Sailfish OS update from Jolla
Just a week ago we reported from Salo that we are work day’n’night to get the devices ready for all those coming to pick up their new Jolla Phone in the Day1 celebration event 
. We got devices ready, tested and packaged in time.
Then came Wednesday, a lot of preparation were needed before the Jolla Phone launch. Already when the queue started forming up, we knew that we and you will make this! What an incredible Jolla Phone launch we had! 
You made this possible!
It was an absolute joy to welcome you, Sailfish community, to the Jolla Phone Day1 event in Helsinki and celebrate this milestone together. This event wasn’t just about a new phone — it was about the people who have supported, encouraged, and helped to realize & shape the Jolla Phone every step of the way.
One of the most memorable moments was handing over the very first Jolla Phones to their new owners. Sharing that excitement with our community and seeing your enthusiasm and unwavering support made the occasion truly unforgettable.
The early supporters received the limited Special Edition Back Cover (Other Half) – it’s called Inari Blue. You have been asking do I also receive it if I belong to Batch #2, yes you do. The Special Edition Back Cover will be delivered for Batch #1, #2 and #3 early supporters i.e. first 10K pre-orderers. It’s an actual The Other Half (ToH) not just a back cover. Once the special ToH is attached, the Jolla logo starts breathing so there are programmable LEDs. The Special Edition ToH will be open like any ToHs. Let’s figure out together something nice with LEDs of the Inari Blue.
Along with the Inari Blue we also published The Ringtone Project ringtones to Jolla Store. Those are available in Jolla Store under Jolla category as Jolla Ringtone Project (initially for Jolla Phone). Nice hear that you, Sailfish Community, appreciate that we care things like this.
Roadshow and next steps
We have been talking every now and then about the Jolla Phone Roadshow. The Jolla Phone Day1 in Helsinki July 8 was the first one. Other days & venues are still open and help will be needed - a bit of call-to-action here for the community: let’s organise a local Jolla Phone Roadshow events at least in the cities noted in the T-shirt.
The schedule is very open and it may well be spread for the whole rest of the year. Let’s figure out the dates & suitable venues together with local community members (note: order of the events are not carved into a stone). Or if you’ve have some other event in your town mind, this could be a connected event in a venue close-by.
We’ll start organising the events in early August - meanwhile, please keep thinking and discussing the topic for example in this post comments.
The Jolla Ensemble band
After the official special speeches Jolla Ensemble band entertained us all. And oh boy, they did it well.
The band composition
Riki Murto - guitar
Harri Kentala - drums
Elna Romberg - singer (Kaamos Black)
Lauri Schreck - kantele / singer
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to everyone who joined us and made the Jolla Phone Day1 event such a success. This was your celebration as much as it was ours, and we’re so excited for what comes next. 
Edit: first Batch #1 shipments starts to go out next week.
Edit2: please, did you realise this from the Welcome Card?
Photos by Joshua Strobl – big thanks!
Energy from the Community
You, Sailfish Community, organically arranged all sort things. Some visited local breweries at Helsinki region, some mentioned CoolHead brewing @ Viikki. There was awesome preparations and execution around Suomenlinna visit 
. See the post below.
Jolla Phone Day1 event feelings by community
Wednesday was the big day. Jolla Phone Day1. Finally, the hard work of the developers at Jolla, and the long wait of the community members paid off. Jolla Phone is here!
In the event announcements it had been stated that the doors were supposed to open at 18:00, but there there was a hint that it would be fine to arrive a bit early at Narinkkatori. And people did! There was a queue of substantial length already half past five, and at six the line was all the way to the other side:
Finally, maybe a few minutes past six, they started letting people in. Everyone received a badge with their order ID and a ticket bracelet. They asked the order ID at the front door, and when you got up to the actual venue, your order was already there waiting for you.
At first it felt like the line wasn’t moving at all, but in the end everyone got in and received their phones. It was maybe half past seven when the real show began. The host of the evening was no one else but @antti360, the composer behind the new ringtones.
At first we heard speeches from some key persons. If you were wondering how long it took before Sami delivered his trademark phrase “That’s how it goes” - it wasn’t long. After Sami it was time to give the stage to Peri Fractic, the President and CEO of Commodore. He told the story behind the deal between Jolla and Commodore, which announced their Sailfish powered Commodore Callback phone a few weeks ago.
After the opening speeches we got to see the world premiere of the Jolla Film, a short film telling the story of the Jolla Phone. And it was followed by Antti and Sami giving us a glimpse of the roadmap ahead. Interesting times!
