Droidian 100

Droidian snapshot 💯 released!

After several months of development, the Droidian Project is happy
to announce the release of Droidian 100. Some highlights:

Core:

• Debian sid, as of 2024-11-04
• Graphical stack:
  • wlroots 0.17.4:
    • Fix screenshots being upside down using 3rd party apps
  • phosh 0.43.0:
    • Improvements on Quick Settings
    • Accent colour support (Droidian contribution)
    • Improvements on notification system
    • Improvements on Lock Screen
  • phoc 0.43.0
  • GTK 4.16.5
    • Workaround rendering issues on Adreno GPUs
  • phosh-mobile-settings 0.42.0
  • phosh-osk-stub 0.43.0
  • squeekboard 1.42.1
  • Firefox 132.0
• Replace stock keyboard with phosh-osk-stub
• Droidian now tracks the latest Firefox version, rather than the ESR one
• mobile-power-saver:
  • Allow to automatically disable Bluetooth if unused (Can be enabled in Settings -> Power)
• Initial Setup:
  • Re-add timezone selection
  • Some mobile-friendly changes
• Settings:
  • Refactor Droidian specific changes to ease future maintenance
  • Waydroid: rewritten panel:
    • Improved design and UX
    • Allow to easily install F-Droid
    • Allow to show/hide applications in the Home Screen
    • Allow to disable notifications from Android apps
    • Allow to bridge an internal directory to Waydroid to ease
      file sharing between Droidian and the Waydroid runtime
    • Allow to uninstall apps
  • Display: add swipe to wake settings (requires hardware support, thanks @Bettehem)
• Brightness:
  • Various improvements through the stack: brightness is now changed via the
    Android Lights HAL using a new library, libdroid.
  • Fix (again) brightness level not being restored on reboots
  • Huge improvements to the auto-brightness feature
• callaudiod 0.1.10

Experimental:

• For advanced users, add a Droidian-flavoured wayfire version (0.9.0), modified to work
  with our wlroots fork.
  This is experimental and not supported yet.

Apps:

• GNOME 47 update, including updates to:
  • Software
  • Settings
  • Clocks
  • Text Editor
  • Calendar
  • Calculator
  • Contacts

Platform:

• runonce: allow executing user-specific runonce scripts
• halium-wrappers: fix missing symbol on apps not linking zlib (thanks @Deeepkkk)
• Improve scanning for LVM LVs, make scan opt-out rather than opt-in (can be disabled with droidian.lvm.disable)

Devices:

• Generate udev rules at firstboot
• Fix for mobile data being stuck in 2G mode in some devices
• image-flashing-template:
  • Do not require a boot image
  • Prompt for a device if no device id has been specified in the Droidian
    kernel configuration

Notes:

• Default PIN is 1234.

Droidian is a volounteer-driven project not bound to any company.
If you like this update, please consider supporting next developments:
https://opencollective.com/droidian

Droidian Project
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