webOS OSE 1.7.0 Release Notes

Release date: April 16, 2019

This version corresponds to the GitHub releases from build #56 to build #69.

New Features

Application Framework

• SDK
  • Workflow Designer has been added.

Managers & Services

• Media
  • Camera Service has been added.
• Internationalization/Localization (i18n/l10n)
  • Virtual Keyboard (VKB) has been added.
• Intelligence
  • Context Intent Manager (CIM) has been added.
• External Device
  • Physical Device Manager (PDM) has been added.

Base Components

• Media
  • g-camera-pipeline has been added.

Changed Features

Core Applications

• Enact Browser
  • Added translation of tab titles for ‘New Tab’, ‘Bookmarks’, ‘History’, and ‘Setting’.
  • Implemented support for window.open() function.
  • Implemented a feature to fetch favicons based on link tags provided by sites.
  • Implemented a feature to show error pages for unresponsive sites.

Base Components

• Web Engine
  • Web engine has been upgraded from Chromium 53 to Chromium 68.

Fixed Issues

• Enact Browser
  • Fixed an issue where default bookmarks are reset when the browser restarts after clearing all bookmarks.
  • Fixed an issue where bookmarks are deleted incorrectly.
  • Fixed an issue where thumbnails are displayed abnormally for sites visited via Google search.
  • Fixed an issue where the last open tab is closed when the browser receives close event from a web page. (in order to keep at least one tab opened)