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    Linux Foundation Newsletter: August 2025

    The Linux Foundation | 13 August 2025

    Welcome to the August  2025 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter.

    This month, the Linux Foundation welcomed a groundbreaking project, expanded our India‑based open source footprint, and amplified developer collaboration across continents.

    Highlights

    • AGNTCY Project Joins the Linux Foundation
      The AGNTCY project—an open infrastructure for AI agent discovery, secure messaging, identity, and observability—has officially joined the Linux Foundation. Supported by formative members including Cisco,Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, Oracle, and Red Hat, AGNTCY aims to break down silos, interoperating with standards like Agent2Agent (A2A) and Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP). Read more in the official press release and check out announcement coverage in Forbes. 
    • LF India Marks Momentum at Inaugural Open Source Summit India
      At Hyderabad’s inaugural Open Source Summit India, LF India showcased its first-year impact—welcoming new foundations including AgStack, LF AI & Data, FinOps Foundation, FINOS, O3DE, and OpenInfra. These additions bolster support across agriculture, AI, fintech, manufacturing, and infrastructure. Explore the full scope of India’s growth in the press release and media recap in It’s Foss News. .

    What’s Next

    Read on for more news and opportunities from across the Linux Foundation.


    Contents

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    Linux Foundation Projects: Featured news

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    Academy Software Foundation (ASWF)

    • Open Source Days 2025
      • The Academy Software Foundation hosted their annual Open Source Days in Vancouver on August 10 for 400+ software engineers, developers and executives from across the motion picture industry on August 10. Keynotes included:
        • Filmmakers from the Academy Award®-winning animated feature Flow
        • “The State of the Foundation” featuring a guest speaker from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
        • “Transforming the LAIKA Pipeline with Open Source” by LAIKA leadership
      • Virtual Town Hall Series - Leading up to Open Source Days, ASWF hosted a series of Virtual Town Halls for Foundation projects to connect with the community and share highlights from the past year and a look ahead at what’s to come. All Virtual Town Halls will be posted to the ASWF YouTube channel by August 31.
      • Check out the new ASWF Sizzle Reel to see some of the films from the past year that used ASWF projects! 
    • Announcements
      • The Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) joins the Academy Software Foundation as a new project. Developed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, ACES is the industry standard for managing color throughout the life cycle of a motion picture or television production.
      • The Academy Software Foundation welcomed two new Premier Members: LAIKA and Skydance Animation.
      • The Foundation launched two new Machine Learning Projects: Rongotai Model Train Club (RMTC) and Dailies Notes Assistant, which emerge from the Foundation’s new Machine Learning Working Group.
      • A new collaboration between Autodesk and SideFX called OpenPBR Volume will allow users to define the look of volumetric assets, with controls grounded in their physical properties, while allowing the artistic control required in production. 
      • The Open Review Initiative (ORI) announced three major new updates to the ReviewPluginApi developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks: API, widgets, and RPA mode in OpenRV.

        Image courtesy of Sony Pictures Imageworks
    • Upcoming Event
      • OpenRAN Global ForumSeptember 23. Register for this virtual event that will explore where Open RAN stands today—its technical and operational maturity, the role of AI and automation, performance at scale, and the path toward 6G integration. From monetization opportunities to energy efficiency and standardization, we’ll examine how the ecosystem is addressing today’s challenges and shaping the next phase of intelligent, open network evolution.
      • Sarat Puthenpura, Aether Chief Architect Aether SMaRT-5G Project, will participate in a panel discussion “Energy Efficiency in Open RAN”  along with Abbas Khan, Radio Boost Mobile; Chris Murphy, VIAVI Solutions; and Arun Handoo, Qualcomm Technologies.

