20230120.md

Repository activities from 2023-01-06 to 2023-01-20

Repository roundup

The number of updated low-level components (by mal and other sailors) has been important these last days. A new SDK version seems to be around the corner with various updates to the QML documentations and links for SDK QtCreator.

Telephony stack

• mobile-broadband-provider-info, the database of access point configurations, atlochowski removed Chess Communication and Ludo Mobil since they are not MVNO on Telia network anymore.

Audio stack

• amber-mrpis, QML bindings for remote control of music players, pvuorela fixed metadata tracking API. flypig proposes a large fix on the loop status, correcting possible crashes.

Networking

• libgsupplicant, a client library for wpa_supplicant, slava added bindings for new cipher and key management algorithms.

• sofia-sip, a SIP library, mal updated it to 1.13.11.

The browser

• gecko-dev, Mozilla's Gecko web rendering engine, krnlyng proposes to simplify building when the fix in scratchbox will be merged. rainemak partially reverted sailfishos/gecko-dev#148 to reset default input field backgrounds to white. This last fix is also part of a upgrade-4.5.0 branch to avoid a regression on input fields.

• sailfish-components-webview, the high-level QML components exposing a web page, pvuorela updated the import statements dropping the old Meego.xxx naming convention.

• sailfish-browser, the browser itself, rainemak added tests for radio and checkboxes. Following https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/browser-says-about-blank-is-not-secure/9544, rainemak also removed the secure indication for the about:xxx pages.

Synchronisation framework

• qmf-notifications-plugin, a plugin to send notifications on email changes, dcaliste raised a discussion on the feedback definition that should be emitted when receiving emails.

Calendar stack

• libical, serialise and deserialise ICal file format, pvuorela upgraded it to 3.0.16.

• mkcal, storage backend using SQLite for calendar entries, dcaliste proposed to add thisAndFuture attribute in the database. This would allow to support changes from a point in time for recurring events at UI level.

Document reader

• sailfish-office, the document application, pvuorela updated it to use the new Nemo.xxx QML imports.

Positioning

• mlsdb-data, a packaging of Mozilla databse used to assist GPS positioning, dsuni changed the database format.

System control

• sailfish-utilities, the setting page to restart failing services, vigejolla moved the descriptions of action to point to the forum. pvuorela migrated the QML imports to use newer Nemo.xxx formulations.

• mce, mode control entity, spiiroin reverted to numbers in charging limit macros to avoid parsing issues when converting these macros to strings. spiiroin proposes to supervise screen access on device in mce, to reduce blank screen time and avoid race conditions to hardware access.

• lipstick, the home screen code (open source parts), pvuorela fixed the unit test on volume control. pvuorela also simplified what is exposed by removing the QML bindings giving the connectivity status (using Connman is better to do this than asking the compositor). spiiroin is working on a link between mce and lipstick so the latter can tell the former what it needs to become the compositor.

• minui, a library for minimal UI framebuffer applications, spiiroin proposes to fix the return value of gr_init() in case of drm backends that fails in gr_flip().

• profiled, manages user settings, dsuni is working to move the configuration files from ~/.profiled` to XDG config directory.

• timed, time and alarm handling daemon, dsuni is working to move the configuration files from ~/.timed` to XDG config directory.

Low level libraries

• mapplauncherd-booster-silica, preload common Silica QML components to get faster application starts, pvuorela updated it to new Nemo.xxx QML imports.

• droidmedia, Android media wrapper library, mal has restarted the initial work from d-grigorev to make the starting of MediaCodec asynchronous. This may help to gain 12 to 14 frames on camera start-up for instance.

• nemo-qml-plugin-policy, provides an API for communicating with the libresource policy manager, pvuorela added a warning when using the deprecated org.nemomobile.xxx QML import.

• nemo-qml-plugin-time, QML bindings for time handling (system wide clocks…), pvuorela updated it to new Nemo.xxx QML imports.

• nemo-qml-plugin-email, QML bindings for emails, pvuorela updated it to new Nemo.xxx QML imports.

• nemo-qml-plugin-alarms, the QML for alarm access, pvuorela updated it to new Nemo.xxx QML imports.

• nemo-qml-plugin-dbus, the QML bindings for DBus, pvuorela added a warning when using the deprecated org.nemomobile.xxx QML import.

• nemo-qml-plugin-configuration, QML bindings to access configuration values, pvuorela added a warning when using the deprecated org.nemomobile.xxx QML import.

• nemo-qml-plugin-notifications, QML bindings to the Freedesktop notification system, pvuorela added a warning when using the deprecated org.nemomobile.xxx QML import.

• sailjail-permissions, the configuration files for system-wide sandbox permissions, pvuorela merged attah's pull request removing PDF tools from inside the jail (not needed anymore). flypig expanded the documentation for the sharing permission. olf0 rephrased the description of the Compatibility permission to clarify its role.

• btrfs-balancer, a utility to reduce meta-data space used in the BTRFS file-system, olf contributed a patch to remove some Bash-only string substitution in the script calling the file-system balance operation.

