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Tizen 8.0 M2 Release

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Release notes

System (kernel and system framework)

New and changed features

  • Kernel

    • Kernel for Raspberry Pi 4 has been upgraded to version 5.15.92.
    • CONFIG_PSI feature of Kernel is used to monitor resources.

  • System and resource management

    • Provide the resource-manager/system-plugin-API interface to separate deviced-plugin from device management service.
      • The system-plugin-backend-deviced-headed/headless git/package have been added to support the vendor specific code without any changes of device management core.
    • Separate resourced-plugin including LMK (Low Memory Killer) & CPU boosting stall governors from resource management service.
      • The system-plugin-backend-resourced-generic git/package has been added to include the vendor specific policy according to hardware specification.
    • The light-weighted multi-user csharp-API has been supported.

  • Device and sensor management

    • Multi-theme function of sound feedback has been supported to change the feedback theme on runtime in order to provide an advanced user experience.
    • Pre suspend-wakeup notifier has been added to reduce the turn on latency of display.

  • OS upgrade

    • ISU (Individual Service Upgrade) has been supported instead of fully FOTA update to upgrade per-service quickly and reduce the FOTA cost.

  • cryptsetup

    • Version 2.3.7 has been upgraded to version 2.6.1.

Fixes

  • dbus
    • CVE-2023-34969 patch has been applied.
  • btrfs
    • CVE-2023-1611 patch has been applied.
  • systemd/cryptsetup/crash-worker/initrd/libdbuspolicy/upgrade
    • Change dependency from openssl1.1 to openssl3.

System (base)

New and changed features

  • Open source
    • python3-protobuf
      • Version 3.9.2 has been upgraded to version 4.24.1.
    • ncruses
      • Version 6.2 has been upgraded to version 6.4.

Fixes

  • Open source
    • boost
      • CVE-2018-25032 patch has been applied.
    • libarchive
      • CVE-2023-30571 patch has been applied.
    • python3-numpy
      • CVE-2023-41040 patch has been applied.
      • Add G_SLICE env to install section
      • recompile in the install section
    • grpc
      • Change dependency from openssl1.1 to openssl3
    • libzip
      • Change dependency from openssl1.1 to openssl3
    • libzypp
      • Change dependency from openssl1.1 to openssl3
    • npth
      • Change make_build macro
    • paho-mqtt-c
      • Change dependency from openssl1.1 to openssl3
    • python3
      • Change dependency from openssl1.1 to openssl3
    • python-pycurl
      • Change dependency from openssl1.1 to openssl3
    • python-pyOpenSSL
      • Change dependency from openssl1.1 to openssl3
    • rsync
      • Change dependency from openssl1.1 to openssl3
    • ncruses
      • 20231001 patch has been applied.

Application framework

New and changed features

  • Tizen Database Access Object (TDAO)
    • New feature has been ready to access a database.
      • Provide classes for DAO and Entity.
      • Provides Compile-time Verification of SQL queries.
  • TIDL
    • Support for import keyword has been added.
    • Support for method privilege has been added.
    • Support for container types has been added.
    • Support for struct inheritance has been added.
  • Launchpad
    • Loader process management has been modified.
    • Process pool feature has been added.
  • Application
    • Timezone changed event API has been added.

Fixes

  • AMD
    • Potential defects have been fixed.
  • App Installer
    • Potential defects have been fixed.

