Amrisha Prashar
on 19 October 2015

Phone update: OTA-7

OTA update

This article was last updated 9 year s ago.

The full list of Ubuntu Phone updates are provided below:

Scopes

Improved social media handling – support for ‘Likes’ and ‘Retweets’

Browser

Add search to history view
Improved context menu with options to download links
Http basic auth support

Gallery

Support SVG format
Soundcloud webapp now plays in the background

Bug Fixes

Fix for test.mmrow exploit
https://launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+milestone/ww40-2015
Fixes for the UI freezing (FD leaks)
Does not create crash reports on stable channel by default
Fix the QML cache and restore consistent app startup times
Fixes to use less memory by default in the browser and avoid webapps showing a white screen
Improvements to screen banking, use of proximity sensor

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