Sailfish Community News, 19th March 2026 - Meetup in Lyon next Saturday

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Sailfish OS update from Jolla

It’s again time for a fortnight newsletter. Today we have Harbour news and Repository roundup by @vige and @dcaliste respectively. Please find Community meeting logs here – hopefully next time we also have a meeting summary as it has served us well.

As you can imagine, we have been busy with the Jolla Phone (2026) after MWC world premiere. Thank you all for posting media articles to forum before, during and after MWC (since 5th Dec). This is a prime example of do-it-together :pray: – you don’t have to be a programmer in order to be able to contribute. Excellent!

The limited batch of 1000 units for Jolla Phone (Sep 2026) was sold out and closed this Monday. Same time we opened a limited new batch for Jolla Phone (Sep-II 2026).

Some of you have been pondering about pricing. Memory component prices have had exceptionally high volatility and global shortage in the past nine months which is forecasted to continue – some of you rightfully commented about this. Thus, we plan memory configurations and sell in limited batches to manage working capital.

  • Pre-order batches #1, #2 and #3 ALL ship with 12GB RAM and 256GB storage
  • Sep 2026 ships with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage unless you upgraded to 12/256GB configuration (upgrade still available)
  • Sep-II 2026 ships with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage (12/256GB upgrade option)

If there are frequently asked questions that are not yet covered, please raise your voice by dropping a comment to the comment section at the end.

Release update

We released Sailfish 5.0.0.76 for all users 18th March. AppSupport is updated to Android version 13 now on all supported devices. Please check the release notes.

We are working on enabling Bluetooth for AppSupport and Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) protocol update to 16.1. Please find more details regarding working in progress items. The EAS protocol update will trigger one more 5.0 update whereas the Bluetooth for AppSupport is planned to go out via Jolla Store.

After publishing the EAS protocol update for Sailfish 5.0, we will branch out the Sailfish 5.1. Thinking is that Sailfish 5.1 would be rolled out during the spring, hopefully during April, so no changes there. Many of us daily-drive Sailfish 5.1 and it is looking rather good but as usual there are always some things to iron out. Earlier we reach Community Beta (CBeta) with the Sailfish 5.1 the better it is :crossed_fingers:.

Please enjoy!

Energy from the Community

If you’re in the France Lyon area, some Sailfish users are meeting on Saturday 21st March from 10 am until 8 pm at 7 Place Louis Chazette – maybe there will be some swag available :thinking:. We will be discussing about Sailfish, Whisperfish and brainstorming to improve the Sailfish experience for all future new users. You can find more information in this thread: Next meeting for French-speaking Sailfish OS users : 21 March 2026 in Lyon

Harbour news

J2: Enjoyer!

Did you think this is the end of enjoying? Of course not! With the latest J2: Enjoyer upgrade, your enjoying experience is even more productive, accessible and, of course, enjoyable as never before!

  • Added sep 2026 jolla phone counter as an alternative to the old one, which is used by default now too
  • Opening pictures in Browser (to download or whatever)
  • Opening web page in Browser
  • Error handling
  • Bug fixes

Fast chess

Fast chess was updated to version 0.9.6. The changes include:

  • Cleaning code for Stockfish upgrade v5 → v6
  • Fixing stockfish Skill Level bug

German Weather Service

The German weather app got update to version 1.0.2.

  • The rainviewer page was rebuilt.
  • precision of floats was corrected.

Tarkka

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Tarkka turns your Sailfish OS device into a digital magnifying glass. It features a smooth digital zoom up to 4x, color filters, contrast adjustment and torch. In the screenshot above I used negative filter with enhanced contrast, making the barely visible markings of the power supply easily readable. The UI is designed for one-handed use.

Repository roundup

Main interface

Network, communication and telephony stack

  • libqofono, Qt bindings for Ofono, capsia37 from UBports added a CMake build system, removed the QMake one and allowed Qt6 builds. A similar job was done in libqofono-ext.
  • libgsupplicant, a client library for wpa_supplicant, LaakkonenJussi added support for WPA3 SAE.
  • connman, the connection manager, LaakkonenJussi added support for WPA3 SAE. It is introducing a new entry in connman.conf: WifiWPA3Support, which can be “full” for full WPA3 SAE support, “mixed” when WPA2+WPA3 mixed is supported at maximum and “none” when there is no WPA3 support.
  • libconnman-qt, QML bindings for the connection manager, LaakkonenJussi exposed the new security models (SAE and PSK+SAE) supported by ConnMan, to the Qt bindings.
  • nemo-qml-plugin-connectivity, QML bindings for network connectivity, pvuorela added an Unknown connectivity state used by the bindings as default value during instantiation. On instantiation it’s not immediately known whether the device is online or offline. This avoids a warning on startup for example in the weather application.

