LinBits 60: Weekly Linux Phone news / media roundup (week 34/35)

It's Wednesday again! Now what happened since last Wednesday?

Phosh 0.13.1, Plasma Mobile Gear 21.08, Sailfish OS 4.2.0, a new RC of Ubuntu Touch for PinePhone and more! Commentary in italics.

Software releases

Phosh 0.13.1 has been released, delivering a very welcome new feature: A button to close all notification at once. There's more though, so make sure to read the release notes.
Sailfish OS 4.2.0 "Verla has been released to Early Access Subscribers. Plenty of little fixes and improvements, but that's always welcome, too, right? Also: Do watch Leszek's video linked below.
Plasma Mobile Gear 21.08 was released, changelogs are available.
Manjaro have released another Plasma Mobile beta release (No. 6).. Nice!
pineroot, the buildroot environment for PinePhone, is now featuring the freshly released Linux kernel 5.14.

Worth noting

Nitrokey, who make Authentication hardware, but also sell secure laptops and a Nextcloud box, have announced that they are working on a Phone. Exciting! Now we don't know what this will be – after all it could be just some secure Android thingy –, but I am definitely excitedly awaiting their full product announcement!
The Mobian Wiki has some new info that might be handy for anyone looking to use Bitwarden on a Linux phone.

Worth reading

Software progress

Claudio Cambria: Checking events and ticking todos on your Pinephone — Kalendar devlog 12. Awesome!
Janet Blackquill: A Hoppy Week In Tok. It's getting better and better!
Plasma Mobile: Plasma Mobile Gear 21.08 is Out. Nice roundup! For even more details read the changelog.

Software progress reporting

PineGuild: Manjaro developers announced the release of the sixth beta of the Manjaro ARM with Plasma Mobile.
Linux Smartphones: Phosh v0.13.1 released (and you can finally dismiss all notifications at once). Finally indeed.
UbuntuHandbook: Giara 1.0 Released – Reddit App for Linux Desktop & Smart Phone. I had been using a pre-release build of GTK4/libadwaita-based Giara for a while and it's quite the improvement! Great job!

Software development

Juan Pablo: Milonga in Flathub! Cambalache is a new tool for the creation of user interfaces for Gtk and the GNOME desktop environment.

Software Catalogues

Sophie's Blog: “apps.gnome.org” is Online! I wish I could bring up LinuxPhoneApps this quick!

Worth listening

postmarketOS Podcast: #8 INTERVIEW: Caleb Connolly (of OnePlus 6 / SDM845 Mainlining Fame). Great episode! I hope to play with a OnePlus 6 soon.

Worth Watching

Good Unboxing

Nat Tuck: PinePhone Unboxing, Comparison, First Boot This is much more than just an unboxing, but also a comparison with the Librem 5. Make sure to read the related blog post.

Kalendar

Claudio Cambria: Kalendar alpha running on Pinephone (devlog 12).

Shorts

NOT A FBI Honey pot: how pinephone user's flex......
NOT A FBI Honey pot: WHEN someordinarygamers{mutahar} finds out the pinephone can manage Virtual machines......

Development workflow

king of hacks roise: Pinephone development workflow. Nice vid! Will definitely watch it again if I ever find the time to do more than just minor busywork! BTW: The app being worked on is this one (LINMOBapps MR/LinuxPhoneApps PR to add it would be super welcome! ).

Ubuntu Touch

UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 107. Alfred, Dalton, Florian and Marius talk about new apps, keyboard news, a new PinePhone release canddidate image that needs testing, OTA 19 work and more!

Sailfish OS

Leszek Lesner: SailfishOS 4.2 - Whats new!?. Great overview!

GPL enforcement fun

Naomi 'SexyCyborg' Wu: Getting GPLv2 Compliance From A Chinese Company- In Person!. This is the full video teased last week.

Stuff I did

Nothing. They call it a vacation. You're basically not allowed to do anything you normally do. It's crazy!

LINMOBapps

Read here what (else) happened, as I did some maintenance on other app listings. As with LinuxPhoneApps.org, progress with LINMOBapps will likely be even slower in the coming week, but I will happily accept Merge Requests! So please do contribute!