Window and interaction

New and changed features

  • Wayland
    • The version of Wayland has been upgraded to 1.21.0.
    • The wtz-screen protocol has been added.
      • wtz-screen interface provides the logical screen information and functionalities.
    • The wtz-shell protocol has been added.
      • wtz-shell and wtz-surface provide Tizen-style surface requests and events.
    • The set_auto_placement request has been added to tizen_launch_appinfo interface.
    • The set_pin_mode and unset_pin_mode requests have been added to tizen_policy interface.
    • The init_generator_with_sync request has been added to tizen_input_device_manager interface.
    • The single-pixel-buffer-v1 protocol has been added.
      • This protocol extension allows clients to create single-pixel buffers.
    • The wtz-blender protocol has been added.
      • This protocol allows clients to have more control over alpha compositing and blending of surface contents.
    • The keyboard_grab and keyboard_ungrab requests have been added to tizen_input_device_manager interface.
  • Enlightenment
    • The name of e_desk_group has been changed to e_desk_area.
    • The server protocol implementation of wtz_screen and wtz_splitscreen interfaces has been included.
    • The server protocol implementation of wtz_shell interface has been included.
    • The policies for Multi-Windows management have been added.
      • Those are Smart Launch, Snap Window, All Minimize and Smart Rotation.
    • The wheel event in touchpad has been supported.
    • The server protocol implementation of single-pixel-buffer-v1 interface has been included.
    • The server protocol implementation of wtz-blender interface has been included.
    • The server protocol implementation of tws_service_kvm interface has been included.
    • The relative pointer has been supported.
    • The pointer lock has been supported.
    • The input thread for processing key event has been separated for removing key event delivery delay element (Input Device check, Compositing, Capture, and so on).
  • Tizen WS Shell
    • The KVM service has been added.
      • KVM service provides Copy & Paste and Drag & Drop among multi-devices
      • The tws_service_kvm interface has been added to tzsh protocol.
  • TBM
    • Parallelization function to improve the authentication speed from TBM has been added.
  • TPL-EGL
    • The API to set the front buffer rendering for each surface has been provided.
    • The API to check if a surface has a fence sync has been provided.
  • Mesa
    • The version of Mesa has been upgraded to 22.3.5.
  • Vulkan
    • The version of SPIRV-Cross, SPIRV-Headers and SPIRV-Tools has been upgraded to 1.3.239.
    • The version of Vulkan-Headers, Vulkan-Hpp, Vukan-Loader and Vulkan-ValidationLayers has been upgraded to 1.3.240.
    • The version of glslang has been upgraded to 1.3.239.
  • EOM
    • EOM APIs have been deprecated.
  • Libinput
    • The version of Libinput has been upgraded to 1.22.0.
  • Libxkbcommon
    • The version of Libxkbcommon has been upgraded to 1.5.1.
  • TTS Framework
    • Supports root daemon as TTS client.
    • Supports on-demand reconnection of clients when TTS service is abnormally terminated. This is useful for low-end devices when their CPU consumption is very high.
    • Supports a client-side callback function to receive synthesized pcm data.
    • Supports a new C API to set playing mode.
  • STT Framework
    • Supports USB plug-in microphone for TV binary.
    • Supports new C APIs for audio streaming at client side.
  • Voice Control Framework
    • The IPC interface between the voice control engine and voice control clients has been changed from D-Bus to TIDL, which is a proper IPC method between applications.
    • The C API to reduce background volume when the voice manager client wants has been added.
  • MMI Framework
    • New MMI architecture has been applied.
    • Supports workflows of voice touch, wakeupless command, and user recognition.
  • Gesture Framework
    • Gesture framework has been deprecated.
  • Text Input
    • The performance to get surrounding text has been improved.
    • Autofill and Input method setting application has been reimplemented based on NUI gadget.
  • NLP
    • NLP APIs have been deprecated.

Fixes

  • TTS Framework
    • Fix threads safety issue, which TIDL IPC connection is established and closed.
  • Voice Control Framework
    • Remove the unnecessary circular dependencies on the client side.

Graphics and UI

New and changed features

  • Rendering
    • Support for multisampling level of FBO rendering has been added.
  • Scene3D
    • A new default camera for 3D scene has been added.
    • Support for asynchronous loading of Model and SceneView has been added.
    • Support for KHR_materials_specular and KHR_materials_ior extension of glTF has been added.
    • Support for embedded texture data of glTF has been added.
    • Cache manager for 3D models has been added.
    • Support for glb format has been added.
    • Support for equirectangular projection has been added.
    • Support for NavigationMesh and PathFinding has been added.
    • Support to modify Physically Based Rendering (PBR) material in runtime.
    • Support for compressed texture formats.
    • Support for directional light and shadow.
    • Support for particle system.
    • Support for integrated open source physics engine (Chipmunk for 2D, Bullet for 3D)
  • AI Avatar
    • A new NUI based avatar framework for AI feature.
    • Support for new API to control body/face motion.
    • Support for AI LipSync on device.
  • View and Window
    • Some properties have been added to the Camera.
    • An overlay layer has added to the Scene.
    • A new window type DESKTOP has been added.
    • Support for window layout has been added.
    • A BorderWindow has been added to the window.
  • Images
    • Support for CMYK jpeg image loading has been added.
    • Support for texture uploading without passing main event.
    • Support for PlaceHolder.
    • Support for image transition.
    • Masking for runtime generated image.
  • Text
    • Some text geometry APIs have been added.
    • Some text span APIs have been added.
    • Support for cache of font list
  • Drag and Drop
    • Support for multiple windows on a single process has been added.
  • Performance/Memory Improvement
    • The object sizes of some internal classes have been reduced.
    • Message processing logic has been optimized.
    • Some matrix operations have been optimized.
    • Unnecessary ClipBoard creation has been removed.
    • Performance optimization of layouting.
    • Graphics backend optimization
  • Aurum
    • Support for UI context changed event has been added.
    • Support for UI scrolling finished event has been added.
    • Support for enabling xPath command
    • Support for getting the window rotation angle
    • Support for getting information whether the application is idle or not
    • Improves the performance of finding element
    • Support for window rotation function
    • Improves the performance of creating xPath
  • UI Analyzer (internal Tool)
    • Support for the information of rotated window
    • Support for enhanced test recording
    • Support for testing validation
    • Support for playing the recorded tests and showing the result
    • Support for saving the recorded tests and loading the saved file
    • Support for playing the smoke tests automatically
  • Vector Animation
    • Tizenvg has been updated to the latest thorvg.

