CyanogenMod is een opensourcebesturingssysteem voor smartphones en tablets. Het is gebaseerd op een kale versie van Android en voegt extra functionaliteit toe, waaronder root-toegang, snelkoppelingen in de notificatiebalk, een uitgebreid lockscreen en verschillende thema's voor de interface. Verder zijn er vaak prestatieverbeteringen waar te nemen ten opzichte van de software die een fabrikant zelf meelevert.
CyanogenMod versie 10.2 is gebaseerd op Android versie 4.3.1 en is nog volop in ontwikkeling. Bijna dagelijks komen er onofficiële builds uit, ook wel nightlies genoemd, maar deze zijn niet altijd even stabiel. Om dit te verbeteren wordt eens in de paar weken een code freeze ingesteld, zodat er kort daarna een stabielere build dan gemiddeld beschikbaar kan komen. Kort na de release candidate van CyanogenMod 10.2 zijn nu de eerste final release-builds beschikbaar gekomen en gaan de ontwikkelaars zich richten op CyanogenMod 11, gebaseerd op Android versie 4.4 'KitKat'.
CyanogenMod 10.2.0 Release
With the release of CM 10.2.0 we end our foray into Android 4.3-land and planned releases based on that code. We will of course continue to provide hot-fixes, security patches and similar as needed. The device roster for this initial run includes all devices that received an RC1.
Echoing the RC1 post, make sure you update your third party addon zips. As a cursory note, for those of you coming from 10.1 or earlier, if you notice your Phone app reports as ‘not installed’: simply remove the shortcut and re-add it from your application drawer.
As we’ve done with similar ‘end of branch’ releases, this marks the point where the team will shift focus solely to CM 11 and Android 4.4 (KitKat) code. CM 10.2 nightlies will continue and as we ramp up CM 11 nightlies, device maintainers will signal which devices are ready to make that jump as well. Whether you prefer stable, almost stable or bleeding edge, all of you will have something to flash very soon!
Some additional administrative items. We’ll soon be retiring the ICS branches from the nightly rotation. There are less and less changes going into that branch, and with CM 11 nightlies on the horizon, it makes more sense to task the buildbots to actively changing branches instead (ie 10.0 and above).
We’ve also made a change to the release tagging process. For those of you who like to build for releases for yourself, note that all but the device repositories themselves are being built off of a new ‘stable/cm-10.2' branch in our source. Think of ‘cm-10.2' as the development branch and ‘stable/cm-10.2' as the release branch. Just pass the relevant arguments on sync to decide which you prefer. This change has no impact to gerrit or any code contributions.
Happy Flashing