Cyanogen Inc. shutting down all Cyanogen services

[rahul1117kumar]

After reports that Cyanogen Inc. will be shutting down its headquarters in Seattle and layoff more employees, today the company has announced that it will be shutting down all its services. It also said that Cyanogen-supported nightly builds will be discontinued by the end of the month.

If you are using any Cyanogen-powered devices such as Yu Yureka, OnePlus One or ZUK Z1, you will not be getting future updates. You can move to CyanogenMod or any other ROM if you want latest updates. Now CyanogenMod will be 100% reliant on the community for development of latest Android builds.

Last month Cyanogen Inc. said that it has plan to consolidate Cyanogen’s sites into a single team in Palo Alto by the end of the year. It also said that it has separated ties with Steve Kondik, who was made the “Chief Science Officer” from the CTO recently.

On their official blog, Cyanogen Inc. said: As part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen, all services and Cyanogen-supported nightly builds will be discontinued no later than 12/31/16. The open source project and source code will remain available for anyone who wants to build CyanogenMod personally.

Cyanogen Inc. shutting down all Cyanogen services

 

[Siva]

This is such a bad news. Cyanogen was really great community.

 

[Sarkar]

Hope a new alternative will emerge soon like Libre office

 

[Nawin7ST]

what about yu?

 

[Tha.RP8]

When you plan to put a bullet through google's head after surviving on google's os, this is bound to happen... Really sad, was a great community, even made one or two small contributions to cyanogenmd in my early engg. days...

 

[rahul1117kumar]

CyanogenMod is also dead, fork of CM source code will live on as LineageOS

After Cyanogen Inc. announced that it will be shutting down all its services, including Cyanogen-supported nightly builds by the end of the month, CyanogenMod that relied on Cyanogen for monetary support and the shared source base, announced that CyanogenMod will also shutdown, but there is a fork in the road. “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,” said the company.

The fork of CyanogenMod source code will live on as Lineage OS, said the company. However, it is not clear when it will go live. There is new website for Lineage OS, and a blog post titled Yes, this is us , says: Lineage OS will be a continuation of what CyanogenMod was. To quote Andy Rubin, this is the definition of open. A company pulling their support out of an open source project does not mean it has to die.

In a official blog post, CyanogenMod said : 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.

CM has served the community well over its 8 long years. It has been our home, bringing together friends from all over the world to celebrate our joy of building and giving. Its apt then that on this Eve of a holiday we pay our respects. We will take pride in our Lineage as we move forward and continue to build on its legacy.

CyanogenMod is also dead, fork of CM source code will live on as LineageOS

 

[rahul1117kumar]

Lineage OS gets a new logo, to start 2017 after the death of CyanogenMod

Lineage OS, the new custom ROM initiative that will replace the now shut CyanogenMod has gained a new logo to kick off 2017. This development comes right after the project gained an official Gerrit account to help developers keep a track of the modifications being done to the code. Active development has already started with people making changes in real-time to the code. This pace of rapid development is sufficient to dispell the concerns regarding the survival of the popular ROM development community.

The new logo was uploaded on Lineage OS Github account and later the website was updated with the logo. The logo maintains the almost cyan-like colour from Cyanogen and has a symbolic representation of ‘fork’. The fork here is not the one you need to eat salad but instead, the fork here represents the forks, also known as variations to the original code or software or Operating System in this case.

This fork probably symbolises the split, yet the survival after the downfall of CyanogenMod or it could even represent the entire Android landscape in addition to the Linux development landscape.

Linux, just like Android has numerous distributions and forks made by independent developers or organisations according to their needs. This comes right after the team behind Lineage OS detailed their needs to have Build Slaves, Build and Build Mirrors for the project to reach the functioning capacity that it boasted during its CyanogenMod days. The company detailed that it will share the information when Weeklies or possibly nightlies will start.

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