[Feb 14 2022] Cobalt 22 LTS 3 Stable Release

The Cobalt team has pushed critical patches to the 22.lts.stable branch with tag 22.lts.3 (22.lts.4.307648 push). Considering the importance of these patches, the Cobalt team strongly recommends that partners migrate Cobalt to this new version as soon as possible if you have Cobalt 22.lts.stable on your existing devices.

Updates

Cobalt Core

  • Resolved general Cobalt memory fragmentation issues in Cobalt 22

    • Setting MALLOC_ARENA_MAX=1 or MALLOC_ARENA_MAX=2 may have a drastic effect in reducing the rate of memory increase on affected platforms.

    • Fixed a crash that occurs when VR360 shuts down

    • Fixed a font issue that printed wrong characters for specific CJK fonts

    • Fixed an intermittent crash for StartMediaPlaybackService

    • Fixed a bug in which audio continued from a closed video after app resumption

Evergreen (Matching Version - 2.3.3)

  • Fixed an intermittent crash on Evergreen updater

Media

  • Fixed a short noise issue that is noticeable when switching between Cobalt and live TV

Security

  • N/A

Android

  • Improved longevity performance with preallocated media buffers
  • Fixed a bug in MediaPlaybackService that can prevent releasing memory
  • Fixed a crash that may occur with preallocated media buffers on suspend

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