Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (32/2025): Pipeline progress
Table of Contents
Debian 13 released, Librem 5 camera improvements (coming soon, I guess), Ubuntu Touch Q&A and Sailfish OS Community News, FrOSCon coming up and a lot more stuff! Enjoy!
Commentary in italics.
Worth Reading
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 7th August 2025 - Next gen Jolla Phone
- Jan Wagemakers: My dual boot postmarketOS - android shift6mq phone is broken Maybe someone has an idea on how to help!
- Drew DeVaults blog: What's new with Himitsu 0.9?
- Purism: Fairness Isn’t Just a Feature—It’s the Future
- Purism: AI and Data Privacy Under Scrutiny
Worth Watching
- Continuum Gaming: Continuum Gaming E481: SFOS App "Refuel"
- CyberPunkEdu: Plasma Mobile - postmarketOS v25.06 - OnePlus 6t (fajita)
- Nostalgitech: Sony Xperia 10 IV with Sailfish OS demo
- mutantCybernetics: Hotplug/ change battery while mutantC is running
- Boffy: installing Ubuntu touch on my Samsung galaxy a5 2017 because why not? 🐸 #ubuntu #linux #customrom
- UBports: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 171 Nice one!
Worth Noting
- @linmob@linuxmobile.social: "Attending/considering to attend #FrOSCon this year? Like #LinuxMobile / #MobileLinux (e.g., :phosh: :plasmamobile: :postmarketos: :sailfishos: :ubuntu: )? Have a story to share? -> https://cfp.froscon.org...". See you there!
- @dos@librem.one: I have published the snippet of code that implements a GPU-based ISP with bunch of corrections and encodes video in real time on the Librem 5. Feel free to take parts of it and use in your apps and frameworks... or record your cats 😼https://source.puri.sm/-/snippets/1223#linuxmobile #mobilelinux #linuxphones #camera #librem5 #shotonlibrem5 By the way, with just a one-line change (commenting out mp4mux/filesink, uncommenting flvmux/rtmpsink and adjusting the URL) you can stream online rather than to a local file 😎(fwiw this screenshot is from before autofocus, white balance and most of image processing stuff was there)#linuxmobile #mobilelinux #linuxphones #camera #librem5 #shotonlibrem5
- Blort: Ladies, gentlemen and enbies of the Fedi... the circle is now complete. We have mobile Linux cat videos on The Fediverse. #LinuxMobile #Cats #Fediverse #Librem5
- Codeberg: "Psst... looking for a new club to join? 👀Great news, ours is looking for new members: https://codeberg.org"
- mntmn: "MNT Research July Update is out, enjoy! https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2025-07-31-july-update.html (written by @holo_memory)"
- NGIZero: "A new wave of projects has been selected for grants of the NGI0 Commons Fund. We'd like to thank the 39 project teams for their contributions to a shared digital infrastructure that aims to benefit all.We're seeing contributions across all layers of the NGI technology stack. With many open hardware projects, work on fundamental internet protocols, end-user programmes and services and much more.Come over and meet the projects!https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250804-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html#NGI #NGIZero #FOSS"
- OniroProject: "💻 We're simplifying development. Oniro’s common architecture and APIs mean you can focus on building your vision, not on compatibility issues.Read more about Oniro’s projects and progress: https://hubs.la/Q03B7QfG0"
- r/MobileLinux: Is there a device between a smartphone and a laptop?