    Aether

    • Recent News
      • Charmed Aether SD-Core leverages Aether’s SD-Core disaggregated mobile core. Charmed SD-Core simplifies the operation of a Private 5G networking enabling enterprises to host their own edge applications. Check out a video of a Charmed SD-Core with Open RAN deployment with and commercial radios. Featuring PTP-GM sync, DPDK UPF, and 5GC on Charmed Kubernetes.
      • Blog: BCommunity Member Profile - Ajay Lotal Thakur. Ajay is a Cloud Software Architect at Intel Corporation and is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has been an active contributing member of the Aether community since its inception and deeply involved in shaping the technical direction and architecture of the Aether platform, with a focus on the advancement of Aether’s 5G SD-Core.
    • Upcoming Event: OpenRAN Global Forum, September 23.
      • This event will explore where Open RAN stands today—its technical and operational maturity, the role of AI and automation, performance at scale, and the path toward 6G integration.
      • From monetization opportunities to energy efficiency and standardization, we’ll examine how the ecosystem is addressing today’s challenges and shaping the next phase of intelligent, open network evolution.
      • Sarat Puthenpura, Aether Chief Architect Aether SMaRT-5G Project, will participate in a panel discussion “Energy Efficiency in Open RAN”  along with Abbas Khan, Radio Boost Mobile; Chris Murphy, VIAVI Solutions; and Arun Handoo, Qualcomm Technologies.

    Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD)

    • AOUSD Welcomes New Members + Shares Major Updates. AOUSD is excited to announce several new general members. We’ve also published a new Inclusive Language Guide in partnership with ASWF and advanced the Core Specification 1.0 draft, which is now under final review. Additionally, the new Build Interest Group was launched to streamline tooling and developer experience across OpenUSD. Read the full announcement.
    • New Release: OpenUSD v25.08 Now Available. OpenUSD v25.08 introduces powerful updates across animation, imaging, and computation. New features include fully functional Spline Animation, the feature-complete UsdImaging 2.0 framework, and the first preview of OpenExec for procedural computation. Additional updates span schema tools, file format changes, and new support for the VFX Reference Platform 2023. Explore the full blog.
    • New DEI Page + Inclusive Language Guide. AOUSD’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Interest Group has launched a new DEI web page outlining five key pillars of inclusive community building. The group also released a comprehensive Inclusive Language Guide to promote thoughtful and respectful communication across the OpenUSD ecosystem.

    Automotive Grade Linux (AGL)

    CAMARA

    • Markus Kummerle, Chair of the CAMARA Outreach Committee, sat down with the Beyond Connectivity podcast to share an in-depth overview of the CAMARA API landscape in CAMARA API - The New Forge for Telco 5G Ecosystem. This discussion explores the current status and future trajectory of these standardized APIs, which are set to transform the telecommunications industry. 
    • Digital Strategy analyst Dan Bielier’s post,  “From Infrastructure to Innovation: The Network API Opportunity,” discusses how CAMARA supports innovation and provides monetization apps by standardizing network APIs, enabling cross-operator access and easier developer integration.
    • Market Research Institute published its “Telcom API Market Summary” that shows how CAMARA is fueling market growth by enabling developers to access open network capabilities through standardized, easy-to-use APIs.
    • Techstrong sat down with community members Ruben Flores of GSMA and Ben Hepworth of CabeLabs to discuss CAMARA and how both organizations leverage the open telco API ecosystem to power the future of connectivity. 
    • Join CAMARA onsite at Open Source Summit Europe in Amsterdam, August 25–27! Don’t miss a presentation from Board Chair Nathan Radar of Deutsche Telekom, “Unlocking the Network: How CAMARA Is Building the Future of Open Network APIs”, grab some swag from the booth, and catch up on the latest developments! There is still time to register!
    • CAMARA and member organizations will be onsite at InfoBip Shift in Zadar, Croatia Sept. 14-16. 
    • Explore CAMARA's robust portfolio of APIs built with collaborative community contributions.

    Chips Alliance

    • The first-ever CHIPS Alliance newsletter, CHIPS Connect Q2 2025, is now live featuring reflections from Executive Director Rob Mains, a developer spotlight on Chisel maintainer Jack Koenig, updates from the community, key project highlights, and a look at what’s ahead for open source silicon. Subscribe to stay connected with the people, projects, and progress shaping the future of open silicon.

    Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP)

    Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

    Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC)

    • Upcoming Events
      • AI Infrastructure Summit, September 9–11, 2025. In-person event with online components, panels, demos, and networking.
      • October 2025 San Francisco customer workshop focused on confidential computing use cases.
    • Recent News Highlights
      • Recordings from the CCC Mini Summit at OSSNA 2025 are live on YouTube, featuring talks from NVIDIA, Microsoft, and others. Catch up now.
      • Hushmesh’s “Mesh” selected for NATO’s Rapid Adoption Action Plan, enabling pilots with NATO DIANA and NCIA. Learn more. 
      • Are open source attestation tools speaking the same language? In Harsh Vardhan Mahawar’s LFX mentorship with the CCC, he tackled this challenge – mapping Keylime, Veraison & JANE to the IETF’s RATS model, implementing the CMW wrapper, and introducing python-ear for EAT attestation results. Read the blog.
      • Interview with Mike Bursell explaining confidential computing and attestation fundamentals. 
      • We’re excited to welcome Tinfoil as the newest start-up member of the Confidential Computing Consortium. Tinfoil is an open source platform delivering cryptographically verifiable privacy for AI workloads—ensuring user data remains protected, even from the cloud provider. Learn more about their work and how they plan to contribute to the CCC community.

    Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF)

    • The sixth cdCon at Open Source Summit NA 2025 in Denver, Colorado, was a  great one—thank you to everyone who made it so! Check out the recap, photos, and recordings here.

    DAOS Foundation

    • Recent News
      • Argonne and Partners Celebrate Aurora Supercomputer’s impact on Science with AI and Exascale Power.
        • On July 16th, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory celebrated the launch of the Aurora exascale computer. Aurora is one of the world’s first exascale systems capable of performing more than a quintillion (10¹⁸) calculations per second. It represents a collaborative effort between leaders and researchers from Intel Corporation, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the DOE. Aurora is revolutionizing how scientists use AI to solve some of the most complex challenges across areas such as materials, energy and fusion; drug discovery and protein design; cosmology and dark matter; and brain mapping and connectomics. Aurora utilizes DAOS as its primary storage system, an essential element in enabling its exascale performance. View Video | Read Article.
    • Upcoming Event

    DPDK

    • The new DPDK Dispatch Q3 2025 newsletter is now available, launching the 15-year anniversary series with a technical retrospective on the evolution of high-performance packet processing, and a look at what’s ahead.
      • This issue also introduces “A Day in the Life of a Packet,” a new series that traces how DPK powers packets moving across the world and beyond! Subscribe to stay informed on future editions and in-depth insights. 

    eBPF Foundation

    Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) Project

    • ELISA Project Community is Moving to Discord
      • Looking for a faster, more flexible way to connect with the ELISA Project community and fellow contributors? The community has launched a new Discord server to complement mailing lists and support real-time collaboration. Whether you are contributing to the kernel or simply exploring safety-critical Linux, you will find others here ready to collaborate. Read the blog and join the conversation.
    • Safety-Critical Software Summit Videos at Open Source Summit, North America.What can open source teach us about building safer software systems? Catch up on the standout sessions from the Safety-Critical Software Summit at Open Source Summit North America 2025. With insights from industry leaders at Toyota, Red Hat, Boeing, and more, the talks explore open source’s role in safety-critical domains like automotive, medical, and aerospace. Read the recap blog for more details.
    • Talk Highlights: Documenting the Design of the Linux Kernel – Chuck Wolber, The Boeing Company; Kate Stewart, The Linux Foundation; Gabriele Paoloni, Red Hat
      • Chuck Wolber (The Boeing Company), Kate Stewart (The Linux Foundation), and Gabriele Paoloni (Red Hat) shared progress from the ELISA Project on documenting developer intent within the Linux kernel using a new, machine-readable requirements template. As Linux adoption grows in safety-critical domains like aerospace and automotive, traceability and structured design documentation are becoming essential.
      • The talk, building on work from Linux Plumbers 2024 and the ELISA Workshop at NASA Goddard, introduced a framework for capturing “testable expectations” aligned with kernel norms. The approach supports the development of pass/fail tests, improves test precision via code coverage, and lays the groundwork for linking low-level kernel requirements to higher-level system design. Read more.
    • ELISA Project at Open Source Summit Europe 2025. The ELISA Project will be at Open Source Summit Europe, August 25-27 in Amsterdam, as a Bronze Sponsor and key participant in the Safety-Critical Software Summit track.
      • Visit us at Booth #29 to explore how Linux can support safety-critical systems across industries, see live demos, meet contributors, and grab some swags & giveaways featuring our refreshed logo.
      • ELISA members will also lead sessions focused on requirements traceability, safety analysis, and compliance in open source. Read more.

