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Release 2.1.0

Michael Schnuerle edited this page Jun 3, 2026 · 46 revisions

2.1.0 Release Plan

Top Features

  1. Modes Overhaul: Clear support for many existing and new services, modes, vehicles, and programs
  2. Incidents and Crashes: New endpoint to capture crashes and incidents like unplanned stops, remote takeovers, ADS dis/engagement, tip overs, harsh braking/acceleration, near misses, vandalism, and theft
  3. Delivery:  Full support for delivery of goods, food, packages, and freight, including sidewalk robots and app/gig deliveries
  4. Transit fixed route: Support for bus/shuttle/fixed route/fleets and connecting to GTFS trips, stops, and schedules
  5. For-hire Autonomous Vehicles: Clearer that MDS fully supports autonomous for-hire services (robotaxis), both sending and receiving data, and special understanding stopping and operational events
  6. Real-time Digital Policy: Better real-time solutions and geofencing down to the second, and a new push option
  7. Enforcement and Violations: Understand, record, and connect to reports and resolutions

Version

According to our semantic versioning, this is a minor release and includes items that will not break the previous functionality of 2.x.

Features

The 2.1.0 release may include the following features.

General

  1. Connections to CDS and other specs with External References #731, PR #946
  2. Move 2021 Stops, Metrics, Jurisdiction out of Beta #638, #671, #673

Provider/Agency

  1. Add lifecycle operations service start and end to Vehicles #899, PR #931
  2. Clarify start, stop, cancel, end events #758
  3. Clarify relationship between Vehicles and Vehicles/status #955
  4. Multiple /vehicles requests at once #924

New Feature

  1. Incident and crash information, both historic and real-time, for all Modes #613, PR #944
    1. Includes enforcement and violation information if relevant

Policy

  1. Improved support for real-time Policy for emergency response #906
    1. PR #928
    2. Option to push Policy PR #951
  2. Clarify Policy can require Authorization #915, PR #949
  3. Rule unit of distance travelled #908, PR #950
  4. Add geographies to Policy Requirements #873, PR #930

Passenger Services

  1. Clearer support for AV taxis (aka robotaxis) within Passenger Services mode #905
  2. Support for busses, commuter shuttles, fixed route operations, fleets #927

Car Share

  1. More details in car share mode
    1. New car type field #869
    2. More vehicle attributes #870

Delivery

  1. Support for general food, goods, package delivery #957, #959

Modes

  1. Clearly defining and expanding scope of modes to various services. Includes new mode names: Micromobility, Passenger, Fleet, and Delivery.

These improvements stem from on-the-ground experience, learnings, and needs of OMF member cities and companies.

Meetings

Full details are in the Working Group Meetings agendas, and topics are listed in the description of each OMF public calendar event.

See a full list of all release meetings.

Timeline

Approval

Date Name
🟥 TBD Start next release work
🟡 June Official Release Published
Jun 1 2026 Board Approval
May and June Board Review
Apr 27 2026 Technology Council Recommend to Board
Apr 15 2026 Technology Council Review
Apr 14 2026 WGSC Recommend to Tech Council

Development

Date Name
Mar Release Candidate ready
Mar European engagement
Feb 26 Checkpoint 4 - Review - WGSC
Jan/Feb 2026 RC Finalization
Sep Decisions and Consensus
Aug 2025 Checkpoint 3 - Consensus - WGSC
Jun 2025 Checkpoint 2 - Midway - WGSC
Oct 2024 - Aug 2025 Implementation and Coding

Planning

Date Name
Sep - Dec Feature Proposals
2024-09-19 Checkpoint 1 - Plan - WGSC
Jun - Aug Set Goals
2024-06-06 Release start
June 2024 Release preparation

Status Key:

  • ✅ Complete
  • 🟡 In Progress
  • 🟥 Not Started

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