Apertis 17.03 Release

17.03 is the current stable development release of Apertis, a Debian/Ubuntu derivative distribution geared towards the creation of product-specific images for ARM (both in the 32bit ARMv7 version using the hardfloat ABI and in the 64-bit ARMv8 version) and Intel x86-64 (64-bit) systems.

This Apertis release is based on top of the Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) LTS release with several customization. Test results of the 17.03 release are available in the 17.03 test report.

Release downloads

Apertis 17.03 images
Intel 64-bit

The minimal, target and development images are tested on the reference hardware (MinnowBoard MAX), but they can run on any UEFI-based x86-64 system. The sdk image is tested under VirtualBox.

Apertis 17.03 repositories

 $ deb https://repositories.apertis.org/apertis/ 17.03 target helper-libs development sdk hmi

New features

ARM64 support

Apertis gained support for the latest 64-bit version of the ARM architecture (also known as ARMv8/aarch64), which involved a full rebuild of the archive and several fixes. No images are available at the moment since no official 64-bit ARM hardware has been selected, but all the pre-built packages are available from the Apertis OBS instance.

Headless images with the application framework

The full application framework can now successfully run with no HMI available, and it’s now shipped in the minimal image flavour. Headless agents can now rely on the application manager to set the appropriate security profile and manage their lifecycle.

Simplified automated package testing

Our LAVA-based testing infrastructure has been expanded to run DEP-8 automatic tests for packages that provide them. This means that no extra effort is required to add new automatic tests to the nightly runs for those packages once they reach the archive.

Application manager API to securely enumerate entry points

The libcanterbury-platform library now provide APIs for platform services like the application launcher to enumerate all the installed applications in a secure fashion and in a UX-agnostic way, without disclosing such information to unprivileged applications.

The Didcot data sharing service, the Mildenhall application launcher and status bar services and the Barkway notification service have been ported to the new API and the old D-Bus API has been dropped (see the Breaks section below).

Multiple mockable backends in geocode-glib

The work done during the past release to be able to easily switch backends for the geocoding library geocode-glib has finally landed upstream and is now available in the current Apertis release.

Groundwork

Track the life cycle of applications and agents using systemd

The Canterbury application manager now creates a transient systemd unit for all the app-bundles it launches, to be able to reliably track all the processes created by them. This lays the foundation for a more advanced life-cycle tracking with better isolation and resource limits.

Mildenhall UI toolkit

The Mildenhall UI toolkit library has received a lot of attention during this cycle be easier to use and more reliable. Applications now only need to include a single mildenhall/mildenhall.h header instead of finding the appropriate header file for every widget used. Applications also now simply need to link to a single shared object, instead of per-widget libraries. This is true for the Thornbury utility library as well, with thornbury/thornbury.h and a single shared object.

Mildenhall also saw plenty of fixes to make its code easier to maintain and more reliable. It is also now possible to test the library without installing it system-wide, which simplifies development.

Canterbury streamlining

A lot of effort has been put into simplifying the code in the Canterbury application manager, making it more reliable and also easier to maintain and develop. Some unused features have been dropped (see the Breaks section) while a wide range of issues from coding style to memory leaks have been fixed through the whole codebase.

D-Bus improvements

As preparation for future enhancements to the Canterbury application manager, some enhancements to the D-Bus interprocess communication system were written, integrated upstream, and applied to Apertis.

  • AppArmor mediation of D-Bus messages was enhanced to prevent services from being launched by applications that would not be allowed to send a message to the resulting service, removing an opportunity for malicious applications to waste resources.
  • Service activation was enhanced to let Canterbury register new activatable services at runtime. This will be used in Apertis 17.06 to provide standardized freedesktop.org APIs for applications to be launched by the app framework, optionally with URIs to open and optionally with multiple “views”, superseding Apertis-specific mechanisms that are deprecated due to privacy/fingerprinting concerns.

AppArmor review

Several Apertis-specific AppArmor abstractions were reviewed and documented, with some of them deprecated as a result of review.

Design

Application bundle specification review

The stable application bundle specification has been reviewed thoroughly, leading to several clarifications and the removal of a few deprecated and no longer used properties.

The application bundle specification has been extended with an official extension-point mechanism, which is fully compatible with the reference implementation of AppStream. To support this, the Canterbury application manager was updated to be compatible with newer versions of the AppStream library that it uses.

