Another month, another CyanogenMod milestone release. In its fifth Milestone release of CyanogenMod 11, the CM team have fixed quite a lot of bugs and added some subtle little features that greatly enhance the user experience. 

One of the major new feature addition is QuickBoot support that allows for quicker bootup times on multicore devices. Other notable additions include support for ethernet controllers, more AppOps permissions in Privacy Guard, an open-source implementation of Google Dialer and more.

Below is a quick mini changelog of the M5 build:

• Trebuchet – Fix last icon from hotseat disappearing
• Trebuchet – Fix custom home transition effect
• Volume Panel – Increase opacity of transparency (previous level led to visibility concerns)
• WhisperPush – Relocate to Privacy menu
• WhisperPush – fix NPE on viewing identity if unregistered
• Translations – Initial imports from CrowdIn (followup blog post next week)
• MultiSim – Additional support patches (25+)
• Privacy Guard – Additional AppOps permissions
• Additional Right-to-left (RTL) layout mirroring support
• Settings – Add ‘screen color’ support
• Quickboot support (device specific)
• Stylus – Fix eraser being disabled by palm rejection
• NavBar – Allow toggle in runtime (needs kernel support)
• Add ethernet icon support to status bar
• Dialer – Open Source forward/backward/incoming look-up

A word of caution for Galaxy S3 LTE (GSM) and CDMA variants owners: Last month, the CyanogenMod team unified the builds for the same family of devices. While it did not create any major problem, it does bring about an interesting problem for Galaxy S3 devices. While the Milestone 5 build is going to be stable enough for GSM users, owners of CDMA might face some issues. The CyanogenMod team held back two Milestone releases for this family of devices for this very reason in the past but decided to roll out a Milestone build this time around.

Head over to CyanogenMod’s download page to get your hands on the latest Milestone release for your device.