• Build there, flash here workflow for remote builds and local flashing
• A Zephyr-native Meshtastic stack, with LoRa, Protobuf, GNSS, sensors, MQTT and more
• minmax.h cleanup for the new lowercase min/max macros
• Min/max constraints for devicetree binding properties
• BCM2711 mailbox controller support for Raspberry Pi
• nsim_mount, a native_sim filesystem for mounting host directories
• A new DALI lighting subsystem
• DT_DESCENDANT_NUM_ON_BUS devicetree helper
• CS40L26/27 haptic driver support
• Titan Micro TM6605 LRA haptic driver
• LP586x I2C LED matrix driver
• New and updated boards: Arduino Nesso N1, Wio Tracker L1, W6100-EVB-Pico2, KC868-A8
• The Zephyr Developer Survey 2026 is open!
• The Documentation Working Group RFC and Robotics WG have been created
• Upcoming Zephyr meetups in London, Wrocław, Vienna, Sapporo, Lyon, and more

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• Search boards by available RAM/Flash in the board catalog.
• New Documentation Working Group RFC
• The very important days without GitHub incident counter
• Daniel Stenberg on curl, AI reports, and high-quality chaos
• Mythos finding a curl vulnerability
• Shell alias support
• A proposed buzzer subsystem for portable beeps and tones
• Reversing devicetree dependencies for tricky initialization-order cases
• HTTP/3 server support on top of QUIC
• SSH support, including a shell backend
• IPv4 routing support in Zephyr's networking stack
• MMIO latch GPIO driver
• New boards: Pico Ultra, Trenz Electronic TE0950, SC-OBC Module V1, and Heltec T114 v2
• Don't forget the CFP for Zephyr Developer Summit / Open Source Summit Europe!

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• Valve publishes Steam Controller 3D files and STEP/STL models
• The weekly "is GitHub broken?" weather forecast
• cpu_freq thermal cap constraints for runtime frequency scaling
• GPIO keys shutdown behavior and low-power pin handling
• Twister multi-DUT testing for coordinated tests across multiple devices
• DEVICE_API_EXTENDS for devices exposing multiple APIs
• More options for HTTP client shell commands
• TAS2563 I2S smart amplifier driver
• FDC1004 4-channel capacitance sensor
• Renesas SLG47910 FPGA driver
• Kapa.ai chatbot now live in the Zephyr documentation
• New shields and boards: M5Stack Unit Gesture, Arduino Nesso N1, Tomu, XIAO ESP32C5, FlySky FS-i6S, Alif Balletto B1, and reTerminal E1003
• CFP is open for Open Source Summit Europe / Zephyr Developer Summit

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• Linus Torvalds merges a 138k lines-of-code removal in Linux networking
• Highlights from Git 2.54, including git history, split, and replay
• WPA3 support for AIROC and nRF Wi-Fi
• Valve's new Steam Controller teardown, with Zephyr spotted in the firmware
• Mapped partitions and ranges cleanup
• Mermaid diagram support for Zephyr documentation
• A new fixed-size FIFO implementation
• Remote shell clients support
• Silergy SY6974B 3A single-cell charger driver
• EL073TF1 Spectra 6 color e-ink display support
• Sensylink CHT8315 temperature and humidity sensor
• PAC194x multi-channel power monitor
• Generic GPIO bitbang PWM driver
• New boards: Sipeed M1S Dock, Sipeed M0Sense, and XIAO ESP32C5
• Zephyr 4.4's Bluetooth LE Host qualification
• Upcoming events: RISC-V Summit Europe and Open Source Summit North America

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• Yes, seriously: an IETF draft for IPv8
• More Zephyr-adjacent goodness in Framework hardware, with ZMK powering the new keyboard
• Windows 9x for Linux, because running a Linux kernel as a Windows 95 application is apparently a thing
• ST's beefy STM32H7RS "boot flash enabled" Cortex-M7 MCU
• PebbleOS on Zephyr, spotted via Adafruit
• OpenDeck, a Zephyr-based hardware and software platform for MIDI controllers
• New processor architectures coming: TriCore and Hexagon
• A lightweight serial IPC backend using COBS
• PTP IEEE 802.3 transport support lands after a thorough review cycle
• HTTP/3 support follows up on the recently merged QUIC work
• A proposed Robotics Working Group for Zephyr
• A kinematic tree subsystem RFC for modeling robotics-style mechanical structures
• Seeed Studio's COB LED driver board support
• Shell aliases for taming long Zephyr shell command hierarchies
• An overhaul of testplan discovery on pull requests, with hopes for faster and more accurate CI
• The e-ink-powered BeagleBadge board
• CRSF remote controller support for drones, rovers, and other robotics use cases
• A native LoRaWAN backend, including OTAA and Class A support
• The AD-APARDPFW-SL shield for single-pair Ethernet experiments
• ADP5360 PMIC support, showing another nice multi-function device integration

