webOS OSE 2.17.0 Release Notes

Release date: July 01, 2022

This version corresponds to the GitHub releases from build #457 to build #472.

New and Changed Features

Core Applications

System UI

• Home Launcher
  • Fixed app list delay in the launcher
  • Fixed Home app relaunch issue

System

• Settings
  • Fixed the issue that the Time and Date page is not shown
  • Fixed the time zone loading issue
• Enact Browser
  • Updated to handle virtual keyboard (VKB) Enter key in the input box

Managers & Services

App

• SAM
  • Added response for multiple attempts of registerApp method

Display

• LSM
  • Added support of legacy adaptive update for the emulator
  • Fixed video rect calculation

Media

• audiod
  • Upgraded PulseAudio version from 9.0 to 15.0

Notification

• Notification Manager
  • Fixed Popup abnormal behavior

Intelligence

• AI Service
  • Added webOS Edge AI Framework libraries
  • Hardware-accelerated TensorflowLite-based Deep Learning Inerference Framework
  • Arm Compute Library, ArmNN and OpenCV for DNN
  • EdgeAI Vision Library v1.0 (Face detetection, Pose detection, Object segmentation suppot)

Base Components

i18n/l10n

• iLib
  • Updated the latest version of loctool and plugins

Emulator

• Added 802.1Q in kernel configuration to support vlan for OSE emulator
• Added event-device-creator to OSE emulator

Build System & SCM

• Removed the meta-python2 layer
• Removed the data collection pipeline
• Upgraded the docker-moby package and its dependent packages

Fixed Issues

• n/a

Known Issues

• Sound output is not available when using the gallery app.
• Focus is not moved to the next page and the image list for the selected category is not shown in the gallery app.
• On some occasions, the settings screen is abruptly closed.
• Favicons are not displayed for some websites.