14 DAY TRIAL // We reported yesterday about the upcoming availability of the Ubuntu Touch OTA-13 software update for Ubuntu Phone and Ubuntu Tablet devices, and it looks like Canonical finally started the phased update earlier today.
Canonical's Lukasz Zemczak informs us that the main OTA-13 images have been successfully copied from the rc-proposed channel to the stable one for users to update but, as expected, it's phased during the next 24 hours, so not everyone will get it at the same time.
Therefore, if you don't see the OTA-13 update on your supported Ubuntu Phone or Ubuntu Tablet device (see below for a complete list), try again in a few hours, or tomorrow. Canonical promises that the Ubuntu Touch OTA-13 software update will arrive for all users on Wednesday, September 21, 2016, at the latest.
"We have just copied all main OTA-13 images to the stable channels and started the phased upgrade procedures as with every release. This should take less then a whole day and all users should see the update on their phones tomorrow at latest," says Lukasz Zemczak, Canonical Foundations.
Supported Ubuntu Touch OTA-13 devices
As for the supported devices, all the existing Ubuntu Phones, including BQ Aquaris E4.5, BQ Aquaris E5, Meizu MX4, and Meizu PRO 5 are supported, as well as the BQ Aquaris M10 and BQ Aquaris M10 HD Ubuntu tablets. Canonical also supports the Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 devices as Ubuntu Phones, so you can update them to OTA-13 as well.
If you're running Ubuntu Touch on a different device that's most probably supported by the team over at Ubports, you'll receive the OTA-13 update as well, but we don't know if this will happen right now or in a few days. To see the new features implemented in the Ubuntu Touch OTA-13 update, check out our previous report.