# Announcing Mint 12 Stable

**December 4, 2022.** I'm officially announcing the release of **Mint Kernel 12.2 Stable**.

Mint is a One UI-first custom kernel designed to bring **optimized performance and battery life** to Samsung Exynos 9610 devices. Mint Kernel has been the kernel of choice for many users as well as custom ROMs, being the default kernel on The Fresh Project's flagship **Fresh**.

Mint 12 brings a significant amount of optimizations as well as support for more modern versions of Android.

## New in this release

*   Added support for **Android 12 and 13**\-based custom ROMs.
    
*   A completely **revamped** **Exynos Mobile Scheduler** (EMS) optimized for **low-latency tasks**.
    
*   A smarter CPU governor with a more **fully-featured boosting algorithm** from the Galaxy S10 and machine learning-like techniques from the Galaxy S20.
    
*   Upstream improvements to the ARM64 **architecture**, kernel **scheduler**, and **memory management.**
    
*   Upstream changes from **Samsung OSRC** for the Exynos 9610 platform.
    
*   Upstream security patches from the **Linux Kernel, Samsung, and Google**. This includes patches for the [**dirty pipe** vulnerability](https://www.xda-developers.com/dirty-pipe-linux-vulnerability-root-android/).
    
*   Updated **Magisk** to **v25.2**.
    
*   Updated **SensorHub** drivers to the latest revision to fix sensors on devices running **more recent One UI ROMs** or vendors. Legacy support for older vendors are available for **Android 11 kernels**.
    
*   Updated the **S.LSI Wi-Fi and BT driver** (WLBT) for stability and to better support Android 12-based vendors.
    
*   Added support for the [Incremental File System](https://source.android.com/docs/core/architecture/kernel/incfs) that aims to improve the app installation experience for custom ROM users. **This requires implementation on the custom ROM side**, with Fresh 4 being the first for the Galaxy A50 to do so.
    

### Changes specific to Android 12+ kernels

*   Updates to the **RAM Plus** kernel feature that adds per-process swapping on One UI 4+ ROMs.
    
*   Updated the Mali GPU driver to `r32p1`.
    
*   Added the 'adaptive' GPU power policy from the Google Pixel 6.
    
*   Added support for [FUSE Passthrough](https://source.android.com/docs/core/storage/fuse-passthrough). Improves file system performance with the internal storage and SD cards. **This requires implementation on the custom ROM side**, with Fresh 4 being the first for the Galaxy A50 to do so.
    

## Get Mint Kernel

Mint 12 Stable is now available for download from [Mint's official GitHub Releases](https://github.com/FreshROMs/android_kernel_samsung_exynos9610_mint/releases/mainline-3_a50dx) repository and is available with variants for **One UI** and **AOSP-based** ROMs.

## Building from source

Mint Kernel's full source code is available on [GitHub](https://github.com/FreshROMs/android_kernel_samsung_exynos9610_mint), with instructions to build on the README. **Contributions and issue reports are also welcome!**

I would like to extend my gratitude to all the testers, and contributors, as well as to those whose more awesome kernels have made something like Mint possible. **All source references are available on Mint's README**, as usual.

## And one more thing

**Fun fact:** Mint Kernel releases are typically followed by major Fresh releases. Mint 11.3 was released alongside Fresh 3.2.3, Mint 11.6 with Fresh 3.4 Preview...

![](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1670137404964/5-ArbQzg9.png align="left")

...Fresh 4 is officially coming **9th December, 2022.** Love your phone again with more customization options, better performance, and much more.