Tizen 8.0 Public M1

Release date: May 31, 2023

Release details

Release notes

System (kernel and system framework)

New and changed features

  • System and resource management
    • Multi-user user-add function has been improved by fixing smack/permission exception case.
    • Multi-user user-get-list latency issue has been fixed by getting the list from directory.
    • Ready-state callback of multi-user service has been supported to reduce booting-time.
    • Process OOM_FIXED_APPS feature has been restored.
    • Process CPU affinity feature has been restored.
  • Device and sensor management
    • Input event on/off function for input device has been supported.
    • Display white balance function has been supported.
    • Display rotation function has been supported.
    • Power suspending and resuming callback function have been supported.
    • Power suspending cancellation function has been supported.
    • Power lock status callback has been supported.
    • Power wakeup reason function has been supported.
    • UART flush and drain functions have been supported.
    • Sensor listener attribute getter function has been supported.
    • Sensor attribute setter/getter functions have been supported.
    • Sensitivity attribute of Proximity sensor has been supported.
    • Sensord signal handling has been improved by removing race conditions.
  • OS upgrade
    • Delta binary verifier of FOTA has been added to verify the valid of delta binary.
  • libdrm
    • Version 2.4.109 has been upgraded to version 2.4.114.
    • libkms.so has been removed.
  • libusb
    • Version 1.0.21 has been upgraded to version 1.0.25.
  • cryptsetup
    • Version 2.3.3 has been upgraded to version 2.3.7.

Fixes

  • systemd
    • CVE-2020-1712 patch has been applied.
  • dbus
    • CVE-2022-42012 patch has been applied.
    • CVE-2022-42011 patch has been applied.
    • CVE-2022-42010 patch has been applied.

System (base)

New and changed features

  • Open source
    • autoconf-archive
      • Version 2022.02.11 has been upgraded to version 2022.09.03.
    • automake
      • Version 1.16.4 has been upgraded to version 1.16.5.
    • ccache
      • Version 4.4 has been upgraded to version 4.7.4.
    • cmake
      • Version 3.21.3 has been upgraded to version 3.25.2.
    • cmocka
      • Version 1.1.1 has been upgraded to version 1.1.5.
    • diffutils
      • Version 3.3 has been upgraded to version 3.8.
    • dos2unix
      • Version 7.4.2 has been upgraded to version 7.4.3.
    • dosfstools
      • Version 3.0.16 has been upgraded to version 4.2.
    • doxygen
      • Version 1.9.2 has been upgraded to version 1.9.5.
    • ed
      • Version 1.17 has been upgraded to version 1.19.
    • fdupes
      • Version 2.1.2 has been upgraded to version 2.2.1.
    • file
      • Version 5.41 has been upgraded to version 5.44.
    • gettext
      • Version 0.19.8.1 has been upgraded to version 0.21.1.
    • golang
      • Version 1.17.4 has been upgraded to version 1.19.5.
    • groff
      • Version 1.22.2 has been upgraded to version 1.22.4.
    • gpg2
      • Version 2.3.7 has been upgraded to version 2.4.0.
    • gpgme
      • Version 1.3.2 has been upgraded to version 1.18.0.
    • help2man
      • Version 1.48.5 has been upgraded to version 1.49.3.
    • icu
      • Version 70.1 has been upgraded to version 70.1.
    • less
      • Version 466 has been upgraded to version 608.
    • libksba
      • Version 1.6.0 has been upgraded to version 1.6.3.
    • libtool
      • Version 2.4.6 has been upgraded to version 2.4.7.
    • libunistring
      • Version 0.9.10 has been upgraded to version 1.1.
    • meson
      • Version 0.60.3 has been upgraded to version 1.0.0.
    • mtools
      • Version 4.0.36 has been upgraded to version 4.0.42.
    • multipath-tools
      • Version 0.8.8 has been upgraded to version 0.9.4.
    • ninja
      • Version 1.10.2 has been upgraded to version 1.11.1.
    • parted
      • Version 3.4 has been upgraded to version 3.5.
    • python3-sqlite
      • Version 0.4.7 has been upgraded to version 0.5.0.
    • sqlite
      • Version 3.39.0 has been upgraded to version 3.40.1.
    • sudo
      • Version 1.9.4 has been upgraded to version 1.9.12p1.
    • tcl
      • Version 8.6.10 has been upgraded to version 8.6.13.
    • texinfo
      • Version 6 has been upgraded to version 7.
    • tzdata
      • Version 2021e has been upgraded to version 2022g.
    • update-alternatives
      • Version 1.20.5 has been upgraded to version 1.21.18.
    • uthash
      • Version 1.9.7 has been upgraded to version 2.3.0.
    • vim
      • Version 8.2.2173 has been upgraded to version 8.2.5172.
    • xmlto
      • Version 0.0.25 has been upgraded to version 0.0.28.
    • xz
      • Version 5.2.5 has been upgraded to version 5.4.0.
    • yasm
      • Version 1.2.0 has been upgraded to version 1.3.0.
    • zlib
      • Version 1.2.11 has been upgraded to version 1.2.13.
    • zstd
      • Version 1.4.5 has been upgraded to version 1.5.2.