A survey of metadata fields that exist but do not have a specification or documentation resulted in design tasks , , , , , being opened for future Apertis releases.

Metadata-based permissions system

Work on the metadata-based permissions system has started, collecting the initial set of use-cases and comparing Apertis needs to the solutions provided by the other major platforms (Android, iOS and Flatpak). This is the first step toward a simpler mechanism to define AppArmor profiles in a simple way, without having to learn the AppArmor rule language for the most common cases.

Deprecations and ABI/API breaks

Deprecations

During this release cycle we have made our tracking of past and future API and ABI breaks more systematic by using the ABI break tag. Many obsolete or problematic APIs have been deprecated during this release cycle as a way to clear technical debt in future.

Application framework

: app-data and users directories are deprecated in favour of cby_get_persistence_path()

From the next release Canterbury will stop creating the /var/Applications/${bundle_id}/app-data directory, and the app-data and users symlinks in the bundle installation directory in /Applications.

Applications should use the cby_get_persistence_path() function to get the per-bundle, per-user writable data location, or rely on the freedesktop.org environment variables XDG_CACHE_HOME, XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME respectively for temporary data, configuration data and general data storage.

: play-mode in command-line arguments is deprecated with no immediate replacement

Canterbury currently has special handling for the command-line arguments of certain ways to launch entry points. If an argument is exactly play-mode and the app is being launched in “last-user mode”, the next argument is sometimes replaced by play, under conditions that are difficult to describe.

This feature is not sufficiently well-documented to be supported, and is not compatible with D-Bus activation, which is not argv-based (). If applications need to know whether they are being launched for last-user mode, then they should use D-Bus activation, and we should define a key in the platform data dictionary to indicate last-user mode; please open a task if this is required.

: app-name and menu-entry in command-line arguments are deprecated with no replacement

Canterbury currently has special handling for the command-line arguments of certain ways to launch entry points. If an argument is named exactly app-name, the next argument is replaced by the entry point ID; if an argument is named exactly menu-entry, the next argument is replaced by the display name in the form used by the Mildenhall reference UX (in all-caps with S P A C E S I N S E R T E D).

This feature is not compatible with D-Bus activation, which is not argv-based (), and is unnecessary now that entry points are always launched with the same entry point ID and display name (having removed the special cases that would have used different values for those arguments in ). It will be removed in a future Canterbury release.

: Syntactically invalid entry point IDs are deprecated in favour of syntactically valid entry point IDs

Canterbury currently accepts entry point IDs in store app-bundles that do not match the syntax in the app-bundle specification. This is deprecated and will be removed in 17.06. The function cby_is_entry_point_id() can be used to validate entry point IDs. The syntax rules are identical to D-Bus interface names: see the Apertis Application Bundle Specification for details.

Canterbury also accepts entry point IDs in built-in app-bundles that do not match the syntax in the app-bundle specification. This is deprecated and will be removed in a future Canterbury version. This will require changing the current special-cases for an app-bundle named exactly Launcher so that instead they apply to an app-bundle named exactly org.apertis.Launcher, or removing those special cases altogether.

: Syntactically invalid bundle IDs are deprecated in favour of syntactically valid bundle IDs

Canterbury currently accepts bundle IDs that do not match the syntax in the app-bundle specification under some circumstances. This is deprecated and will be removed in 17.06. The function cby_is_bundle_id() can be used to validate bundle IDs. The syntax rules are identical to D-Bus interface names: see the Apertis Application Bundle Specification for details.

: Canterbury methods, signals, properties that reveal the installed app-bundles are deprecated

In accordance with the security policy documented in Apertis concept designs, the list of app-bundles installed on the system is considered to be confidential information. Accordingly, all methods and broadcast signals that would tell unprivileged app-bundles about other app-bundles (such as Launcher.InformAppLaunchStatus and AppManager.NewAppState) will be removed in a future release. See for a more comprehensive list. In particular:

: The Canterbury AudioMgr interface is deprecated with no immediate replacement

The current AudioMgr interface breaks the app-bundle confidentiality security requirement and must be changed incompatibly to resolve that. In the short term, it might be replaced by an incompatible equivalent that is not considered stable. In the longer term, a new design for audio management is in progress, with relevant tasks including and .

