MCUXpresso SDK Long-Term Support (LTS) Explained: Stability, Backported Fixes & CRA Alignment

On the Edge Verse Techcast, co-hosts Kyle Dando and Bridgette welcome NXP product manager Max Palumbo to announce long-term support (LTS) for embedded developers using the MCUXpresso SDK. They explain that LTS prioritizes stability over mainline's quarterly feature-driven cadence by backporting bug fixes and security patches without changing APIs, library versions, or architecture, reducing rebase effort during long test cycles. NXP's first LTS release is 26.06.00-LTS. LTS will be offered via the MCUXpresso SDK GitHub distribution, updated for high-priority security issues (within a quarter), severe S1/S2 bugs (quarterly), with two years of free support, and potential paid extensions later. They clarify LTS complements, but is not required for, CRA compliance

Episode Resources:

• MCUXpresso SDK - Marketing Page
• SDK Documentation - LTS Overview
• MCUXpresso SDK project - GitHub - Manifest repo

00:00 Welcome and LTS Teaser

01:07 Meet Max Palumbo

02:02 What Long Term Support Means

03:51 Three Big LTS Benefits

07:06 How LTS Is Delivered

08:07 GitHub Tags and Versioning

09:34 Update Triggers and Cadence

11:38 Why a New LTS Each Year

12:42 LTS vs Device Support

15:02 LTS and CRA Compliance

17:52 How to Get Started Today

18:57 Wrap Up and Thanks