webOS OSE 2.5.0 Release Notes

Release date: May 12, 2020

This version corresponds to the GitHub releases from build #175 to build #197.

New and Changed Features

Application Framework

SDK

• Released Command-Line Interface (CLI) 1.11.1.

Managers & Services

Media

• uMS
  • Enabled hardware acceleration based media pipeline for RPi4.
• audiod
  • Enabled dual audio output through USB devices.

i18n/l10n

• Added Georgian locale.

Base Components

i18n/l10n

• Upgraded the iLib library from v14.4.0 to v14.6.0.

BSP

Connectivity

• Added NYX GPS module.

Fixed Issues

• Fixed the issue that video frames are not visible in RPi4.
• Speeded up the ostree image booting time.
• Changed luna-init to use Python 3 APIs instead, as Python 2.7 APIs are not supported anymore.
• In qml-webos-framework, replaced appId with LS2_NAME and displayAffinity with DISPLAY_ID when launching qml-runner.

Known Issues

• com.webos.service.ai.voice/getResponse transits to the answering state twice when using Google Assistant API.
• As the RPi4 kernel doesn’t recognize a hard-disk of size 2TiB with NTFS filesystem, com.webos.service.pdm/getAttachedStorageDeviceList returns "isMounted": false.
• The target device reboots if available memory is less than 7MB.