An OTA-6.5 hotfix might arrive in the meantime

Aug 27, 2015 04:25 GMT  ·  By

Immediately after announcing the release of the OTA-6 software update for the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system, Canonical's Łukasz Zemczak sent in his daily report to inform us all about the next major update for Ubuntu for phones, OTA-7.

Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 will be the next major update to Canonical's mobile operating system for Ubuntu phones, and it should be available to users worldwide in approximately six weeks from the moment of writing this article.

As expected, OTA-7 will introduce more awesome features to Ubuntu Touch, such as additional convergence functionality, accelerometer and vibration access in Web Apps, as well as more goodies to the default Scopes of the mobile OS.

"Next stop - OTA-7 in ~6 weeks," says Łukasz Zemczak. "For OTA-7 there are even more goodies planned, with things like vibration/accelerometer access in webapps, new scope features and a lot of convergence additions. More on those in the nearest days."

According to Mr. Zemczak, until the OTA-7 update arrives in the first week of October 2015, Ubuntu Touch developers might also release a hotfix for OTA-6 to patch annoying bugs, which will be called OTA-6.5, but most probably it won't be released.

In the meantime, you can update your Nexus 4, Nexus 7, and Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition devices to OTA-6 today. BQ Aquaris users will have to wait until next week to receive the software update for Ubuntu Touch.