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FALCON Release Notes (2026-10)

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Falcon Release Notes

Falcon is the 26.10 release of the BubbleRAN stack: one TN/NTN stack for countless O-RAN and AI-RAN use-cases.

Top Feature Sets​

BubbleRAN SMO / Non-RT RIC​

  • Multi-vendor TN/NTN network and slice automation: OCUDU gNB/CU/DU with OAI UE, and OAI gNB/CU/DU with OAI UE
  • Edge AI and applications in the loop
  • Extended Container Development Kit (CDK) for user edge applications: package them into Composition Models and deploy services that UEs reach over the user plane, optionally running AI models on cluster GPUs
  • Improved runtime failure reporting and troubleshooting, accessible through the BubbleRAN CLI
  • Network slicing and slice direct BRC command line update

BubbleRAN Near-RT RIC​

  • E2X Proxy Agent with a universal E2 service model, extending the E2 agent to RIS, WiFi, FR2 and UEs
  • More KPM metrics, including RSRP, RSRQ and SINR
  • RRC DCCH/UCCH messages via the RC service model
  • I/Q sample collection from Amarisoft and OAI via the O-RAN LLC Service Model
  • VictoriaMetrics support for RAN telemetry and analytics
  • E2 interoperability with LITEON and OCUDU, with KPM monitoring xApp support

AI-RAN Services and Apps​

  • Agentic Blueprints Catalog: observability (KPIs, logs, PCAPs), automation (RIC and SMO) and the Supervisor Agent
  • BubbleRAN Agentic Toolkits (BAT) and CLI: ADK, CLI, Evaluation Kit, telemetry
  • AI Fabric Kubernetes Operator (ORAMA):
    • Lifecycle management of agentic blueprints with AI Fabrics
    • Extendable agents catalog, defined as Composition Models
    • Your own agents and BubbleRAN's in a single blueprint, wired together automatically
    • Choice of LLM provider and model per agent, with built-in telemetry for tracing agent activity
    • Integration with OmniRoute to reach multiple LLM providers, including free tiers, through a single gateway
  • Enhanced UI with the AI Fabric Builder

MX-UI​

  • Multi-vendor TN/NTN network intent builder
  • Network Digital Twin (NDT) support
  • UI interactive playground
  • Alerts: consume and explore the alerts of your infrastructure
  • UI tweaks and performance improvements

Blueprints​

  • Emulated, TN/NTN:
    • OAI CU/DU with OAI UE via RFsim
    • OCUDU gNB/CU/DU with OAI UE or Amarisoft UE via ZeroMQ
    • Amarisoft gNB with Amarisoft UE
  • Over-the-air, TN:
    • OAI gNB/CU/DU with COTS UEs (Quectel, Pictel, Pixel), split 8 and split 7.2
    • OCUDU gNB/CU/DU with COTS UEs (Quectel, Pictel, Pixel), split 8 and split 7.2

Every network blueprint is available in the Blueprints section and in the public BubbleRAN blueprints repository at the falcon tag.

Experimental

The Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) blueprints are experimental and intended for evaluation in an emulated environment.

Supported Artifacts From​

  • Amarisoft (release 2025/12)
  • Benetel
  • LITEON
  • Duranta (previously OpenAirInterface), tag 2026.w28
  • OCUDU (previously srsRAN), release 2026/04
  • Open5GS (v2.7.5)
  • BubbleRAN O-RAN and AI-RAN stack, xApp/rApp/Agent/Blueprint catalog, DevKits