[Official announcement] The next update release is in early March [not a question]

Awesome sauce!

The pace of update releases is pretty decent already (although patience isn't my best trained skill). Wonder whether the first Android got that prompt updates after the roll-out. They owners may still wait for an urgent update.

Thanks a lot for all the effort. (Plz. keep on sailing)

GestureOrientationLock?

The fact that you communicate with the community about it is even more awesome. I am perfectly OK even with delays if you keep the communication at this level. :)

Perhaps after that update i'll shift from N9 to Jolla as my main phone. Will see...

when is MMS coming to Jolla and LTE?? thats what is missing :)

And native SD Card support :)

Yes!! Can't wait for it!! I hope there will be possibility to save the back-ups to the SD-card and export of .vcf-files!! Please!!

Keep sailing!!

Will this update be the 1.0 that takes Sailfish out of beta?

@Malakim: looks like...

Then it better be a massive update - my Jolla feels nowhere near ready for non-techie users. Not saying it's bad - but it needs lots of polish to tangle with the big guys.

Exciting stuff! The Cloud storage from f-secure sounds interesting. I looked into it, they do have unsupported Linux clients, but only for 64-bit, no 32-bit. A shame really, as that means I probably won't be using this spiffy new upcoming Jolla feature. My laptop is years old and thus only 32 bit. :-(

See info here on Linux support for Younited:

• http://blog.younited.com/2013/12/10/we-do-listen/
• http://community.f-secure.com/t5/Using-younited/Linux-clients-available-here/td-p/38981

Out of beta, eh? Well, we'll see ...

I appreciate too that this time we have been officially warned. I hope this update will make the players finally usable, and fix some quirks in Maps and Fingerterm.

Any chance you guys can tag questions here with "mar14" or something like that? :-)

Any news on IMAP IDLE support and align timers bug? I hope you won't drop the BETA tag without these.

Jolla staff confirming the OS is not in beta anymore: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lUGYdJI-Y0 (go to 6:11)

Lets hope they fix the 2G/3G/WIFI switching issues.

Will the Sailfish launcher for Android be launched at the same time? You're not sure? It will be slightly later? You don't want to hold up one for the other so they will be released relatively at the same time but not exactly? I'm kind of afraid of making a new question just for that, it seems like this site is so full of questions I don't want to clutter it up more. You have a much larger audience waiting for your launcher to be released than the current amount of Jolla owners. No disrespect they should come first, just trying to put it in perspective.

Owning a Jolla Phone, these firmware updates are kind of celebrating birthday every month! =:o)

According to this TJC post the update was postponed by one week.

To keep being open with your customers (and being #unlike apple, google, microsoft) an explanation of what happened would be appreciated :)

i think your reaction is a little extreme. cut them some slack. i can think of a million reasons for a delay but i'll only be second guessing. i'd rather have a good stable release than one that introduces more problems that need ANOTHER patch 2 hours later just to fix.

@droll: +1

why not just scrap the unstable bugfixes and release the fixed bugs? This is not unstable at all. I used this as strategy several times in software development, noting to be shy about. But this way you provide a better service to customers.

Key part in that is explaining why you're missing the deadline. There's nothing bad in a delay, it happens. but I as customer would like to know why, especially from a company that markets itself as open to customers differentiating itself from apple google microsoft etc.

Working (MVC) version does not mean it doesn't have bugs. I respect your opinion, but I'd personally rather wait one more week for properly tested version than get one that might have surprising glitch breaking already working feature. E-mail support is one major example, there are hundreds-thousands e-mail providers using one of maybe tens of possible e-mail sw with varying combination of versions and parameters. By making small fix to get one service providers mail to work, you might end up breaking ten other SP.s mail support. That is actually what happened in previous update. I had perfectly working Elisa mail via Saunalahti ISP and one other (my hosted) mail. Now since Jan update they get synced very sporadically (One saying updated 1 hours ago, while other sayin updated 2 days ago...). Same goes with network connection (and switching to/from WLAN) support. So IMO please make AND keep features rock solid before running into new candies.

@droll, @torcida, @targon: I understand your feedback.

My point is that I have to face all those bugs daily as jolla is my main phone and I'm waiting this release very hardly. I'm editing the answer to make it smoother.

We are talking about a whole Operating System here, not your little piece of soft, that's what you don't understand.

I'm sending prayers for (owncloud) caldav/carddav full support :-D In my opinion this is (one of) the most necessary features of a smartphone

I need patience and I need them right now ;-) My Jolla remains still in the kitchendrawer, without sync of google-calendar it is useless to me. (my familiy is laughing)

To all the spoiled brats complaining about delays: What Jolla delivers regarding update schedules is SPECTACULAR!!! They probably use an agile development method known as Scrum. This usually means cycles from 3 to 5 weeks and these cycles have nothing to do with calendar months. Be glad that they put in some time for testing, too, and learn to appreciate what you get. No other company, from Apple to Samsung, comes even CLOSE to such a release rhythm!

The only reason for not switching to Jolla as main device for me, is missing two-way sync with Google calendar... When it will be possible? Anybody knows? Anyway Jolla is great and i love it:)

Is the update going to be available to all owners of Jolla phones, even those that do not have a Jolla account?

@ray-ven caldav will not make it into the coming update, though it's being worked on (see https://github.com/nemomobile/buteo-sync-plugin-caldav)

@c.la like Sthocs pointed out, we're talking about a complete OS here, where all components need to play together. While sometimes possible to drop a patch without consequences more often than not we can't. On top of that we're doing all that with very limited resources, so releasing an individual fix takes resources away from the "big" release.We're constantly improving and speeding up things there, though, and I'd say we're already capable of releasing faster with acceptable quality than most other companies dealing with such a complex codebase.

As for explanation, that was in the original post: MWC happened, which is quite a strain on resources for a small company like us.

@arbyter@Brano google calendar two-way sync is part of the upcoming update

no owncloud support in march :(. Well,but great you're working on it. could be the same codebase as google, because google and owncloud use webcal... so probably it'll arrive soon :). Can't wait for march update anyway... hitting the "look for update" button 5 times a day or so :-D