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RDK 2024 Feature Panning (WIP)
| Category | Feature | Business Requirements/why this feature is needed? | RDK Ticket | Target | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applications [(Firebolt Apps (Native)] | YouTube 25 | Pre-certified Native apps for RDK global deployment. |
YouTube's requirement is to update their native player on the device every year. | 2024 Q4 | ||||
Amazon Prime AVPK6 | Amazon prime deployment | 2024 Q3 | |||
HBO Max | HBO Max app deployment. | 2024 Q2 | |||
| Netflix 7* | <TBD> | ||||
Alexa | Certified Alexa integration is required for retail and operator (Specific) managed device deployments. | 2024 Q3 | |||
| Applications [(Firebolt Apps (Lightning)] | Firebolt Apps (Lightning) | Standardizing ecosystems and pre-validation of Apps |
| 2024 Q2 | ||
| UI/UX | Reference app (Firebolt Based) | Reference implementation for Firebolt Spec based RDK UI |
| , Performance improvement and improved customer experience for better scale. | 2024 Q3 | ||
| Framework | Firebolt 2.0 Reference Implementation (Ripple) Lifecycle management | Standardized Firebolt™ interfaces published, implemented, and certified for easy onboarding of lightning applications |
| 2024 Q3 | ||
| Lightning 3.0 | Lightning 3.0 release comes with a new set of feature upgrades including - New and improved font rendering, Batched rendering, dynamic shaders and Multithreading |
| 2024 Q1 | |||||
| DAC with RIALTO | The native DAC apps are built with SoC platform agnostic DAC SDK into self sufficient oci images making them both buildable and runnable independent of platform system image/rootfs and aim to meet DAC contract for binary compatibility. | ||||
DAB 2.0 | YouTube requires DAB support for YT certification |
2024 Q1 | ||
Thunder 4.4.1 <<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 interruption |
| 2024 Q3 | |||
| Browser WPEWebkit 2.38 | Productizing 2.38 Browser into all RDK SOC reference devices and video accelerator |
| 2024 Q1 | RDK6.1 release | ||||
| Casting | DIAL 2.2.1 | DIAL fixes for DAC apps, this also includes the fixes in RDK UI Reference implementation | TBD | ||
| Player | AAMP with RIALTO | Direct application access to hardware resources is prevented |
2024 Q2 | ||||
| Build & Platform | Yocto 4.0 | Upgrading the Yocto build to the latest open-source components improves quality, security, performance, and maintainability. | 24 Q1 |
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. |
2024 Q2 | |||
| Build Standardization |
| RDK can control the number of components/packages installed in the image package. This also helps to validate the system performance and benchmark the new changes and SOC’s | 2024 Q2 |
Bootup Services 1)Systemd thunder alignment 2)Bootup script optimization | Introduce a solution that will deliver consistent boot performance. Boot up performance improvements |
24 Q1
2024 Q2 |
| Rendering | ESSOS/Westeros | TBD | |||
| Graphics | EGL/Vulkan | TBD | |||
| RDK Optimization | Remove QT from RDK Middleware | Create a clean build, Reduce maintenance costs, and improve the build time. Remove QT dependencies from BLE RCU Daemon so that RDK middleware can be built without QT. |
| 2024 Q1 | ||||
| Optimize RDK Services plugins | |||||
| Security Updates | AppArmor | Bring AppArmor process isolation for more processes | |||
| Dual Execution Environment (REE & TEE) | |||||
| Certification testing | TDK | RDK device and app certification |
RDK7 plan for certified devices
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