Update 30 June 2026: we've decided to postpone the release of Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 by 1 more week due to a number of important fixes missing their deadline. The new release date is set to be 20 July 2026. So, instead of a Release Candidate image, today we've published 24.04-2.0 Beta 2 which contains a number of improvements and fixes since the last Beta. We hope to be able to have a Release Candidate image next week. Notable changes Following devices can now receive Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Beta 2: Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1 JingPad A1 OnePlus Nord N10 5G OnePlus Nord N100 Xiaomi Redmi 9 and 9 Prime Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Additional devices receive notch position configurations, including all Volla devices and a few Xiaomi devices. Fixed the problem where the top panel gets confused about whether it has to avoid notches or not when the screen is rotated using the floating rotate button. Improved support for legacy (X11-based) applications significantly by backporting changes from Mir 2. Widevine installer is now fully functional. If you're dependent on DRM-protected contents, Morph Browser could be used to watch such contents. Morph Browser can now get access to location. Screenshot editor no longer obscures notifications. Notable known issues While Widevine could be installed, some sites (e.g. Netflix) might impose further restrictions on what browser it supports. Video recording and media playback in most applications (except browsers) might be broken due to some cache not clearing up. As a workaround, the following command could be run to remove such cache: rm -v ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry.* Followed by a reboot. A fix is being developed. (lomiri-camera-app#221). Morph Browser may show black screen after it's switched to background and back. Scrolling will allow webpage to display again. (qt6-webengine#2) Some keyboard layouts are displayed incorrectly by overflowing to the left and right edges of the screen. (lomiri-keyboard#214) Morph Browser may show black screen after it's switched to background and back. Scrolling will allow webpage to display again. (qt6-webengine#2) Hardware video decoding in the updated Morph Browser is not working. Video playback still work, but will be done in software, increasing power usage (qt6-webengine#1). Morph Browser's new tab page is not fully functional. In particular, it doesn't show bookmarked sites correctly (morph-browser#624) Notch avoidance does not work yet on landscape mode. We're still working on issue with mouse position on built-in screen affecting the trackpad on Volla Tablet's keyboard cover. As such, Volla Tablet will not receive 24.04-2.0 Beta at this time.

@Farmebrown the trouble with using a talking electric heater as an advocacy helper is that it is making your thoughts look likely without proper basis. In the case of your post, it is asking to Ubuntu Touch to provide an alternative to a Windows software called 'Windows phone link'. Why is this inappropriate ? because it is a desktop software. Ubuntu Touch is a phone software. Ubuntu Touch do not aim at being an alternative to Fedora, Debian Ubuntu... If KDE Connect find this functionality out of scôpe, if no well known software phone exists on Linux that can do that with an Android phone, that's for a reason: it's because it's a marginal need for a market that is - if one takes 3% of the 1 billion users of desktop OS - about 30 million users. If and when Linux desktop developers write such a software that can connect to an Android phone to do something equivalent to what you are asking, now it could be the moment to study why an UT phone could not be used instead of an Android phone. I'd say that this hypothetical problem could probably be solved then entirely at the linux kernel level without any Ubuntu Touch application software. I think that the Ms software relies probably only on 'standard' Bluetooth features.

@mariogrip FP5 build 137 Now it's the camera app that don't work anymore. Like with the store, it's a missing library problem: libexiv2.so.27 called from libcamera-qml.so 26.04 provides libexiv2-28, but contrary to libicu74 there is a compatibility layer in 26.04: libexiv2-27-compat, but it's not installed. I don't see why this breakage appears only now. Was this libexiv2-27-compat library included previously in the rootfs and not anymore ? I am not keen on the idea of a regression test by installing a previous version of Ubuntu Touch 26.04 to check on that. Anyway, getting the library from the compat package and doing an overlay to add it to the system solves this particular problem.

@projectmoon https://forums.ubports.com/topic/12404/navius-gps-community-navigator-for-ubuntu-touch

@Moem Yea from the video, and what i have read, it is a nice application on paper. Also there signup process for account creation is just your "username" no email or phone number required, that is also a really nice privacy first account creation. However now that i think of it , usernames are pretty target able for a lot of people. So a even better account creation would be to create a random available id, and change the nickname after. So yes if someone is willing to build it, and maybe some research further to see how it is actually handling the encryption and security aspect of chat, voice and video calling... it will most likely be nice to have in the openstore.

@pparent Sorry YES, corrected Running without your script. In fact, the network quite frequently disconnects and then reconnects but not instantly, often with a lag of a few seconds. That said, I am wary that this does not come from atmospheric conditions with high heat and azure blue skies where waves often circulate poorly.

@kristatos Thanks for answering. The package is called bzip but the command is bunzip2.

@kristatos said: it also works if you swipe down the notification-indicator and tap on the notification. That was always working for all the apps. The issue is tapping on the notification bubble - that does nothing for apps like Dekko and Greenline - and my (humble) opinion is that tapping on the notification bubble should open the respective app, like tapping on the notification bubble for a new text message which indeed opens the Messages app.

@Moem Yes Same path for 26.04-1.x. I had the early update on my redmi then nothing anymore. Porters are working to put those devices on dynamic partition. On one on my Redmi Note 9 Pro, 6 months ago, I have increased (with Eric H help) the system partition to 4.7Gb (far enough) by deleting the (for my phone) unused Product 1.2Gb partition and increased the system one as much as possible.

@gpatel-fr Oh, wow, I would have never thought of checking after a restart... Let me just link that here: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/12289/changing-message-sound-requires-restart

Hello all, It has been decided to postpone the new contact backend to 26.04.x to avoid slowing down the overall roadmap. We will try to move also at that time to the new calendar backend.. 2 major internal changes in a row. I keep you informed.

Yesterday all of our SIP in Germany stated, that they will shutdown MMS at the end of June. So it's important to have an alternative as RCS for people who need this kind of service.

@Linus67 it needs to be ran as root. Sudo is interactive in terminal so it won't work, but pkexec is the GUI equivalent so it should launch a popup for the password. Alternatively set the suid bit of the script to make it always run as root without password (and ensure the file is not writable by phablet as that would allow local privilege escalation).

@projectmoon Can you do journactl -r | grep 99captive_portal ?

For what it's worth, this bug should be solved in 24.04-1.3 (no need to apply a patch script: the sense that the placeholder does not remain open in background anymore). It could still be a nice fix to avoid that it uses a lot of CPU in the first place, as it could possibly allow for faster starts of the apps.

@pparent after a week of testing, the battery usage looks normal.

@arubislander so on the regular desktop version its a normal ubuntu boot stack then it hands off into the UT rootfs .....still not done ...taking a break on that for sanity rn