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    Linux Foundation Newsletter: April 2026

    The Linux Foundation | 15 April 2026

    Welcome to the March 2026 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter.

    This month marks a watershed moment for the future of open source security with the launch of Project Glasswing, a landmark initiative designed to shield critical infrastructure at scale. We are also seeing the rapid maturation of the "Internet of Agents" following a packed-house MCP Dev Summit in New York, while the launch of the x402 Foundation establishes a new neutral home for universal payments. From the shift toward the PARK Stack and the iconic glider on stage at KubeCon Europe to the continued expansion of our silicon, energy, and cinematic foundations, open governance remains the definitive operating model for global innovation.

    Here are this month’s highlights:

    • Project Glasswing: A $100M Defensive Shield for Open Source | In a major alliance with the Linux Foundation and leaders like AWS, Google, and Microsoft, Anthropic launched Project Glasswing. This initiative leverages the Claude Mythos frontier model to identify and automate the fixing of high-severity vulnerabilities across critical infrastructure. By addressing the "maintainer gap," Glasswing provides defenders with a durable, AI-driven advantage in cybersecurity. Watch the launch video and read Jim Zemlin’s post on why this matters >>
    • MCP Dev Summit North America Debuts to 1,200+ Registrants | The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) officially kicked off its 2026 event slate with the inaugural MCP Dev Summit in New York City. With a standing-room-only crowd, the event solidified the Model Context Protocol as the industry standard for agentic interoperability and served as the launchpad for a global series of 2026 summits across Europe and Asia. Explore the event recap >>
    • Linux Foundation Launches x402 Foundation for Universal Payments | With the contribution of the x402 protocol from Coinbase, the x402 Foundation has launched as the neutral home for a universal payments standard. Founding members including Stripe, Cloudflare, and Amazon Web Services are collaborating to build an interoperable future where AI agents and APIs can transact as seamlessly as they exchange data. Read the announcement >>
    • KubeCon Europe: Kubernetes Becomes the Platform for AI | Last month in Amsterdam, the cloud-native community demonstrated that Kubernetes is the definitive platform for the AI era. Amidst a record-breaking turnout and a full-sized glider on the keynote stage symbolizing the project's "lift" into AI infrastructure, the CNCF celebrated the industry-wide consolidation around the PARK Stack (PyTorch, AI, Ray, Kubernetes). Check out the glider talk >>

    >> Read on for even more news, research, and opportunities from across the Linux Foundation.

    Contents

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    LF Event Spotlight


    LF Europe: Community Updates

    • Join the Open Source Policy & Ecosystem Forum, 8 June 2026 in Brussels | A one-day event bringing together policymakers, industry, and open source communities to discuss Europe’s digital sovereignty, innovation, and competitiveness.
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      • Call for Proposals closes on 17 April 2026 (11:59 PM CEST), don’t miss your chance to contribute.
        • We are looking for sessions on:
          • Building a sovereign stack with open source
          • Real-world impact of EU regulations (CRA, AI Act, NIS2)
          • Strengthening Europe’s open source industry
          • Increasing European leadership in global OSS communities
        • Submit your talk proposal and help shape the future of open source in Europe.
        • The following day, on 9 June, OpenSSF will host its European Open Source Security Forum at the same venue in Brussels.
    • Open Sovereign Cloud Day Recap
      • This event brought together cloud native practitioners, maintainers, and public and private sector stakeholders to explore how open source technologies enable digital sovereignty across Europe and beyond with strong participation and engagement throughout the day. 
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      • The event focused on how cloud native, standards-based approaches support sovereignty by avoiding lock-in while enabling regulatory compliance, data residency, and operational resilience. Through real-world case studies and discussions, attendees examined how open source ecosystems are used to design and operate sovereign cloud platforms across public sector and regulated industries.
      • The key sessions covered topics such as the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework, portability as a sovereignty requirement, lessons learned from deploying sovereign cloud stacks, bridging ecosystems like Kubernetes and OpenInfra, and achieving data sovereignty in practice. The program also featured lightning talks on practical sovereignty approaches and a closing panel on reclaiming digital sovereignty for citizens and institutions. If you would like to revisit the content, you can check out the session slides >>
    • Does FOSS Buy Sovereignty? Participation vs. Ownership
      • At FOSS Backstage 2026, Mirko Boehm addressed whether adopting open source software truly delivers digital sovereignty. The session highlighted a key distinction: sovereignty comes not from using FOSS alone, but from active participation in its development and governance. Rather than license freedoms, it is technical capacity, institutional knowledge, and community influence that enable independence. A central insight was that participation, not ownership, determines whether nations can avoid proprietary lock-in and shape their technological future. Watch the session >>

     

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    New research: Recommendations from the AI Executive Forum

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    In late February, the Linux Foundation convened a group of key stakeholders to discuss the main priorities and challenges brought on by the growing use of generative AI and agents. The discussion centered on four main topics: trust and identity, security and privacy, agentic AI in regulated industries, and open source in agentic AI. Existential questions emerged alongside technical ones, and the group adjourned with some recommendations for the community to move forward sustainably and ethically.

     

    Linux Foundation Projects: Featured news

    Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)

    • Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation & Mazin Gilbert, MBA, Ph.D., new Executive Director of the Agentic AI Foundation joined John Furrier at theCUBE 's New York Stock Exchange Studios to discuss the launch of AAIF and the maturation of agentic infrastructure. They address how open source collaboration and the Model Context Protocol establish the essential security and auditability required for mission-critical enterprise systems.
    • The Agentic AI Foundation just dropped its 2026 global events lineup! We're bringing together the builders of agentic AI to turn ideas into production ready systems. We’ll have flagship events in Europe and North America for AGNTCon + MCPCon, plus a global series of MCP Dev Summits focused on hands-on work with MCP, Goose, and AGENTS.md.
    • Angie Jones has joined the Agentic AI Foundation as Vice President of Developer Experience. She’ll focus on making agentic AI practical for developers by advancing open standards, reference implementations, and interoperable workflows. Her work ensures agents can move seamlessly across tools and environments, helping developers spend less time wiring systems and more time building real-world solutions. With Angie on board, AAIF continues to strengthen the foundation for the “Internet of Agents,” where collaboration, consistency, and reliability drive the next phase of agentic AI.
    • Mazin Gilbert has joined as the AAIF’s Executive Director, bringing deep experience leading AI innovation and large scale deployment across industry. His appointment comes at a critical moment, as agentic AI moves from experimentation into production systems and toward what he describes as the “Internet of Agents”, an ecosystem where autonomous systems collaborate across tools, organizations, and industries.
    • Coding agents serve as the essential foundation for every agentic system currently being built. Technical reasoning and the ability to execute code are the core drivers of agent capability across all knowledge work. Read more about how AAIF continues to support the development of open standards to ensure these systems remain secure and interoperable as the ecosystem scales.
    • The 2026 roadmap for the Model Context Protocol has been published, identifying four priority areas: transport evolution, agent communication lifecycles, governance maturation, and enterprise readiness. This shift toward working-group-driven priorities reflects the growing organizational maturity of MCP.

    Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD)

    • From 3D Gaussian Splats to WebAssembly support, the recently launched OpenUSD v26.03 expands what’s possible across real-time 3D, web, and large-scale pipelines.
      • This includes:
        • Faster performance
        • Browser-based USD workflows
        • More flexible data editing
      • Learn more in this blog or check out the full release notes on GitHub.
    • To address the evolving needs of the 3D ecosystem, AOUSD launched the Characters, Motion, and Interactivity (CMI) Interest Group. This newest group is dedicated to extending OpenUSD’s capabilities beyond static environments, focusing on the standardization of skeletal animation, blend shapes, and interactive behaviors.
    • Additionally, AOUSD welcomes seven new member organizations including Aras, Booz Allen Hamilton, C-Infinity, Mobiltech, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., SGDL Innovation, and XGRIDS. Learn more about these updates and member milestones, in this press release >>
    • At NVIDIA GTC, Aaron Luk (AOUSD’s Chairperson of the Core Specification Working Group) presented on how OpenUSD streamlines development pipelines, enhances data compatibility across 3D tools, and establishes standardized processes for complex physical AI workflows. Watch the session on demand and explore all sessions on how industrial AI, robotics, automotive, and digital twins are transforming physical AI.
    • OpenUSD is a driving force behind the scalability of physical AI. Last month at GTC, NVIDIA showcased a turning point in physical AI: Robots, vehicles and factories are scaling from single use cases and isolated deployments to sophisticated enterprise workloads across industries. Read the full blog >>

    CAMARA

    • Cloud Native Telco Day, March 22, Amsterdam (co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU | CAMARA presented a session, “From Footprint to Value: Commercial Adoption of CAMARA APIs” featuring Andreas Boruga (Aduna Global), Nathan Rader (Deutsche Telekom & Chair of CAMARA’s governing body) and Huub Applelboom (KPN) discussing “good” looks like for multi-operator availability, basic expectations on conformance and SLAs, and how those signals unlock real adoption, specifically for the cloud. Stay tuned for links to the session video!
    • BCN LATAM Summit | Markus Kummerle participated in BCN LATAM, a key regional event bringing together industry leaders, innovators, and policymakers in the telecom and digital ecosystem. At the event, Markus explored the current state and challenges of the NetworkAPI ecosystem with Rafael A. Junquera and Ludmila Lizún, shared insights on the CAMARA Project, and presented updates on the GSMA Open Gateway initiative. Watch the recording >>
    • Catch CAMARA at these upcoming events:

    CHIPS Alliance

    • CHIPS Alliance will participate in the 2026 OCP EMEA Summit from April 29 to 30 in Barcelona, Spain, at Booth B54. Representatives from Google and Antmicro will demonstrate open source silicon development and discuss progress on the OpenPRoT firmware stack and Caliptra roadmap. Read more >>
    • SV Tools Project launched to facilitate open source tooling for SystemVerilog and UVM codebases, including the sv-tests suite and Verible toolkit. Supported by members like Antmicro and Google to provide a coherent development and verification experience. Read more >>
    • Proud sponsor of FOSSi Foundation’s Latch-Up 2026, May 1-3 in Waterloo, Ontario. Our sponsorship aims to strengthen collaboration between the organizations and provide a space for sharing progress reports on open source hardware initiatives. Read more >>
    • CHIPS Alliance is adopting a community-driven leadership model for 2026, overseen by Governing Board Chair Matt Cockrell and TAC Chair Aaron Cunningham. We’re focusing on sustainability and technical rigor for high-quality IP and design enablement tools. Read more >>

    Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

    • CNCF Nearly Doubles Certified Kubernetes AI Platforms | The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the latest update to the Kubernetes AI Conformance Program, which has nearly doubled the number of certified platforms since it was announced in November, including OVHcloud, SpectroCloud, JD Cloud and China Unicom Cloud. The latest release introduces stricter v1.35 requirements, officially codified as Kubernetes AI Requirements (KARs), designed to ensure consistent, industrial-scale artificial intelligence (AI) deployment. These KARs focus on seamless hardware orchestration and validation for agentic workflows, effectively eliminating infrastructure fragmentation.
    • CNCF and SlashData Report Finds Cloud Native Community Reaches Nearly 20 Million Developers | The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today released new insights from its latest State of Cloud Native Development report in collaboration with SlashData. Based on data from more than 12,500 developers across 100 countries, the research focuses on the continued expansion of the cloud native ecosystem and the growing role of platform engineering and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads in shaping the future of software development.
    • Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Kyverno’s Graduation | The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the graduation of Kyverno, a Kubernetes-native policy engine that enables organizations to define, manage and enforce policy-as-code across cloud native environments.
    • CNCF Unveils KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026 Schedule | The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the conference sessions for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026. The event, scheduled for 18-19 June, 2026, in Mumbai, will bring together adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities.
    • Announcing Kubescape 4.0 Enterprise Stability Meets the AI Era | We are happy to announce the release of Kubescape 4.0, a milestone bringing enterprise-grade stability and advanced threat detection to open source Kubernetes security. This version focuses on making security more proactive and scalable. It also introduces capabilities that allow AI agents to utilize Kubescape to scan clusters as well as enable security posture scanning for the AI agents themselves.
    • Announcing a Kotlin Multiplatform API and SDK for OpenTelemetry | We’re pleased to announce that the contribution of Embrace’s Kotlin API and SDK to OpenTelemetry has been accepted. The project expands vendor-neutral observability support across client- and server-side applications written in Kotlin. It establishes a foundation for a community-owned Kotlin SDK and allows KMP and Kotlin projects to capture telemetry using one API for many different platforms.
    • Agones Moves to the CNCF: A New Era for Open Source Multiplayer Game Infrastructure | The Agones project, the open source platform for scaling and orchestrating dedicated game servers on Kubernetes, celebrates its official transition to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Originally founded as a deep co-development between Google and Ubisoft in 2017, the project is now being donated by Google to the CNCF at the Sandbox level to foster a community-owned and governed future.

    Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC)

    • A new IDC survey reveals that 75% of organizations are now adopting Confidential Computing, with 18% already in production. TEEs are becoming the industry’s "mailroom without windows" for securing Generative AI and sensitive data processing. Read this coverage by InformationWeek and learn why Confidential Computing is leading the charge toward a more secure, verifiable digital future.
    • The CCC’s latest newsletter recaps a successful participation at OC3, NVIDIA GTC and KubeCon EU. Highlights include new guidance for bridging the "skills gap" and the TAC’s recent contributions to NIST and UK government consultations on AI safety.
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    • New session recordings from OC3 2026 are live. The sessions showcase production use cases, including Google Cloud Confidential Space and Bosch’s Hermetik platform, proving that secure cross-company collaboration is now a reality for automotive and finance. Mike Bursell’s session | Rachel Wan’s session

    Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF)

    • cdCon 2026 Schedule Announced || Join us for a two-day CDF Intensive on AI, Security, and Platform Engineering, on May 18–20, 2026, at Open Source Summit in Minneapolis, Minnesota. View Keynotes and Speaker Lineup >>
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    DPDK

    Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) Project

    • ELISA Seminar - From Requirements to Code: Managing End-to-End Traceability with BASIL | This ELISA Seminar introduced BASIL, an open source tool for managing requirements and traceability across specifications, tests, documentation, and code. The session highlighted end-to-end traceability, collaborative workflows, and integrations with test and CI systems, alongside a live demo of BASIL in action. Learn more about BASIL and watch the session >>
    • What to expect from the ELISA Project at Open Source Summit 2026 – North America | The ELISA Project will be featured at Open Source Summit North America 2026 as part of the Safety-Critical Software Track, highlighting how open source supports safety standards, regulatory compliance, and secure system design.
      • Sessions will cover topics such as software supply chain management, requirements traceability, safety certification, open source quality management systems, medical robotics interoperability, and modern software verification methods. Join industry experts from organizations like AMD, Garmin, Tidepool, and the U.S. Air Force as they share real-world approaches to building and verifying safety-critical systems with open source. Learn more about the sessions and register >>

    FINOS

    • Updated FINOS Project Lifecycle: From Collaboration to Production | The updated FINOS Project Lifecycle provides a clearer, more predictable path for projects to evolve from initial contribution to industry-wide standards. Shaped by the TOC, Governing Board, and broader community this update simplifies collaboration while maintaining the technical excellence our community expects.
    • OSFF London Schedule is Live | 25 June | The Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) is the premier event that connects the leaders in financial services, technology, and open-source innovation. OSFF 2026 will spotlight groundbreaking advancements, deliver insights on best practices, and offer exclusive access to the leaders shaping open source in finance.
    • OSFF New York Registration is Open | Nov 4 - 5 | As open source becomes integral to financial services, OSFF provides companies with a unique venue to maximize open source ROI. By strategically contributing to open projects, organizations benefit from reduced development costs, heightened security, access to top talent, and overall faster innovation.

    FinOps Foundation

    • FinOps X is less than 2 months away! This year, 2,500+ attendees will gather at the Marriott Marquis in San Diego for four days of sessions, chalk talks, workshops, and networking built around what’s shaping FinOps in 2026.
    • The FinOps Framework has been updated to reflect the growing strategic role of FinOps in organizations working to maximize value from an expanding set of Technology Categories. The 2026 revisions introduce Executive Strategy Alignment as a new Capability, deepen the FinOps Scopes construct with richer guidance and additional Technology Category pages, explore the convergence of FinOps activities with other interconnected disciplines and update a number of Capabilities to be more inclusive of all Technology Categories.
    • The 6th Annual State of FinOps survey is a snapshot from the global FinOps community. Read the executive summary on proactive technology value: AI Tops the Agenda as FinOps Shifts Up, Left, and Out Across Technology Categories.

    High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF)

    • HPSFCon 2026 event recap is live | This year’s program highlighted the importance of open, community-driven approaches to high performance computing and software infrastructure. Read the Read the blog >> and watch the videos on-demand >>
    • HPSF is pleased to welcome HPX as a new established project. HPX brings a modern approach to parallel and distributed computing in C++, expanding the foundation’s portfolio of technologies advancing scalable, high performance systems. Read more >>
    • Chapel 2.8 is here, bringing developer ergonomics and portability. Learn more >>

    Jupyter

    • JupyterLab now supports more than 700 extensions, highlighting how the community continues to expand notebook workflows across visualization, AI tooling and developer productivity.
      • The growing extension ecosystem demonstrates the flexibility of Jupyter’s modular architecture and the range of tools being built by contributors across the community. Read more>>
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    • The Jupyter Book team released mystmd 1.8.2 with three key updates: a new {anywidget} directive for embedding interactive JavaScript widgets in MyST pages, an improved {toc} directive that can display only a section's child pages, and better link handling for multi-site projects. Read the blog >>
    • The Linux Foundation and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) hosted a Security Tooling Sprint on March 31, bringing together Jupyter maintainers, security experts, and contributors to tackle a growing challenge: as AI accelerates contributions and security reports, open source projects need better tooling for dependency analysis, vulnerability scanning, and supply chain security. Participants worked hands-on to evaluate the current security tooling landscape and apply it to real Jupyter project workflows, with the goal of producing actionable recommendations back as issues and pull requests. Learn more >> and stay tuned for a recap.
    • On March 18-19, members of the Jupyter community came together for Jupyter AI workshop: Building Extensible AI Capabilities for Interactive Computing - Through hands-on demos, collaborative discussions, and focused sprint sessions, the collaborators shared building blocks, standardized APIs, and protocols for seamless AI integration, fostering a human-centered interactive computing experience.

