Ubuntu Touch OTA-18 Changelog
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What follows is a log of most of the changes to Ubuntu Touch between OTA-17 and OTA-18 (as of the July 7, 2021 Release Candidate).
This changelog does not include all changes. In particular, changes to the following components are not included:
- Applications preinstalled using click packages
- Device-specific changes made in their Halium build trees
- Anything I missed while browsing GitHub and GitLab. PM me if I missed yours!
["Flohack"]
Add exposure modes to qtubuntu-camera: ubports/qtubuntu-camera#12
Fix missing WiFi indicator on some Android9 devices: ubports/indicator-network#65
Add a different vendor service for call audio on some Android devices: ubports/audiosystem-passthrough#2[Joan "CiberSheep"]
Change top panel color during a call from "positive" (green) to "activity" (blue) ubports/unity8#324
Add degree symbol to keyboard, fixes ubports/ubuntu-touch#1628: ubports/keyboard-component#178
Fix theming in dialer SIM card selection: ubports/dialer-app#162[Lionel Duboeuf]
Add "time sent" to information for SMS/MMS messages, fixes ubports/messaging-app#179: ubports/messaging-app#250 and ubports/history-service#32
Enable stickers in the SMS/MMS messaging app: ubports/messaging-app#266
Add method to PhoneUtils so it can return a country code from a locale string: ubports/telephony-service#29
Don't perform long-running migration in history-service, fixes ubports/history-service#288: ubports/history-service#37
Prevent migrations from running more than once in history-service: ubports/history-service#39
Fix v17->v18 migration running more than once: ubports/history-service#38[Mateo Salta]
Remove "New Tab" bar from History page: ubports/morph-browser#345
Update look of tabs so they aren't floating in space: ubports/morph-browser#394
Fix the header being weird in ExpandedHistoryView: ubports/morph-browser#488
Fix building messaging-app with Clickable: ubports/messaging-app#297["Danfro"]
Add redeye flash mode to qtubuntu-camera: ubports/qtubuntu-camera#13
[Luca Weiss]
Only use Hybris in platform-api when required: ubports/platform-api#6
A volley of fixes to dbus-cpp, network-cpp, and process-cpp["userj"]
Add a line break in the middle of the volume warning: ubports/indicator-sound#3
["Antikruk"]
Add a Belarusian keyboard layout: ubports/keyboard-component#146
[Kubi Eusebio]
Open the on-screen keyboard on a new tab: ubports/morph-browser#417
When opening a new tab from a link, place the new tab next to the tab that opened it, fixes ubports/morph-browser#326: ubports/morph-browser#439
Add navigation history to the back/forward buttons: ubports/morph-browser#444
Fix Control+Alt+T shortcut: ubports/unity8#375
Replace the side stage handle with one that looks like Drawer and Indicator handle, fix the shadow stealing input from the app: ubports/unity8#374
Fix building morph-browser with clickable, fixes ubports/morph-browser#484: ubports/morph-browser#485["farkasdvd"]
Snooze the alarm, rather than dismissing it, after it times out: ubports/indicator-datetime#29
Start snooze timer from the time the snooze started, not the time the alarm started: ubports/indicator-datetime#30[Alberto Mardegan]
Start and stop the SSH service without using Android properties: ubports/dbus-property-service#1
Rewrite media-hub in Qt C++ instead of... whatever it was, fixes ubports/media-hub#29, ubports/media-hub#24. ubports/media-hub#28
Fix location-service build under crossbuilder: ubports/location-service#10
Fix remote media sometimes not playing, podcast tracks failing to resume in Podbird, fixes ubports/media-hub#31: ubports/media-hub#32
Simplify moving to next track ubports/media-hub#33: ubports/media-hub#34
Add tests for resetting a track: ubports/media-hub#36
Fix strange play order in Podbird, fixes ubports/media-hub#35: ubports/media-hub#38
Fix random test failures: ubports/media-hub#39[Dalton Durst]
Remove log handler that disables warnings in trust-store: ubports/trust-store#16
Save 30MB or more RAM whenever unity8 is running (always): ubports/unity8#388
Fix being able to type too fast for the Drawer, being able to drag the drawer too far open, and 4-finger tap summoning the keyboard in addition to the Drawer, fixes ubports/unity8#389, ubports/unity8#251: ubports/unity8#391
Fix opening the Drawer when Lomiri is in Shell-only mode: ubports/unity8#393[Ratchanan Srirattanamet]
Update build infrastructure for trust-store: ubports/trust-store#17
Remove qtubuntu dependency on platform-api: ubports/qtubuntu#21
Explicitly depend on platform-api now that qtubuntu doesn't: ubports/core/seeds/ubuntu-touch#27
Handle long power button press if it's the first input after Lomiri starts: ubports/unity8#390
Fix autobrightness after ubports/core/repowerd!18: ubports/core/repowerd!31
Add Wayland support to mir-android-platform: ubports/core/mir-android-platform!26
Fix crashes in nemo-qtmultimedia-plugins when QMultimediaService is null: ubports/core/nemo-qemultimedia-plugins!1
Build biometryd for both xenial and focal at the same time: ubports/core/biometryd!6
Import gst-plugins-good security updates: ubports/core/packaging/gst-plugins-good1.0!1[Chris Clime]
Define a storageName by default for morph-browser, so it will keep cookies between sessions in WebEngine 5.15: ubports/morph-browser#486
["doniks"]
Translate the Libertine QML files, too: ubports/libertine#112
[Adam Schrey]
Update Libertine icons: ubports/libertine#116
[Marius Gripsgard]
Allow building repowerd without hybris support: ubports/core/repowerd!18
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@unisuperbox Thank you for a change log.
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