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Linux Foundation Newsletter: December 2025

Written by The Linux Foundation | Dec 17, 2025 6:00:00 PM

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

Winter is nearly here, and the Linux Foundation open source ecosystem continues to break new ground. This month, we announced the formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), bringing together critical open standards and frameworks - including Model Context Protocol (MCP), AGENTS.md and goose - for next‑gen AI agents under a neutral, community‑driven umbrella. We also saw continued growth in global collaboration, advances in infrastructure and AI tooling, and strategic developments across projects that are shaping the future of open technology. Thank you to all the contributors, maintainers, members, and staff driving this impact forward and have a wonderful holiday season. 

Here are more of this month’s highlights:

  • Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) Launches to Advance Open Standards for AI Agents
    Last week we announced the launch of the AAIF with contributions from Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose agent framework, and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md, with membership support from AWS, Google, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, Cisco, and other leading organizations. The move sets the stage for shared standards and tools as agentic AI systems scale across industries.
  • New Linux Foundation Research Report: The State of Open Source Japan 2025
    At this year’s Open Source Summit Japan, LF Research released The State of Open Source Japan 2025, with new data highlighting how strategic open source engagement accelerates business value and innovation in Japanese enterprises. The report sheds light on adoption trends, challenges with governance and skills, and opportunities for open collaboration in cloud, AI, and digital transformation initiatives.
  • Mitsubishi Electric Joins as Linux Foundation Gold Member at Open Source Summit Japan 
    Another big announcement out of the Open Source Summit Japan - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has become a Gold Member of the LF, expanding industry participation in open source development across embedded systems, industrial automation, and next‑gen connectivity.
    • Read more about this announcement in our press release here. 

Also this month:

What’s Next?

  • Explore the Agentic AI Foundation projects on GitHub and get involved with MCP, goose, and AGENTS.md as they define the future of interoperable AI agents.
  • Download the full State of Open Source Japan 2025 report and share insights with your regional or global teams.
  • Mark your calendar for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU (March 2026, Amsterdam) — registration is now open.

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

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LF Europe: Community Updates

  • Bridging the Open Source Gap: From Funding Paradoxes to Digital Sovereignty
    • In this InfoQ podcast, Linux Foundation Europe managing director Gabriele Columbro and tech executive Olimpiu Pop unpacks why Europe’s open source community is large and active but still captures far less funding and commercial value than the US or China.
    • They explore how commercial companies turn open source into real products and support, and why this “missing layer” is so important in Europe’s ecosystem. The conversation takes a closer look at digital sovereignty, the Cyber Resilience Act, and what the new rules mean for foundations, maintainers, manufacturers, and SMEs. They also highlight the hidden risks in the open source infrastructure we all take for granted and close by pointing to a much bigger, upcoming discussion about AI’s impact on open source and global collaboration.
    • Listen to the full conversation here.
  • Open Is Sovereign: Why Europe’s Digital Future Must Be Built on Global Open Source Ecosystems
    • What does it really mean for Europe to be digitally sovereign?
    • In this blog, Gabriele Columbro, GM of Linux Foundation Europe says digital sovereignty is not about isolation, but about mastering critical software resources through open source. He shows why the “open vs proprietary” split is a false choice and how regional commercial solutions can be built on global open source pillars. He points to the huge economic value of the open digital commons and calls for Europe to capture more of that value with better public and private support for commercial open source.
    • If you haven’t read it yet, make sure to check out this blog: “Open Is Sovereign: Why Europe’s Digital Future Must Be Built on Global Open Source Ecosystems”.
  • NeoNephos: Building a Sovereign Cloud Native Technology Stack - Peter Giese, SAP
    • Why is Europe so focused on digital sovereignty and its own cloud stack?

    • In this session from the Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit 2025, Peter Giese from SAP explains how the European cloud market is failing and why dependencies on foreign cloud providers keep growing. He shows how the EU’s IPCEI-CIS initiative and SAP’s Apura project led to the creation of the NeoNephos Foundation to build a sovereign, open source, “write once, run anywhere” cloud-edge stack. He describes how Gardener already runs tens of thousands of Kubernetes clusters and helps applications run across hyperscalers, regional clouds, private clouds, and edge.

      If you are interested in European digital sovereignty, cloud-native technologies, and open source collaboration, this session is highly recommended.

  • European Resilience Summit—Paris, 10 December 2025
    • At the European Resilience Summit in Paris on 10 December 2025, Mirko Boehm, Senior Director for Community Development at Linux Foundation Europe, represented LF Europe in the key panel Europe’s Digital Backbone. Alongside Philippe Ensarguet (VP of Software Engineering, Orange), Sergiu Petean (Founder & CEO, Innovation Sovereignty Advisors) , and Thomas Di Giacomo (CTO, SUSE) and moderated by Per Ploug Krogslund (Senior Director, Docker), the discussion focused on how open source ecosystems and sovereign cloud architectures enable Europe’s digital resilience. The panel highlighted interoperability, transparency, and vendor independence as essential foundations for long-term technological sovereignty.
    • Mirko’s participation highlighted LF Europe’s active role in shaping Europe’s digital sovereignty through open collaboration.
Linux Foundation Europe at FOSDEM 2026
  • Linux Foundation Europe will be at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels, sharing a stand with the OpenSSF team to spotlight open source security, digital sovereignty, and CRA readiness. Attendees will be able to explore updates from projects across cloud, embedded, energy, security, and infrastructure, alongside new European initiatives like NeoNephos. The joint stand will feature live demos, community discussions, and training resources, including the free CRA course. We look forward to connecting with developers and the wider open source community at one of Europe’s most important FOSS gatherings. More details will follow as the event gets closer.

 

LF Research: New report on the state of open source in Japan

LF Research has completed the Japanese analysis of its 2025 World of Open Source survey! The findings show that Japanese organizations depend on open source software as the foundation of their critical infrastructure, but they lack proper governance and security mechanisms needed to properly support and sustain their investments. Read the full report to learn more about the state of open source in Japan in 2025! 

 

Linux Foundation Projects: Featured news


Tux on the scene at Open Source Summit, AI_Dev & Automotive Linux Summit Japan 2025

Academy Software Foundation (ASWF)

  • The Academy Software Foundation’s (ASWF) annual Open Source Forum will be held on February 26, 2026 in Los Angeles. This intimate event brings together executives from across the motion picture and media industries to discuss new technologies impacting studios. 
    • The Call for Presentations for Open Source Forum is open! Submit your talk before January 11. 
    • Get your brand in front of influential business and technical leaders by becoming a sponsor. View the opportunities. 
  • Netflix Animation recently contributed Sole Mates, an internal short film project, to the Digital Production Example Library (DPEL). DPEL is an Academy Software Foundation hosted project curating production-grade sample content for hardware and software testing purposes. Read the blog.
  • The new Blender 5.0 release includes updated support for many ASWF projects including:
    • Full support for ACES 
    • Improved color management with full support for ACES pipelines and improved compatibility with the OpenColorIO configuration for ACES 2.0 
    • Smoke and fire simulations now render with NanoVDB
    • Improved Open Shading Language Camera UI
    • OpenEXR files now support Color Interop ID metadata, to automatically detect the file colorspace.

Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD)

  • AOUSD Reaches Major Milestone with Core Specification 1.0.1 Draft: The Alliance for OpenUSD has completed the Core Specification 1.0.1 draft, a major milestone toward international standardization. The specification defines the foundation for OpenUSD interoperability and provides a clear baseline for compliant implementations. Read the announcement. 
  • AOUSD Q4 2025 Community Highlights: From festival premieres to professional certification and industrial simulation, AOUSD members are putting OpenUSD to work. This quarter features updates from Pixar Animation Studios, DigitalFish, NVIDIA, Pickford AI, Trimble Inc., and Spatial, spanning interactive storytelling, robotics, AI factories, AEC workflows, and more. See how OpenUSD is moving from pilot to practice across industries. Read our blog to learn more.
  • Learn OpenUSD is now open source: Developers can access free customizable training to build 3D workflows and earn an industry-recognized certification to prove their skills. Check it out.

Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) 

  • Announcements
    • Automotive Grade Linux announced the new AGL SoDeV reference platform for software defined vehicles (SDV). Led by Honda, Panasonic Automotive Systems and the AGL Software Defined Vehicles (SDV) Expert Group, AGL SoDeV enables software-first development, decoupled from hardware constraints, and supports ECU consolidation, virtualization, hardware abstraction and cloud integration for next-generation vehicles. Read the announcement.
    • Toyota debuts an enhanced version of the Toyota Audio Multimedia system, built on the AGL platform. Read Toyota's announcement.
    • Terrific Trout, the latest release of the Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) Unified Code Base (UCB) marks the 20th release of the AGL platform. Read more.
    • ZDNet news article: This new Linux platform will let you update your next car at home - as soon as 2027.
  • Events
    • Open Source Summit Japan/Automotive Linux Summit: Dan Cauchy, Executive Director of AGL, gave a keynote on “AGL SoDeV: Leading the Software-Defined Vehicles Revolution,” sharing how AGL is helping drive the shift toward SDV development across the industry.

CAMARA

  • Check out member org CableLabs’ blog post summary of the Fall Meta-Release 2025, which represents the second-largest CAMARA release to date.. Read the full blog here: CableLabs CAMARA Fall Release
  • TelecomTV’s annual  “Great Telco Debate” featured a debate on “Monetising Telco APIs” where  a panel-including CAMARA board chair Nathan Rader of Deutsche Telekom, among other industry thought leaders -- addressed Qs like, Should telcos package connectivity with edge compute, AI inference, local caching and security services? And Can they monetise ‘access-as-a-service’ for enterprises and developers through APIs? . Join to watch the recap here. 
  • The Digitel Talk podcast recently published an episode titled, “Telcos can’t win on speed alone. Here’s what’s next,” which featured  Markus Kümmerle (CAMARA Outreach Committee Lead), and included discussion on the value of CAMARA APIs for the telco ecosystem. Listen via Spotify, Apple , or Amazon music. 
  • At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, held November 11-13, 2025, the team demonstrated how standardized telco network APIs enable developers to build once and deploy across multiple operators, covering areas such as fraud prevention, device status, QoS/QoD, edge placement and more.
  • CAMARA partnered with GSMA at APIDays Amsterdam 2025 for a panel on how open APIs are transforming digital infrastructure, and took the opportunity to  connect with developers and share insights on implementing standardized network APIs.
  • Catch CAMARA in London on January 15 for  TelecomTV's interactive, in-person "Unthinkable Lab" a deep-dive to explore key scenarios, synergies and challenges shaping the future of European telecoms across Agentic AI and Telco APIs. The session, “Agentic AI + Telco APIs = ?” features  Markus Kümmerle, Camara & GSMA Open Gateway Lead, Deutsche Telekom. Register here. 
  • Join CAMARA ecosystem members in Barcelona, March 2-5, at Mobile World Congress! CAMARA is hosting a community reception on March 3 from 6:30 - 8:30 (registration is required), will participate in GSMA’s Open Gateway DevCon, and will feature API demos within ecosystem partner booths. Stay tuned for more details and mark your calendar!

