• 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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