Project , who took over the development of the mobile platform Ubuntu Touch, after canonical company, firmware update OTA-9 (over-the-air) for all officially supported , which were bundled with Ubuntu-based firmware. Update for OnePlus One, Fairphone 2, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 2013, Meizu MX4/PRO 5, Bq Aquaris E5/E4.5/M10 smartphones. The project also experimental desktop port available in for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04.
The release is based on Ubuntu 16.04 (the OTA-3 build was based on Ubuntu 15.04, and since OTA-4 it has moved to Ubuntu 16.04). As with the previous release, OTA-9 was focused on fixing bugs and improving stability. The transition to Mir 1.1 and the latest release of the Unity 8 shell has been postponed once again. Testing the build with Mir 1.1, qtcontacts-sqlite (from Sailfish) and the new Unity 8 is done in a separate experimental branch "". The transition to the new Unity 8 will lead to the termination of support for smart areas (Scope) and the integration of the new App Launcher application launcher interface. In the future, full-featured support for the environment for launching Android applications based on the developments of the project is also expected. .
Major changes:
- Updated icons identifying various content in directories;
- Resolved camera issues on Nexus 5 devices (viewfinder stuck after taking a picture and there were crashes when recording video);
- The QQC2 Suru Style package has been improved, within which a set of styles based on Qt Quick Controls 2 has been prepared that meet the requirements for the design of the Ubuntu Touch interface. Using QQC2 Suru Style, you can easily adapt existing Qt applications using QML for Ubuntu Touch and provide automatic style change depending on the platform. The new version takes into account system scaling settings, improved detection of the use of dark themes, and added a new indicator for continuing work ("Busy");
Source: opennet.ru