# Droidian 101 - discussion thread

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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:

- Audio:

- mobile-power-saver:

- Settings:

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:

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](https://github.com/arpio23)

- New device: Volla Phone X (yggdrasilx), maintained by [@erikinkinen](https://github.com/erikinkinen)

- New device: Volla Phone X23 (vidofnir), maintained by [@erikinkinen](https://github.com/erikinkinen)

- New device: Volla Phone Quintus (algiz), maintained by [@erikinkinen](https://github.com/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](https://github.com/erikinkinen)

- New device: Volla Tablet (mimir), maintained by [@g7](https://github.com/g7)

Notes:

- Default PIN is `1234`.

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

```auto
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.](https://github.com/droidian-images/droidian/releases/tag/droidian%2F101.20250906)

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