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• Zephyr 4.4 release video is out
• Zephyr 4.4 on r/embedded
• The Raspberry Pi's 15-year reign may be ending, according to this piece on How-To Geek
• GitHub's stacked PRs workflow
• A Serial MIDI 1.0 UART module for Zephyr
• Native SSH support in the works
• CoAP over TCP support under discussion
• CoAP sample improvements
• HTTP client shell commands
• TLS persistent session cache via settings
• Remote CPU shell client
• Clang thread safety analysis
• Smaller, randomized canaries
• ISR table size optimization
• Debug, debugserver, and flash support for the QEMU runner
• LoRa native support for radio duty cycling
• reTerminal E1001 board
• M5Stack Unit Mini OLED shield

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• CMake library dependencies.
• Audio coming to native simulator
• GPIO fast path
• GPIO_GET_REGS
• Espressif RMT driver
• STM32 PWM + DMA for WS2812
• MMIO API compliance check — checks to improve MMIO API compliance.
• WallaBMC
• OSSNA schedule is live
• LF Energy Summit Europe CfP
• Embedded World NA 2026 CfP

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• Raspberry Pi price increases and new 3GB Pi 4 variant
• The USB-C connector dev board with an ATtiny16 — someone please remake this with an STM32C071 and Zephyr
• LogScope, a VS Code extension for visualizing and filtering Zephyr logs, with J-Link RTT support and serial auto-reconnect
• Release freeze PR policy being formalized for post-RC merge rules
• Luca's presentation about Zephyr in Arduino at Arduino Days 2026
• Tasmota, an open-source ESP32 home automation firmware with web-based GPIO configuration (can we get a Zephyr-based alternative?)
• Bluepad32, an ESP32 project for gamepad-controlled robots
• ST Standard Serial Page EEPROM, a new Quad-SPI NVM with byte-level write granularity
• DEVICE_API_EXTENDS
• QUIC protocol support in the works
• Upcoming Tech Talk: JavaScript for Embedded with Moddable & Zephyr
• Zephyr 4.4 release expected the week of April 13th

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• Rennes meetup was a hit! Nearly 100 attendees, recordings coming soon
• Zephyr 4.2.2 released (final release for the 4.2 branch)
• Zephyr 4.4-rc1 tagged
• Zephyr SDK 1.0.1 with Xtensa and OpenRISC fixes
• action-zephyr-setup now supports LLVM toolchain
• OpenRISC architecture support (QEMU board only for now)
• Cortex-A SMP support
• ARM32 stack walk — backtrace on exception, previously only available on ARM64 and RISC-V
• RISC-V hardware stack guard
• ZView, a Zephyr RTOS runtime visualizer
• Wokwi (browser-based MCU emulator with full GUI, networking, and peripheral simulation)
• WireGuard VPN tunnel support
• Realtek Bee series: Bluetooth support and first hardware keyboard scanning driver
• Synaptics SR100 — M55+M3 audio & vision AI processor with dual MIPI CSI-2 camera interfaces
• Adafruit Seesaw gamepad driver
• Seeed Studio reTerminal E1002 e-ink 6-color display board
• Interactive HTML build dashboard has been merged
• Related: sys_init_parser PR for pretty-printing iterable sections
• Mbed TLS 4.x
• Call to action: test 4.4-rc2 on real hardware and use "fix" in commit titles to help release engineers triage

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• PCB art blog post by Eve
• Hi-res wheel debouncing fix for Zephyr-based mice and ZMK devices
• Ultimate Hacking Keyboard, a Zephyr-based (NCS) split keyboard
• AI-powered chatbot for Zephyr docs.
• QEMU RAM framebuffer display support has landed
• Objective-Z, an Objective-C transpiler experiment for Zephyr by Rodrigo
• Zephyr SDK 1.0 is out, now with LLVM support alongside GCC
• Instrumentation hooks added to the State Machine Framework (SMF)
• Ztest benchmarking framework, a cycle-accurate performance measurement with statistical analysis
• Unified "device not ready" errors
• NAND Flash Translation Layer
• CH32V30x Ethernet
• ICLegend S3KM1110
• Zephyr now supports over 1,000 boards!
• New board support: ThirdReality Temperature & Humidity Sensor Lite (Bouffalo Lab + FreeRTOS shim), Nucleo C5A3ZG, ESP32-C5-DevKitC (Wi-Fi 6, dual band, RISC-V), NXP FRDM-MCXL255 (dual-core ultra-low-power), ESP Thread Border Router
• New shield: ST AMOLED round display
• Upcoming: Tech Talk on nRF9151 MicroMod + crowdfunding hardware
• Zephyr Meetup in Rennes on March 26th

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