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[LINEAGE 18] April 2026

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@fakemanoan fakemanoan released this 12 Apr 11:38

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:
A2017X_remove+all+locksettings.zip

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