bananarchy/CHANGELOG.md

Bananarchy Linux changelog

This file tracks public release builds of Bananarchy Linux.

Release versions follow the <year-letter><MM><DD> format (where 2026 is a, followed by the two-digit month and day).

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Build a1025 — codename argonaut (2026-10-25)

Initial public release of Bananarchy Linux, focused on complete hardware and daily-driver software support for the Nokia 8110 4G (nokia-argon), along with initial build targets for the Nokia 2720 Flip (nokia-beatles), Nokia 800 Tough (nokia-tough), Nokia 8000 4G (nokia-sparkler), and Nokia 6300 4G (nokia-leo).

Base system and hardware support

• Alpine Linux Edge (armv7) root filesystem hardforked from postmarketOS v26.06, tuned for < 95 MB idle RAM usage on 512 MB devices.
• Mainline Linux 6.12.1-msm8916 kernel with custom drivers and patches for Qualcomm MSM8905 and MSM8909 smart feature phones.
• Full Qualcomm QDSP6/Q6Voice audio routing (q6voiced, PipeWire, WirePlumber, and ALSA UCM) for the boosted rear loudspeaker, boosted (+6 dB) front earpiece, internal MEMS microphone, and 3.5mm headset jack, plus 3-level PM8909 hardware vibration motor control (pm8xxx-vibrator and sxmo_vibrate).
• Custom msm8905-cam V4L2 kernel driver for the rear 2MP GalaxyCore GC2395 camera sensor (/dev/video0, 800x600 RGB24).
• Custom leds-msm8905-torch kernel driver for the rear SY7807 flashlight LED (white:torch), WCD audio codec initialization, and clean PM8909 poweroff.
• Custom animated Bananarchy boot splash (pbsplash) and shutdown splash, plus automated Qualcomm Sahara/Firehose USB EDL flashing (flash-edl.sh) with automatic modem/IMEI partition backup.

Display server and window manager

• Pure X11 graphical stack built on cross-compiled Xlibre (X11Libre/xserver) with partial-rectangle ShadowFB SPI display updates and zero Wayland overhead.
• Custom Sxmo DWM (sxmo-de-dwm) window manager designed for 240x320 QVGA non-touch screens, featuring a vertical bottom-stack (bstack) layout, a 24px Pango status bar, a desktop "Menu" / "Names" softkey bar, and a Conky desktop clock and system status widget.
• Direct C-level handling of physical slider (SW_LID) open/close events and keypad wake keys with < 2 ms wakeup latency.

Preloaded native keypad applications

• System and context menus (dmenu): resident menu daemon with instant (< 2 ms) wakeup, 10-line vertical layout, live T9 filtering, and built-in submenus and hardware toggles.
• Global controls drawer (xdrawer): instant overlay toggled by pressing both softkeys together to adjust speaker volume, earpiece volume, ringtone volume, ringer mode (Ring+Vib / Vibrate / Silent / DND), 3-level vibration intensity (Light / Medium / Strong), flashlight, sound/microphone mute, screen brightness, and keypad backlight.
• Phone dialer (xdialer), call log (xcalllog), and call screen (xcallscreen): home-screen digit dialing with live T9 contact matching, interactive carrier USSD sessions (*100#, etc.), Dual-SIM *#06# IMEI inspection, call history filtering, and an in-call screen with speaker/earpiece switching, microphone mute, DTMF tones, and one-key normalized WAV call recording (~/Recordings/rec_HHMMSS_<caller>.wav).
• Contacts (xcontacts) and SMS manager (xsms): full phonebook editor with direct Qualcomm QMI UIM SIM card contact import and export across SIM 1 and SIM 2 (EF_ADN), paired with a threaded SMS conversation view and multi-tap message composer with draft support.
• Modem and Dual-SIM manager (xmodem): 4-tab cellular control center (SIMs, Radio, AT, Log) supporting physical SIM 1 / SIM 2 slot switching, SIM PIN unlock and PUK unblock wizards, PIN enable/disable/change, 2G/3G/4G radio mode selection, USSD requests, and a live AT command console.
• Networks and Bluetooth manager (xnetworks): 3-tab connectivity manager for Wi-Fi scanning and WPA2 entry, Wi-Fi hotspot, QMI bam-dmux (wwan0) 4G/LTE mobile data and APN configuration, USB tethering, and Bluetooth pairing.
• File manager (xfiles), music and tracker player (xmusic), and camera (xcamera): keypad directory browser with built-in text and image viewers (including one-click actions to preview images, set any image as wallpaper, play audio, or install any audio or tracker file as ringtone), a 3-tab music and chiptune tracker module player (WAV, MP3, OGG, FLAC, Opus, MOD, XM, IT, S3M, and more), and a live V4L2 camera viewfinder with digital zoom (1x/2x/4x), auto-flash, continuous torch, 3-second self-timer, and photo gallery.
• Themes (xthemes), wallpapers (xwallpapers), and ringtones (xringtones): unified .Xresources theming engine (~/.xthemes/*.xth) with 20 preinstalled color schemes, live zero-restart reload across all apps and terminals, interactive color/font customization, wallpaper scaling and preview, and low-latency incoming call ringtone (pw-play + mpv tracker module support) and 3-level vibration settings.

Keypad input, terminal, games, and developer tools

• 6-mode fcitx5-t9 input method: seamless # switching between abc, Abc, ABC, Sym (all 32 ASCII punctuation symbols), Ctl (Ctrl combos, arrows, PageUp/PageDown, Home/End, F1–F12), and 123 numeric modes, plus a * long-press Ctrl+ latch.
• Patched st terminal: HarfBuzz OpenType ligature rendering (Fira Code default), XIM T9 input, and live SIGUSR1 theme reloading.
• Standalone X11 keypad games: built-in Snake (snake) and Tetris (tetris) designed for 240x320 displays.
• On-device development and AI stack: preinstalled gcc/g++, make, git, GNU coreutils, nano, ed, sqlite3, perl, tcl, the Janet language and jpm, the Bantam coding agent, frotz, ffmpeg, mpv, and imv.