Tizen 6.0 Public M2

Release date: Oct. 27, 2020

Release details

Release notes

System (kernel and system framework)

New and changed features

  • Kernel upgrade
    • Kernel for Raspberry Pi 4 has been upgraded to version 5.4.50.
  • 64Bit Kernel and Boot Support
    • 64Bit Kernel and Boot for Raspberry Pi 4 has been supported.
  • Lightweight KSM
    • Reference lightweight version of Kernel Samepage Merging (LKSM) in Raspberry PI 4 Kernel and resourced extension with LKSM has been implemented.
  • System management
    • Runtime storage verification with dm-verity has been developed.
    • Systemd has been optimized for better boot performance.
  • D-Bus
    • Algorithms for D-Bus policy check have been improved for reducing the D-Bus call latency.
    • D-Bus implementation on public API set has been optimized.
  • Logger
    • QoS feature has been developed for limiting and fully utilizing log usage.
    • A deduplication feature has been developed for preventing repeated logs.
    • CPU usage on dlog_logger has been optimized with added configurations.
  • Device and resource management
    • Doze mode has been developed for power saving during the LCD off period.
    • The Always-on-display feature has been improved for better user experience.
    • Configurable CPU pinning for heterogeneous cores has been developed.
    • Monitoring for CPU lock timeout has been improved to prevent battery drain.
    • C API set for obtaining battery information has been added.
    • C# API set for power management QoS has been added.

Fixes

  • System and device management
    • The emergency mode has been fixed to remove wrong service dependencies.

System (system reliability and OS upgrade)

New and changed features

  • Update package signing/verification has been enhanced.
  • A recovery package signer/verifier has been added.
  • Removable storage-based update/recovery has been supported.
  • Update result API has been enhanced.
  • Diagnostics API, which can be used to retrieve diagnostic information from the system like system crash, has been added.
  • The ability to resolve Callstack from updatable applications has been added.
  • Core dumps with reduced size for C# programs have been added.

System (base)

New and changed features

  • The capi-base-utils API set has been expanded.
    • New
      • ures: Resource management module.

Fixes

  • The capi-system-system-settings API has been refactored.

Application framework

New and changed features

  • TIDL Extension
    • API set
      • The API set for synchronous connection has been added.
      • New keywords for sharing files have been added.
    • Tools
      • Tools for analyzing latency and throughput have been provided.
      • The enhanced TIDL compiler using receive threads to improve concurrency has been provided.
  • Multi-package installer
    • API set
      • The API set has been provided to install multiple packages at once.
    • Tools
      • Tools have been provided to install multiple packages at once.
  • Tizen Theme Manager
    • Getting resources
      • The API set for obtaining related resource path using a specific resource key has been provided.
    • Theme changed event
      • The API set for receiving the changed event from the app when changing the settings has been provided.
    • Theme overlay
      • Overlay function between the default theme and the selected theme has been provided.

Window and interaction

New and changed features

  • Interaction
    • Gesture FW and engine
      • The API set to receive the event for hand gesture has been supported.
      • Gesture Framework for managing multi gesture clients and engines has been supported.
      • The service app for the default gesture engine has been supported.
      • Support for on-demand daemon launch has been added.
  • Enlightenment Wayland display server
    • Display Compatibility for the Legacy Widget application has been added. Without any modification, Legacy Widget applications can be viewed on different screen sizes than that it was originally designed for.
  • Ecore buffer
    • The ecore-buffer and ecore-buffer-queue API set has been deprecated.
  • Tizen-ws-shell
    • A new enumeration has been added to support a new type of Quickpanel service.
  • Quickpanel C# Support
    • C# API set for Quickpanel client and service has been added (Tizen.NUI.WindowSystem.Shell).
  • The libds API set used to create and configure Wayland-based display server has been newly added.

Graphics engine

New and changed features

  • DALi (3D UI Toolkit)
    • API set of DALi has been deprecated. DALi API set has been replaced with NUI (DALi C# layer).
  • NUI
    • Common
      • Throwing an exception has been added when some methods are used in worker threads.
      • Support for ComponentApplications has been added.
    • Image
      • Support for WebP image has been added.
      • Support for asynchronous loading of gif images has been added.
    • Input
      • The keyboard repeat setting changed event has been added.
    • Utility
      • Some Capture API set has been added.

Fixes

  • NUI
    • View
      • The View size-related bug has been fixed when setting and animating the size are used at the same time.
      • A PropertyNotification bug has been fixed.
      • Some bugs of GaussianBlurVies have been fixed.
      • Some bugs of TextLabels have been fixed.
    • Common
      • Some memory leak bugs have been fixed.

UI framework

New and changed features

  • EFL
    • Version 1.24 has been upgraded to version 1.25.
    • Support for gengrid has been added for the wearable profile.
    • Support for evas vector graphics has been added.
    • Support for relative container has been added.

