webOS OSE 2.26.0 Release Notes

Release date: June 05, 2024

This version corresponds to the GitHub releases from build #686 to build #737.

New and Changed Features

Managers & Services

App

• SAM
  • Fixed inconsistencies between platform and API documentation.
• appinstalld2
  • Support Progressive Web App (PWA) installation.

Display

• LSM
  • Support secure rendering for dmabuf.

Media

• audiod
  • Fixed subscription returns of controlPlayback and getPlaybackStatus methods.

i18n/l10n

• Update Noto fonts for Unicode v15.1.

Misc.

• Power
  • Fixed inconsistencies between platform and API documentation.

External Device

• Storage access manager
  • Fixed a bug that caused mounting errors with the Samba server.

Base Components

Media

• Support pause and audio-only recording.
• Support audio control features for short sound and system sound: stop, pause, resume, setup volume, mute, and unmute.
• GStreamer
  • Stop supporting GStreamer-based Neva MSE playback.
  • Implement UnifiedDecodebin in Rust language.

i18n/l10n

• iLib
  • Upgraded loctool from v1.15.4 to v1.16.0.
  • Upgraded iLib from v14.18.0 to v14.20.0.
  • Added a new ilib-loctool-webos-dart plugin for the Dart file format localization.

Web Engine

• Blink
  • Support web push using the Google Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) server.
  • Support proxy feature for the Enact browser.

Build System & SCM

• Upgrade lemon to v3.44.2 to fix an issue reported from GitHub.
• Backport upstream changes for Yocto 5.0.
• Prohibit the use of DISTRO-related strings at component build.
• Limit the use of MACHINE-related strings to only when necessary.

Known Issues

• When the user opens a WebEx URL in the secondary display, the URL is opened in the primary display.