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Target | Remarks | Applications | Firebolt Apps (Native) - YouTube 25
- Amazon Prime AVPK6
- Netflix 7**
- HBO Max
- Alexa
| Pre-certified Native apps for RDK global deployment.
24 Q4 | Firebolt Apps (Lightning) | Standardizing ecosystems and pre-validation of Apps | 24 Q2 | UI/UX | Reference app (Firebolt Based) | Reference implementation for Firebolt Spec based RDK UI | 24 Q3 | Framework | Firebolt 2.0 Reference Implementation (Ripple) Lifecycle management | Standardized Firebolt™ interfaces published, implemented, and certified for easy onboarding of lightning applications | | RDK Ticket | Priority | Comcast ETA | SoC/OEM/App Partner ETA | Targeted platforms | Targeted code changes in RDK-Next | Remarks |
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| 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 | RDKVREL-76 | P2 | NA | NA | - Amlogic VA
- Amlogic TV
- Realtek
- Broadcom
- RPI4
| 2024 Q3
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Yocto 4.0 | Upgrading the Yocto build to the latest open-source components improves quality, security, performance, and maintainability. | RDKVREL-52 | P0 | Q4 | Q4 | - Amlogic VA
- Amlogic TV
- Realtek
- Broadcom
- RPI4
| 2024 Q4 |
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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 RDK-V stack. | RDKVREL-53 | P0 | NA | Q4 | - Amlogic VA
- Amlogic TV
- Realtek
- Broadcom
- RPI4
| 2024 Q4 |
24 Q3The 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. | |
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| 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 23 Q4 | DAC with RIALTO | Multi threading
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| NA | NA |
| 2024 Q2 | Standalone Release: The release is backward compatible with previous releases. |
| Patch Upstream | Upstream RDK Common patches | RDKVREL-155 | P2 | NA | NA | - Amlogic VA
- Amlogic TV
- Realtek
- Broadcom
- RPI4
| 2024 Q2 |
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DAB 2.0 | YouTube requires DAB support for YT certification | RDKVREL-96 | P1 |
| Amazon Alexa Q1 | - Amlogic
- Realtek
- Broadcom
- RPI4
| 2024 Q2 | DAB Compliance Test Suite is required here. |
| Firebolt Native SDK | Firebolt Native SDK API integrations with Netflix Native application | RDKVREL-147 | P0 | Q1 | NA | Premium Apps | 2024 Q4 |
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| Firebolt Apps (Lightning) | Standardizing ecosystems and pre-validation of Apps |
| P0 |
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| 2024 Q4 | Firebolt Lightning apps will be ready by Q2 24, which is tracked as a separate program |
| Memcr | App checkpoint/restore functionality - Memcr | RDKVREL-145 | P1 | Q1 | NA | - Amlogic VA
- Amlogic TV
- Realtek
- Broadcom
- RPI4
| 2024 Q3 |
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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. | RDKVREL-61 | P0 | Q1 | NA | - Amlogic VA
- Amlogic TV
- Realtek
- Broadcom
- RPI4
| 2024 Q2 |
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Thunder 4.4 |
<<New version TBD>>.1 | 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 | RDKVREL-54 | P0 |
24 Browser WPEWebkit 2.38 | Productizing 2.38 Browser into all RDK SOC reference devices and video accelerator | 24 Q1 | Casting | DIAL 2.2.1 | DIAL fixes for DAC apps, this also includes the fixes in RDK UI Reference implementation | 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 | | (BCM) | NA |
| 2024 Q4 |
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Firebolt 2.0 Reference Implementation (Ripple) Lifecycle management | Standardized Firebolt™ interfaces published, implemented, and certified for easy on-boarding of lightning applications | LCM - RDKVREL-188 | P0 |
| NA |
| 2024 Q3 |
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| Hardware porting kit | To standardize the HAL Layer Across RDK devices and provide a more advanced documentation | RDKVREL-192 | P1 |
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| 2024 Q4 |
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| Update RDK Documentation | Update RDK Documentation including HAL for RDK7 | RDKVREL-160 | P1 |
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| 2024 Q3 |
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| Reference app (Firebolt Based) | Reference implementation for Firebolt Spec based RDK UI, Performance improvement and improved customer experience for better scale. | RDKVREL-73 | P0 |
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| - Amlogic VA
- Amlogic TV
- Realtek
- Broadcom
- RPI4
| 2024 Q4 |
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Amazon Prime AVPK6 | Amazon prime deployment | RDKVREL-65 | P0 | NA | NA | | 2024 Q4 |
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| Netflix 7* | Netflix Firebolt port | RDKVREL-111 | P0 |
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YouTube 25 | Pre-certified Native apps for RDK global deployment. YouTube's requirement is to update their native player on the device every year. | RDKVREL-69 | P0 | NA | Pre release from Google (July) | - Amlogic(AH212)
- Realtek(Reference board)
Broadcom(Reference 972126) - RPI4
| 2024 Q4 |
Build Standardization | <<TBD>> | 24 Q1 | 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 | Python 3 upgrade | Python 2 is deprecating | 24Q1 | Rendering | ESSOS/Westeros | Graphics | EGL/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 Updates | AppArmor | Bring AppArmor process isolation for more processes | Dual Execution Environment (REE & TEE) | Certification testing |
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TDK | RDK device and app certification |
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