Sailfish OS update from Jolla
Greetings from MWC Barcelona! One fortnight has passed and it’s time for a community newsletter. Today we have Harbour news and Repository roundup by @vige and @dcaliste respectively and insight from Barcelona.
The previous fortnight was right after our hackdays. Think about it – two weeks from the lights on and we’re showcasing the first unique handmade devices (9 CNC samples in total) here at MWC Barcelona in the world premiere of the Jolla Phone (2026). Certainly, the journey with the Jolla Phone is not yet completed but we’re well up to speed with it. For example we have functional cellular modem, wlan and camera. Camera tunings are not yet there but it is looking very good.
The pre-order campaign ended 28th February with a great achievement of 10000 pre-orders 
and the same time we opened the first 1000 units of the first normal production run for September 2026.
For us MWC started on Sunday as a preparation day. Finally at the evening we had all set and ready for the Monday. Days have been flying since. On Tuesday morning, Nico (@PublicNico) from Jolla ES community joined our team as a photographer from the community – thank you Nico for joining. Please see photos here. Now it’s already the day #4 at MWC Barcelona, show is ending soon and the show has exceeded all our expectations.
Later on Tuesday, Minister of Transport and Communications Lulu Ranne visited our booth. A meaningful moment for a Finnish team bringing a European alternative.
Functionality of Jolla Phone has progressed a lot even during the MWC. We have received a new software delivery from Tampere every single morning and we have flashed devices daily – what a push and effort! Even for the final day, we have more features working on the Jolla Phone. The whole team including back-office have delivered a lot during these days. Great moments and feelings regarding the progress and tremendous press coverage 
. Big thanks for you all on updating news articles, keep up the good work.
Please enjoy and keep sailing! 
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Harbour news
SEPiA sQuiRt
This rather interestingly named app is a QR code generator for bank transfers. Enter your name, IBAN, an amount and a subject, and get back a QR Code someone can use to bank-transfer some money to you. Currently supports Short Payment Descriptor (SPAYD), European Payments Council (EPC), and Swiss (SPD/QR-bill) codes.
German Weather Service
Harbour-dwd is a German weather service app for SailfishOS. It reached version number 1.0.0, does this mean that the app is now ready? I don’t know, but here are the changes compared to the previous version (0.9.8):
- location list fix
- locale dependent numerical display
- minor layout fixes, listviews
- add quick fix rain radar till rainviewer can be fixed
- translation updates
File Browser
File Browser was updated to version 3.9.1:
- Added a new option to enable a solid black app background (for OLED displays)
- Fixed duplicated attributions on the About page
- Fixed missing scroll bar on the clipboard page
- Fixed the issue where cutting, pasting, then re-pasting and overwriting a file would delete the file
- Added translations: Baoulé, Burmese
- Updated translations: Estonian, French, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Swedish, Tamil
Jubilee Calculator
Jubilee Calculator is a new app which calculates your next anniversary. With this app, you can quickly calculate an age in years, weeks, days, minutes, and seconds at any given date. How old are you right now? When is the next anniversary?
Twinkle Reader
Now here is an interesting new app! Twinkle Reader claims to be a “speed reading application with summarization functionality”, which it is, but that description doesn’t quite describe what the app does:
You give it an URL to a web page which contains some long text. The text on the page is so long that you can’t be bothered to read it all. The app then generates a summary of that page, and feeds you that summary, one word at a time. The speed of of this feed back is adjustable, but I find the default of 250 words per minute to be just about right. You can also read the summary as normal text if you want. Be warned though: The LLM generating the summaries seems to have a bit of attitude, so be sure to check the original text before jumping into conclusions.
AELF
AELF is a native Sailfish OS application providing Catholic liturgical content from AELF.org: daily Mass readings, Liturgy of the Hours, full offline Bible, and liturgical calendar for the French-speaking community.
OSM Scout
OSM Scout was updated to version 2.42. Here’s the changelog:
- add tourism_attraction_building and historic_building to outdoor map style
- fix rendering on database boundaries, when objects from multiple databases may overlap
- make world base map more rich
- show country borders, names of the big cities, oceans, seas…
- improve night color of outdoor map style
- update translations (Finnish)
Repository roundup
Browsing the web
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embedlite-components-search-engines, the QML components used by the browser for search engines, voj343 removed the Sputnik search engine that is discontinued since 2020. -
gecko-dev, Mozilla’s Gecko web rendering engine, keto found and fixed the issue preventing search services to initialise. It also required a patch insailfish-browser.
Low level libraries
buteo-sync-plugins-social, several sync plugins for Google, Facebook and other proprietary protocols, abranson proposed to rework the packaging, creating a-develpackage, separating the library and the files used to build on top of this library.libsocialcache, a library and a QML plugin that is used to manage cache from social networks, abranson generalised the existing helper code used to deal with images, to also use it with generic post, including content and metadata.openssl, utilities and library for cryptography, direc85 updated to 3.5, which is an LTS version with end of life in 2030.libsoup3, the web access library based on GObject, mal updated it to 3.6.6.nspr, platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities like threads, file and network IO…, mal updated it to 4.38.2.nss, network security services from the Mozilla foundation, mal updated it to 3.121.
Developer’s corner
gdb, the GNU debugger, direc85 enabled LZMA as a possible compression when reading the.gnu_debugdatasection.busybox, a single binary which includes versions of a large number of system commands, mal switch to full mode for modprobe that otherwise presented issues when loading modules in init ramdisk.initrd-helpers, convenient scripts to be used to generate the kernel init ram disks, mal added the possibility to find partitions under/dev/sd[a-z], while it was previously restricted to/dev/sda.
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!
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