Community Edition 3.1.0 - Release

webOS CE 3.1.0 — Release Notes

Release — BUILDMARK 600070 (2026-09-03)

A Doctor to restore/update the HP TouchPad to webOS 3.1.0 Community Edition. This was built by repacking the OEM HP webOS 3.0.5 Doctor with 14 years of community work baked directly into the rootfs. Flashing it wipes the device, exactly like the OEM Doctor.

Two images ship. Flash the one that matches your device — they are not interchangeable.

	TouchPad Wi-Fi (topaz)	TouchPad 4G / AT&T (topaz4g)
Asset	webosdoctorp310hstnh-ce-600070.jar	webosdoctorp310hstnhatt-ce-600071.jar
BUILDMARK	600070	600071
Size	242,920,348 bytes (232 MB)	304,001,097 bytes (290 MB)
md5	d804b15312428e29172e27a17a7493f1	2685615b097d923d6844dbfd01d58aa4

Verify before flashing:

sha256sum webosdoctorp310hstnh-ce-600070.jar
392f2122e3bd95f6f6b4f89acff2e8038508746a6fdeac7f4c5716834178e65a

sha256sum webosdoctorp310hstnhatt-ce-600071.jar
12514f5f0569fbc7dec784476709f4036f10dd23dd134b5fb98a338af837f621

Nothing was rebuilt to make this a release. The Wi-Fi asset is the final release candidate under its final name: byte-identical to both webosdoctorp310hstnh-ce-600070-frc.jar and the ...-600070.jar every test below was run against — same size, same sha256 — so every result carries over unchanged. No new issues were found during the candidate soak.

The AT&T image is a separate build, not a variant flag. HP shipped the 4G TouchPad with its own Doctor, so CE's is repacked from webosdoctorp305hstnhatt.jar the same way the Wi-Fi image is repacked from ...wifi.jar. It carries its own BUILDMARK because it is a separate repack of a different input, not because it contains different CE work. Flashed and tested on AT&T hardware on 2026-08-31: 90 PASS / 0 FAIL, the same suite and the same score as the Wi-Fi run. Full account in Docs/ATT-VARIANT.md.

The asset name changed during the candidate series. Earlier candidates were webosdoctorp305hstnh-3.1CE-<mark>.jar, carrying HP's p305 product code for the 3.0.5 Doctor this is repacked from. This is 3.1.0, so it is named for what it is. The input JARs keep their own names — those are HP's files.

(RC3 was 600067, 2026-08-29, sha256 eadd365f…; RC2 was 600056, 2026-08-23, sha256 cea207df…; RC1 was 600024.)

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What's in it

Modern TLS everywhere. OpenSSL 1.1.1w stacks for the browser, app WebKit, download manager and mail, so HTTPS sites and mail servers work again. Current Mozilla root certificates (190), with expired ones dropped.

LunaCE launcher — app groups, tabs, wave launcher, gestures, and a small default keyboard. LunaCE's Tweaks definitions ship pre-seeded (inert until you install Tweaks from Preware).

Community sign-in. First-use runs the webOS Archive account flow instead of HP's dead activation servers, and account setup is skippable.

Pre-installed, baked into the image — no first-boot installs, no postinsts: Preware 1.9.19, Govnah 1.3.9, App Catalog 6.1.2923, Maps 4.0.1, USB Settings, BT Gamepad support, and the Synergy Revival shared runtime. Preware knows they are installed and offers Preware feeds out of the box.

Community core apps — Accounts 3.1.1 (with a Synergy Accounts grouping and a Delete Account Data page), Contacts, Messaging, Phone, and the supporting frameworks.

Synergy Revival — the modernised libpurple 2.14 IM runtime, with the dead Skype / Yahoo / legacy-Google stacks retired.

Hardware and platform fixes — UberKernel 3.0.5-93, Bluetooth gamepads and mice, USB OTG/power/mass-storage, Bluetooth hands-free, extra media codecs (opus/ogg/vpx/matroska/speex), a slim Thai font, and working connectivity detection (the old check pointed at dead HP servers and demanded a hotspot login on ordinary Wi-Fi).

Identity — Device Info reports webOS CE 3.1.0, and apps see a clean 3.1.0 platform version. Developer mode is on out of the box and stays on.

