Automatic refunds will work only in the first 15 minutes

Jun 21, 2015 00:20 GMT  ·  By

Canonical employee Alejandro J. Cura sent in his weekly report about the progress made in the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system used in Ubuntu smartphone devices like BQ Aquaris E5 or Meizu MX4.

According to Alejandro J. Cura, it would appear that Ubuntu Touch finally received support for automatic refunds for all apps that have been purchased from the Click Store Scope, but will only work in the first 15 minutes from the moment you install the respective apps.

The new automatic refunds feature has landed in the Wily Werewolf development channel, but the team works hard these days to bring it to the Vivid+overlay branch too. Additionally, users are now able to edit the application ratings and reviews in the Ubuntu Store, a feature that also landed in the Wily branch.

Various issues with the thumbnailer have been patches as well, as the team managed to replace file descriptors passed via D-Bus with calls to AppArmor. More stress testing has been done for the thumbnailer, as well as for the applications that use it, and the Ubuntu Touch team plans a call for testing next week.

Snappy Scope now works for downloading and installing snap packages

Moreover, several issues have been addresses, such as the non-functional alarms, an issues that occurred after the upgrade to the OTA-4 software update released earlier this week, as well as the problem with unlocking SIM cards in arale devices. These two fixes should arrive in the next OTA, along with many other workarounds.

Last but not least, the Online Accounts API version 2 from the Go Bindings for Scopes will soon be supported in Ubuntu Touch, and a lot of work has been done for the upcoming Snappy Scope, which can already be used for downloading and installing snap packages.