Project , who took over the development of the mobile platform Ubuntu Touch, after canonical company, firmware update OTA-12 (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 release is based on Ubuntu 16.04 (the OTA-3 build was based on Ubuntu 15.04, and since OTA-4 the transition to Ubuntu 16.04 has been made). The project also experimental desktop port , which was recently in Lomiri.
The new version of UBports is notable for the transition to new releases and shells . In the future, full-featured support for an environment for running Android applications based on the developments of the project is expected. . UBports includes final changes prepared by Canonical for Unity8. Support for smart areas (Scope) has been discontinued and the traditional home screen has been removed, instead of which a new interface for launching App Launcher applications has been proposed.
The Mir display server has been upgraded from version 0.24, delivered since 2015, to release 1.2, which allowed support for clients based on the Wayland protocol. Wayland support is not yet available for devices based on the Android platform due to the lack of implementation, but the work of assemblies for PinePhone and Raspberry Pi boards has already been transferred to Wayland. The next step is to upgrade to the latest version. , which will be much easier to carry out than switching from the 0.24 branch.
Other changes:
- Changed the color palette, which provides a more contrasting separation of text and background.
- The design of dialogs of almost all applications offered by default has been optimized. Changed the appearance of some controls to highlight the relief of buttons by shifting the shadow down.
- Improved virtual keyboard. Added the ability to switch the keyboard to the edit form via a sliding gesture from below. Double-tap on an empty area in the edit form toggles selection and cursor display modes. The Done button now allows you to exit any mode. Fixed issues with typing uppercase letters after a colon.
- The Morph Browser in private browsing mode ensures that only the data of the current session is deleted on exit, and not all existing sessions. An option has been added to the settings to manage the deletion of cookies.
To container-based applications
webapp added the ability to upload files. Improved handling of drop-down interface elements, which are now implemented as stylized windows with touch buttons. Added support for automatic adjustment of the page width to the screen size. The next release is expected to update the QtWebEngine to version 5.14. - On devices with multi-color LEDs, a color indication of the battery charge has been added. When the charge is low, the indicator starts blinking orange, glows white during charging, and turns green when fully charged.
- FairPhone 2 devices provide automatic switching of the SIM card to 4G mode without the need to manually switch the other slot to 2G mode.
- For Nexus 5, OnePlus One and FairPhone 2, the driver required to run Anbox (an environment for running Android applications) has been added to the regular kernel.
- Involved own OAUTH-keys for Google services, allowing you to synchronize with the calendar-scheduler and Google address book. At the same time, Google potentially vulnerable browsers on older engines, which may require changing the User Agent when connecting to Google services.
Source: opennet.ru