CHIPS Alliance

  • Our latest developer spotlight features Jack Koenig of SiFive, highlighting his decade of contributions to Chisel and FIRRTL, the evolution toward MLIR-based tooling, and ongoing efforts to improve readability, verification support, and contributor onboarding across the ecosystem. Read our full profile
  • Antmicro, working with Verilator maintainer Wilson Snyder and the broader community, enabled full elaboration of upstream UVM 2017-1.0 in Verilator with no patches required. Recent improvements include enhanced constrained randomization, expression purity handling, parameterized class support, and compatibility for UVM Cookbook examples. Read more
  • CHIPS Alliance TAC Chair Aaron Cunningham shared updates on strengthening governance, clarifying project life cycles, supporting maintainers through project health check-ins, and improving contributor pathways to make open source silicon development more accessible and sustainable. More details.

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

  • KServe becomes a CNCF incubating project | The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept KServe as a CNCF incubating project. KServe joins a growing ecosystem of technologies tackling real-world challenges at the edge of cloud native infrastructure.
  • Lima becomes a CNCF incubating project | The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Lima as a CNCF incubating project. Lima enables secure, isolated environments for running cloud native and AI workloads.
  • Akamai Builds Cloud Native Resilience: Cloud credits to power CNCF projects | Akamai, a CNCF Gold member since 2023 and a committed supporter of open source infrastructure, is generously donating $1,000,000 in annual cloud credits. The donation will support both the Linux Foundation and Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
  • Announcing Vitess 23.0.0 | The Vitess team is excited to release Vitess 23.0.0 — the latest major version of Vitess — bringing new defaults, better operational tooling, and refined metrics.

Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC)

Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF)

  • DevOps + DataOps + ModelsOps = InfoOps: Find out why all the #Ops flavors must converge into more unified approaches. Read the article.
  • DORA Metrics: Plot twist—the 4 key metrics you've been measuring? They're now 5. And the categories themselves have been rethought. Here's what DORA changed and what it means for your continuous improvement efforts. Read the article.


DAOS Foundation

  • Recent Events
    • 9th DAOS User Group (DUG) at SC’25
      The 9th annual DAOS User Group (DUG) took place on November 16th in conjunction with Supercomputing’25 in St. Louis, MO. If you missed it you can now check out the slides from the presentations - stay tuned for the video recordings! 

DPDK

  • Getting Started with the DPDK Test Suite (DTS)—Overview of DTS, a Python framework that automates end-to-end testing of DPDK libraries and drivers on real hardware, supporting validation of NIC drivers and core packet-processing behavior to ensure reliability in production environments.
  • Sign up for the DPDK Dispatch, The Quarterly Newsletter—For updates covering community developments, technical progress, and insights shaping high-performance network software and applications in the DPDK ecosystem.

eBPF Foundation

Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) Project

  • ELISA Project at the Open Source Summit: Seoul, Korea
    • At the Open Source Summit Seoul 2025 on 4-5 November, contributors from the ELISA Project took part in the Safety Critical Software Track, sharing real-world insights on using open source in regulated environments. Talks covered topics such as automotive safety with OSS, avionics tool qualification under DO-330, temporal partitioning with ARINC 653, and supply chain security with SBOMs. The track highlighted how ELISA contributors and industry partners are advancing the use of open source in regulated, safety-critical environments through practical engineering and standards-aligned approaches.
  • ELISA Seminar – Introduction to Requirements Engineering
    • In this ELISA seminar, Pete Brink from UL Solutions introduced the fundamentals of requirements engineering for safety-critical systems. He explained how to write clear, atomic, and testable requirements, why they must stay implementation-free, and how iterative validation and testing prove they are fulfilled. The session also covered practical tooling, traceability challenges, and the use of EARS to reduce ambiguity. Read the recap blog.
  • ELISA Project Workshop - Munich, Germany 2025
     
    ELISA Project members and contributors at the ELISA Workshop in Munich in November 
    • The ELISA Workshop Munich 2025 took place on 18–20 November at Red Hat’s offices in Grasbrunn, Germany bringing together industry, academia, and open source contributors for three days of focused collaboration. Sessions covered key topics like Linux requirements, kernel verification, traceability, functional safety, aerospace, automotive, and railway systems. The workshop showed strong progress across the safety-critical open source ecosystem. It closed with renewed momentum and a shared commitment to advance ELISA’s technical work together. Read the recap blog.
  • Robotics and Space Grade Linux at ROSCon 2025 Singapore

