Download Sailfish OS 4.2.0

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Jolla has released version 4.2.0 of its Sailfish OS. The name of this publication has been chosen leave, a village in Finland that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Sailfish can be used on Jolla C, Jolla Tablet and multiple Xperia devices. More information about this release and supported models can be found at this page are being found. Installation instructions are available here and there is also a Jolla topic on Got. Here are the main changes made in this release:

Accounts

Errors related to creating/removing Telepathy-based accounts fixed. For instance, removed XMPP accounts do not appear on “Settings > Presence” anymore.
Connection to Office 365 Exchange server failing due to provisioning defective fixed (provisioning inactive time)
Facebook removed from the available account types as the Facebook services had practically faded out. Facebook account remains over OS updates but won’t appear on devices to which 4.2.0 is installed/flashed.

Ambiences

UI components got a fix to follow the coloring of the new ambiences (4.0.1 regression)

Android App Support (Xperia XA2, 10 and 10 II)

“Settings > System > Android App Support > Show licenses” fixed
Camera bridged to Android App Support more elegantly
Android app settings pages now display the app icon
If App Support is not running, a notification is shown about launching the App Support to start the app. The notification was improved to show the app name and icon
Internet connections or Android apps via WLAN improved
Updated to 10.0.0.54 security patch level

audio recorder

Active cover layout now better aligns with platform style

Backup & Restore

User is notified to sign in again after restoring a backup from a cloud account

Browser

Close button removed from the toolbar
OAutb helper API for hybrid web app developers added
Settings and toolbar improved:
- Choosing the download directory is possible now
- History item added
- Adding a web page to add grid appears in the toolbar conveniently now
- Dialogue for checking your usernames/passwords of various web pages added
Usage of home page fixed – restarted browser takes you to the home page now (unless you have had tabs open)
Regression in saved passwords modification dialogue fixed
Tapping the downloaded file now opens the viewer app instead of taking you to the transfers
Opening a file from transfer notification supported
Signing in to captive portals with Sailfish Browser improved

CalDAV & CardDAV

Redirects from http to https (or vice versa) fixed – they used to be detected as circular and aborted
Last modified timestamp or calendar sync fixed

calendar

Color-coded calendar indications on Calendar main page month grid added
Replying to event participants from Calendar made possible
Opening of iCalendar .ics email attachments fixed
Robustness of signing in to Exchange account improved
Enabling/disabling calendars in Calendar app now committed when minimizing the app (previously required closing the “Manage calendars” page)

Camera

Scene mode and the support for multiple cameras on Xperia 10 II
Camera API bug fixes for 3rd party
Drop camera launch action from rarely used empty state cover

Connectivity

Signal strength of 5 GHz WiFi access points fixed on Xperia 10 II
When joining a new WiFi network the IPv6 address is assigned to the interface now
Ensured that Internet sharing works on Xperia 10 II despite the dual Wi-Fi/STA+AP mode

Contacts – see People Documents

Documents Calligra engine upgraded (17 fixes)

E-mail

More robust attachment handling
Support for sending email to calendar event organizer or participants
Crash in Exchange account creation fixed

Gallery

Android storage exposed to Gallery, ie, Android pictures and videos are shown in Gallery. Note, currently only shows pictures under Android Pictures folder, no content on app-specific folders

Home screen

App Grid supports sticky mode for easier one-handed use. While halfway opening App Grid you can now hold a finger for a moment to pin App Grid in place and then continue to tap the app you want to launch
Lockscreen edge indicators don’t anymore move with the unlock gesture issue fixed
Dismissing OS update notifications at Events view now possible

Media

Bluetooth and wired headset media keys (play, pause, next etc.) are handled via the MPRIS framework now. This makes those keys available for Android apps, too

Messages

Grouping of non-repliable service SMS messages fixed
Sending text messages on some devices (Jolla C) fixed

Multimedia

Stability and playback quality improved

people

Tapping birthday on a contact card opens the Calendar now
Size of attachment file fixed while sharing contacts over email
Recent contacts now show both called and messaged contacts in Phone and Messages (used to only show either)
Memory leak in contacts backend fixed
Avatars painted outside their area in active cover fixed

phone

Routing phone call voice to Bluetooth headsets improved (with some headsets it may still fail)

Sandboxing (app isolation)

Plenty if improvements to clarity and robustness
Adjustments to permissions
Permissions listed in Settings > Apps > App are sorted alphabetically

Security

Vulnerabilities fixed:

bluez 5.58: CVE-2020-27153
connman 1.32: CVE-2021-33833
curl 7.77.0: CVE-2021-22890, CVE-2021-22876
glibc 2.30: CVE-2020-27618
gstreamer 1.18.4: CVE-2019-9928, CVE-2021-3522, CVE-2021-3497, CVE-2021-3498
libjpeg 2.1.0: CVE-2020-13790
openjpeg 2.4.0: CVE-2019-12973, CVE-2019-6988
python3-lxml 4.6.3: CVE-2021-28957

Settings

App settings now show the app icon
Transfer notification icon updated for better legibility
Fingerterm terminal no longer plays haptics on both press and release
Serial number of the device added to About product page

sharing

The file-sharing UI was reimplemented as system dialogue, no longer done inside the sharing applications.

Storage

Permission to control access to external storage added
Possibility to encrypt the phone by using an inserted SD card as temporary storage. If the device isn’t encrypted and an SD card is in the device, the option to utilize the SD card during encryption appears in “Settings > Encryption”. Once the encryption is started, the UI for copying user data appears. If the data is copied correctly to the card, the device gets encrypted. After encryption, the data is copied back to the home directories.

Text input

Predictive text input is available for Xperia 10 II, too, from Jolla Store (licence required)

UI components

Context menu closing stuttering cases fixed

web view

Plenty of improvements

Device specific improvements Xperia 10 II

Signal strength indication of 5GHz WiFi fixed
Signal strength indication of 3G fixed
Internet sharing fixed
Unnecessary system messages blocked
Kernel updated
Homescreen now recovers from crashes
Phone behavior at low memory cases improved
The mic of wired headsets is now used correctly (a workaround used on 4.1.0 was removed). Hardware adaptation of Xperia 10 II updated because of this.
Support for all three cameras (shown with buttons 0.6, 1.0 and 2.0 in the viewfinder)

Gemini PDA

Audio functions fixed

Sailfish OS Forum and TJC: Issues reported by the community and fixed in this update

Version number	4.2.0
Release status	Final
Website	Jolla
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License type	Conditions (GNU/BSD/etc.)