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9.0.75

Improvements

  • OS-15063: (General) Added preliminary support for PTP timestamping with Intel 9260 WiFi cards.

  • OS-15385: (XT5) Added support for video playback without GPU.

  • OS-15396: Added support for opacity on ticker widgets.

  • OS-15420: (Series 5) Added support for adaptive bitrate switching with HLS.

  • OS-15421: (Series 5) Fixed an issue related to HLS adaptive bitrate where a change in the decoded video size would result in a playback failure.

  • OS-15427: (LS5) Added support for IR input/output or serial via USB-C.

  • OS-15449: (Series 5) Fixed an issue where video playback is not smooth when the video resolution changes.

  • OS-15462: (XC5/XD5/HD5) Added the ability to configure the IR transmit carrier frequency.

  • OS-15469: (XT5) Fixed an issue with HDMI input in which video playback would not restart if the cable is removed and reinserted.

  • OS-15475 / OS-15489: (LS5/HS5) Modified the long-press behavior of the RST button to help prevent a hard reset of the player when the user is intending to perform a factory reset.

  • OS-15476: (Series 5) Prevent fallback from hardware decode to software decode.

  • OS-15477, OS-15450: (HS5/LS5) Improved Ethernet configuration in the bootloader.

  • OS-15482: (Series 5) Improve HLS codec support and improve parsing of HEVC codecs.

  • OS-15490: (Series 5) Added a fix to prevent a long Reset press from putting board to sleep.

  • OS-15505: (XC5/XT5/XD5/HD5/LS5/HS5) Standardized naming convention for RTL8152 based USB Ethernet devices.

  • OS-15508: Upgraded DWS to version 1.9.0 (added option to format USB, SSD; added support for formatting unmounted/unformatted USB and SSD; fixed missing Snapshots and Video tab on LS445; fixed missing video mode information on INFO tab for LS445).

  • OS-15524: Reduced stream probe time for faster startup.

  • OS-15529: Improved streaming experience by reducing the timeout to 6 seconds for a media-ended event due to a stream stopping. Network timeout now generates mediaend event.

  • OS-15547: Set the minimum permitted firmware version on LS5/HS5 to 9.0.75 (OS) and 9.0.74 (rescue).

Bug Fixes

  • OS-15124: (XC5/XT5/XD5/HD5/LS5/HS5) Fixed an issue where videos would stop playing after a number of hours by improving memory allocation handling.

  • OS-15158: (XC5/XT5/XD5/HD5/LS5/HS5) Updated the kernel driver to avoid intermittent memory corruption. Upgraded GL graphics library.

  • OS-15403 / OS-15456: (XC5) Fixed an issue where enabling graphics upscaling prevented dual video playback on any HDMI output. Failures were exhibited at 4K and higher because graphics upscaling is turn on by default starting at 4K.

  • OS-15430: (XC5/XT5/XD5/HD5/LS5/HS5) Fixed issue with mouse button event handling.

  • OS-15520: (LS5/HS5) Fixed an issue where the power supply was not configured properly.

  • OS-15521: (Series 5) Fixed an issue related to HLS in which errors would result when master and variant streams are on different servers.

  • OS-15534: (Series 5) Fixed an issue with HLS playback related to a parsing error involving an extraneous space separating two codecs.

  • OS-15548: Fixed an issue with playback of a single-segment HLS stream.

  • OS-15550: Fixed a memory corruption issue by aligning internal buffers for hardware acceleration.

9.0.67

Improvements

  • OS-14756: (XT5) Fixed an issue where HDMI playback would result in excessive TMDS warnings.

  • OS-14954: (Series 5) Updated the bootloader.

  • OS-15260, OS-15280: (XT5/XD5/HD5/LS5) Added support for HDR playback.

  • OS-15269: (Series 5) Enabled AC3 audio support.

  • OS-15273: CEC: Optimized reporting order of physical addresses.

  • OS-15282, OS-15283: Enabled the hardware random number generator to support encrypted storage.

  • OS-15285: (LS5) Enabled PoE state reporting on latest hardware revisions.

  • OS-15320: (HS5) Enabled IR support.

  • OS-15339: (LS5/HS5) Improved system reliability at low temperatures.

  • OS-15349: (Series 5) Improved behavior of factory reset by updating rescue image.

  • OS-15401: Updated security fixes.

  • OS-15408: CEC: Improved behavior of sending messages.

  • OS-15421: Improved handling of playback errors.

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