Blog Archive

February 2015

Tizen IVI 3.0 released

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The IVI team is excited to announce the availability of Tizen IVI 3.0 for In-Vehicle Infotainment. Tizen IVI 3.0 is a Linux-based open source operating system and Tizen profile widely accepted by the automotive industry. It bundles popular and well supported open source projects where suitable and new industry-specific components where no solutions existed. This makes it the most advanced open source distribution available for automobiles today. Tizen IVI 3.0 is GENIVI 7.0 compliant on Nexcom VTC 1010-IVI and MinnowBoard Max devices and was chosen as the reference implementation for Linux Foundation's Automotive Grade Linux project. Tizen IVI 3.0 comes with a compliance spec and test suite to ensure device interoperability. We also announce the final version of Tizen IVI SDK for web application development including access to W3C compliant vehicle Web APIs. Tizen web runtime engine provides the highest standards in HTML5 compatibility and system performance. Additionally we have added experimental support for the Yocto Framework giving the community and automotive professionals the choice to use their favorite build tool to adapt and enhance Tizen IVI 3.0 images based on their requirements. Tizen IVI 3.0 provides a strong foundation for building modern commercial automotive solutions.

Note: The engineering name for this release in JIRA is M14.4 but its official name is Tizen IVI 3.0.

Release notes are available here: https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/IVI/Tizen-IVI_3.0

For more information about Tizen for In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) project, please go and visit our new landing page on Tizen.org at: https://www.tizen.org/ivi.<https://www.tizen.org/ivi.

Tizen IVI 3.0-M3-Oct2014 gains GENIVI 7.0 Compliance, becoming the first GENIVI compliant solution available with both 32-bit and 64-bit kernel and OS

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On 11 November 2014, Tizen IVI 3.0-M3-Oct2014 gained GENIVI 7.0 compliance approval on two platforms, the Nexcom VTC 1010-IVI and the MinnowBoard Max. Tizen IVI 3.0 is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Tizen IVI is an open-source solution for next-generation In-Vehicle Infotainment systems built on Linux. Tizen, the OS of everything, is architected from the ground up to meet the requirements of various types of devices such as Mobile, Wearables, IVI, TV. Tizen IVI boosts a number of innovative solutions providing differentiating and integrated features such as efficient multi-screen/multi-window graphics based on Wayland, an advanced policy manager (Murphy), multi-toolkit application lifecycle, a security framework, GENIVI OSS components (see more details), a framework for exposing vehicle data with the Automotive Message Broker and an automotive-ready Web Runtime environment based on Crosswalk. Tizen IVI provides an ideal platform to jump-start development on various hardware platforms including Intel® 32-bit and 64-bit architecture and also supports ARM platforms. The release notes can be found at https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/IVI/Tizen-IVI_3.0-M3-Oct2014.

Tizen 3.0-M2-Aug for IVI Released

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In anticipation of Tizen 3.0 release for IVI early next year, Tizen IVI team is pleased to announce that Tizen 3.0-M2-Aug for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) was released on August 29th.

This new preview features an upgraded Wayland (1.2), weston compositor (1.2.1) and is based on a 3.11 Linux kernel. It comes with an enhanced Tizen Web RunTime (WRT), featuring new Web APIs (Automotive, Speech, DLNA). The Resource Policy Manager (Murphy), Automotive Message Broker, Hands-Free Dialer, MediaPlayer, and many more packages have been upgraded and new middleware components have been added, such as a new PIM manager (SyncEvolution), a speech-recognition framework, SmartDeviceLink, and basic support for Ethernet AVB.

A new automotive HomeScreen is under development and can be installed separately. Refer to the release notes for more details.
 
For more information about this release, refer to these release notes. 
- Tizen IVI 3.0-M2-Aug release notes: https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/IVI/IVI_August_29,_3.0-M2-Aug

For more information about Tizen for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI), visit our wiki at: https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/IVI. Tizen for IVI shares core frameworks with other Tizen profiles, with additional key components to support automotive use cases. Preview releases are made available on an approximately monthly basis, leading up to the final Tizen 3.0 release for IVI expected in Q1 2014.

Bootable images for this release are available: