E Os Updates & Release Notes

Please welcome /e/OS 1.5! 🚀

We are proud to deliver the /e/OS 1.5. Enjoy all the new features and improvements it embeds.

✨ We embedded some improvements!

App Lounge:

• Label commercial apps changed to common apps
• Update end Notification are shown, even if an installation issue occurred.
• Update process is better handled

Advanced Privacy

• Orbot upgrade
• Alert user when a 3rd party vpn is used
• Add tooltip info about apps lists
• Hide deprecated trackers from trackers counts to avoid confusion
• Add custom state for tracker control when only some trackers are blocked

Camera

• Cleaner sound effet when pressing the shutter

BlissLauncher

• Enable haptics on app icon long press on home screen

🕙 Software updates

• We've updated multiple apps with upstream: AccountManager and Mail.
• We merged bug fixes and security updates from LineageOS source code trees Q

🐛 Bug fixes

App Lounge:

• Fix ratings from different locales
• Fix category display in app details page
• Fix margin of settings page for better readability

General OS:

• Fixes status bar icons not changing on lock screen after changing styles. …

Please welcome /e/OS 1.4! 🚀

We are proud to deliver the /e/OS 1.4. Enjoy all the new features and improvements it embeds.

✨ We embedded some improvements!

App Lounge:

• Better visual feedback on app install button
• Set the proper status of package installer while installing the apps for better compatibility with other launcher
• Add split apk install

Advanced Privacy

• Add tooltip info about apps lists.

BlissLauncher

• Resize clock icon to be same size as other icons

eDrive:

• disable chunked upload
• don't sync hidden files

We've added missing SFR and Free IMS apns for better compatibility with french carriers.

Calculator, Files, Gallery, Musique, Recorder, Settings, Contacts, Dialer, Agenda, Message, Notes, Tasks are now using adaptive icons

🕙 Software updates

• We've updated multiple apps with upstream: Camera, Magic Earth, Micro G.
• We merged bug fixes and security updates from LineageOS source code trees R

🐛 Bug fixes

• App Lounge
  • fix truncated string settings
  • Fixed the order of app source selection
• Mail:
  • Fix draft when mail is invalid with openPGP enabled
• Agenda:
  • Fix crash on calendar when adding email addresses …

Please welcome /e/OS 1.4! 🚀

We are proud to deliver the /e/OS 1.4. Enjoy all the new features and improvements it embeds.

✨ We embedded some improvements!

App Lounge:

• Better visual feedback on app install button
• Set the proper status of package installer while installing the apps for better compatibility with other launcher
• Add split apk install

Advanced Privacy

• Add tooltip info about apps lists.

eDrive:

• disable chunked upload
• don't sync hidden files

Message, Notes, Tasks are now using adaptive icons

🕙 Software updates

• We've updated multiple apps with upstream: Camera, Magic Earth, Micro G.
• We merged bug fixes and security updates from LineageOS source code trees Q

🐛 Bug fixes

• App Lounge
  • fix truncated string settings
  • Fixed the order of app source selection
• Mail:
  • Fix draft when mail is invalid with openPGP enabled
• Agenda:
  • Fix crash on calendar when adding email addresses
• Fix x86 build

⚠ Security fixes

This /e/OS v1.4 includes the Android security patches available until August. More information in the link below. …

Please welcome /e/OS 1.3! 🚀

We are proud to deliver the /e/OS v1.3. Enjoy all the new features and improvements it embeds.

✨ We embedded some improvements!

App Lounge:

• Faster installation process
• Apk signatures is checked when installing from CleanApk
• You can find App Lounge version from the app settings

Mail:

• We've improved User experience when OpenPGP is enabled, as well as the "send as" identity popup to better fit our requirements
• Images will be shown be default

eDrive is now using official NextCloud library

🕙 Software updates

• MicroG was synced with upstream
• We merged bug fixes and security updates from LineageOS source code trees R

🐛 Bug fixes

• App Lounge
  • Privacy score was being cut off for large text
  • Update button is now disabled on signature mismatched
• BlissLauncher
  • Some crashes have been fixed
• Murena cloud widget
  • Fixed some errors preventing the email alias from showing up
• Advanced Privacy
  • App trackers screen couldn't be opened for system apps
  • CPU consumption is now at a normal level on apps settings

⚠ Security fixes …

Please welcome /e/OS 1.3! 🚀

We are proud to deliver the /e/OS v1.3. Enjoy all the new features and improvements it embeds.