    • The Space Grade Linux (SGL) team participated in ROSCon 2025 in Singapore, where more than 1,000 robotics developers and researchers gathered. In his recap, Ramón Roche highlights SGL’s first live hardware demo of Space Grade Linux running Space ROS, along with deeper technical discussions on OpenEmbedded and future plans for SGL. The meetup strengthened collaboration between the robotics and space communities and underscored how open, safety-focused Linux can support the next generation of mission-critical space systems. Read the recap blog.
  • ELISA Project at Open Source Summit: Tokyo, Japan 2025
    • The ELISA Project was represented at Open Source Summit Tokyo 2025 during the Safety Critical Track, where community members shared practical insights on building safe and secure open source systems. Highlights included the Space Grade Linux keynote by Ramón Roche, sessions on human-centric quality assurance, CRA-ready vulnerability management in Yocto, real-world automotive safety with OSS, and safe Linux architectures. Together, these talks showed how open source is advancing safety, compliance, and reliability across space, automotive, and energy systems. Read more.
  • ELISA Project at Linux Plumbers Conference: Tokyo, Japan 2025
    • The ELISA Project took part in the Linux Plumbers Conference 2025 in Tokyo through the Safe Systems with Linux Microconference, where community members worked closely with kernel developers on safety-critical Linux challenges. Sessions focused on linking requirements, code, and tests, improving traceability, advancing program verification, and addressing testing and qualification gaps in the kernel. Discussions on tools like BASIL and StrictDoc highlighted practical paths toward stronger compliance and dependable Linux systems. The event showed real progress in making Linux more robust for regulated, safety-focused environments. Read more.
  • ELISA Project at FOSDEM 2026
    • The ELISA Project will be at FOSDEM 2026, with ambassadors presenting, joining discussions, and meeting contributors across multiple developer rooms. You can also connect with the team at the Linux Foundation Europe stand to learn about current work and ways to get involved.

FinOps Foundation

  • Secure your spot early for FinOps X 2026 and set yourself up for days of keynotes, practitioner-led sessions, interactive chalk talks, and networking opportunities.
  • We’re excited to announce FOCUS 1.3. The FOCUS 1.3 specification solves three persistent problems: splitting shared resource costs, tracking contract commitments accurately, and verifying data freshness.
  • A new technology leader profile is reshaping how enterprises manage and deliver technology value. “FinOps Enabled Executive”, a strategic C-minus-one leader who has unified FinOps across cloud, SaaS, data centers, platforms, and AI spending under a single practice. Read more about FinOps Enabled Executive.

FINOS 

  • Save the Dates: Open Source in Finance Forum
    • In 2026, our flagship event, Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF), returns to London and New York and, for the first time, expands to Montreal. These events offer a unique opportunity to showcase innovation and help shape the future of open source in finance alongside leaders from across financial services, technology, and the open source community. >> Save the Date
      • Spring 2026 | Montreal 🇨🇦
      • June 25 | London 🇬🇧
      • November 4-5 | New York 🗽
  • AI Governance Framework V2.0: Addressing Agentic AI Risks by Colin Eberhardt, Scott Logic
    • We’re excited to highlight the release of AIGF v2.0, marking the framework’s most significant evolution to date. This version introduces a dedicated agentic AI risk catalogue, expanding total coverage from 46 risks and mitigations, cross-referenced to 7 existing frameworks (including OWASP, MITRE and EU AI Act).
    • >> Read Blog Here
    • Get Involved with AI Readiness 
  • FINOS Community Spotlight: Harish Malavade, Fidelity Investments
    • Harish played a key leadership role in the formation and growth of Fluxnova, a FINOS-hosted orchestration and automation platform developed in collaboration with Fidelity, NatWest Group, Deutsche Bank, and Capital One. As a lead maintainer, Harish continues to guide Fluxnova’s growth with a clear vision for open collaboration and industry-scale impact. >> More Information
  • Building Better AI in Finance: Use Case Gathering
    • We’re kicking off a new FINOS community effort to co-create an open framework for evaluating AI systems in financial services. First step? Real-world use cases from you, to ensure that what we build reflects actual needs and pain points across the industry.
    • >> Share Your Use Case