    LF AI & Data

    • Join the LF AI & Data Mini Summit, co-located with Open Source Summit North America, for a half-day of technical talks and discussions on real-world AI use cases, open collaboration, and project updates. Taking place on May 21 (9:00 AM–12:30 PM) at the Minneapolis Convention Center, attendees can connect with the community and explore the latest in open source AI and data. Save the date, and we hope to see you there!
    • Catch a session on the Docling project at Uphill Conference, happening May 7-8 in
      Bern, where Panos Vagenas of IBM Research will present “Docling: Insights & Lessons from Building an Open-Source AI Standard for Unstructured Data.”
    • A new LF AI & Data blog, a companion to last year’s part 1 post, explores how TrustyAI helps operationalize the Responsible Generative AI Framework (RGAF), turning principles like fairness, transparency, and privacy into measurable, enforceable components within AI systems. The post highlights how open source tooling can embed responsible AI directly into development workflows, enabling real-time monitoring, guardrails, and audit-ready compliance.
    • Miss the Docling project’s session, “Build AI Ready Search:Integrating Docling with OpenSearch for Advanced RAG and Agentic Applications” at OpenSearchCon? Catch the recording >>
    • LF AI & Data’s Docling project made some industry event appearances, spreading the word on the value of the open source document processing framework, including:
      • NVIDIA GTC (March ) Docling demos in the IBM booth
      • All Things Open (March 23-24)
      • PyTorch Con (April 7-8): Docling co-hosted an Open Source Soiree with Human Signal
      • Session at the recent ETSI AI Native summit, Michele Dolfi, PhD from Docling shared a trend where LLMs are generating fake scientific terms, such as "vegetative electron microscopy”, because of incorrect PDF parsing, leading to the propagation of these inaccuracies in new research papers.
      • At the DataTune | Data and AI Conference (March 6-7), community members Cedric Clyburn & Legare Kerrison presented on how creating Structured Data Tools like Docling can turn complicated and messy documents such as PDFs, reports, and slides into structured data that systems can actually use. When the inputs are clean and organized, the results get dramatically better.
      • At the SCALE (March 5) event, community members from IBM, Mingxuan Zhao and Roy Derks presented “Learn to unlock Document Intelligence with Open Source AI.”

    LF Decentralized Trust

    • Decentralized Digest April 2026 is live, read the full issue | This month: Swift moves its Besu-based interbank ledger into MVP build, France runs its first fully onchain IPO on Besu infrastructure, Bhutan integrates verifiable credentials into national passport services, and Hiero, Fabric-X, and the new Outreach Committee leadership share what's ahead.
    • Swift's blockchain-based shared ledger progresses to MVP implementation | Swift has completed design and is now building its interbank shared ledger on Besu, with live transactions planned for 2026. Banks retain control of keys and settlement; Swift handles orchestration. If you are tracking where permissioned DLT is landing in production payments infrastructure, this is the clearest signal yet.
    • Lise to host tokenized IPO for French defense supplier ST Group | France's Lightning Stock Exchange is listing aerospace SME ST Group as the first IPO on a natively tokenized exchange, with shares issued and settled directly on Besu under the EU DLT Pilot Regime. For anyone building regulated digital asset infrastructure, this is the first live test of the full issuance-to-settlement lifecycle running onchain under institutional compliance conditions.
    • The growth of institutional blockchain adoption | Institutional crypto AUM grew more than 300% between 2020 and 2024, rising from $36 billion to over $150 billion, with the broader blockchain market projected to reach $1.4 trillion by 2030. The data points are useful context for enterprise architects and business development teams making the case internally for decentralized trust infrastructure investment.
    • Bhutan's NDI wallet now handles passport applications | Bhutan has connected its National Digital Identity wallet, built with the Trust over IP Foundation, to the national passport application system. Citizens scan a QR code and verified credentials populate the form automatically, replacing manual document submission at scale. A working government deployment of verifiable credentials worth studying for anyone designing real-world identity infrastructure.
    • Meet the 2026 Technical Advisory Council | Arun S M takes the chair role for 2026, with priorities spanning specification project governance, cross-project collaboration, and setting standards for GenAI-assisted contributions. TAC members including Hendrik Ebbers also lay out where they see the biggest technical opportunities this year, from post-quantum cryptography to decentralized credentials moving into production. If you want to understand what technical direction LFDT is headed and where to plug in as a contributor, start here.
    • A look into Hiero's accomplishments and goals | The Hiero community reviews what 2025 delivered, governance structures, contributor growth, and operational foundations, and maps out 2026 priorities including OpenSSF score improvements, cross-project collaboration within LFDT, and making production adoption more visible through documented use cases. Useful reading for contributors evaluating where to plug in and for enterprise teams tracking the project's production readiness trajectory.
    • The Hyperledger Fabric-X roadmap and the era of ultra-scalability | Fabric-X V1.0 ships April 17, with an ordering protocol benchmarked at over 100,000 TPS on commodity hardware, Kubernetes deployment support, and a 2026 roadmap that adds EVM compatibility in Q2 and a V1.3 LTS release in Q4. Architects evaluating permissioned DLT for regulated digital asset workloads will want to track the quarterly delivery cadence against their own procurement timelines.
    • Clarity, credibility, and collaboration: new Outreach Committee leaders share their vision | Ashley O'Brien and Marcello Gracietti lay out their priorities for the Outreach Committee: layered messaging for developer, institutional, and business audiences, scaled member storytelling programs, and stronger visibility for regional adoption stories from Brazil, India, and beyond. Members looking to activate co-marketing or contribute case studies will find the practical entry points here.
    • For more updates from LF Decentralized Trust, check out the current and past issues of Decentralized Digest >>

    LF Edge

    • AI infrastructure is hitting an inflection point, and a new LF Edge blog breaks down how InfiniEdge AI brings distributed AI across the edge-to-cloud continuum through an “orchestra of orchestrators” approach. Highlighting projects like EdgeX Foundry, EdgeLake, and FIDO Device Onboard (FDO), the blog shows how open, interoperable frameworks enable scalable, policy-driven AI deployment while improving efficiency, resilience, and data governance. Read the blog >>
    • We’re entering the era of Physical AI, where systems can sense, decide, and act in the real world. Akraino R9 is designed to support this shift, combining edge performance, cloud native architecture, and telecom-grade reliability to enable real-world intelligent infrastructure and autonomous systems. Learn more and get involved >>
    • The State of the Edge 2026 report is now available, bringing together expert perspectives on how edge computing is evolving in the age of AI. Covering architecture, real-world deployments, cybersecurity, and large-scale operations across industries, the report offers practical insights and forward-looking guidance for building and scaling edge solutions. Download the report >>

