14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical has pledged its support for Ubuntu Touch, at least in this current Ubuntu 14.04 development cycle, and new versions have been released.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is scheduled for release in April 2014, and Canonical will want to have a much better Ubuntu Touch version by then. This means that they have to release a lot of builds and often in order to fix all the inherent problems.
“We got images 40 and 41 built, 42 is a little bit reluctant to have test running in the CI Infra (but that's normal, this image should be special ;)).”
“We have first the glib commit revert and can confirm that we have no more network-manager crashes. We had a new SDK release, some new indicator-power and apparmor changes,” said Canonical's Didier Roche.
From the problems that are being fixed by the Ubuntu Touch developers, you might think that this is not a stable operating system. It's true that it's more prone to crashes and problems than Android, for example, but the developers test each version released and they usually pass with flying colors.
“In term of what needs to be investigated before being in position to promote the next image and ensuring we won't publish any new regressions: - we see quite a lot of HUD crashes, upstream was poked about it. We try to nag them already so that they are going to fix it. - we also have a bunch of qmlscene (so Qtdeclaractive) crashes when running the tests,” also said Didier.
A few other smaller problems, like the time indicators which are no longer showing AM/PM times and the inability to answer a call when the phone is at sleep (in some circumstances) will be fixed next week.
The updates should arrive on the normal OTA channel, but if you install the OS from scratch you will get these latest versions.