Tizen 4.0 Public M3

Release date: Aug. 31, 2018

The Tizen 4.0 Public M3 release provides developers with the Tizen kernel, device drivers, middleware subsystems, and Web/Native API set.

¶Release details

• Getting source code (Tizen 4.0 M2 source codes are under tizen_4.0 branch.)

• Getting binaries and images

  • Base: http://download.tizen.org/releases/milestone/tizen/4.0-base/tizen-4.0-base_20180817.1/
  • Mobile: http://download.tizen.org/releases/milestone/tizen/4.0-unified/tizen-4.0-unified_20180821.6/images/standard/mobile-wayland-armv7l-tm1/
  • Wearable: http://download.tizen.org/releases/milestone/tizen/4.0-unified/tizen-4.0-unified_20180821.6/images/standard/wearable-wayland-armv7l-tw2/

• How to flash to a device

¶Release notes

¶System (kernel and system Framework)

¶Fixes

• Security improvement
  • Systemd patch has been applied for CVE-2018-1049.

¶System (base)

¶New and changed features

• The following Open-source libraries have been upgraded:
  • file (5.32)
    • CVE-2018-10360
  • sqlite (3.21.0)
    • CVE-2018-8740
  • libxml (2.9.7)
    • CVE-2018-9251
  • libxslt (1.1.31)
  • procps-ng (3.3.15)
    • CVE-2018-1126, CVE-2018-1125, CVE-2018-1124, CVE-2018-1123, CVE-2018-1122
  • tzdata (2017c)
  • unzip (6.10c23)
    • CVE-2018-1000031, CVE-2018-1000032, CVE-2018-1000033
  • vim (8.0.586)

¶Application framework

¶New and changed features

• TIDL (Tizen Interface Definition Language) has been added (Mobile profile).
  • TIDL supports app-to-app RPC style IPC.
  • rpc-port API has been added to support TIDL.

¶Window system

¶New and changed features

• Extended Wayland Protocols
  • The 'event_surface' event has been added to tizen_keyrouter protocol for sending the surface information before sending the key to client(s).
• Enlightenment Wayland Display Server
  • A D-Bus policy has been updated to enhance security regarding D-Bus interface.
  • A new layer has been added for e_desk_object.
  • New hooks regarding HW compositing have been provided for vendor's enlightenment module(s) to handle HWC policy properly.
• Tizen buffer HAL
  • Add the tbm_dummy_display.
  • Add the tbm_surface_internal_set/get_damage.

¶Fixes

• Enlightenment Wayland Display Server
  • The bugs regarding sending pre-unobscured visibility event have been fixed.
  • The bugs related to uniconify_render have been fixed.
  • The bug not returning to the default screen mode has been fixed.
  • The error that the quick panel doesn't disappear has been fixed.
  • The bugs related with pending position move request have been fixed.
  • The bugs related with hwc cancel condition have been fixed.
  • E_Desk smart object disorder has been fixed while zooming and maximizing member object.
  • The error of not sending touch cancel event in some special conditions has been fixed.
  • The error of not sending axis event during a touchdown operation has been fixed.

¶Graphics engine

¶New and changed features

• DALi (3D UI Toolkit)
  • Actor and Stage
    • Extents property type has been added.
  • Image
    • Support for 1, 2 and 4 bit depths of PNG has been added.
    • Support for CMYK colorspace of JPG has been added.
    • Support for screen capture has been added for a wearable device.
    • Memory usage to load GIF files has been reduced.
    • Support for remote GIF images has been added.
  • Window and Application
    • An environment variable to set the default indicator visible mode has been added.
    • New signals for battery and memory status have been added.
    • Support for widget application has been added.
  • Key event and input
    • Delete and return key handling has been added.
    • Shift+Left/Right keys support for text selection and Ctrl+C/V/X keys support for text copy/paste/cut have been added.
    • The keyboard repeat information API set have been added.
  • Text
    • Support for custom font registration has been added.
    • Support for XHTML entities has been added.
    • Support for soft shadow and outline has been added.
    • Unicode range of emoji script has been updated based on the latest Unicode specification.
    • A configuration value has been added to ignore the font size change event.
  • Control, Visual, and Style
    • MARGIN and PADDING properties have been added to Control.
    • Support for resetting an image has been added to ImageView.
    • Release policy, load policy and orientation correction properties have been added to ImageVisual.
    • API to get the visual resource status has been added to Control.
    • Support for right-to-left of padding and margin has been added to controls.
    • Text direction property has been added to TextLabel.
    • Support for 360x360 resource package has been added.
    • An auxiliary image has been added to NPatchVisual.
    • An action to reload an image has been added to ImageVisual.
    • Support for line spacing has been added to TextLabel.
  • Performance
    • Certain GL calls have been disabled when depth and/or stencil buffers are not available.
    • A PropertyRetter has been added to reset only animated or constrained properties.
    • String compares in Render have been reduced.
  • Video
    • API set to set a codec type have been added.
    • API set to set a display mode have been added.
    • API set to set a play position have been added.
  • NUI (C# interface)
    • API set to handle AGIF playback have been added.
    • Set property of VerticalLineAlignment has been added.
    • API set for KeyboardRepeatInfo of Window have been added.
    • Protection codes to avoid the crash when the IntPtr of Key class is 0 have been added.
    • Protection codes to change Registry as concurrent collection have been added.
• Evas Render Engine
  • Support for EvasGL thread separation on direct rendering mode has been added.
  • The pre-compiled shader list has been optimized for boot time enhancement.
  • Support for the Evas GL capability test has been added.
  • EGL Sync is added for EvasGL's EGLImage.

