After four and a half years since the last update Formed The fourth issue of the project replicant 6 , developing a completely open version of the Android platform, eliminated from proprietary components and closed drivers. The Replicant 6 branch is built on the code base of Lineageos 13, in turn based on Android 6. Compared to the original firmware, Replicant has replaced a large portion of proprietary components, including video prankers, binary firmware for Wi-Fi, library for working with GPS, compass , Web camera, radio interface and modem. Assembly prepared for 9 devices, including Samsung Galaxy S2/S3, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Tab 2 .
Among changes in the new version:
- In the application for making and receiving calls is the problem with the preservation of confidential data, which led to the leak of information about the incoming and output challenges Due to checking the phone numbers in Whitepages, Google and Opencnam.
- The application for working with the F-Droid catalog was deleted from the composition, since many of the programs proposed in this catalog problems with recognition of SIM cards.
- Instead of repwifi, patches are involved in using wireless bonds that allow the use of the full -time Android menu with external wireless adapters.
- Added support for Ethernet adaptors.
- Added scripts to configure the network based on USB devices. Added support for USB adaptors based on the Ralink RT2500 chip operating without loading the firmware.
- For the drawing of Opengl, the default applications are involved in the LLVMPipe software rasterizer. For the system components of the graphic interface, a drawing is left using Libagl. Added scripts for switching between the implementations of Opengl.
- Added scripts to simplify the assembly of Replicant from the original texts.
- Added a WIPE command to clean the sections in the storage.
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