickly. The team rebased its changes and features onto Android 17's code base faster than anticipated, thanks to earlier efforts adapting to Google's heavy refactoring over recent versions. Security patches from August 2025 to October 2026 have been merged into Lineage OS 18.1 through 24.0, and patches through November 2025 have reached the legacy branches 15.1, 16.0, and 17.1. The December 2025 bulletins included difficult-to-backport patches the team could not adapt, so it invited contributors to push them to Gerrit for review.
Core applications also received significant updates, many now adopting Material Design 3 Expressive. Canvas is a new image editor offering cropping, white balance, and filters. Catapult gained a battery indicator for mobile devices and handheld consoles. Jelly now supports PWA-like apps via shortcuts, and Twelve improved load times for large libraries. The Updater was redesigned, with updates streamed by default to greatly reduce installation time on A/B devices. Seedvault and the Setup Wizard also received upstream updates and redesigns.
Source: Hacker News · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing