New Delhi, Oct. 12 -- official support for phones using Linux kernels 4.4 or 4.9 will remain on LineageOS 22.2.

The community project said in its October 11 changelog that version 24.0 has reached feature and stability parity with 23.2 and is ready for an initial release. More devices can follow as their maintainers prepare builds and meet the project's requirements. That is a release process governed by device readiness, not a promise that every previous installation can move to the newest version immediately.

The Android foundation is new, although the developers describe its arrival as unusually straightforward. They have been rebasing LineageOS changes since Android 17 arrived in June. Work adapting to Google's extensive code change...