Tizen 7.0 Public M1

Release date: May 31, 2022

Release details

• Getting source code (Tizen 7.0 M1 source codes are under tizen_7.0 branch.)

• Getting binaries and images

  • Base: http://download.tizen.org/releases/milestone/tizen/base/tizen-base_20220517.1/
  • Profile(Unified): http://download.tizen.org/releases/milestone/tizen/unified/tizen-unified_20220517.1/

• How to flash to a device

Release notes

System (kernel and system framework)

New and changed features

• Kernel and U-Boot upgrade
  • Kernel for Raspberry Pi 4 has been upgraded to version 5.10.95.
  • U-boot has been upgraded to v2021.10.
• PREEMPT_RT support
  • PREEMPT_RT applied kernel for Raspberry Pi 4 has been supported.
• System and resource management
  • Cgroup hierarchy and configurations have been improved.
  • Partition detection mechanism in initrd has been optimized.
• Device and sensor management
  • Sensor attribute set APIs for lidar sensor have been developed.
  • USB gadget mode management based on bitmap has been developed.
  • API set for boot mode and reason has been developed.
  • Udev-based detection and recovery for dm-verity corruption have been developed.
• Resource management
  • CPU and memory resource isolation based on cgroup hierarchy has been developed.
  • CPU boosting and throttling configurations for PREEMT_RT have been developed.
• Container support
  • Internal storage detection has been improved for container environment.
  • Dlog log separation for container environment has been developed.
• Open source
  • GDBus (Glib) has been upgraded to version 2.70.0.
  • Bcc has been upgraded to version 0.24.0 for supporting llvm 10.0.0.

System (base)

