The UBports project, which took over the development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform after Canonical stepped back, has released the OTA-3 Focal firmware (over-the-air). This is the third release of Ubuntu Touch, based on the package base of Ubuntu 20.04 (previous releases were based on Ubuntu 16.04). The project is also developing an experimental desktop port of Unity 8, now renamed Lomiri.
The Ubuntu Touch OTA-3 Focal update will be available for devices such as Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1, Fairphone 3/3+, F(x)tec Pro1 X, Google Pixel 3a/3a XL, Vollaphone 22, Vollaphone X23, Vollaphone X, Vollaphone, JingPad A1, Sony Xperia X, Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC/X3, Xiaomi Redmi Note 9, 9 Pro, 9 Pro Max, and 9S, Xiaomi Poco M2 Pro. Builds for Pine64 PinePhone, PinePhone Pro, PineTab, and PineTab2 are currently in beta testing.
Key changes in Ubuntu Touch OTA-3 Focal:
- New builds have been added for the devices Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1, JingPad A1, Sony Xperia X, Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC/X3, Xiaomi Redmi Note 9, 9 Pro, 9 Pro Max, and 9S.
- The first release of Ubuntu Touch 20.04 builds for PinePhone and PinePhone Pro smartphones, as well as PineTab and PineTab2 tablets developed by the Pine64 project, has been formed. These builds are currently in beta.
- The interface for setting parameters related to has been redesigned. security and confidentiality.
- Initial support for snap package format has been added.
- A search function has been added to the messaging application for searching in chats.
- In the Morph browser, a toggle has been added to switch between mobile and desktop site display modes. An option for managing automatic image downloads has been added to settings. The Peekier search engine has been removed and reverted to the default search engine (DuckDuckGo). The QtWebEngine has been updated to version 5.15.15.
- In QMir, the binding set for integrating the Mir display server with Qt, support for outputting to built-in screens connected via the DSI (Display Serial Interface) has been added. The clipboard implementation based on content-hub has been restored.
- In Waydroid, the environment for running Android applications on Linux distributions, the calculation of available screen space for running applications has been improved (issues with the bottom buttons being pushed off-screen have been resolved).
- In the compositor server And in the user environment, proper handling of memory shortage situations has been ensured.
- In hfd-service and lomiri-system-settings, the ability to disable vibration alerts from notifications and applications has been restored.
- The transition to using the lineageos-apndb database with information about APN (Access Point Name) provided by mobile operators has been completed.
- A gpsd provider has been added to the location-service, enabling interactions from the Lomiri shell with the D-Bus property ClientApplications to provide clients of the location-service resources for updating location data.
- In usb-moded, the capabilities for identifying access points based on CDC-NCM and CDC-ECM protocols have been expanded, with support added for providing a communication channel over USB for Fairphone 4 devices.
Source: opennet.ru
