[SailfishDevel] Update on SailfishOS roadmap

[E.S. Rosenberg]

Will the kernel ever be taken to a newer longterm version? 3.14 or 3.18
come to mind here, currently there is a mismatch between the kernel version
of btrfs and btrfs-tools installed on the phone....


2015-03-23 12:50 GMT+02:00 Oleg Linkin <maledictusdemagog at gmail.com>:

> will 1.1.4  contain new UI framework with richer eventsview?
>
> 2015-03-23 13:42 GMT+03:00 Soumya Bijjal <soumya.bijjal at jollamobile.com>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> During the last iteration, we had an intensive development period on
>> tablet hardware adaptation and the new UI framework. The results were
>> demonstrated at Mobile World Congress early this month. We are overwhelmed
>> with the positive response and reviews of the Tablet. Do take a look at the
>> blog entry summarizing our participation at MWC if you haven't already:
>> https://blog.jolla.com/mobile-world-congress-2015/
>>
>> A quick recap on the progress so far:
>> New UI framework:
>>  * Lockscreen with time, day and date information
>>  * Media player controls in lock screen for native Media app
>>  * Persistent status area in homescreen and lockscreen
>>  * Richer eventsview with widgets such as
>>    - displaying weather info
>>    - upcoming calendar events
>>    - shortcuts to toggle commonly used settings such as bluetooth,
>> airplane mode, wlan and location,
>>    - shortcuts to perform quick actions , e.g search on web, take a
>> picture, make a note etc
>>    - improved notification handling, grouping, secondary actions
>>  * Power key menu
>>  * Carousel transition to access home, open apps and events view
>>  * New swipe animations and transitions
>>  * Presence settings moved from events view to settings app
>>
>> Landscape mode and layout updates for apps for tablet:
>> * Work in progress for Settings, Startup wizard, Calculator, Media
>> player, Calendar and Gallery apps
>>
>> Drop upower in favour of statefs:
>> Implementation work is now complete, now working towards gracefully
>> handling the removal of obsolete packages. This task depends updating Mer
>> Core OS to use newer version of libsolv, libzypp, zypper libraries.
>>
>> GStreamer update to 1.x:
>> * More work on cleaning up the code for gst-droid encoders and decoders.
>> The code is now more robust.
>> * Viewfinder and captured images should have the correct orientation.
>> * Hunting down issues with writing the correct orientation for the
>> recorded videos.
>> * Porting the thumbnailer to a more recent libav
>> * Making sure qtmultimedia can be used with GStreamer 1.x by building it,
>> rebasing nemo patches on top of it and fixing any issues.
>> * PHONE ONLY: jolla camera more or less works with some issues remaining.
>> Gallery video playback with some issues remaining.
>>
>> Toolchain upgrade to gcc4.8:
>> Moved to a later OS upgrade to give us time to complete the
>> implementation of BTRFS balancing operation before performing OS upgrade.
>>
>> For this iteration, we have planned the following:
>> * Kernel update to latest linux-stable version 3.4.106 for Jolla Phone
>> * Tablet adaptation work
>>   - recovery mode/factory reset operation
>>   - device identifiers supporting tablet OS upgrade
>> * Preparations for Bluetooth certification qualification
>> * Security fixes for  gnutls vulnerabilities (CVE-2015-0282,
>> CVE-2015-0294), libgcrypt vulnerabilities CVE-2014-3591, CVE-2015-0837 and
>> openssl vulnerability  notified in http://marc.info/?l=openssl-
>> announce&m=142667932619582&w=2
>> * Implement parts of voicecall-manager for SIP and other VoIP protocols
>> * Finalize the new UI framework features demonstrated during MWC
>> * Tablet-optimized apps and landscape layouts
>> * Refresh visuals for Sailfish Silica components
>> * Virtual/HW keyboard opening policy
>> * Email Search
>> * Improve folders list in Mail app
>> * Continue with the following from last iteration
>>   - Camera adaptation work on Tablet
>>   - File system layout  implementation for Tablet
>>   - Android runtime support Tablet
>>   - Continue working on landscape modes for apps
>>   - Settings pane to display disk usage
>>   - Allow factory reset operation to reset the OS to the latest available
>> public version instead of the age old factory image
>>   - Upgrade to Pulseaudio 6.0
>>   - Private browsing
>>   - SIP integration into accounts. test IM capabilities in messaging
>>
>> The following tasks unfortunately did not progress during the last
>> iteration, we hope to catch up on them now.
>>   - Review certification middleware code
>>   - USB tethering UI
>>   - Enable open VPN support on the OS
>>
>> The next OS upgrade, version 1.1.4 (Aijänpäivänjärvi) is in the release
>> candidate phase. Here are a few highlights on the release content:
>>     - Landscape mode for Maps
>>     - Split keyboard in landscape mode with a setting to disable it if
>> needed under Settings > System > Text input
>>     - IMAP idle/push support for mail accounts
>>     - Resolution independent icons
>>
>> In addition, Facebook account has been updated to use API version 2.2,
>> which has unfortunately lead to extreme reduction in functionality, i.e no
>> instant messaging nor contacts sync. Facebook has notified that the XMPP
>> chat API will no longer be available after April 30, 2015
>> https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat.
>>
>> We have now moved our codebase to use new API version, thus disabling
>> Facebook instant messaging capability on SailfishOS. It also limits the
>> contact synchronization to only provide contact info of people using the
>> same app; in our case this would mean that one could obtain contacts only
>> if his/her Facebook friends are also Jolla phone users. We agreed
>> internally that such a limited contact sync is pretty much useless to our
>> users and hence the contact sync has also be disabled. We have initiated
>> talks with Facebook in an attempt to find a way forward.
>>
>> Thats all for now,
>> bijjal
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