14 DAY TRIAL // The upcoming Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 update is still in the works, and it should land this week if everything goes according to plan. The developers have fixed an important issue that was affecting the BQ dual-sim phones, and things are looking up.
Canonical announced a while ago that it plans to move Ubuntu Touch to the new Vivid base (Ubuntu 15.04), but that's not as easy as it sounds. In fact, the developers had a tough time with some of the issues that have arisen from the move, although it's nothing they couldn't handle. A large number of changes and improvements are already incoming, and it's going to be a glorious update for Ubuntu Touch.
The team of developers is trying to provide a new update for Ubuntu each month, but that plan hasn't worked out the way they wanted, at least until now. The good news is that they are getting better at it, and they should reach this cadence pretty soon, which would make Ubuntu one of the best supported mobile operating systems around. What other mobile OS will get major monthly updates?
Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 should arrive by the end of the week
Ubuntu devs are trying to keep their promise and provide the new update by the end of the week, but it's not too late in the game to find problems and other issues that need to be fixed.
"The final dual-sim regression fix just landed in the overlay PPA and we have kicked a new image build. We expect this image to be the final promotion candidate for OTA-4 that's planned for public release next week. As for this writing QA didn't find any blocking issues with rc-proposed - let's hope it'll stay like this till the end of testing. The system-image hard-link problem has also been fixed, with another fix for a potential issue with delta-generation in the queue, everything should be ready for the big release," said Canonical's Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak.
We'll make sure to give the new Ubuntu release a proper test drive once it's out.