PebbleOS Firmware Release Note

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Firmware 2.7 is out!

The headline feature this release is a new API that enables developers to arrange for their apps to launch at some future time. Once they're updated, timers and alarms can time and alarm in the background. Developers can take a look at our app wakeup guide.

Pebble Developers // Using the Wakeup API

Other than that, there are some bugfixes

You can also take a look at https://developer.getpebble.com/2/changelog-2.7.html

 

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Firmware 2.8 released, featuring an expanded character set!

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All system GOTHIC fonts are expanded to contain 351 characters (not counting emoji)
Add setlocale and i18n_get_system_locale APIs in preparation for internationalization support
Fix an issue that could cause an incorrect accelerometer sampling rate to be used
Fix an issue causing wakeup events scheduled less than thirty seconds in the future to fail
Improve the performance of very small resource reads
Fix an issue where iOS calendar alert notifications sometimes did not appear
Fix an issue sometimes causing spurious "Loading..." notifications to appear on iOS
Improve behaviour when trying to boot with a critically low battery
You can grab the update through your mobile app, as usual.