The OTA-10 Focal (over-the-air) firmware has been released, developed by the UBports project, which has taken over the development of the mobile platform. Ubuntu Touch, after Canonical dropped it. This is the ninth release. Ubuntu Touch, based on a packet base Ubuntu April 20.04. The project is also developing an experimental desktop port of Unity 8, which has been renamed Lomiri.
Update Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 Focal will be generated in the coming days for Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1, F(x)tec Pro1 X, Fairphone 3/3+/4, Google Pixel 3a/3a XL, JingPad A1, OnePlus 5/5T/6/6T, OnePlus Nord N10 5G/N100, Sony Xperia X, Vollaphone X/22/X23, Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC / X3, Xiaomi Poco M2 Pro, Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro/Pro Max/9S, Volla Phone Quintus, Volla Tablet, Lenovo Tab M10 HD 2nd Gen, and Xiaomi Redmi 9/9 Prime. Compared to the previous release, builds for the Rabbit R1 have been added.
During the development of the new release, the main work was focused on preparing for the transition to a newer LTS branch. UbuntuAmong the changes in Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 Focal:
- Added a new application for updating to a new branch built on the base Ubuntu April 24.04, when the release will be ready Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0.
- Improved bitrate calculation in the H.264 encoder.
- Bluez Bluetooth stack has been updated to version 5.64.
- Initial support for the Nix package manager has been added to lxc-android-config.
- The QtWebEngine browser engine has been updated to release 5.15.19+dfsg-1 from the repository. Debian Experimental.
- Added support for UHD format.
Source: opennet.ru
