Where are the release notes?

I have had a few updates since installing the OS. I would like to know what is being changed in the updates. Where can I find information on current and subsequent builds?

Hi @PrivLock you can get a a changelog here Settings >> System >>About Phone >>System Updates click on the three dots on the right side ‘Show Changelog’
The same is also visible if you browse on the download page for your device build. For e.g. for Essential ‘mata’ phone the Changelog is visible here https://images.ecloud.global/dev/mata/

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It is just an idea, but is it possible to have a more comprehensible text for the changelog ? It will allow us to test this new functionnality.

For exemple in the lastest update :

  • LineageOS/android_hardware_ti_omap4
    2018-09-15 17:49:05 +0000 d8470c0 DÃ¥niel JÃ¥rai libpower: update interactive governor params for performance

I don’t know what is it about.

Hi @Sebastien please check a sample changelog given between the lines


  • e/os/android_prebuilts_prebuiltapks

2019-02-27 10:49:16 +0000 73ec091 Romain Hunault update eDrive and AccountManagerApk

  • TheMuppets/proprietary_vendor_leeco

2019-02-07 14:23:52 +0000 9954d31 Marc Bourgoin Revert “x2: kang imx230_lg blobs from x850 and pin them”
2019-02-07 14:21:11 +0000 c233f70 Marc Bourgoin zl1: drop widevine-specific blobs
2019-02-07 14:10:36 +0000 8d8c277 Marc Bourgoin x2: drop widevine-specific blobs


In this section the lines after the e/os/android_xxxxx are lines of code checked in by /e/ development teams. This is the section we have control over at /e/. This is usually understadable. For e.g. here it mentions ‘update eDrive and AccountManagerApk’ i,e updates to the eDrive and AccountManager apk.
Will ask the /e/ development team members to provide slightly more detailed comments when checking in if possible. /e/ checkins will always have this format 
e/os/xxxx

The lines under TheMuppets/proprietery_xxxxxx are lines of code changes checked in the upstream Lineage code. This could be updates in vendor files or changes made to lineage source code. We do not have any extra visibility into what this code change is other than the message given here.
In other words we at /e/ do not have much control over this part of the changelog. So we would not be able to make changes to the comments in these code sections.

Hope that clarifies.

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It’s clarified :slight_smile:

Thanks a lot

Nevertheless, we would like to know, for each build, which applications are modified and which bugs have been fixed BEFORE downloading. This will allow us to better decide if it’s worth taking the risk, by downloading, of losing a version that suits us. This process is common for Linux distributions. Why not /e/?

Il n’empĂȘche que nous aimerions savoir, pour chaque build, quelles applis sont modifiĂ©es et quels bugs ont Ă©tĂ© corrigĂ©s, et ce AVANT le tĂ©lĂ©chargement. Cela nous permettra de mieux dĂ©cider si cela vaut le coup de prendre le risque, en tĂ©lĂ©chargeant, de perdre une version qui nous convient. Ce processus est courant pour les distributions Linux. Pourquoi pas /e/ ?

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Also I don’t really find the changelog really helpful
 It just shows the merge commits but not actual changes, like:

 - e/os/android_frameworks_base

2019-12-16 09:21:46 +0000	e44aac0397f	Romain Hunault	Merge branch 'v1-nougat-sprint_cordoba' into 'v1-nougat'
2019-12-16 09:21:45 +0000	bd5683d153c	Romain Hunault	[RELEASE] Sprint Cordoba


 - e/os/android_prebuilts_prebuiltapks

2019-12-16 09:21:42 +0000	eae5212	Romain Hunault	Merge branch 'sprint_cordoba' into 'master'
2019-12-16 09:05:11 +0000	8209c56	Romain Hunault	[Message] Release
2019-12-16 09:04:40 +0000	71c418f	Romain Hunault	[MicroG] Release e-v0.2.10.19420

I can’t get any helpful information from here, but that some prebuilt apps changed and something on the framework base but I really can’t tell what has changed

So yeah I would appreciate it, if we could get maybe a blog post per sprint to explain what was changed? Or just have more meaningful commit messages than “Release”.

I agree that a blog post would be best.
But for the sprints there’s at least a list. And if I understand right then during CĂłrdoba sprint that you mentioned above, the fix was " management · Internal memory shows negative value on refurbished Samsung S7 Edge", according to what is mentioned here.

Jup, but I think this list is a bit more meaningful: https://gitlab.e.foundation/groups/e/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=✓&state=closed&milestone_title=Córdoba

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