New and changed features

• Open source
  • abseil-cpp
    • Version 20200923.2 has been upgraded to version 20210324.2.
  • attr
    • Version 2.4.48 has been upgraded to version 2.5.1.
  • autoconf
    • Version 2.69 has been upgraded to version 2.71.
  • autoconf-archive
    • Version 2019.01.06 has been upgraded to version 2021.02.19.
  • automake
    • Version 1.15.1 has been upgraded to version 1.16.4.
  • boost
    • Version 1.71.0 has been upgraded to version 1.77.0.
  • byacc
    • Version 20100216 has been upgraded to version 20210808.
  • chrpath
    • Version 0.13 has been upgraded to version 0.16.
  • cmake
    • Version 3.16.4 has been upgraded to version 3.21.
  • dash
    • Version 0.5.9.1 has been upgraded to version 0.5.11.5.
  • docbook-xsl-stylesheets
    • Version 1.78.1 has been upgraded to version 1.79.2.
  • dos2unix
    • Version 7.4.1 has been upgraded to version 7.4.2.
  • doxygen
    • Version 1.8.2 has been upgraded to version 1.9.2.
  • ecryptfs-utils
    • Version 104 has been upgraded to version 111.
  • ed
    • Version 1.6 has been upgraded to version 1.17.
  • expat
    • Version 2.2.9 has been upgraded to version 2.4.1.
  • expect
    • Version 5.45 has been upgraded to version 5.45.4.
  • fdupes
    • Version 1.4 has been upgraded to version 2.1.2.
  • file
    • Version 5.39 has been upgraded to version 5.41.
  • glib
    • Version 2.62.3 has been upgraded to version 2.70.0.
  • gobject-introspection
    • Version 1.66.0 has been upgraded to version 1.70.0.
  • golang
    • Version 1.15.2 has been upgraded to version 1.17.4.
  • grpc
    • Version 1.35.0 has been upgraded to version 1.42.0.
  • gtest
    • Version 1.10.0 has been upgraded to version 1.11.0.
  • gtk-doc
    • Version 1.32 has been upgraded to version 1.33.2.
  • help2man
    • Version 1.40.10 has been upgraded to version 1.48.5.
  • Icu
    • Version 67.1 has been upgraded to version 70.1.
  • Intltool
    • Version 0.50.2 has been upgraded to version 0.51.0.
  • iso-codes
    • Version 3.13 has been upgraded to version 4.7.0.
  • Itstool
    • Version 2.0.5 has been upgraded to version 2.0.7.
  • jsoncpp
    • Version 1.9.2 has been upgraded to version 1.9.4.
  • json-glib
    • Version 1.6.0 has been upgraded to version 1.6.6.
  • kbd
    • Version 2.0.4 has been upgraded to version 2.2.0.
  • lcov
    • Version 1.14 has been upgraded to version 1.15.
  • libaio
    • Version 0.3.110 has been upgraded to version 0.3.112.
  • libarchive
    • Version 3.5.1 has been upgraded to version 3.5.2.
  • libdatrie
    • Version 0.2.10 has been upgraded to version 0.2.13.
  • libevent
    • Version 2.1.11 has been upgraded to version 2.1.12.
  • libksba
    • Version 1.3.0 has been upgraded to version 1.6.0.
  • libpipeline
    • Version 1.2.2 has been upgraded to version 1.5.0.
  • libsigc++
    • Version 2.9.3 has been upgraded to version 2.10.7.
  • libsolv
    • Version 0.7.16 has been upgraded to version 0.7.19.
  • libtool
    • Version 2.4.2 has been upgraded to version 2.4.6.
  • libunistring
    • Version 0.9.4 has been upgraded to version 0.9.10.
  • libwbxml2
    • Version 0.11.2 has been upgraded to version 0.11.7.
  • libxml++
    • Version 2.42.0 has been upgraded to version 3.2.3.
  • libzip
    • Version 1.7.3 has been upgraded to version 1.8.0.
  • lsof
    • Version 4.87 has been upgraded to version 4.91.
  • m4
    • Version 1.4.17 has been upgraded to version 1.4.19.
  • make
    • Version 4.0 has been upgraded to version 4.3.
  • man-db
    • Version 2.6.3 has been upgraded to version 2.9.4.
  • meson
    • Version 0.55.3 has been upgraded to version 0.60.3.
  • mm-common
    • Version 1.0.1 has been upgraded to version 1.0.3.
  • mtools
    • Version 4.0.18 has been upgraded to version 4.0.36.
  • multipath-tools
    • Version 0.4.9 has been upgraded to version 0.8.8.
  • openfst
    • Version 1.6.5 has been upgraded to version 1.8.1.
  • paho-mqtt-c
    • Version 1.3.7 has been upgraded to version 1.3.9.
  • parted
    • Version 3.1 has been upgraded to version 3.4.
  • patch
    • Version 2.7 has been upgraded to version 2.7.6.
  • pcre
    • Version 8.44 has been upgraded to version 8.45.
  • perl
    • Version 5.32.0 has been upgraded to version 5.34.0.
  • pkg-config
    • Version 0.28 has been upgraded to version 0.29.2.
  • procps-ng
    • Version 3.3.16 has been upgraded to version 3.3.17.
  • psmisc
    • Version 23.3 has been upgraded to version 23.4.
  • python3
    • Version 3.9.1 has been upgraded to version 3.9.10.
  • re2
    • Version 20201101 has been upgraded to version 20220201.
  • re2c
    • Version 1.1.1 has been upgraded to version 3.0.
  • rpmlint
    • Version 1.4 has been upgraded to version 1.11.
  • rsync
    • Version 3.1.1 has been upgraded to version 3.2.3.
  • sgml-skel
    • Version 0.6 has been upgraded to version 0.7.1.
  • sqlite
    • Version 3.33.0 has been upgraded to version 3.36.0.
  • sudo
    • Version 1.9.4 has been upgraded to version 1_9_7p2.
  • tzdata
    • Version 2020a has been upgraded to version 2021e.
  • util-linux
    • Version 2.36 has been upgraded to version 2.37.

Application framework

New and changed features

• Tizen boot sequence
  • A new feature has been implemented to control app launch on system boot.
  • A tool to check the status of the app after booting has been provided.
• TIDL
  • The TIDL compiler can generate new API set using the Cion-group API set.

Fixes

• App-core
  • The implementation has been refactored into the C++ language.
• Pkgmgr-info
  • A cache for pkginfo-server has been applied to improve the online mode performance of getting package information.
  • Offline mode performance of getting package information has been improved.
• App-installer
  • The preload package installation order in MIC builds has been changed for devices with low storage capacity.

