LineageOS was born from the ashes of CyanogenMod back in late 2016/early 2017, and since its beginning, the custom Android distribution has grown to support dozens of devices with millions of users. Back in late February of 2019, the team announced LineageOS 16 based on Android 9 Pie for 24 devices. Over the last few months, LineageOS 16 has added support for more devices like the OnePlus 6 and Essential Phone, but the custom ROM has also added a ton of new features along the way. To keep us updated on all the major changes made since the initial release of LineageOS 16, the team behind LineageOS has published a new blog post outlining their progress since March.

The changelog is quite long, so here's a summary of my favorite feature additions. First, toggling Night Light can also now toggle the built-in dark theme. Next, the volume panel can now expand to show all volume streams so you don't have to go to Sound settings; furthermore, you can move the default position of the volume panel to the left side of the screen. Then, expandable Quick Setting tiles are back; stock Android Pie doesn't let you change Wi-Fi networks or Bluetooth connections from the Quick Settings anymore, but LineageOS brought that functionality back. There's a new wallpaper app with some pretty default wallpapers, lock screen shortcut support, the famed circle status bar icon for the battery level is back, and the notification volume can now be unlinked from the ringtone volume. The stock dialer app has been updated to support call recording in regions where it's legal to do so, Bluetooth SBC DualChannel HD has been added (this deserves a separate article so we'll go into more detail on this soon), and all the security patches from April, May, and June 2019 have been merged.

LineageOS Changelog 23: Major Changes Since March 1st, 2019

Unless explicitly stated, all the changes refer to the current branch, lineage-16.0.

  • AOSP’s Night Display now controls night mode (on recent devices only, such as those with a Snapdragon 820 or more recent)
  • LiveDisplay remains available for all its other features
  • The volume panel can now be expanded to control all the various volume streams
  • The volume panel can now be optionally relocated to the left
  • Expanded quick settings are back
    • Detailed views for the following tiles are available: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Mobile Data, Location, Profiles
  • New default wallpaper and a new wallpapers app with many new, and old, wallpapers
    • Other than the usual nature, urban and abstract themed wallpapers, monochromatic and gradients wallpapers are now available
  • Privacy Guard now supports apps in the Work Profile
  • It’s possible to add up to two LockScreen shortcuts again
  • Circle battery is back after being missing since LineageOS 13.0
  • Notification ringtone level can be unlinked from phone calls ringtone level
  • GPS battery saving mode can now be enabled from the Settings
  • Vim has been updated to version 8.1 (Nano has been updated to version 4.2)
  • Fixed issue where using certain private DNS caused devices to crash thanks to backported fix from Q
  • Updated call recording configurations (both 15.1 and 16.0)
  • Call recordings are (dis)allowed on countries basing on laws and/or legal precedents. Informations with links are available in the source code.
    • These countries now support call recording: Albania, American Samoa, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Belarus, Bonaire, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Curaçao, Cyprus, Estonia, Faroe Islands, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Georgia, Greece, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Martinique, Mayotte, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, New Caledonia, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Peru, Russia, Réunion, Saba, Saint Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Serbia, Singapore, Sint Eustatius, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, Ukraine and Wallis-et-Futuna.
    • These countries have been blocked from call recording: Andorra, Iceland, Indonesia, Monaco, Switzerland, the United States of America and some of its territories - Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands.
  • Support for Bluetooth SBC DualChannel HD has been added (both 15.1 and 16.0)
  • Performance improvements for Eleven (music player app) (both 15.1 and 16.0)
  • April, May and June security patches have been merged (both 15.1 and 16.0)
  • WebView has been updated to Chromium 74.0.3729.157 (both 15.1 and 16.0)

We're linking the download pages below for all the devices that currently have LineageOS 16 or LineageOS 15.1 releases. It's up to you to follow the installation instructions mentioned in the wiki page because there's no universal approach to installing LineageOS. In general, though, you'll need to unlock the bootloader, flash a custom recovery, flash LineageOS, and then optionally flash a Google apps package. If your device isn't listed below, be sure to check the XDA forums to see if there's an unofficial release.

LineageOS 16 (Android 9 Pie) - Nightly Releases

BQ

Essential

Fairphone

Google

Honor/Huawei

LeEco

Lenovo

LG

Motorola

Nextbit

OnePlus

OPPO

Samsung

Sony

Wileyfox

Xiaomi

Yu

LineageOS 15.1 (Android 8.1 Oreo) - Weekly Releases

Note: some devices have both official LineageOS 15.1 and official LineageOS 16 releases.

BQ

Google

Honor

LeEco

LG

Nextbit

NVIDIA

OnePlus

Sony

Xiaomi

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If your language isn't natively supported by Android, you can help LineageOS add support for it by contributing to Crowdin. The team notes that Lineage is the first custom Android distribution with support for the Welsh (Cymraeg) language thanks to contributions from community translators.

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