CyanogenMod has just announced that they have started rolling out CM12 nightlies, based on Android 5.0.1 Lollipop, for a selected few devices. The team considers their work for the first CM12 M release nearly 85% complete, and will spend the rest of this month on porting older features from CM11 and adding support for new devices. 

Most of the CM features that users have come to love and appreciate are currently missing from the CM12 nightly builds. This includes the Theme Engine, the ability to customize the Quick Settings and Navigation bar, quick Lockscreen PIN unlock and more. Most of these features are already under review and it is just a matter of time before these features make their way back to CM12.

The CyanogenMod team is also working on enhancing and adding new features to CM12 including Ambient Display and many other minor tweaks. The full list of devices getting some CM12 nightlies love from today include:

1. bacon

2. d802

3. dlx

4. e975

5. e980

6. evita

7. falcon

8. find5

9. flo

10. ghost

11. hlte

12. hltespr

13. jewel

14. jfltevzw

15. klte

16. m7

17. m7spr

18. m7vzw

19. m8

20. mako

21. mondrianwifi

22. moto_msm8960

23. t6

24. t6spr

25. t6vzw

26. serrano3gxx

27. serranoltexx

28. shamu

29. v500

30. ville

31. vs985

32. Additional devices will trickle in as the days go on

The builds for the above devices are classified as “daily driver” with all basic and important functionalities like call, messages, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and others working flawlessly. On certain devices, certain hardware features like the IR blaster might not be working properly, but that should not be a major deterrent for most users. If you are already running a CM11 nightly on your Android device, you can safely flash the CM12 nightly builds on your device without wiping your data. However, keep in mind that your recovery must be updated to support Lollipop and all incompatible root related apps installed on the /system partition of your device will be uninstalled during the process. You can download the CM12 nightlies for the above devices from here.

Aside from announcing the release of CM12 nightlies, the CyanogenMod team also announced that they will be releasing CM11 builds on a weekly basis (every Sunday) from now. With all the development effort shifting to CM12, it makes no sense to continue rolling out CM11 builds on a daily basis with little to almost no change. The team still plans on rolling out CM11 M13 and will roll out a final build of CM11 before doing a code-freeze of the branch.