We can already consider that official PR1.4 update is just unconfirmed myth, but recent news shows that we can still get some more updates for Nokia N900. Community released its update repository for testing, stable version is still somewhere in the future, but we can already see that some work is being done, current version is also known as PR1.3.3.7-1 update.

After recent reflashing I’ve decided to take the risk and installing testing version of updates. Full instructions how to apply update can be found on maemo.org wiki along with other usefull informations. First of all, as its still considered unstable you need to be prepared to encounter some bugs, but also with using testing you can expect to have something new more frequently.

How does it look in practice? At first glance I haven’t seen anything new or modified, but I trust that bugfixes are really there. I’ve also encountered one bug, after update keyboard shortcuts didn’t work on homescreen, including screenshot Ctrl+Shift+P and the one I use the most – dashboard shortcut Ctrl+Backspace. Quick investigetion got me to bug report, which wasn’t fixed in Community SSU package yet, but it has complete solution for the problem described in comments for bug Bug 11813.

So my fellow N900 users, my suggestion is not to wait for any official PR1.4 firmware update, since it will probably never come from Nokia. It’s better to monitor status of Community SSU untill it becomes stable or if you’re not patient enough try testing version.

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MJ