We received our special Inari Blue TOHs, and the band entered the stage. We got to listen to the songs - not just the ringtones but the full songs, played live by the band. And we got to witness the incredible Lauri Schreck playing Thunderstruck on kantele, now how awesome was that?
Pebble and Whisperfish
To pass the time up to the Jolla Phone release party, @rubdos and new community member @JPlexer (welcome JP!) spent the morning hacking.
The result is a new release of Whisperfish 0.6.0-beta.42, the native SailfishOS Signal client.
(It was also fun watching @rubdos checking the progress of the compile while waiting in the release party queue!)
You can read all about the exciting new features and fixed issues in the release announcement post, but probably the most interesting is that linking and registration has been fixed (yay!).
They also collaboratively created a Jolla PhoneDay themed watchface for Pebble smartwatches. If you own one of these devices be sure to check it out and celebrate the new Jolla Phone on your wrist!
Live Teardown and iFixIt Guide of the Jolla Phone 2026
One of the unplanned attractions at the launch party was the on-site teardown and reassembly of the new Jolla Phone. @frengel immediately after unpacking his new phone took to screwdrivers and disassembled the phone, documenting the process.
This activity attracted quite some spectators, from guests and Sailors alike.
Spoiler: In the end, it was complete again, and strangely, no screws were left over.
@frengel published the process over at iFixIt so check it out!
Community meeting summary
12 community members and 4 Sailors attended the last community meeting.
Community task board
| Task | Status |
|---|---|
| Cable or charger requirements | No action has been taken yet |
Individuals that ordered multiple items and charged multiple shipping fee’s by @jollus
Jolla plans to bundle all orders and refund extra shoppings costs if needed.
HID-over-I2C-over-TOH by @ReturN900
More elaboration is asked from the Sailfish Community.
About the Jolla J2 The Other Half by @Polatbirdal
There are no plans to include a keyboard, but The Other Half stays as a innovative platform. A new category has been created in the forum.
Jolla Phone (2026) accessories and repairability by @alsahio
There will be effort to bring some spare parts as batteries, camera lenses and maybe more parts.
Jolla Phone Day1 celebration event - spectators, +1? by @alsahio
The event is private and only owner of an invitation can join the event.
Harbour news
I guess the Jolla Phone has been motivating the app developers to develop new applications and update the existing ones. The queue is currently a bit over one month long.
Immich
Immich is a self-hosted photo and video management solution. With the native app you can browse, manage, and interact with your Immich photo library directly from your Sailfish device. The app seems quite feature complete, which is remarkable considering the fact that this is the first version in Harbour.
Twinkle Reader
Version 0.6 of the speed reading app has some UI cleanups and added possibility to make translations in App.
SeaPrint
The network printing app received Italian translations in version 1.3.4.
German Weather Service
Deutscher Wetter Dienst client was updated to version 1.0.9. Changelog includes:
- add referrer header hack for osm on lbrewxr
- add missing place
- move to librewxr for rain maps
- add date range back for weekly view
- add hide/show for re-order of locations
- correct the length of dates for locales other than english
- split place/date headers to deal with long place names
- add sql functions and interface to order fave places
- a referrer hack to get openstreetmaps to behave
- cover layout fixes
- a localization fix
- minor fixes
Captain’s Gym
Captain’s Gym is a native Sailfish OS app for structured workout planning, live training, and long‑term performance analytics. It allows you to create complex workout plans, and then mark your progress while you are working out. Later you can view the statistics on a calendar view. All data is stored only locally on your phone, nothing is uploaded to any cloud service anywhere, so this is perfect for privacy oriented athletes.
SailSkaat
A game of Skat was updated to version 0.1.1, with a fix to duplicated UI issue.
Fire
The virtual fireplace received an update as well. Version 1.0.7 brings the following improvements:
- Limit burning rate by 20 fps
- Fixed landscape mode on devices with a cutout
- Synchronize main page and cover intensity
Seabass
This fantastic text editor with syntax highlighting just got a little bit more awesome: version 1.2.0 adds syntax hightlighting for QML.
Counter
The app for counting things was updated to take the notch into account in the UI, and also the default digit style was changed. The new version number is 1.0.26
QR Clip
This QR code generator was updated to version 1.0.14. The new version has landscape layout updated to take the notch into account, and also Norwegian bokmål translation was added.
