webOS OSE 2.27.0 Release Notes

Release date: November 05, 2024

This version corresponds to the GitHub releases from build #738 to build #799.

New and Changed Features

Core Applications

System

• Settings
  • Introduce custom.js for customizing color theme of the Settings app.
• Enact browser
  • Stabilize the code and fix minor bugs.

Sample Apps

• Fixed a bug where the video call app launched WebEx URLs on another display.

Application Framework

Web

• Enact
  • Upgrade Enact CLI to v6.1.2.
  • Upgrade jsdoc-to-ts to v1.0.6.
  • Upgrade Sandstone v2.9.1.

Managers & Services

App

• WAM
  • Apply C++20.

Display

• LSM
  • Fix the frame drop issue.

Media

• mediacontroller
  • Add a new method: setSupportedAction

Connectivity

• nettools
  • Refactor build process.

Misc.

• Sys Service
  • Remove Qt dependency from luna-sysservice.
• Peripheral Service
  • Remove the virtual UART Device.

External Device

• Fix crash issues in the storage access service.

Base Components

Display

• Qt
  • Upgrade Qt from v6.7.2.

Web Engine

• Replace the App Shell-based Enact browser with a Browser Shell-based browser.

performance

• Introduce polkit.

BSP

Media

• Change PCM operation to non-atomic to prevent scheduling bug.

Build System & SCM

• Fix a bug where a fetch process was failed (from https://freedesktop.org).
• Apply a memory leak patch for OpenSSL.
• Change the file extension of emulator images: .wic.vmdk > .wic.vmdk.gz

Known Issues

N/A