Fixes

  • Various partial update defects have been fixed.
  • A transform matrix calculation defect has been fixed.
  • A screen rotation defect has been fixed.
  • Various BMP decoder defects have been fixed.
  • Various text defects have been fixed.
  • Various Aurum defects have been fixed.
  • Various touch and gesture defects have been fixed.
  • Fixes the crash issue for web application.
  • Fix the crash issue when the click function works.
  • Fix the memory leak.

Multimedia framework

New and changed features

  • Open source
    • GStreamer version 1.20.0 has been upgraded to version 1.22.0.
    • Ffmpeg version 4.4.1 has been upgraded to version 5.1.2.
    • Taglib version 1.12 has been upgraded to version 1.13.
    • Tiff version 4.3.0 has been upgraded to version 4.4.0.
    • GraphicsMagicK version 1.3.36 has been upgraded to version 1.3.38.
    • libwebp version 1.2.1 has been upgraded to version 1.2.4.
    • libjpeg-turbo version 2.1.1 has been upgraded to version 2.1.4.
    • libpng version 1.6.37 has been upgraded to version 1.6.38.
    • libjxl version 0.6.1 has been upgraded to version 0.7.0.
  • Media Camera
    • New APIs for camera device manager have been added.
    • New APIs for focus level been added.
  • Native WebRTC
    • New APIs for audio mute have been added.
    • Some display functions have been changed to return not-supported error on a headless binary.
  • Media Content
    • Deprecated some storage related APIs and unused media metadata have been removed.
    • Deprecated thumbnail util APIs have been removed.
  • Audio Framework
    • New APIs for sound effects have been added.
      • Supports Acoustic Echo Cancellation functionality.
      • Supports Noise Suppression based on neural network.
      • Supports Automatic Gain Control.
      • Supports to be able to get a reference playback stream when recording sound.
  • Media Player
    • New APIs for video codec type settings have been added.
  • MediaController
    • Add new Capability APIs
      • New C# APIs for PlaybackPosition, PlaylistCapability, CustomCommandCapability, SearchCapability has been added.

Network and connectivity

New and changed features

  • Network
    • 6GHz band for Wi-Fi 6E has been added.
    • New API for getting 6GHz band support has been added.
    • New APIs to provide DHCP state and its event have been added.
    • New enumeration for no carrier error has been added.
  • Bluetooth
    • New API for setting advertising flags has been added.
    • New APIs for extended advertising have been added.
    • New APIs for scanning extended advertisement have been added.
  • Open source
    • ConnMan version has been upgraded to 1.41.

Fixes

  • Network
    • The logic for passphrase decryption has been fixed.
    • Some logics for BSS transition have been added.
  • Bluetooth
    • Failed issue when you fill advertising data with maximum bytes has been fixed.
    • Invalid handle issue when gatt connected with the bonded device has been fixed.
    • Registering gatt client failed issue has been fixed.
    • EIR manufacturer data parsing issue has been fixed.

Security

New and changed features

  • Privacy privilege manager
    • Privacy privilege manager (PPM) feature has been deprecated.
  • Key manager
    • Supports multi-staged encryption.
    • Supports importing and exporting wrapped key.
    • Supports key derivation with ECDH and KBKDF.

Service framework

New and changed features

  • Account Framework
    • FIDO Client has been deprecated.
  • Sync-Manager
    • Potential defects have been fixed.
  • Location Manager
    • Native APIs of Maps Service has been deprecated.
    • Native APIs Geofence Manager has been deprecated.
    • C# APIs of Maps Service has been deprecated.
    • C# APIs of Geofence Manager has been deprecated.
  • Messaging
    • Native APIs of Email service has been deprecated.
    • C# APIs of Email Service has been deprecated.
    • Native APIs of Messaging service has been deprecated.
    • C# APIs of Messaging service has been deprecated.

Web framework

New and changed features

  • Web Engine
    • SoundFocusManager for web media has been supported.
    • Accessibility has been supported.
    • H.264 codec for public profile has been supported.
    • ewk_view_ime_window_set to support IME for NUI has been added.
  • Web Runtime
    • Views-based splash screen has been applied.

Fixes

  • Rotation defect in offscreen mode has been fixed.
  • Media suspend/resume defect between apps has been fixed.
  • Text Drag and Drop defect has been fixed.
  • Crash in ScrollFocusedNode has been fixed.