Multimedia framework

New and changed features

  • Camera
    • Support for platform privilege has been added.
  • MediaStreamer
    • Native WebRTC API set has been added.
      • MEDIA_STREAMER_PARAM_WEBRTC_PEER_TYPE
      • MEDIA_STREAMER_PARAM_WEBRTC_STUN_SERVER
      • MEDIA_STREAMER_PARAM_WEBRTC_REMOTE_SESSION_DESCRIPTION
      • MEDIA_STREAMER_PARAM_WEBRTC_ADD_ICE_CANDIDATE
      • MEDIA_STREAMER_PARAM_WEBRTC_RTP_TRANSCEIVER_DIRECTION_FOR_AUDIO
      • MEDIA_STREAMER_PARAM_WEBRTC_RTP_TRANSCEIVER_DIRECTION_FOR_VIDEO
      • MEDIA_STREAMER_PARAM_MAX_LATENESS
      • MEDIA_STREAMER_PARAM_RTP_LATENCY
      • media_streamer_node_decoded_ready_cb
      • media_streamer_node_set_decoded_ready_cb
      • media_streamer_node_unset_decoded_ready_cb
      • media_streamer_webrtc_node_set_message_cb
      • media_streamer_webrtc_node_unset_message_cb
  • Image Util
    • Support for WebP has been added.
    • Support for encoding GIF and WebP animation has been added.
    • Support for ARGB and GBRA for PNG encoding has been added.
  • Metadata editor
    • Support for WAV, FLAC, and OGG has been added.
  • Media controller
    • Result codes for command have been added.
    • Three Playback states connection, buffering, and error have been added.
  • Media vision
    • New enumerations for human pose landmark and body part have been added.
    • API set to detect pose landmarks, such as the human body pose has been added.
  • Recorder
    • API set to decide video frame encoding has been added.
    • Support for video scaling has been added.
      • Video scaling is only for a single video stream supported device.

Network and connectivity

New and changed features

  • Connection API
    • Following API set has been changed to require new partner level privilege.
      • New privilege: http://tizen.org/privilege/network.route
      • Privilege level: partner
      • Affected API set
        • connection_add_route
        • connection_remove_route
        • connection_add_route_ipv6
        • connection_remove_route_ipv6
        • connection_add_route_entry
        • connection_remove_route_entry
  • Bluetooth mesh network
    • Bluetooth framework has been extended to support the Bluetooth mesh network standards.
      • Platform API for Bluetooth mesh network features has been added.
      • Open source bluez module has been upgraded to support Bluetooth mesh network.
      • Tizen Bluetooth framework has been extended to control bluez’s mesh daemon.
    • Bluetooth mesh network provisioning and controlling devices like smart bulbs, which support Bluetooth mesh network standards has been added.
  • Wi-Fi multiple interface support
    • Network modules have been extended to support devices with multiple Wi-Fi network interfaces.
      • connman and net-config have been extended to identify a specific Wi-Fi network interface for operations like scan and connect.
      • Platform API for specifying the Wi-Fi network interface for each operation has been added for connection and Wi-Fi Manager API.
    • Public connection and Wi-Fi Manager API is backward compatible by introducing a concept of default Wi-Fi network interface.
  • Ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging
    • Platform API for UWB has been added.
    • UWB manager daemon has been added.
    • UWB manager daemon has been tested with Decawave’s dwm1001 module on RPI 4.
    • Devices with UWB modules have been enabled to measure the distance between them.

Security

New and changed features

  • Security monitor
    • Query-based security API has been added.
    • Type-safe query builder has been added.
    • Support for Device Policy Management has been added.
  • Privileges
    • New privilege has been added.
      • network.route

Service framework

New and changed features

  • Location framework
    • Support for getting velocity accuracy has been added.
    • Support for getting location bounds to check on edge with tolerance has been added.
      • Support for checking on edge with tolerance for polygon has been added.
      • Support for checking on edge with tolerance for circle has been added.
      • Support for checking on edge with tolerance for rectangle has been added.
  • Battery-monitor framework
    • Support for resetting battery dump data has been added.
    • Support for dumping application ID with the event of battery dump has been added.
  • Context framework
    • Motion API has been deprecated.

Fixes

  • Context framework
    • A potential security vulnerability has been fixed.
  • Location framework
    • The precision in getting distance between two locations has been improved.

Web framework

New and changed features

  • Web engine
    • Feature support
      • Support for OffscreenCanvas has been added: OffscreenCanvas enables canvas rendering apart from the main thread.
    • Strict MIME type for module scripts
      • Loading module script from the local file feature has been removed.
  • Web runtime
    • Device API for wrt-service has been added.
    • Web server has been added as a wrt-service built-in module.
    • WRT.js API management policy has been added.
      • API has been changed from generic js to TypeScript.
      • API compatibility checker has been added.