    FinOps Foundation

    • Join the FinOps Foundation and the São Paulo community for a full day of learning and building connections at FinOps X Day São Paulo on August 20.
    • Join the FinOps Foundation and the European community for a full day of learning and building connections at FinOps X Day Amsterdam on September 23.
    • Join the FinOps Foundation for a full day of public and private sector learning and building connections at FinOps X Day Washington D.C. on October 21.
    • Executives highlight the importance of integrating FinOps early in strategic planning, enhancing scenario modeling, applying unit economics, and optimizing vendor partnerships in the FinOps-Enabled Executive Decisions article.
    • Access FinOps X 2025 keynotes and breakout session recordings in the FinOps X Session Library.

    FINOS 

    • Open Source in Finance Forum Discount Tickets, New York--October 21-22. The premier event bringing together leaders and technologists across financial services and the open-source ecosystem. As open source becomes integral to financial services, OSFF provides companies with a unique venue to maximize open source ROI. Register here with code 25LF20OSFFNYC to receive a 20% discount.
    • Fork the Bank: How Open Source is Rewriting the Rules of Finance--September 9. Join FINOS and Linux Foundation leaders for a deep dive into how open source is driving measurable ROI in financial services. Featuring real-world use cases of FDC3 and the Common Domain Model (CDM), this session reveals how firms are embracing open standards to streamline workflows, reduce vendor lock-in, and meet regulatory demands through industry-wide collaboration. Register here.
    • Future-Proof Your Trade Reporting: from Zero to Hero with CDM/DRR using Rune--September 18. Join us for an exclusive Open Source in Finance Masterclass on September 18th featuring FINOS member REGnosys. In this masterclass you will learn how to automate your trade reporting with DRR by integrating CDM within your organization. Register here.
    • Evaluate & Benchmark AI for Financial Institutions, London--September 19 & 20. Join us in London for two events designed to set the industry standard for trustworthy, production‑ready GenAI in financial services. Our contributors now need a clear, community‑owned process to expand prior work into a full Evaluation &  Benchmarking Suite. Register for either/or the workshop or tech sprint.

    High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF)

    • Join our hands-on workshop at the International Conference on Parallel Processing: Intro to Performance Portable HPC Development with Spack, Kokkos, and Trilinos.
    • At HPSFCon, community leaders dug into key challenges like creating open standards to help devs ship fast, reliable code. Catch the highlights in our video + blog.
    • Find out how to get involved in HPSF on our new page.

    LF AI & Data

    • Connect with the LF AI & Data community at the Research Triangle Park Meetup on August 14 for an evening of networking, lightning talks, and open-source AI discussions, featuring a keynote from IBM’s Brad Topol. Learn more about the event and sign up here.
    • LF AI & Data will be part of AI_dev Europe (August 28–29) in Amsterdam, a premier event for open source AI and ML developers. Join the community for two days of collaboration, innovation, and cutting-edge sessions onm AI/ML. Don’t miss LF AI & Data community sessions led by project leads and contributors shaping the future of open source AI. Check out the agenda.
    • New Blog Series: Building Trust in GenAI, by Vincent Caldeira, CTO of  member organization Red Hat in APAC. Explore how to operationalize transparency across the GenAI model supply chain with insights on the Model Openness Framework (MOF), OpenMDW licensing, and MLOps integration. Check out part 1, part 2 and part 3 of this blog series.
    • Explore how to build your first agentic application using frameworks like AutoGen, LangChain, and Kagent, and learn practical strategies for incremental adoption in real-world environments. Read the blog.

