DMTF’s Redfish Forum held a live webinar on Thursday, July 10th.  Presented by the chairs of the Redfish Forum and hosted on Zoom, this webinar covered the contents of the 2025.2 release.

This release is the result of collaboration with several alliance partners, including PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG), Open Compute Project (OCP), and the CXL Consortium, who provided invaluable subject matter expertise to further extend the Redfish data model. 

Key highlights of the Redfish 2025.2 release are the additions of:

• NEW support for Industrial IoT factory automation and job scheduling.  Working in collaboration with PICMG, this release includes several new schemas and other significant extensions to the Redfish data model.
  • NEW AutomationNode and AutomationInstrumentation - Schemas that model Industrial IoT equipment to support monitoring and control of automated factory processes. Includes support for PID-based control loops and single or multi-axis motion controllers. Defines several Actions to control the operating state of each node.
  • NEW JobDocument - Schema defines reusable processes and execution steps for an automated factory, and describes the required or optional parameters for creating specific instances of those jobs
  • NEW JobExecutor - Describes a resource, typically a factory production line, capable of running jobs of a specific type
  • UPDATED JobService and Job – New extensions to instantiate and manage the flow of jobs produced from a reuseable job document
• NEW VirtualCXLSwitch, and VirtualPCI2PCIBridge schemas, developed in conjunction with the CXL Consortium, add support for Virtual CXL Switch and Virtual PCI-to-PCI Bridge devices
• NEW UpdateServiceCapabilities schema and enhancements to UpdateService to support staging of mass firmware updates. Building on feedback from Open Compute Project (OCP) members, these enhancements allow for “staging” firmware updates, which allows synchronized activation of new images for fleet-level updates.
• NEW TelemetryData – Provides a mechanism to retrieve device-specific telemetry data in bulk from a device without requiring the manager (BMC) to decode or unpack data intended for consumption by a specific client application

These latest enhancements are driven by the growth of Redfish and interoperability feedback received from implementers.

The presentation was followed by a Q&A session.

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