14 DAY TRIAL // Today, January 7, 2016, we've been informed by Canonical's Łukasz Zemczak about the latest improvements that have landed for the upcoming Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 software update for Ubuntu Phones.
According to Mr. Zemczak, the Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 update looks really promising so far, and the development team has managed to implement even more goodies in the last 24 hours or so, since our previous report. For example, they’ve updated the thumbnailer, dialer, telephony-service, location-service, history-service, media-hub, and Ubuntu UI Toolkit.
In detail, the Ubuntu Touch developers have fixed an issue with MMS attachments, as well as a bug in the recent number display for the telephony-service and history-service components, respectively. Moreover, they have fixed a crash and a few bugs in the thumbnailer, have patched multiple bugs in the Ubuntu UI Toolkit, and have addressed an issue in location-service.
"Quality-wise our images getting better and better with the overall future OTA-9 looking really promising so far. There are still a few other silos in testing, with new custom tarballs scheduled to be prepared for QA around tomorrow," says Łukasz Zemczak, Ubuntu Foundations.
Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 lands on January 27, 2016
In addition to the improvements mentioned above for those major components, the Ubuntu Touch team has also managed to update the language packs. However, they are currently experiencing some issues with the emulator, as the rc-proposed images are currently broken due to some major issues that need to be fixed in the coming days.
As such, they are now concentrating all of their efforts on fixing the emulator so that they won't have to release the OTA-9 update without minimal emulator support. We've already reported on it, but we would take this opportunity to remind you that the OTA-9 update is now in string and feature freeze and that the final release will land on January 27, 2016.