Projekt , som har påtaget sig udviklingen af den mobile platform Ubuntu Touch, efter at trak sig tilbage fra det, OTA-11 firmware update (over-the-air) for all officially supported devices , som blev leveret med firmware baseret på Ubuntu. Opdateringen til smartphones som OnePlus One, Fairphone 2, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 2013, Meizu MX4/PRO 5, Bq Aquaris E5/E4.5/M10. Projektet inkluderer også en eksperimentel desktop-port , tilgængelig i for Ubuntu 16.04 og 18.04.
The release is based on Ubuntu 16.04 (OTA-3 was based on Ubuntu 15.04, and starting from OTA-4, the transition to Ubuntu 16.04 was made). As in the previous release, the focus during the preparation of OTA-11 was on bug fixes and improving stability. The next update promises to transition the firmware to new releases of Mir and the Unity 8 shell. Testing of the build with Mir 1.1, qtcontacts-sqlite (from Sailfish), and the new Unity 8 is being conducted in a separate experimental branch.". Overgangen til den nye Unity 8 vil føre til ophør af understøttelsen af smart områder (Scope) og integrationen af den nye applikationsstarter App Launcher. I fremtiden forventes også fuld understøttelse af miljøet til kørsel af Android-applikationer baseret på projektets .
Vigtige ændringer:
- The on-screen keyboard has been enhanced with extended text editing features, allowing users to navigate through entered text, undo/redo changes, select blocks of text, and copy or paste text from the clipboard. To activate the extended mode, simply press and hold the space bar on the on-screen keyboard (in the future, it's planned to simplify enabling the extended mode). The on-screen keyboard also offers optional support for the Dvorak layout and has established a single error correction dictionary for different layouts.
- In the built-in Morph browser, based on the Chromium and QtWebEngine engines, a model has been implemented to bind settings to individual domains.
Thanks to this improvement, the browser now supports features such as saving the selected zoom level for websites, selective management of location data access at the site level (to override the general settings of 'Always allow' or 'Always deny'), launching external applications through URL handlers (for instance, clicking on 'tel://' links can open the call interface), and maintaining blacklists or whitelists of forbidden or only permitted resources. - The client and server for push notifications are no longer tied to a user account in Ubuntu One. Now, support from applications for this service is sufficient to receive push notifications.
- Improved support for devices running Android 7.1. This includes additional audio handlers necessary for making calls.
- On Nexus 5 smartphones, issues with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth hanging, which leads to excessive CPU load and rapid battery drain, have been resolved.
- Problemer med modtagelse, visning og behandling af MMS-beskeder er blevet løst.
Derudover, om status på porteringen af UBports til smartphonen . Allerede en enkel eksperimentel version baseret på prototypen Librem 5 devkit. Firmwaremulighederne er stadig stærkt begrænsede (for eksempel er der ikke understøttelse af telefoni, dataoverførsel via mobilnetværk og beskeder). Nogle af problemerne, såsom umuligheden af at gå i dvale uden Android-drivere indtil færdiggørelsen af Unity System Compositor til understøttelse af Wayland via Mir,
er ikke specifikke for Librem 5 og løses også for Pinephone og Raspberry Pi. Arbejdet med porten til Librem 5 planlægges genoptaget efter modtagelsen af den endelige enhed, som Purism har lovet at sende i begyndelsen af 2020.
Kilde: opennet.ru