    LF Broadband 

    • LF Broadband announced the results of the election for members of the VOLTHA Technical Steering Team (TST). VOLTHA is an open source broadband access project designed to bring multi-vendor, disaggregated “any broadband as a service” to the Central Office.
    • LF Broadband will host a booth in the Broadband Forum Pavilion at the upcoming Network X event, October 14-16 in Paris. 

    LF Decentralized Trust

    • Shielded Technologies joined LF Decentralized Trust as a Premier Members and committed to supporting planned contributions from Midnight Foundation. 
    • Antonio Mota, Vice President, Applications Developer and Lead Analyst, DLT Centre of Excellence, at Citi Innovation Lab is featured in this latest post in the Developer Showcase series, which spotlights the work developers are doing with LF Decentralized Trust technologies.
    • To mark Ethereum's 10th anniversary, Executive Director Daniela Barbosa wrote a Staff Corner piece detailing the critical role LF Decentralized Trust projects and contributors play in Ethereum’s growth and evolution.
    • LF Decentralized Trust's Karen Ottoni joined colleagues from across the industry for a session to education the SEC on the role of standards on tokenized securities.
    • Blocknomi, Ledger Insights, and Markets Media were among the outlets covering HSBC's trials of e-HKD payments for settlement and value transfer across a mix of public blockchains and a permissioned Besu-based tokenization platform.
    • SD Times reported on HOPrS, a new LF Decentralized Trust lab that can be used to figure out if an image has been altered.
    • For more updates from LF Decentralized Trust, check out the current and past issues of Decentralized Digest.

    LF Edge

    • LF Edge Project Ocre Now Supports Linux! Built for embedded systems, the WebAssembly-powered Ocre runtime now brings ultra-lightweight, cross-platform containerization to both Zephyr and Linux, enabling the same binary to run on devices from Raspberry Pi to STM32 MCUs. Read the blog.
    • eKuiper 2.2.0 is here! The latest release brings powerful new features like dual-trigger sliding windows, rule versioning, batch APIs, and enhanced REST/MQTT support, making edge-native stream processing more flexible and efficient than ever. Read the blog.
    • EdgeX 4.0 Performance Report Now Available. The latest benchmarks reveal a 38% drop in memory usage, 10% smaller image size, and improved startup for minimal deployments, showcasing EdgeX as leaner, smarter, and enterprise-ready. Read the blog.

    LF Energy

    • LF Energy announced the keynote lineup for the upcoming LF Energy Summit Europe, taking place 10-11 September in Aachen, Germany. The event is expected to be the largest LF Energy event to date, and will feature utilities, vendors, researchers, and more presenting best practices for using open source to accelerate the energy transition.
    • Additionally, LF Energy will host its first North American summit October 3 in Montreal, Canada. The agenda has been announced.
    • In partnership with the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) and Ada Logics, LF Energy has completed a full security audit of the PowSyBl project. This audit was funded by LF Energy as part of our ongoing commitment to improving the security and resilience of the open source software that underpins the energy transition. PowSyBl (Power System Blocks) is an open source library dedicated to modeling, simulating, and analyzing electrical power systems. It plays a critical role in the modernization of grid operations and planning, particularly in the context of integrating renewable energy resources. The audit identified several issues which have been remedied by the project maintainers.
    • LF Energy community members showcased open source innovation at the FERC Technical Conference on Market and Planning Efficiency.
    • A new UN report highlights the role of LF Energy projects in accelerating the energy transition.