More Software News
Gnome Ecosystem
- This Week in GNOME: #211 Handling Brightness
- Steven Deobald: 2025-08-08 Foundation Update
- Sebastian Wick: GNOME 49 Backlight Changes
- Richard Hughes: LVFS Sustainability Plan
- Steven Deobald: 2025-08-01 Foundation Update
- Emmanuele Bassi: Governance in GNOME
- Tobias Bernard: GUADEC 2025
- Phoronix: GNOME Mutter On Wayland Adds ICC Profile Support, Backlight Improvements
Phosh
- phosh: Sicelo brought #phosh to the venerable #N900 using #wlroot's pixman renderer as backend. It's not snappy as the device is too underpowered for that but awesome that it works !#LinuxMobile #gtk
- phosh: "Dear distro maintainers and i build my own stuff people:In case you want to check out 0.49 release upfront: we've tagged the first release candidates (0.49~rc1) of #phosh and related components 🎉 📱 .Release is planned 2025-08-15 , just in time to celebrate at @FrOSCon .Despite the date we hope it won't be 0815 (a common phrase in German meaning: boring) but has some exciting bits for everyone.We've also tagged the companion releases for #feedbackd 0.8.4 and feedbackd-device-themes 0.8.5.#LinuxMobile"
- agx: "Catching a real world and unexpected #Cellbroadcast message revealed some minor bugs in #phosh and its mobile settings but those were easy to spotted and fixes will land for 0.49. Overall #ModemManager, #cbd, and #phosh picked the message up as expected (and the channel setting worked as well):/cc @devrtz @NGIZero"
- #phosh: @raktheundead @phosh We have a lot of open options nowadays, no need to run anything closed. That's why we're doing the whole #phosh thing in the first place.
- #phosh: Pytanie do naszej fedi spoleczności:Co macie zainstalowane na swoich sprzętach? Z czego korzystacie na codzień? Może zacznę od siebie:Pecet: #CachyOS, laptop: #ArchPrzeglądarka: #Firefox + uBlock, uMatrix, betterfoxRpi: #LibreELEC + kilka dockerówTelefon: #GrapheneOS, przeglądarka #ironfoxTelefon_2: #PostmarketOS z #PhoshRouter: #OpenWRT z #Luci + bloker reklamOdkurzacz: #ValetudoCiekaw jestem waszych wyborów. Może podpatrzę coś ciekawego?A może sami macie jakieś pytania do mojej konfiguracji?
- #phosh: More bits of #phoc's upcoming workspace support falling into place. It can now show a small indicator in the top left corner when switching work spaces:#phosh #LinuxMobile
Plasma Ecosystem
- Nate Graham: This Week in Plasma: quick toggles in System Settings
- KDE Announcements: KDE Ships Frameworks 6.17.0
- KDE Announcements: KDE Plasma 6.4.4, Bugfix Release for August
- Planet KDE: KomoDo, my first KDE app
- Phoronix: KDE Plasma 6.5 Continues Seeing More Features Added & Polishing
Sxmo
Sailfish OS
- Community News - Sailfish OS Forum: Sailfish Community News, 7th August 2025 - Next gen Jolla Phone
- #sailfishOS: #NewPipe #SailfishOS dev diary day 132. Reading up on the NewPipe code for handling playlists.https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1365&list=newpipe
- #sailfishOS: #NewPipe #SailfishOS dev diary day 131. Finding a new way to collect the data needed to populate the channel page About tab.So much of object orientated programming seems to be about persuading the code to share the right data in the right place at the right time and in the cleanest possible way.https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1364&list=newpipe
- flypig: #NewPipe #SailfishOS dev diary day 130. Adding the About tab to the Channel page. A tab that's not like the others.https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1363&list=newpipe
- #sailfishOS: #NewPipe #SailfishOS dev diary day 129. Some more brilliant poetry from @ljo, plus an exploration of bat icon placement.https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1362&list=newpipe
- #sailfishOS: #NewPipe #SailfishOS dev diary day 128! Poetry, pondering tab positions and pretty pictures 🖼️ https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1361&list=newpipe
- #sailfishOS: #NewPipe #SailfishOS dev diary day 127.Tabs at the top? Tabs at the bottom?https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1360&list=newpipe
- #sailfishOS: #NewPipe #SailfishOS dev diary day 126. Taming the tabs.Arranging the tab content on the page to ensure the header and tab bar go where they're supposed to!https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1359&list=newpipe
- piggz: Fingerprint finally working on @volla X23 / Halium12 due to nice fix by NotKit.#sailfishos
