Because of the initially slow pace of CyanogenMod9 development on the tenderloin front, the Touchpad enthusiast community had been living vicariously through community-driven nightly builds. While these have been keeping the flash-happy users smiling, the changes and improvements found in these unofficial builds weren't necessarily going to end up in the official CM9 development queue. Now, thanks to the hard work of the CM9 Team, the HP Touchpad now has official nightly builds available through the CyanogenMod mirror network as well as an official changelog page to go along with it.

The current initial nightly build is tagged with a build date of March 27, 2012. While there is no changelog addressing the improvements since the initial Alpha 2 build, there is a noticeable increase in smoothness from previous official builds and some users are reporting Antutu Benchmark improvements of up to 400 points without the need to install any of the driver add-ons - the Adreno 2XX drivers, for example - that had become commonly used to bolster device performance. These builds are being released still running the 2.6.35 kernel; CM Developer Dalingrin is working on getting the 3.0 kernel ready but there is no target release date at this time.

If you've been using the unofficial nightly builds to satisfy your flash addiction while waiting for a set of official nightly builds to come along, you're in luck. We have the relevant links below to sate your updating needs.

Official CM Mirror Network Download Page

Official CM9 Nightly Changelog

RootzWiki Official CM9 Alpha2 Discussion