Jolla Company release of the Sailfish 3.1 operating system. Builds have been prepared for Jolla 1, Jolla C, Sony Xperia X, Gemini devices, and are already available in the form of an OTA update. Sailfish uses a graphics stack based on Wayland and the Qt5 library, the system environment is built on Mer, which since April as part of Sailfish, and packages from the Nemo Mer distribution. The user interface, basic mobile apps, Silica's QML GUI building components, Android app launcher, smart text input engine, and data synchronization system are proprietary, but their code was planned to be open sourced back in 2017.
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- The interface of many basic applications has been redesigned, including People, Phone, Messages and Clock, which have been redesigned taking into account modern trends in mobile interface design;
- Added support for encrypting user data on the drive (Home section);
- Added fingerprint authentication;
- The VPN mode has been improved, which can now be activated when there is no network connection to ensure traffic protection from the first use of the phone. VPN connection management tools have been expanded. WPA-EAP has been extended to include CA certificates and the PEAP method. Access to the hotspot and VPN passwords now requires passcode authentication;
- Increased isolation of system APIs and various subsystems;
- WebGL support is enabled in the browser;
- The calendar scheduler now has the ability to send invitations via ActiveSync;
- The camera app now includes a one-tap photo zoom feature;
- In the watch, timers, alarms and stopwatches are designed as separate tabs;
- Viewers for documents, PDF, spreadsheets and presentations have been redesigned. Added support for opening plain text files. Problems with RTF file encoding have been resolved;
- The email application has added the optional ability to digitally sign messages using PGP;
- An option has been added to the settings (“Settings > Gestures > Show hints and tips”) to disable the display of hints and recommendations;
- In the messaging program, the design of the conversation thread has been redesigned, a header with the addressee's data has been added, and support for saving or editing an entry in the address book without leaving the application has been implemented;
- The People address book has been redesigned, with sections for searching, viewing and editing recipients. The contact list has been reorganized alphabetically;
- The interface for sending and receiving calls has been redesigned, which is divided into three tabs: Dialer, History and People. The dialer is optimized for operation by the hand holding the phone. Added modes for simple and advanced viewing of call history. A button for quickly sending a predefined message in response has been added to the dialog for receiving a new call;
- The layer for launching Android applications has been improved, which now includes the ability to authenticate using fingerprints, TLS 1.2 is enabled by default, the ability to add contacts from Android applications (for example, Whatsapp) to the People application has been implemented, problems when launching WhatsApp and Telegram have been resolved;
- Bluez Bluetooth stack has been updated to version 5.50.
Source: opennet.ru