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The first service pack, v20.05.1, is released

January 22, 2021 1 min. read

The first major update to the stable channel of postmarketOS has been released. This is the v20.05.1 service pack release that adds a few big improvements. Since Alpine Linux 3.13 has also been released recently this will also be the only service pack that will be released in the v20.05 series. Now this release has been published the next release we will focus on is the v21.03 stable release based on the new Alpine stable release.

These are all changes that are picked from the edge channel and have been tested by all our end-users that are running postmarketOS edge on their devices. The point of the stable channel of postmarketOS is to be really stable, but since the release cycle of 6 months roughly for stable builds is quite long in the software world, especially with the rapid development of the PinePhone we decided that it makes sense to make a batch of backports from edge, test those thoroughly and then release that as a service pack as one big update.

Since at this moment the PinePhone is the only device that's officially supported in the stable channel aside from the qemu virtual devices all the updates are PinePhone and Phosh focussed, as that's what's shipped on the postmarketOS PinePhone community edition phones.

The major new things in this service pack are:

A new build of the stable PinePhone+Phosh release is now also available from the build service. Images can be downloaded at images.postmarketos.org/bpo.

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