: Launcher.CurrentActiveMenuEntry, Launcher.SetCurrentCategory, Launcher.InformAppLaunchStatus, AppManager.GetGlobalSearchApps are deprecated with no replacement

Launcher.InformAppLaunchStatus is handled by the Mildenhall launcher, but the handler does not do anything. The others are unused.

, : HardKeys interface is subject to change

, describe ways in which the interaction between Canterbury and the Mildenhall Launcher needs to change before can be resolved. In addition, the design of this interface could be simplified. This interface will be changed incompatibly in a future Apertis release.

: Canterbury methods, signals, properties that use displayed names are deprecated

The name with which an entry point or app-bundle is displayed to the user is not reliably unique, and any transformations that are applied to it for a particular UX such as the Mildenhall reference HMI (such as capitalization changes or inserting S P A C E S) are UX-specific and so cannot be in a UX-independent component like Canterbury. Methods, signals and properties like Launcher.InformAppLaunchStatus are deprecated in favour of future APIs that use entry point IDs or bundle IDs, whichever is more appropriate. They will be removed when a replacement is available.

: AppDbHandler.LaunchNewApp() is deprecated

This method is redundant with the higher-level API cby_entry_point_open_uri_async() introduced in 17.03, and its only known user (the Didcot content handover service) has been converted to use that mechanism. It will be removed in a future Apertis release, hopefully 17.06, to avoid duplication.

: Ribchester’s remaining support for GSettings-schema-based entry points is deprecated in favour of AppStream XML and CbyComponentIndex

Ribchester has some leftover code for mounting app-bundles that are represented by GSettings schemas, which was deprecated in 17.03. This code will be removed in a future Apertis version, hopefully 17.06. Use AppStream XML to describe application bundles, as described in the Apertis Application Bundle Specification.

Components

: Beckfoot is deprecated

The Beckfoot network interface management service and its D-Bus and C APIs are deprecated in favour of direct access to ConnMan (for management) and GNetworkMonitor (for status querying). It will be removed in a future Apertis release, hopefully 17.06.

: libclapton is deprecated

The system information part of libclapton is deprecated, with no direct replacement. The logging part of libclapton is deprecated in favour of standard GLib APIs for structured logging. This library will be removed in a future Apertis release, hopefully 17.06.

: libseaton is deprecated

The libseaton persistent data management library is deprecated in favour of direct use of GSettings for preference (configuration) data, or direct access to appropriate files for other types of data. For file-based persistence, application authors should choose the most appropriate file format and directory for the specific data being stored, using APIs such as GKeyFile or sqlite to write files in the cby_get_persistence_path(), g_get_user_data_dir(), g_get_user_cache_dir() or g_get_user_config_dir(). This library will be removed in a future Apertis release, hopefully 17.06.

: Tinwell is deprecated

The Tinwell audio playback/recording service and its D-Bus and C APIs are unmaintained, and are considered deprecated. A new design for audio management is in progress, with relevant tasks including and .

AppArmor

: tunables/chaiwala/chaiwala-user AppArmor tunables are deprecated with no replacement

The tunables/chaiwala/chaiwala-user AppArmor profile snippet describes a filesystem layout that has not existed for some time. It will be removed in a future Apertis version, hopefully 17.06.

: abstractions/chaiwala-helpers AppArmor abstraction is deprecated with no replacement

The abstractions/chaiwala-helpers AppArmor abstraction has undesirable security properties and should not be used. It will be removed in a future Apertis version, hopefully 17.06.

: @{XDGRUNTIMEDIR} AppArmor variable is deprecated in favour of /run/user/*

Apertis’ modified AppArmor tunables define a variable named @{XDGRUNTIMEDIR} which is not present in upstream AppArmor, hindering portability of AppArmor profiles between distributions. It will be removed in a future Apertis version, hopefully 17.06.

: chaiwala-apparmor-session-lockdown package is deprecated with no replacement

The purpose of the chaiwala-apparmor-session-lockdown package is not clear; it appears to be a proof-of-concept for our current uses of AppArmor. It is X11-specific, and therefore is no longer used in our production (target/development) images, which use Wayland. It will be removed in a future Apertis version, hopefully 17.06, unless its purpose is clarified.

