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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

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.
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