Window and interaction

New and changed features

• Open source
  • Wayland has been upgraded to version 1.20.0.
  • Libxkb-common has been upgraded to version 1.3.1.
  • Libinput has been upgraded to version 1.17.0.
  • Libevdev has been upgraded to version 1.11.0.
  • Mesa has been upgraded to version 21.2.3.
• Enlightenment
  • Drag and Drop has been added. It provides wl_data_device_manager interface of wayland protocol to the wayland-clients.
• Vulkan
  • Vulkan-wsi-layer has been added. It implements Vulkan window system integration extensions.
• OpenCL
  • Common OpenCL packages have been added.
    • OpenCL-Headers have been added. It contains C language headers for the OpenCL API.
    • OpenCL-ICD-Loader has been added. It allows developers to build application against an Installable Client Driver loader.
• TTS Framework
  • In order to reduce memory usage, the TTS engine, which used to execute in multiple processes, has been improved to execute as one process.
  • The client structure and TTS player to support thread safety has been improved.
  • The TTS engine API to terminate the process has been added.
  • The API to connect TTS engine synchronously has been added.
  • The API to repeat TTS text has been added.
• Sticker Framework
  • C# sticker API has been added.
• Text Input Framework
  • Vietnamese and Thai language support has been added in the Tizen reference IME.
  • The inputmethod C# API set to set preedit cursor position and set the callback to get input hint has been added.
  • Wayland inputmethod interface has been updated as the latest open source.

Fixes

• Text Input Framework
  • C# inputmethod API set returns the appropriate error exception.

Graphics and UI

New and changed features

• Rendering
  • An interface to support direct rendering has been added.
• Input and Gesture
  • Support for CustomWheel Event has been added to the View.
  • Some properties and signals regarding input and gesture have been added.
• Window
  • A method to receive an auxiliary message has been added.
  • Methods to maximize and minimize a window have been added.
  • Support for Drag and Drop has been added.
• View
  • Various methods have been added to the WebView.
  • Various properties and methods have been added to the TextLabel, TextField, and TextEditor.
• ATSPI
  • Multi window activate/deactivate has been added.
  • TextField password information protection has been added.
  • Hyperlink ATSPI interface has been added.
  • Performance to enable ATSPI has been improved.
  • MBR (Minimum Bounding Rectangle) has been added.
  • Multiple ATSPI interfaces for View have been added.
  • Default label feature has been added.
  • NUI Component default accessibility has been added.
  • Singleton Accessibility Delegate to enhance memory usage has been added.
  • Text Control Accessible has been added.
  • ATSPI/Screen-Reader Enabled/Disabled Signal has been added.
  • ATSPI suppressed events have been added.
• XAML
  • The separated Tizen.NUI.XamlBuild package has been integrated and migrated into Tizen.NET meta package.
• Aurum
  • Toolkit Event Listener has been added.
  • Searching object with partial string feature has been added.
  • Generating XPath for UI Object feature has been added.
  • Setting focus object has been added.
  • Using role name for no type object case has been added.
• UI Analyzer
  • Click, Input Text, and Disconnect functions have been added.
  • Rectangular highlight for selected object has been added in screenshot function.
  • XPath information feature has been added.
• Performance Improvement
  • Property registration time has been decreased.
  • Unnecessary memory reallocation and copy have been reduced in the various classes.
  • Type registration has been optimized.
  • VisualRenderer has been added to reduce property registration for each visual.
  • Loading time for various image formats has been decreased.
  • An operation of the font description has been optimized.
  • An unused signal of the StyleManager has been disconnected with Controls.
• Open source
  • Harfbuzz version 2.6.7 has been upgraded to version 3.4.0.
  • SDL version 2.0.8 has been upgraded to version 2.0.14.
  • AT-SPI2-Core version 2.39.90 has been upgraded to version 2.42.0.

Fixes

• SceneHolder’s RenderTarget initialization defect has been fixed.
• Various partial update defects have been fixed.
• Various ATSPI defects have been fixed.
• Various text related defects have been fixed.

Multimedia framework

New and changed features

• Open source
  • GStreamer
    • Version 1.16.2 has been upgraded to version 1.20.0.
    • mms plugin has been removed.
  • libnice
    • Version 0.1.17 has been upgraded to version 0.1.18.
  • OpenCV
    • Version 4.5.0 has been upgraded to version 4.5.3.
  • Pulseaudio
    • Version 13.0 has been upgraded to version 15.0.
  • libsndfile
    • Version 1.0.28 has been upgraded to version 1.0.31.
  • ffmpeg
    • Version 4.3.1 has been upgraded to version 4.4.
  • libtiff
    • Version 4.1.0 has been upgraded to version 4.3.0.
  • GraphicsMagick
    • Version 1.3.35 has been upgraded to version 1.3.36.
  • libwebp
    • Version 1.1.0 has been upgraded to version 1.2.1.
  • taglib
    • Version 1.11.1 has been upgraded to version 1.12.
  • libjpeg-turbo
    • Version 2.0.6 has been upgraded to version 2.1.1.
  • lcms2
    • Version 2.4 has been upgraded to version 2.12.
• Native WebRTC
  • Statistics API set has been added.
  • Data channel buffered amount API set has been added.
  • Frame rate set/get functions for video source have been added.
  • Bundle policy API has been added.
  • Support for in-band FEC has been added.
• Image Util
  • Support for Jpeg-XL has been added.
    • Open source libjxl 0.6.1 version has been applied.
    • Support for decoding Jpeg-XL image format has been added.
    • Support for encoding Jpeg-XL image format has been added.
  • image_util_encode_set_webp_lossless API has been deprecated.
• Media Editing Framework
  • Support for the most frequently used editing functionalities has been added.
    • Place audio/video/image contents freely on timeline.
    • Cut and paste clip and add video transition for overlapped video.
    • Add background music and adjust volume level by each audio track.
    • Add effects using various GStreamer effect plugins.
  • Pause & resume, share editing artifacts

Fixes

• Native WebRTC
  • Various types of memory leak defects have been fixed.
  • A crash when making packet lost custom event has been fixed.
  • ‘ice-gathering-state’ signal defect regarding data channel has been fixed.

Network and connectivity

New and changed features

• Matter
  • Matter which aims to unify an IP-based connectivity protocol has been added.
• Thread
  • Network device protocol for thread has been added.
• Wi-Fi
  • New feature for BSS transition has been added.
• Bluetooth API
  • The API set for LE CoC has been added.
  • New feature for LE CoC has been added.
    • http://tizen.org/feature/network.bluetooth.le.coc
• Open source
  • Connman has been upgraded to version 1.40.
  • Curl has been upgraded to version 7.81.0.
  • Libwebsockets has been upgraded to version 4.2.
  • Mdnsresponder has been upgraded to version 1310.80.1.

Fixes

• Bluetooth
  • Some bugs related with BLE Advertisement have been fixed.
  • The specific logic for mobile profile has been removed.
  • Some logics for IoT profile have been added.
• Network
  • Logical deadlock issue has been fixed.
  • Some bugs related with INS have been fixed.
  • Some memory leak issues have been fixed.

Service framework

Fixes

• Account Framework
  • Potential defects have been fixed.
• Sync-Manager
  • Potential defects have been fixed.
• Location Framework
  • Potential defects have been fixed.
• Message Framework
  • Potential defects have been fixed.

Web framework

New and changed features

• Web Engine
  • Open source chromium 94 version base has been applied. Below features and API set have been provided by the new web engine.
    • WebRTC Insertable Streams feature has been added.
    • Pan/Tilt support for camera using media constraints in getUserMedia() has been added.
    • WebCodecs feature for efficient, low-level access to built-in (software and hardware) media encoders and decoders has been added.
    • File System Access API to read or save changes directly to files and folders on the user’s device has been added.
    • Application cache feature has been deprecated.
• Web Runtime
  • Open source electron 15.3.3 version has been applied.

Fixes

• Image drag & drop between NUI app and web app has been supported.

Lightweight web solution

New and changed features

• Lightweight Web Engine
  • Web Engine
    • Dropdown menu feature has been added.
    • CSS Custom property has been added.
    • CSS mask-image property has been added.
    • Rendering performance for CSS custom property has been optimized.
    • Painting performance for gradient has been improved.
  • JavaScript Engine
    • WeakRef and finalizationRegistry specifications have been added.
    • JS debugger has been added.
• JS based lightweight backend service FW
  • Lightweight node.js
    • Customizable exception handling has been added.
    • Serializer and deserializer have been added.
    • IndexedPropertyHandlers have been added.