- Lemmy.ca - linuxphones: Next gen Jolla Phone
Ubuntu Touch
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 171 Saturday 9th August at 19:00 UTC
- Ubuntu Touch Forums News: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 171 call for questions
- UBports - Development - Issues: Not working on Noble
- UBports - Development - Issues: Tracking issue for minor release: 20.04 OTA-10
- UBports - Development - Issues: Tracking issue for major release: 24.04-1.0
Distributions
- debian: "Debian 13 "trixie" has been released, thanks to everyone involved! "trixie" images are available for download at https://www.debian.org/distrib/ or you can run apt full-upgrade as always ;-) #debian #debian13 #trixie #ReleasingDebianTrixie"
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: systemd edge upgrades resolution
- Breaking updates in pmOS edge: systemd edge upgrades broken after reboot
- postmarketOS pmaports issues: librem5 r4: Shutdown button in phosh non-functional on edge
- postmarketOS pmaports issues: librem5r4: Wifi broken in edge
- postmarketOS pmaports issues: WiFi signal level broken with systemd
- DanctNIX (Mastodon): Factory image for #PineTab2 (20250731) released: https://echo.danctnix.org:7269/factory_images/pinetab2/20250731/Flash the image to your SD card using dd or Win32DiskImagerBoot with the SPI/eMMC disable switch (optional if the bootloader is working) and follow the instructions using the volume and power key.You may only use this if you need to reset the PineTab2 to factory defaults.
- Kupfer: scrape_package_repo: adjust to kbs v0.3 restructure
- Phoronix: Debian 13.0 "Trixie" Now Available - Powered By Linux 6.12 LTS
Apps
- schmiddionmobile: "Pipeline version 3.0.0 was released. This release is a major redesign of the UI to be more intuitive as well as adaptive for both desktop and mobile. Huge thanks to @lo for creating the mockup as well as helping to implement and test this version, as well as @simplyalexander for the help implementing quite a lot of the updated UI and also testing.https://gitlab.com/schmiddi-on-mobile/pipeline/-/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md?ref_type=heads#300---2025-08-07"
- lwn: Tuba v0.10.0 releasedhttps://lwn.net/Articles/1032736/ #LWN
- felicitas.pojtinger.com: "New #GNOME app release! Just a tiny one, based on the idea from a few weeks ago ( https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/114914889183975793 ). A nice skeumorphic Pomodoro timer, except you get to set the session and pause durations yourself (which happens to be the way I use my physical Pomodoro timer).Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 (@pojntf... "
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Cinny
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Nucleus
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Sessions
- LinuxPhoneApps.org: Apps: Rewaita
- @pi_crew: Just tried the latest revision of the pull request which brings episode chapter support to #Gnome #Podcasts https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/podcasts/-/merge_requests/410 Would be really great to have this in the next #postmarketOS release 🤗 #LinuxMobile
- @pi_crew: @nielsdg Just tried your GTK4 branch of #Gnome Geary mail app and it already looks very promising 🤩 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/431981#LinuxMobile #postmarketOS #nixos
- Sturmflut: "I had no idea #flatpak exported links to applications binaries in/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/and~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/bin/(depending on if the package was installed system-wide or as a user).The naming scheme obviously requires getting used to, but this allows applications to be run from the command line."
Kernel
- phone-devel: [PATCH RFC 0/5] Marvell PXA1908 power domains
- phone-devel: [PATCH v3 0/2] mmc: sdhci-pxav3: pinctrl setting for fast bus clocks
- Phoronix: Linus Torvalds Rejects RISC-V Changes For Linux 6.17: "Garbage"
Stack
- libcamera: libcamera v0.5.2
- Phoronix: Vulkan 1.4.325 Released With Untyped Pointers Extension
- Phoronix: FFmpeg 8.0 Merges Vulkan AV1 Encoding & VP9 Decoding
Matrix
- Matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2025-08-08
Thanks
Huge thanks to Plata for the nifty set of Python scripts that speed up collecting links from feeds by a lot.
Something missing? Want to contribute?
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