The developers are working on a new patch for the OS

Apr 22, 2015 09:57 GMT  ·  By

Canonical is working to switch the base for Ubuntu Touch to the 15.04 branch, and the devs are sure that it's just a matter of time. From the looks of it, the next major OTA update for Ubuntu Touch will switch the system to the new vivid base.

Ubuntu developers have just released their third OTA update for their operating system, and it's been received very well by the community, but that doesn't mean the work of the devs will stop. If anything, they now have even more work ahead of them because the switch to a vivid base will take some doing. Before any update is released to the public, the devs need to make sure that they won't break anything.

The Ubuntu Touch development cycle is following the other platforms, but it's still a little behind, which means that Ubuntu Touch based on 15.04 will be unstable even after the regular Ubuntu 15.04 is released as a stable branch on April 23.

The work on Ubuntu Touch never stops

Even if Ubuntu Touch is now powering the Bq Aquaris e4.5 and it's in the hands of clients, the rhythm of updates and new features must remain the same. Having a stable platform it not enough.

"OTA-4 will be based on this new stable baseline. But before that happens we might have a quick-fix OTA to resolve issues that have been reported recently (nothing critical though), but we have no concrete date for this release as for now. More information about that next week. One of those issues is the discovered-today issue with store-upgraded scopes getting un-favorited after upgrade," said Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak in a mailing list message.

As usual, there is no launch date fixed for the next OTA update, but if the current speed of the dev team is any indication, it should be ready in the coming weeks.