EdgeX Foundry, a Linux Foundation project under the LF Edge project umbrella, announced the release of version 2.1 of EdgeX, codenamed ‘Jakarta.’ The project’s ninth release, it follows the recent Ireland release, which was the project’s second major release (version 2.0). Jakarta is significant in that it is EdgeX’s first release to offer long term support (LTS).
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Long Term Support
“Our Jakarta release is a stabilization release,” said Jim White, the EdgeX Foundry Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Chairman and co-founder of the project. “As such, it is our project community’s pledge to adopters that EdgeX offers you a stable version of the platform that you can expect the community to stand behind and support for a period of two years. We stand with you in support of EdgeX in real world, commercial deployments of the platform.”
“Only a few open-source projects offer long term support; the rapid change of open source projects and the effort needed to LTS is significant,” said Arpit Joshipura, general manager, Networking, Edge and IoT, at the Linux Foundation. “By including LTS, EdgeX demonstrates it understands the needs of the operational technology (OT) user base, and how products in this space must work and operate over longer periods of time than traditional IT solutions,” said Arpit Joshipura. “This is a big milestone for any open source community, and we are incredibly proud of EdgeX Foundry for this achievement.”
The EdgeX long term support policy states that the community will work as quickly as possible and give “best effort and development priority to fix major flaws as soon as possible.” Major flaws by the project are defined as
bugs causing the system or service to crash and where there is no work around for the function
bugs for a feature/function that does not work and there is no work around for the function
a security issue deemed a critical or high-level CVE (per CVSS)