Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (22/2026): Pispala and 26.04
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Sailfish OS 5.1 "Pispala" is in Early Access (Firefox ESR115 browser engine and Bluetooth for Android apps included), a Ubuntu Touch Q&A and early 26.04 testing, GNOME Circle and Flathub both ban AI-generated code, Phosh Contributors Meeting recap published, a postmarketOS v26.06 wallpaper vote, and more!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- Luigi311: Furilabs FLX1s
- Phosh.mobi e.V. News: Bits from the Phosh Contributors Meeting 2026
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, May 27 2026 - Pispala
- foss2go.com: LibreOffice Announces New Web and Mobile Strategy
- xda-developers: Sailfish OS showed me what Linux phones could actually be, and we need more of it
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Sailfish OS showed me what Linux phones could actually be, and we need more of it
Worth Watching
- Continuum Gaming: SFOS Update 5.0.0.78 / 5.1.0.8 (EA): A small update for a big update
- Anino Ni Kugi: Detox mode in Lomiri Plus | Ubuntu Touch
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 191
- DotConfig: Furilabs FLH1 Linux Phone Hub Review
- Trainsomethinguy: PostmarketOS% speedrun chromebook
- Bealyread: Attempting to Install PostMarketOS on my old Samsung A30
- Embedded Recipes: Pablo Correa Gomez: A Distributed Phone CI for postmarketOS
- Cards By The Hill: KARLI LINUX 2026.1 RUNNING ON PINEPHONE
- LUGA: Ältere Smartphones mit freier Software weiter benutzen
- bart: 2 weeks ago I gave a talk about postmarketOS at the spring NLUUG (Netherlands Unix Users Group) conference.It's in English so should be accessible to all!https://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/video/nluug/2026-05-07-vj26/postmarketos-av1.mp4#postmarketOS #NLUUG
- Linux App Summit: Digging Through the App Cemetery: Sustaining a Fork | Evangelos Paterakis @ LAS 2026
- Linux App Summit: Flatpak Next | Adrian Vovk & Sebastian Wick @ LAS 2026
- Linux App Summit: TuxDoctor: A Hardware Diagnostic Tool for Mobile Linux | Petr Hodina @ LAS 2026
Worth Noting
- pojntfx: "There is a real chance that in 5-10 years, there will be laptops and smartphones running open processors and operating systems with UX and and an OS comparable or better than the proprietary equivalent, but which are effectively useless to the average consumer because it is cryptographically impossible to use them for anything due to remote attestation proliferating more and more"
- craftyguy: "with systemd v261, postmarketOS #duranium loses some jankiness!https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/8660Thank you @daandemeyer !"
- Purism community: Poor man's sleep timers for the Librem 5
- UndeadLeech: Just updated my Fairphone 5 ArchLinux packages to the latest call audio kernel/ucm/q6voiced versions and I'm happy to confirm call audio now seems to work out of the box without major issues.Thanks to the work done by @valpackett, the bottom speaker is no longer firing for me during calls (producing an echo). That was my last known issue.Hopefully this can be upstreamed to #postmarketOS soon, I think people are going to enjoy this.#linuxmobile #arch #linux #fairphone
- pi_crew: Using custom Android images such as LineageOS 16 in Waydroid is now even easier in #NixOS 26.05 🌠 Just updated the wiki page: https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Waydroid#V4L2_camera_forwarding
- undefined: "forgot to send a link to the livestream... oh well, i'll make sure to post a link to the recording once it's out :)for any folks who are at PIWO right now and wanna talk about Linux on ARM or Mobile Linux as a whole - i'll be here for the rest of the event (including the lightning talks!), or you can reach out via mastodon or the other contact methods from the last slide :)i also uploaded the slides: https://tilde.town/~knuxify/talks/linux-on-arm.html"
More Software News
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #251 Monitoring Resources
- Sophie Herold: Updates from the Circle Committee
- Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, 2026-05-29
- Benjamin Otte: Snapping
- Phoronix: GNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI Slop, Resources App Makes It Into GNOME Incubator
Phosh
- Phosh.mobi e.V. News: Bits from the Phosh Contributors Meeting 2026
- Phosh (gotosocial): PSA for distributions that use an older phoc with current phosh: Starting from Phosh 0.56.0 (planned release date 2026-07-0...
- Phosh (gotosocial): [From the Saturday session at the #Phosh contributors meeting: prawn talking about his ...](https://social.phosh.mobi/@phosh/statuses/01KSCCA9K8XDVXYCFKZ0DT0G7Y)
- foss2go.com: Phosh 0.55.0 Released: New Syncthing Quick Setting, wlroots 0.20.0, and Mobile Settings Updates
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: 6.7 Beta 2 Released
- KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Release
- Volker Krause: April/May in KDE Itinerary
- Carl Schwan: Marknote 1.6.0
- nuno icons: Some progress on Oxygens icons and more…
- Phoronix: Plasma 6.6, 6.7 & 6.8 See Plenty Of Bug Fixing This Week
Sailfish OS
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, May 27 2026 - Pispala
- Announcements - Sailfish OS Forum: [Release notes] Pispala 5.1.0.8 - Early Access
- frankps: The 2nd September batch with 2.000 preorders is sold out! This is just awesome. I so look forward to see a lot of new sailors join our community. And excisting sailors getting new modern phones #sailfishos #SailfishCommunity @jolla #NextGenJollaPhone #YourNextPhone #LinuxPhone #OpenSource
- abranson: Merging new version of #sailfishos Browser on #firefox ESR115 right now!