    LF Energy 

    • Call for Proposals Open for LF Energy Summit Europe 2026 | The call for proposals is open through May 25 for LF Energy Summit Europe, taking place September 15–16 in Berlin. The community seeks sessions covering project developments and practical implementations of open source software within utility environments and modern energy systems.
    • The History of LF Energy and Neutral Governance | A new retrospective details the origins of LF Energy, from its 2018 founding to its current role as a host for shared digital infrastructure. The narrative explores how neutral governance enables projects like OpenSTEF and SEAPATH to provide the common plumbing for the power grid through multi-continent collaboration among utilities and technologists.
    • EVerest Project Transitions to Long-Term Support (LTS) Strategy | The EVerest 2026.02.0 stable release marks a shift to a six-month cadence with formal public API stability guarantees. Hosted by LF Energy, the EVerest community's latest milestone includes hardware drivers and security patches for OCPP and ISO 15118, providing a production-grade foundation for EV charging infrastructure.
    • Battery Data Alliance and Microsoft Release Standardized Dataset | The LF Energy Battery Data Alliance (BDA) released a standardized battery dataset contributed by Microsoft’s Surface Battery Development team. The data aligns with the Battery Data Format (BDF) to provide a common structure for cell architecture and cycle aging research, supporting interoperability in energy storage.
    • OperatorFabric 4.11.0 Enhances Monitoring and Admin Control | The release of OperatorFabric 4.11.0, a project hosted by LF Energy, introduces pixel-based monitoring enhancements and new email management features for TSOs and DSOs. The update also includes security upgrades via OpenAPI V3 and Angular OIDC to support modular event management and shared visibility across distributed energy systems.
    • Future Energy Lab on Bridging Pilots and Open Source | Anika Lange of the German Energy Agency (dena) shared insights from the LF Energy Summit Europe 2025 regarding the transition from public sector pilots to sustainable open source ecosystems. The discussion focused on utilizing open source to mitigate vendor lock-in and foster digitalization in the energy sector.
    • Digital Sovereignty for Grid Resilience | Christophe Villemer of Savoir-faire Linux detailed the requirement for digital sovereignty in power grid resilience at the LF Energy Summit Europe 2025. The presentation highlighted how LF Energy projects, including SEAPATH, allow grid operators to maintain control over digital supply chains through utility-grade software and neutral governance.

    • Alliander Progresses Toward Software-Defined Substations | Sander Jansen of Alliander N.V. discussed the transition to software-defined substations at the LF Energy Summit Europe 2025. The DSO is evaluating projects such as SEAPATH and CoS while contributing to LF Energy CoMPAS to decouple hardware from software and implement IEC 61850 standards for substation automation.

    LF Networking

    • Nephio Release 6 (R6) is now available, bringing platform enhancements, security updates, and new O-RAN O2 IMS integration to advance cloud native network automation. The release strengthens Nephio’s core principles of intent-driven automation and configuration-as-data while improving performance and documentation. Read the release announcement blog >>
    • LF Networking co-sponsored Cloud Native Telco Day, co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU on 22 March in Amsterdam. The full-day event featured a packed agenda with sessions focused on how the cloud native telco network stack collaborates on AI-driven telco and other emerging technologies. The full sessions will be available on the CNCF YouTube channel shortly.
    • A new LF Networking blog post examines how to accelerate progress toward autonomous networks through a structured, step-by-step approach. The article highlights how aligning frameworks like NGMN and the Cloud Native Maturity Model, along with LFN projects such as Essedum and Salus, can enable AI-driven automation, orchestration, and continuous improvement across the autonomy continuum. Read the blog >>
    • Save the date for Open Networking & Edge Summit 2026, taking place December 10–11 and co-located with Open Source Summit Japan! Bringing together telecom, cloud, and enterprise leaders, the event will explore how open source, AI, Kubernetes, and APIs are driving next-generation network architectures and real-world digital transformation. Sponsorship opportunities are now available.
    • The recording of “The Agentic Imperative” from MWC26’s Agentic AI Summit is now available, featuring Dr. Junlan Feng (China Mobile Research Institute, LFN Board member). Dr. Feng discussed why Agentic AI is a strategic priority for telecom and how open source enables scalable, interoperable systems through standardized APIs, observability, and policy-driven automation. Watch the recording >>
    • TFIR’s “2026 Networking Predictions,” featuring Arpit Joshipura (GM of Networking, Edge & IoT, The Linux Foundation), is now available on demand. The session highlights five trends set to reshape networking, from the rise of AI-native networks and edge AI to the growing role of AI agents and APIs in driving new revenue and the continued momentum of open source RAN. Watch the recording >>

    OCUDU

    • Momentum from launch at Mobile World Congress | OCUDU officially launched at MWC Barcelona 2026, where Mike Woster, Chief Revenue Officer at the Linux Foundation, joined Dr. Tom Rondeau, Principal Director for FutureG at the U.S. Department of Defense, for a fireside chat announcing the new foundation and its mission to accelerate open source AI-RAN innovation. Read the press release >>
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    • Strong early media attention: Coverage of the launch has helped spotlight OCUDU’s role in advancing open, interoperable, AI-native RAN infrastructure. Highlights include:
    • Follow OCUDU on social: The OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation has launched its official social channels on LinkedIn and X, giving the community new ways to stay up to date on project news, ecosystem milestones, and opportunities to get involved. Follow on both platforms to keep up to date!

    OpenInfra Foundation

    OpenJS Foundation

    • We sat down with Lodash creator and maintainer John-David Dalton to discuss his journey with the project, its new phase with shared governance and support from OpenJS, and why open source is more than just code. Read on >>

    • At RSAC 2026, OpenJS Executive Director Robin Bender Ginn outlined a consistent pattern across ecosystems: when maintainer capacity does not scale with dependency usage, security risk increases. Read more on the blog >>

    • ICYMI 👀 We're hosting a summit at RenderATL this August! This summit gives stage maintainers and contributors to share real world lessons and experience. Learn more and register today >> 

    Open Mainframe Project

    • In this episode of Mainframe Coven, Jessielaine Punongbayan (Product Manager, Dynatrace) and Richelle Anne Craw (Software Engineer, Beta Systems Software) reflect on the experiences of women in computing, from the era of "Kilogirls" to mentorship, early career challenges, and leadership gaps. The episode examined how systemic barriers shape the tech industry and why safe, supportive spaces remain essential for the field's future. Watch full episode >>
    • This Mainframe Voices episode explored how contributing to open source on IBM Z is helping people discover, enter, and grow in mainframe careers. The conversation featured:
      • Steven Dickens – CEO and Principal Analyst, HyperFRAME Research
      • Sarah Julia Kriesch – Senior Lead, Mainframe Architect & Open Source Evangelist, Kyndryl
      • John Lovett – Head of Education & Customer Engagement, Mainframe Software Division, Broadcom Inc.
      • Junior Tamekem Tadiffo – IBM Z Student Ambassador
      • Marcus Davage – Lead Product Developer, BMC Software
      • Hunter Johnson – Product Marketing Engineer, Beyond Code (Broadcom)

