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Any chance of getting a somewhat recent crop of the upstream components that make up our low-level Linux on Jolla? What we run now has been dated half a year ago, it's positively ancient now (kernel 3.4, systemd 187, connman 1.15). I don't know where sailfish gets the kernel, but both systemd and connman are known-buggy, no longer supported versions, and if btrfs in the kernel is from 3.4, it's known-buggy and ancient too. Currently viable upstreams would be probably more like kernel 3.12, systemd 212 and connman 1.21. I understand that there may be regressions in those, but lingering on with those updates is causing a disconnect between sailfish and the rest of the Linux world.

Especially in light of suspected crash bugs due to btrfs and the persisting connectivity problems (connman), an update seems like a very worthwhile investment?

Any chance of getting a somewhat recent crop of the upstream components that make up our low-level Linux on Jolla? What we run now has been dated half a year ago, it's positively ancient now (kernel 3.4, systemd 187, connman 1.15). I don't know where sailfish gets the kernel, but both systemd and connman are known-buggy, no longer supported versions, and if btrfs in the kernel is from 3.4, it's known-buggy and ancient too. Currently viable upstreams would be probably more like kernel 3.12, systemd 212 and connman 1.21. I understand that there may be regressions in those, but lingering on with those updates is causing a disconnect between sailfish and the rest of the Linux world.

Especially in light of suspected crash bugs due to btrfs and the persisting connectivity problems (connman), an update seems like a very worthwhile investment?

Any chance of getting a somewhat recent crop of the upstream components that make up our low-level Linux on Jolla? What we run now has been dated half a year ago, it's positively ancient now (kernel 3.4, systemd 187, connman 1.15). I don't know where sailfish gets the kernel, but both systemd and connman are known-buggy, no longer supported versions, and if btrfs in the kernel is from 3.4, it's known-buggy and ancient too. Currently viable upstreams would be probably more like kernel 3.12, systemd 212 and connman 1.21. I understand that there may be regressions in those, but lingering on with those updates is causing a disconnect between sailfish and the rest of the Linux world.

Especially in light of suspected crash bugs due to btrfs and the persisting connectivity problems (connman), an update seems like a very worthwhile investment?

UPDATE: I'm collecting TJC issues that require system component updates here (if you have more, please leave them in comments, I'll update the list):

• https://together.jolla.com/question/39007/mounting-sd-card-fails-btrfs-extref-option-of-recent-kernels/
• https://together.jolla.com/question/20350/full-power-journalctl/
• https://together.jolla.com/question/15563/add-more-systemd-components/
• https://together.jolla.com/question/22767/btrfs-send-snapshot-gives-error-could-not-resolve-root_id/

Possibly also related:

• https://together.jolla.com/question/42917/bug-btrfs-lockup-wayland-lipstick-or-whatever-crashed-during-email-sync-connman-probably-involved/