UBports Installer 0.5.2-beta

This release of the UBports Installer includes improvements to various behind-the-scenes components and introduces support for flashing Samsung devices using the heimdall utility.

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Changelog:

• Heimdall support for flashing Samsung devices
  • A heimdall:flash step analogous to the fastboot:flash step has been implemented
  • Special handling of download-type user_actions has been implemented to include heimdall scanning
• An adb:sideload step has been implemented to allow flashing other types of images more common with other operating systems using the adb sideload command
• Fixed bug that prevented downloads hen behind a network proxy. Users requiring proxies can now configure them using the http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables, which is the established standard
• The fastboot:format step can now specify optional partitionType and size parameters for greater flexibility
• The files on the fastboot:flash step can npw specify the raw and force parameters to provide access to the fastboot flash:raw command and the --force flag respectively
• An unpack step has been implemented to allow extracting compressed archives
• Fixed a bug that caused the fallback_user_action to result in unexpected behavior
• Improved handling of the cache directory, allowing for greater re-usability of downloaded files
• Tweaked structure of generated bug reports to generate more useful information
• Logs sent to paste.ubuntu.com now expire after one year to prevent flooding the service with short-lived irrelevant information

A snap package is available by running snap install ubports-installer on any Linux distribution.