Jolla Company Release of the Sailfish OS 3.0.3. Builds have been prepared for devices Jolla 1, Jolla C, Sony Xperia X, Gemini, and are already available as an OTA update. Sailfish uses a graphical stack based on Wayland and Qt5 libraries, and the system environment is based on Mer, which has been as part of Sailfish, and packages from the Mer distribution Nemo. The user interface, core mobile applications, QML components for building graphical interfaces with Silica, the layer for running Android applications, smart text input engine, and data synchronization system are proprietary, but their code was planned to be open-sourced back in 2017.
In primarily marked by bug fixes and updates to system components. The PulseAudio sound server has been updated to version . The glibc library has been updated to version 2.25 (previously version 2.19), and GCC to release 4.9 (previously 4.8). The browser has been updated to a Gecko engine corresponding to Firefox 45. These updates are interim and implemented as one of the stages of transition from outdated versions to current releases. Also updated are iptables 1.8.2, pcre 8.42, shared-mime-info 1.12, util-linux 2.33.1, valgrind 3.14, zlib 1.2.11. Initial support for NFC has been added to the Xperia XA2 device, along with a test environment for running Android applications based on Android 8.1. Expanded remote device management (MDM, Device Management) capabilities have been introduced, along with API for controlling connections to mobile operators and traffic counter access management.
Source: opennet.ru