Removed — Kindle, Facebook and YouTube preloads.

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New in 600070

Two additions on top of RC3, both small in surface and deliberately so — the rootfs is frozen for the life of this release, so late changes were limited to what could be fully verified.

Device Info no longer says "HP webOS Account". There is no HP account in CE — first use creates a webOS Archive community account — so the heading over the account row, and the same phrase in the full-erase confirmation, named something that does not exist. Now both read "webOS Account", in all five shipped languages (webOS-Konto, Compte webOS, Cuenta de webOS, Account webOS). The app's separate "HP webOS demo" strings are a different, retail feature and are untouched.

A signing key for future updates is now in the image. This is the only over-the-air component here, and it is worth being precise about what it is and is not.

What shipped: a public key at /usr/share/ce-ota/keys/ce-ota-signing.pub and a small verifier, /usr/bin/ce-ota-verify. That is all.

What did not ship: any update client. Nothing checks for updates, nothing contacts a server, and nothing on the device will install anything on its own. There is no update to fetch yet.

Why it is here at all, given the client is not: a trust root cannot be delivered over the channel it exists to protect. If the key arrived in a future update, that update would itself be unauthenticated — which is the exact problem the key is meant to solve. So the key has to be in the image a device is flashed with, or it is worth nothing. Everything else can come later, over Preware, and be authenticated by this key.

The verifier deliberately uses the device's original 2009 OpenSSL rather than the modern TLS stack CE adds, so it works identically on stock webOS 3.0.5 and on CE — a device does not need the modern crypto it might be installing in order to check the signature on it.

Verified on the flashed image with the real offline key: a signed manifest verifies, and a single flipped byte, a truncated signature, or the wrong key are all refused. Design notes are in Docs/OTA-STRATEGY.md §5.

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New in RC3 (600067)

Everything in RC2, plus:

The power menu's Shut Down actually shuts down. It rebooted instead, on every CE build since 600011. /sbin/halt and /sbin/poweroff are symlinks to /sbin/reboot, which picks its action from basename(argv[0]); a diagnostic shim we had wrapped around that name could not preserve argv[0], so every power-off — the menu, and critical-battery shutdown — came back as a reboot. The shim is gone and the test suite now asserts those four names stay unwrapped.

Preware's package service no longer loses its upstart job. Two separate faults, both fixed in Preware itself and rebuilt from source for this image:

• Its postinst copied the upstart job into the watched directory, so upstart could read it half-written and end up with no valid job — Preware then had no backend until you rebooted. It now writes to a temp path and renames it in.
• Its service returned success when it could not take the D-Bus name, which upstart read as a clean exit and respawned instantly — eleven times in a second, tripping the respawn limit and parking the job. Preware kept answering, so this hid for years, but a Luna Restart in that state can freeze the device. It now pauses and exits non-zero, so a name conflict is a paced retry.

Verified across five consecutive reboots with a five-minute soak each: the job stayed resident every time and the fault never fired.

A half-wiped app store is now repaired instead of hanging the boot. If the Doctor's app-deletion stage hits a read-only /media/internal — a dirty VFAT volume, typically after a force-reboot into recovery — it fails every removal, reports the flash successful anyway, and the device boots with no /media/cryptofs/apps. Every preload then fails and retries forever on the pulsing logo. First boot now rebuilds that directory and says so in the log. After any flash, check the Doctor's log for AppDeletion: removed the appDirectory and for Read-only file system — its success message does not distinguish them.

Backup and Restore 3.1.1. Three fixes:

• Restores no longer read the wrong manifest. The on-device cache was reconciled by name, and names are not unique — a stale manifest from an earlier restore could shadow the real one, which once turned a 115-package restore into six files and reported success. The target is now the source of truth for content.
• Scheduled backups no longer grow without bound. Each run re-archived every app and tar czf stamps the creation time into the gzip header, so byte-identical content hashed differently every time and the content-addressed store kept a full copy per run. Measured on a real device: six copies of one 295 MB game across four days, /media/internal at 100%, backups then failing with ENOSPC. Verified fixed on hardware: a repeat backup covering 1.6 GB of content added 3 MB and not one object over 1 MB. Upgrading costs one large backup: the copies already in your store were written by the old code and cannot be matched, so the first backup after updating stores everything once more (1.57 GB on the test device). Every run after that is small.
• A failed backup no longer leaks. Files are stored as the run goes and the manifest is written last, so a run that died left full-size files nothing referenced — and only the success path purged.

