Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 released

After inviting users to actively test, the UBports community officially released the Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 update for Ubuntu Phone today. As a stable and maintenance release update, the OTA-9 update focuses on improving the Morph browser, including support for favicons, new topic error pages, custom user scripts and better loading of the initial page of the Web App, and a system-level theme for tag themes, automatically close tabs in the window before stopping all multimedia activities, providing better keyboard support for more devices.

Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 include Nexus 5 camera fixes, quiet improvements.

Changelog

[Kugi Eusebio]

• Change “edge-barrier-sensitivity” gsettings type to “u” from “y”, allowing QML to set the value correctly: ubports/unity8#83
• Show up to two lines of the last message in an SMS/MMS thread, fixes ubports/messaging-app#46: ubports/messaging-app#78
• Fix margins of the “To:” field, fixes ubports/messaging-app#47: ubports/messaging-app#79

[Brian Douglass]

• Respect the system’s grid unit: ubports/qqc2-suru-style#14
• Detect dark theme setting: ubports/qqc2-suru-style#13
• Always rebuild the messaging-app translation template file, fixes ubports/messaging-app#52: ubports/messaging-app#81

[Joan CiberSheep]

• Simplified transitions for StackView: ubports/qqc2-suru-style#16
• Added scalable busy indicator: ubports/qqc2-suru-style#17

[Alessandro Vinciguerra] (First-time contributor!)

• Automatically advance setup wizard on WiFi connection, fixes ubports/ubuntu-touch#845: ubports/unity8#92

[Chris Clime]

• Add “Paste and Go” to the context menu when pressing and holding on the unselected address bar: ubports/morph-browser#153
• Pass the current view when showing a popup, use system icons for page menu, and use proper colors for “save as HTML/PDF” dialog, fixes ubports/morph-browser#156, ubports/morph-browser#158, and ubports/morph-browser#167: ubports/morph-browser#173
• Use theme colors for error pages, fixes ubports/morph-browser#164: ubports/morph-browser#174

[fredldotme]

• Extend apparmor support for Treble-like ‘/odm’ partitions: ubports/apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu#4

[sy-per] (Another first-time contributor!)

• Add “Search with lilo” to browser: ubports/morph-browser#168

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