Cyanogen Service Shutting Down by December 31

As part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen, all services and Cyanogen-supported nightly builds will be discontinued after 31st December 2016. The open source project and source code will remain available for anyone who wants to build CyanogenMod personally.

Cyanogen late Friday announced all services and nightly builds will be discontinued no later than December 31.

The open source project and source code will remain available for personal development.

The move, "part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen," comes after it named a new CEO and laid off a huge portion of its staff. While it once wanted to offer a better version of Android, Cyanogen will now focus on building Android OS "mods" for OEMs.

Owners of smartphones running Cyanogen OS, like the OnePlus One, will have to switch to the CyanogenMod ROM. As TechCrunch points out, this isn't a commercial OS, rather managed by a community of developers.

We have reached out to the Cyanogen folks to learn more about its future.

Download CyanogenMod ROM from here