✨ We embedded some improvements!

App Lounge:

• Faster installation process
• Apk signatures is checked when installing from CleanApk
• You can find App Lounge version from the app settings

Mail:

• We've improved User experience when OpenPGP is enabled, as well as the "send as" identity popup to better fit our requirements
• Images will be shown be default

eDrive is now using official NextCloud library

We've also added MMS support for Oister network

🕙 Software updates

• MicroG was synced with upstream
• We merged bug fixes and security updates from LineageOS source code trees Q

🐛 Bug fixes

• App Lounge
  • Privacy score was being cut off for large text
  • Update button is now disabled on signature mismatched
• BlissLauncher
  • Some crashes have been fixed
• Murena cloud widget
  • Fixed some errors preventing the email alias from showing up
• Advanced Privacy
  • App trackers screen couldn't be opened for system apps
  • CPU consumption is now at a normal level on apps settings

⚠ Security fixes …

Please welcome the v1.2 of /e/OS! 🚀

We are proud to deliver the /e/OS v1.2. Enjoy all the new features and improvements it embeds.

✨ We embedded some improvements!

You are now able to search via application package name in App Lounge.

Visual voicemail is now available for some carriers.

Advanced Privacy tracker list is now updated automatically at app start.

Devices

• Fairphone 4: firmware update
• Fairphone 3: the installation package now includes installation tools and scripts, making the flashing process easier

🕙 Software updates

• Mail application has been synced with K9Mail v6.201
• We merged bug fixes and security updates from LineageOS source code trees R

🐛 Bug fixes

• App Lounge
  • Some application installation and update has been fixed
  • No signing out anymore, for users signing in with a Google account
• BlissLauncher
  • Now respects the global notification access policy
  • Some crashes have been fixed
  • Weather widget now use https connexion
• Murena cloud widget
  • Fixed some errors preventing the email alias from showing up
• microG
  • Show the microG Exposure Notification installation from microG settings …

Please welcome the v1.2 of /e/OS! 🚀

We are proud to deliver the /e/OS v1.2. Enjoy all the new features and improvements it embeds.

✨ We embedded some improvements!

You are now able to search via application package name in App Lounge.

Advanced Privacy tracker list is now updated automatically at app start.

Devices

• Fairphone 4 (R): firmware update
• Fairphone 3: the installation package now includes installation tools and scripts, making the flashing process easier

🕙 Software updates

• Mail application has been synced with K9Mail v6.201
• We merged bug fixes and security updates from LineageOS source code trees Q

🐛 Bug fixes

• App Lounge
  • Some application installation and update has been fixed
  • No signing out anymore, for users signing in with a Google account
• BlissLauncher
  • Now respects the global notification access policy
  • Some crashes have been fixed
  • Weather widget now use https connexion
• Murena cloud widget
  • Fixed some errors preventing the email alias from showing up
• microG
  • Show the microG Exposure Notification installation from microG settings
• Camera …

Please welcome the v1.1 of /e/OS! 🚀

We are proud to deliver the /e/OS v1.1. Enjoy all the new features and improvements it embeds.

✨ We embedded some new features!

We've improved compatibility for safetynet

App Lounge:

• We now support opening F-Droid links
• We can now search apps by package names
• We disable update buttons when no updates are available

Account manager won't show notification on google temporary sync issue

🕙 Software updates

• We merged bug fixes and security updates from LineageOS source code trees R

🐛 Bug fixes

• Apps:

  • We've fixed reloading of category apps
  • Some memory leaks were found and fixed
  • We do not limit search results anymore
  • Update/install button status is updated during the update of the app
  • other bug fixes

• We've fixed Camera on some devices

• We've fixed a crash when deleting a file on Files app

• We've fixed eDrive permissions

⚠ Security fixes

This /e/OS v1.1 includes the Android security patches available until May. More information in the link below.

Android security patch May

Please welcome the v1.1 of /e/OS! 🚀

We are proud to deliver the /e/OS v1.1. Enjoy all the new features and improvements it embeds.

✨ We embedded some new features!