: abstractions/dbus-daemon AppArmor abstraction is deprecated with no replacement

The abstractions/dbus-daemon AppArmor abstraction does not appear to be useful, because every dbus-daemon on Apertis is part of the trusted computing base and part of the platform infrastructure, so a dbus-daemon is not a useful thing for third-party code to be launching. It will be removed in a future Apertis version, hopefully 17.06.

: abstractions/chaiwala-user-write AppArmor abstraction is deprecated with no replacement

The abstractions/chaiwala-user-write AppArmor abstraction is too broad to be useful, and grants the confined process enough privileges to escape from its confinement by executing arbitrary unconfined code. It does not appear to be used in Apertis. It will be removed in a future Apertis version, hopefully 17.06.

: abstractions/chaiwala-user-read AppArmor abstraction is deprecated with no replacement

The abstractions/chaiwala-user-read AppArmor abstraction is too broad to be useful, and grants the confined process read access to the entire home directory. It is a mixture of per-app and non-app-specific paths, and does not appear to be used in Apertis. It will be removed in a future Apertis version, hopefully 17.06.

: abstractions/chaiwala-execution is deprecated in favour of not doing anything

The abstractions/chaiwala-execution AppArmor abstraction is empty. It will be removed in a future Apertis version, hopefully 17.06.

: abstractions/chaiwala-cameras is deprecated with no immediate replacement

The abstractions/chaiwala-cameras AppArmor abstraction does not have the effect that its documentation suggests. It will be removed in a future Apertis version, hopefully 17.06. tracks design work on similar concepts.

Mildenhall UI toolkit

, : Non-namespaced symbols in libmildenhall are deprecated

Several widgets and other components in libmildenhall have names that do not start with the correct namespace prefix. All symbols, types and macros not starting with Mildenhall, mildenhall_, MILDENHALL_ are deprecated and will be removed in a future Apertis version, hopefully 17.06.

: Application-specific widgets in libmildenhall are deprecated

Many of the widgets in libmildenhall are designed for a particular application and are not sufficiently general-purpose to be in a library. All widgets that are not listed in are deprecated and will be removed in 17.06.

: Including individual libmildenhall headers is deprecated

The supported way to include libmildenhall headers is now #include <mildenhall/mildenhall.h>. Including individual headers is deprecated and may cease to work in a future Apertis version.

Including individual libthornbury headers is deprecated

The supported way to include libthornbury headers is now #include <thornbury/thornbury.h>. Including individual headers is deprecated and may cease to work in a future Apertis version.

Platform libraries

Including individual libcanterbury-gdbus headers is deprecated

The supported way to include libcanterbury-gdbus headers is now #include <canterbury/gdbus/canterbury.h> (although please note that many of the APIs that this provides are themselves deprecated). Including individual headers is deprecated and may cease to work in a future Apertis version. Including <canterbury.h> is also deprecated and may cease to work in a future Apertis version. libcanterbury (check pkg-config for canterbury-0, #include <canterbury/canterbury.h>) and libcanterbury-platform (check pkg-config for canterbury-platform-0, #include <canterbury/canterbury-platform.h>) are unaffected.

canterbury pkg-config module is deprecated

The canterbury.pc pkg-config module is deprecated and will be removed in a future Apertis version. Check for canterbury-0 and include <canterbury/canterbury.h> for general APIs that are intended for all Apertis components and app-bundles and will be supported long-term. Check for canterbury-platform-0 and include <canterbury/canterbury-platform.h> for APIs that require special privileges, are intended for use by platform components and built-in app-bundles only, and may change over time. Check for canterbury-gdbus-0 and include <canterbury/gdbus/canterbury.h> for D-Bus-oriented APIs that are not long-term stable.

Thornbury language API is deprecated in favour of standard gettext APIs

thornbury_get_text() is deprecated in favour of gettext(). thornbury_lang_set_current_locale() is deprecated in favour of setlocale(). thornbury_lang_configure_AppData() is deprecated in favour of bindtextdomain(). These functions will be removed in a later Apertis release.

Thornbury parser APIs subject to change

thornbury_parser_parse_prop_file() and thornbury_parser_parse_style_file() do not use GError correctly. These functions will either be removed or deprecated in a future Apertis release, in favour of versions that use GError correctly.

ThornburyModel subject to change

ThornburyModel and ClutterListModel will be replaced by GListModel in a future Apertis release.

liblightwood subject to change

The lightwood library is in the process of being rewritten, with the replacement named liblightwood-2. This will lead to an incompatible change to all libraries that depend on liblightwood, in particular libmildenhall.