- poetaster: Announcing version 1.3.7 of #tooter your friendly neighbourhood #SailfishOs masto client.Includes:- corrections for tab layout- corrections for long text display- return of card previews for internal links- further linking fixes (not all corner cases covered) up on github, coming to chum and harbour ....
- poetaster: Announcing version 2.0.53 of #Fahrplan for #SailfishOs .... This release consists of the following changes: * change generation of translations to ‘sailfish sdk’ style * fix bahn.de timetables by removing filtering on destination which will often yield empty tables * cleanup about page, add poetaster donation link/copyright * add maptiler settings and use those as station tiles if mapbox not foundup on github and openrepos … coming to chum…
- ilpianista: We now have image thumbnails in Dee thanks to @Antti98 ! #SailfishOS
- r/MobileLinux: SailfishOS 5.1 released for Early Access, including Bluetooth support for Android Apps.
Ubuntu Touch
- UBports Forums OS: Looking for Testers: Ubuntu Touch 26.04-1.x (Early version)
- UBports Forums OS: lomiri-location-service GPS reliability patches (navius branch, v3.4.1+navius5)
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 191 call for questions
- r/MobileLinux: I built a proper home screen for Ubuntu Touch — multi-page, dock, three layout modes, integrates with the Lomiri drawer + spread, apps stay alive in the background
- UBports - Development - Issues: clickable: Support bootstrapping QML (Qt6) apps via clickable's templating engine
- fredldotme: RE: https://mastodon.social/@fredldotme/116632139126556287@ubports @ubuntu @snapcraftio
- fredldotme: This is what you can expect and what it looks like.
- fredldotme: Sidenote/mention that GL4ES can be used from a Click package if built yourself from upstream master if you enable -DHYBRIS=ON for cmake and add it's LD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime. Useful if you ever wanna package a Desktop OpenGL 2.1 app.
- fredldotme: What do you think about the upcoming hybris-2404 (the gpu-2404 support Snap for core24 snaps, and it's mix of X11 with GL4ES and Wayland with GLESv2?That's garbageYeah GL4ES is awesomeDon't matter, don't care
- fredldotme: If the windowing system (not the themes, no fancy stuff, just the barebones framework) was in the kernel it would finally be called "Linux" as an OS, not only a kernel.But people wanna insist on calling it GNU+Linux+systemd+GNOME.
- fredldotme: "4 updated or upcoming Snaps tested with the newly released lomiri-ui-toolkit-core24:- DeltaTouch, from the official upstream- QML Creator, updated to core24- Pocket VMs, using hybris-2404- Beat The Score, a music instrument learning gameThe last one happens to be my diploma project, a regular Qt/QML C++ app without QQC2 or LUITK requirements.For those who wanna have the new hotness now, you can refresh lomiri-ui-toolkit-core24 from the stable channel."
Distributions
- postmarketOS: We are excited to announce that bluebunny is now a trusted contributor in postmarketOS!He is a maintainer of the xiaomi-pipa and samsung-exynos7 devices and has been helping to get patches merged faster in pmaports by reviewing them 🥳 📜 TC page:https://postmarketos.org/team/#bluebunny
- postmarketOS (Mastodon): What wallpaper shall we use in the upcoming v26.06 release? Thanks to dikasp, MultisampledNight and foobtech for creating these amazing AI-free wallpapers!
