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It’s the beginning of another month, which can only mean one thing — a CyanogenMod ‘M’ release. This time though, the CM team announced some major changes in their update roll-out schedule that effectively kills their popular ‘stable’ release.
Henceforth, the ‘M’ build will act as a ‘stable’ build and will be released for all the supported devices every once in four weeks. The reason behind this is that a stable build takes months to come out without any proper testing of months of new code and if any bug is discovered later, a supplement stable build take ages to come out and fix it.
The ‘M’ builds are a solution to this problem — with the CM team basing it off the same branch as their ‘stable’ releases. The team does plan on trying to release one M build every two weeks so that most users can avoid flashing a nightly build to fix any serious issue or if for some reason a build for a device misses the release cycle, users will not have to wait for 4 weeks for another new build. Ultimately, if you are a end user who just wants a stable and bug-free experience of CyanogenMod, this change is going to benefit you.
Either ways, if you are running any of the previous Milestone build based on CM11, head over to CyanogenMod’s download center to grab the latest M6 release.