App Lounge:

• We now support opening F-Droid links
• We can now search apps by package names
• We disable update buttons when no updates are available

Account manager won't show notification on google temporary sync issue

🕙 Software updates

• We merged bug fixes and security updates from LineageOS source code trees Q

🐛 Bug fixes

• Apps:

  • We've fixed reloading of category apps
  • Some memory leaks were found and fixed
  • We do not limit search results anymore
  • Update/install button status is updated during the update of the app
  • Other bug fixes

• We've fixed Camera on some devices

• We've fixed a crash when deleting a file on Files app

⚠ Security fixes

This /e/OS v1.1 includes the Android security patches available until May. More information in the link below.

Android security patch May

Please welcome the v1.0 of /e/OS! 🚀

We are proud to deliver the /e/OS v1.0. Enjoy all the new features and improvements it embeds.

✨ We embedded some new features!

• Advanced Privacy

  You are now able to limit your data exposure once you have installed third party apps on your devices. It allows you to manage in app trackers, IP address and location

• App Lounge, the new application installer!

  Our new application installer lets you search and download all the applications you want directly from the smartphone. It connects you to millions of Android apps but not only. It also includes Progressive Web Apps and even open-source applications, all in one place.

• Safetynet test pass (/stable devices only): it allows more applications to run properly on /e/OS

• You are now able to see your account details in a widget (including your aliases!)

• A new user interface for Mail, Message and Camera

• The file synchronization now offers real time synchronization, from device to server

• Improvement in BlissLauncher colors, and also a removable weather widget

• Translations were improved thanks to the work of our community

🕙 Software updates …

Please welcome the v1.0 of /e/OS! 🚀

We are proud to deliver the /e/OS v1.0. Enjoy all the new features and improvements it embeds.

✨ We embedded some new features!

• Advanced Privacy

  You are now able to limit your data exposure once you have installed third party apps on your devices. It allows you to manage in app trackers, IP address and location

• App Lounge, the new application installer!

  Our new application installer lets you search and download all the applications you want directly from the smartphone. It connects you to millions of Android apps but not only. It also includes Progressive Web Apps and even open-source applications, all in one place.

• Safetynet test pass (/stable devices only): it allows more applications to run properly on /e/OS

• You are now able to see your account details in a widget (including your aliases!)

• A new user interface for Mail, Message and Camera

• The file synchronization now offers real time synchronization, from device to server

• Improvement in BlissLauncher colors, and also a removable weather widget

• Translations were improved thanks to the work of our community

🕙 Software updates …

Please welcome our new /e/OS v0.23-pie!

✨ We embedded some improvements

Settings: We now display a confirmation dialog before switching to staging OTA server

On /e/ themes: We've added missing colors

🕙 Software updates

We merged latest bug fixes and security updates from LineageOS source code trees

AppLounge:

Say welcome to our new Apps on dev release ! This will come soon to stable devices

Dialer:

Fix dark mode, phone numbers were written in black on a black background

BlissLauncher:

On search, results are now below apps suggestions

Mail:

New mail version brand new theme, Mail is now aligned with the latest version of K9-mail

We've removed esms sync since it was not enable on ecloud

🐛 Bug fixes

Fix Sync animation

Fix translations on files

⚠ Security fixes

This /e/OS update includes the Android security patches available for P. More information in the link below.

Android security patch

Please welcome our new /e/OS v0.23-r!

✨ We embedded some improvements

Settings: We now display a confirmation dialog before switching to staging OTA server

On /e/ themes: We've added missing colors

🕙 Software updates

We merged latest bug fixes and security updates from LineageOS source code trees

AppLounge:

Say welcome to our new Apps on dev release ! This will come soon to stable devices

Dialer:

Fix dark mode, phone numbers were written in black on a black background

BlissLauncher:

On search, results are now below apps suggestions

Mail:

New mail version brand new theme, Mail is now aligned with the latest version of K9-mail

We've removed esms sync since it was not enable on ecloud

🐛 Bug fixes

Fix Sync animation

Fix translations on files

⚠ Security fixes

This /e/OS update includes the Android security patches available for R. More information in the link below.

Android security patch

Please welcome our new /e/OS v0.23-q!

