Introduced the release of the mobile platform LineageOS 24, based on the Android 17 codebase and released on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the project, which will take place on December 24, 2026. The LineageOS 24 branch has reached parity in functionality and stability with the 23.2 branch, and is considered ready for the first release. Assemblies prepared for 175 devices, 24 of which were not previously supported.
As for previous branches, LineageOS 23.2 supports 6 new devices, and LineageOS 22.2 supports 5 devices. Vulnerability fixes published for Android from August 2025 to October 2026 have been moved to branches from 18.1 to 24.0. The LineageOS 15.1, 16.0 and 17.0 branches include patches that fix vulnerabilities as of November 2025.
Main changes in LineageOS 24:
- In addition to the image gallery Glimpse and the camera program Aperture has added a new image editor Canvas, which supports basic editing functions such as cropping, adjusting white balance and applying filters.
- Significantly The Updater application has been updated, the interface of which uses the design concept of Material 3 Expressive. We switched to using the default mode of streaming installation of A/B OTA update packages, which are unpacked into an inactive system partition as they download, without first saving to a file, which reduced memory consumption and speeded up the installation of updates.
- In Catapult (Android TV Launcher), an interface for working with content on Android TV, has added a battery indicator for mobile devices and portable consoles, and improved animation effects and icons.
- The backup application has been updated to the latest releases SeedVault and calendar scheduler Etar.
- In the web browser Jelly added support for stand-alone web applications in the PWA (Progressive Web App) style, the shortcuts of which can be placed on the home screen. The WebView engine has been updated to Chromium 155.0.8059.30.