Local media opens in the media apps again — with Atlas 0.9.12, released alongside. Atlas claimed every file:// URL, which outranks mime and extension handlers, so photos, videos and music opened in the browser.

Cosmetic. Preware's baked-in package descriptions read (Pre-loaded) instead of (baked into webOS CE), and the Doctor window no longer says HP(R)...

Community Edition 3.1.0 - Touchpad 4G - Final Release Candidate

This release is for the 4G (AT&T Cellular-modem equipped) Touchpad ONLY. There are very few of these in the world -- for most Touchpads, you want the Touchpad WiFi release.

It has the same features as the generally available (WiFi-only) release, please see the Release Notes for that release, and ATT-VARIANT.md for details.

Community Edition 3.1.0 - Touchpad WiFi - Final Release Candidate

webOS CE 3.1.0 — Release Notes

Final release candidate — BUILDMARK 600070 (2026-08-30)

TOPAZ WiFi only!

Download the pre-built jar from this release, and run as a normal Doctor. See the README for more detailed installation instructions.

Asset	webosdoctorp310hstnh-ce-600070-frc.jar
Size	242,920,348 bytes (232 MB)
sha256	392f2122e3bd95f6f6b4f89acff2e8038508746a6fdeac7f4c5716834178e65a
md5	d804b15312428e29172e27a17a7493f1

Verify before flashing:

sha256sum webosdoctorp310hstnh-ce-600070-frc.jar

(RC3 was 600067; RC2 was 600056, sha256 cea207df…; RC1 was 600024.)

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What's in it

Modern TLS everywhere. OpenSSL 1.1.1w stacks for the browser, app WebKit, download manager and mail, so HTTPS sites and mail servers work again. Current Mozilla root certificates (190), with expired ones dropped.

LunaCE launcher — app groups, tabs, wave launcher, gestures, and a smaller default keyboard. LunaCE's Tweaks definitions ship pre-seeded (inert until you install Tweaks from Preware).

Community sign-in. First-use runs the webOS Archive account flow instead of HP's dead activation servers, and account setup is skippable.

Pre-installed, baked into the image — no first-boot installs, no postinsts:
Preware 1.9.19, Govnah 1.3.9, App Catalog 6.1.2923, Maps 4.0.1, USB Settings, BT Gamepad support, and the Synergy Revival shared runtime. Preware knows they are installed and offers Preware feeds out of the box.

Community core apps — Accounts 3.1.1 (with a Synergy Accounts grouping and a Delete Account Data page), Contacts, Messaging, Phone, and the supporting frameworks.

Synergy Revival — the modernised libpurple 2.14 IM runtime, with the dead Skype / Yahoo / legacy-Google stacks retired.

Hardware and platform fixes — UberKernel 3.0.5-93, Bluetooth gamepads and mice, USB OTG/power/mass-storage, Bluetooth hands-free, extra media codecs (opus/ogg/vpx/matroska/speex), a slim Thai font, and working connectivity detection (the old check pointed at dead HP servers and demanded a hotspot login on ordinary Wi-Fi).

Identity — Device Info reports webOS CE 3.1.0, and apps see a clean 3.1.0 platform version. Developer mode is on out of the box and stays on.

Removed — Kindle, Facebook and YouTube preloads.

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New in 600070

Two additions on top of RC3, both small on purpose — the rootfs is frozen for the life of the release, so late changes were limited to what could be fully verified.

Device Info no longer says "HP webOS Account". There is no HP account in CE — first use creates a webOS Archive community account — so the heading over the account row, and the same phrase in the full-erase confirmation, named something that does not exist. Both now read "webOS Account", in all five shipped languages (webOS-Konto, Compte webOS, Cuenta de webOS, Account webOS).

A signing key for future updates is now in the image. This is the only over-the-air component here, and it is worth being precise about what it is and is not.

What shipped: a public key and a small signature verifier. That is all.

