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These notes apply between releases 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 of HbbTV:-

• New functionalities
  • Added HbbTV 1.2.1 +DRM capability
  • Added HbbTV 1.2.1 +PVR capability
  • Added and extended OIPF classes that are not required by HbbTV 1.2.1
  • Added HbbTV security restrictions on channel change by broadcast independent applications
  • Added parsing of the simple application boundary descriptor

• Other changes
  • The dynamic symbol table (needed to make some symbols visible to the NPAPI plugin) is now part of the HBBTV repository (npapiplugin/dynamic_symbol_table.txt)

• Various bug fixes

• API changes
  • Control functions (hbbtv.h)
    • Additional notification function: HBBTV_NotifyLowMemory
    • Additional functions to give the browser access to the DSMCC: HBBTV_DsmccSetCallback, HBBTV_DsmccSetCallback, F_HBBTV_DSMCC_FILE_CALLBACK
    • Additional functions for interaction with generic DRM system: HBBTV_DRMRegister, HBBTV_DRMUnregister, HBBTV_NotifyDRMMessageResult, HBBTV_NotifyDRMRightsError
    • Additional function HBBTV_SetFreesatCallbacks to set Freesat specific callback functions
  • Javascript extension interface (hbbtv_js.h)
    • Additional functions to fix the implementation of video/broadcast and a/v control selectComponent and unselectComponent
    • Additional functions for the new functionalities
  • System interface (hbbtv_sif_*.h)
    • Removed HBBTV_PVRRecord and added HBBTV_PVRRecordCRID and HBBTV_PVRRecordEventID instead
    • Additional PVR functions: HBBTV_PVRGetScheduledRecordingDetails, HBBTV_PVRReleaseScheduledRecordingDetails, HBBTV_PVRGetRecordingDetails, HBBTV_PVRReleaseRecordingDetails
    • Additional Service functions: HBBTV_GetNetworkID, HBBTV_GetMajorChannel, HBBTV_GetServiceLocked, HBBTV_GetServiceRunning
    • Extended Service structures: S_HBBTV_EVENT_DETAILS, S_HBBTV_SERVICE_DETAILS
    • Added HBBTV_GetDemuxPath to retrieve the demux path needed to configure the DSMCC engine
    • Changed S_HBBTV_COMPONENT_DETAILS to allow a negative value of component_tag
    • Removed the concept of RID from HBBTV_WBSetUrl and relative callback, the callback now passes the URL back with the result.