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Yet another Sailfish Community Newsletter has just been released.

Most exciting for me is that @jolla is very close to publish a Sailfish OS 5.0 update release, and that they approaching branching of the Sailfish OS 5.1. The 5.1 update is planned to be released somewhere around March. It will contain support for BeaconDB, which should help Location services to get a fix faster. Not much else is announced about this release yet...

https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-community-news-february-5th-2026-fosdem-2026-debrief/27554

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Sailfish Community News, February 5th 2026 - FOSDEM 2026 debrief

Sailfish OS update from Jolla Time flies and again time for the fortnightly newsletter. The last time were preparing for FOSDEM, this week we’re wrapping that up and updating you on other topical things. As usual we have Community meeting summary, Harbour News, Repository roundup authored by @nephros, @vige and @dcaliste respectively. First of all, what a weekend at FOSDEM it was 🙌! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to meet the team, try out the Jolla Phone appearance model, an...

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@frankps Am very much looking forward to getting my Jolla phone... Whenever it arrives...

I hope this can push back on the the "you need to have google or apple to run our app!" mindset that is so prominent now.

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Frank Paul Silye

@lettosprey Håper du blir fornøyd. Jeg har nylig kjøpt meg en Fairphone 4 og Jolla C2, og har derfor valgt foreløpig ikke å kjøpe J2.

Gleder meg generelt til flere norske brukere på plattformen. Kanskje det gir flere norske apper? Og i alle fall tilbakemeldinger på oversettelsene som jeg har gjort til en god del apper, slik at de blir bedre.

Jeg synes plattformen er et herlig alternativ til iOS og Android, men for meg er det plattform nr. 2. Jobbtelefon skal være i MDM og det følges.