    LF Networking

    • LF Networking & AI-RAN Alliance have joined forces! A new partnership (via MOU) will drive collaboration on AI-native RAN innovation, bringing open source alignment and cloud native principles to the evolution toward 6G. Read the press release and check out coverage from SDX Central, The Fast Mode, Capacity Media, and TelecomTV.  
    • LF Networking & ATIS Partner to advance Open RAN and 6G. This new partnership bridges open source and standards to fast-track development of secure, sustainable 5G and 6G architectures across U.S. telecom networks. Read more and see what The Fast Mode, Telecompaper, Telecom Lead, and Demand Talk have to say about the partnership. 
    • LF Networking project Nephio’s Release 5 is here! The latest release brings support for multiple reconciliation agents, bare metal clusters, enhanced observability, and improved scalability, strengthening the foundation for open, cloud-native network automation. Read the blog.
    • ONAP embraces a modular future. Discover how ONAP is evolving into a set of independent, cloud-native automation tools, enabling agile, intelligent network orchestration for 5G, edge, and beyond. Read the blog.
    • Catch LFN in Amsterdam at these upcoming events:
    • Explore Network Automation & AI at FutureNet Asia (Sept 16–17). LF Networking is proud to support this event bringing together telecom leaders to shape the future of intelligent networks. Learn more.

    openIDL

    OpenInfra Foundation


    • Over 80 organizations have joined the OpenInfra Foundation to accelerate open source innovation and collaboration at the infrastructure layer and increase adoption and awareness of OpenInfra projects, OpenStack, Kata Containers, StarlingX, and Zuul. Thierry Carrez, GM of the OpenInfra Foundation, recently shared his vision for how this mission will shape the next generation of open source infrastructure. These organizations are instrumental in this next chapter as we build technologies that meet the infrastructure needs of the next 15 years.
    • The OpenInfra Summit schedule highlights demos showing VMware migration to OpenStack and several case studies including the United Nations, BMW, NVIDIA, and more. Register before prices increase on September 9! 
    • Running OpenStack? This is your annual chance to share feedback and architectural choices via the OpenStack User Survey to support the upstream community. The deadline to participate in this year’s analysis is Friday, August 29. User surveys for Kata Containers, StarlingX, and Zuul are available here. 

    OpenSearch 

    Open 3D Foundation

    • Building a strong maintainer community requires clear communication, consistent processes, and respect for contributors’ time. John Bryant, Executive Director of the Open 3D Foundation, dives into this topic in his new blog, “How to build and sustain a maintainer community.”
    • Arpit Joshipura, GM of LF Networking and Edge at The Linux Foundation and Head of LF India, spotlighted Open 3D Engine (O3DE) in his keynote at Open Source Summit India. Read how O3DE is gaining momentum in India!
    • Join O3DE at ROSCon, October 27-29 in Singapore! Steve Pham, creator of Odie, will be there in person, and Isaac Sim will host an exciting workshop called, “Scalable Multi-Robot Scene workflows using ROS Simulation Interfaces standard.”
    • Stay connected by adding the September Open 3D Connect meeting to your calendar, featuring an Ask Me Anything with John Bryant, Executive Director of Open 3D Foundation! Bring your questions and join the conversation.  
    • If you need support or have any questions about our new 25.05 release series, join our Discord Community!

    Open Mainframe Project

    • Zowe​ v2.18.2 development update is now live! Check out the details.
    • We’re midway through the mentorship program! Our mentees are showing off their progress on our blog.
    • SHARE Cleveland, happening on August 17-21 and the Open Mainframe Project will be on-site at the conference again this year. Check out the details here.
    • New episode of Mainframe Voices: TAC Leadership Driving Open Source Innovation. Listen now!
    • Episode 2 of Mainframe Coven is now live! Hosts Jessielaine and Richelle look back at a time when women were central to computing and examine how and why that changed, even though the work didn’t. 

    Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) Project

    • Don’t miss the first OPI Summit on DPU/IPUs, happening alongside OCP Global Summit, on October 17 in San Jose, CA. The event  is open to everyone involved in the design, development, integration, marketing, use, or support of DPU/IPUs, or related hardware, software, or services.The Call for Papers is now open through August 31 and registration opens soon!

    OpenJS Foundation

    • New Free Course: Intro to JavaScript Security! Learn how to spot and stop real-world threats with this self-paced training from OpenJS + Socket, funded by Sovereign Tech Agency.
    • JSConf 2025 Speaker Lineup is Live! The stage is set for an unforgettable week in the Chesapeake Bay. Check out the speakers and grab your pass while you still can.
    • First CVEs Issued Under OpenJS CNA = Responsible disclosure in action! Check out the first two CVEs published by the OpenJS security team: CVE-2025-7338, CVE-2025-7339.
    • OpenJS Security: 2025 Midyear Checkpoint Released: Patches shipped, tools launched, compliance leveled up. Huge thanks to the community and Alpha-Omega. Read the full update here.

