In preparation to publish the next major Sailfish OS release, 5.1, to early access users, we have published the repositories and added them to the community OBS.
This is done so that the software in Chum and other projects in OBS can be rebuilt against the new release, and any build issues fixed before the release is published to the wider early access user base. Many of the build tools and lower level libraries have received version updates of varying degrees, so incompatibilities and other issues are to be expected.
Some notable changes:
Tools and languages
cmake - 3.27.1 => 3.31.8
gcc - 10.3.1 => 13.4.0
gdb - 12.1.0 => 16.3.0
make - 4.2.1 => 4.4.1
meson - 1.4.1 => 1.9.1
perl - 5.16.3 => 5.40.3
python3 - 3.8.18 => 3.11.15
Libraries and components
curl - 8.9.1 => 8.19.0
cython - 0.29.14 => 3.0.11
glib2 - 2.78.4 => 2.86.4
glibc - 2.30 => 2.41
glslang - 14.1.0 => 15.3.0
gobject-introspection - 1.72.1 => 1.86.0
gstreamer1.0 - 1.24.6 => 1.26.11
libphonenumber - 8.13.27 => 9.0.5
linux-glibc-devel - 3.18.136 => 4.4.302
lxc - 5.0.2 => 6.0.3
ncurses - 6.5 => 6.6
net-tools - 1.60 => 2.10
openssh - 9.8p1 => 10.3p1
openssl - 1.1.1v => 3.5.6
* openssl1.1 kept available for compatibility
poppler - 24.08.0 => 25.12.0
pulseaudio - 14.2 => 17.0
python-pip - 19.3.1 => 23.3.2
python3-fuse3 - 2.0.0 => 3.4.0
python3-lxml - 4.6.5 => 5.3.0
python3-setuptools - 46.1.3 => 70.3.0
python3-twisted - 20.3.0 => 22.10.0
sqlite - 3.46.1 => 3.50.4
taglib - 1.12 => 2.0.2
This is not a comprehensive list, and some things listed here may or may not be as significant as some that were not included Full changelog will be provided later.
Updating your development devices
The developers who want to test things on device can update their devices from command line, you know how to do it, if you don’t, then this is not for you
The currently published version is: 5.1.0.5
Make sure you have enough free disk space, at least 1.5G on the rootfs, preferably more. Update installation on running system may take significantly more space during the installation than is actually needed afterwards.
“Make sure you have enough free disk space, at least 1.5G on the rootfs, preferably more. Update installation on running system may take significantly more space during the installation than is actually needed afterwards.”
I think this is going to be a big problem for those wishing to upgrade. I have an XA2, XA2 Plus, Sony Xperia 10 Mk iii, iv and v. NONE of those phones have in excess of 1.5 Gb free on the root file system.
The 10iii, which has been upgraded over the years from 4.x versions, has 492 Mb free (nowhere near enough) whilst my 10 iv, freshly flashed with 5.0.0.77, has 809 Mb free.
Of course I can delete all my apps, but is that really going to free up nearly 1Gb?
So, at the moment 5.1 is a non starter for ALL of my five SFOS phones without starting again from scratch on every one.
[ 151s] + /usr/bin/python3 -B /usr/lib/rpm/meego/pathfix.py -pni /usr/bin/python3 -kasP libevdev/make-event-names.py
[ 152s] /usr/bin/python3: can't open file '/usr/lib/rpm/meego/pathfix.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
[ 152s] error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.Mn0LwF (%prep)
Is that supposed to work?
(That particular .spec has a bug where this macro is evaluated despite it being commented out (single %), but this did not fail in earlier releases.)
[EDIT]: definitely not specific to one package. Is python-rpm-macros broken perhaps?
Probably I am doing something wrong, but I get a C Preprocessor error when compiling gtk3. This didn’t happen in 5.0. I am using Scratchbox, the Platform SDK, upgraded in the usual way.
In file included from /usr/include/sys/stat.h:465, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gstdio.h:27, from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib-unix.h:37, from ../gdk/wayland/gdkselection-wayland.c:25: /srv/mer/toolings/SailfishOS-latest/opt/cross/lib/gcc/aarch64-meego-linux-gnu/10.3.1/include-fixed/bits/statx.h:38:25: error: missing binary operator before token “(” 38 | #if __glibc_has_include (“linux/stat.h”)
I’d like to remind everyone that the purpose of this topic, and meaning of the original post is NOT:
“Hey, Sailfish OS 5.1 has been released, everybody hurry up and install it!”
rather it’s:
“We have a build environment available at OBS which you, if you are a developer, and if you want to prepare your apps for the upcoming release, can use to do it.
And as you would want to test whatever you built, here’s a hint that you can upgrade to the currently semi-closed-BETA, DEVELOPER-ONLY PREVIEW of Sailfish OS 5.1”.
Stupid question here, but if i just want to install the sdk on my machine, to check there are no compile issues, how do i do that ? I’m not ready to break my daily driver, but recompiling my apps in advance and check they are ok inside an emulator would be something i’d want to do.
tested on my xperia 10 II for fun, and havent notice any issues so far, and everything runs way smoother …before it was kinda janky, especially the android apps
Edit/update; there is one thing that dont work for me and that is the yahoo accounts even just email has issues ( I get “accounts needs to be updated” notification, and both get stuck in initial setup)
Full changelog will be provided later.