Non-policy-compliant package names deprecated

Depending or build-depending on the canterbury-dev package is deprecated in favour of libcanterbury-0-dev or libcanterbury-gdbus-0-dev or both, whichever is appropriate. Similarly, depending or build-depending on gir1.2-canterbury-platform-0 is deprecated in favour of gir1.2-canterburyplatform-0. This has been done to comply with Debian best-practice: the new development packages have names that correspond to the pkg-config module’s machine-readable name, and the new GObject-Introspection package has a name that corresponds to the typelib’s machine-readable name and version. The deprecated transitional packages will be removed in a future Apertis release.

Breaks

Canterbury application manager

T2707: Canterbury: support for GSettings-schema-based entry points removed in favour of .desktop files

The old entry points discovery mechanism based on GSettings schemas, which was deprecated in 17.03, has been removed. Use .desktop files to describe entry points in application bundles, as described in the Apertis Application Bundle Specification.

T3448: Canterbury: APIs to list entry points superseded by CbyEntryPointIndex

Older D-Bus APIs to list entry points and create new entry points without a corresponding .desktop file have been removed, including AppDbHandler.AppLaunchDb(), AppDbHandler.AppLaunchDbUpdate, AppManager.GetApplicationInfo(), Launcher.InsertNewEntry, Launcher.RemoveMenuEntry, Launcher.PopulateItems(), Launcher.CompletedPopulateItems(), the whole PrefMgrManager interface, the whole DataExchangeMgr interface, the whole MediaMgr interface, AppManager.InsertNewEntry(), AppManager.SetInstalledApplicationManifest() and AppManager.SetUninstalledApplication(). Please use CbyEntryPointIndex instead (sample code can be found in the Mildenhall Launcher). The entry point index automatically monitors store app-bundles being installed and uninstalled during runtime, and automatically picks up new platform and built-in entry points at the next reboot.

T3572: Canterbury: Launcher.LaunchNewApp, Launcher.LaunchNewAppResponse removed in favour of cby_entry_point_activate_async()

The LaunchNewApp method and its accompanying LaunchNewAppResponse signal have been removed. Please use cby_entry_point_activate_async() instead.

, : Canterbury DataExchangeMgr D-Bus interface superseded by CbyEntryPointIndex, CbyComponentIndex

The DataExchangeMgr interface was not used (even by the Didcot content handover service, which might have been expected to use it) and has been removed from Canterbury. Its auto-generated C wrappers have been removed from libcanterbury-gdbus. The undocumented X-Apertis-DataExchangeRules and X-Apertis-ManifestUrl fields have also been removed from entry points.

, : MediaMgr interface removed in favour of possible future work on

Older versions of Canterbury contained special cases for removable (USB) storage media, and for UPnP shares. These special cases were not tested, and the code released in Apertis 17.03 did not work. Additionally, the design that had been used was incompatible with . These features have now been removed. If similar code is required in future, it should be integrated into the launcher user interface instead of into Canterbury; tracks possible future work on this topic.

: Canterbury integration with “automotive proxy” removed with no replacement

Canterbury’s audio manager code (which is itself deprecated) previously attempted to communicate with an undocumented “automotive proxy” component, which is not available in Apertis. This has now been removed.

: X-Apertis-WindowName removed with no immediate replacement

Apertis entry points (.desktop files) previously had an X-Apertis-WindowName field, which appears to have been used by the compositor to relate windows to entry points. This mechanism was insecure (because a malicious program can set any window name of its choice) and would not have been safe to rely on. It has now been removed. If there is a need for the compositor to relate windows to entry points, it must do so via AppArmor labels that cannot be forged (this is related to the Compositor_security topic).

: X-Apertis-MimeList, mt_app_settings, mt_browse superseded by standard MimeType, Interfaces

Apertis entry points (.desktop files) previously had an X-Apertis-MimeList field, which was used in older versions of the Didcot content-handover service. This was confirmed to be obsolete, and has been removed. The mt_app_settings pseudo-interface and the mt_browse pseudo-content-type were also removed.