✨ We embedded some improvements

Settings: We now display a confirmation dialog before switching to staging OTA server

On /e/ themes: We've added missing colors

🕙 Software updates

We merged latest bug fixes and security updates from LineageOS source code trees

AppLounge:

Say welcome to our new Apps on dev release ! This will come soon to stable devices

Dialer:

Fix dark mode, phone numbers were written in black on a black background

BlissLauncher:

On search, results are now below apps suggestions

Mail:

New mail version brand new theme, Mail is now aligned with the latest version of K9-mail

We've removed esms sync since it was not enable on ecloud

🐛 Bug fixes

Fix Sync animation

Fix translations on files

⚠ Security fixes

This /e/OS update includes the Android security patches available for Q. More information in the link below.

Android security patch

Please welcome our new /e/OS v0.22-r!

🔨 SafetyNet:

SafetyNet is now working on Fairphone 4, therefore improving apps compatibility

✨ We embedded other improvements

We've added openkeychain directly in settings

New eDrive version with stability improvements

Updater theme is now matching settings theme

Voice input isn't enable by default in keyboard

🕙 Software updates

We merged latest bug fixes and security updates from LineageOS source code trees

MicroG was upgraded for even better geolocation

🐛 Bug fixes

Theme picker: fix colors and restrict color choice

⚠ Security fixes

This /e/OS update includes the Android security patches available for R. More information in the link below.

Android security patch)

Please welcome our new /e/OS v0.22-q!

🔨 Third party app support

We improved third party apps compatibility by working hard on microG component

✨ We embedded improvements

Settings: all icons now follow /e/ theme colors

New eDrive version with stability improvements

🕙 Software updates

We merged latest bug fixes and security updates from LineageOS source code trees

MicroG was upgraded for even better geolocation

🐛 Bug fixes

Theme picker: fix colors and restrict color choice

⚠ Security fixes

This /e/OS update includes the Android security patches available for Q. More information in the link below.

Android security patch)

Please welcome our new /e/OS v0.22-p!

🔨 Third party app support

We improved third party apps compatibility by working hard on microG component

✨ We embedded some improvements

New eDrive version with stability improvements

🕙 Software updates

We merged latest bug fixes and security updates from LineageOS source code trees

MicroG was upgraded for even better geolocation

🐛 Bug fixes

Fix record button in dialer

⚠ Security fixes

This /e/OS update includes the Android security patches available for P. More information in the link below.

Android security patch

Please welcome our new /e/OS v0.21-pie!

🔨 Dark mode:

Search in settings now implements /e/ theme

Settings colors were revamped for better UI consistency

✨ We embedded other improvements

We've improved updater UI with new icon colors

Camera should be better at detecting camera modules on some devices

🕙 Software updates

We merged latest bug fixes and security updates from LineageOS source code trees

MagicEarth has been updated to version 7.1.21

MicroG was upgraded for better geolocation

🐛 Bug fixes

Multiple UI regression introduced in the v0.20

⚠ Security fixes

This /e/OS update includes the Android security patches available for Pie. More information in the link below.

Android security patch](https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2021-12-01))

Please welcome our new /e/OS v0.21-R!

🔨 /e/ Theme:

/e/ theme is almost implemented everywhere:

Settings, Music, Clock, Updater, Files, Dialer, Contacts, Recorder all received theme updates

Recovery is now using /e/ icons and theme

✨ We embedded other improvements

Camera should be better at detecting camera modules on some devices

🕙 Software updates

We merged latest bugfixes and security updates from LineageOS source code trees

MagicEarth has been updated to version 7.1.21

MicroG was upgraded for better geolocation

🐛 Bug fixes

Blisslauncher was failing to display widgets properly, we've fixed that.

⚠ Security fixes

This /e/OS update includes the Android security patches available for R. More information in the link below.

Android security patch

Please welcome our new /e/OS v0.21-q!

🔨 Dark mode:

Search in settings now implements /e/ theme

✨ We embedded other improvements

We've improved updater UI with new icon colors

Wifi framework compatible with nougat wifi config to handle upgrades properly

Camera should be better at detecting camera modules on some devices

On S9/S9+: NFC extended range is now available

🕙 Software updates

We merged latest bug fixes and security updates from LineageOS source code trees

MagicEarth has been updated to version 7.1.21

MicroG was upgraded for better geolocation

🐛 Bug fixes

Multiple UI regression introduced in the v0.20

⚠ Security fixes

This /e/OS update includes the Android security patches available for Q. More information in the link below.

Android security patch](https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2021-11-01))