What did not ship: any update client. Nothing checks for updates, nothing contacts a server, and nothing on the device will install anything on its own. There is no update to fetch yet.

Why it is here at all, given the client is not: a trust root cannot be delivered over the channel it exists to protect. If the key arrived in a future update, that update would itself be unauthenticated — which is the exact problem the key is meant to solve. So the key has to be in the image you flash, or it is worth nothing. Everything else can come later, over Preware, authenticated by this key.

The verifier deliberately uses the device's original 2009 OpenSSL rather than the modern TLS stack CE adds, so it works identically on stock webOS 3.0.5 and on CE — a device does not need the modern crypto it might be installing in order to check the signature on it.

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New in RC3 (600067)

The power menu's Shut Down actually shuts down. It rebooted instead, on every CE build since 600011. /sbin/halt and /sbin/poweroff are symlinks to /sbin/reboot, which picks its action from basename(argv[0]); a diagnostic shim wrapped around that name could not preserve argv[0], so every power-off — the menu, and critical-battery shutdown — came back as a reboot. The shim is gone and the test suite now asserts those four names stay unwrapped.

Preware's package service no longer loses its upstart job. Two separate faults, both fixed in Preware itself and rebuilt from source for this image:

• Its postinst copied the upstart job into the watched directory, so upstart could read it half-written and end up with no valid job — Preware then had no backend until you rebooted. It now writes to a temp path and renames it in.
• Its service returned success when it could not take the D-Bus name, which upstart read as a clean exit and respawned instantly — eleven times in a second, tripping the respawn limit and parking the job. Preware kept answering, so this hid for years, but a Luna Restart in that state can freeze the device. It now pauses and exits non-zero, so a name conflict is a paced retry.

A half-wiped app store is now repaired instead of hanging the boot. If the Doctor's app-deletion stage hits a read-only /media/internal — a dirty VFAT volume, typically after a force-reboot into recovery — it fails every removal, reports the flash successful anyway, and the device boots with no app store. Every preload then fails and retries forever on the pulsing logo. First boot now rebuilds that directory and says so in the log.

Backup and Restore 3.1.1. Three fixes:

• Restores no longer read the wrong manifest. The on-device cache was reconciled by name, and names are not unique — a stale manifest from an earlier restore could shadow the real one, which once turned a 115-package restore into six files and reported success. The target is now the source of truth for content.
• Scheduled backups no longer grow without bound. Each run re-archived every app and tar czf stamps the creation time into the gzip header, so byte-identical content hashed differently every time and the content-addressed store kept a full copy per run. Measured on a real device: six copies of one 295 MB game across four days, /media/internal at 100%, backups then failing with ENOSPC. Verified fixed: a repeat backup covering 1.6 GB added 3 MB. Upgrading costs one large backup — the copies already in your store were written by the old code and cannot be matched, so the first backup after updating stores everything once more. Every run after that is small.
• A failed backup no longer leaks. Files are stored as the run goes and the manifest is written last, so a run that died left full-size files nothing referenced — and only the success path purged.

Local media opens in the media apps again — with Atlas 0.9.12, released alongside. Atlas claimed every file:// URL, which outranks mime and extension handlers, so photos, videos and music opened in the browser.

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New in RC2 (600056)

Backup and Restore actually works. The stock Backup app was a UI over Palm's retired servers; it is replaced by an on-device backup writing content-addressed backups to /media/internal/webos-backups, and it is the supported way to carry data from webOS 3.0.5 onto CE. Verified end to end: a 115-package backup from a 3.0.5 device restored onto CE with 102 apps reinstalled and none failed, all 11 of their services registered and reachable on the bus after the reboot, and a receipt naming everything it could not put back and why.

Accounts — the Settings → Accounts list shows a single SYNERGY ACCOUNTS group again, rather than groups nested inside a group.

A boot-time crash is gone. On a Wi-Fi TouchPad the stock WAN daemon respawn-thrashed until upstart stopped it, and jobs starting in that same moment died with SIGSEGV. Harmless in effect, but it produced a crash report on every boot and every Luna Restart.

Preware reports CE's baked packages honestly, including the TLS and root-certificate updates, so it no longer offers them as fresh installs and a 3.0.5 restore no longer copies their leftovers onto the device.