- DanctNIX (Mastodon): New factory image for PineTab2 (2026/05/24)https://echo.danctnix.org:7269/factory_images/pinetab2/20260524/#pine64 #pinetab2 #mobilelinux #linuxmobile
- Phoronix: Fedora 45 Considering Use Of PURL Metadata For Uniquely Identifying Software Packages
- Phoronix: NixOS 26.05 Released With 20,442 New Packages, Stage 1 Now Based On systemd By Default
Apps
- mlundblad: Thanks to hard work by @flyingpimonster Maps now supports downloading map areas for offline use!This has been a long-awaited feature and will finally be available in GNOME 51.#gnomemaps #gnome #mapstodon #openstreetmap #offlinemaps
- knoppix95: "Signal is developing a standalone desktop app without requiring a smartphone for setup or use, based on recent open-source code changes. 🖥️The update adds more desktop controls while keeping end-to-end encryption, improving device independence with a privacy-first design. 🔐@signalapp 🔗 https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-desktop-without-a-mobile-phone-standalone-version-in-development/#TechNews #Signal #Messaging #Privacy #E2EE #Encryption #EndToEndEncryption #OpenSource #FOSS #Cybersecurity #Security #Data #Internet #Freedom #Software #Tech #Communication"
- vivi: Making good progress in polishing my musi mi game launcher for mobile devices. Thanks to FEX-Emu, I'm now also able to play Hollow Knight on my #FP5 😊.#LinuxMobile #postmarketOS #gaming
- meanmicio: And now for the much needed good news of the day... the development of #MyGNUHealth 3.0 is going at a good pace 😎Some screenshots of the ongoing porting process to Ubuntu touch from @volla tablet.#OpenScience #GNU #GNUHealth #UbuntuTouch #bioinformatics #SocialMedicine #FreeSoftware #privacy #Volla
- Björn: Does anyone know if anyone is already working on a companion app for the new Pebble? Specifically, one for Linux Mobile based on GTK4 and libadwaita. There is, of course, the Android version, which is open source.#linuxmobile #phosh #postmarketos #mobian #pebble #watch
- chfkch: "Do i know any SQLX magicians?We have an issue over at https://codeberg.org/Chfkch/bitritter/issues/59 and not sure why SQLX cannot create the database on the fly on some machines. I am pretty sure it worked at some point in time, but since i cannot reproduce it on my computer (several people can), i am out of ideas.:boost_ok: :boostRequest: #SQLX #BitRitter #RustLang"
- pi_crew: "The newest version of Gelly, a native GTK4 #Navidrome and #Jellyfin music client, improved a lot on #LinuxMobile 🚀#postmarketOS"
- allpurposemat: "Yesterday I quickly "ported" the #Rockwork daemon to Qt6 in order to get it working with my newly arrived #Pebble Time 2 (Qt6 apparently has some Bluetooth LE upgrades that are needed (also it allows me to package it for pmOS)).It now runs, but there seems to be some protocol difference with the new watch as Rockworkd insists PebbleOS is booted to recovery mode, which is not the case. If I remove that parsing, some functions do work, so I must be on the right track.#LinuxMobile #postmarketOS" "If anyone wants to take a look, here's the commit: https://git.allpurposem.at/mat/rockwork/commit/26786a891794438ed3eeab1b7fcd146e059ade01I opened a MR to upstream as well, but rebased w/o my postmarketOS build fixes so it might be less useful: https://gitlab.com/muhammad23012009/rockwork/-/merge_requests/5"
- vivi: #SilkSong also runs fine on my #FP5 with #postmarketOS using #FEX 😊. By the way the versions I am using of the games are the native Linux ones from #GOG.#LinuxMobile
- barthalion: "We have updated Flathub's LLM policy to explicitly disallow AI usage for both the submission process and applications being submitted.https://github.com/flathub-infra/documentation/commit/992f57b30de98ddbd5e80959e9672998c83c8c97I've had some reservations about it, so the wording before that commit was relatively milder. I know it's an unpopular opinion on the Fediverse, but I do think LLMs are inevitable, and the reality is that you can expect less organically grown code as time goes on. I believe it can be a useful tool in and outside FOSS; I hoped we will see a larger number of apps where authors made some effort beyond prompting an agent. Meanwhile, the number of unpleasant interactions I've had with entitled submitters acting as if they were bestowing their brilliant software upon us idiots who are rejecting it went through the roof in the last month. I'm tired.As always, we are not applying this retroactively, so any vibecoded apps which were already published will remain available."
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH v3 0/7] ASoC: codecs: aw88261: fixes and cleanup
- phone-devel: [PATCH v6 0/3] Samsung Expressatt: Camera Flash
- Phoronix: Btrfs Change Coming For Linux 7.2 Yields Very Healthy Performance Gain
- okias: "Happy to announce that I recently became the maintainer of the NFC Linux kernel subsystem.And today I sent my first pull request in that role.Excited for what comes next, and grateful to the Linux kernel community for the trust. #LinuxKernel #NFC #Embedded #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile"
- okias: "Oh yes — C-PHY support is finally landing for Qualcomm on #mainline 🚀Progress for upstream mobile Linux, and the patchsets are shaping up to hopefully hit mainline repositories very soon.Greetings from Embedded Recipes ’26!#embedded #linuxmobile #MobileLinux #Qualcomm #LinuxKernel"
Non-Linux
Stack
- etbe – Russell Coker: Zswap
- Phoronix: Rust Coreutils 0.9 Released With Additional Security Hardening, Zero-Copy I/O
- hughsie: "I've just released #fwupd 2.1.4 -- which is our first post-Mythos-scan version. We knew the scan was coming and spent a lot of long days and evenings preparing for it -- as you can see from the release notes.In that time we've been doing a lot of manual security code review, and also asking our friends Claude and Gwen for help too.We've fixed all the Mythos-reported issues, and you should update to this version ASAP.https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/releases/tag/2.1.4-2"
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2026-05-29
- Matrix.org: Kicking off the voting period for the Governing Board election
Thanks
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