Has anyone used it with the new LineageOS 15.1 yet? The description of the package at F-Droid Privileged Extension OTA | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository says as last changes:
Fixed OTA ZIP for Android 8.0 Oreo
I would assume that it’ll also work for 8.1, right? Can you confirm @eighthave?
F-Droid Privileged Extension works on 8.1 and 9 if its built into the
ROM. There were changes (“system as root”) that broke the previous OTA
flash method. @cdesai/@cde made a fixed version that just needs to be
tested before it can be released:
Test binaries are available for download, click “Download test
artifacts” from the button on the right of the topmost build here:
Ah, thanks for the information.
I downloaded the test artifacts ZIP and extracted the file called F-DroidPrivilegedExtension-0.2.8-5-g8d24dbc-debug.zip which I then flashed with TWRP.
Looks like it’s working, fdroid was able to automatically install updates without complaining about unknown sources. 
Thanks for your work!
Hmmm, it really didn’t work with latest release? My Nexus 4 running LOS 15.1 (no A/B device, no /system as / AFAIK) does work well, auto-updates an all. FP2 shouldn’t be different, 
Actually, I didn’t try the OTA package from the fdroid store.
After the update from 14.1 to 15.1 the priviledge extensions stopped working.
When I went to the fdroid store to install them again I found that note about 8.0 (and not 8.1), so I didn’t install it and asked here instead.
Oreo needs a whitelist permission file (← beware Google link) in /etc/permissions/ for system privileged apps that F-Droid didn’t include until that Oreo update, so you just needed to flash the new update, 
The latest official version worked for me. No need to flash an experimental one.
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