LineageOS 19 update! New features and security improvements

LineageOS 19 Update

features & more

The new LineageOS 19 update brings a variety of features, modifications, and updates, from new wallpapers to function updates. And it’ll take a long term to speak about all of them, so here’s a whole changelog for LineageOS 19 from the official website of LineageOS.

LineageOS 19 specific features

Security patches from March 2021 to April 2022 have been merged to LineageOS 16.0 through 19.
- LineageOS 19 builds are currently based on the android-12.1.0_r4 tag, which is the Pixel 6 series tag.
The WebView service has been updated to Chromium 100.
The Lineage team has completely redone the volume panel introduced in Android 12, and instead made it a side pop-out expanding panel.
The gallery app has seen a large amount of improvements.
The Updater has also seen a large amount of fixes and improvements.
The web browser, Jelly has been improved.
The Lineage team have contributed and improved the calendar app, Etar.
The Lineage team has improved and contributed to the Seedvault backup app.
The Recorder app has been updated and seen bug fixes.
Android TV builds now ship with a different launcher, instead of Google’s launcher.
Android TV builds now ship with a key-handler that enable support for custom-keys on a wide-array of bluetooth and IR remotes.
The adb_root service is no longer tied to the build type.
The extract utilites have been improved for simplying device bring up and etc.
The AOSP Clang toolchain is now being used for kernel compilations.
The Qualcomm Snapdragon Camera has been dropped, and devices that previously used it will now be shipping with AOSP’s Camera2.
Dark mode is enabled by default.
There’s a new setup wizard, with Android 12-style animations and icons.
The default app icons have been changed.
Due to AOSP switching to eBPF over iptables, some legacy devices have been dropped from the officially supported list.