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