Thanks for your report. 1.6 is in yakkety and higher versions of Ubuntu.
modemmanager | 1.6.0-1 | yakkety | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x modemmanager | 1.6.4-1 | zesty | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x modemmanager | 1.6.4-1 | artful | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x modemmanager | 1.6.8-1 | artful-proposed | source, amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x I'm closing this report. ** Changed in: modemmanager (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to modemmanager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1608047 Title: provide builds for upsteam 1.6 release Status in modemmanager package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Modemmanager 1.6 has recently been released, see https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/modemmanager- devel/2016-July/003211.html. The list of changes there mentions e.g. support for couple of Sierra cards which are shipping with recent Lenovo Thinkpads, e.g. X260, X1 Yoga, T460 and many more. Due to this I'd really appreciate to have 1.6 based Ubuntu packages. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/modemmanager/+bug/1608047/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp