HOBL 2026.0.2
Initial HOBL 2026 release. These are the main changes in relation to the last HOBL 2025 release:
- Repository moved to public GitHub to mitigate access issues.
- Youtube scenario: option to use web_replay, but default remains live. Supporting web_replay did require an additional page load, which results in increased power consumption. Expect ~3% higher SOC power consumption on modern SOCs.
- The NASA Youtube video in the "web" scenario has been re-recorded to exclude the subscription popup, which was affecting functionality with high scale factors. There was no noticeable power impact from this change.
- No other scenarios have been modified and no other significant power impact has been seen.
- "display_brightness" tool is deprecated in favor of a consolidated "display" tool. It has the same "brightness" and "nits_map" parameters, but also can control HDR, and various adaptive brightness settings.
- New prep management. The UI will automatically insert a "prep" scenario in jobs that will run any needed preps pro-actively. This prevents users needing to know what preps are needed for which scenarios.
- Delay_between_runs deprecated. Use pre_run_delay and post_run_delay for better control and clarity.
- SimpleRemote runs as a high priority process (used to be normal), and scenarios can specify what priority sub-processes will be launched as (default is Normal). This allows functionality to be maintained in stress tests.
- UAC is no longer disabled.
- Scenario Maker - Auto saves directly in scenario's location.
- External folder support allows teams to maintain their own scenarios, tools, plans, etc. outside of the public repository.
- "Daily_prep" replaced and divided into "system_prep" (sets background, syncs clock, various other settings) and "process_idle_tasks" (waits for scheduled Windows tasks to finish).
- Automatic run_type to simplify proper plan creation.
- Improved local execution support.