Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 Update

Image numbers

As each channel and device has separate versioning, the following list shows the respective image numbers corresponding to the released update:

• BQ Aquaris E4.5 : ubuntu-touch/stable/bq-aquaris.en - krillin: #25

• BQ Aquaris E5 : ubuntu-touch/stable/bq-aquaris.en - vegetahd: #5

• Emulator : ubuntu-touch/stable/bq-aquaris.en - generic: not yet released

• Nexus 4 : ubuntu-touch/stable/bq-aquaris.en - mako: #23

• Meizu MX4 : ubuntu-touch/stable/meizu.en - arale: #4

• Emulator : ubuntu-touch/stable/meizu.en - generic: not yet released

• Nexus 4 : ubuntu-touch/stable/ubuntu - mako: #23

• Nexus 7 : ubuntu-touch/stable/ubuntu - flo: #1

• Emulator : ubuntu-touch/stable/ubuntu - generic: #16

Overview of changes

This list is only a highlight of the few changes available in this update. Please check the detailed changes for all the changes included in this OTA.

Important features

• New loading splash screen during boot
• Trust store integration for camera-app and pulseaudio - authorization now required to allow any application access to camera and audio recording

• WiFi hotspot support

• media-hub webbrowser-app/webapp integration - enabling audio playback for webapps
• New alarm sounds
• Slight updates in the overall design
• Webbrowser Find in page functionality added
• Oxide 1.8.4
• Changes to the 'high volume' warning UI and behaviour for compatibility with EU regulations
• Improved expanded indicator visibility

Bugfixes

As we know, each release includes a huge number of bugs - some for previous issues and some for new regressions introduced in-between. To see the overall list of what issues got fixed, please check the detailed changes below. The interesting ones are as follows:

• Removal of non-existing APs from the AP list
• Fix for Facebook integration
• Fixes for wrong contacts shown as message sender
• Fix media-hub HTTPS stream support
• Fix emulator images not building and not booting
• Multiple critical fixes in all core components such as UITK, Unity8, telephony and networking

...and much much more.

Detailed changes

• Commitlog: http://people.canonical.com/~lzemczak/landing-team/ota/ota-6.commitlog

• Milestone bug list: https://launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+milestone/ww34-2015

Known issues

The following is a list of issues that notable enough for explicit mention in the release notes. Some of the issues are candidates for a hotfix OTA release in the nearest time.

• Don't use the UITK 1.3 version for application development, this requires a new framework version released which is still not available
• LP: #1485608 - Ghost applications in the spread
• LP: #1364647 - When headphones are plugged, alarms only sound off in the headphones
• LP: #1488983 - Nexus 7 specific (flo): Video mode breaks the camera app till device is rebooted
• Emulator images not working on Wily (15.10)