    O-RAN SC

    • The O-RAN Software Community (SC) is proud to announce the L Release – our latest milestone in building open, intelligent, and interoperable RAN software.
      • From enhanced AI/ML pipelines to streamlined integration with OAI and SMO, this release drives real-world impact for developers, operators, and researchers.

    Overture Maps Foundation

    • Overture 2025‑07‑23.0 Release Is Live. Expanded road coverage in Türkiye via TomTom, updates to Brazil’s building data, and enhanced tagging in the Base layer; marks one year since Overture Maps exited beta and began delivering uninterrupted monthly releases.
    • Overture at Esri UC 2025. Thank you to everyone who visited the Overture Maps x Meta booth and joined the Passport Adventure with AWS, con terra GmbH, Maxar, Meta, Nearmap, and TomTom; Marc Prioleau discussed how Overture’s open base layers and GERS ID system reduce the “conflation tax” and speed up insights.
    • Integration Spotlight: Regrid + Overture GERS – New integration connects Regrid’s parcel data with Overture’s Places dataset via GERS IDs, enabling faster, more accurate parcel‑to‑POI joins without onboarding tax.
    • Overture Map’s Executive Director Marc Prioleau joined Today in Tech to discuss how open data, AI, and AR are reshaping maps. Watch or listen here.
    • Drew Breunig shared how GERS simplifies joins and keeps insights complete. Read here.
    • GWF 2026 – Overture Maps will be an Associate Sponsor of the Geospatial World Forum 2026, showcasing how open, interoperable data infrastructure drives cross‑sector innovation.

    OpenSSF

    P4

    • Recent News
      • 2025 P4 Workshop - Register Now!
        • The P4 Workshop is an annual event that provides an opportunity for the P4 community to share knowledge, insights and experiences, and facilitate collaboration.
        • This year, the workshop is a hybrid event featuring both in-person and pre-recorded content. The in-person portion takes place on October 13th in conjunction with OCP Global Summit (registration for the P4 Workshop is included with OCP Global Summit registration for no additional fee). Learn more and register to join us!
    • Upcoming Events
      • P4 Developer Days--Detecting Stragglers in Programmable Data Plane. August 20th, 9:00 am Pacific
        • Flow scheduling mechanisms in modern datacenters aim to reduce flow completion time (FCT). However, scheduling mechanisms that operate without prior knowledge, such as PIAS, or with imprecise flow information like QClimb, can inadvertently introduce stragglers–packets within a flow that experience significantly higher queueing delays than others. In this talk, we present StragFlow, a data-plane tool for straggler detection.
      • P4 Developer Days - Mechanizing the P4 Language Specification with P4-SpecTec. September 10th 4:00 pm PST + September 11th 8:00 am KST
        • The P4 language has four main representations of its syntax and semantics: the official specification, formalizations, implementations, and a test suite. While the four representations are intended to consistently define the P4 language, they often diverge, as each is managed by different parties and evolves at a different pace. This lack of alignment complicates both specification evolution and compiler maintenance.We present P4-SpecTec, a mechanized specification infrastructure for the P4 language. From this single source of truth — the mechanized specification — we aim to generate multiple backends, such as a type checker, interpreter, test suite, and specification document, in a consistent and automated manner.
      • 2024 P4 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Wrap-up. September 17th, 8:00am Pacific
        • Join us for the wrap-up session highlighting the results of the projects hosted by The P4 Language Consortium during GSoC 2025. We will share the results from each of the projects. During this session, contributors will present their work, share key outcomes, and participate in a live Q&A.
      • P4 Developer Days - From Semantics to Software: Building a Verification Ecosystem for P4 using HOL4P4. September 25, 8:00 am Pacific
        • We present a comprehensive formal verification ecosystem for the P4 network programming language, built upon HOL4P4, an abstract model of P4 execution embedded in the interactive theorem prover HOL4. The HOL4P4 formalization provides a semantics and a corresponding type system with formally verified progress, preservation, and type-soundness theorems.
      • P4 Developer Days - Enabling Portable and high-Performance SmartNIC Programs with Alkali. October 1, 9:00 am Pacific
        • In this presentation, we will present the demo and design of Alkali, a SmartNIC compilation framework that enables developers to write target-independent programs, while the compiler automatically handles cross-NIC porting and performance tuning.

