Sailfish Community News, 2nd April 2026 - Final payment

[Jolla]

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.

Lots of things has happened since last fortnight newsletter.

Jolla Phone final payment

One of topics that has been discussed a lot has of course been our latest Jolla Phone update - Final payment and towards mass production 🚀. Thank you for your questions, those often help others too, and also us to improve the communications for coming emails!

Few important things to pay attention whilst you’re finalizing your payment.

• Please take your time and read the email throughout - from beginning to the end
• Apply your personal pre-order discount code at the checkout – due to technical limitations it is NOT automatically applied
• Add your favourite Jolla Phone accessories to your shopping cart before purchasing
• If you have multiple Jolla Phone pre-orders, you’ll receive multiple emails for final payment (bear with us, no comments needed ) We will refund any duplicate shipping costs
• We do our utmost best to bundle your orders into one and we’ll refund duplicate shipping costs
• If you have claimed (ordered) your exclusive Jolla Phone Day1 celebration ticket during the final payment, then you have a ticket – it’s a digital ticket – and no need to ask it by email

The Forum is the best place to reach out for information and we can greatly help each other here. Please check the Forum, and preferably ask in the forum before sending an email to shop@jolla.com. We have a very long queue of emails to handle so be patient and many of the answers circulate around the same topics, thus answering in the Forum helps everyone here the most!

Refund clarifications

You can cancel at any time for a full refund. No questions asked, no hard feelings and always welcome back.

When it comes to duplicated shipping costs, you are covered. We do our utmost best to bundle duplicated orders for example if you have ordered accessories in a separate order – shipping costs will be refunded. Please refrain from emailing to shop@jolla.com on this matter

Please bear with us and kindly note there is currently a very long backlog for our small team to deal with - it will take 2-3 weeks for us to process these. If you have requested a refund you will get it, no worries!

EU VAT handling clarifications

(non-EU, do not read )

Payment finalisation emails for the EU companies excluding Finland (i.e. orders including EU VAT ID) will be manually processed. You’ll get your final payment email later and you won’t miss any delivery schedule. If you fall into this category and you are also interested in Jolla Phone Day1 celebration ticket, we got you covered – don’t worry!

Handling these cases takes time. Don’t hold your breath, take a cup of coffee or tea. This is due to fact that reverse charge is not applied – we’re working on it.

If you have used EU VAT ID for the final payment, those need to be corrected manually. Meanwhile, please refrain from emailing to shop@jolla.com on this matter

Joshua’s office visit

Last week we had a pleasure to have Joshua visiting our office for a full working day. Please read his first impressions of the new Jolla Phone here.

First Impressions of the new Jolla Phone (CNC Sample)

[Hero Image] Hey all! I was lucky enough to be invited to the Jolla office in Tampere, get a tour of the space, take a look at some functional CNC samples of the new Jolla Phone (or as we all call it, the J2), and help with recording some videos that should hopefully be used for marketing This is my short first impressions of the device in written form, though in a bit more depth than what I covered in some videos I recorded for Jolla. I want to seriously emphasize, this is …

Sailfish OS releasing

On Monday (March 30) this week we rolled out 5.0.0.77 for all supported devices. This is the final planned update for Sailfish OS 5.0.

[Release notes] Tampella 5.0.0.77

This is a update release in the Sailfish OS 5.0.0 series. Many thanks to you our active contributors for your feedback and proposals. 5.0.0.77 release highlights This update only affects the Microsoft 365 and Exchange account integrations, so if you are not using those, then there is no changes compared to 5.0.0.76. Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync 16.1 As you may know, Microsoft has ended support for clients using the older Exchange ActiveSync protocols, and the roll-out of that change has alre…

Now it’s time to be prepare Sailfish OS 5.1 branches. We have still few planned items on the table that we have not finalized. Once those items are merged 5.1 branching takes place. As we have been using internally Sailfish 5.1 for quite some time we are confident that we can create the first release candidate soon after branching (so called RC1). This first release candidate could be already published to Community Beta (CBeta). Sailfish OS 5.1 translation round would start around the same time.

As we wrote earlier, Bluetooth for AppSupport will be deployed via Jolla Store independently from the 5.1 release.

Thank you once again, Sailfish Community, for the great effort on the Banking apps on Sailfish OS wiki. It is a very concrete example showing the power of the community .

Happy Easter

It is time for a short break. Please enjoy Easter with your loved ones and try to relax . We try to rest as well.

Harbour news

BRK Aubing

Red Cross Aubing calendar app was updated to version 1.5.1. The update contains improved error messages and updates related to the latest SDK.

Tooterβ

Tooter, the Mastodon client was updated to version 1.3.2. Here’s the changelog from version 1.3.0:

• [Fix] correct poll display
• [Fix] restore debug toggles
• [Fix] mentions aggregation for reply to all @ in post
• [Fix] descendants only added one in conversation
• bug fix api change roll back

ExRates

ExRates is an app that can convert several currencies into another. Rates can be updated once a day. The app can be used offline in case a base rate has been chosen while having an internet connection. Version 1.8 brings updates to German translation, and also removes unnecessary rights.

