1.24.1

These release notes cover new features and changes in Anbox Cloud 1.24.1.

Anbox Cloud 1.24.1 is a patch release. To understand minor and patch releases, see Release notes.

Please see Component versions for a list of updated components.

Requirements

See Requirements for details on general and deployment specific requirements to run Anbox Cloud.

New features

• The anbox-cloud-appliance buginfo command also includes the appliance configuration details for better troubleshooting.

• Android security updates for December 2024 (see Android Security Bulletin - December 2024 for more information).

• The Android WebView has been updated to 131.0.6778.81.

Removed functionality

• The following unsupported features cannot be enabled in AAOS 14 images:

  • enable_virtual_keyboard

  • enable_system_ui

  • enable_anbox_ime

  • Custom Android ID

  • Custom system apps

  • Boot package support

Although they were unsupported, they could be enabled in the previous 1.24.0 release and when enabled, could cause unexpected behavior.

Deprecations

There are no new deprecations announced for 1.24.1. For the list of features or components that were deprecated earlier and are planned to be removed in future releases, see deprecation notices.

Known issues

• Rendering does not work for AMD and Intel GPUs. For deployments that use AMD GPUs, the instance does not start and for deployments using Intel GPUs, the graphical output is incorrect.

CVEs

The Anbox Cloud 1.24.1 release includes fixes from the respective upstreams for the following CVEs:

CVE	Affected Components
CVE-2024-51744	Anbox Management Service (AMS)
CVE-2024-21538	Anbox Cloud dashboard
CVE-2024-38630	All VM images of Anbox Cloud
CVE-2024-26800	All VM images of Anbox Cloud
CVE-2024-27397	All VM images of Anbox Cloud
CVE-2024-43762	Android 12, 13, 14
CVE-2024-43764	Android 13, 14
CVE-2024-43769	Android 13, 14
CVE-2024-43767	Android 12, 13, 14
CVE-2024-43097	Android 12, 13, 14
CVE-2024-43768	Android 12, 13, 14

Bug fixes

The following bugs have been fixed as part of the Anbox Cloud 1.24.1 release.

• LP 2089631 Unusually high GPU memory consumption when multiple clients connect with varying screen resolutions.

• LP 2086814 When the Anbox Stream Gateway runs in HA mode, it creates multiple sessions for a single AMS node, but only a single session is recorded in the AMS.

• LP 2087525 When using amc list, the TAGS column (with session=SESSION_ID) is included in the table format, but missing from the JSON/YAML format.

• LP 2087550 The size of images is set incorrectly when they are not completely downloaded. When they are not yet downloaded, the image size is set to 0B and when they are being downloaded, the size is set to -1B.

• LP 2087554 The output from the anbox-cloud-appliance buginfo command in the appliance contains unknown as the value instead of version information.

• LP 2087958 When using the Android 14 image, displaying an activity from a boot package using the foregroundActivity option in the Anbox Streaming SDK did not work frequently. This issue occurred due to a native crash occurring in the Android container.

• LP 2089265 After enabling Developer option from the Settings app in Android, the page stops working.

• LP 2089228 In AAOS 13 and AAOS 14 images, HVAC application in AAOS does not work. Some of the manifestations of this bug were that buttons in the UI were not responding, it was not possible to change the target temperature, changing values in the VHAL panel did not show any changes in the Android UI.

• LP 2077890 Broken documentation link in Anbox Streaming SDK.

• LP 2071925 (Private bug)

Upgrade instructions

See How to upgrade Anbox Cloud and How to upgrade the Anbox Cloud Appliance for instructions on how to update your Anbox Cloud deployment to the 1.24.1 release.