Jollaboys, which acquired the assets of Jolla after bankruptcy, presented the release of the Sailfish 5.0 operating system. Builds have been prepared for 16 devices, including Jolla C2, Sony Xperia 10 and Sony Xperia XA2. This is the first release of the platform after the restructuring of Jolla's business in 2023, its withdrawal from the zone of influence of Russian investors through bankruptcy and the termination of cooperation with the developers of Aurora OS.
Sailfish uses a Wayland-based graphical stack and the Qt5 library, the system environment is built on the basis of Mer, which has been developed as an integral part of Sailfish since April 2019, and packages of the Mer distribution Nemo. The user shell, basic mobile applications, QML components for building the Silica graphical interface, a layer for launching Android applications, a smart text input engine and a data synchronization system are proprietary, but their code was planned to be open sourced back in 2017.
Major changes:
- Added support for the personal AI assistant Jolla Mind2 and the Jolla C2 smartphone (based on the Turkish Reeder S19 Max Pro S smartphone).
- Added support VPN WireGuard.
- A new landscape mode has been implemented.
- Added a function to block unwanted calls, allowing you to filter incoming calls from specified numbers.
- The Sailfish Browser web browser has been migrated to the Gecko ESR91 engine, which corresponds to Firefox 91 (work is underway to update to Gecko ESR102).
- Interlayer for compatibility with Android updated to the platform Android 13.
- The package includes microG 0.3.6, which offers independent analogues of Google services.
Source: opennet.ru