Application framework

New and changed features

  • Application Manager
    • C# API that terminates without restarting application has been added.
  • Package Manager
    • New feature has been ready to remove user data from other applications.
  • App-control
    • Launch-bounds APIs have been provided.
    • Extended appid for multi-instance has been introduced.
  • TIDL
    • The TIDL compiler has been updated to generate code that use Cion API for Dart language
  • Tizen Database Connectivity (TDBC)
    • New feature has been ready to access a database.
      • Provides an C# API which defines how a client may access a database.
      • The default SQLite driver is provided by platform.
  • Launchpad
    • New feature has been ready to execute applications or loaders.
  • NUIGadget
    • New feature has been added that is a component model distributed in DLL library form.
    • Packaged and distributed as resource package.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 abnormally terminated. This is useful for low-end devices when its cpu consumption is very high.
  • STT Framework
    • Support USB plug-in microphone for TV binary.
  • 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.
  • Text Input
    • The performance to get surrounding text has been improved.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Text
  • Some text geometry APIs have been added.
  • Some text span APIs have been added.
  • 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.
  • Aurum
    • Support for UI context changed event has been added.
    • Support for UI scrolling finished event has been added.
  • 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.

Multimedia framework

New and changed features

  • Open source
    • OpenCV version 4.5.3 has been upgraded to version 4.7.0.
    • 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.
    • libvpx version 1.10.0 has been upgraded to version 1.12.0.
  • MediaVision
    • Support for DesignQR has been added.
  • Media Camera
    • New APIs for camera settings have been added.
  • Native WebRTC
    • New stats types have been added to get information for candidate pair, local candidate, and remote candidate.
    • New error type of network resource failure has been added.
    • Some macro definitions of stats have been deprecated.
  • Media Content
    • Deprecated some storage related APIs and unused media metadata have been removed.
    • Deprecated thumbnail util APIs have been removed.

Network and connectivity

New and changed features

  • Network
    • Support PSK_SHA256 for ieee80211w has been added.
    • Timers to handle timeout for asynchronous APIs in wifi-manager have been added.
  • Download cache support
    • Capi-web-url-download and download-provider have been extended to support cache service.
      • Stores a copy of a given resource and serves it back when requested.
      • The freshness lifetime is calculated based on several headers.
      • Uses If-None-Match request to check if the resource is in fact still fresh.
    • New APIs for handling cache option have been added.
    • New API for removing the files cached by each application has been added.
  • Bluetooth
    • New APIs for GATT client connecting and disconnecting have been added.
    • New APIs for GATT server connection state changed callback have been added.
    • New API for setting advertising flags has been added.
    • New APIs for setting advertising custom name have been added.
  • Open source
    • Curl version has been upgraded to 7.86.0.
    • Wpa_supplicant version has been upgraded to 2.10.

Fixes

  • Network
    • The logic to store profile extension information has been fixed.
    • The logic for Netlink scan has been fixed.
    • The logic to calculate scores for AP connections has been fixed.
    • The logic for background scan has been fixed.
    • The logic to monitor the status of the Wi-Fi module has been fixed.
  • Bluetooth
    • The RSSI parsing issue from discovery has been fixed.
    • Discovery busy state handling logic has been fixed.
    • Adapter state check logic has been fixed.
    • EIR manufacturer data handling logic has been fixed.
    • Bonded devices response not coming issue has been fixed.
    • Infinite callback issue in EOF case has been fixed.

Security

New and changed features

  • Privacy privilege manager
    • Privacy privilege manager (PPM) feature has been deprecated.

Service framework

Fixes

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

Web framework

New and changed features

  • Web Engine
    • Open source chromium 108 version base has been applied.
    • OzonePlatform for EFL has been added.
    • Ozone EFL based Onscreen/Offscreen rendering mode has been supported.
    • Offscreen rendering mode based NUI feature has been supported.
    • ESPP based media renderer has been added.
  • Web Runtime
    • Open source electron 22.0.0 version has been applied.

Fixes

  • Stability issue in multi windows scenario has been fixed.
  • Media permission issue on WRT 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.

Toolchain

New and changed features

  • GCC
    • ARM target changes have been back-ported from releases/gcc-9.
    • Libsanitizer: AddressSanitizer overhead reduction option has been added.
  • Glibc
    • Timezone: updated from tzcode 2020a.
  • Binutils
    • Packaging: keep shared libraries for libbfd & libopcodes.

Fixes

  • GCC
    • Bugfix PR c++/61414 patchset has been applied.
    • Bugfix PR middle-end/98189, 95886 patchset has been applied.
  • Glibc
    • Static TLS (Thread Local Storage) block memory allocation bugfix patchset has been applied.
    • CVE bugs are fixed
      • CVE-2022-23219
      • CVE-2022-23218
      • CVE-2021-38604
      • CVE-2021-35942
      • CVE-2021-3326
      • CVE-2021-27645
      • CVE-2020-27618
      • CVE-2021-3999
    • AddressSanitizer build error for aarch64 architecture has been fixed.

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 TizenRT is optimized (< 100kB).
    • 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 everthing 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 2.3.0.
    • Support for large-size model of the NNStreamer pipeline has been added.
      • The number of rank limit has been increased up to 8.
      • The number of tensor limit has been increased up to 100.
    • 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 tarcing 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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