"We’re also working hard on the next Sailfish OS upgrade (called Äijänpäivänjärvi, try to pronounce that!), which is currently in the release candidate phase. If everything goes according to the planned schedule it should be out in a few weeks. This release will include e.g. landscape mode for Maps, Split keyboard in landscape mode with a setting to disable it, IMAP idle/push support for mail accounts, and resolution independent icons."

aei

paei

jaer

"aei" like English pronoun "I", but change the beginning to something between a (from "after") and e (from "techno")

"j" like consonantal Y in English

put the stress to each underlined syllables

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For translation, there are three words put together to one:

äijä = old man, "codger"

päivä = day

BUT: Äijänpäivä is actually old Karelian word for Easter

järvi = lake

"n" in the end of words stands for owning

bringing this all to simplicity: "Lake of Easter" The word "Äijänpäivä" originates to Karelia, Eastern Finland, and the Easter time is traditionally on 13-14 April. Is this when we see the update rolling out? I might guess so!

But hey, what other features do we already know?

Here are some goals for the Sailfish OS UI for this year, which might or might not be part of the next update. Pick from developer mailing list:

scalable icons

home screen and application layouts take physical display dimensions into account, for example larger displays are able to show more content

display-size optimized graphical effects

ambience wallpapers to different display sizes and aspect ratios

System update improvements (will be utilized for update 12 onward):

run btrfs balance operation before installing OS update



enablers to allow factory reset operation to reset the OS to the latest available public version instead of the age old factory image



provide an API to check the system update size



enablers to allow store client to handle downloading the OS update in the background without interfering with the user



upgrade to using latest upstream versions of libzypp and zypper to get new features (to allow us to later take them into use, namely better pattern support and conflict calculations) From above, especially btrfs balancing has been found important and





Additionally, here are some postponed features which might also show up in the next update: private browsing

IMAP idle/push support

enable USB tethering in the UI

lock screen media player controls From above, especially btrfs balancing has been found important and can be already done manually . I'm happy if it's automated into the update process, as this is not something for everybody to do by themself.

Disclaimer: What you read above is PLANNED for the next or following updates. The final release of update 12 might include more or less new features.

As Marc mentioned, this name is really the most difficult this time :) Letter "" is pronounced right between(from "after") and(from techno). "ä" is sometimes written as "ae", like you might have seen for example in Olympic games broadcasts.