High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF)

  • HPSFCon 2026 Call for Proposals are OPEN! We’re looking for talks, discussions, lightning sessions, and posters that push high performance computing and open source software forward. Submit by January 11, 2026, and view more details about what we’re looking for here.
  • At SC25, HPSF was recognized as the Best HPC Collaboration in the 22nd edition of the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards! Read more here.
  • Chapel has joined HPSF as our newest established project! Through HPSF, Chapel will continue to grow as a community-governed project, advancing open, portable high performance software.
  • We’ve released our first newsletter for all things HPSF! Subscribe here.

LF AI & Data

  • At AI By the Bay, Mark Collier, General Manager for AI and Infrastructure at the Linux Foundation, presented how open source is driving the AI native era with powerful software efficiency gains and rapid innovation in training, inference and agentic systems. Watch the session recording here. 
  • We published a new blog, “Demo to Production: An Open Source Architecture for Reliable AI Agents,” detailing how to move from fragile demos to safe, observable and scalable production systems. It outlines a vendor-neutral open source architecture using projects like ONNX, KServe, OpenTelemetry and OPA, and highlights bounded loops and human-in-the-loop controls as key to deploying reliable AI agents.
  • LF AI & Data saw strong engagement at NeurIPS 2025, with demos of BeeAI and Docling drawing significant interest. Docling continues to rise as a top 500 GitHub project, delivering up to 50x cost efficiency with its smol granite model and transforming messy documents into clean structured data for GenAI workflows. Get involved with LF AI & Data to support growing open source AI projects like these.
  • 2025 summary (forthcoming)

LF Broadband 

  • At Connected Britain 2025, LF Broadband Governing Board member Francisco DeCarvalho (Radisys) shared how open source solutions like SEBA and VOLTHA are breaking vendor lock and enabling true interoperability across global broadband networks. He also highlighted ongoing collaboration with the Broadband Forum to align open implementations with carrier-grade requirements. Watch the interview and read the blog.
  • How do you build a shared broadband network that supports multiple operators without duplicating infrastructure? In a new post, Serkant Uluderya (Netsia, Inc.) explains how VOLTHA’s vendor-agnostic, cloud-native PON architecture enables FANS implementations aligned with Broadband Forum TR-370. From SDN control to OLT/ONU abstraction, it’s a practical deep dive into the technology modernizing fixed access networks. >> Read the post.

LF Decentralized Trust

  • Hedera COO Shyam Nagarajan and LF Decentralized Trust Exec Director Daniela Barbosa penned the opinion piece "The next standard in blockchain is code neutrality" for Crypto News.
  • Ledger Insights reported on the recent announcement of new LF Decentralized Trust project Paladin and the addition of The Bank of Korea and other new members.
  • During Singapore Fintech Festival, LF Decentralized Trust CTO Hart Montgomery shared his expertise with Asian Banker, resulting in the article "Linux Foundation calls for cryptographic agility ahead of the quantum era."
  • Trust over IP, an LF Decentralized Trust project, marked its 5th anniversary with a two-day virtual symposium, Advancing Digital Trust Together, that was packed with presentations, panels, and workshops (all available now on the event page).
  • Brazilian economic and politics news site Bahia Economica published a feature on the impact of enterprise blockchain technologies, including LF Decentralized Trust projects Hyperledger Fabric and Besu, on modernizing supply chain, trade finance, and regulatory compliance.
  • The American Banker article "Citi is laying plans for crypto supremacy" highlights the company's token services, which are delivered over a ledger built using Besu.
  • In this blog post, the Besu maintainers detailed accomplishments from 2025 and a roadmap for 2026 aimed at boosting Besu's performance.
  • A new case study spotlights how Indicio turns leadership in the LF Decentralized Trust community into credibility, growth, and global reach.
  • For more updates from LF Decentralized Trust, check out the current and past issues of Decentralized Digest.

