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
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.