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How this build was tested

90 automated checks, 0 failures — on two different TouchPads, each a separate flash. The suite covers identity, first-boot seeding, the core apps, the Synergy runtime, Preware's package state, Exhibition, search, storage and both additions above.

7 consecutive reboots, 112 checks, 0 failures. Five minutes of running time after each boot, then the full check set. This exists because the fault that dogged RC2 fired roughly one boot in six, so a single clean boot proves very little.

Setup in three languages — English, plus a German factory reset and a French (Canada) fresh flash, both returning a correct device.

A 43-package backup restored onto the flashed image with zero errors and nothing skipped; after the reboot all 11 restored services were reachable, including apps whose own services came back with them.

Not covered, and tracked rather than claimed: Bluetooth pairing, an IM account actually connecting, and the Exhibition clock faces.

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Known issues

Full detail, with evidence and what a fix would have to do, is in KNOWN-ISSUES.md. The ones a tester will actually meet:

• Preware may not work until you reboot once after setup. Fixed in RC3 — both causes fixed in Preware itself, and this build saw no occurrence across two flashes and seven reboots. No post-setup reboot is needed any more.
• **A crash report may ap...

Community Edition 3.1.0 - Release Candidate 2

webOS CE 3.1.0 — Release Notes

This is a near-final release of webOS Community Edition 3.1.0.

There is one known issue:

• A race condition on first boot upstart jobs may leave some services or apps not fully initialized until the next boot
• Mitigation: wait 2-3 minutes after completing OOBE, and do a full reboot of the device

Release candidate 2 — BUILDMARK 600056 (2026-08-23)

TOPAZ WiFi only!

Download the pre-build jar from this release, and run as a normal Doctor. See the README for more detailed installation instructions.

Asset	webosdoctorp305hstnh-3.1CE-600056-rc.jar
Size	243,412,798 bytes (233 MB)
sha256	cea207df818af710dec9349400b72a3a52bf046da9fbf63b7e7c6d645cc903f6
md5	9f0c0823d6e7eb5d32469b7b972d990b

Verify before flashing:

sha256sum webosdoctorp305hstnh-3.1CE-600056-rc.jar

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What's in it

Modern TLS everywhere. OpenSSL 1.1.1w stacks for the browser, app WebKit,
download manager and mail, so HTTPS sites and mail servers work again. Current
Mozilla root certificates (190), with expired ones dropped.

LunaCE launcher — app groups, tabs, wave launcher, gestures, and a smaller default keyboard. LunaCE's Tweaks definitions ship pre-seeded (inert until you install Tweaks from Preware).

Community sign-in. First-use runs the webOS Archive account flow instead of HP's dead activation servers, and account setup is skippable.

Pre-installed, baked into the image — no first-boot installs, no postinsts:
Preware 1.9.19, Govnah 1.3.9, App Catalog 6.1.2901, Maps 4.0.1, USB Settings, BT Gamepad support, and the Synergy Revival shared runtime. Preware knows they are installed and offers Preware feeds out of the box.

Community core apps — Accounts 3.1.1 (with a Synergy Accounts grouping and a Delete Account Data page), Contacts, Messaging, Phone, and the supporting frameworks.

Synergy Revival — the modernised libpurple 2.14 IM runtime, with the dead Skype / Yahoo / legacy-Google stacks retired.

Hardware and platform fixes — UberKernel 3.0.5-93, Bluetooth gamepads and mice, USB OTG/power/mass-storage, Bluetooth hands-free, extra media codecs (opus/ogg/vpx/matroska/speex), a slim Thai font, and working connectivity detection (the old check pointed at dead HP servers and demanded a hotspot login on ordinary Wi-Fi).

Identity — Device Info reports webOS CE 3.1.0, and apps see a clean 3.1.0 platform version. Developer mode is on out of the box and stays on.

Removed — Kindle, Facebook and YouTube preloads.

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New in RC2 (600056)

Backup and Restore actually works. The stock Backup app was a UI over Palm's retired servers; it is replaced by an on-device backup writing content-addressed backups to /media/internal/webos-backups, and it is the supported way to carry data from webOS 3.0.5 onto CE. Verified end to end: a 115-package backup from a 3.0.5 device restored onto CE with 102 apps reinstalled and none failed, all 11 of their services registered and reachable on the bus after the reboot, and a receipt naming everything it could not put back and why. The largest app in that set was a 296MB archive.

