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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 MAX | Reference UI (Ripple Based) Amazon Prime AVPK6. (Low latency Player) YouTube Cobalt 24/25* (Evergreen) Yocto OE 4.0-(Kirkstone) Kernel - ACK 5.15 Graphics - EGL Thunder 4.4.1 Browser WPEWebkit 2.38 | Remove Qt from RDK Core Systemd thunder alignment. AAMP with RIALTO plugin App Manager Optimization |
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RDK 2024 Committed features
| Target | Category | Feature | Business Requirements/why this feature is needed? | RDK Ticket | Priority | Dependency | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q1 | Build & Platform | 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 | P2 | |||
| Framework | 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 Multi threading | Standalone Release: The release is backward compatible with previous releases. | ||||
| RDK Optimization | Patch Upstream | Upstream RDK Common patches | P2 | ||||
| Framework | DAB 2.0 | YouTube requires DAB support for YT certification | P1 | ||||
2024 Q2 | Build & Platform | Yocto 4.0 | Upgrading the Yocto build to the latest open-source components improves quality, security, performance, and maintainability. | P0 | |||
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. | P0 | |||||
| Applications [(Firebolt Apps (Lightning)] | Firebolt Apps (Lightning) | Standardizing ecosystems and pre-validation of Apps | P0 | Firebolt Lightning apps will be ready by Q2 24, which is tracked as a separate program | |||
| 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. | P0 | ||||
| Thunder | Thunder 4.4.1 | 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 | P0 | ||||
| Package-manager support | Upgrade Thunder to support the new version of package manager | RDKVREL-189 | P2 | ||||
| Framework | Containerization | Improvements in RDK build time container | RDKVREL-112 | P0 | |||
| Firebolt Native SDK | Firebolt Native SDK API integrations with Netflix Native application
| RDKVREL-147 | P0 | ||||
| Player | AAMP with RIALTO | Direct application access to hardware resources is prevented | P2 | ||||
| AAMP | IP Video Low Latency DASH with TSB Support | RDKVREL-148 | P2 | ||||
| Security Updates | AppArmor | Refactor AppArmor process with generic and platform specific code | P1 | ||||
| RDK Optimization | OCDM Patch upstream | Upstream RDK OCDM patches | P1 | ||||
| 2024 Q3 | Applications [(Firebolt Apps (Native)] | Amazon Prime AVPK6 | Amazon prime deployment | P0 | |||
HBO Max | HBO Max app deployment. | P0 | |||||
| Netflix 7* | Netflix Firebolt port | P0 | |||||
| UI/UX | Reference app (Firebolt Based) | Reference implementation for Firebolt Spec based RDK UI, Performance improvement and improved customer experience for better scale. | P0 | ||||
| Framework | 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 | |||
| DAC with RIALTO | The native DAC apps are built with SoC platform agnostic DAC SDK into self sufficient oci images making them both build-able and runnable independent of platform system image/rootfs and aim to meet DAC contract for binary compatibility. | Reference feature for all native dac apps (Created feature tickets in individual native apps) | P1 | ||||
| DRM upgrades | Upgrade Widevine to v18 | Best available content protection ensures the latest content available to customers, increasing customer acquisition and retention | P0 | WIP | |||
| RDK Documentation. | Update RDK Documentation | Update RDK Documentation including HAL for RDK7 | RDKVREL-160 | P1 | |||
| Hardware porting kit | Hardware porting kit | To standardize the HAL Layer Across RDK devices and provide a more advanced documentation | P1 | ||||
| Security Updates | Intrusion detection Reference implementation on RDK device | Current RDK deployed operators implemented their own third-party Intrusion detection solution. Different operators need to implement their solutions, thereby impacting RDK security. A general guideline and standard solution will increase RDK security and reliability. | P1 | ||||
| Thunder | Secure Storage Thunder Plugin implementation on RDK | nhancements to PersistentStore plugin to support Scope | P1 | ||||
| 2024 Q4 | 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. | P0 | |||
| Certification testing | TDK | RDK device and app certification | P0 | Certified Annual RDK release |
RDK7 Nice to Have Features - Source code will be available, Platform integration and certification not committed
| Graphics | EGL | Migrate to the new wayland-egl | RDKVREL-187 | 2024 Q3 | P2 | Broadcom SOC only | |
| RDK Optimization | Rbus Enhancements | the unified message bus will simplify the communications and support in Ops tools to all, RDK-based devices. | 2024 Q2 | P2 | |||
| Memcr | App checkpoint/restore functionality - Memcr | RDKVREL-145 | 2024 Q2 | P1 | |||
Bootup Services 1)Systemd thunder alignment 2)Bootup script optimization | Introduce a solution that will deliver consistent boot performance. Boot up performance improvements | 2024 Q2 | P2 | ||||
| Optimize GFX Heap Usage | Runtime memory optimization | RDKVREL-151 | 2024 Q2 | ||||
| Performance reporting | DRM Unified Performance Reporting | Perf library to generate statistics for DRM enabled content Tune times | 2024 Q3 | P2 | |||
| Thunder | AVOutput plugin | Unify RDK Thunder APIs for AVOutput plugin | 2024 Q2 | P1 |
RDK7 plan for certified devices
| # | Chip | VA device | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Broadcom | BCM 72126 | Sercom VA | |
| Realtek | RTD 1319 | Sercom VA | |
| AMlogic | 905X4 | Skyworth VA | |
| AT 301 ( AMLogic T962d4 ) TV reference device | |||
| RPI 4 |
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