UBports Installer 0.4.3-beta

This concludes a series of major refactoring steps to make the UBports Installer more flexible and future-proof. Along with the massive new features introduced in 0.3.2_beta and 0.4.1_beta, this release comes with some further bugfixes and usability improvements.

We also introduced experimental support for Operating Systems other than Ubuntu Touch for some devices, and we'd love your help to write config files for many more!

UBports Installer 0.4.2-beta

This (almost) concludes a series of major refactoring steps to make the UBports Installer more flexible and future-proof. Along with the massive new features introduced in 0.3.2_beta and 0.4.1_beta, this release comes with some further bugfixes and usability improvements.

We also introduced experimental support for Operating Systems other than Ubuntu Touch for some devices, and we'd love your help to write config files for many more!

UBports Installer 0.4.1-beta

Our last pre-release of the UBports Installer was the biggest one yet, and we have no intention of slowing things down! UBports Installer 0.4.1-beta comes in with our brand new device-specific config file format, allowing for much more flexible install configuration, as well as many fun things to come for the future. It's a brave new world!

Oh, and we also fixed more than 40 unique issues along the way. Not a big deal. It's what we do.

A snap package is available by running snap install ubports-installer --beta --devmode. Confinement is still broken, hence the devmode. We're waiting for a new release of a dependency for that one.

UBports Installer 0.4.0-beta

deprecated prerelease

UBports Installer 0.3.2-beta

Welcome to a ginormous new pre-release of the UBports Installer, the biggest one yet in our ongoing refactoring endeavor. But before we implement the awesome new features we have planned for the future, we need to take a step back and undo some blunders we made so far. This pre-release is meant for user-testing and is supposed we did not screw up any important functionality along the way.

Changelog

• Polish the living crap out of our progress-bar logic, making them much more intuitive
• Add a download speed indicator
• Simplify the footer status messages to avoid confusion
• Remove the need for the users' password, thereby eliminating all the fun security concerns we opened ourselves up to
• Remove the ability to specify custom adb and fastboot versions, which created a world of pain and suffering for our developers
• Fix a lot of race conditions (problems where the installer would just freeze up or show a blank screen)
• Implement our fancy new promise-android-tools library
• Fix an issue where adb push would fail silently on big transfers
• Generally improved error handling
• Fix bug where cache partition was not cleaned, which lead the file transfer to fail
• Fastboot and adb execution fixes for Windows and macOS
• Fix issue where bug reports would be incomplete on Windows
• Get rid of, just like, so much unneeded code, like, oh my god, i can't even

If you're not excited, you're not paying attention!

UBports Installer 0.3.1-beta

deprecated pre-release

UBports Installer 0.2.7-beta

Just a minor maintenance release fixing some minor bugs not found in testing.

Snap package available on every linux distro by running snap install ubports-installer.

Changelog

• Fix log link in bugreports
• Fix adb URI escaping for macOS paths

UBports Installer 0.2.6-beta

A snap package is available by running snap install ubports-installer

Changelog

• Make sure installation process survives very short drops in connection
• Fix issue that prevented installation on Windows, if the username contained a space
• Improved fastboot error handling
• Warn the user if the device battery is critically low
• Optimize animations (boy oh boy, did we get rotten tomatoes thrown at us for that one)
• Allow windows users to dismiss the driver notice for all eternity
• Make sure users of legacy android devices know they are inferior (i.e. guide them through the unlocking process)

UBports Installer 0.2.5-beta

Small maintenance release with updated dependencies. Also fixed a bug that caused small drops in the adb connection to go unrecognized.

UBports Installer 0.2.4-beta

Minor maintenance release with updated dependencies.