[LINEAGE 20] - April 2026 release
08.04.2026
- Revamp 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
- 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 being 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 SELinux stuff from 3.18
- Backport some changes from 8890 to cpuidle
- remove bkops_ufs_uid
- Update unified modem pdata to be inline with one from newer sources
- 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
- Properly mount gps.conf, results in much more GNSS satellites being detected
- Fix issue with NFC not turning on after restart in some scenarios
- Revert change to libril-samsung - > libril.
- Move mobicore to separate init.rc file, for preparation for an update
- Move swap parameters to be later in boot
- Boost little cores on io. This results in 2x storage speeds in some scenarios
- Move back to A10 gralloc implementation, as the A13 linaro one had a few issues
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Working on sorting lineage 18.1 ASB shortly. Need to figure out why old installs have broken keystore. I suspect its due to the Dec 2025 ASB lineage merged.
Then new Lineage 21 builds with the revamped kernel + some extra bits I picked up along the way