[LINEAGE 18] April 2026

[fakemanoan]

This release will break your lockscreen. You will need to clear your lockscreen password before you update (lineage asb stuff, sorry!)

If you get stuck with a device you cant unlock, flash this:

credits: https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-twrp-zip-remove-all-locksettings-from-lockscreen.3790897/#post-81874415 (mirrored due to AFH)

• Sync with LineageOS
• Merge ASBs (though security patch date will appear to regress as per LineageOS)
• Redo kernel
• Remove some janky plat/mach arm64 stuff, move more to drivers/soc
• Revert some patches that werent doing much for us, like process_reclaim
• Backport changes from 8890 interactive governor, results in slightly faster/consistent 1T scores
• KernelSU updated to 32276
• Backport execveat() syscall
• Re-enable multi-mode irq on all devices
• Backport LCD_RES and DSU_MODE from 8890
• Disable SEC_SLOW_MODE
• Backport HMP_DOWN_MIGRATION_COMPENSATION from 8890
• Copy HMP values from 8890, and load them from dts, instead of hardcoded values
• Backport NEON accelerated crypto for lz4/crc32
• Set HZ to 250
• Revert some decon memory frequency hacks as they are no longer needed
• Do a more complete backport of arm64 3.18/4.4 additions
• Add back rtc-sec addition, but modify so it works with stackprotector on strong
• Enable exynos persistent clock
• backport some lib/random changes from 3.18
• Backport SELinux stuff from 3.18
• Backport some changes from 8890 to cpuidle
• remove bkops_ufs_uid
• Update unified modem pdata to be similar to more recent a810f dual sim pdata
• Remove a bunch of unnecessary NFC code, and guard properly behind config_samsung_nfc
• remove samsung ecryptfs and replace with one from 3.10 caf
• remove legacy fimc-is code for 54xx from kernel and dt
• remove legacy 54xx code from a bunch of places
• fix broken chromium browsers

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