Camera Buddy

Camera Buddy, tool for downloading photos from external DSLR cameras, was updated to version 0.3.0. This version brings a button for creating new folder for the download, and a page for showing bigger thumbnails. Also Czech translation was added.

Quickddit

Quickddit, amazing reddit client, was updated to version 1.14.8. This version brings:

• Swipeable gallery
• Cached animated gifs
• Fixed login keyboard not appearing for long.

SpotClock

SpotClock, application to show the hourly spot electricity prices, was updated to version 2.0. The new version uses ENTSO-E open data via a proxy server.

AELF

AELF, a native Sailfish OS application providing Catholic liturgical content, was updated to version 1.1.1. Here’s the changelog:

• Fixed auto-scroll flickable when context menu opens on bottom verses.
• Bible favorites: save and manage your favorite verses
• Dynamic font size: adjustable via settings (80%-160%)
• Refreshed settings page
• Fixed missing antiphon at psalms

Repository roundup

Main interface

• sailfish-weather, the application providing weather forecast information, abranson worked to separate the data providers from the main code, so providers can be added and removed without impacting the previously selected locations. He proposes MET Norway/yr.no as a new backend.

Network, communication and telephony stack

• bluez5, the Linux Bluetooth stack, mal updated it to 5.86.
• telepathy-ring, Ofono plugin for Telepathy, mal fixed an issue making the ringback tone not working in certain conditions.

Multimedia

• ffmpeg, a framework to encode and decode multimedia resources, mal updated it to 5.1.8.
• mpeg123, a console MPEG audio player and decoder library, mal updated it to 1.33.4.
• opus, an audio codec for use in low-delay speech and audio communication, mal updated it to 1.6.1.
• libwebp, a library for encoding and decoding image in WebP format, mal updated it to 1.6.0.
• sbc, a library for bluetooth low-complexity subband codec, mal updated it to 2.2.
• gstreamer, a multimedia framework, mal updated it to 1.26.11, and also the base plugins, the “good” plugins, the “bad” plugins and the libav one.
• pulseaudio, the sound daemon and much more, mal updated it to 17.0. Behind this simple mention lies a lot of required fixes in various repositories to allow the update. The initial pull request was submitted in September 2024!

Online services

• sailfish-account-nextcloud, the Nextcloud integration code, pvuorela ensured that the icons sent by NextCloud and used in the event view are rendered at the right resolution. He also added a whitish background so the icons are still easily visible when used with a dark ambience.

Low level libraries

• libresourceqt, Qt library for resource policy, pvuorela adjusted the sources and the build system to be compliant with Qt6. He based his work on an earlier proposition from neochapay.
• nemo-qml-plugin-time, QML bindings for time handling (system wide clocks…), pvuorela performed some minor code cleanups in the repository.
• orc, a library to generate optimized code operating on arrays of data, mal updated it to 0.4.42.
• libglibutil, a library extending GLib with convenient utilities, qr143vbi fixed a packaging issue when building on OpenSUSE.
• libcontentaction, a library for associating content with actions, neochapay fixed the sources for Qt6 builds.
• imagemagick, a multi-purpose image manipulation tool, direc85 updated it to 6.9.13.43.
• nemo-qml-plugin-systemsettings, QML bindings to access system parameters, pvuorela proposed to add specific properties for Hybris provided location in the location settings.
• sailjail-permissions, the configuration files for system-wide sandbox permissions, pvuorela fixed the D-Bus permissions for e-mails. The filtering rules in xdg-dbus-proxy require to specify a service name (or at least a prefix) when listening to signal broadcasts, and a generic wildcard cannot be used.
• messagingframework, the email Qt framework, pvuorela added a patch to ensure that any modifications from a client are broadcasted over D-Bus from a name with a given prefix (org.qt.mailstore).

Developer’s corner

• sdk-harbour-rpmvalidator, the harbour validation scripts, rubdos added the QML Nemo.Time in the list of allowed modules. This is part of his effort to make Whisperfish valid for Jolla store inclusion. He also tried to restart the discussion on allowing GStreamer dependency in Harbour.
• valgrind, a tool for finding memory management bugs in programs, direc85 updated it to 3.26.0.
• fingerterm, the console application, pvuorela took the screen notch into account (the top margin is adjusted to take rounded corner or notch size into account).

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 9th April. Please note change in the time slot due to the standard time change (7:00 PM EET). Agree to stick with UTC 2026-04-09T1600Z.

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[filip.k]

I miss some time plans for emails for payment for those who didn’t receive that email yet.

[Orologiaio]

Maybe also rough percentage completions for batches 1, 2, and 3? For example, I’m in batch 2 and I didn’t receive an email yet, but if batch 1 is not complete, then I know I don’t need to worry (yet ). I would find this more helpful, personally, than a time plan for when I may receive my email.

[frankps]

@Jolla

This first release candidate could be already published to Community Beta (CBeta)

Sorry, but this seems to be a bit unclear for me. Are you releasing a beta now or when you have finished the last things you have on the table?