Multimedia

Browsing the web

Calendar management

  • kf5-calendarcore, the KDE framework library to handle calendar data, pvuorela reverted one commit from dcaliste which was creating issues in mkcal.
  • nemo-qml-plugin-calendar, the QML for calendar access, pvuorela fixed a meaning-less warning that was triggered when the database was modified by another process.
  • mkcal, storage backend using SQLite for calendar entries, pvuorela made timed and qmfclient optional build dependencies.

Online services

Low level libraries

Developer’s corner

Please feed us your news

Hope you enjoyed reading this fortnight!

This is a community update, and frankly we can’t always keep up with all the exciting stuff happening in the Sailfish Community. Plus, the less of this we have to actually write ourselves the better. So please help us out by posting your Sailfish news updates to the forum as a reply to this post. We’ll collate as much of it as possible into one easily digestible post for the next update. This is your news!

Please do also join us at our community meetings on IRC, Matrix and Telegram. The next community meeting will be on the 26th March.

Remember to follow us also in Mastodon jolla (@jolla@techhub.social) - TechHub

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Even if you’re not in the Lyon area (as is yours truly), they have a wonderfully quick train connection, and the station has multiple not too expensive hotels on top, and it’s a 40-minute walk to the Altnet space :wink:

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https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/next-gen-jolla-phone-update-12-25/26509/389?u=feathers
oh my god I was joking :joy:

props for making Ecosia the default search engine, it’s the most full-featured EU-based Google alternative in my experience
thanks for all the great work, both from Jolla and the community, can’t wait to see it in action on the JP2 :wink:

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I usually understand very little of what is happening under the hood (repo roundup), but this time many interesting things very done (that I also understood)! Search engine update was definitely welcome and glad to see European alternatives in the options :slight_smile: Also WPA3 update :partying_face: Nextcloud thumbnails in the gallery, very nice! I don’t know if current 5.0 version already has python 3.11 version or still the older 3.9, but we will probably see it in the 5.1 at latest, which is super cool. That one has been requested quite many times. Overall very interesting development going on, can’t wait for the 5.1 update and bluetooth support in AAS :100:

Thanks sailors, keep sailing :sailboat:

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A game changer! This improves the usefulness of the Nextcloud gallery plugin a million times. Just tried it out (hope I didn’t b0rk my phone), and it’s amazing.

If now the thumbnails could look like the native gallery view, that would be terrific. I don’t think I need filenames, just EXIF-time-of-exposure-ordered, big thumbnails would be lovely! Would that fall under [Nextcloud] Gallery extension: Improve Album list display · Issue #20 · sailfishos/issue-tracker · GitHub, or should I make my own proper issue? :slight_smile:

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I wish we could also have a gallery plugin like this for generic WebDAV shares.

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Is the sailfish-weather available now? Last time I tried it, I still got the non-working Foreca, and afterwards just white screen.

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The FAQ, while helpful doesn’t really address all the issues. Part of the problem is that the information that was provided on the sales site for each batch has been removed as each new batch has been sold. The acknowledgement sent also has minimal information. We therefore have no fixed reference point against which to assess what we were promised.

Accepting that there have been issues and that dates have slipped answers to the following questions would be really helpful please.

Who do people contact and what information do you need if we decide to cancel and get a refund?

When will you confirm the full final specifications for each Batch (given that the information is no longer on the site and that precise specifications have been developed over time). A full summary if the technical specifications, not just memory details but bandwidths, sim type, no of Sims, screen type etc. etc. all in one place would help.

When will you be asking each Batch to pay the Balance and please confirm the amounts of the balance for each Batch. (A table would help please). Again this information is no longer on the sales site.

Are you still on track to have Batch #1 in our hands by the end of June 2026 as suggested or are there changes to the time lines please?

As a long term supporter of Jolla (I am a First One and have bought multiple handsets) please don’t think this is negative but given the massive uncertainties in the world at the moment with parts, supply chains and costs, there is need for equally massive clarity and really open updates on progress and obstacles etc.

Thanks and good luck.

Mike

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I do have a question on the Jolla Phone myself. It has been communicated that the user replaceable battery will be available at a later point. It would be great if also the back cover, in all offered colours would be available as spare part as well. That would be great as it is one of the most likely parts of the phone to get damaged and it is very easy to replace (unlike, I assume, the screen).

Regarding the full specification. It is my understanding, that nothing has changed between all batches, except for memory specifications, which the FAQ lists clearly for all batches. There has never been talk about anything else changing, has there? That said, more details on the specs would be welcome, like screen resolution etc.

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And it would be great, if they are available not “later” but just upfront as the Shipping from Finland is quite expensive - which is OK for a expensive package but crap for only some replacements. Would have ordered replacement case and screen protector for the C2 already, if the shipping wouldn’t double the price. And i would for sure add some stuff at the initial checkout to avoid that.
Or they need a reseller for that stuff in a country with reasonable shipping cost.

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