the mainline targets are to me the most interesting news, for much more pressings reasons - but also for old devices to get current eBPF as a drive-by. Makes for synergies with the rest of mobile linux. Anticipating a sdm845 / sm7150 based build with a mainline kernel.
Also: more commonization of SoC kernels and shims - helps the effort required to maintain or bringup.
Happy about the GSI and qemu items, lowering the bar to entry and for it to garner contributions at Lineage. They did shy away from releasing an “official” gsi though.
The OTA verifier is a nice touch when in years you want to verify images not obtained from Lineage.
From the UI side the TV Launcher is the most interesting component.
Not part of this release: Android Verified Developer changes to package manager will be made public with Android 16 QPR1 (then Lineage 23.1) later this year, looking forward to how this will be handled.