Jolla heeft versie 4.2.0 van zijn Sailfish OS uitgebracht. Voor de naam van deze uitgave is gekozen voor Verla, een dorp in Finland die op de Werelderfgoedlijst van de UNESCO staat. Sailfish kan gebruikt worden op toestellen Jolla C, Jolla Tablet en meerdere Xperia-apparaten. Meer informatie over deze uitgave en ondersteunde modellen kan op deze pagina worden gevonden. Installatie-instructies staan hier en er is ook een Jolla-topic op Got. Dit zijn de belangrijkste veranderingen die in deze release zijn aangebracht:
AccountsAmbiences
- Errors related to creating/removing Telepathy-based accounts fixed. For instance, removed XMPP accounts do not appear on “Settings > Presence” anymore.
- Connection to Office 365 Exchange server failing due to provisioning defect fixed (provisioning inactive time)
- Facebook removed from the available account types as the Facebook services had practically faded out. Facebook account remains over OS updates but won’t appear on devices to which 4.2.0 is installed/flashed.
Android App Support (Xperia XA2, 10 and 10 II)
- UI components got a fix to follow the colouring of the new ambiences (4.0.1 regression)
Audio recorder
- “Settings > System > Android App Support > Show licences” fixed
- Camera bridged to Android App Support more elegantly
- Android app settings pages now display the app icon
- If App Support is not running, a notification is shown about launching the App Support to start the app. The notification was improved to show the app name and icon
- Internet connections of Android apps via WLAN improved
- Updated to 10.0.0.54 security patch level
Backup & Restore
- Active cover layout now better aligns with platform style
Browser
- User is notified to sign in again after restoring a backup from a cloud account
CalDAV & CardDAV
- Close button removed from the toolbar
- OAutb helper API for hybrid web app developers added
- Settings and toolbar improved:
- Choosing the download directory is possible now
- History item added
- Adding a web page to add grid appears in the toolbar conveniently now
- Dialogue for checking your usernames/passwords of various web pages added
- Usage of home page fixed - restarted browser takes you to the home page now (unless you have had tabs open)
- Regression in saved passwords modification dialogue fixed
- Tapping the downloaded file now opens the viewer app instead of taking you to the transfers
- Opening a file from transfer notification supported
- Signing in to captive portals with Sailfish Browser improved
Calendar
Redirects from http to https (or vice versa) fixed - they used to be detected as circular and aborted
Last modified timestamp of calendar sync fixed
Camera
- Color-coded calendar indications on Calendar main page month grid added
- Replying to event participants from Calendar made possible
- Opening of iCalendar .ics email attachments fixed
- Robustness of signing in to Exchange account improved
- Enabling/disabling calendars in Calendar app now committed when minimizing the app (previously required closing the “Manage calendars” page)
Connectivity
- Scene mode and the support for multiple cameras on Xperia 10 II
- Camera API bug fixes for 3rd party
- Drop camera launch action from rarely used empty state cover
Contacts – see People Documents
- Signal strength of 5 GHz WiFi access points fixed on Xperia 10 II
- When joining a new WiFi network the IPv6 address is assigned to the interface now
- Ensured that Internet sharing works on Xperia 10 II despite the dual Wi-Fi/STA+AP mode
- Documents Calligra engine upgraded (17 fixes)
Gallery
- More robust attachment handling
- Support for sending email to calendar event organiser or participants
- Crash in Exchange account creation fixed
Home screen
- Android storage exposed to Gallery, i.e., Android pictures and videos are shown in Gallery. Note, currently only shows pictures under Android Pictures folder, no content on app-specific folders
Media
- App Grid supports sticky mode for easier one-handed use. While halfway opening App Grid you can now hold a finger for a moment to pin App Grid in place and then continue to tap the app you want to launch
- Lockscreen edge indicators don’t anymore move with the unlock gesture issue fixed
- Dismissing OS update notifications at Events view now possible
Messages
- Bluetooth and wired headset media keys (play, pause, next etc.) are handled via the MPRIS framework now. This makes those keys available for Android apps, too
Multimedia