¶Fixes

• DALi (3D UI Toolkit)
  • The blending factor of premultiplied alpha format has been fixed.
  • The depth index bug has been fixed in 3D layer.
  • The bug where a depth buffer is sometimes not cleared has been fixed.
  • The bug where a render task is waiting forever has been fixed.
  • The system language change bug has been fixed.
  • When same child object is added to same parent object, an Exception was occurred. This bug has been fixed. (C# NUI)
  • Bug of memory leak problem caused by wrong increased ref-cnt has been fixed. (C# NUI)
  • Bug of View's SiblingOrder has been fixed. (C# NUI)
  • Bug of crash when getting Parent property as View has been fixed. (C# NUI)
• Evas Render Engine Enhancement
  • The resource sharing issue is fixed in Evas TBM backend.

¶UI framework

¶New and changed features

• EFL
  • Assist-panel is added.
  • Rotary Selector support edit mode.
• Voice Framework
  • Voice engine model is changed to a service app for supporting download (only for mobile and TV profile).

¶Multimedia framework

¶New and changed features

• Camera
  • New API set for hue setting have been added.
  • Maximum supported number of camera is changed from 2 to 10.
  • Pre-condition of setting ROI area API has been changed.
• Media Content
  • New Features are added.
    • http://tizen.org/feature/content.scanning.others for scanning OTHERS-type files which are not included in the media content types such as IMAGE, VIDEO, SOUND or MUSIC.
    • http://tizen.org/feature/content.filter.pinyin for supporting the Pinyin Filter.
• Media Controller
  • In the Mobile profile, repeat mode on for one media enumeration has been added.
  • In the Mobile profile, new API set for supporting playlist have been added.
  • In the Mobile profile, new API set for sending command and receiving command reply have been added.
  • In the Mobile profile, new API set for sending custom event and receiving event reply have been added.
  • In the Mobile profile, the API set for supporting metadata have been changed.
  • In the Mobile profile, the API set for sending custom command and receiving custom reply have been changed.
  • In the Mobile profile, the callbacks for receiving update information have been changed.
  • In the Mobile profile, some playback states enumerations have been changed.
• Player
  • Pre-condition of setting ROI area API has been changed.
• Muse
  • Support the on-demand launching using socket activation.
  • Add initial gtest codes.
  • Update message IPC mechanism.

¶Network and connectivity

¶Fixes

• Data Network
  • A memory leak in the stc-manager has been fixed.
  • The bug in stc-manager that caused a missing process in booting time has been fixed.
  • CVE patches for Open-source packages have been applied.
    • curl: CVE-2017-8816, CVE-2017-8817, CVE-2017-1000101, CVE-2017-1000257, CVE-2018-1000005, CVE-2018-1000007, CVE-2018-000122, CVE-2018-1000300 and CVE-2018-1000301
    • libsoup: CVE-2017-2885
    • libcares: CVE-2017-1000381
  • Major Open-source package upgrades
    • wpa-supplicant has been upgraded to 2.6.
    • nghttp2 has been upgraded to 1.31.1.
    • strongswan has been upgraded to 5.6.3.
    • dnsmasq has been upgraded to 2.79.
    • openvpn has been upgraded to 2.4.6.
  • The bug in download-provider that extract wrong file extension has been fixed.
• Telephony
  • The bug that caused a delay when shutdown is executed has been fixed.
• Bluetooth
  • The bug in multi advertising scenario has been fixed.
  • The native API reference errors have been fixed.

¶Security

¶New and changed features

• Security-manager
  • Support application update between wen application and hybrid application.
  • Remove package manager privileges from User::Shell client.
• Cynara
  • Add dlog as Tizen-specific logging option.
• Askuser
  • Handling H/W key event / end effect / screen reader.
  • Add language set.
• Nether
  • Change nether rule to use raw table for UDP packets.

¶Service framework

¶Fixes

• Context
  • Removed critical information from logs.
  • Fixed potential defects.
• Account
  • Fixed Secure information leaks.
• Email
  • Performance enhancement fixes.
• Contact
  • Fixed graceful handling of non standard charset.
• Maps
  • Fixed potential defects.
• Location
  • Fixed potential defects.
• Sensor
  • Fixed potential defects.
• Calendar
  • Fixed potential defects.

¶Tizen .NET

¶New and changed features

• Xamarin.Forms
  • Xamarin.Forms version 3.1.0 Service Release 2 is supported.
  • New Tizen.Wearable.CircularUI API set have been added for wearable apps.
  • New Tizen application project templates (Tizen Wearable App and Tizen Watchface App) have been added.