• lxc, Linux resource containers, krnlyng is proposing to update it to 5.0.0 from 4.0.10.

• libyaml, the "Yet Another Markup Language" parser library, nephros updated it to version 0.2.5. thaodan moved to use %license in the spec file.

• libxml2, an XML parsing library, pvuorela updated it to 2.10.3.

• zxing, a codebar library, pvuorela updated the package to 2.0.0, which enables inverted QR codes for instance fixing https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/xperia-10ii-cannot-scan-green-barcode/13220.

• qr-filter-qml-plugin, QML bindings for zxing, pvuorela migrated the code to Zxing version 2.

• libglibutil, a library extending GLib with convenient utilities, slava improved test build (removed warning and made build without optimisation for coverage).

• giflib, a library to manipulate GIF format image files, mal added a patch from Fedora to fix CVE-2022-28506.

• libtiff, a library to read TIFF image files, mal updated it to version 4.5.0.

• vpnc, a VPN solution, thaodan updated it to 0.5.3.r524 and rework the packaging.

• libexif, a library to handle EXIF data in images, mal updated it to version 0.6.24.

• pixman, image handling library, mal updated it to 0.42.2.

• gdk-pixbuf, image handling library for GTK and friends, mal updated it to 2.42.10.

• libtasn1, the ASN.1 library used in GNUTLS, mal updated it to 4.19.

• freetype, the font handling, mal updated it to 2.12.1.

• libarchive, a library to handle compressed formats, mal updated it to 3.6.2.

• qtdeclarative, Qt implementation of QML language, flypig fixed an issue where it is impossible to clear text from a text input because its status becomes read-only.

• fribidi, a library implementing the Unicode bidirectional algorithm, mal updated it to 1.0.12.

• aspell, a spell checker, mal updated it to 0.60.8.

• sqlite, an embeddable SQL database engine, mal updated it to 3.40.1.

• rsync, a synchronisation command line tool, mal updated it to 3.2.7.

• sensorfw, sensor framework, shr-project fixed issues when building on 32bit systems with time_t as 64 bits.

• libngf-qt, QML bindings for the non graphical feedback daemon, dcaliste corrected cases where the "playing" status is emitted twice in a row.

• openvpn, a VPN solution, mal updated it to 2.5.8.

• curl, the command-line tool to access the web, mal updated it to 7.87.0.

SDK and developer tools

• sailfish-qtcreator, the Qt IDE, martyone gave the possibility to get /dev from the host available under docker.

• sdk-setup, part of the Sailfish SDK, vigejolla fixed an issue when configuring the HTTP proxy for targets. martyone added a detection of the host OS.

• scratchbox2, the cross-compilation tool used by the SDK, krnlyng made it possible to redirect sytem calls.

• qemu-usermode, a universal CPU emulator, krnlyng proposes to simplify the system calls, after the scratchbox modification.

• vim, the text editor, mal updated it to 9.0.1206.

• mic, , AndeySV opened a pull request to preserve extended attributes on rootfs.

• nemo-qml-plugin-calendar, the QML for calendar access, martyone updated the QML definitions for SDK.

• nemo-qml-plugin-notifications, QML bindings to the Freedesktop notification system, martyone updated the QML definitions for SDK.

• transfer-engine, the backend to allow sharing data between apps, martyone updated the QML definitions for SDK.

• sailfish-secrets, a framework to use encryption techniques, vigejolla changed the version number for the documentation.

• nemo-qml-plugin-contacts, QML bindings to access the contact database, vigejolla changed the version number for the documentation.

• nemo-qml-plugin-systemsettings, a QML component used by the Settings app, martyone updated the QML definitions for SDK.

• libcommhistory, the library to access SMS/phone history, martyone updated the QML definitions for SDK.

• nemo-keepalive, CPU and display keepalive and scheduling library, martyone updated the QML definitions for SDK.

• amber-mrpis, QML bindings for remote control of music players, martyone updated the QML definitions for SDK.

• libqofono, Qt bindings for Ofono, martyone updated the QML definitions for SDK.

• gdb, the GNU debugger, mal proposes to update it to 12.1 release.

• rust, the Rust programming language compiler, based on the initial work from rubdos, mal is looking at upgrade to 1.61.

• lua, the scripting language, pvuorela updated it to 5.4.4.

Sailfish OS website

• jovirkku fixed URLs in the tips and tricks page, pointing now in the documentation website instead of zendesk.

• vigejolla added a possibility to add a redirection when changing the URL of a page.

• jovirkku added a page describing CSD test tool.

• jpwalden created an article on ringtones and notifications.

• jpwalden added a page on the weather application.

• pvuorela created a page detailing what is supported when opening an URL externally (like tel:xxx).

• jovirkku modified the recovery page to include howtos for Xperia X, XA2 and 10 besides existing 10ii and 10iii.

• jovirkku linked the release number with the corresponding release note pages on the forum.

• jpwalden added a page describing the media player.

• vigejolla imported the HADK pages.

• jovirkku proposes a page describing SailfishOS update process.

• jpwalden is working on a page describing how to backup third party application data.