Lightweight web solution

New and changed features

  • Lightweight Web Engine
  • Web Engine
  • Service Worker lifecycle has been supported.
  • Caching responses on network requests in the Service Worker has been supported.
  • Maplike declaration has been added.
  • JavaScript Engine
  • ECMAscript feature (from ES2022) has been added.

Fixes

  • Lightweight Web Engine
  • Network loader defects have been fixed.
  • Memory leak defects have been fixed.
  • URL parsing defects have been fixed.
  • History management defects have been fixed.

Tizen .NET

New and changed features

  • TizenFx
    • Tizen.Content.MediaContent
      • Deprecated properties have been removed from MediaInfoColumns class.
      • Deprecated classes (StorageType/Storage/StorageCommand) have been removed.
    • Tizen.Applications.PackageManager
      • ClearUserData method has been added.
    • Tizen.Applications.RPCPort
      • New constructor has been added to Parcel class.
    • Tizen.Nlp has been deprecated.
    • Tizen.Security.PrivacyPrivilegeManager has been deprecated.
    • Tizen.Security.DevicePolicyManager has been deprecated.
    • Tizen.Multimedia.Camera
      • New setting APIs have been added.
    • Tizen.Data.Tdbc has been added.
    • Tizen.Applications.Common
      • New resource control APIs have been added.
    • Tizen.Multimedia.Remoting
      • WebRTCStatisticsProperty enum have been updated.
    • Tizen.Multimedia.Vision
      • New QR APIs have been added.
    • Tizen.Content.Download
      • New caching APIs have been added.
    • Tizen.Location.Geofence has been deprecated.
    • Tizen.Messaging.Email has been deprecated.
    • Tizen.Messaging.Messages has been deprecated.
    • Tizen.Applications.ComponentBased
      • TimeZoneChanged event handler has been added.
    • Tizen.Applications.Common
      • TimeZoneEvent has been added.
    • Tizen.Multimedia.Vision
      • InferenceTargetType and InferenceBackendType have been removed.
    • Tizen.Uix.Tts
      • New TTS synthesized PCM APIs have been added.
    • Tizen.Account.FidoClient has been deprecated.
    • Tizen.NUI.Scene3D
      • MotionData class has been added.

Machine learning

New and changed features

  • Machine Learning (ML) API updates
    • ML.Service API Updates
      • Add new APIs to separately manage ML model files. These APIs allow ML applications to exploit the latest ML model deployed without code-level modifications that require re-packaging and re-distribution of the whole application.
      • AI Inference offloading between Tizen and TizenRT has been improved. The binary size of NNStreamer-Edge is optimized.
      • Add new APIs for machine learning resource which contains images, audio, video and binary files. These APIs provides a method to share the data files those can be used for training or inferencing the AI models.
      • Add new utility functions to handle the key-value style information. This information object can be used to update the configuration and check the internal status.
    • ML.Inference API Updates
      • Add new API to use extended rank limit. To maintain the backward compatibility, the default rank limit is 4. The extended rank is only used when new API is called.
      • Support TensorFlow Lite v2.11.0 by default.
    • ML.Training API Updates
      • Add Identify Layer as a utility layer which flows everything as it is.
      • Add learning rate scheduling features.
      • Step learning rate scheduling.
      • Exponent learning rate scheduling.
      • Add API to get the weight data.
  • NNStreamer updates
    • NNStreamer has been upgraded to version 2.4.0.
    • Support for large-size model of the NNStreamer pipeline has been added.
      • The number of rank limit has been increased up to 16.
      • The number of tensor limit has been increased up to 256.
    • Support for the model storage of Device MLOps has been added.
      • Model management feature such as register, fetch active model, update, and delete has been added. Using this feature, ML applications can share their model with other applications.
    • Pipeline based data repository and training feature has been added.
      • New NNStreamer elements such as datareposrc, datareposink, and tensor_trainer have been added.
      • Support for the training in AI pipeline has been added.
  • NNTrainer updates
    • Support proactive swap which utilizes secondary storage for less memory consumption.
      • Add Cache Pool/Cache Loader/Cache Element classes.
      • Update Memory pool and planner for better utilization.
    • Added Execution order and memory usage tracing for debugging.
    • Added TFLite exporter which generates inference model for tflite (unstable).
  • Open source updates
    • TensorFlow-Lite2 has been upgraded to version 2.11.0.
    • Flatbuffers has been upgraded to version 2.0.6.

Fixes

  • Reported bugs in NNStreamer and ML API have been fixed.

Known issues

  • XNNPACK delegate of TensorFlow-Lite2 is temporarily disabled due to the toolchain version issue.

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