Download Sailfish OS 3.0.3

Jolla has released an update to its Sailfish OS with 3.0.3.8 as the full version number. The name of this publication has been chosen hossa, a village in the former Finnish province of Oulu, which today falls under the Kainuu region. Sailfish can be used on devices from Jolla, the Sony Xperia X and XA2, and the Gemini PDA. The abbreviated announcement looks like this:

[release notes] 3.0.3 Hossa

In Hossa there have been many upgrades under the hood, fixing security vulnerabilities and improving stability and compatibility in several fundamental components such as Gecko, GCC, and the GNU C Library. This technology update mostly paves the way for new features in the next update (3.1.0) though it does also finally fix the long-standing IMAP idle problem. For XA2 devices we have solved the high WLAN-related power drain and the issue of the display turning off during phone calls, plus in Alien Dalvik there’s improved file access and notification behaviour, and mobile data now works with both SIM cards.

Many thanks to you our active contributors for your feedback and proposals.

Release Highlights

Xperia XA2

• High power drain while using WLAN fixed
• Issue with proximity sensor is fixed – now the display does not go blank during phone calls
• Preliminary support for NFC added

Accounts

• Network connection checked before proceeding to account creation.

Android™ App Support

• Android 8.1 App Support Beta for Xperia XA2 devices improved:
  • Mobile data works with both SIM cards for Android apps on XA2 devices now
  • Files recently added to Sailfish side appear now on Android side immediately
  • System UI notifications from Android side are hidden now (Sailfish OS to handle)
  • Notification handling improved, not to repeat grouped notifications on new notifications
  • SSH file transfer no longer crashes alien
• No changes for other products

backup

• SD card now shown as a storage option reliably

Browser

• Gecko engine upgraded to esr45 version
• User agent string updated to reflect engine version
• User-agent override data craeted and updated for new engine

call

• XA2: the issue with proximity sensor is fixed – now the display does not go blank during phone calls

Connectivity

• Status of connections over mobile data now shown correctly on dual-SIM devices

Device Management (MDM) [Corporate API]

• Cellular policy API introduced
• Data counters policy API introduced

E-mail

• IMAP push at idle fixed. Email synchronization works now even if the internet connection should change

Flashing

• Flashing script of XA2 devices for Windows PC fixed

Home screen

• Busy indication added to USB mode selection; this helps in setting up the MTP connection with devices acting slowly
• PIN input view backspace visibility improved for Light Ambiences
• Two-column layout created for PIN query and Device Lock views in Lock Screen for narrow landscape devices

keyboard

• Support for hardware keyboard layout variants or Gemini PDA added
• Heuristics for using Escape key as Power key (eg Gemini PDA) without requiring also Fn key press adjusted to reduce chances of interfering with system dialogs

Media

• Show full width remorse item when deleting playlists

Messages

• Issue in sending SMS to multiple recipients fixed
• SMS delivery reports fixed

phone

• Call UI recovers better from subsystem crashes

power management

• Don’t set battery warning notifications twice when passing low battery level
• XA2: High power drain while using WLAN fixed

Security – vulnerabilities fixed:

• glibc-2.24: CVE-2016-3075, CVE-2016-1234, CVE-2015-8779, CVE-2015-8778, CVE-2015-8777, CVE-2015-8776, CVE-2015-7547, CVE-2015- 5277, CVE-2015-1781, CVE-2015-1473, CVE-2015-1472, CVE-2014-9761, CVE-2014-9402, CVE-2014-8121, CVE-2013-7423, CVE-2014-6040, CVE-2014-4043
• glibc-2.25: CVE-2017-15670, CVE-2017-15671, CVE-2017-15804, CVE-2017-1000408, CVE-2017-1000409, CVE-2017-16997
• gcc-4.9.4: CVE-2015-5276
• openssh-7.9p1+git2: CVE-2019-6111, CVE-2019-6109, CVE-2018-20685
• zlib-1.2.11: CVE-2016-9843, CVE-2016-9842, CVE-2016-9841, CVE-2016-9840
• ncurses-6.1: CVE-2017-13734, CVE-2017-13733, CVE-2017-13732, CVE-2017-13731, CVE-2017-13730, CVE-2017-13729, CVE-2017-13728, CVE-2017- 11113, CVE-2017-11112, CVE-2017-10685, CVE-2017-10684
• pcre-8.42: CVE-2016-3191
• cpio-2.12: CVE-2016-2037
• util-linux-2.33: CVE-2017-2616
• icu-63.1: CVE-2013-1569, CVE-2013-2383, CVE-2013-2384, CVE-2013-2419, CVE-2014-6585, CVE-2014-6591, CVE-2014-7923, CVE-2014- 7926, CVE-2014-7940, CVE-2014-9654

Sensors

• XA2: the issue with proximity sensor is fixed – now the display does not go blank during phone calls

Settings

• Ensured that a notification to change the WLAN password is shown always after an incorrect one was typed – also when the password had been changed on the WLAN base station
• Backup settings failing to offer memory card option fixed

UI components

• Many text editor and menu view autoscrolling regressions fixed
• Disabled text fields now look disabled