Tooterβ
The native Mastodon client received yet another update, the new version number being 1.3.7. The changes are:
- corrections for tab layout
- corrections for long text display
- return to card previews for internal links
Watchlist
The stock price tracker was updated to version 0.13.11. The bugfix release contains following fixes:
- fixed searching and quote update for MOEX backend
- fixed loading of (german) security news
openHAB
The native openHAB smart home automation app received update to version 0.3. Here’s the changelog:
- New supported sitemap widgets: Colorpicker, Setpoint, Image, Mapview, Input, Webview, Video, Colortemperaturepicker, Buttongrid, Chart.
- ADDED: Local authentication - if enabled on openHAB server.
- ADDED: PullDown menu to refresh sitemap manually.
- FIX: MainUI and Privacy page not loaded correctly and with fixed size.
- ADDED: Item states (max. 2 items) can be displayed on coverpage.
- CHANGED: Changed URL of report-a-bug-button
- CHANGED: Privacy policy links to the page as external link and not as subpage with webview.
- ADDED: Translation for swedish language
Dodo’s planner
Yet another new app in Harbour: Dodo’s planner is an unofficial Trello client. It allows you to manage Trello boards, lists, cards, and tasks on mobile.
OSM Scout
This offline map and navigation app was updated to version 2.43, with the following changes:
- fix regression: render overlay objects even when offline map is disabled
- search in basemap, it allow to search country names or capital cities even in case that specific map is not downloaded
- fix daylight switch, when some area patterns do not update its colors
- fix: loading missing route data on stylesheet change
Quickddit
Our full-featured Reddit client received update to version 1.4.11. The new version adds notch support and fixes URL handling. Under the hood the app organisation has changed to quickddit.org, which unfortunately means you will lose your settings unless you move the configuration directory manually.
Repository roundup
Main interface
jolla-camera, the application to shoot pictures, pvuorela ensured that the zoom factor is reset when changing lenses.yamui, minimal UI tool for displaying simple graphical indicators, mal enforced the brightness of screen during the early phases of booting.
Network, communication and telephony stack
buteo-sync-plugins-social, several sync plugins for Google, Facebook and other proprietary protocols, dcaliste changed the default synchronisation period of Google contacts and calendar to twice a day (it was previously set to every day at 5 am).sailfish-account-mastodon, support for the social network, pvuorela simplified a bit the account setting pages. abranson proposed some modifications allowing better plural translations on the variation in the number of followers.libwspcodec, a library to encode / decode MMS, stianlaa adjusted the build system, so it can be cross-compiled for AsteriodOS.nemo-qml-plugin-connectivity, QML bindings for network connectivity, pvuorela fixed an issue with a property always returningfalse, instead of giving the autoconnection state of VPN.nemo-qml-plugin-email, QML bindings for emails, dcaliste fixed an issue with a single-shot timer that could be triggered more than once. pvuorela completed the patch with a fix for the single-shot timer not being duplicated with several calls.messagingframework, the email Qt framework, dcaliste fixed upstream an IPC issue, making the initial request from a client staying indefinitely pending. pvuorela pull the change on Sailfish OS side.connman, the connection manager, LaakkonenJussi fixed how wrong wifi passwords in WPA3 and WPA2+3 were handled.libconnman-qt, QML bindings for the connection manager, pvuorela added some new properties ensuring that the network technology information have been fetched from D-Bus and are ready to be read.bluez5, the Linux Bluetooth stack, mal proposed to update it to 5.87.
Browsing the web
gecko-dev, Mozilla’s Gecko web rendering engine, abranson rebuilt the ESR 115 branch on top of 115.37.0 version, bringing several CVE fixes.
Multimedia
ffmpeg, a framework to encode and decode multimedia resources, mal updated it to 5.1.10.
Low level libraries
usb-moded, the USB tracking daemon, Azkali added the possibility to get the serial number from/proc/bootconfigin addition to/proc/cmdline. spiiroin made sure that TOH charging is not seen as a PC connection. Such changes were also carried out inmce.qt3d, the 3D library from Qt, direc85 fixed a race condition crashing applications on shutdown.zlib, the compression library, direc85 proposed to update it to 1.3.2.sqlite, an embeddable SQL database engine, mal suggested an update to 3.53.3.
Developer’s corner
ssu, the seamless software updater, direc85 proposed to force clearing the credential cache forzyppwhen usingregister,unregisterandupdatecommands. This ensures the executedssucommands always have the expected effect, without leaving zypper in inconsistent state.
Please feed us your news
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. Next community meeting will be on the July 16.
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