Backup is still a best-effort feature — it restores applications and their data, not Preware patches, and one package in that run was never captured at backup time. See BACKUP-RESTORE.md before moving a backup between devices: the manifest has to travel with it, and a stale one will shadow the real backup.

Accounts — the Settings → Accounts list shows a single SYNERGY ACCOUNTS group again, rather than groups nested inside a group.

A boot-time crash is gone. On a Wi-Fi TouchPad the stock WAN daemon respawn-thrashed until upstart stopped it, and jobs starting in that same moment died with SIGSEGV. Harmless in effect — the affected jobs had already done their work — but it produced a crash report on every boot and every Luna Restart. See 4G-TOUCHPAD.md.

Preware reports CE's baked packages honestly, including the TLS and root-certificate updates, so it no longer offers them as fresh installs and a 3.0.5 restore no longer copies their leftovers onto the device.

Fixed since the 600023 candidate

• Luna Restart no longer freezes the device. Restoring respawn on Preware's ipkgservice keeps it resident, so the power-menu restart doesn't have to launch it on demand from inside the UI process — the launch that used to block.

Fixed since 600020

• App Catalog is now the community 6.1.2901. A stock staged catalog ipk was being installed over it at first boot, so earlier builds silently ran the old 5.0.2900.
• Synergy runtime seeds reliably. A blocking initctl call could stall the seeding job indefinitely, leaving the IM transport unable to start.
• Preware has its feeds immediately after setup, seeded from Preware's own postinst rather than a hand-maintained copy — so the version-specific feeds that have no 3.1 content ship correctly disabled instead of failing on every update.

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Known issues

Full detail, with evidence and what a fix would have to do, is in
KNOWN-ISSUES.md. The ones a tester will actually meet:

• Preware may not work until you reboot once after setup. On roughly one boot in six, the package-manager service is left wedged by a first-use race. A reboot fixes it permanently. Until you reboot, avoid Luna Restart from
  the power menu — it can hang in this state.
• Restoring a backup taken on another device? Clear the manifest cache first — see BACKUP-RESTORE.md. Backup names are not unique across devices and a stale one will shadow the real backup.
• No post-setup account manager yet. The sign-in app is first-use only in this build; managing your account afterwards will come as a separate App Catalog app.
• No on-device rollback. Recovery is re-Doctoring — by design.

Notes for testers

• The Doctor is unsigned and the OEM flash gate is patched off, so your Java runtime may warn about the missing signature.
• The first boot does housekeeping for about 90 seconds after setup completes (seeding the IM runtime and Preware's feeds). If the IM transport or Preware feeds look absent immediately after setup, give it a minute.
• Logs worth capturing for any report: /var/log/messages, /var/log/ce-*.log, and /var/log/reboot-tripwire.log.

Community Edition 3.1.0 - Release Candidate 1

webOS CE 3.1.0 — Release Notes

Release candidate: BUILDMARK 600024 (2026-08-18) out/webosdoctorp305hstnh-3.1CE-600024-rc.jar sha256 ec30762fdbf2be1a0f1f36b9da87eea84870b5d99709c80d7e921b628e7202d3

A community Doctor for the HP TouchPad (topaz, Wi-Fi), built by repacking the OEM HP webOS 3.0.5 Doctor with 14 years of community work baked directly into the rootfs. Flashing it wipes the device, exactly like the OEM Doctor.

This release contains the pre-built Doctor .jar file -- don't try to built it yourself. For instructions on running the Doctor, please read: https://docs.webosarchive.org/doctor/#running-the-doctor

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What's in it

Modern TLS everywhere. OpenSSL 1.1.1w stacks for the browser, app WebKit, download manager and mail, so HTTPS sites and mail servers work again. Current Mozilla root certificates (190), with expired ones dropped.

LunaCE launcher — app groups, tabs, wave launcher, gestures, and a small default keyboard. LunaCE's Tweaks definitions ship pre-seeded (inert until you install Tweaks from Preware).

Community sign-in. First-use runs the webOS Archive account flow instead of HP's dead activation servers, and account setup is skippable.

