2024.R3 release communication

With recent releases, we have enabled new features incrementally and announced new software versions in the release notes.

This release communication summarizes the results of the last releases, providing an overview of what is now — as of December 2024 — available for Bosch Semantic Stack.

2024.R3 at a glance

Included versions:

4.31.0, 4.32.0, 4.33.0, 4.34.0, 4.35.0, 4.36.0, 4.37.0, 4.38.0, 4.39.0, 4.40.0, 4.41.0

Digital Twin Registry (DTR):

Aspect Model Catalog (AMC):

Digital Twin Registry + Aspect Model Catalog:

  • Bugfixes, infrastructure updates, library updates, and improvements

2024.R3 (DTR)

Digital Twin Registry

Includes: DTR-7.14.8, DTR-7.14.9, DTR-7.14.10, DTR-7.14.11, DTR-7.14.13, DTR-7.14.14, DTR-7.14.15, DTR-7.14.16, DTR-7.15, DTR-7.15.1, DTR-7.15.3

Asset Administration Shell APIs update to version 3.0.2

They now conform to the current 3.0.2 version of the Asset Administration Shell specification that was recently published by IDTA. Changes include:

  • The format specifier got removed from the aasIdentifier and submodelIdentifier path parameters. The Asset Administration Shell Registry and Discovery APIs now parse them as UTF-8 strings.

  • The Description endpoint accepts only strings now and no enums anymore.

Introduction of Submodel Descriptor Templates

Their purpose is to enable scalability and maintainability for the management of Submodel Descriptors.

Read more: Use Submodel Descriptor Templates

Introduction of RQL support for searching Asset Administration Shells

Asset Administration Shells can now be filtered and found, using RQL (Resource Query Language).

Read more: Find Asset Administration Shells via RQL filtering

Introduction of fine-grained access control for restricting access to Asset Administration Shells and Twins

Fine-grained access control has been implemented to restrict the access and visibility of Shells and Twins, based on what access policies have been granted to the user.

Read more: Restrict access to Asset Administration Shells

2024.R3 (AMC)

Aspect Model Catalog

Includes: AMC-2.7.9, AMC-2.7.10, AMC-2.7.11, AMC-2.7.12, AMC-2.7.14, AMC-2.7.15, AMC-2.7.16, AMC-2.7.17, AMC-2.7.18, AMC-2.7.19, AMC-2.7.21

Tenant switch in the UI

You can now switch between tenants inside the Aspect Model Catalog UI via a dialog or by changing the tenant ID inside the URL.

Read more: Switch tenant

Differentiation between owned and shared namespaces

You can now access namespaces owned by you, as well as shared namespaces that can be used by all users. All namespaces accessible to you are stored in your tenant and can be found in the Namespaces Overview.

Read more: Namespace sharing

Details dialog for elements in namespaces

You can now see details about each element of a namespace by going to its Overview and clicking on an element.