[CLMA31]

@Jolla

sdk-harbour-rpmvalidator, the harbour validation scripts, rubdos added the QML Nemo.Time in the list of allowed modules. This is part of his effort to make Whisperfish valid for Jolla store inclusion. He also tried to restart the discussion on allowing GStreamer dependency in Harbour.

Ooooh boy, hopefully we can get GStreamer dependency! Would be awesome to have one day WF in Harbour which has functional audio call

@Jolla

pulseaudio, the sound daemon and much more, mal updated it to 17.0. Behind this simple mention lies a lot of required fixes in various repositories to allow the update.

Regarding this I am curious if this might affect the audio loss problem in some ways. Have to wait patiently for next release to test it. Anyway 5.1 sounds very nice upgrade

Happy Eastern sailors! Enjoy the well deserved holiday

[rainemak]

Branching happens always first. After branching we’ll create a release candidate.

[mal]

Audio loss problem on which device? And whic type of audio loss, all audio or just partial?

[D-MaT]

@Jolla

Apply your personal pre-order discount code at the checkout

Hello there,

i have a stupid question (hope it’s not answered yet…), but where can we find our pre-order discount ? In the mail, i’ve not so much information… It’s the VAT Number? Seems weird but why not.

Thank you so much

[kaymans]

this is the latest news of batch 1

It’s time. The Jolla Phone pre-orders are now ready to complete and we’ve rolled out the Batch #1 emails to pre-orderers. Choose your colour, complete your order by April 30, and lock in your delivery.

Day1 spots are limited — hurry up and claim yours before they’re gone!

Important: your personal voucher code is in the email — please make sure to use it at checkout!

More we don’t know this message was 3 days ago (I’m batch 3 and also haven’t received anything (yet) but I’m happy that you (batch 2) also didn’t receive an email so I know I don’t have to worry.

[CLMA31]

Sony Xperia 10 III and full audio loss. This one No audio after some time, have to reboot

[joboe]

I really, really, really hope that 5.1 will be a version, which runs on the 10V without major issues. Sadly no words about this in the last news…

[thin_client]

What absurd prices are these?

Jolla Phone accessories

30 EUR for a 1mm TPU cover? 20/30 EUR for screen protector?

The phone itself isn’t priced too unreasonably, but this is crazy. Is it a mistake?

Not to be all negative as I am excited for the summer deadline for batch #2, but the price of what I consider essential accessories is a big turn-off.

[avhakola]

Luckily for you, they are optional. You can source your own, or even make them yourself with a 3D-printer and laser- or diecutter.

[thin_client]

In my opinion, safety isn’t optional for devices like this. Not having either of the types of machinery myself, the alternative is to wait for mass-produced alternatives, if that ever happens (luckily, IIRC the 3D model is already out). 50 EUR is a good 9~10% of the price, which is a lot less than replacing the entire device down the line, and it isn’t the end of the world, but with a lack of an explanation why, it feels like a tall ask.

[Kanthal]

Why this is absurd?
You need to pay 100€ to change a thin layer of glass on popular devices and I’m sure it costs cents to them since they make hundreds of millions of pieces.
Good cases also cost 30-60€ for mass market devices and good screen protectors 20-30€.

To be honest I’m very happy that Jolla kept the prices for these accessories way below 50€ at this day and age and given the small audience / production.

[thin_client]

To date, I don’t remember having seen these accessories priced as highly as you described, unless it was manufactured by Apple or used premium materials, which don’t benefit safety. As for this specific case, was expensive machinery procured to mass-produce cases at the last moment? In that case, I would understand. But as I mentioned, no reason was provided.

I get it. I sound entitled given this particular case (pun not intended). All I wanted to say is that I feel the price isn’t right, especially since nobody else chimed in at that point. If manufacturing these accessories is expensive, so be it, but I would have been happier to know about it ahead of time.

[thejiral]

Fairphone charges pretty much the same and sells a lot more phones and doesn’t have to cross finance a whole mobile OS. Apple charged not much less when when their silicon cases were still comparably simple.

Yes, 30 EUR are expensive but even Samsung charges 10 EUR at much larger economy of scale.

PS: 10k or so units are small scale mass production. Tooling will be a few EUR more per unit, so will be development costs. That has nothing to do with rushing it, it is economy of scale. There are many fix costs and they need to be distributed across all units sold.

[Kanthal]

Not really premium materials.
“Official” cases directly from the phone companies such as silicon/tpu usually cost 30 to 60€.
And screen protectors that fit perfectly, don’t have reflections, color distortion, proper oleophopic coating cost around 30€, plus or minus 10€.

I think you are comparing with Chinese case manufacturers that sell millions in volume and quality is questionable in some cases. You can’t compare production costs and margins with them unfortunately.

Ps. If I remember correctly, TOHs with j1 used to be 30€ as well. Half the volume and 3 times better economy than now
Talking about the official ones ofc that were just colored covers with an ambiance.

[thejiral]

@thin_client

luckily, IIRC the 3D model is already out

Is it already? If so, where?

[thin_client]

In my imagination. I just checked and it looks like I misremembered, sorry.

I would expect it to be released in due time as per the TOH announcement, though.