    • The discussion centered on how familiar modern practices like Git, CI/CD, and APIs are lowering the barrier to entry and giving newcomers a structured path into the platform. A key theme: open source supports the industry's ongoing skills transition, as open communities give new talent a welcoming way to get involved alongside experienced practitioners. Watch the full episode >>
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    • Open Mainframe Project celebrated Women's History Month in March with a special “I am a Mainframer” podcast episode. Host Steven Dickens, CEO and Principal Analyst, HyperFRAME Research, spoke with Sarah Julia Kriesch, Senior Lead Mainframe Architect (Open Source) at Kyndryl and co-chair of the Linux Distribution Working Group. Sarah discussed how the Linux Distribution Working Group is strengthening cross-distribution collaboration on s390x, and looked ahead to a future where mainframes power AI-driven, blockchain-connected financial systems. Watch the full episode >>
    • Meet the 2026 Open Mainframe Project ambassadors | The Open Mainframe Project welcomed its 2026 Ambassador class: five practitioners from across the globe committed to growing open source on the mainframe through speaking, mentoring, and community building:
      • Bruno Laurent (Euroclear, France) — 25+ years of mainframe expertise, bridging COBOL and modern DevOps practices on z/OS
      • Richelle Anne Craw (Beta Systems Software) — Zowe Explorer developer and advocate for women in mainframe via the Mainframe Coven
      • Saurabh Banerjee — Senior technology leader with 20+ years in mainframe modernization across highly regulated enterprise environments
      • Sanket Nawale — DevOps and IBM Z enthusiast, creator of the open source JCL validation tool 8bit Cat (JCLCAT)
      • Victor Taiwo (Northern Illinois University) — IBM Z Student Ambassador and founder of Zcrafter, an AI-powered mainframe terminal emulator built on Zowe

    OpenSearch

    • OpenSearch 3.6 Release introduces agent-powered capabilities that help teams build, deploy, and optimize search and observability solutions faster. This release enables organizations to create production-ready search applications in minutes, launch full-stack observability with a single command, tune search relevance through natural language interactions instead of code, and monitor distributed applications in real time with integrated Application Performance Monitoring and root cause analysis.
    • The OpenSearch Data Prepper maintainers are happy to announce the release of Data Prepper 2.15. This version adds the ability to ingest data from Apache Iceberg, making it easier to keep OpenSearch in sync without custom pipelines. It also extends Prometheus support with a remote-write source and the ability to send data to open source Prometheus. Read on >>
    • OpenSearch Launchpad: The AI assistant that takes you from 0 to a running search application in minutes.Launchpad automates architecture, models, and indexing so you can skip the setup headaches and focus on building. No OpenSearch expertise required. Learn more >>
    • OpenSearch adds native gRPC support: led by contributors from Uber's Search Platform team, OpenSearch now supports native gRPC endpoints using Protocol Buffers (Protobuf), giving developers a high-performance alternative to traditional REST APIs for data-intensive workloads. A great example of how community members are driving meaningful performance improvements in OpenSearch! Read on >>
    • At SCaLE 23x, Navneet Verma and Naveen Tatikonda showcased “OpenSearch: Your Friendly Neighborhood Vector Database,” demonstrating how OpenSearch turns text and images into vectors that understand meaning—not just keywords. Read the blog >>
    • KubeCon + CloudNativeCon & Observability Summit EU (March 23-26) was full of innovation and energy! The team showcased how OpenSearch powers scalable, open search and analytics, and enjoyed connecting with everyone who stopped by.
      • OpenSearch Executive Director Bianca Lewis joined theCUBE at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU to talk about growth, consolidation, and why OpenSearch is becoming the de facto AI data infrastructure layer for enterprise. Watch here >>
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    • MCP Dev Summit NA (April 2-3, 2026) | The community hosted an OpenSearch booth, engaging with developers, sharing insights, and demonstrating real-world use cases. The conversations, questions, and energy around our native MCP support for AI-powered search and observability were truly inspiring.
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    OpenSSF

    • OpenSSF has welcomed Helvethink, Spectro Cloud, and Quantrexion as its newest members, while partnering with Kusari to provide maintainers with the "Inspector" tool at no cost to visualize and secure software supply chains. Read more >>
    • A major coalition including Anthropic, AWS, Google, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI have committed grants to the Alpha-Omega project to improve sustainable vulnerability remediation and the security of the broader AI ecosystem. Read the blog to learn more >>
    • In our latest OpenSSF Tech Talk, we gathered experts from Microsoft, Thread AI, Canonical and OpenSSF AI/ML Security Working Group, to dismantle the AI "black box." We explore the "Seven-Layer Cake" of AI infrastructure and the critical need for delegated identity. Read the recap to learn about the SAFE-MCP threat catalog, how to secure the 3,000+ open source dependencies in the typical AI stack, and more!
    • While many organizations have mastered pre-deployment scanning, a massive blind spot remains: post-deployment vulnerability detection. As Tracy Ragan (CEO of DeployHub) explains in her latest guest blog for OpenSSF, software that is "secure" at release can become vulnerable overnight as new CVEs are disclosed. Read the blog >>
    • Following the DARPA AIxCC, the OSS-CRS project has joined the OpenSSF AI/ML Security Working Group to advance how artificial intelligence fundamentally secures open-source software and automates threat remediation. Learn more about what’s new at AIxCC this year.
    • The Security Slam at KubeCon was a huge hit! It was truly inspiring to witness maintainers making "Security Hygiene" a priority, protecting their projects and boosting CRA-readiness across the entire community. Congratulations to our top 5 Security Champions Gabriele Bartolini, Jason Meridth, Sangram Rath, Shuting Zhao, and Tuomo Tanskanen and thank you to everyone who took part.
    • The OpenSSF March newsletter is here, it has been a month of good news and celebrations! Read the newsletter and subscribe to join the list.
    • "What's in the SOSS?" Podcast:

