v 0.21 testing
Status: 
In Progress
Internal testing by QA team of the build is in progress.
- Post the Internal testing build will be released to the Testing team.
- As part of the v0.21 we expect to release all versions of the OS …Nougat, Oreo, Pie, Q and R as applicable for each device
- The testing team typically takes about 2 weeks. Post a go ahead from this team the build is released on dev channel. After a week on dev it goes out on the stable channel.
- To find out what is coming in v0.21 check this link
ETA for release on dev: Last week of Jan (?)
ETA is considering a successful testing cycle with no blocking issues.
To understand difference between the dev , test and stable builds read this guide
Update 21 Jan 2022 Release of v0.21 for all devices is temporarily paused as some issues were reported by users on certain devices.
The team is checking on this and will resume the release once the error has been corrected. Some users may get download errors if attempting to download v0.21 builds in case they are visible in the updater.
OS OTA Upgrade of S9 / S9+
Status: Pending release
ETA: Last week of Jan(?) 2022 along with v0.21
ETA is considering a successful v0.21 testing cycle with no blocking issues.
Development Tasks
Status: In Progress
A summary of issues dev team is investigating or working on
Frequent crashes of Bliss launcher
Refactoring eDrive
Updates to microG Application
Contact groups not syncing with eDrive
Update MagicEarth app
Update Mail App
This is a tiny subset of what the team is working on. Some of the tasks are still under investigation and need to move to the development and testing phase.
/e/ R rollout
Status: Pending release
Closing the first set of releases as planned in the Release plan 25
Upgraded : 81 existing devices
Added : 61 New devices to the supported list
Builds that Failed
Xiaomi POCO F3 / Redmi K40 / Mi 11X (alioth)
Google Pixel 4a 5G (bramble)
Google Pixel 4 XL (coral)
Google Pixel 4 (flame)
OnePlus 8T (kebab)
OnePlus 9 Pro (lemonadep)
Google Pixel 5 (redfin)
Xiaomi POCO X3 Pro (vayu)
Most of these devices were released on Android 11. We had the build failure on these devices only.
Why they failed and the solution we came out with
As you may be aware, these builds failed when compiled using /e/ code. As a solution, we have made a significant change in our source code. We will now be using the SDK used as an industry standard. This will be a gradual change. We are putting out some documentation to understand this. Will share more details when it is made available to me.
ETA : Last week of Jan, (?) along with v0.21.
The one device we have removed from the build is OnePlus One bacon. We had multiple partition size errors while build for it. Will have to take a call if we can continue support for this device or stop it on nougat and put a flag in our documentation, mentioning it is no longer supported.
This year we will come out with a new list which will have names of devices we will upgrade the OS on or new devices we will add to our supported list.
FP4
Status: Released
Last week we announced the release of the FP4. The device has been ported to /e/. Now users can
- Buy the /e/ pre installed FP4 from the eSolutionShop
- Download and install on the FP4 themselves
- Browse the source code
This post will be updated through the week
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