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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

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.

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.

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.
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