20230217.md

Repository activities from 2023-02-03 to 2023-02-17

Repository roundup

Some of the merge requests listed here have been already pushed as a hot fix for 4.5.0, like the fix for video playback in the browser.

Telephony stack

• nemo-qml-plugin-systemsettings, a QML component used by the Settings app, pvuorela added support to define a different ring tone for SIM card 2.

• voicecall, the open source part of the calling application, pvuorela changed the ring tone call to accept user defined ring tones by path.

• libphonenumber, a library for manipulating international phone numbers, mal updated it to 8.12.57.

The browser

• gecko-dev, Mozilla's Gecko web rendering engine, mal cleaned-up the build process with the upgrade of CLang. mal also backport the support for ffmpeg 5.0, solving numerous playback issues in the browser.

Sound stack

• amber-mpris, QML bindings for remote control of music players, tomin1 pushed a patch not to scale twice the duration in the meta data. flypig's pull request to let the application choose the prefix for DBus paths has been accepted.

Calendar stack

• nemo-qml-plugin-calendar, the QML for calendar access, dcaliste opened a merge request to add support for exceptions on recurring events that modify all future occurrences.

System control

• yamui, minimal UI tool for displaying simple graphical indicators, spiiroin reimplemented it with a GLib-based main loop. Like that, yamui can expose a compositor DBus service. spiiroin also cleaned-up the spec file. He also put back the workaround used with Xperia 10 on init to avoid a blank screen.

• yamuisplash, a simple splash screen for SailfishOS, spiiroin propagated the changes in yamui.

• lipstick, the home screen code (open source parts), spiiroin avoided changing the signal handler of SIGTERM. spiiroin created a link between mce and lipstick so the latter can tell the former what it needs to become the compositor. pvuorela cleaned-up old code related to thermal status creating useless blocking DBus calls.

Low level libraries

• libglibutil, a library extending GLib with convenient utilities, slava added a module to ref count the GLib weak reference and avoid time consuming calls to g_weak_ref_set().

• transfer-engine, the backend to allow sharing data between apps, attah contributed a fix for uninitialised booleans, and later on pvuorela added another fix for some other unitialised members.

• cairo, the drawing library, attah is proposing to update it to 1.17.8 and migrate to Meson for the build.

• xslt, the XML toolkit, mal backported a patch to add missing symbolic links.

• xkeyboard-config, alternative xkb data files, pvuorela mapped the assistant button on Xperia10iii to a camera button.

• boost, the C++ library for optimised operations, mal updated it to 1.81.0, also adding compilation of the modules for contact, json, nowide and urls. Signaling module has been removed.

• firejail, the isolation mechanism for process from the host system, dsuni updated it to 0.9.72.

Software engineering

• build-compare, scripts to find out if the build result differs to a former build, mal modified it to ignore changes in rpmlint output.

SDK and developer tools

• mesa, graphic libraries, mal updated to 21.3.9, now that LLVM has been updated.

• rust, the Rust programming language compiler, based on the initial work from rubdos, mal upgraded to 1.61.0.

• abseil-cpp, a C++ library designed to augment the C++ standard library, mal added this library as a new repository as a new dependency to libphonenumber.

• llvm, the machinery to build compilers, resumed the earlier work of rubdos to update to 14.0.6.

• kf5bluezqt, the KDE framework handling Bluetooth, martyone added missing QML definitions.

• sdk-build-tools, scripts used to build the Sailfish SDK in its production environment, martyone added the documentation for KDE Bluez library.

• sailfish-qtcreator, the Qt IDE, martyone patched it to use a doker volume for /srv/mer. martyone also disabled reverse path mapping for interactive build-shell and commited a patch not to loose session scope configuration.

• sdk-setup, part of the Sailfish SDK, vigejolla separated spec file per builder. vigejolla provided a patch for mb2 to use git from /usr/local/bin/git if available. martyone fixed the path to ip in sdk-info. martyone fixed permission issues on installation of the various scripts.

• sdk-test-suite, the test suite for the SDK tools, vigejolla added some tests checking initialisation with sfdk. martyone changed the name of the tested branch for harbour-storeman.

Sailfish OS website

• jovirkku created a document explaing how to update the vendor image.

• jovirkku updated the page for collecting logs. The script doing the collection has been updated, mainly to support Android v11.

• LaakkonenJussi imported the page describing how to setup a firewall.

• jovirkku added columns in the supported device table exposing API level for Android and kernel.

• jovirkku added a paragraph explaining how to reset the browser.

• jpwalden added a page describing issues with the message application (mainly to troubleshoot MMS).

• martyone announced the SDK release 3.10 for early access.

• martyone mentioned Windows specific issues with sfdk.

• martyone cleaned-up SDK installation instructions.

• jpwalden created a page describing the note application.