[SailfishDevel] Update on SailfishOS roadmap

[Krisztian Olah]

Hi,
It is going to be Qt 5.2 for a while, there are libs from 5.2 that are still not allowed.

Kris

On Sun Feb 22 21:46:32 2015 GMT, Alex Smirnoff wrote:
> Hello.
> What about Qt version?
> Is it still 5.2.2 in update 11?
> I really need qt 5.3 to be able to build version 1.2 of QtQuick Controlls.
> 
> Alex.
> 
> 2015-02-13 13:09 GMT+01:00 Soumya Bijjal <soumya.bijjal at jollamobile.com>:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is an update on our progress from the past month. Do note that they
> > are all work in progress and not release ready for another few months.
> >
> > * Tablet hardware adaptation is nearly ready for MWC
> >   - USB charging, stereo speakers, sensors, accelerometer, Bluetooth, WLAN
> > functionalities have been verified
> >
> > * Work on the new UI framework is progressing at a good pace
> >   - lock screen has been separated from the homescreen
> >   - improved notifications with visual grouping and additional actions
> >   - events view with a richer user experience
> >   - improved home screen interactions and transitions
> >   - new swipe edge transition
> >
> > * Lock screen media player controls implemented for the native media
> > player app, under review https://together.jolla.com/
> > question/3414/control-music-from-the-lock-screen/
> >
> > * IMAP idle/push support implemented https://together.jolla.com/
> > question/493/imap-idle-imap-push-for-the-e-mail-app/
> >
> > * Landscape mode enabled in Maps
> >
> > * Toolchain has been updated (upgraded to GCC 4.8, binutils 2.25, switch
> > to Thumb2+NEON for ARM by default, march=i686 and SSE2 minimum for X86)
> > and will take into effect with update13; expect a huge download size for
> > the update
> >
> > * Dual-stack support  (ipv4 and ipv6) for cellular connectivity in the
> > middleware
> >
> > * Update to GStreamer 1.x: souphttpstc is enabled, AAC encoding/decoding
> > works
> >
> > * Prototyping of encrypted filesystem: This is currently on hold for a
> > short while due to MWC preparations
> >     - We have a development template to build filesystem layout on tablet
> > that could allow home encryption
> >     - Most of the real work is still ahead of us: studying if in-place
> > conversion  can be done with changing LVM logical volumes, /var/
> > encryption, user application binaries and user app data encryption and most
> > of all placement to home instead of root, boot target for password query
> >
> > * Drop upower in favour of statefs:
> >   - udev is used directly to fetch power and battery temperature
> > information via statefs power-udev provider
> >   - MCE now fetches battery info from statefs
> >
> > * Performance improvements:
> >   - Improved performance of adding items to the scenegraph, particularly
> > when e.g. scrolling lists
> >   - Pool allocator for shadow nodes in the scenegraph used to reduce
> > possible memory fragmentation
> >   - Substantially reduced the number of nodes required by the scenegraph
> >   - Reduced the amount of memory required by internal JS structures
> >   - Reduced the need to heap allocate when dealing with IR structures
> >   - Reduced the amount of memory required for SQLite caches
> >
> > As  for the next OS release, we are currently at release candidate 5 for
> > Yliaavanlampi (update 11) and expect to have another release candidate
> > before we can decide on the release schedule.
> >
> > For this iteration, we have two main goals:
> >     1. Demonstrate the new UI framework and Tablet functionality at the
> > Mobile World Congress, Barcelona
> >     2. Make the device usable in filesystem full condition to allow the
> > user to recover from it on her own
> >
> > In addition, we have planned to work on the following:
> > * Tablet specific work:
> >   - Bluetooth audio configuration
> >   - Integrate microphone
> >   - Improve boot up and shutdown time
> >   - Support for OBEX FTP Bluetooth profile
> >   - Upgrade Bluetooth AVRCP to version 1.3
> >   - Check Bluetooth+WLAN coexistence
> >   - Verify MTP functionality
> >   - Performance improvements
> >   - Intel support for Android runtime
> > * Enable OpenVPN support on the OS
> > * Update to Facebook API 2.2
> > * Telepathy farstream / SIP Audio routing policy
> > * Bug fixing on issues related to Bluetooth sync, presence and
> > accounts/calDAV
> > * New settings options to
> >  - display disk space used by images, media, backup, app data etc
> >  - display SD card information
> > * Update main view of Gallery app for the Tablet
> >
> > The following activities continue from the last iteration:
> > * Adapt middleware to modemless device i.e. Tablet
> > * Work towards Pulseaudio 6.0
> > * Drop upower in favour of statefs
> > * Allow factory reset operation to reset the OS to the latest available
> > public version instead of the age old factory image
> > * Run btrfs balance operation before installing OS update
> > * Improvements to PackageKit for software update handling
> > * Sensor detection, USB, camera adaptation and filesystem layout for the
> > Tablet
> > * USB tethering UI implementation https://together.jolla.com/
> > question/3798/usb-tethering/
> > * Private browsing https://together.jolla.com/
> > question/1821/private-mode-in-web-browser/
> > * Continue working on landscape mode for apps
> >
> > Thats all for now,
> > bijjal
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Alex Smirnov
>