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CategoryFeature

Business Requirements/why this feature is needed?

Target

Remarks

Applications

Firebolt Apps (Native)

  1. YouTube 25
  2. Amazon Prime AVPK6
  3. Netflix 7**
  4. HBO Max 
  5. Alexa

Pre-certified Native apps for RDK global deployment.


24 Q4

Firebolt Apps (Lightning)

Standardizing ecosystems and pre-validation of Apps 



UI/UXReference app (Firebolt Based)


Framework

Firebolt 2.0

Reference Implementation (Ripple)

Lifecycle management





Lightning 3.0



DAC with RIALTO 



DAB 2.0

YouTube requires DAB support for YT certification

24 Q1



Thunder 4.4

<<New version TBD>>

Thunder WPE Framework process to self-heal after any crash in the WPE Framework process which is triggered by an incoming JSON-RPC request to a plugin so that the system is able to continue working without any interruption24 Q1

Browser WPEWebkit 2.38
23 Q4
CastingDIAL 2.2.1


Player

AAMP with RIALTO

Direct application access to hardware resources is prevented

23 Q4


Build & Platform

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



Python 3 upgrade


RenderingESSOS/Westeros


GraphicsEGL/Vulkan


RDK Optimization

Remove QT from RDK  Middleware

Remove QT dependencies from BLE RCU Daemon so that RDK middleware can be built without QT.

24Q1



Optimize RDK Services plugins


Security UpdatesAppArmor



Dual Execution Environment (REE & TEE)







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