Fixes

  • Compatibility enhancement
    • The problem of autofill operation in major web site has been improved.
  • Stability enhancement
    • Unexpected random crash while clean up sequence has been fixed.
  • App control URL bug
    • appcontrol:// scheme is now able to launch application from encoded URL.

Lightweight web solution

New and changed features

  • Rendering engine
    • Data Element’s DOM API has been added.
    • Performance Web API set has been added.
    • Range Web API set has been added.
  • JS engine
    • ES10 features have been added.
      • Array.prototype.flat
      • Array.prototype.flatMap
      • Object.fromEntries
      • String.prototype.trimStart
      • String.prototype.trimEnd
    • The syntax of the following features has been updated.
      • Optional catch binding parameters
      • Allowing U+2028 (Line Separator) and U+2029 (Paragraph Separator) in string literals
    • Array.prototype.sort has been updated due to the specification change.
    • Function.prototype.toString has been updated due to the specification change.
  • Performance and memory Optimization
    • JS engine
      • Debugger core features have been updated.
      • Lazy AtomicString initialization for memory and performance has been optimized.
      • Vector extension logic has been improved.

Fixes

  • Bug fixes
    • Layout bugs have been fixed.
    • Scroll bugs have been fixed.
    • Font Rendering bugs have been fixed.
    • Memory overflow bugs have been fixed.
    • Crash issues have been fixed.

Tizen .NET

New and changed features

  • NET runtime and tools
    • .NETCore has been upgraded from 3.1.0 to 3.1.3.
  • TizenFx
    • Tizen.NUI
      • VertexBuffer class has been added.
      • Pagination class has been added.
      • Screen connection methods have been added to CustomView class.
      • SlidingStarted event has been added to Slider class.
      • ThumbColor property has been added to Slider class.
      • FlexLayout and GridLayout have been added.
      • ScrollPosition and ScrollCurrentPosition have been added to ScrollableBase class.
      • Notification class has been added.
      • FlexContainer class has been deprecated.
      • IndicatorColor and SelectedIndicatorColor have been added to Pagination class.
      • Quickpanel has been added to WindowSystem.
    • Tizen.Network.Connection
      • Required privilege level has been changed.
    • Tizen.MachineLearning
      • Custom filter class has been added.
    • Tizen.Multimedia
      • Setter and Getter for volume recording has been added to AudioIO.
      • Result code and playback state have been added to MediaController.
      • New RequestCommand for async has been added to MediaController.
      • New barcode types have been added to Vision.
    • Tizen.Applications
      • Synchronous connection request and private file sharing have been added to RPCPort.
    • Tizen.Network
      • New Avrcp Control has been added to Bluetooth.

Toolchain

New and changed features

  • Toolchain configure dumper support has been developed.
    • “{package}-configure-dump.rpm” in binutils, glibc, and gcc have been provided with “dump_configure“ macro.
  • Build with armv8-a machine option has been added.
  • ASan has been enabled.
    • Automated build, test with JIRA reporting process has been established.
    • Libasansi feature for .NET ASan has been back-ported from Tizen 5.5.

Fixes

  • Patches for CVE-2020-10029 have been back-ported in glibc from upstream.

Machine learning

New and changed features

  • Machine Learning Training API (new)
    • The ability to update and train deep Neural Networks on Tizen devices has been added.
    • The Machine Learning Training API allows application developers to describe their own Neural Network models and train the models or to re-train pre-trained models in runtime.
  • Machine Learning Inference API update
    • The ability to use various hardware accelerators with Single API has been added.
    • The ability to fine-tune each element of a pipeline in runtime has been added.
    • The latency overheads of Single API have been reduced.
  • NNStreamer update
    • NNStreamer has been upgraded from 1.5.2 to 1.6.0.
    • AI acceleration hardware support has been added.
      • Machine Learning API can utilize Verisicon-Vivante and Qualcomm-SNPE in addition to previously supported hardware.
        • You may need to download and install additional adaptors from tizen.org to support additional hardware.
    • The ability to import stream data from or export stream data to Flatbuffers and Protobuffers has been added for distributed or remote pipelines.
    • The ability to implement and insert tensor-converters for custom data types in runtime has been added.
  • NNTrainer (new)
    • NNTrainer has been added to allow on-device Neural Network training, mainly targeting transfer learning mechanisms with a few simple layers.
    • NNTrainer provides various weight initializers, optimizers, activation functions, and loss functions.
    • Neural Network models can be constructed by applications in runtime or loaded from a model file and pre-trained weight values. Trained weight values can be saved and loaded later.
    • Data set for training can be generated by the application in runtime or can be fetched from a filesystem.
  • NNFW Runtime (ONE Runtime) update
    • NNFW Runtime has been upgraded from 1.4.0 to 1.9.0.
    • The ability to install extensions to provide customized performance optimization has been added.

Fixes

  • Machine Learning Inference API
    • Incorrect error codes have been fixed.
    • The edge-TPU and Movidius-X runtime issues have been fixed.
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