DOCS-1527: (How to...) Upgrade to Chromium 110/120

Series 5

The BOS 9.0.145.1 contains a Beta version of Chromium 110 and BOS 9.0.168 contains a production version of Chromium 120. You can upgrade to these versions using the chromium110 registry key, as described below. The later versions of Chromium offer significant performance improvements, enhanced security, and access to the latest web technologies.

This functionality will eventually move into a BOS 9.1 release which will contain Chromium 120 as the default.

See this page for more information about changing registry key settings in BrightAuthor:connected.

Registry Key Example Settings

You must reboot after updating the registry to apply the changes.

DWS  

Don't forget to add authentication to the Curl command below:

curl --location --request PUT 'http://<player_ip>/api/v1/registry/html/widget_type' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--digest -u '{username}:{password}' \
--data-raw '{"value": "chromium110"}'

BrightScript Console

See this page for more information.

registry write html widget_type chromium110

BrightScript

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RegHtml = CreateObject("roRegistrySection", "html")
RegHtml.Write("widget_type", "chromium110")
RegHtml.Flush()

JavaScript

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var registryClass = require("@brightsign/registry");
var registry = new registryClass();
registry.write("html", { widget_type: "chromium110" }).then(() => {
  console.log("Write Successful");
}).catch((error) => {
  console.error("Write Failed", error);
});

TypeScript

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import RegistryClass from "@brightsign/registry";
const registry = new RegistryClass();
registry.write("html", { widget_type: "chromium110" }).then(() => {
  console.log("Write Successful");
}).catch((error: Error) => {
  console.error("Write Failed", error);
});

Player CLI

See @brightsign/bsc (CLI Tool) for more information.

bsc local registry --player PLAYER_NAME --set --value chromium110 --section html --key widget_type

Series 4

BrightSign plans to release BOS 9.1 with a Chromium 120 beta before the end of August to help customers using Power BI. We are investigating if this version can unify the Series 4 and 5 BOS versions.

Series 3

BrightSign is investigating the Series 3 product line hardware capabilities in order to provide a higher Chromium version.