Sailfish OS update from Jolla
Fortnight newsletter again. A lot has happened since previous fortnight. In this fortnight we have Repository roundup and Harbour news by @dcaliste and @vige respectively. Hmm, interesting keypad navigation related changes going in – what is that? Further, a good amount of new apps have been published. It’s also great to see new app developers publishing their apps 
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Two weeks ago we had a first of a kind in the series of Jolla Phone Roadshow events printed in the T-Shirt in Stockholm. Gothenburg would be the next Jolla Phone Roadshow event whilst not listed in the T-Shirt. This is again something that is organized together with you – Sailfish Community. Date for Gothenburg is to be announced but it will be after the Slush-week (week 47).
Given that our calendars allow, we’d very much like to organize a meetup here in Tampere before Christmas break – Christmas Glogg (Glögg, gløgg or glögi) kind of a meeting. Location should be simple and casual. Something similar that we had previously here in Tampere (Plevna). If you are interested to set-up a streaming there, please raise your hand and let’s coordinate with @ljo. We’ll clarify this and Gothenburg meetings.
Few days ago our customer service contacted @clma31 to change his dust issue affected Jolla Phone unit. He kindly offered to stop-by the office and change the device. Yesterday he wrote a story about this. If you haven’t read it, please check this nice story.
Jolla Phone update
Delivery status
We had a milestone moment last Friday as we fulfilled and packed the very last packages of Batch 3! That means a whopping ~10,000 units shipped 
and we moved on to the September batches 
If you’re in Batch 3 and haven’t received your fulfilment notice, kindly drop us a note. There are always cases that are unclear, e.g. due to mismatching customer data, and those have been put aside for manual processing. We try clear the cases during next week.
IMPORTANT: if you have earlier decided to defer your final payment, you can still complete the payment and secure your timely delivery within your own delivery batch. Please see the earlier email we have sent to you and remember to apply the discount code!
To check your order, log in at https://commerce.jolla.com with the email address you ordered with. Fellow customers also keep a Community Shipping Tracker on the forum: Jolla Phone Community Shipping Tracker
One last note regarding the deliveries, during this we are applying changes to the delivery pipeline. This should ease the end-to-end delivery and reduce plausible error sources where a courier service transfers a parcel to another courier service. There have been reported cases for example from Czechia.
Find the most recent Jolla Phone update blog post here Jolla Phone update - Batch 3 out, moving into September batches
Sailfish OS update
The very recent Sailfish OS 5.2.0.22 brought a number of great improvements and fixes, and it also fixed the annoying “green hue on display” that was affecting a number of Jolla Phones. In particular in low light environment the affected units didn’t produce proper AMOLED quality deep black but instead the display reflected a “green hue”. In the end, the issue proved to be fixable with proper and accurate display calibration data, and it was even possible to bake it in to Over-The-Air SW update - something we were hesitant to promise earlier but all good in the end 
Smooth sailing 
Community meeting summary
Thank everybody participating to the community meeting last week. We had good number of topics and great discussions once again.
Please join the conversation with a low threshold. Everybody welcome !
Harbour news
Meliona
The J2ME games app was updated to version 0.5. The changes include:
- Added game progress backup and restore
- Added support for changing game resolution
- Performance improvements and bug fixes
- Added virtual joystick input mode with editable widgets (joystick, button)
Sailtide
Sailtide is a tide-height and marine forecast viewer. It shows the sea-level curve for places you save, with the day’s high and low water, sunrise/sunset shading, moon phase and air temperature, on a custom OpenStreetMap-based map.
Suomalaiset pyhäpäivät
Finnish public holidays calendar was updated to version 0.4.1. Changelog from version 0.2:
- Background notifications for upcoming public holidays and flag days have been improved.
- Users can choose when flag day reminders are shown.
- Calendar navigation, time calculations, translations and interface stability have also been improved.
- Multilingual user interface and language selection have been added.
- The app now supports 12 languages: Finnish, English, Swedish, German, Estonian, Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, French, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian and Russian.
- The cover displays the next public holiday and flag day.
- The monthly calendar, notifications, settings storage, and information about public holidays, flag days and election days have also been improved.
Meeting Calculator
Ever wondered how much money gets wasted during the week in meetings which could have been emails instead? Well, Meeting Calculator can tell you! As a nice bonus it also acts as a work time tracker.
My days counter
My days counter received an update to version 0.2.2. Here’s the changelog from version 0.1:
- Added calendar date picker and support for historical dates from year 0001 onwards
- Added manual entry for pre-1930 dates with improved date validation
- Added detailed real-time countdowns in years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds
- Improved birthday, anniversary and yearly repeating event calculations
- Improved leap year, February 29 and historical date handling
- Improved compatibility with older Sailfish OS versions
- Fixed historical date saving and display issues
- Fixed duration and yearly event calculation issues
- Fixed event identifier, editor and database related issues
- Added optional event times and real-time countdowns
- Added three home page event slots and event pinning
- Added browsing of up to 99 events on the application cover
- Added grouped folder icons and more emoji choices
- Improved yearly events, leap day handling and backups
- Improved Finnish translations
- Fixed next-event selection and various display issues
Clip Share
Clip Share is an app which does one thing, but it does it well: It allows you to share the text which you have on your clipboard.
Euribor Watch
Euribor Watch is an app for monitoring daily Euribor rates. The application displays the latest available 1-week, 1-month, 3-month, 6-month and 12-month Euribor rates and draws their development on a graph.
SFOS Forum Viewer
The client for this very forum received an update to version 1.16.10. The new version added a possibility to search within a category.
Speed Fast Pro
Network speed test got a small version bump to 1.1.1. The new version should have more realistic upload speed values as the payload size was increased to 12MB and TCP warm-up window was also increased.
Hortator: Interval Timer
Hortator is yet another workout app. It allows you to build workouts from repeatable work and rest periods, and then play them back with countdowns, progress bars and audio cues.
Tooterβ
The Mastodon client received another update, version 1.5.0. The update adds an option to use context menu or action buttons row. Also toot container was refactored for efficiency.
BitSailor
The open source BitWarden client was updated to version 1.9.3. The changelog is:
- added live sync, vault is now synced withing seconds of changing an item in a different app
- deleted items are now hidden
- added notifications for logging in to other clients, e.g. web/browser extension
- the vault can now handle invalid items
- added support for additional password hashing algorithms (argon2)
- custom fields can now be edited
- search field is now always shown
- the app now defaults to https if you don’t specify a protocol for the server
- added support for multiple accounts
- added support for fetching favicons for your logins
HA Control
HA Control is a Home Assistant client. It allows you to control your lights, sensors, and thermostats. It has real push notifications and device status and it doesn’t require cloud. Unfortunately it doesn’t have English translations.
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Mah Solitaire
Mahjong Solitaire was updated to version 2.0.0. The new version adds upstream layouts update and new QML version. Unfortunately there is some glitch in the “Select Style” view, tapping on the styles seems to do nothing. Selecting the WebView from the drop down menu works though and the game is playable.
Repository roundup
Main interface
sailfish-components-gallery, QML components to handle the image and video gallery, perttupoh added an highlight on the current thumbnail, for devices with a keypad. He also modified the video playing, so the play / pause button can be controlled by a keypad, if any.sailfish-weather, the application providing weather forecast information, pvuorela removed the decimals for cloudiness information.sailjail-permissions, the configuration files for system-wide sandbox permissions, abranson added permission for all applications to open URLs over D-Bus. It was actually already the case via Qt.tt9, a keypad layout and dictionaries, a new repository to handle keypad and provides T9 text typing (with word prediction).nemo-qml-plugin-systemsettings, the QML bindings for global settings, direc85 added settings for keypads, like backlight handling. Tomin1 added a setting to choose the lid tone level. direc85 added another setting for the battery sound notification.pulseaudio-policy-enforcement, a pulseaudio module that enforces audio routing, muting decisions, perttupoh added an id for every stream (instead of tracking processes) so different usage within the same application (like FM radio and media playing) don’t mess up the audio muting policies.jolla-camera, the application to shoot pictures, perttupoh added access to basic camera functions with a keypad. The preview is also set to fill up the screen on small factor devices.
