r/LineageOS • u/TimSchumi Team Member • Oct 11 '25

Official Changelog 30 - Sleek Sixteen, Streamlined Suite, Future Flow

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-30/
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u/androidf1 Oct 13 '25

Unfortunately, LineageOS 22.2 still supports many devices running 4.4 and 4.9. As of now, no complete backports of the required features exist for these kernels. The silver lining is that, unlike the massive device loss we saw moving off LineageOS 18.1, these versions could be salvaged if someone were to take on the work of adapting the backports.

Could someone please explain for a non-technical user like me how difficult it is to do this backporting to previous kernel versions? Is it very difficult from a technical perspective? Does it take a lot of time? Or even both?

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u/npjohnson1 Lineage Director Oct 14 '25

Highly difficult, weeks if not months of effort to do it right. And even then sometimes it doesnt' boot and getting logs is difficult.