• A 150 MB Copilot CLI binary accidentally committed to the FreeBSD ports repo
• Microchip acquires Hailo and its edge AI vision accelerators
• Arduino Core on Zephyr hits 0.90.0 and officially leaves beta
• Keychron kicks off an open source initiative with a Zephyr-based open source gaming mouse firmware on the way
• Developer Survey 2026 results
• Nominations are open for the Zephyr Community Awards (nomination form)
• Claude for Open Source
• Zephyr Developer Summit schedule
• m68k architecture support
• set_assignees overhaul that now notifies people who recently changed the code you are touching
• The peripherals documentation is now grouped into categorized cards instead of one flat list
• Per-interface allow/deny for the mDNS responder on multi-interface systems
• Wi-Fi mesh support for ESP32
• TMC6460 BLDC/FOC motor controller driver
• Broadcom GENET gigabit Ethernet driver
• OSCORE support for CoAP
• MAX30009 bio-impedance analog front end
• New boards: ESP32-P4-WIFI6-Dev-Kit, CH32H417EVT, RH02 Plus, MIMXRT700-EVK
• We are taking a short summer break and will be back in a few weeks!

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• A refreshed Zephyr merge list with clearer status indicators, filtering, mobile support, and built-in guidance
• A redesigned documentation page for the list of Zephyr services, grouping Zephyr's many capabilities into visual categories
• The hwsim virtual Wi-Fi driver for testing access points, scanning, authentication, and connectivity on native_sim
• Multi-toolchain Twister builds, including GCC and LLVM coverage for the same platform
• A new Twister host-sidecar concept for automatically managing processes such as virtiofsd during tests
• Microchip XC32 toolchain support for Zephyr builds
• SSH channel support for carrying additional data streams over an established connection
• A TI TDP2004 DisplayPort and HDMI redriver driver
• The X-NUCLEO-67W61M1 Wi-Fi 6 shield based on the ST67W611M1 coprocessor
• Native RTP media transport support, with an audio streaming sample
• Portable per-controller I2C timeouts using zephyr,transfer-timeout-ms
• Runtime zbus channel creation and registration for dynamic modules such as LLEXT extensions
• Quectel BC66 and BC660K NB-IoT modem support, including socket offload and power-management hooks
• New platforms: the TI AM13E230X LaunchPad, MPS3 AN536 Cortex-R52, and the STM32H7 Renode Reference Platform

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• Linus on AI tooling for kernel development, sparked by the Patchwork/Sashiko discussion
• A new timeout management benchmark
• Doxygen top-level group cleanup and a new CI check to keep stray groups out
• dependency-mode devicetree property key for reversed initialization dependencies
• TLA2528 combined ADC and GPIO expander driver
• ADIS16470 ruggedized IMU driver (a 400 € component!)
• LLEXT support for OpenRISC
• New boards: Heimann HTPA thermal camera eval board, M5Stack StickS3, Ganga SoC
• Zephyr Tech Talk next week: Evaluating the Real-Time Behavior of Zephyr Systems

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• Device filesystem for /dev-style access and Linux portability
• CDAC THEJAS32 RISC-V support
• Proposed fan subsystem
• Twister preferred_toolchain support for better LLVM coverage (among other things)
• Initial DWC2 USB host controller support
• Pouch, portable data across devices, gateways, and transports
• A trigger.py workaround for delayed GitHub Actions schedules
• Microchip SmartFusion2 FPGA + SoC support
• The RISC-V WCH CH32V103EVT board
• A Bouffalo Lab BL61x Wi-Fi driver
• HS400 enhanced strobe support for eMMC
• A new I2S shell for audio testing and tone generation
• AMD Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC support
• New boards: Radxa ROCK 3B and Adafruit TRRS Trinkey
• A per-test coverage matrix dashboard
• Upcoming Tech Talk on evaluating the real-time behavior of Zephyr systems

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• New Zephyr RTOS Cookbook from Roy Jamil and Ayoub Bersheela (AC6), now on Amazon in print and e-book
• Git 2.55: one-step commit fixups, auto-stash on checkout, and remote groups for fetch and push
• Linux kernel debating the Assisted-by: tag
• Address Sanitizer memory poisoning to catch use-after-free, buffer overflows, and unallocated access
• Lightweight heap write sanitizer for sys_heap
• rpmsgfs filesystem for mounting remote-core directories over RPMsg
• MAINTAINERS file "deferral" so driver changes reach the actual driver maintainer, not just the subsystem owner
• Revamped tracing sample with cross-OS terminal viewer rendering traces on the fly
• Hall-effect flow meter driver
• STG-800 lococube mini-PLC (24 V, CAN, and a rugged enclosure)
• FeatherWing MAX3421E shield (USB host and device over SPI)
• XIAO nRF54LM20A
• MIMXRT685-AUD-EVK, an audio-focused NXP crossover MCU with HiFi DSP
• RA8P1 Titan: a Cortex-M85 beast with dual gigabit Ethernet, MIPI DSI/CSI, and a Raspberry-Pi-style header
• Check out Zephyr Tech Talk next week (https://github.com/golioth/pouch)

