We are pleased to announce Tizen 4.0 the first milestone release.

This milestone provides developers with Tizen .NET, an application framework for Tizen based on .NET. Developers can use the C# programming language and the Common Language Infrastructure standards and benefit from a managed runtime for faster application development, and efficient, secure code execution.

Highlights of this release are as follows:

• Tizen.NET
  • Xamarin.Forms 2.3.5
  • C# Tizen Platform-specific API
  • C# 3D UI Framework(NUI, Natural User Interface)
• Web Framework
  • Web engine base open source up version : chromium M56 is applied
  • Below HTML5/W3C standard feature/API is added
    • Shadow DOM v1, Pointer Events, WebGL 2,  Credential Management API, ECMAScript7 Async and Await
• Toolchain
  • gcc Upgraded from 4.9.2 to 6.2.1 (Linaro '16 Dec version)
  • Language C++11 is fully supported.
• Graphics System
  • Wayland Server
    • Add the extension protocols and impelementation for wayland server. For example tizen_screen_rotation, tizen_screenshooter, tizen_remote_surface.
    • libpepper-evdev and libpepper-keyrouter are added. These library can be used for headless wayland server.
  • Display and GL
    • Frontbuffer rendering is added for VR rendering engine.
    • Support the layer commit to ensure an output commit per each vblank in TDM(Tizen Display Management)
  • OpenGLES 3.2 support
  • Voice Webpage Control and Voice Touch are supported

Please refer to the release notes [2] for details.