Highlights
 
    New weather application with events feed integration available through store
    Browser received a new interface
    Colours in ambiences can be adjusted
    Email authentication capabilities can be autodetected
    Improved low memory handling, now swap is properly taken into account
 
Security fixes
 
CVE-2013-6393 CVE-2013-6435 CVE-2013-7353 CVE-2013-7354 CVE-2014-2525 CVE-2014-3707 CVE-2014-7824 CVE-2014-8104 CVE-2014-8139 CVE-2014-8140 CVE-2014-8141 CVE-2014-8767 CVE-2014-8768 CVE-2014-8769 CVE-2014-8964 CVE-2014-9112 CVE-2014-9130 CVE-2014-9140 CVE-2014-9293 CVE-2014-9294 CVE-2014-9295
 
It also contains a fix for an issue in SailfishOS, details will be disclosed after rolling out this update to everyone.
Bugfix and feature highlights
aliendalvik
 
    Android runtime should not warn on low battery.
    Can't erase/delete selected text with Backspace.
    Cleaning of the clipboard crashes Alien Dalvik.
    Aliendalvik does not detect mobile data being connected anymore (since 5th Dec 2014).
    Switching between portrait and landscape messes up swipe gestures in Android apps.
    Alien screen orientation is wrong sometimes.
    VKB does not work with aliendalvik/android apps but works with native ones.
    Set oom_score_adj according to process importance if Sailfish hasn't set it.
 
buteo-sync-plugin-caldav
 
    Use ignore_ssl_errors configuration option
 
commhistory-daemon
 
    Download MMS automatically by default
    Delete attachments from the filesystem
 
connman
 
    Cancel browser requests if useragent has not returned anything
    Start/stop ntp activity when TimeUpdates property is changed
 
cpio
 
    Fix CVE-2014-9112
 
curl
 
    Fix CVE-2014-3707
 
dbus
 
    fix CVE-2014-7824
 
jolla-calendar
 
    Fix opening a day page from dbus invoker.
 
jolla-common-configurations
 
    do not allow dhcp-server to change the hostname by default.
    Enable D-Bus security checking
 
jolla-gallery-ambience
 
    Added color editor and new settings layout.
 
jolla-keyboard
 
    Fixed language selection popup layout.
 
jolla-settings-accounts
 
    Add 'Ignore SSL errors' option.
    Add missing version for oauth2 plugin for google.
    Use QMF auth from capabilities.
 
jolla-settings-networking
 
    dim WLAN hotspot when roaming not allowed.
 
jolla-settings-sailfishos
 
    Require 500 Mb disk space for installing the update.
 
kernel-adaptation-sbj
 
    Turn on heap randomization.
 
libcontacts-qt5
 
    Prioritize requests that make app startup more responsive
    look up address resolve requests in a QHash
    Schedule resolveAddress immediately
 
libkeepalive
 
    Ignore spurious iphb wakeups.
 
libpng
 
    Upgrade to 1.5.21
    Fixes out-of-bounds memory access in png_user_version_check()
    Fixes overflow in png_combine_row with very wide interlaced images
    Fixes CVE-2013-7354, CVE-2013-7353
 
libyaml
 
    Fix bunch of security vulnerabilities
    Fix CVE-2013-6393
    Fix CVE-2014-2525: Heap overflow when parsing YAML tags
    Fix CVE-2014-9130: assert failure when processing wrapped strings
    Guard against overflows in indent and flow_level
 
lipstick-jolla-home-qt5
 
    Timers for cellular icons.
    Disable scrolling to launcher area and lock screen shortcut access during boot busy state.
    Do not show busy-indicator if wlan is off.
    Don't show launcher until boot sequence has finished and normal app launch speeds can be guaranteed.
    Detect apps that failed to load.
    Make sure to show searching & busy when no networks are found.
    Don't pop up ConnectionSelector more often than once in 10 sec.
 
lipstick-qt5
 
    Don't attempt to connect signal to a NULL HomeApplication
    Fix crash on close regression
 
mce
 
    Assume proximity covered while waiting for sensord to start up.
    Allow user processes to query current memory level over D-Bus.
    More robust low memory signaling
    Add enablers for evdev event mapping
    Enablers for TOHKBD and other hw keyboards
    Allows actions such as automatic DTMF signaling to proceed when outbound call is answered
 
ntp
 
    Fix CVE-2014-9295, CVE-2014-9294, CVE-2014-9293
 
openvpn
 
    Fix CVE-2014-8104
 
pcre
 
    Fix CVE-2014-8964.
 
qmf-qt5
 
    Mask login information in the IMAP login logging.
    Handle SMTP response 504.
    Introduce discovery of authentication from the anounced capabilities(IMAP/SMTP)
    Mask login information in the SMTP debug logging.
    Update account lastSyncTime when IMAP IDLE disconnects.
 
qt5-qtlocation-source
 
    Fix crash due to floating point precision issues, and update poly2tri to latest upstream.
 
rpm
 
    Fix CVE-2013-6435
 
sailfish-components-contacts-qt ####5
 
    Fixed SIM import
    Fix calendar d-bus call on <10 day/month.
    Don't make RecentContactsList wait for the contactsModel
 
sailfish-office
 
    Add text eliding and text wrap to the details page.
    fix issue #3: PDFs with mixed orientations not displayed correctly
 
sbj-configs
 
    Adjust vm.swappiness to 50.
 
tcpdump
 
    Fix CVE-2014-8767
    Fix CVE-2014-8768
    Fix CVE-2014-8769
    Fix CVE-2014-9140
 
transferengine-plugins
 
    Fix content height of Twitter image sharing.
 
unzip
 
    Fix CVE-2014-8139, CVE-2014-8140 and CVE-2014-8141

One more: Now Aliendalvik running inside chroot sandbox and android apps have no more access to Sailfish filesystem

Le constructeur finlandais Jolla a officiellement présenté sa nouvelle tablette tournant sous SailFish OS. Nous en avons profité pour interroger son cofondateur Marc Dillon, lequel revient sur l'histoire de la société et ses nouvelles ambitions.