webOS OSE 2.8.0 Release Notes

Release date: November 13, 2020

This version corresponds to the GitHub releases from build #251 to build #263.

New and Changed Features

Core Applications

System

• Enact Browser
  • Allowed the ‘media’ permission request
  • Handled the ’newwindow’ event with the ’new_popup’ disposition
  • Added the support of pop-under feature for OAuth operation

Application Framework

SDK

• Released Command-Line Interface (CLI) 1.13.1

Managers & Services

App

• Memory Manager
  • Enabled memcg for 5.4 kernel

Intelligence

• TTS
  • Modified the stop method’s way of handling the msgID parameter

Media

• Added the support for calling the notifyMediaPlayback API of the Bluetooth service
• Added methods to the mediacontroller API such as mute/unmute status and event, playing position, and media duration
• Newly added the mediaindexer service

Base Components

Boot

• bootd
  • Updated to check whether Display 2 is connected or disconnected when running on the emulator to get the launcher and the bare app in the secondary display

Display

• Qt
  • Updated qtbase/qtdeclarative patches with the latest upstream version

BSP

Build System & SCM

Yocto

• Upgraded to the latest revision from Yocto Dunfell 3.1

Fixed Issues

• n/a

Known Issues

• When a user sets mute on the primary display, then the audio on the secondary display is also muted.