# PINE64 August Community Update Covers Collaborative Publishing and Hardware and Software Progress

DevFeed: [PINE64 August Community Update Covers Collaborative Publishing and Hardware and Software Progress](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/august-update-kept-you-waiting-huh-34879.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://pine64.org/2023/08/15/august-update-kept-you-waiting-huh/>)

Published: 2023-08-15T00:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Community blog on PINE64](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/community-blog-on-pine64.md>)

Topics: [Pinephone-Pro](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pinephone-pro.md>), [Embedded Software Dev](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/embedded-software-dev.md>), [Pinephone](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pinephone.md>), [Ubuntu](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ubuntu.md>), [NVMe](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nvme.md>), [pcie](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pcie.md>), [USB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/usb.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ui.md>)

Tags: [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [community-update](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community-update.md>), [devices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devices.md>), [firmware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firmware.md>), [infinitime](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infinitime.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [update](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/update.md>)

## AI overview

PINE64's August community update introduces collaborative authoring for future monthly posts and reviews recent progress across its devices and software. It covers PineTab2 and PineTab-V development, PinePhone Pro thermal-camera use, Ubuntu Touch, Quartz64 and SOQuartz, U-Boot support, PineTime and InfiniTime improvements, and related firmware and battery-life work.

## Source excerpt

We apologize for the lack of regular community updates during the past few months. In short, the people who usually wrote them became very busy. However, we have a new way to write and publish these updates, involving you: the community. Let's talk about it, and about so much more of what's been happening. This community update consists of contributions by Caffeine, CounterPillow, Funeral, gamiee, JF002, and mpreditor. N.B. Comments on the blog post need to be in English and follow our Community Rules and Code of Conduct. TL;DR Housekeeping Community updates are now written collaboratively by several members of the community The public is invited to contribute to the monthly update posts Rework of the community website and logo Newsflash megi released rk2aw: a loader for your bootloader Progress on the PineTab2 and PineTab-V A PinePhone Pro connected to a thermal imaging camera Oren Klopfer's progress on Ubuntu Touch Quartz64 and SOQuartz U-Boot improvements thanks to Kwiboo and CounterPillow: USB, NVMe, and soon PXE Improved SOQuartz CM4 baseboard compatibility Improved PCIe devices compatibility QuartzPro64 What it means to "mainline" things, and why it takes time Things that have been mainlined: SATA, PCIe, USB, AV1, and more! Things still being worked on: cpufreq, GPU, video output InfiniTime 1.13 and other PineTime news Heart rate monitoring improvements thanks to Ceimour! Did you know that InfiniTime has a BLE weather service feature? Improved memory management Huge improvements to battery life (with help from Ayke!) InfiniSim UI update Improvements to ITD, the InfiniTime daemon Ayke is developing a brand new firmware for the PineTime Housekeeping You might have been wondering why nothing new has been posted on the PINE64.org community blog in quite a few months. As was already revealed in the opening section, the reason is that previously blogs were mainly authored and edited by one person (Lukasz) and said person is extremely busy these days. Going forward,