Pre-installed, baked into the image — no first-boot installs, no postinsts:
Preware 1.9.19, Govnah 1.3.9, App Catalog 6.1.2901, Maps 4.0.1, USB Settings, BT Gamepad support, and the Synergy Revival shared runtime. Preware knows they are installed and offers Preware feeds out of the box.

Community core apps — Accounts 3.1.1 (with a Synergy Accounts grouping and a Delete Account Data page), Contacts, Messaging, Phone, and the supporting frameworks.

Synergy Revival — the modernised libpurple 2.14 IM runtime, with the dead Skype / Yahoo / legacy-Google stacks retired.

Hardware and platform fixes — UberKernel 3.0.5-93, Bluetooth gamepads and mice, USB OTG/power/mass-storage, Bluetooth hands-free, extra media codecs (opus/ogg/vpx/matroska/speex), a slim Thai font, and working connectivity detection (the old check pointed at dead HP servers and demanded a hotspot login on ordinary Wi-Fi).

Identity — Device Info reports webOS CE 3.1.0, and apps see a clean 3.1.0 platform version. Developer mode is on out of the box and stays on.

Removed — Kindle, Facebook and YouTube preloads.

Known issues

• Launcher may come up empty on the first boot (rare). Restart once and it is fixed permanently. See KNOWN-ISSUE-EMPTY-LAUNCHER.md.
• Possible spontaneous reboot shortly after setup (rare, unconfirmed). Not observed on recent builds; instrumentation ships to identify it if it recurs. See KNOWN-ISSUE-RANDOM-REBOOT.md.
• Browser-downloaded .ipk files may not work. App Catalog installs are unaffected.
  See KNOWN-ISSUE-IPK-BROWSER-PROMPT.md.
• No post-setup account manager yet. The sign-in app is first-use only in this build; managing your account afterwards will come as a separate App Catalog app.
• No on-device rollback. Recovery is re-Doctoring — by design.

Notes for testers

• The Doctor is unsigned and the OEM flash gate is patched off, so your Java runtime may warn about the missing signature.
• The first boot does housekeeping for about 90 seconds after setup completes (seeding the IM runtime and Preware's feeds). If the IM transport or Preware feeds look absent immediately after setup, give it a minute.
• Logs worth capturing for any report: /var/log/messages, /var/log/ce-*.log, and /var/log/reboot-tripwire.log.

Community Edition 3.1.0 - Preview Release 2

Everything in Preview Release 1, plus fixes to the built-in version number and reporting.

Please see KNOWN-ISSUE-EMPTY-LAUNCHER.md and report if you are able to reproduce.

Community Edition 3.1.0 - Preview Release

Topaz WiFi Only -- Not for 4G or Go!

This is a preview release of webOS Community Edition 3.1.0, for use on secondary devices only. We're not ready for general availability, and the only way to install is as a Doctor/Factory Reset.

What's baked in:

• Community first-use/OOBE with webOS Account sign-in (or skip it — a local profile is created), in-image TLS 1.2/1.3
  for browser, mail, App Catalog, and downloads, plus a current root-certificate store
• App Catalog, Maps 4.0.1, community Accounts, Help (repointed to webosarchive.org), Preware, Govnah, USB Settings, and
  Bluetooth gamepad support — installed and working on first boot
• UberKernel 3.0.5-93 (1.512GHz, screen-off battery cap), LunaCE launcher
• Advanced reset options in the power menu, auto-matched to your setup language (EN/DE/ES/FR/IT)
• HP bloatware (Kindle/Facebook/YouTube) removed; fresh wallpapers and ringtones

Install: put the TouchPad in recovery mode (hold Volume-Up while powering on, USB connected), then java -jar
webosdoctorp305hstnh-3.1CE.jar. Flash takes ~10–15 min.

Notes:

• Wi-Fi TouchPad only — do not flash 4G or Go models
• Your files on /media/internal and installed apps survive; apps CE now ships (Maps, Catalog, Preware, USB Settings)
  are replaced with the built-in versions
• No rollback on device — recovery from anything is simply re-running this, or a previous, Doctor
• This is a different OS version, many patches and some apps that check for version 3.0.5 or version 3.0.x will refuse to install