Delivery:  ~June 2018

This main theme for this release is to provide a solid foundation for deployment in a wide variety of edge use cases including the first implementation of priority APIs and reference services for security and system management.  It will also improve EdgeX ease of use among a larger, more polyglot, development community.

Functionality is still being finalized by the TSC but directional themes are below.

Release Themes and Objectives

• Deliver top priority security and system management APIs and reference implementations of supporting microservices (e.g. key management)
• Deliver on mission critical / reliable platform promise
  • Near real-time performance (enabling hard real time use cases planned through community extensions)
  • Improve overall performance and deliver to target performance #’s
  • Reduce overall footprint by an order of magnitude through alternative microservice implementations in Go Lang and possibly C
• Provide additional connectivity
  • Some additional north side connectors (e.g. AWS/Greengrass)
  • Some additional device services (e.g. OPC-UA)
• An additional Device Service and Export Service SDKs in Go Lang
• Demonstrate EdgeX in real-world POC/Test Bed through collaboration with IIC

General Release Tasks and Notes

• Expand OS support
  • Mac
  • Other flavors of Linux
• Expand hardware support
  • Arm
• Provide EdgeX User Interface(s)

Core and Supporting Tasks and Notes

• Meet all performance targets
• Go services for core
• More dynamic configuration
• Address use of Consul as config/registry?
• Implement security & system management API hooks
• Stretch – Go services for supporting services

Application Tasks and Notes

• Define and meet performance metrics
  • Provide better scale in terms of number of clients
  • Improve the number of messages exported/sec
• Support additional cloud integration(s)
  • Ex:  Watson, AWS/Greengrass, …
• Support additional export feature(s)
  • Support additional formats (Ex: Haystack, OPC-UA, …)
  • Support additional endpoint types (Ex:  DDS, AMQP, …)
  • Explore potential use of hyperledger
• Implement security & system management API hooks
• Provide additional export capability
  • Enrichment services
  • How best to facilitate client command requests/actuation

Device Service SDK and Device Service Tasks and Notes

• Provide an alternate language DS SDK
• Provide SDK Tool plugins to facility developers
  • Ex:  Eclipse plugin
  • SDK download (non-github oriented)
• Provide new and/or updated Device Services
  • Real BACnet or BLE
  • Additional DS (i.e. Zigbee, OPC-UA, CANBus, …)
• Reduce/optimize Java DS (remove Spring Framework, etc.)
• Updates to SDK get propagated back out to existing DS via common shared libraries
• Implement security & system management API hooks

Security and System Management Tasks and Notes

• The first implementation of
• Ref Impl security micro services
• Demonstrate EdgeX management via System Management app of choice
  • Ex:  Pulse IoT Center, System Center, …
• Secty and Sys Mngmt API hooks in other micro services
• Security testing framework
• Demonstrate EdgeX software updates
• Updates to non-EdgeX components (drivers, end-devices)
• Root of trust – what defines and how to implement
• Code signing – how to certify integrity of the system