LineageOS 19, based on Android 12.1/12L, is officially released

IT House April 27 news, according to 9to5 Google reported that in the past few months, saw many unofficial versions of Android 12-based LineageOS 19, but now this third-party ROM has been officially available.

The official LineageOS blog announced a major update to one of the most popular third-party ROMs on Android. It's worth noting that the official update is actually based on Android 12.1/12L, but as Android moves to quarterly maintenance releases, the team decided to abandon "19.1" to support "19".

Since Android is in quarterly maintenance release mode, this release will be LineageOS 19 instead of 19.0 or 19.1. ”

LineageOS 19 will first be available for a range of Google Pixel devices and 29 other phones. Unfortunately, there are currently no builds of the Google Tensor-powered Pixel 6 and 6 Pro. As updates are provided for devices that maintain a single device version, more devices will be added.

Below is the official Changelog for LineageOS 19

The security patches for March 2021 to April 2022 have been incorporated into LineageOS 16.0 through 19. There are currently 19 versions based on the Android-12.1.0_r4 label, the Pixel 6 series label.

WebView has been updated to Chromium 100.0.4896.58.

Completely redoed the volume panel introduced in Android 12, changing it to a side pop-up expansion panel.

The AOSP Gallery app branch gets a lot of fixes and improvements.

The updater app gets a lot of bug fixes and improvements.

Web browser Jelly gets many bug fixes and improvements!

Contributed many changes and improvements to the upstream of the recently integrated FOSS Etar Calendar app!

Contributed many changes and improvements to the upstream of the Seedvault backup application.

The Recorder application gets many bug fixes, improvements, and added features.

The Android TV version now comes with an ad-free Android TV launcher, unlike Google's ad launcher.

The Android TV version now comes with a key handler that supports custom keys on a variety of Bluetooth and IR remotes.

adb_root service is no longer bound to build type properties.

The extraction utility now supports fetching from most types of factory/packaged OTA images, greatly simplifying device boot and blob extraction.

The SDK adds support for high touch polling rates, allowing it to be enabled on supported devices.

The AOSP Clang toolchain is now the default toolchain for compiling the kernel.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon camera has been abandoned, and devices that previously used it will now use Camera2.

Dark mode is now enabled by default.

New setup wizard with brand new Android 12-style icons, animations and tons of new configurable pages!

A whole new set of icons for almost any app, even system apps!

(18.1 also) There are brand new default wallpapers, and a full set of wallpapers to choose from. These wallpapers were designed with Android 12's Monet theme feature in mind, and see which accent color you like best!

(18.1 also) Wi-Fi display is available for all opt-in devices, either through Qualcomm's proprietary interface or the newly restored legacy Miracast interface!

(18.1 also) Custom charging sounds for different types of charging (wired or wireless) are now supported.

There are many other changes in LineageOS 19 that affect the network. Built-in firewalls for privacy, restricted network modes, and per-application isolation are required to rework to comply with AOSP's new restricted network mode.

Unfortunately, due to some other AOSP change, which removes iptables to support eBPF, some older devices may not be updated to LineageOS 19 – at least for now. The LineageOS team explains:

"The problem is that only devices with Linux kernel 4.9 or later have the functionality needed to use eBPF. Usually, these things can be backported to older kernel versions, but for now, even versions close to 4.9 and 4.4 are proving challenging due to the number of commits and structural changes in BPF ingestion. For those with the 4.4 kernel, don't worry, we've created a backport, but for devices with kernel versions 3.18 and below, this may be the end point. ”