Fixes

• Lightweight Web Engine
  • WebSocket memory leak defects have been fixed.
  • Grid layout defects have been fixed.
• Lightweight node.js
  • Promise defects have been fixed.
  • Template defects have been fixed.
  • Multithread defects have been fixed.
  • StackTrace defects have been fixed.
  • V8 modules have been hidden by default.

Tizen .NET

New and changed features

• .NET
  • TizenFx
    • Some Slider events have been removed from Tizen.NUI.
    • Sticker class has been added to Tizen.Uix.
    • RepeatedText class has been added to Tizen.Uix.Tts.
    • New module errors have been added to Tizen.Uix.Tts.
    • MediaFileSource class has been added to Tizen.Multimedia.Remoting.
    • BufferedAmountLow event has been added to Tizen.Multimedia.Remoting.
    • GLView has been added to NUI.
    • PrimaryCursorPosition has been added to TextField and TextEditor of NUI.
    • InputHint has been added to Tizen.Uix.InputMethod.
  • .NET runtime and tools
    • .NET Runtime has been upgraded from NETCore 3.1.3 to .NET 6.

Toolchain

New and changed features

• Hardware-assisted AddressSanitizer (HWASan)
  • GCC/Libsanitizer : HWASan feature has been backported and tuned for Tizen.
  • HWASan compiler options have been applied.
  • HWASan runtime options have been applied to build and runtime environments.
  • Support for HWASan has been added to glibc and packages.
• Large File Support (LFS)
  • LFS support has been added to AArch64.
• New architecture(ARMv7hl) support
  • Build support has been added for 32-bit hard float ABI.

Fixes

• Binutils/LTO bug #25355
  • LTO plugin bugfix has been backported into binutils, ld, and bfd.
• Glibc/dynamic linker bug #24259
  • Dynamic linker crash after a previously failed call to dlopen has been fixed.
• Toolchain testsuites bugs have been fixed on GCC, Glibc, and Binutils.

Machine learning

New and changed features

• Machine Learning (ML) Inference API updates
  • capi-machine-learning-inference-single package has been added so that devices may have SingleShot API without installing Pipeline API, GStreamer, and NNStreamer’s core packages.
  • Version 2.7.0 of TensorFlow Lite has been supported as default.
• Machine Learning (ML) Service API (new)
  • API set to set/get/delete pipeline descriptions has been added. Applications may register (set) pipeline descriptions and other applications may refer to (get) such shared pipeline descriptions.
• Machine Learning (ML) Training API updates
  • ml_train_model_get_layer() API has been added to get neural network layer from the model with the given name.
• NNTrainer updates
  • New layers to support advanced training methods have been added.
    • CNN: Convolution 1D layer.
    • Recurrent Net: LSTM Cell, GRU Cell, RNN Cell, and Zoneout LSTM Cell layer
• NNStreamer updates
  • NNStreamer has been upgraded to version 2.1.
  • Extra configuration for product support has been added.
  • TF-Lite filter has been updated to support XNNPACK Delegate of TensorFlow Lite.
  • TRIx-Engine filter for TRIV2 NPU has been added.
  • [Experimental] new interfaces for Edge-AI service are introduced. This will provide various among-device AI experiences:
    • Provides inference or AI-based service from low-powered node to high-end device.
    • Publishes or subscribes raw data stream (e.g., camera frame, sensor data) via MQTT.
    • This may support both pipelined or non-pipelined applications and edge devices.
• Trix-Engine
  • Support TRIx NPU equipped product, DTV
  • Available for DTV web application development
• TensorFlow Lite updates
  • TensorFlow Lite has been upgraded to version 2.7.0.
  • XNNPack Delegate has been enabled.
• Neural Network Runtime
  • Introduced configuration files in nnpackage to allow users to set configuration variables via conf files.
  • Runtime uses Arm Compute Library v21.02.
  • A new backend (gpu_cl) has been added. This backend supports Add, Convolution, Depthwise Convolution, Pooling, Reshape, Relu, and Softmax operations.
  • A new backend (TRIX) has been added.
    • TRIX backend supports trix binary with NHWC layout.
    • TRIX backend supports trix binary with input/output of Q8 and Q16 type.