- 10-26 through 11-1
- 122 Mozillians landed 230 fixes into Firefox OS this last week.
- We had 5 first time patch contributors to Firefox OS this week:
- Vishnu Teja landed a fix for Bug 1058526 - Poor grammar in MMS error message
- Song Zheng landed his first changes at Bug 1057145 - The Camera feed is shifted to the right during a video call
- Former Mozilla accessibility intern, Max Li, landed an A11Y patch at Bug 1011886 - Introduce key echo by character, word, and character and word
- Augustin Trancart fixed SMS Bug 1083198 - Remove fallback for old gecko version in MessageManager.getMessages
- AnirudhGP keyboard bug Bug 1083301 - Close-paren disables autocorrection of previous word
- Key features and fixes:
- Bug 985853 - [Keyboard UX update][User Story] Hold shift to enter upper case characters
- Bug 998106 - [B2G][Gaia][FTE][Keyboard] Selecting languages other than English during the FTE causes the associated keyboard not to load.
- Bug 1091049 - Implement fling curving in the APZ code
- Bug 1043762 - Volume buttons don't do anything in Settings and previewing new ringtones
- Bug 1066888 - Overscroll physics improvements
- Bug 1068559 - [KK] Continuous auto focus (CAF) not working in Camcorder
- Bug 1088700 - Pressing the home button on the home screen instantly returns to the top of the home screen instead of smoothly scrolling
- Bug 1090562 - [Rocketbar] Transitions are missing
- Bug 993988 - [Calendar] First time use tutorial tends to mislead user to swipe
- News:
- London beat Paris ;-) in the Firefox OS bug squash party
- Robert Nyman gave a great Firefox OS talk at Budapest.mobile
- Firefox OS has become the third most used operating system on smartphones in Peru, displacing the fourth to Apple's iPhone according to Information Research Division of Netdreams.
- Matchstick had a successful Kickstarter campaign for their Firefox OS based streaming dongle. They had a goal of raising $100,000 and closed out the campaign with with nearly half a million ($470,000) raised from 17,2180 donors.
- The Alcatel ONETOUCH Fire E [https://webshop.t-mobile.hu/webapp/wcs/stores/ProductDisplay?catalogId=2001&storeId=2001&langId=-11&productId=737628
launched in Hungary]