Canterbury SONAME change

The ABI version suffix of libcanterbury-gdbus was changed to reflect the fact that ABIs were removed, and small libraries for each Canterbury D-Bus interface (such as libcanterburyappdbhandler.so.0) were removed. Applications that use the remaining D-Bus APIs must be recompiled against Canterbury 0.1703.x. The canterbury-0 and canterbury-platform-0 libraries are unaffected.

Other components

: Chalgrove, Corbridge removed

The Chalgrove preferences management service and all its D-Bus and C APIs have been removed in favour of the standard GSettings API. The Corbridge Bluetooth management service and all its D-Bus and C APIs have been removed in favour of direct use of the ConnMan and BlueZ APIs.

: Webkit-Clutter—based web view widget superseded by libbredon

As part of an effort to replace Webkit-Clutter with Webkit2-GTK+, the LightwoodWebViewWidget has been removed from liblightwood. Please use libbredon instead.

Didcot Share interface was removed with no replacement.

The org.apertis.Didcot.Share interface in 17.03 and earlier versions did not work. It is no longer present in 17.03.

Didcot SONAME change

The ABI version suffix of libdidcot-0 was changed to reflect the fact that ABIs were removed, and the compatibility symbolic links for the older libraries libdidcotlaunchiface and libdidcotshareiface were removed. Applications that use the remaining D-Bus APIs must be recompiled against Didcot 0.1703.x.

Infrastructure

Apertis infrastructure tools

For Debian Jessie based systems:

 $ deb https://repositories.apertis.org/debian/ jessie tools

For Ubuntu Trusty based systems:

 $ deb https://repositories.apertis.org/ubuntu/ trusty tools

Images

Image daily builds, as well as release builds can be found at:

 https://images.apertis.org/

Image build tools can be found in the Apertis tools repositories.

Known issues

High (8)

  • Focus issue with Audio player Thumb view

  • Info-roller Header is overlapping with roller texts in Songs application for detailed view

  • Playing videos crashes the web process (inside GStreamer)

  • denial of service via removable media with cloned btrfs UUIDs, partition labels, etc.

  • ade: hello-world application cross build fails

  • Cross debugging through GDB and GDBserver Not possible.

  • A video plays in a partial window in full screen mode

  • Application Installed through ADE is not listed in launcher

Normal (114)

  • Not able to load heavy sites on GtkClutterLauncher

  • No connectivity Popup is not seen when the internet is disconnected.

  • remove INSTALL, aclocal.m4 files from langtoft

  • Documentation is not available from the main folder

  • Power button appers to be disabled on target

  • apparmor-pulseaudio: ARM Failed to drain stream: Timeout

  • apparmor-libreoffice: libreoffice.normal.expected fails: ods_to_pdf: fail

  • Network search pop-up isn’t coming up in wi-fi settings

  • mxkineticscrollview-smooth-pan:Free scroll doesn’t work

  • factory-reset-tool TC: flagcheck messages are hidden by Plymouth

  • Screen flickering Issue

  • Clutter_text_set_text API redraws entire clutterstage

  • libgrassmoor: executes tracker-control binary

  • mildenhall-settings: does not generate localization files from source

  • Videos are hidden when Eye is launched

  • cgroups-resource-control: blkio-weights tests failed

  • Theme ,any F node which is a child of an E node is not working for Apertis widgets.

  • Video doesn’t play when toggling from full screen to detail view

  • Bluetooth pairing option not working as expected

  • Target doesn’t reboot after system update

  • Back option is missing as part of the tool tip

  • Unsupported launguage text is not shown on the page in GtkClutterLauncher

  • minimal image: DISPLAY sanity check tests failed

  • apt-key fails to access the Apertis keyring when ran from apt-get from a root login shell

  • Investigate why development ARM image fails to generate

  • Thornbury model functions deal with instances of the wrong class

  • telepathy-gabble: Several tests failed

  • apparmor-session-lockdown-no-deny asserts that canterbury is running, but that isn’t true on SDK

  • Cookies cannot be activated in the browser

  • Youtube videos cannot be viewed on browser

  • Horizontal scroll is not shown on GtkClutterLauncher

  • libsoup-unit: ssl-test failed for ARM

  • The background HMI is blank on clicking the button for Power OFF

  • Only half of the hmi is covered when opening gnome.org

  • Share links to facebook, twitter are nbt working in browser (GtkClutterLauncher)

