tvOS 11 Beta 5 für Entwickler verfügbar

Apple hat am gestrigen Abend die fünfte Beta von tvOS 11 für Entwickler freigegeben. Es ist das nächste große Release des Betriebssystems für den Apple TV 4.

Entwickler können sich ab sofort das neueste Testrelease von tvOS 11 im Apple Developer Portal holen. Dazu muss das Apple Developer Profil auf der Streaming Box installiert werden. Ist das passiert erscheint das Update in den Systemeinstellungen.

Hier die Änderungen von tvOS 11 Beta 5 im Detail:

General

New Features
• AddedAVRoutePickerViewtotheAVKitframeworkandAVRouteDetectortothe AVFoundation framework for enabling users to choose the route for playing content when multiple routes are available. Use AVRouteDetector to determine if multiple routes are available when route detection is enabled. If multiple routes are available, use AVRoutePickerView to present an interface for the user to choose the routes.

3rd Party Apps

Resolved Issues

Initiating video playback using the Plex app no longer requires pressing Play/Pause on the Apple TV Remote for the video to begin playing. (32662888)
DirectTV Now no longer crashes on launch. An updated app is available from the App Store. (29533442)

Known Issues

• Signing into the Sling TV app does not work. (32829340) • FoxNow crashes when playing video. (33164522)

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CloudKit

Known Issues

ApplicationsthatuseCloudKit'sCKModifyRecordsOperationshouldspecifyan appropriate value for CKModifyRecordsOperation -> atomic. If your client is compiled against watchOS 4, operations enqueued against the default CKRecordZone have new behavior when atomic = YES (and this is the default value for this property): if the operation hits a "preflight" failure (most commonly, a network issue uploading a CKAsset, or a malformed CKRecord), the entire operation is canceled. (30838858)
CloudKitdoesnotsupportunsignedlonglongnumbersasvaluesforaCKRecord, if the number’s high-order bit is set. Beginning in this seed, setting such a value throws an exception. (30567424)

Foundation

New Issues
• ClientsofNSURLSessionStreamTaskthatuseanon-secureconnectionfailtoconnect when an error occurs during PAC file evaluation and the system is configured for either Web Proxy Auto Discovery (WPAD) or Proxy Automatic Configuration (PAC). A PAC evaluation failure can occur when the PAC file contains invalid JavaScript or the HTTP host serving the PAC file is unreachable. (33609198)

Workaround: Use startSecureConnection to establish a secure connection. Resolved Issues

• Topreservebackwardscompatibility,tvOS11beta3removedtheNSURLSessionempty string behavior for suppressing the sending of HTTP headers that was introduced in beta 2. (32959604)

Home Screen

Resolved Issues

When waking your Apple TV, app icons are no longer dimmed and appear in a “Cleaning...” state. (31941875)
The first line of text in some modal system dialogs is no longer slightly clipped. (32313183)
When selecting a user-selectable app icon, you now receive a confirmation dialog before the icon is changed. (32369824)
After changing a user-selectable app icon, the Apple TV no longer needs to be restarted before the new icon appears. (32369824)

Metal

New Features

• Added the BGR10A2 pixel format to Metal in beta 2.

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Mobile Device Management

Resolved Issues

When setting management on an Apple TV to skip all setup panes, the TV Provider setup pane no longer appears. (31766460)
When installing an HTTP Proxy Payload with no credentials and then entering a username and password at a later time when prompted, the correct credentials are now accepted as valid. (32360765)
Setting a Home Screen Layout no longer requires restarting the Apple TV. (30984370)
When creating a folder with Home Screen layout, the folder name is no longer always set to “Folder”. (32379008)
The Settings app is no longer always available when you restrict which apps can be used. (31965828)
A device that is manually enrolled in the Device Enrollment Program or Apple School Manager will now correctly indicate that you can remove it from management by removing the device management profile in Settings > General > Profiles and Device Management. (32023738)

Music app

Resolved Issues
Turning off “Show in my Profile” for a playlist no longer shows the playlist name and artwork in your profile. (32224851)
Selecting Recent Trailers or added music from the top shelf now works correctly. (32276963, 32390268)
After signing into an iTunes account, a restart of the Apple TV is no longer required for album art to appear in your library. (32112946)
Selecting Apple TV as an audio output source after selecting a different output source no longer requires restarting the device. (32826255)

QuickTime Screen Recording

Resolved Issues

• When selecting a wirelessly available Apple TV from QuickTime, selecting AirPlay > Security > “First-Time Passcode” in Settings is no longer required. (32387521)

ReplayKit

Resolved Issues

• Stopping a video recording now works correctly. (32726978)

Setup

Resolved Issues

• In Setup Assistant, Siri spelling dictation now works correctly for entering your password. (32312523)

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TV App

Resolved Issues

• Apps now successfully register content playback. (32743357)

TestFlight

Resolved Issues

• Installing a TestFlight app no longer results in an error that the app could not be installed. (32572874, 32747482)

UIKit

New Features

AddedmasksFocusEffectToContentstoUIMImageViewtoindicateifthefloating focused appearance uses the image’s alpha channel. The default is false. (32936835)
AddedsectionInsetReference,anewenumpropertyfor UICollectionViewFlowLayout, that specifies the boundary used for relative section insets. (33014020)

Resolved Issues
An app snapshot taken in the background, now updates the snapshot in the App Switcher. (31506103)
When switching to an app that supports dark appearance a brief flash from light to dark mode no longer occurs if the Apple TV has dark appearance enabled. (32941880)

Vision Framework

New Issues

• VNFaceLandmarkRegion2D is currently unavailable in Swift. (33191123)