<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Hi all, <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Today we have released the new Ubuntu SDK IDE and Devkit packages. <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The highlight of the changes are the following <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Based on QtCreator 3.5.1 </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Built on 5.6.0 Qt </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Migrate templates to 1.3 UITK </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Upgrade the Ubuntu Desktop Kit to OTA11 APIs </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Enable click and snap format distribution of the IDE and Devkit packages </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Make the UITK component gallery work (Tools -> Ubuntu -> Showcase Gallery) </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Discover arm64 devices - Fixes LP: #1558413 </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Remove the qmlproject wizard. It is deprecated and should not be used anymore. </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Add support for executing custom scope runners on the phone Fixes LP: #1534509, LP: #1537550 </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Don't expect .pot file to exist, this breaks CMake when no translations are present Fixes LP: #1538419 </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Fixes LP: #1537550 "Manifest changes are not saved before publishing regardless of setting" </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Fixes LP: #1534509 "Please attach your device - which one?" </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Adjust HTML5 template to mirror the QML sample app </li> </ul> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Known issues <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The click chroot bootstrapping is fragile. In case of troubles with creating click chroots please install the static chroot packages -> </li> </ul> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">$ sudo apt install <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#333333;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">ubuntu-sdk-api-15.04-armhf<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The ultimate fix for this problem is coming soon (in few weeks) in a form of replacing click chroots with LXD containers <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">The Ubuntu Desktop Kit does not contain the complete platform API set. It does contain a lot, but not those what would depend on system services. The Ubuntu Desktop Kit is mostly for UI prototyping with the latest UI ToolKit release. With the LXD container this issue will be gone as the container will function as fully licensed build and runtime environment. </li> </ul> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Upcoming changes in the following days <ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">New welcome screen with direct access to the UI Toolkit showcase gallery </li> <li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Functional desktop kit for click packaged (armhf) pocket desktop IDE </li> </ul> <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">How to get it (given that you have followed the instructions <a href="https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/phone/platform/sdk/installing-the-sdk/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/phone/platform/sdk/installing-the-sdk/">https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/phone/platform/sdk/installing-the-sdk/</a></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"> and have the Ubuntu SDK installed already) <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install ubuntu-sdk-ide ubuntu-sdk-dev <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Happy hacking and please find me if you have any trouble with the SDK, <span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Ubuntu;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">bzoltan <meta charset="utf-8"> </body> </html>