Distribution Release: UBports 24.04, 20.04 OTA-12

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The UBports project has announced updates for the mobile distributions 2.04 and 24.04 branches. The new updates, labeled OTA-12, improve the stability of VoLTE connections, fixes some is…

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