A lot of very interesting features are coming to Ubuntu Touch

Mar 25, 2014 21:01 GMT  ·  By

Canonical has released another batch of Ubuntu Touch images and, even if none of them has been promoted to stable, a lot of new stuff has been implemented.

Ubuntu developers have been hard at work to get the promotable train back on tracks, but they are still encountering some problems.

“Some courageous people worked bravely over the week-end to get it back into shape, but only non click app were then passing tests. Thus, we don't have any full test results on the recent images and backup on running all the tests ourselves (we are still at 100% test passing from a local run),” said Ubuntu developer Didier Roche.

Among the most interesting changes we can find a few indicator desktop bug fixes, backend support for conference call, dual SIM support (the starting stages), greeter splitting regarding ringtone and text messages (also just the groundwork), fixes for flaky autopilot test on messaging-app, 80% faster click application startup in upstart-app-launch by moving to libclick, python transition work, multiple gallery-app bug fixes, and more.

These are just a few of the planned features for the Ubuntu Touch and more are on their way, including some awesome visual updates for Unity8 and Scopes.