Sailfish OS update from Jolla
It’s fortnight newsletter time again and this fortnight doesn’t make a different – we have been super busy but yet again, we have a good round of updates and insights. Surely, we have the usual interesting Harbour news and Repository roundup by @vige and @dcaliste respectively.
This week Tuesday (October 6 2026) COSS – the Finnish Centre for Open Systems and Solutions awarded Jolla with the Open World Hero 2026 award. The award was handed over in connection with the annual international Mindtrek technology conference in Tampere.
This is a great recognition not only for our work, but for the entire open Sailfish Community. We are very honoured to accept this on behalf of ourselves and our community, and we promise to continue our long-term work to promote a more open mobile environment. The popularity of the new Jolla Phone shows that Europe, in particular, has changed irreversibly in this area over the last two years.
– says company’s CEO and co-founder, Sami Pienimäki
We’re proud to honour and host the award in our offices until next year Mindtrek. As noted by Sami, Jolla is just the humble receiver here and the credits shall go to all of us together, the Sailfish Community 
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Jolla Phone delivery update
We are happy to note that the Batch #3 shipments are going well, without major hinderes appeared thus far, and are in a good pace with the current velocity to get completed around October 20 - as noted in our post Two weeks ago.
As we have managed to get shipments rolling out rather nicely after the initial ramp-up phase (and some tech hicups), we start to have time to think other topics that have not received all the attention that those would have deserved – continuation of the Jolla Phone Roadshow being one. The first of-a-kind, after the Day1 in Helsinki, will be the Stockholm event on October 22. We picked a low-hanging fruit to start with as we are attending a partner event in Stockholm on October 20-21. The venue should still be confirmed but the proposed The Flying Horse looks and sounds good. We’ll create a separate new topic for the European Roadshow Series and start collecting all your great suggestions across the Europe under one topic. Big thanks for your input and help - we simply couldn’t organize these without you 
One very interesting finding that we recently discovered is that the display hue issue could possibly be fixable with a software update even as an OTA update. We are currently confirming the fix. If the fix is confirmed good from our end, we’ll approach few of you individually to test the fix before we roll it out for all Jolla Phone users.
Once again, huge thanks for all the analysing and investigation work you all have done regarding the display issue.
Sailfish OS
This Sailfish OS 5.2.0.18 update has been baking for a while now and it does have quite good set of fixes stacked up. Probably most notably the audio problems on the older devices have been sorted out, and we are getting ready to publish 5.2 to all supported devices.
We will still prepare at least one update and try to figure out what is wrong with the IPv6 mobile data that some of you have reported.
Harbour news
The Harbour queue keeps getting longer, it’s a bit over 6 weeks now. There are plenty of new apps in the queue, and most of them seem to be written using AI tools. Which is not a bad thing in itself, it’s great to have more native Sailfish applications! But the downside is that the queue keeps getting longer and longer.
AI Companion
AI Companion is yet another AI chat application. The twist on this one is that it has access to your device so it can tell you how much battery you have left.
Dee
Lemmy client has been updated to version 0.0.12. The previous version in Harbour was 0.0.6, so there is quite a bit of accumulated changelog:
- Allow to collapse threads.
- Show a separator between comments and likes in the threads view.
- Allow to post to communities
- Retrieve federated comments
- Fix default action on notifications
- Make upvotes/downvotes more reactive
- Improve inbox and allow to go to the topic
- Review menu items
- Implement Inbox to see mentions, replies and private messages.
- Add background checker to get inbox notifications (disabled by default).
- Allow to browse communities by handle.
- Show topics thumbnails
- Add Scaled sort option
- Always show the communities you’ve subscribed to.
- Option to cover NSFW thumbnails
- Option to show full size media
- Center post status icon against the title.
- Do not mark own private messages as read.
- Fixes about memory handling.
- Minor fixes to the UI.
- Translations updates.
Wasserspiegel
Wasserspiegel shows current water levels in Germany. You can browse measurement stations, follow water level trends (24h / 3d / 7d) and keep your favorite station on the home screen cover.
Quill
Quill is a Nextcloud note editor. It supports markdown with a preview.
Popquizza
Popquizza is a a daily music quiz. Ten new multiple-choice questions focused on UK pop music every day. As you can see from the screenshot, I’m not an expert on UK pop music. The game is fun though.
NedNieuws
The Dutch news service app was updated to version 1.3.9, which fixes align issues after rotating in landscape mode on some devices.
Ortolano
Ortolano is an app for managing a personal vegetable garden. It lets you define beds on a grid canvas, browse and manage plant species, record what you’ve planted in each bed and when, and log tasks to do and tasks completed.
Health
Health is an on-device health tracker. It helps you keep your personal health information organised in one private place. You can create profiles and track the metrics that matter to you, including measurements, medications, illnesses, vaccinations, menstrual cycles, meditation sessions, and more. Your data stays on your device. You can review your history, view summaries and charts for supported metrics, and back up or restore your data when moving to another device. Health is intended for personal tracking only. It does not provide medical advice and must not be used for diagnosis or treatment decisions.
AIDA64
AIDA64 was updated to version 2.1.3-27, which brings improved support for Fairphone 5, Jolla Phone 2026 and Motorola Edge 30 Neo.
WORDLE
The classic word guessing game was updated from version 1.1.13 to 1.1.15. The update includes French and Dutch translation.
PieFish
PieFish is a PieFed client. It’s current features include:
- Viewing subscribed, local, and all feeds
- Reading and replying to comments
- Browsing local and all communities
- Creating posts
- Viewing notifications
Reis
Public transport travel planner for Norway received an update to version 0.3.3. The app was updated to use Entur latest API version. There are also some new icons and UX adjustments.