- Grouping of non-repliable service SMS messages fixed
- Sending text messages on some devices (Jolla C) fixed
People
- Stability and playback quality improved
Phone
- Tapping birthday on a contact card opens the Calendar now
- Size of attachment file fixed while sharing contacts over email
- Recent contacts now show both called and messaged contacts in Phone and Messages (used to only show either)
- Memory leak in contacts backend fixed
- Avatars painted outside their area in active cover fixed
Sandboxing (app isolation)
- Routing phone call voice to Bluetooth headsets improved (with some headsets it may still fail)
Security
- Plenty if improvements to clarity and robustness
- Adjustments to permissions
- Permissions listed in Settings > Apps > App are sorted alphabetically
- Vulnerabilities fixed:
Settings
- bluez 5.58: CVE-2020-27153
- connman 1.32: CVE-2021-33833
- curl 7.77.0: CVE-2021-22890, CVE-2021-22876
- glibc 2.30: CVE-2020-27618
- gstreamer 1.18.4: CVE-2019-9928, CVE-2021-3522, CVE-2021-3497, CVE-2021-3498
- libjpeg 2.1.0: CVE-2020-13790
- openjpeg 2.4.0: CVE-2019-12973, CVE-2019-6988
- python3-lxml 4.6.3: CVE-2021-28957
Sharing
- App settings now show the app icon
- Transfer notification icon updated for better legibility
- Fingerterm terminal no longer plays haptics on both press and release
- Serial number of the device added to About product page
Storage
- The file-sharing UI was reimplemented as system dialogue, no longer done inside the sharing applications.
Text input
- Permission to control access to external storage added
- Possibility to encrypt the phone by using an inserted SD card as temporary storage. If the device isn’t encrypted and an SD card is in the device, the option to utilize the SD card during encryption appears in “Settings > Encryption”. Once the encryption is started, the UI for copying user data appears. If the data is copied correctly to the card, the device gets encrypted. After encryption, the data is copied back to the home directories.
UI components
- Predictive text input is available for Xperia 10 II, too, from Jolla Store (licence required)
Webview
- Context menu closing stuttering cases fixed
Device specific improvements Xperia 10 II
- Plenty of improvements
Gemini PDA
- Signal strength indication of 5 GHz WiFi fixed
- Signal strength indication of 3G fixed
- Internet sharing fixed
- Unnecessary system messages blocked
- Kernel updated
- Homescreen now recovers from crashes
- Phone behaviour at low memory cases improved
- The mic of wired headsets is now used correctly (a workaround used on 4.1.0 was removed). Hardware adaptation of Xperia 10 II updated because of this.
- Support for all three cameras (shown with buttons 0.6, 1.0 and 2.0 in the viewfinder)
Sailfish OS Forum and T.J.C: Issues reported by the community and fixed in this update
- Audio functions fixed
- [BUG][4.1.0.23, 4.1.0.24] Unlock device by fingerprint 7
- Mb2 shared output directory: allow to disable zypper distribution update
- No pitch compensation when playing audio with playbackRate != 1
- https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/homescreen-restart-stucked/5960
- Birthday in People app should lead to Calendar app but do nothing - #4 by jiit
- [Koli 4.0.1.45] Problems with xmpp accounts management
- Headset media buttons don't work with Android apps - together.jolla.com
- Possibility to remove update notifications - together.jolla.com 1
- [Feature-request] Postpone OS updates/dismiss notification - together.jolla.com
- Can't get exchange account working 1
- https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/phone-ui-is-sticking-in-the-home-screen/7372
- https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/cannot-send-sms-anymore/7370
- [4.1.0.24][Xperia 10 II] Unknown memory level reported by MCE 1
- [4.1.0.24 GEMINI PDA] No sound after upgrade
- Sfdk does not handle rpmbuild options properly
- Keyboard does not show up in the Phone app's Contacts tab - #8 by sashikknox
- [4.1.0.23][4.0.1.45] It is impossible save or edit a new contacts - #23 by AlanBreen 1
- How to use a custom timezone? ( a fix helping in this issue - but not resolving )
- https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/wrong-row-height-in-account-page/7369
- https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/share-a-picture-as-mms-ends-up-in-staying-in-the-compose-message-page/7507
- 5GHz wifi signal reception is too weak 5
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