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• snprintk() vs. snprintf()
• Linux 7.2 drops strncpy()
• Steam Machine teardown, and another kite spotted inside
• SPDX 3 SBOM support lands in Zephyr, a day before it merged in the Linux kernel.
• Web-based SPDX 3 visualization tool, for browsing the dependency graph, sources, licenses, ... from your SBOM.
• Standalone UF2 USB MSC bootloader
• Where double-tap reset actually came from (Arduino, around April 2015, on a SAMD21 board)
• Ghost edge AI sticker, a flexible nRF54L15 PCB with vibration and temperature sensing
• GigaDevice ramping up their Zephyr efforts
• Twister post-build checks flag stray Git repos pulled in during CI
• A WCH QingKe Debug Module console driver, single-pin printf-style logging in the spirit of Arm SWO
• scoped_guard() and scoped_cond_guard(), Python-with-style auto-releasing locks for C
• ZMS' interactive storage calculators
• UDP logging backend for coredump
• MikroElektronika Two Wire ETH Click, a tiny 10BASE-T1S single-pair Ethernet shield
• Four new ST B-M2MEM-PACK1 M.2 memory packs, hexa/octa-SPI flash and RAM on an M.2-style connector
• TI AM243x-EVM, Sitara with dual R5 clusters, a Cortex-M4, gigabit Ethernet, EtherCAT, and PCIe
• One last nudge to fill out the Zephyr Developer Survey before it closes!

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• The Orange Pi 6, a 12-core Cortex-A720 SBC, maybe powerful enough for hardware-in-the-loop CI
• Shell command chaining with &&
• A VirtIO input driver bringing touch, mouse, and keyboard to QEMU
• A FIDO2/CTAP2 authenticator subsystem, with a button-press sample
• A native u-blox M10 GNSS driver
• A Linux LED native_sim driver that maps host LEDs to Zephyr LED devices
• Hardware JPEG encoding on STM32 H7/H5/U5
• A native LR1121 LoRa driver, sub-GHz and 2.4 GHz
• Ebyte E80 node and EORA hub gateway, both LR1121-based
• The Arm Corstone-1000 A320 FVP (the chip, not the Airbus)
• The MuseLab nanoCH32V317, RISC-V with on-chip Ethernet PHY and high-speed USB
• The BeagleConnect Zepto, a tiny MSPM0 Click carrier
• Several new CAN boards from CANmodule
• The nRF54L15 Tag, coin-cell-sized with dual antennas and Bluetooth channel sounding
• A reminder to fill out the Developer Survey and send topics for ZDS in Prague:
  • ZDS Call for Papers
  • Zephyr Maintainers Forum

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• Linus' guitar pedal project, and why it clearly needs Zephyr next
• RISC-V Summit Europe recap: QEMU, custom instructions, DSPs, and low-power cores
• ETM tracing, CoreSight, and "time-travel" debugging
• Testplan v2 for faster, smarter CI
• CMake unity build experiments
• ESP-NOW broadcast sample and ESP32 WPA Enterprise support
• Realtek Ameba Wi-Fi support
• BCM2711 framebuffer driver for Raspberry Pi
• native_sim DMIC and I2S file backend for audio testing
• DMIC shell
• nPM10xx LED driver and fake LED controller
• ARMv8-A AArch32 execution state support
• DPLPMTUD probe tracking for QUIC
• Neighbor Awareness Networking, aka Wi-Fi Aware
• Experimental Model Context Protocol support
• Mutex misuse detection and reverse iterable sections
• Himax HX8353E display driver
• New shields and boards: MikroElektronika EERAM 3.3V Click and Armfly STM32H743XIH6
• Upcoming Zephyr meetups and developer survey reminder

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• A reminder to fill out the Zephyr Developer Survey 2026 before it closes at the end of June. Thanks in advance!
• iBattery SDK, a Zephyr-friendly battery intelligence layer with software-side state-of-charge experiments
• ZMK coredump experimentation using coredump subsystem flash backend for persistent post-crash diagnostics
• Fresh documentation for iterable sections
• ESP32 power-down support for better CPU and peripheral power management
• The board catalog can now expose and search by RAM and flash size
• IPv4 NAT support
• min-len/max-len properties for better Devicetree binding validation
• A generic charlieplex LED matrix driver
• Color dithering support for palette-backed displays, including six-color e-paper panels
• X-NUCLEO-WBA25A1, a Bluetooth 6 expansion shield with UART/SPI HCI options
• QEMU Arm Cortex-A72 support for Raspberry Pi 4-style emulation work
• ArduCam Mega SPI Camera Shield
• M5Stack PaperColor, with a Spectra 6 full-color e-paper display and PMIC support
• nRF93M1 DK, a compact Nordic LTE Cat 1 bis development kit
• ESP32-P4 support landed, with ESP32-P4-Function-EV-Board as the first board supported
• Analog Devices Low-Speed Mixed-Signal Playground for ADC/DAC-heavy analog experiments
• Linus Torvalds' GuitarPedal project
• USB2CANFDV2, a tiny WeAct USB-to-CAN-FD board with isolated CAN
• Submit ideas for the Zephyr Workshop 2026, and one more nudge to fill out the developer survey :)

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• Please take 5-10 min to fill out the Zephyr Developer Survey if you haven't already!
• An Ada runtime for Zephyr
• Composite fuel gauge support for battery estimation without a dedicated fuel-gauge IC
• Golioth's local shell talks SMP to devices over Web Serial, with a live demo at local-shell.golioth.dev
• USB Fastboot support in the works
• ESP32-P4 support coming, because apparently ESP32 can also mean "no Wi-Fi"
• The new buzzer subsystem, and thoughts on RTTTL-style ringtone playback
• DT_NODELABEL_C_TOKEN, for retrieving devicetree node labels as C tokens
• West snippets, including listing and shell completion support
• TAD2144 TMR angle sensor driver
• TMP451 temperature sensor driver, including remote temperature sensing use cases
• ESP32 I2C target mode support
• Nordic USBHS and BC1.2 battery charging support
• AD5529R high-voltage DAC shield
• LilyGO T-Deck support, a keyboard-and-display ESP32-S3 LoRa device
• Oh, did we mention the Developer Survey?

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