Week 8, 2025: Development and Testing Updates

Manoj · February 16, 2025, 10:46pm

Summary of weekly development and testing activities by /e/OS developers and volunteers. Updated content has the emoji.

Server outage

Current status:

As you may be aware Murena Workspace and associated services have been impacted by an outage since Oct 6 19:50 CET.
This is the current status.

Email: Working. Also accessible through desktop clients like Thunderbird and webmail. (To configure a desktop client you can use this guide)
Murena cloud: a subset of services : Contacts,Calendar,Tasks,Email,Deck,Bookmarks,Gitlab,Spot,Murena website link, Donate, Passwords, News are available for users at present.
OTA device build download: Downloads are working now.
- Devices which got the last build on Pie, Q or R may be missing builds. We will try to add these builds at a date to be shared later.
Restoration of Murena cloud services and File Drive access :
Over the weekend we have been testing the restoration of the cloud or the ‘Files’ icon that you used to see in your Murena Cloud Dashboard.
Sync from phone to cloud and cloud to phone is working during the internal testing.
The plan for all users is as under
- Feb 17: Reopen to Premium users in batches of 500 users per hour
- Feb 18: Reopen to Free users in batch of 5000 users per hour
We will share a plan to help compensate the loss of service to paying users. The details will be shared by the team over email and through our channels

Read Gaël’s explanation and updates for the outage

Release

v2.8

Status: Release to be initiated

Issues and fixes expected to be part of v2.8

issues can be added or removed based on the testing results.

ETA: This week

Upcoming releases

Tentative release dates of builds that will come in the future

Ongoing development tasks 🆕

/e/OS V or Android 15 related code work in progress. No ETA available on completion.
/e/OS GSI on T or Android 13. The team is working to see if GSI can be made available OTA. An app to detect what works and what does not work with the GSI is also in the works. ETA for release will be shared

Previous 5 releases & user feedback

Do not post test build information on the forum

Please do not post information or links to /e/OS test builds on the forum.
These builds are as yet untested and under development and may in some cases cause user devices to soft brick.
Such information can confuse other users who do not see these builds in the updater.
Remember not all users who come to this forum are experts in installing and formatting custom ROMs and can end up seriously damaging their devices by trying out these test builds
If you are genuinely interested in helping with the testing activities and also understand how to fix and do some minor level of testing on custom ROMS, you are welcome to join the testing team
As part of the testing team you can share your comments on the dedicated testing telegram channel.

Helpdesk services - Exclusively for paying Murena customers

Murena helpdesk services will be exclusively for

Customers who purchased Murena devices
Paid for a Murena cloud account
Active donors from past year

Paying customers can write in here with issue details

Users who use the /e/OS or Murena cloud for free will have the following modes for issue resolution:

Free services users will also get assistance on this forum for issues such as:

Gitlab Account opening related issues
Murena Workflow / cloud account issues

Please note, the old helpdesk emails ID’s are not monitored any more

Murena Cloud and Self hosting

Murena cloud current version : 28.0.9.6

The deployment to Nextcloud 28 was successful, bringing better performance, numerous fixes, and exciting upgrades.
You can view the full changelog here: 28.0.9.6 · e / infra / ecloud / nextcloud · GitLab
Issues raised by users are being looked at by the team.

Self Hosting current version v 26.0.8.23

Release notes
Check this guide for help with the upgrade
Next release - team to plan this development activity. ETA’s will be shared.

How to check the NextCloud version click here

You can find the complete documentation and current NC version under Login – Murena >> NextCloud xx user documentation. The xx should show the latest version.

Another way to check the current version is to check the NextCloud scan link and input https://murena.io this should display the current version number as well as the security level.

Please note if MurenaCloud patch number is not the same as the NC patch number, the rating would show up as bad \U0001f610 This is not exactly a problem. We do not immediately jump to the next NC patch as soon as it is released. We first test it and then set out with the deployment.

GSI

Current GSI version is on /e/OS Q and v1.17
Download available here
Sources available here

GSI OS version will next move to T or A13 skipping the R and S . Team is working on /e/OS T GSI. Will share release dates once available

OS OTA Related information

Completed

Fairphone: FP4 : S (A12) to T (A13)
Samsung: S9/9+ : R(A11) to S(A12)
Gigaset: GS290 : Q (A10) to A 11 (R)
Oneplus: avicii : A12
OnePlus : avicii : Q ( A10) R (A11)
Fairphone: FP4 : R ( A11) to S (A12)
Fairphone:FP3 : R (A11) to S (A12)
Fairphone:FP3 : Q (A10) to R (A11)
Samsung: s7 / s7+ : Nougat (A7) to Q (A10)
Samsung: s9 / s9+ : Oreo (A8) to Q (A10)
Samsung: Galaxy S9/9+ : Q (A10) to R(A11)
Samsung: s8 / s8+ : Pie (A9) to R (A11)
Teracube: 2e / zirconia: Q (A10) to R (A11)
Teracube: emerald & zirconia : R (A11) to S (A12)
Samsung: S7 ‘herolte’ ‘hero2lte’: Q ( A10) to R (A11)
Google Pixel ‘redfin’: S(A12) to T(A13)
Gigaset: GS290: R(A11) to S (A12)
Fairphone: FP3 : S (A12) to T (A13)
Samsung: S7/7+ : R(A11) to S(A12)
FP4: T (A13) to U (A14)
S8/8+ R (A11) to S (A12)

All OTA OS upgrades are on stable or official builds

To be planned

FP5
FP3

Our definition of an OS OTA upgrade

Usually for /e/OS ROMs to upgrade the OS you have to do the following

If available download the correct OS build from the supported device list
For some devices you also need to download the stock ROM from the vendor site.
Take a back up of your data
First install the Stock ROM
Next install the /e/OS ROM. Here you can take help of the install guides available on our documentation site.
If required apply the backups you downloaded before starting the whole process

An alternate to this tedious process is where we offer the user the option to upgrade the OS OTA. This option is available for stable device builds only.

This process is easy for the user but requires a lot of development and testing effort.

Different /e/OS build types

Misc information

Read Gael 's roadmap for 2024

Device and Vendor specific Announcements

Gigaset GS290

We have stopped the sales of the Gigaset GS290 on the eSolutionsShop as the vendor has stopped production of the device. We will continue support for existing users.

Message being shared on the request of our vendor partners

Vendors whose phones we sell on our eSolutions Store do not directly sell /e/OS flashed devices.
The vendors only sell their devices with their own stock ROM.
To get pre flashed /e/OS phones, you have to purchase them from the eSolutions Shop.

/e/OS Pre flashed device sales

We sell directly in EU, US, Canada and Australia
Find details of what devices are available in which countries here Murena Shop.

/e/OS website and social media Links and Support

Murena helpdesk services will be exclusively for

Customers who purchased Murena devices
Paid for a Murena cloud account
Active donors from past year

Paying customers can write in here with issue details

Users who use the /e/OS or Murena cloud for free will have the following modes for issue resolution:

Free services users will also get assistance on this forum for issues such as:

Gitlab Account opening related issues
Murena Workflow / cloud account issues

Websites

Telegram Channel

Link to all the available Telegram channels

Social Media

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