RDK7 Feature Integration

RDK7 Features

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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

Airplay

Miracast

Reference UI (Ripple Based)

Alexa ( XApp + SDK3.0 )

Amazon Prime AVPK6. (Low latency Player)

YouTube Cobalt 24/25* (Evergreen)

Yocto OE 4.0-(Kirkstone)

Kernel - ACK 5.15

Graphics - EGL / Vulkan

Thunder 4.4.1

Browser WPEWebkit 2.38

Remove Qt from RDK Core

Systemd thunder alignment.

AAMP with RIALTO plugin

App Manager Optimization

RDK Architecture

RDK 2024 Feature Panning (WIP)

Category	Feature	Business Requirements/why this feature is needed?	Target	Remarks
Applications [(Firebolt Apps (Native)]	YouTube 25	Pre-certified Native apps for RDK global deployment.	24 Q4
	Amazon Prime AVPK6
	HBO Max
	Netflix 7*
	Alexa
	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	24 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	23 Q4
	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	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 interruption	24 Q1
	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
	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	TDK	RDK device and app certification

RDK7 plan for certified devices

#	Chip	VA device	Remarks
Broadcom
Realtek
AMlogic
RPI 4

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