LF Edge

  • LF Edge published 2025 Year in Review and What’s Ahead in 2026 blog, showcasing major momentum in edge and AI adoption, real-world deployments across the project portfolio, and key trends shaping the market. The post outlines priorities for 2026 including ecosystem unification, community growth, and accelerating AI at the edge.
  • A new InfiniEdge AI blog explains how AIOps can simplify today’s complex, distributed IT and edge environments by enabling smarter detection, analysis, and remediation. It highlights the core capabilities needed for intelligent operations and outlines LF Edge’s work on a unified AIOps test harness, along with key metrics and datasets that support reliable AI-driven edge operations.
  • LF Networking’s 2026 Industry Predictions highlight a significant shift toward edge driven AI, with Arpit Joshipura and Ranny Haiby noting a cloud plus edge plus device model for future workloads. Key takeaways for the LF Edge community include personal LLMs on devices, rising demand for local inference across industries and a growing role for open source frameworks. 
  • LF Edge project EdgeLake launched a new MCP integration that lets users interact with edge data through natural language, using LLMs like Claude to quickly diagnose issues, compare site performance, detect anomalies, and forecast failures. It transforms complex edge analytics into simple conversations. Visit the EdgeLake website.

LF Energy 

LF Networking

  • LF Networking started its new podcast, Layer 8: Voices of Open Networking, with Episode 1 featuring Marc Price (MATRIXX Software) and Philippe Ensarguet (Orange) discussing the origins of the Cloud Native Telco Initiative (CNTi). The episode talks about how open, cloud native, and AI-driven networking are changing telecom and enterprise infrastructure, and previews themes for future conversations. Listen and subscribe: YouTube and Buzzsprout.
  • Arpit Joshipura, GM of Networking, Edge and IoT at The Linux Foundation, was featured in The Enterprise World for his leadership in driving open, software-defined, and AI-native networks. In this profile, Arpit shares how open collaboration accelerates 5G and edge innovation, lowers integration complexity through cloud-native building blocks, and strengthens industry trust through neutral governance.
  • LF Networking released its 2026 Industry Predictions for Open Networking and Edge, along with a report card on last year’s forecasts. Arpit Joshipura and Ranny Haiby highlight key trends including AI-native networks, APIs and agents as revenue drivers, on-device edge AI, sovereign AI, and the rising importance of open source in the efficiency era. Read the predictions blog and you can also watch the predictions video here.
  • In partnership with premier member Infosys, LFN  released a new  white paper, “Evolution of Telco Networks in Cloud-Native Paradigm,” discussing how operators are moving from legacy architectures to cloud-native, software-driven Telco Cloud platforms built on Kubernetes, declarative APIs, GitOps, and AI automation.
  • As part of the AI for Networking series, we’ve published a new blog from Fatih E. Nar and Benjamin Cushing of Red Hat, and LFN CTO Ranny Haiby, explaining why traditional AI Centers of Excellence struggle and how a Community of Practice model rooted in domain expertise, DevSecOps, and open source can drive real AI value for networks. Check out this blog here.
  • A new Nephio community webinar series is coming soon, showcasing the latest work in cloud-native network automation! The webinar series will feature a Nephio R5 update and roadmap, observability insights, ecosystem collaboration with Sylva, O-RAN, APIs, and CAMARA, as well as GenAI, autonomous networks, and real-world adoption. Follow LFN on LinkedIn and subscribe on YouTube to stay tuned.
  • Learn what’s new with ONAP in 2025 & 2026 in this new white paper, ONAP in 2025: Paris R16 and Beyond: Network Automation, which takes a look at how ONAP has transformed from a monolithic orchestration platform into a modular, semi-standalone ecosystem for intelligent network automation. 
  • LFN is proud to partner with the Sylva project to co-sponsor Cloud Native Telco Day, co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU in Amsterdam on March 23, 2026. The Cloud Native Telco Day brings together the networking and cloud native open source communities, where the Telco industry collaborates with the CNCF community to share lessons learned and new concepts applicable across both worlds.

