The UBports project, which took over the development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform after Canonical pulled out, published firmware update OTA-16 (over-the-air) … The project also developing an experimental desktop port Unity 8 which has been renamed to Lomiri.
Ubuntu Touch OTA-16 Update Generated for OnePlus One, Fairphone 2, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 2013 smartphones , Meizu MX4 / PRO 5, VollaPhone, Bq Aquaris E5 / E4.5 / M10, Sony Xperia X / XZ, OnePlus 3 / 3T, Xiaomi Redmi 4X, Huawei Nexus 6P, Sony Xperia Z4 Tablet, Google Pixel 3a, OnePlus Two, F (x) tec Pro1 / Pro1 X, Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 and Samsung Galaxy Note 4, as well as in comparison with the previous release, the formation of stable assemblies has begun for devices Xiaomi Mi A2 and Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo + (GT-I9301I. Separately, without a tag “OTA-16”, there will be updates for Pine64 PinePhone and PineTab devices.
According to the developers, OTA-16 has become one of the largest releases in the history of the project, behind only OTA-4 in terms of the significance of changes, which switched from Ubuntu 15.04 to 16.04. The Qt framework has been updated to version 5.12.9 (the release of 5.9.5 was previously delivered), which led to a change in about a third of all binary packages, including in connection with the update of packages on which Qt components depend or which are tied to outdated features of old branches of Qt. Moving to a new Qt release allows developers to switch to the next significant milestone – upgrading the base environment from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 20.04.
Upgrading Qt brings the functionality needed to
integration of gst-droid , a GStreamer plugin for Android. This plugin made it possible to use hardware acceleration in the viewfinder camera application on PinePhone devices and provided support for video recording on 32-bit devices originally shipped with the Android 7 platform, such as the Sony Xperia X.
Another important innovation was the inclusion of the default environment installer Anbox , which provides the ability to run Android applications. Devices on which is supported