The latest version of Android's most popular custom ROM, CyanogenMod, is now available for most of the officially supported Android phones on the CyanogenMod device list. If you know your device's codename, you can download a .zip of the flashable ROM from this page. If you do it that way, be sure you have a copy of the Google Apps zip floating around somewhere - as you'll need to flash it directly after the ROM.

If you don't know your device's name, no worries - just install the ROM Manager app (and ClockworkMod recovery, if you don't have it) on your rooted and unlocked handset and get flashing. Notably, the Motorola DROID X is absent from the list of release devices.

I've pasted the changelog below, but really, if you've been using CyanogenMod 7 for a while now, the only really big change is the bump to Android 2.3.4 (from 2.3.3) - which contains numerous security and bug fixes.

CHANGELOG

7.1.0-pre

  • Common: Android 2.3.4 (Google)
  • Common: Bluetooth mouse support - Scott Brady
  • Common: Improve notification swipe-to-clear - Evan Charlton
  • Common: Improve album-artist support in media scanner - Paul Crovella
  • Common: Profile improvements and bugfixes - Martin Long
  • Common: RTL text improvements - Eyad Aboulouz, Eran Mizrahi
  • Common: Wake on volume key option - Sven Dawitz
  • Common: Support for revoking application permissions - Plamen K. Kosseff
  • Common: Latest Superuser app - ChainsDD
  • Common: Control brightness by sliding on statusbar - Danesh M
  • Common: Add "copy all" to context menu - Danesh M
  • Common: Lockscreen haptic and statusbar indicators toggle - Danesh M
  • Common: Nicer timepicker/datepicker - Jiri Tyr
  • Common: Configuration 0/90/180/270 rotation - Jonas Larsson, Scott Brady
  • Common: DSP Manager bugfixes and improvements - Antti S Lankila
  • Common: Support for launching apps via gestures in the background - Jiri Tyr
  • Common: Option to hide hold button during call - Roberto Leinardi
  • Common: Allow using wildcards for call blacklisting - Nihanth Subramanya
  • Common: Option to allow in-call lockscreen to match main lockscren - Sven Dawitz
  • Common: Option to notify about incoming call only in background when screen is on - Pavel Kucera
  • Common: ADWLauncher- Transitions, catalog improvements, bugfixes - John Van Etten
  • Common: Optional GMT correction for SMS/MMS timestamps - Terry Hau
  • Common: Add FM Seek for TI devices - KalimochoAz
  • Common: Add FM support for SI4708 devices (Blade, V9, Racer) - Stéphane Konstantaropoulos
  • Common: Add FM seek implementation to FM application - Tom Giordano
  • Click, Motorola: Speed up photo recording - Emilio López
  • Click, Motorola: Add Geolocation to photo app - KalimochoAz
  • Vision/Glacier/Ace/Speedy/Vivo: 2.6.35 kernel and updated userspace
  • Buzz: 2.6.35 kernel - Arne Coucheron

Thanks, DrMacinyasha!

[Source: CyanogenMod]