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RDK7 Features

App Standardization	New Application Onboarding	Feature/Version Upgrades & Upstreaming Patches	Optimization
Firebolt 2.0 Ripple Reference Implementation Life Cycle Management APIS Firebolt Native SDK DAC Applications DAB 2.0	FB Apps	Reference UI (Ripple Based) Alexa ( XApp + SDK3.0 ) Amazon Prime AVPK6. (Low latency Player) YouTube Cobalt 24/25* (Evergreen)	Remove Qt from RDK Core
	MAX	Yocto OE 4.0-(Kirkstone) Kernel - ACK 5.15	Systemd thunder alignment.
	Airplay	Graphics - EGL / Vulkan	AAMP with RIALTO plugin
	Miracast	Thunder (Version TBD)* Browser (Version TBD)*	App Manager Optimization

Confirmed features

Feature	Business Requirements/why this feature is needed?	Target	Remarks
Firebolt Apps (Native) YouTube 25 Amazon Prime AVPK6 Netflix 7** HBO Max	Pre-certified Native apps for RDK global deployment.	24 Q4
Firebolt Apps (Lightning)	Standardizing ecosystems and pre-validation of Apps
DAC
Firebolt 2.0 Reference Implementation (Ripple) Lifecycle management
Yocto 4.0	Upgrading the Yocto build to the latest open-source components improves quality, security, performance, and maintainability.	24 Q1	Python 3 upgrade
Android Common Kernel 5.15	1) The Android kernel is more popular and has more footprints compared to the Linux kernel, which leads to more support worldwide 2)SOC vendor supporting Android kernel doesn’t need to work to provide Linux kernel support to bring in RDKV stack.	24 Q1
Bootup Services 1)Systemd thunder alignment 2)Bootup script optimization	Introduce a solution that will deliver consistent boot performance. Bootup performance improvements	24 Q1
RDK Optimization 1)Remove QT from RDK Middleware	Remove QT dependencies from BLE RCU Daemon so that RDK middleware can be built without QT.	24Q1
AAMP with RIALTO	Direct application access to hardware resources is prevented	23 Q4
DAB 2.0	YouTube requires DAB support for YT certification	24 Q1
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