  • Background video is not played in some website with GtkClutterLauncher

  • newport-client unit test relies on third party servers

  • Interaction with PulseAudio not allowed by its AppArmor profile

  • Fix folks EDS tests to not be racy

  • GStreamer playbin prioritises imxeglvivsink over clutterautovideosink

  • factory reset with a different image’s rootfs.tar.gz results in emergency mode

  • shapwick reads /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/passwd, and writes /var/root/.cache/dconf/

  • LAVA: Could not resolve host: repositories.apertis.org

  • gupnp-services: test service failed

  • Drop down lists are not working on a site like facebook

  • Cannot open/view pdf documents in browser (GtkClutterLauncher)

  • Zoom in feature does not work on google maps

  • Crash when initialising egl on ARM target

  • Video doesn’t resize properly in fullscreen

  • Images for the video links are not shown in news.google.com on GtkClutterLauncher

  • Pulse Audio volume control doesn’t launch as a separate window on SDK

  • Mismatch between server version file and sysroot version

  • Focus in launcher rollers broken because of copy/paste errors

  • Test apps are failing in Liblightwood with the use of GTest

  • If 2 drawers are activated, the most recent one hides behind the older one, instead of coming on top of older one.

  • Album Art Thumbnail missing in Thumb view in ARTIST Application

  • tracker-indexing-local-storage: Stopping tracker-store services

  • apparmor-tracker: underlying_tests failed

  • Canterbury messes up kerning when .desktop uses unicode chars

  • Ribchester: deadlock when calling RemoveApp() right after RollBack()

  • make check fails on libbredon package for wayland warnings

  • polkit-parsing: TEST_RESULT:fail

  • Not enough space in /opt to download and install sysroot

  • mildenhall_launcher process needs to be killed in order to view browser using webkit2 GtkClutterLauncher

  • Cannot open links within website like yahoo.com

  • tracker tests: Error creating thumbnails: No poster key found in metadata

  • apparmor-folks: unable to link contacts to test unlinking

  • mx6qsabrelite: linking issue with libgstimxeglvivsink.so and libgstimxvpu.so gstreamer plugins

  • libgles2-vivante-dev is not installable

  • telepathy-gabble-tests should depend on python-dbus

  • Compositor seems to hide the bottom menu of a webpage

  • Content on a webpage doesn’t load in sync with the scroll bar

  • Resizing the window causes page corruption

  • gupnp-services tests test_service_browsing and test_service_introspection fail on target-arm image

  • Confirm dialog status updated before selecting the confirm option YES/NO

  • webview Y offset not considered to place, full screen video on youtube webpage

  • cgroups-resource-control: test network-cgroup-prio-class failed

  • folks: random tests fail

  • Album art is missing in one of the rows of the songs application

  • Canterbury entry-point launching hides global popups, but only sometimes

  • <abstractions/cameras> doesn’t seem to do what it is intended to do

  • /usr/bin/gst-launch-1.0, gst-inspect-1.0 etc. profiles should probably not exist

  • <abstractions/chaiwala-base> gives privileges that not every app-bundle should have

  • <abstractions/chaiwala-execution> does nothing

  • <abstractions/chaiwala-user-read> should be removed

  • <abstractions/chaiwala-user-write> should be removed

  • <abstractions/dbus-daemon> should be removed

  • mildenhall-popup-layer fails to build on Jenkins

  • Apertis apparmor package defines non-upstream XDGRUNTIMEDIR variable

  • <abstractions/chaiwala-helpers> should be removed

  • <tunables/chaiwala/chaiwala-user> should be removed

  • <abstractions/chaiwala-media> contains test-specific rules

  • Segmentation fault when disposing test executable of mildenhall

  • The web runtime doesn’t set the related view when opening new windows

  • Deploying LAVA tests for SDK images on personal stream fails

  • Voice/Audio is not heard for the Bluez-hfp profile in i.MX6

  • Make maintainer-clean fails

  • GtkClutterLauncher: Segfaults with mouse right-clicking

  • didcot-client: Unit didcot.service could not be found.

  • rhosydd: integration test fails

  • ribchester: gnome-desktop-testing test times out

  • canterbury: Most of the tests fail

  • didcot does not show popup with application list, when client queries OpenURI method to open a URI(which can be handled by multiple applications)

  • Status bar is not getting updated with the current song/video being played