Cyanogens, the company behind the Cyanogens OS will stop releasing nightly builds software on December 31, 2016. As part of the process, all services will be shut down and development on nightly builds will cease from that day onwards.

According to CYANOGEN blog post, the open source Android based operating system developed and maintained by the community. This will continue developing it as a personal project.

Cyanogens assure that the source code will remain available for anyone to continue working on it. But all services and Cyanogens-supported nightly builds will be discontinued on December 31, 2016.

In a long blog post, the CyanogenMod team explained how decisions taken by Cyanogens were affecting the CyanogenMod development and also approves that development was dependent on Cyanogens monetary support and the shared source base.

According to Gadgets 360, after Cyanogens services are being shut down, Smartphone's running Cyanogens OS including the likes of One plus One and Lenovo Zuk Z1 won't be receiving any further updates from Cyanogens. Instead, they must have to switch to the Cyanogens Mod ROM, which isn't a commercial version, rather than managed by a community of developers.

Previous sources from various side claimed that Cyanogens was in deep trouble. In July news comes 20 percent of its employees grabbed the headlines. Then there was a corporate reshuffling that happened in October that saw Kirt McMaster stepping down as CEO and COO Lior Tal becoming the CEO.

The co-founder of the company Steve Kondik was given the position of the Chief Science Officer. In November, a source of the report has cited that Cyanogens will be shut down its Seattle headquarters and will be moving operations to Palo Alto.

However, Cyanogens is trying to focus on a new modular OS program in which it will collaborate with the device makers into the software of other Android devices.

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