v 0.21 release
Status: 
Slight delay
- The release of v0.21 to all users was paused after an issue was detected
- Development team working on a fix.
- The team is also working on finding if the issue impacts other OS versions. This issue was on Q builds
- 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
- To find out what is coming in v0.21 check this link
- Release notes available here
ETA for release on dev: Last week of Jan (?)
ETA is considering this issue is resolved and we have no new blocking issues.
To understand difference between the dev , test and stable builds read this guide
Update 28 Jan
v0.21 OS versions released
- /e/ R or Android 11
- /e/Q or Android 10
- /e/Pie or Android 9
Yet to be released as builds are in progress
- /e/Oreo or Android 8
- /e/ Nougat or Android 7
OS OTA Upgrade of S9 / S9+
Status: Slight delay
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
- Bliss launcher upgrading and existing issue resolution
- eDrive refactoring
- 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: Slight delay
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.
This post will be updated through the week
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