This week in development (week 52 2024)

mariogrip · 23 Dec 2024, 13:43

Hi all,

I'd like to start posting weekly development updates here on the forums - this is a bit of an experiment, so please let me know if you find these updates useful and what could be improved. The goal is to provide a high-level overview of our development progress.

This past week focused heavily on Noble development, with rapid changes to the image. I'm pleased to report that the latest daily build should have all hardware features working, including GPS, calling, sound, fingerprint reader, NFC, and more. We've also fixed several indicator bugs, making the 24.04 base system quite usable.

Currently, we're missing 24.04 built clicks, which is why some core apps aren't starting yet. While most of them build and run fine, we're waiting for some clickable changes to enable compilation. There are also some pending tasks related to accounts and push services, plus likely a few bugs to address.

Please test out 24.04 and report any bugs you find! Your feedback helps us improve the system.

Salah · 23 Dec 2024, 15:34

@mariogrip Good to hear that 24.04 will see a lot of improvements. Could you please tell us when it is going to be launched?

kristatos · 23 Dec 2024, 16:29

@mariogrip I think in this stage of develpment of 24.04 it's very interesting to know, what's going on from week to week, especially when it's evolving so fast, like you said.
I've installed it on a Rephone/Volla22 since a few weeks and I've observed, that the OSK is not coming up in some apps (e.g. Morph, messaging-app).
But for now it's running very well

domubpkm · 23 Dec 2024, 16:36

@kristatos said in This week in development (week 52 2024):

I've installed it on a Rephone/Volla22 since a few weeks

System parameters / update / dev channel ? Not tried 24.04 yet.

kristatos · 23 Dec 2024, 16:50

@domubpkm What do you mean with system parameters? I've done a fresh install via UBports installer but there's only one "channel" for 24.04 AKA "utnext", as @peat_psuwit told in another thread (but system-settings says "16.04 daily", funny ).
When your Volla22 is your only phone, then stay on 20.04 until noble is ready, because for now it's not nearly ready for daily use.

domubpkm · 23 Dec 2024, 17:04

@kristatos said in This week in development (week 52 2024):

What do you mean with system parameters?

I mean that

Ok, the installer.
But indeed, I don't want to juggle between channels and do this if it destabilizes my daily use volla 22.

tigerpro · 23 Dec 2024, 23:34

@mariogrip is there a way I can start working on porting my device to it if it's not in the installer?

Keneda · 24 Dec 2024, 00:02

@mariogrip said in This week in development (week 52 2024):

I'd like to start posting weekly development updates here on the forums - this is a bit of an experiment, so please let me know if you find these updates useful and what could be improved. The goal is to provide a high-level overview of our development progress.

Is this is only about 24.04 or OS (see my signature to have a clue of my wonder ^^ ) ?
And yes, I bet it will interest lot of people whatever the subject is.

padraic · 24 Dec 2024, 00:10

Just here to say that weekly development updates would be very welcome.

danfro · 24 Dec 2024, 06:20

Is this is only about 24.04 or OS (see my signature to have a clue of my wonder ^^ ) ?

Its about a Noble based version of Ubuntu Touch (the OS). As we are currently on a Focal based version and had a Xenial based version before that.

uxes · 24 Dec 2024, 11:35

has there been a major change (breaking change?) that makes it necessary to resize the filesystem as a result?
I can't seem to install the latest version 64 (2024-12-23 12:44)
version a few days ago, I believe version 60 went "well" at least booting

I tried installing on top of version 60 via ubports-installer but it ended up boot-looping, then I reflashed the phone back to android and installed latest utnext but ended up in ubports recovery reporting "exit code 256, view recovery logs /cache/ubuntu-updater.log" which is the same error I had when moving from 16.04 to 20.04, which was fixed by resize filesystem "system"

the log file:

Loading keyring: image-master.tar.xz
Loading keyring: image-signing.tar.xz
umount: /dev/block/dm-0: Invalid argument
umount: /cache/system: Invalid argument
umount: /system_root: Invalid argument
umount: /mnt/system: Invalid argument
e2fsck 1.44.4 (18-Aug-2018)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/block/dm-0: 11/196608 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 29884/786432 blocks
Formatting: data
Keyring doesn't exist: device-signing
Applying update: rootfs-1cc30f282c1d6dc014ad80a4b6cf84c82763919be5c2315b9d5b384b0665ddc4.tar.xz
mv: bad 'data/*': No such file or directory
Keyring doesn't exist: device-signing
Applying update: device-3480823f589b096575d103dc137e66ac10d62bdd8f0a4047931864c1a12bf956.tar.xz
tar: write error: No space left on device
joyeuse:/ # %

Keneda · 24 Dec 2024, 15:29

@danfro said in This week in development (week 52 2024):

Its about a Noble based version of Ubuntu Touch (the OS).

I meant "about 24.04 version of the OS, or the OS in general".
You answered.

danfro · 24 Dec 2024, 15:53

@Keneda To be honest, I don't really understand what your question is. I simply tried to explain that this post/thread is about noble (aka 24.04) development of Ubuntu Touch.

mariogrip · 24 Dec 2024, 16:39

@Keneda if it's fp5 you're referring too, yes this is pretty much daily driver ready on focal already, for noble it does require more work on the os itself, but the device port is ready. But I wouldn't use noble as your daily driver yet.

mariogrip · 24 Dec 2024, 16:44

@uxes sadly yes it's slightly bigger, this is something we need to figure out, ether by slimming the image down or resize partitions on the fly. LTO has been enabled on nobile, this makes the binaries smaller at the same time, so the increase comes from more code

mariogrip · 24 Dec 2024, 16:46

@tigerpro yes, should be mostly just plug and play, see https://forums.ubports.com/topic/10675/status-update-on-the-next-noble-based-ubuntu-touch-release-december-2024 for the changes that may be needed on pulse config.

Lakotaubp · 24 Dec 2024, 17:15

@mariogrip I take it that the best advice is to start with a clean freshly wiped device for accurate testing.

Keneda · 25 Dec 2024, 14:28

@danfro
My question is to know if that new "week dev thread" is about only noble (24.04), or whole OS subjects (fonctionnalities for instance), or any dev subjects related to UT (like new devices from core team).

kugiigi · 25 Dec 2024, 15:03

@Lakotaubp I think a device full of data would also be a good testing since most people will the upgrade that way but considering the early stage of the development, data migration might not have been the focus or tackled yet so I guess a clean install would be ideal for the testers.

Lakotaubp · 25 Dec 2024, 15:07

@kugiigi In that case not a lot works. Updated straight from 20.04 devel. Tried a few core apps all crashed including calls. have moved back to 20.04. Apps tried included system settings, weather, dialler.
Edit: on a FP4