[Release notes] Sailfish SDK 3.13

Update History

  • 2026-07-06 Sailfish SDK 3.13.5 released to all users
  • 2026-07-02 Sailfish SDK 3.13.5 released to Early Access users
  • 2026-06-18 Sailfish SDK 3.13.4 released to Early Access users

Most notable changes included in this release:

  • The latest Emulator and Build Targets match the Sailfish OS release 5.1.0 “Pispala”
  • GCC updated to 13.4.0

Contributions from the community

We would like to thank the people who have contributed bug fixes to this release, and also the people who have reported bugs via Sailfish OS Forum.

Release Content

The latest Emulator and Build Targets match the Sailfish OS release 5.1.0 “Pispala”

SDK IDE (Qt Creator)

  • Updated coding assistance for QML APIs
  • Bugs fixed
    • Qt Creator insists on using Ninja with CMake when Ninja is available from host

SDK CLI (sfdk)

  • New configuration option dirty-version-suffix
  • Bugs fixed
    • sfdk-debug on macOS: Error starting GDB
    • sfdk on Windows: Interactive commands just hangs
    • sfdk does not find docker CLI executable under MSYS2 shell on Windows
    • bash completion for sfdk breaks after passing --prepare or --enable-debug to sfdk-build

Sailfish OS Emulator

  • Bugs fixed
    • Filesystem inside emulator does not expand after increasing VM storage size (fix applies to latest emulator only)
    • Emulator audio is muted after installation

General

  • CMake updated to 3.31
  • GCC updated to 13.4.0
  • GDB updated to 16.3 (host side component remains on 12.1)
  • Stable naming for network bridge interface used by Docker-based SDK build engine
  • Check for network connection issues between build engine and devices
  • Supported Ubuntu version raised to 26.04 with maintained backward compatibility down to 22.04
  • Supported macOS version raised to 15.7
  • Supported Windows version raised to 11
  • Bugs fixed:
    • Build tools lose SSU registration with WLAN MAC address randomized on host
    • CMake warns about too old minimum version required from project templates

SDK Installer/Maintenance tool

  • Bugs fixed
    • SDK installer creates files/dirs with 777 permissions
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Today (June 18th, 2026) at 13:15 UTC the Sailfish SDK 3.13 release was published to Early Access users. Please, check out the in depth release notes from original post.

The installers for this release of the SDK are now available for download

If you have an older release of the SDK with the early access updates repository enabled, you should see an update notification in the Sailfish IDE soon.

If you have any questions, feel free to either write it up here in https://forum.sailfishos.org/ or send an e-mail to developer-care at jolla.com.

Happy hacking,

Jolla SDK Team

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Today (July 2nd, 2026) at 11:00 UTC an update to the Sailfish SDK 3.13 release was published to Early Access users.

This update is numbered 3.13.5 and it fixes an issue with older build targets.

We would like to thank Early Access users for trying out and reporting bugs.

Happy hacking,

Jolla SDK Team

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Today (July 6th, 2026) at 15:00 UTC the Sailfish SDK 3.13 release was published to all users.

Please, check out the in depth release notes from original post

The installers for this release of the SDK are now available for download

If you have an older release of the SDK, you should see an update notification in the Sailfish IDE soon.

If you have any questions, feel free to either write it up here in https://forum.sailfishos.org/ or send an e-mail to developer-care at jolla.com .

Happy hacking,

Jolla SDK Team

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