A new and improved home is introduced in WebOS 2.18
The release of the open platform webOS Open Source Edition 2.18, version in which among the most outstanding aspects of this version are the update to Qt 6.3.1, as well as the introduction of a new version of the Home application, among other changes.
For those who are still unaware of webOS Open Source Edition (or also known as webOS OSE), you should know that the webOS platform was originally developed by Palm in 2008. In 2013, the platform was purchased from Hewlett-Packard by LG and is now used in more than 70 million LG televisions and consumer devices. In 2018, the webOS Open Source Edition project was founded, through which LG tried to return to the open development model, attract other participants and expand the range of webOS-compatible devices.
Main new features of WebOS Open Source Edition 2.18
In this new version of webOS OSE 2.18 it is highlighted that a new Home app update. The Home app has adopted a new style of iconography and background design, app bar, and status bar to provide a better user interface experience.
In the web engine was implemented ldetection of malware sites using the Web Risk API, as well as a fix added to receive the authentication key in AES-CTR encrypted format.
Also highlighted in this new version of WebOS Open Source Edition 2.18 that has been enabled as performance analyzer for raspberrypi4-64, as well as a new recipe to build only the Gator kernel module.
Another change that was made in this new version was in the browser, which has been changed to not display VKB that were displayed on previous sites on the following browsing sites, in addition to that fixed favicon search issue.
In addition to this, we can also find the support for 4K resolution, has been enabled Generic AV support (GAV) in the OSE emulator, as well as added gstreamer-bad plugin patches related to initial window size.
Implemented GAV support in Chromium for gstreamer pipeline, plus changes were implemented to fix setvolume failure and rtp playback failure.
Of the other changes that stand out from this new version of WebOS Open Source Edition 2.18:
- Fixed a system directory preparation issue in the emulator without stock configuration
- Fixed popup reappearance issue
- Fixed text message issue
- Added RasterSurface type support for qtwayland clients
- Modified to use the same shipping for all 3 DISTROs
- Fixed the issue that the image viewer application does not start when displaying a media file that does not exist
- to send a custom prepare event seamlessly when there is no flush cheat.
- Added video info message and disabled subsurface in subcomposer
- Added support for receiving key events
- Modified to handle invalid argument exception thrown from Stoll
- Media support disabled in Chromium for emulator
- Added i2c/getPollingFd method in ACG group of peripheralmanager.i2c.operation
unified search - users/groups of some services changed to non-root
- Added some users and groups to support stricter DACs
Finally, if you are interested in knowing more about this new released version, you can consult the details In the following link.
How to get webOS Open Source Edition 2.18?
For those who are interested in being able to use or test webOS Open Source Edition it is necessary to generate the system image for their device, for this they can consult the steps to follow from the following link
It is worth mentioning that the Raspberry Pi 4 boards are considered as the reference hardware platform. The platform is developed in a public repository under the Apache 2.0 license, and the development is supervised by the community, following a collaborative development management model.