The RDK source code is distributed across multiple source code repositories which are available in the RDKCentral Gerrit or in GitHub. For most of the repositories, ‘rdk-next’ is the tip of the development branch. Some specific repositories do use a development branch with a name corresponding to the month/quarter. For a stable version of the source code, users should be using a release branch (please refer the Releases area below).
RDK was following a release schedule of quarterly release for all flavours of RDK, However from 2023, RDK-V is following a yearly release schedule. All release notes along with the instructions to get a release working on a reference platform are available in respective release page.
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Access RDK source code via Github or Gerrit
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Get details of RDK previous releases and upcoming release timeline
Code Contributions
If you are interested to get involved in the community by contributing , please refer to our "How to Contribute" guide, we will explore the different ways in which you can contribute to RDK and help shape the future of the platform.