webOS OSE 2.11.0 Release Notes

Release date: June 25, 2021

This version corresponds to the GitHub releases from build #326 to build #361.

New and Changed Features

ACG Migration

• Updated ACG permissions account service and settings service.

Core Applications

System UI

• Notification
  • Fixed issue that toast message is not appearing.

System

• Settings
  • Updated resources folder.

Sample Apps

• Added Image Viewer.
• Media Gallery
  • Updated to show empty image when preview cannot be loaded.
  • Added functionalities to launch video player with selected video info.
• Video Player
  • Fixed static issues.
  • Fixed issues related to calling parameters used when Video Player is called in Media Gallery Application.
• Added functionality to generate api.json and group.json files for External JS Service dynamically.

Application Framework

SDK

• Emulator
  • Updated restrict cdc_ether not to load for qemu machines.
• CLI
  • Deleted start-devmode.sh call from devmode.sh.

Web

• Enact
  • Added the required permission for mediacontroller to Enact browser app.
  • Replaced enact-typedef.js with jsdoc-to-ts module.
  • Replaced enact-override.js with Enact CLI commands.
  • Fixed issues that Enact browser is automatically closed while changing the language.
  • Added defensive codes for npm install in Enact CLI.

Managers & Services

App

• SAM
  • Supported architecture registration with a given priority in the arch.conf file.

Media

• Added status notification for the media indexer.
• Enabled qt5-multimedia-plugin.
• Fixed passing bitrate to encoder pipeline in mcil and resolution issue when using HW Encoder for WebRTC.
• audiod
  • Fixed Bluetooth audio issues.

Connectivity

• Bluetooth
  • Added new methods to com.webos.service.bluetooth2 API: onOff/set, getMeshInfo, config/getCompositionData.

External Devices

• Updated copy & move operations Storage Access Framework (SAF).
• Supported for SAMBA and UPnP in SAF.
• Support SAF feature in Emulator.
• Added UART communication, UWB native service, and Luna APIs for UWB.

Base Components

Bus

• LS2
  • Supported LS2 for 64-bit arch.
  • Added functionalities to check Null for the LSMessageGetSenderServiceName return.

i18n/l10n

• Removed Icelandic from locale.json.

Diagnostics

• Upgraded Fluent Bit from v.1.3.5 to v1.7.4.
• crashd
  • Handled the launch of main Panel after Removing USB (crash-report)
• rdxd
  • Restored RDX services.

Connectivity

• ConnMan
  • Fixed crash issues
• BlueZ
  • Updated kernel configuration and enabled mesh profile in bluez 5.55.

Build System & SCM

Yocto

• Upgraded to the latest revision from Yocto Dunfell 3.1

Fixed Issues

• Fixed UI issues related to language setting.
• Fixed an issue related to playing video on web pages.
• Fixed build issue related to com.sample.waylandegl.

Known Issues.

• n/a