Repository roundup
Main interface
sailfish-settings-labs, a place to maturing new UI settings, rainemak created the repository, following the discussion of last community meeting on IRC. nephros already proposed to initialise the process with a template and some minimal build sripts, and a switch to allow quick toggle between the last two used applications.lipstick, the home screen code (open source parts), jusa found and fixed a bug making the cover of application sometimes containing random memory content.- Work to enable keyboard navigation in various components from perttupoh:
mce, a framework exposing hardware status of display, buttons…, spirroin implemented a backlight policy for keypad on flip phones. He also added a way to distinguish devices with a single RGB led from devices with multiple monocoloured leds.symbiosis, a daemon to expose The Other Half functionalities, Tomin1 proposed an example implementing an I2C speed test and also added documentation for the D-Bus interface.
Network, communication and telephony stack
wpa_supplicant, a set of tools to allow connections to WPA protected wifi networks, LaakkonenJussi updated it to 2.12.libcommhistory, the library to access SMS/phone history, pvuorela cleaned up and modernised the code.commhistory-daemon, the daemon handling call and message history, pvuorela replaced some deprecated calls.telepathy-qt, the Qt bindings for the Telepathy framework, pvuorela updated to upstream master.nemo-qml-plugin-email, QML bindings for emails, pvuorela disabled a test for the local file support in auto-config. It was failing without actually achieving its purpose.cell-broadcast-provider-info, contains network and region specific data for cell broadcasts, abranson added support for Australian alert service. Compared to US and EU alert systems, the Australian one adds optional categories and policies.voicecall, the open source part of the calling application, abranson merged his large modification, bringing a complete support of emergency cell broadcasts. This include regional classification and subscription management, durable alert queueing and history, warning-area geofencing, restart recovery and attention policy. He also proposed an automatic migration to move the settings from$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/nemomobileto$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/org.sailfishos.openvpn, a VPN solution, mal proposed to update it to 2.7.7.buteo-sync-plugin-caldav, the synchronisation framework plugin for CalDAV content, dcaliste fixed calendars not being deleted on device when removed on the server. Aslanex proposed a fix with the help of Claude AI to solve the problem of exceptions of all-day events not being accepted by Open-Xchange servers.connman, the connection manager, LaakkonenJussi fixed (re-)enabling of IPv6 after disconnecting a VPN with IPv6 leak prevention enabled.
Browsing the web
sailfish-components-webview, the high-level QML components exposing a web page, abranson modernised the component for ESR153, making some API changes, like adding a support for 3-buttons confirmation dialogs…qtmozembed, Qt bindings for the Gecko engine, abranson ported to ESR153’s hosted runtime and logical-tab model. This is a major revamp of the package with the removal of legacy API. He then fixed some remaining issues, about repaint during page swipes or to allow backward compatibility in the packaging.gecko-embedlite, upstream gecko sources and embedlite additions, this repository is a successor ofgecko-dev, providing the upstream sources in a submodule and adding the embedlite code separately.sailfish-browser, the browser itself, abranson adjusted the browser for the ESR153 changes. He added a blending effect on the address bar during tab swipes. pvuorela made the about:config page to use a plain Silica dialog.
Multimedia and sounds
gst-droid, plugin for GStreamer allowing to use hardware accelerated codecs, pvuorela changed the default JPEG quality encoding of the photos from 90 to 95%.quillmetadata, a Nemo project providing Qt bindings to EXIF data, pvuorela cleaned up the code and migrated from deprecated Qt API.imagemagick, a multi-purpose image manipulation tool, direc85 updated it to 6.9.13.57.
Low level libraries
qtcontacts-sqlite, SQLite-based plugin for QtPIM contacts, henrikschnor added support for Qt6 and added a CMake build system besides the oldqmakesystem. These modifications allow to import the project into Debian and Ubuntu touch.signon-plugin-oauth2, a plugin to handle OAuth2 protocol, pvuorela updated to latest upstream master.buteo-syncfw, the framework handling synchronisation, karry fixed missed synchronisations due to wakes up of the device too far from the actual desired time.glib2, the Glib library from GTK / Gnome, mal updated it to 2.88.3.libpcap, provides a portable framework for low-level network monitoring, direc85 updated it to 1.10.7.c-ares, a library that performs asynchronous DNS operations, mal updated it to 1.34.8.expat, an XML parser library, direc85 updated it to 2.8.5.openssl, utilities and library for cryptography, direc85 updated it to 3.5.9.ppp, a point to point tunneling daemon, mal updated it to 2.5.4.
Developer’s corner
vim, the text editor, direc85 updated it to 9.2.1143.busybox, a single binary which includes versions of a large number of system commands, mal used a patch from Fedora to allow to build without CBQ support, which has been removed from kernel 6.8.rust-cbindgen, utilities to create C/C++11 headers for Rust libraries, abranson updated it to 0.29.4.llvm, the machinery to build compilers, direc85 upgraded to 20.1.8.mesa, graphic libraries, mal updated it to 25.1.9, and direc85 fixed build with recent LLVM.python3, the popular and widely used programming language, keto updated it to 3.11.17.curl, the command-line tool to access the web, mal updated it to 8.22.0.libglibutil, a library extending GLib with convenient utilities, slava added a class,gutil_destroy(), that was initially used inlibgbinderbut that appears to be useful outisde it also.mce-dev, mode control entity - developper access, spirroin added constants to control the backlight of a keypad.
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 October 15.
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