Eurotech, a long-time leading provider of embedded systems and a global leader in Internet of Things (IoT) enablement, announces a new release of Everyware Software Framework (ESF). ESF Release 6.1.0, based on the recently announced Eclipse Kura 4.1.0 release, offers a commercially supported, enterprise ready edition of the open source middleware for IoT gateways and edge computing nodes.

ESF 6.1.0 is a minor release dedicated to introduce several new features and continue the process of overall usability improvement.
It also carries an overall code quality improvement.
The ESF build now produces a P2 repository that can simplify the overall process of creation for a new bundle.
ESF 6.1.0 is now compatible with Zulu Embedded VM

ESF 6.1.0 is available for download at the following link

New and Noteworthy:

APIs

• New APIs for KuraBirthPayload, KuraDeviceProfile, KuraDisconnectPayload

Features and Enhancements

• Enhanced the JSON Service with JSON Message marshalling/unmarshalling
• Added timestamp to Lifecycle Messages
• Added support for the ESF P2 repository and add-on project archetype
• Alert messages are now sent by ESF with QoS 1
• Added support in Modbus Driver to single registers/coils write functions
• Defined an upgrade dp. Signed by the customer, it has to be applied to ESF 6.0.0 to support the upgrade to ESF 6.1.0 and support the new Zulu VM
• Switched to log4j regular File Appender instead of previous RandomAccessFileAppender

Target Platform Updates

• Google Guava 25.0-jre
• Eclipse Milo 0.2.4
• Apache Fileupload 1.3.3
• RedHat A-MQ7 2.6.3.redhat-00020
• Eclipse Paho 1.2.1

Bug fixes and cleanups

• Fixed unnecessary escaping in Drivers and Assets UI
• Fixed issue where asset failure messages were not displayed
• Fixed a bug where the user could not set cellular attempts option to 0
• Fixed incompatibility with systems without iwlist
• Solved a possible OSGi framework refresh when a dp is uninstalled or reinstalled
• DEPLOY-V2 cloudlet fixes for GET calls
• Fixed Vpn Client to support passwords with special characters
• Monit is not anymore used in systemd based platforms

Deprecated APIs:

• Deprecated old Bluetooth APIs not based on tinyB

Security Fixes:

• CVE-2016-1000031
• CVE-2018-10237
• CVE-2019-10242
• CVE-2019-10243
• CVE-2019-10244

Compatibility:

• ESF v6.1.0 does not introduce API breakage with previous releases.
• The Command Service is now disabled by default. To use it, the user needs to opt-in to this feature, enabling the service from configuration.

Target Environments:

• ESF supports the following Devices and Everyware Linux (EL) versions:
  • ReliaGATE 10-11;
    • EL 20.1.0
    • EL 20.2.0
  • ReliaGATE 10-12;
    • EL 25.3.0
    • EL 26.0.0
  • ReliaGATE 10-20;
    • EL 10.0.0
    • EL 12.1.0
  • ReliaGATE 20-25;
    • EL 21.0.0
    • EL 22.0.0
      • Support for Bluetooth 2.1 is not available since Everyware Linux version 22.0.0
  • BoltGATE 20-25;
    • EL 21.4.0
  • Raspberry Pi 2;
  • Raspberry Pi 3;
• ESF is also available as a pre-built Docker container based on:
  • Centos 7
  • RHEL 7