14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical's Łukasz Zemczak is back at work after a short break at the end of last week, and he just informed us about the new features implemented in the development version of the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system for Ubuntu phones.
Among the most interesting things that landed in Ubuntu Touch, we can mention a brand-new Unity 8 user interface for which we wrote a detailed article last week, updated Telephony stack with new features, as well as several new language layouts for the ubuntu-keyboard.
Additionally, it would appear that the Ubuntu Touch development team received green light to re-include the Calendar app in the operating system and make it the default calendar application in the main images of Ubuntu Touch, which will be added in the coming days.
"Today we landed a new Unity8, telephony stack bits and included new language layouts in the seeds for the ubuntu-keyboard. We also finally got green light on re-including calendar-app as a default application on our images - we'll try doing that as soon as possible. Great job everyone!" says Łukasz Zemczak.
The next Ubuntu Touch OTA is planned for July 2015
With today's announcement, we are also informing our readers about the plans for the next OTA (Over the Air) update for the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system, which should see the light of day sometime at the beginning or middle of next month. Apparently, there are no news about an OTA-4.5 update, so the regressions introduced by OTA-4 will be fixed in OTA-5.
Łukasz Zemczak urges all Ubuntu Touch developers to explicitly mention any package dependency changes when they submit Debian/changelog entries, so that the Ubuntu Touch team can be aware of any change made to dependencies by merges. In the future, entries that do not contain this information might get rejected.