Remember Cyanogen Inc.? The startup that once wanted to create a third OS behind iOS and Android? Well, after the original team all but leaving the company and the loud-mouthed CEO stepping down as well, Cygn has now decided to focus on autonomous driving technology. The company has all but abandoned its plans of developing Cyanogen OS, its operating system based on Android.
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CyanogenMod Team Announces Lineage OS; To Continue Development Under New Name

Soon after Cyanogen Inc. announced that they are shutting down nightly builds of CyanogenMod and other Cyanogen-branded services from December 31, 2016, the original CyanogenMod team put together a blog post announcing their future actions and how they plan on keeping the ROM alive.
CyanogenMod to Be Likely Renamed to LineageOS

At the beginning of this month when Steve Kondik finally spoke out about Kirt McMaster’s mismanagement of Cyanogen Inc, the original founder of CyanogenMod also revealed that due to branding and IP issues, CyanogenMod might need to be forked and rebranded.
Steve Kondik Is Now No Longer a Part of Cyanogen Inc.

A day after Steve Kondik a.k.a Cyanogen expressed his opinions on Cyanogen Inc’s ex-CEO Kirt McMaster and his mismanagement of the company, Cyanogen Inc today announced in a blog post that the company has separated ties with the company’s co-founder.
How To Install CyanogenMod 14 On Your Android Device

It is going to be almost two months since Google pushed Android 7.0 Nougat to AOSP. While the CyanogenMod team has not released official CyanogenMod 14 builds based on Nougat for their supported devices, they got to work on the next version of CM as soon as Google pushed the sources to AOSP.