webOS OSE 2.18.0 Release Notes

Release date: September 02, 2022

This version corresponds to the GitHub releases from build #473 to build #496.

New and Changed Features

Core Applications

System UI

• Added new home app delivery

System

• Enact Browser
  • Fixed the favicon fetch issue
  • Modified not to display VKB that were displayed in previous sites in the next navigating sites
  • Fixed popup reappears issue

Sample Apps

• Camera
  • Fixed text message issue

Managers & Services

App

• SAM
  • Adjusted timeout for retrying to terminate running applications

Display

• LSM
  • Added support of RasterSurface type for qtwayland clients
  • Added support of 4K resolution

Media

• mediaindexer
  • Fixed the issue that the image viewer application is not launched when a media file that doesn’t exist is displayed

Settings

• configd
  • Enabled data collection pipeline

Misc.

• System Service
  • Added i2c/getPollingFd method in peripheralmanager.i2c.operation ACG group
• unifiedsearch
  • users/groups of some services changed to non-root
  • Added some users and groups to support more strict DAC

Base Components

Display

• Qt
  • Upgraded Qt to 6.3.1

Media

• Enabled Generic AV (GAV) support in the OSE emulator

• Added gstreamer-bad plugin patches related to initial window size

• Added video information message and disabled subsurface in subcompositor

• Implemented to send prepare-seamless-seek custom event when non-flush trick 

• Implemented changes for fixing setvolume failure and rtp playback failure

• Added support for receiving key events

• Modified to handle invalid argument exception thrown from stoll

• Added GAV support in Chromium for gstreamer pipeline

• Disabled media support in Chromium for emulator

i18n/l10n

• Updated iLib and localization tool

Connectivity

• Modified to use the same submission for all 3 DISTROs

Web Engine

• Implemented malware site detection using Web Risk API

• Added fix for receiving auth key in AES-CTR encrypted format

Emulator

• Fixed a prepare-system-dirs issue on emulator without serial setting

Build System & SCM

• Modified versioning policy of lsb-release

• Modified Gator to build gator daemon only

• Added new recipe to build gator kernel module only

• Enabled Gator as Performance Analyzer for raspberrypi4-64

Fixed Issues

• 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.

Known Issues

• Sound output is not available when using the gallery app.
• VKB layout becomes smaller before closing.
• VKB is not dismissed when the UP key is pressed multiple times.
• Users cannot play back and search for recorded images through the camera app.
• When playing video content with Enact Browser in a dual display environment, HTML5 video played in the first tab continuous to play and its sound is heard even after opening the second tab.