1.3.0 (August 2019)

New features & improvements

  • Images are now only distributed via the official image server and no longer available for download

  • The application registry received a dedicated CLI command to manage trusted clients

  • A dedicated charm now takes care of deploying the Anbox Application Registry

  • The disk space available to a container was reduced from 5GB to 3GB for all instance types

  • Android ANR and tombstone crash logs are now pulled from a container when it fails at runtime or on startup

  • Gamepad support was added to Anbox and the Platform SDK

  • Sensor support was added to Anbox and the Platform SDK

  • AMS now supports marking a single image as the default one which will be used if no other is specified for raw container launches or applications

  • Initial support for event monitoring of the AMS service via amc monitor and the REST API

  • The swrast platform is now part of the default image and doesn’t need to be installed via an addon

  • The binder and ashmem kernel modules are now supported on the HWE 5.0 kernel coming with Ubuntu 18.04.3

  • Services a container provides can now be named to help identifying them

  • The Android container is now further secured with a more narrow seccomp profile than the outer Anbox container.

  • Addons can now declare that they add support for specific Android ABIs not supported by the hardware via software based binary translation

  • Integrated Android security fixes until July 2019. See the Android Security Bulletins for more information.