webOS OSE 2.9.0 Release Notes

Release date: January 22, 2021

This version corresponds to the GitHub releases from build #264 to build #295.

New and Changed Features

Core Applications

System

• Enact Browser
  • Enabled built-in error page
  • Fixed movement of volume bar smoothly

Application Framework

SDK

• Released Command-Line Interface (CLI) 2.0.3

Managers & Services

App

• SAM
  • Added unifiedsearch service
  • Added rootfs directory to webos-initscripts repository
• Memory Manager
  • Removed legacy APIs which are not used by other components
  • Added new sysInfo API
  • Modified sysInfo format
  • Moved service creation from initialization to sysInfo call

Connectivity

• Bluetooth Manager
  • Fixed hfp service crash when index string is empty
  • Fixed delay reporting event while device disconnect
• Included iotivity native sample for webos-iot packagegroup
• Implemented a Nyx Module to integrate the GPS HW
• Implemented the config based port usage of GPS HW
• Updated to handle GPS Nyx module error scenarios
• Added SelectRole dbus method to change a2dp roles
• Corrected error code for mock GPS HW
• Modified API groups as per ACG guidelines

Display

• LSM
  • Aligned input position by mirror item’s offset
  • Fixed LSM issues with webOS foreign protocol and some others
  • Added qtbase-plugins-webos which provides webOS EGLFS platform plugin
  • Fixed the keyboard modifier issue

Intelligence

• AI
  • Modified API groups as per ACG guidelines
•  TTS
  • Modified API groups as per ACG guidelines

Media

• audiod
  • Fixed multi-instance audio mute and unmute issue for URI player
  • Modified API groups as per ACG guidelines

System Service

• Provided internal category permission for settings service API permission file
• Added fix for deviceNum for camera
• Modified API groups as per ACG guidelines

Web App Framework

• Enact Framework
  • Updated for new moonstone repo structure

Web Engine

• Blink
  • Implemented a feature to shift the cursor position when overlapped by the VKB input field
  • Upgraded Chromium to v84
  • Added mksnapshot-cross recipe to build mksnapshot only

Base Components

Connectivity

• BlueZ
  • AVRCP Fix filter argument in search API

i18n

• Updated the latest version of loctool and plugins to OSE
• Updated iLib to version 14.6.2

BSP

Build System & SCM

Yocto

• Updated to the latest revision from Yocto Dunfell 3.1

Initscript

• Added intent symbolic link

SCM

• Fixed various issues leading to host-user-contaminated QA errors in Qt
• Fixed linking error with ld-gold

coreOS

• Added backward compatibility layer
• Modified to loop through all the trust level providers for searching wildcard services

Fixed Issues

• Fixed the issue when a user sets mute on the primary display the audio on the secondary display is also muted.

Known Issues

• Enact Browser’s popup test for opening parent pages doesn’t display parent pages properly.
• Long tap on a recently visited site from the Enact Browser occasionally doesn’t invoke a remove button to pop up.