Project ubports , who took into his hands the development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform, after the company was removed by Canonical, Posted Opt firmware update OTA-21 (over-the-air). The project also develops Experimental desktop port unity 8 which is renamed Lomiri.
Updating Ubuntu Touch OTA-21 formed for smartphones BQ E4.5 / E5 / M10 / U Plus,
Cosmo Communicator, F (X) Tec Pro1, Fairphone 2/3, Google Pixel 2XL / 3A,
Huawei Nexus 6p, LG Nexus 4/5, Meizu MX4 / PRO 5, Nexus 7 2013,
OnePlus 2/3 / 5/6 / One, Samsung Galaxy Note 4 / S3 Neo +, Sony Xperia X / XZ / Z4, Vollaphone, Xiaomi Mi A2 / A3, Xiaomi Poco F1, Xiaomi Redmi 3S / 3X / 3SP / 4X / 7 , Xiaomi Redmi Note 7/7 Pro. Separately, without the “OTA-21” label, updates will be prepared for Pine64 Pinephone and Pinetab devices.
Ubuntu Touch OTA-21 is still based on Ubuntu 16.04, but recently the efforts of developers are focused on preparation for the transition to Ubuntu 20.04. From the changes in OTA-21, the screen recycling with information on the filling of drives is noted, the number of categories has been expanded and the accuracy of information about free space in the system sections is increased. Changed the interface displayed before unlocking the screen in which several different styles are selected depending on the use to unlock PIN or password.
Prepare for use on the containers of the Halium 10 , providing a low-level layer to simplify equipment support. For devices supported in Halium 9, plugins are included to use the magnetometer and compass sensors. The Media-Hub service corresponding to the playback of sound and video applications, as well as the associated client library, which is translated to the use of Qt classes to reduce the number of dependencies and simplify the support of the code base. Recycling also allowed to reduce the size occupied by the QTUBUNTU-MEDIA plugin (provides a Qtmultimedia API) on the disk, get rid of unnecessary mess and reduce memory consumption.