    Overture Maps Foundation

    • The Overture Maps Foundation is heading to STL TechWeek (April 13–17) in Missouri, where Executive Director Will Mortenson will lead sessions on building the "spatial backbone" for the future of AI and location intelligence. Learn more about Overture’s participation at STL Tech Week.
    • A major update to Overture Explorer has introduced "Explore" and "Inspect" modes, transforming the tool from a raw data inspector into a polished, cartographically-rich globe that showcases the project's global reach and schema depth. Read the blog: The Day Explorer Turned Pretty >>
    • Overture’s Executive Director Will Mortenson recently joined Geospatial World for an in-depth interview to discuss "Gersifying" the world’s map data and why unified foundational maps are paramount for the next era of industry innovation. Read the interview >>
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    • The 2026 Overture Member Summit is taking place next month in Florence, Italy; the premier event for map enthusiasts and industry leaders to collaborate on the future of open, interoperable map data. Join the Overture Member Summit 2026 >> Not yet a member? Become a member >>
    • The 2026-03-18 Overture release is live. What’s new:
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      • Transparency Boost: New columns_changed in the data changelog to track specific property edits per feature.
      • Transportation Overhaul: Major pipeline architecture upgrades for cleaner routes and improved linear referencing.
      • Schema Evolution: Transition to basic_category and taxonomy in Places (deprecation of categories starts now).
      • Regional Address Gains: Refined data for Slovakia, Belgium, Austria, and Quebec, plus new units for Portugal and Iceland.

    P4

    • Upcoming P4 Developer Days (virtual and free)

    Presto

    • Presto will be at this year’s VeloxCon 2026, sharing more about all the work going on in Presto C++. Hear from Meta, IBM, Uber, Nvidia and others on their use cases and development work going on in the Presto open source project.

    • VeloxCon is free for the community to attend, happening at Meta HQ offices in Menlo Park, CA. Details:

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    RISC-V

    • Register for RISC-V Summit Europe—Bologna, Italy, June 8–12, 2026 | Join the global RISC-V community for a week of keynotes, technical sessions, tutorials, demos, and networking, shaping the future of open computing. The Summit brings together leaders from automotive, AI, HPC, aerospace, embedded systems, and many other industries, alongside developers, engineers, researchers, and students, to drive innovation across the RISC-V ecosystem.
    • Calling all developers | Get hands-on with RISC-V at expert-led hardware and software workshops for just €30. Whether you're just getting started or already deep in RISC-V, this is your chance to build and learn.

    SONiC

    • Are you going to OCP EMEA Summit in Barcelona? Join the SONiC Workshop on April 29 for a half-day of technical sessions exploring real-world deployments and community-driven innovation in open networking. SONiC will also be featured at the Linux Foundation booth with live demos and opportunities to connect with maintainers and ecosystem partners. View the agenda and demos >>
    • A new SONiC deployment case study highlights how Dell IT is running SONiC at global enterprise scale across data centers, edge locations, and manufacturing sites. With over 3,400 switches in production, the deployment demonstrates SONiC’s production readiness, enabling unified network management, advanced automation, and scalable infrastructure for modern and AI workloads. Read the case study here >>
    • The SONiC community continues to grow globally, with a recent meetup in Bratislava, Slovakia bringing together engineers, students, and networking enthusiasts for open, real-world discussions on open networking. Hosted by PANTHEON.tech, the event highlighted the strength of grassroots collaboration and growing interest in SONiC across Central Europe. Read the recap >>

    Sylva Project

    • The Sylva Project was active in the Netherlands this past month, meeting the community face to face for:
      • Sylva co-sponsored Cloud Native Telco Day, co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU on 22 March in Amsterdam. The full-day event featured a packed agenda with sessions focused on how the cloud native telco network stack collaborates on AI-driven telco and other emerging technologies. The full sessions will be available on the CNCF YouTube channel shortly.
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    • Sylva Developer Day, 27 March, Amsterdam | The developer community convened contributors, operators, and ecosystem partners for a full day of technical collaboration, roadmap discussion, and shared learning focused on advancing cloud-native telco infrastructure. Read the summary blog post >>
    • Sylva had a presence at the 8ra – Cloud-Edge Continuum Annual Summit 2026 in Rotterdam on March 19–20, where community representatives joined strategic discussions on Europe’s sovereign cloud future, including participation in the panel “Open source in the 8ra initiative.”
    • Recent blog momentum | Recent and upcoming blog content has highlighted both community and technical momentum, including “Sovereignty Is More Than Trusted Hosting: How Sylva Helps Build a Truly Sovereign Telco Cloud,” which draws on discussions from Sylva Developer Day in Amsterdam to explore how open source and neutral governance can help operators build more sovereign, resilient telco cloud infrastructure. and “Every Cloud Has a Sylva Lining: A Year of Milestones, Production Reality, and a Thriving Community,” a new community-focused post reflecting on Sylva’s growth and production progress.

    UXL Foundation

    • The UXL Foundation is excited to announce that the AI Special Interest Group (SIG) is evolving into the AI & Scientific Computing SIG, expanding its scope to include scientific frameworks and AI for Science. This evolution reflects the growing convergence of AI-driven methods and scientific computing workflows, enabling innovation across simulation, modelling, and data-driven discovery on modern heterogeneous computing platforms. This SIG, led by Steering Members Google, Fujitsu, and Intel, will focus on:

      • Driving technical discussions and knowledge sharing on AI frameworks and Scientific Computing, with UXL software serving as the foundation for scientific frameworks and applications

      • Acting as a bridge between scientific R&D communities and developers to foster collaboration and innovation

      • Host regular meetings to share community proposals, case studies, technical advancements, challenges, and contributions, and provide feedback and requirements to guide UXL component development

      • Identifying common patterns and requirements in scientific computing and aligning them with AI Surrogate Models & Frameworks

    • The AI & Scientific Computing SIG is led by Chairs Penporn Koanantakool (Google) and Priyanka Sharma (Fujitsu), along with Co-Chairs Jian Hui Li (Intel) and Ragesh Hajela (Fujitsu).

    • Join us for our Next AI & Scientific Computing SIG Meeting

      • April 22, 2026 | 8:30–9:30 PM PDT, i.e.

