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Droidian snapshot 101 (patchlevel 2025-09-06) released!

After almost a year of development, the Droidian Project is happy
to announce the release of Droidian 101.

History:

  • 2025-09-07: initial release (Droidian 101, patchlevel 2026-09-06)

Core:

  • Debian sid, as of 2025-08-08

  • Graphical stack:

    • wlroots 0.17.4

    • phosh 0.49.0:

      • Background in Overview and Lock screen

      • Captive portal detection

      • New quick setting plugin to switch display scales

      • New lockscreen plugin that allows to interact with every running MPRIS media players

      • A lot of improvements and bug fixes

    • phoc 0.47.0

    • GTK 4.18.4

    • Qt 6.8.2

    • phosh-mobile-settings 0.49.0

    • phosh-osk-stub 0.49.0

    • Firefox 142.0

  • Audio:

    • Add support for external USB-C audio cards / adapters

    • Better support for headphones

  • mobile-power-saver:

    • Allow to automatically disable Bluetooth if unused (Can be enabled in Settings → Power)

  • Settings:

    • Allow launching media player on headphone connection

    • Pause the media on headphone disconnection

Experimental:

  • Experimental support for KDE Plasma Mobile 6.3.6, using wayfire as compositor.
    Ports can use the plamo_wf_experimental edition in community-devices.yml.

  • Allow HW acceleration on Firefox. It is opt-in, and you can enable it by installing the droidian-quirks-firefox-gpu
    package. F(x)tec Pro1, Pro1-X, Sony Xperia 5, Volla Tablet and Xiaomi Miatoll ports already
    ship this by default.

Apps:

  • GNOME 48 update, including updates to:

    • Software

    • Settings

    • Clocks

    • Text Editor

    • Calendar

    • Calculator

    • Contacts

    • Papers (new PDF viewer)

    • Loupe (new image viewer)

Android™ App support (Waydroid):

  • Updated waydroid to 1.5.4

  • Updated images to Android 13

  • Added HALIUM_13 Waydroid vendor images

Release backend:

  • Add support for device-specific variants

  • Add support for patch levels for released snapshots

  • Allow delivering updates to released snapshots

Platform:

  • Fix thumbnail creation on some devices

  • Many improvements on the telephony stack

  • libdroid: support vibration devices, including devices with “vibratorfeature” AIDL slot

  • feedbackd: move everything to libdroid

Devices:

  • linux-packaging-snippets: allow creating vendor_boot images

  • linux-packaging-snippets: allow adding an AVB footer at the end of the image

  • Improve robustness of getting cutout values at first boot

Ports:

  • New device: Lenovo Thinkphone by Motorola (bronco), maintained by @arpio23

  • New device: Volla Phone X (yggdrasilx), maintained by @erikinkinen

  • New device: Volla Phone X23 (vidofnir), maintained by @erikinkinen

  • New device: Volla Phone Quintus (algiz), maintained by @erikinkinen

  • Deprecated device: Volla Phone 22 (mimameid) is no longer supported on api30 (Halium 11) due to no panel support for newer revisions

  • New device: Volla Phone 22 (mimameid) is now supported on api32 (Halium 12), maintained by @erikinkinen

  • New device: Volla Tablet (mimir), maintained by @g7

Notes:

  • Default PIN is 1234.

  • If you don’t find any updates, please try dropping the APT package list cache, and retry:

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
sudo apt update

The next development branch, 102, has been opened already. Devices tracking next will
automatically move to it at the next dist-upgrade.

You can read more, and find the installable images from the GitHub release page.

The Droidian 102 development thread
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2025-12-08: new Droidian 101 update (patchlevel 2025-11-30):

  • Firefox updated to version 145.0.1
  • Chromium updated to version 142.0.7444.175-1
  • Updates to Signal-Desktop
  • Pro1, Pro1-X: fix outdated libinput issue
  • Pro1-X: build cifs.ko as a module

You can read more, and find the installable images from the GitHub release page.

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The Droidian project is pleased to announce an update to Droidian 101, patchlevel 2026-10-23.

This is a security update due to the fact that some private keys belonging to eMudhra emSign (in the trust store in Droidian 101) can be trivially retrieved.

Mozilla already blocked them in the wild via OneCRL, but to be extra safe, we are issuing a security update for Droidian 101.
Along with ca-certificates, we also updated the browsers and timezone data.

GHSA-vr39-qqr3-x9v4 tracks the eMudhra emSign issue,
glibc and the gcc runtime libraries are also being updated to accomodate the other updates.

Do note that in Debian/Droidian, python-certifi (and python-pip) do not need to be updated as they use the system CA store.

Summary of changes:

* firefox: update to version 158.0.1-1
* libvpx: update to version 1.17.0-1
* nss: update to version 2:3.131.1-1
* chromium: update to version 156.0.8078.47-1
* libxml2-16: update to version 2.15.4+dfsg-1
* tzdata: update to version 2026e-1
* ca-certificates: update to 20260816+nmu1
* glibc: update to version 2.43-7
* gcc-16: update to version 16.2.0-3

Devices running Droidian 101 will automatically get these new updates.

You can read more, and find the installable images in Release Droidian 101 (patchlevel 2026-10-23) · droidian-images/droidian · GitHub

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