    PyTorch Foundation

    RISC-V

    SONiC

    • The SONiC Mini Summit agenda is now live! Join us at Open Source Summit Europe (Aug 25–29, Amsterdam). Stop by the SONiC booth for live demos (Aug 25–27) and attend the SONiC Mini Summit on August 28, featuring expert-led sessions on AI networking, SRv6, observability, and lightweight deployments. To register for SONiC Mini Summit, add it to your Open Source Summit Europe registration. 
    • Meet SONiC at OCP Global Summit (Oct 13–16, San Jose) — Visit the SONiC booth for live demos and join the SONiC Workshop on Oct 16, with an extended deep-dive workshop hosted by Google on Oct 17 in Sunnyvale. Learn more.
    • Join the SONiC Virtual Hackathon 2025. Submit your innovative ideas in areas like AI networking, test reliability, and developer experience. Team formation submission is due on September 15, and winners will be announced at OCP Global Summit. Get started here.
    • Learn how a SONiC + OpenStack architecture cut networking costs by up to 27%, achieved 50 Gbps throughput, and transferred a petabyte of data in under 48 hours, powering agile, multi-cloud AI deployments. Read the blog.
    • Is SONiC ready for the enterprise? This blog debunks 5 common myths and shows how SONiC is delivering real-world value, from AI-ready deployments to 40% TCO savings and a thriving, vendor-supported ecosystem. Read more.

    Ultra Ethernet Consortium

    • From defining MPI-3 collective ops to pioneering 3D parallelism for AI — Torsten Hoefler’'s impact on scalable computing can’t be overstated. The Ultra Ethernet Consortium congratulates Torsten on being awarded the 2024 ACM Prize in Computing, honoring his vital contributions to the modern AI and HPC stack. His vision helps drive the innovation behind our next-gen network designs. Read more.
    • Be sure to check out UEC Spec 1.0:
      • README overview and usage guidance
      • UEC Compliance Test Bed Recommendations
      • Transport Matrix and Checklist
      • PHY LL Matrix and Checklist

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    Zephyr Project

    • Zephyr RTOS 4.2 Now Available: Introduces Renesas RX Support, USB Video Class, and More
      • Zephyr 4.2 is here, featuring support for Renesas RX architecture, USB Video Class (UVC) for smart camera applications, and the latest MQTT 5.0 protocol. This release also introduces the Twister Power Harness for power consumption testing, major improvements to Devicetree tooling, and nearly 100 new boards, including many based on RISC-V.
      • Other highlights include Zbus graduating to a stable API, enhanced board and shield catalog, and recommended updates to Zephyr SDK 0.17.2. Check out the full release notes and demos here.
    • Recap blog: Zephyr + Dronecode joint meetup: Guadalajara, Mexico
    • On July 8, 2025, over 60 developers gathered at NXP Semiconductor’s Guadalajara office for a joint Zephyr + Dronecode meetup. The evening featured talks on embedded systems, live demos including sessions on Zephyr best practices, NXP MCX microcontrollers, and the newly launched QZPro drone platform by 3DR. Read the recap blog.
    • Zephyr Developer Summit 2025 Preview: What's New
      • The Zephyr Project is headed to Open Source Summit Europe + Zephyr Developer Summit, August 25-27 at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre! Visit Booth B23 to explore live demos, meet contributors & maintainers, and check out real-world Zephyr-powered products plus grab exclusive swag, including the Zephyr kites.
      • The Zephyr track will feature sessions on security, tooling, project updates, and industry use cases. Don’t miss this chance to connect with the Zephyr community members, showcase your own projects, and learn what’s next for embedded innovation. Read the blog.

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