14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical has been hard at work to improve Ubuntu Touch, but it seems that a number of problems have been forcing the developers to stop releasing major updates until everything is worked out.
The Ubuntu team has promoted an image just a few days ago, but it seems that, since then, there have been a few problems that stopped them from doing just that.
The latest images built by Canonical feature some Android 4.4.2 bug fixes (which will enable them to bring the new devices), lxc-android-config change to initiate support for the N7 2013, and new usensord has been added to fix the concurrence of the manually set brightness, which was overridden by the automatic brightness environment detection.
“However, it seems that a known random qmlscene crash on maguro discussed in the past days became systematic with those images. We tried to revert one by one all components without finding the guilty one. Even if the dogfooding was positive, we prefer to not risk into a promotion and get the crasher fixed first,” said Canonical's Didier Roche.
This is where the Canonical automated tests for Ubuntu Touch really made a difference. Instead of promoting images with problems, developers were able to spot the issues beforehand.