      • April 23, 2026 | 9:00 AM IST | 12:30 PM JST

        • This meeting will also feature a special session by Prof. Makoto Tsubokura (Kobe University and RIKEN, Japan) on “When AI Meets Engineering Design: Constraining Its Creativity for Smarter Vehicle Aerodynamics Design”

    • The UXL Foundation had a Steering Member mentoring session with Qualcomm. As AI scales across cloud, edge, and devices, software fragmentation across CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs continues to slow innovation. In this webinar, the UXL Foundation, joined by Qualcomm, explores how open, standards-based approaches are enabling developers to build once and run across heterogeneous architectures. Please view the replay >>

      • Key topics included: The growing challenge of fragmented accelerator ecosystems; Why cross-architecture portability is critical for AI at scale; How oneAPI and UXL Foundation initiatives support open development; and Qualcomm’s perspective on enabling AI across diverse compute environments.

    • Upcoming UXL Foundation SIG Meetings:

      • Quarterly Language SIG meeting - Tuesday, May 5⋅8:00 – 9:00am PT

      • Quarterly Math SIG meeting - Wednesday, May 13⋅7:00 – 8:00am PT

      • Quarterly Hardware SIG Meeting - Thursday, May 28⋅7:00 – 8:00am PT

    • Sign up for the mailing lists to receive invitations and stay informed about upcoming UXL Foundation SIG meetings.

    Valkey

    • Spring Data Valkey is now generally available. This open-source module provides seamless, first-class integration between Valkey and the Spring ecosystem. For enhanced capabilities, pair it with Valkey GLIDE for cluster awareness, intelligent routing, and more. Whether you’re migrating existing applications or building new ones, Spring Data Valkey makes adopting Valkey simple, reliable, and production-ready.
    • Valkey Search 1.2 (GA) Release is now generally available with expanded search and aggregation capabilities. Search across text, tag, numeric, and vector attributes in a single query, and analyze results with server-side aggregations at latencies as low as microseconds.
    • Introducing Valkey Admin: Visual Cluster Management for Valkey – an application that gives you a direct, visual interface to your Valkey clusters.
    • Operational Lessons from Large-Scale Valkey Deployments: Engineers operating large-scale systems face a consistent challenge: what works at moderate scale often breaks in subtle ways as systems grow. Contributors and platform teams gathered at the Unlocked Conference to compare notes on what actually happens when Valkey is under real production load.
    • SCALE 23x (March 05- March 08): Valkey brought the energy to SCALE with lively booths, hands-on demos, awesome SWAG—and a raffle for LEGO sets. Roberto Luna Rojas from Valkey also connected with CodingRabbit to share insights under the bright lights of the open source scene.
    • The Linux Foundation Members Summit (Feb 24 - Feb 25): Valkey participated in the LF Members Summit, the annual gathering of Linux Foundation member organizations. The summit brings together leaders from top open source projects and companies to collaborate, share insights, and drive innovation.

    • Upcoming events

    • In the news

      • In the news, VMBlog’s “Four Data Infrastructure Shifts to Watch in 2026” by Madelyn Olson, Valkey project maintainer and Principal Engineer for AWS in-memory databases, highlights that while 2026 brings AI advances, faster chips, and post-quantum cryptography, engineering teams remain focused on practical priorities like lowering total cost of ownership, simplifying stacks, and reducing software surprises.
      • TFiR writes,” Valkey 2026: Database Consolidation, AI Agents, and the Real-Time Data Challenge | Madelyn Olson, AWS” explaining that the era of specialized databases is shifting. As AI agents and real-time systems demand faster, more accessible data, organizations are consolidating around a smaller set of versatile platforms. Madelyn Olson, Valkey Project Maintainer and Principal Engineer for AWS In-Memory Databases, predicts that 2026 will bring a decisive shift: expert teams managing fewer databases—and those databases will need to deliver far more.
      • IT Brief US reports in “Valkey's lean memory tactics amid global DRAM crunch” that the technology sector is facing a significant DRAM shortage, shifting performance demands back to the software layer and requiring teams to prioritize lean architecture and efficient resource management. In a conversation with Laura Czajkowski, Head of Community at Percona, and Martin Visser, Valkey Technical Lead at Percona, they explore how focusing on internal data infrastructure and optimized memory allocation helps developers maintain high-speed user experiences.

    Zephyr Project

    • Recap: Zephyr Project Meetup – Nagoya, Japan
      • On March 27, 2026, the Zephyr Project Meetup in Nagoya brought together attendees from across Japan to deepen their understanding of Zephyr RTOS, exchange insights, and connect with the community.
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      • Hosted at the Brother Museum Communication Hall, the event featured technical sessions on topics such as low-power wireless and Edge AI, Arduino integration with Zephyr, porting OpenPLC, running Matter on non-official boards, and real-world challenges of adapting Zephyr to new hardware. The discussions also highlighted inter-core communication and Zephyr’s portability across different microcontroller platforms. Learn more >>

    • Call for Paper: Zephyr in Science and Education 2026
      • The Zephyr in Science and Education Conference (ZiSE) returns on September 22, 2026 in Jena, Germany, bringing together academia and industry to explore how Zephyr RTOS is shaping the next generation of embedded developers.
        • The event highlights real-world applications of Zephyr in teaching, research, and professional development, offering a platform to connect educators, researchers, and practitioners.
        • Call for Papers – Deadline: June 15, 2026. Lecturers, researchers, and industry experts are invited to submit talks or lightning presentations sharing insights from education, research, or practice. Learn more about the event and submit your talk proposals soon.
    • Zephyr Project at the Open Source Summit North America 2026
      • At this year’s Open Source Summit North America, the Zephyr Project will host a dedicated track focused on developers using or considering Zephyr in embedded products. Sessions will explore project advancements, security, tooling, and real-world applications across industries.
      • The session highlights include insights into Zephyr’s 10-year evolution, automotive safety and compliance, firmware development workflows, runtime hardware flexibility, fuzzing challenges in embedded systems, and practical migration from FreeRTOS.
      • Learn more about the schedule and registerm >>
    • Zephyr at 10: A Decade of Open Source Embedded Innovation
      • In this blog,” Hilary Carter (SVP Research, Linux Foundation) reflects on the project’s evolution from an experimental RTOS to critical production infrastructure used worldwide.
      • The report highlights strong global adoption, growing strategic importance, and the value of hardware portability in reducing vendor lock-in. It also points to future priorities, including long-term maintenance, safety certification, and lowering barriers for new contributors. Read the full blog here >> >>.
    • Meet the Zephyr community at these events:

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