• Fabio finds Zephyr in an MxL86282
• Handling Button Press, Longpress, and Double-Tap with the Zephyr Input Subsystem
• Bring up of a new display shield using Claude and a feedback loop where the agent actually watches the screen output
• New driver for qemu ramfb coming up
• New doxygen aliases to document "driver ops" (example for the CAN Controller driver operations here)
• Shell readline helper
• Native SX126x LoRa driver
• Realtek RTL8721F
• nRF54LM20B
• The Zephyr Project at Embedded World

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• They quit their job to build wearables for cows... using Zephyr!
• Raspberry Pi 4 redesigned for dual RAM chips
• Texas Instruments to acquire Silicon Labs for $7.5B
• Heap canary support for corruption detection
• ARMv9 PACBTI support for pointer authentication
• New biometrics subsystem with fingerprint sensor drivers, code samples, emulator
• MAX42500 combined watchdog and voltage monitor driver
• Netsol S3A MRAM driver
• Fast Prototyping Board for RX140
• RedMonk blog post: AI Slopageddon and the OSS Maintainers
• Embedded FM ep 520 on AI in embedded dev
• Zephyr meetup in Nagoya at the Brother museum
• FOSDEM talks:
  • Git 3.0 – Evolving Git for the next decade
  • Git workflow for high-stakes projects
  • How to make package managers scream
  • KiCad status update
  • Daniel Stenberg's closing keynote: OSS in spite of AI

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• FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org/2026/)
• CI for Doxygen coverage delta checker
• Doxygen style guidelines
• CMake optimization with Perfetto
• ASCII only on documentation (https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/pull/98214)
• Motor Control Driver Architecture for Hard Real-Time FOC Applications
• Forward Database table for Ethernet bridge
• Counter subsystem now supports 64-bits values
• BL61x overclock
• DTS binding examples section
• Zcompose

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• Saving flash with the SHELL_HELP macro
• Dual-band WiFi 6 ESP32-C5 announced - coming to Zephyr soon?
• AI-generated reports force curl to end bug bounty program
• New automotive LIN subsystem (Local Interconnect Network)
• Compiler-based cleanup classes for resource management
• Malloc vs. k_malloc
• 9x36 PWM LED Matrix for Framework laptop
• Dual-ethernet phyBOARD-Atlas (i.MX RT1170)
• NB-IoT ST87M01 Arduino shield support
• Newly proposed CAN logging backend
• Zephyr COBS (Consistent Overhead Byte Stuffing) library (packet framing) gets streaming support
• FOSDEM 2026 and Brussels Meetup (Jan 30)

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• Basic button sample overhaul: now uses Input and LED subsystems for proper debouncing
• New Power On Self-Test (POST) RFC
• New Requests module for HTTP GET/POST/PUT/DELETE, including shell commands
• Standardized Doxygen guidelines now available (CI checks incoming)
• Benjamin hacking around the M5Stack StackChan robot (touch sensor, servo bus)
• Cytron Maker Pi RP2040 (motors, servos, piezo)
• RFC for unified Actuator class - provide feedback (pun intended)!
• Zephyr running as guest OS on QNX Hypervisor?
• Driver for ultra-low power (65nA) MAX31331 RTC
• Support for tiny, high-precision medical temperature sensor (MAX30210)
• MikroElektronika CAN FD 6 Click shield support (TI TCAN4550)
• New candump shell command to troubleshoot traffic on console
• New PWM shell command to get the number of cycles per second for a given PWM controller/channel
• Wi-Fi Peer-to-Peer support added (nRF7000 validated)
• New board support for nRF7120 DK (Matter/Wi-Fi)
• OTP subsystem
• Upcoming Zephyr Meetup in Brussels (Friday Jan 30, 2026)

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• Zephyr web display experiment
• MicroQuickJS
• 10Base-T1S multi drop (boards in Zephyr with support for it)
• RaspberryPi Pico binary info feature
• Keychron Q Ultra ZMK
• Motion 2350 Pro
• Adafruit Prop-Maker Feather
• Framework laptop keyboard
• Espressif RMT driver
• ws2812_rpi_pico_pio DMA support
• TPS55287 features
• GRVL, a lightweight GUI library for Zephyr-based MCUs
• NVIDIA hiring Zephyr engineers!
• Edge Impulse + Zephyr tech talk next week.

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• Rust no longer experimental in Linux
• Linux Rust CVE
• The return of the millennium bug
• The Y2K38 bug will likely impact Paris' metro... will it impact Zephyr?
• zscilib is looking for a maintainer
• Pullapprove being evaluated in zephyr-testing
• GitHub announces ... and unannounced charging for private runners
• AmebaDplus
• FT9001
• Macro to approximate heap overhead from Jordan
• Cleanup classes from Pieter, inspired by Linux kernel
• HealthyPi crowdfunding campaign
• A Visual Approach to Devicetree Configuration
• ESP32-S3-GEEK
• Sipeed M0S Dock

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• Robert's experience with Zephyr RTOS
• libcsp, a library for the Cubesat Space Protocol that's available as a Zephyr module
• New Biometrics driver class
• Benjamin's presentation about Cyber Resilience Act Readiness for Embedded Product Makers
• External GPU support for LVGL
• Snenseo BLE coffee machine
• Zephyr Tech Talk next week! A Visual Approach to Devicetree Configuration. YouTube / LinkedIn
• Ai-Thinker M61-32S
• M5Stack NanoC6

• Sphinx 9.0 is out
• Mercedes Benz ARDEP
• LIN (Local Interconnect Network) subsystem proposal
• Qualcomm hiring Zephyr developers!
• MQTT-SN is making a come-back
• Realtek AmebaD
• Space Cubics SC-OBC V1
• COND_CASE_1, a switch/case like variant of the COND_CODE_1 macro
• RV3032
• TPS55287
• Working Group nominations
• CRA (Cyber Resilience Act) FAQ

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• New Zephyr docs homepage is coming (...or already landed by the time you listen to this!)
• Zephyr <-> Linux RPC with ec_host_cmd
• Linux netdev patchwork
• Zephyrbot opens issue #100,000
• Seeed Studio XIAO Debug Mate
• Upcoming OpenAI device ...and job listings mention Zephyr RTOS? 👀
• Deep dive into ST's Phase Change Memory (PCM)
• LVGL 9.4 support
• DTSh (DeviceTree Shell) integration
• Zbus support for asynchronous listeners
• GPIO documentation added
• Thread runtime stack safety
• Fetch MAC addresses from NVMEM cells
• Heltec Wireless Tracker (V1.1)
• Working Group Elections and 10-year anniversary survey