Network, communication and telephony stack
wpa_supplicant, for accessing WPA and WPA2 protected WiFi networks, Laakkonenjussi proposed to reenable WiFi direct (it was disabled because not working on Jolla C2, but a fix has been found).connman, the connection manager, LaakkonenJussi fixed IPv6 route addition.libconnman-qt, QML bindings for the connection manager, Herrie82 proposed a fix for some signals being wrongly reported or lost in NetworkService, due to a queue being stored in a 64 bits integer (one bit per signal), while there are now more than 64 signals.nfcd, the daemon for near field communication, abranson added a wait for pending power operations, avoiding failed requests when an adapter disappears before confirmed closure.voicecall, the open source part of the calling application, saukko corrected adding existing members to a new conference call.ofono, the telephony library, abranson added an Hand-Free Profile (HFP) battery plugin that accepts Apple accessory reports and standard HF battery indicators, then publishes received levels through the BlueZ battery provider API.
Contacts, calendars and other personnal information
buteo-sync-plugin-carddav, the plugin used by the synchronisation framework to sync contacts via the CardDAV protocol, JimKnopfIoT fixed several issues, like server-side deletions being silently discarded, remote deletion failing and conflict on both sides changes. He also added a detailed report of changes (which contact were touched in which address book).nemo-qml-plugin-calendar, the QML for calendar access, dcaliste ensured that exceptions are stored as date for all-day events. Storing exception as date and time (with a 00:00 time) was creating sync issues on some servers.qtpim, Qt module to handle personnal information data, dcaliste added support for vCard 4.0 extension to the TEL entry, making phone numbers with an URI scheme liketel:recognized as phone numbers.kf5-calendarcore, the KDE framework library to handle calendar data, dcaliste patched the timezone exportation missing some recent daylight-saving changes. Actually the bug resides Qt 5.6, but was simpler to patch here.
Browsing the web
sailfish-browser, the browser itself, abranson added a caller-owned portal flow with optional headings, completion/cancellation handling and return to the requesting app. perttupoh fixed rendering issues for devices with a keypad.gecko-embedlite, upstream gecko sources and embedlite additions, abranson updated the engine to 153.6.0.sailfish-components-webview, the high-level QML components exposing a web page, abranson splitted the package to allow having the WebEngine separated from the WebView. Like that, captive portals and such can display a web page, without having the full WebView module loaded.nss, network security services from the Mozilla foundation, abranson updated it to 3.131.1.ca-certificates, the system-wide authentication certificates, abranson refreshed the certifcates using the latest update from Mozilla.
Multimedia and sounds
libsidplayfp, a SID playback library, a new repository to handle music files created for the Commodore64.gst-siddecfp, GStreamer SID playback element, another new repository in Sailfish OS to provide support for SID music files in GStreamer.localsearch, desktop-neutral metadata database and search tool, mal added a patch to allow to track SID music files.gst-droid, plugin for GStreamer allowing to use hardware accelerated codecs, abranson found and fixed a lock issue when calling the decoder drain.
Low level libraries
openssh, the OpenSSH implementation of SSH protocol, mal updated it to 10.6p1.libpng, the library to read Portable Network Graphic formats, mal updated it to 1.6.59.xz, a compression library, mal updated it to 5.8.4.sensorfw, sensor framework, spiiroin sorted out the data rate initialisation, which may differ form sensors to sensors: some require the data arte to be set before activation, some after.boost, the C++ library for optimised operations, mal updated it to 1.83.mce-dev, mode control entity - developper access, spirroin added constants to identify opened / closed lid notifications.poppler, the PDF rendering library, mal proposed an update to version 26.10.0.libsoup3, the web access library based on GObject, mal updated it to 3.8.0.usb-moded, the USB tracking daemon, saukko improved the Windows 11 driver detection.fontconfig, font configuration and customization library, mal proposed to update it to 2.18.3.
Developer’s corner
curl, the command-line tool to access the web, mal updated to 8.23.0.fingerterm, the console application, Herrie82 migrated the code to support Qt 5.9, 5.15 and Qt6.python3-certifi, Python module to handle certificates, keto updated it to 2026.10.19. He also updatedpython-pipto use the latest certificates.python3, the popular and widely used programming language, mal updated it to 3.11.18.ssu-sysinfo, tools and libraries for getting ssu information, pvuorela exposed the information that a device has a keypad or not.
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 November 12.
+ all of you are even cooler in person! Hopefully I’m able to come also for Glögi!
