Primary Goals:  Expand the community working on open source xApps for O-RAN SC.  Update and maintain the existing xApps to latest releases.

Enhance the set of open source xApps in support of the RSAC use cases (traffic steering, network slicing) and add new xApps.

New RUST framework xApp hw-rust will be added in this release. 

H release plan:

• New HW-Rust xApp to support RUST framework.
• New ad-cell xApp to detect cell level anomaly.
• RC xApp - GRPC interface support on RC xApp
• Bouncer xApp - RIC Benchmarking new features addition.
• KPIMON-GO xApp – New Version

PTL: SUNIL SINGH 

Jira: Count of Epics, User Stories, Tasks, and Issues:  165 issues

Completed Epics:

Total (216 issues)

Completed Epics:

RICAPP-216:Bouncer xApp upgraded to E2AP 2.0, E2SM KPM 2.0, E2SM RC 1.0.3

RICAPP-215: Anomaly Detection xApp (H-Release) - listens to RMR port and expect A1 policy from non-RT RIC & Process A1 policy message.

Bug:

RICAPP-214 OSC RIC - e2mgr X1 Configuration Update problem - Moved to RICP

Epics moved to next release.

1. RICAPP-212: Hello World Rust Xapp initial release
2. ad-Cell xApp
3. RICAPP-211: RC Xapp - upgrade to E2SM-RC-2.0