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Version 19 of the
Android-based LineageOS distribution has been released.

With that said, we have been working extremely hard since Android
12’s release last October to port our features to this new version
of Android. Thanks to our hard work adapting to Google’s fairly
large changes in Android 11, we were able to rebase our changes
onto Android 12 much more efficiently. This led to a lot of time to
spend on cool new features, as well as adapt our additions to
Android 12’s new Material You design language!

Beyond the move to Android 12, this release includes improvements to a lot
of apps, a new setup wizard, and more. Less happily, this release has had
to leave a lot of older devices behind; a device must be able to run a 4.9
or newer kernel to be able to run LineageOS 19.