In Response to The Register “MITM” Article
On Monday, The Register put out an article reporting that CyanogenMod was open to a Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack via a “0-day” vulnerability relating to a SSL vulnerability in Android’s JSSE from 2...
View ArticleCyanogenMod 11 M12
Taking a breather from all the work on L, we snuck in another M release yesterday against the CM 11.0 (KitKat) branch. This release is less heavy on features, instead focussing on stability for various...
View ArticleThe “L” is for Lollipop
Happy New Years (for all you Gregorian calendar folks)! Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays and month of December. In the CM11 M12 post, we mentioned that we were entering the beginnings of CM 12 work,...
View ArticleCyanogenMod for Android One
Android One represents Google’s attempt at reaching “the next billion users” – starting today, CyanogenMod 11 (KitKat) builds are available for the ‘sprout’ devices. As the devices are currently setup...
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Developer Blog – The CyanogenMod Theme Engine
“Today we have a guest post from CyanogenMod contributor, Cyanogen Inc. employee, and co-author of the new CM Theme Engine to provide a brief overview of how the Theme Engine works. Please welcome...
View ArticlePublic Service Announcement: Sony CM12 users
Due to a change introduced this morning to our BusyBox source, to flash a new nightly moving forward you must do a one-time manual process. Download tonight’s (2/14) nightly, unpack the zip and use...
View ArticleAll About L – Part 1
It seems Lollipop is on every enthusiast’s mind these days, as OEMs have started a steady stream of OTAs. With this multipart update, we’ll look at the most common questions (minus, “what about my...
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All About L – Part 2
Part 2 of our dive into CyanogenMod Lollipop; let’s take a look at some of the more obvious user space changes and features that you’ll see in CM 12 and 12.1. But first… Android 5.1 As we planned in...
View ArticleMicrosoft and CM12.1 Nightlies
Sorry for the clickbait title, but given today’s news cycle from most of the blogs, I couldn’t resist using their same tactic. For those looking for a good read on Cyanogen Inc’s announcement, head...
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CM Thread Throwdown Announcement
Many of you are likely familiar with the “I void warranties” shirt from 2014 – a popular item featuring hometown hero Cid that many proudly sport. Now we’re ready to come up with a fresh new design for...
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Call for response: Messaging Redesign
Thursday, bsxtn gave you an introduction to the Cyanogen Design team. Today, they would like to present their vision for a Messaging app redesign, and want your opinion on the direction. We want to...
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Call for response: Dialer Instant Contact Card
We were incredibly pleased with the feedback on the Messaging app redesign – your feedback there is already being incorporated into updated designs and ideas around the app. Today, we’re here going to...
View ArticleRelease extravaganza: CM 11.0 and 12.0 Final
AKA “The Phantom Release” As we look forward to Android M’s release later this year and continue work to integrate the latest from Android 5.1.1_r5 (released yesterday), we are finalizing the branches...
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Latest updates to CM 12.1
Over the past few weeks, contributions led by Jorge Ruesga (jruesga) and aided by Danny Baumann (maniac103) have added some much needed, and loved, features to CyanogenMod 12.1 nightlies. Imap push...
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Call for response: File Manager Redesign
Over the past couple of weeks we have given you insights into some of our proposed design changes across both Messaging and the Dialer Instant Contact Card. It has been great hearing your feedback,...
View ArticleMore Stagefright
The issue described in the the latest publication of Stagefright issues (link) has been patched in source for CM 10.1 -> 12.1. Nightlies for 12.1 beginning tonight (~2hours) will include this fix,...
View ArticleCVE-2015-3833 and you
The past month has been dominated by highly publicized vulnerabilities such as ‘Stagefright’, ‘Certifi-gate’, and ‘Deserialization’, however the August wave of fixes also included many other fixes, one...
View ArticleReleases, Releases, Releases – August 2015
Tapping into my inner Balmer with the post title We’re queuing up releases across three branches this evening, releasing into the wild CM 11.0-security, 12.0-security and our very first 12.1 release....
View ArticleExpanding the CM device family
Over the past few months, device maintainers new and old have been pushing hard to get support up to par for a wide range of devices. While some flagships (M9/S6/G4, etc) still need more time in the...
View ArticleAndroid Security Bulletin – October 5th update
Google’s monthly security release just hit AOSP code this morning, and as of this post has been merged into CM 12.1 source (Android 5.1.1._r24). Nightlies from today forwards will contain the security...
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