Original primary goals:

• We will deprecate the RMR-based E2 subscription interface and H-release xApps need to use the REST based interface already supported by the the C++, go, and python xApp frameworks (RIC-375). The subscription manager should handle subscriptions for failing xApps (RIC-929) and provide a callback on subscription delete success/failure (RIC-928).
• We will develop a CRD, i.e., a K8S operator on top of the DMS REST API to simplify xApp deployment (RIC-715). Also the DMS Rest interface gets the missing delete API (RIC-954). RIC-717 allows to deploy multiple cooperating xApps together.
• On E2 side we will implement the E2 Reset procedure from RAN to RIC. We also implement robustness improvements (RIC-932 for reconnect cases) and troubleshooting improvements (RIC-813, RIC-814).
• There's work planned to deploy the kserve-based model provisioning from the AI/ML project into the RIC platform (RIC-955)
• The xapp frameworks for Golang (RIC-930) and Rust (RIC-951) will get some enhancements that are already implemented in the other languages.
• RIC-953 A1 testing improvements and bug fixes

• Link to planned Jira work items: all teams
  

Achieved H release highlights = high-level release notes (TODO-date) below (note that the release image list is here: TODO-link)

• TODO-June-2023

For the H release of the near-RT RIC we do only limited integration testing: only the use cases: deploy RIC, deploy xApp, make E2 connection, get list of A1 policies has been tested.

Filled in end-of-release checklist: TODO-link

Status 2023-02-02: initial content defined. HCL commitments coming by 2023-02-14

H release source code, container images and deployment instructions