Margo

  • Margo Preview Release 1: Advancing Interoperability at the edge - is now available.
    • Margo Preview Release 1 (PR1) marks a major milestone toward delivering interoperable lifecycle management at scale, across the edge ecosystem. Launching on December 15, 2025, PR1 offers vendors an early technical preview of the Margo specification, including an open source sandbox, enabling them to prototype applications, devices, and workload fleet managers while providing invaluable feedback before the general release later in 2026. Supporting assets include published specification content, a sandbox environment, updated communications, and a structured feedback program.
    • PR1 delivers clear value across key personas: industrial end users can begin validating interoperability use cases; application vendors can explore Margo conform application packaging and device vendors can prototype hosting Margo apps and follow interoperable deployment workflows; and fleet management software providers can test how the Margo APIs help to observe and lifecycle manage multi-vendor fleets.
    • PR1 focuses on community engagement and validation through a structured feedback program for both members and non-members. Read the blog to learn more and get started. 

O-RAN

  • The O-RAN Software Community (SC) and O-RAN ALLIANCE gathered in Dallas for a week of hands-on demos, technical progress, and community collaboration focused on advancing intelligent, cloud-native, and interoperable RAN. The sessions showcased real-world automation for VNF deployment and healing, updates on Near-RT RIC intelligence, CI/CD modernization with GitHub Actions, OKD as an O-Cloud platform, AI and ML pipeline innovation, and new testing capabilities for Open Fronthaul.

Open 3D Foundation

  • Release 25.10.1 is a maintenance release designed to improve stability and address several issues identified in the 25.10.0 release. This update focuses on resolving bugs, enhancing performance, and ensuring a smoother experience for all users.
    • Git is no longer required when using O3DE installers for Windows and Linux,
    • Support for latest Android SDK (with Android Gradle Plugin 8.13),
    • Support for Visual Studio 2026,
    • Fix crashes when using Diffuse Probe Grid (regression in 25.10),
    • ScriptCanvas is temporarily reverted from a standalone application to be again part of the main Editor. This resolves the slowness at startup and other several crashes when authoring visual scripts (regression in 25.10). The new behavior will be restored in the next major release (April/May of 2026) together with the proper fixes, as the stand alone version is the basis for introducing the debugging in Script Canvas. 
  • Community Updates
    • Robotec.ai’s latest blog, featuring Open 3D Engine, breaks down the simulation work in detail, and it’s well worth the read for anyone building autonomous systems, testing AI agents, or pushing the boundaries of digital twin workflows.
  • Open 3D Connect
    • November Open 3D Connect: Carbonated Inc. presented an incredibly insightful session — Lessons Learned Shipping a Mobile Game With O3DE featuring Travis Boatman (CEO), Lloyd Tullues (CTO), and Peter Geist (Art Director) from Carbonated Inc.
  • Event Recap
    • ROSCON 2025: ROSCon 2025 in Singapore brought together some of the brightest minds in robotics—and the O3DE community was right there in the center of the momentum. Read on here >>
      • From AI integration, real-time simulation, and high-performance 3D tooling, this year’s event reinforced something we’ve believed for a long time: the future of robotics and the future of game development are converging.
      • O3DE leaders and contributors—Adam Dabrowsk (CTO at Robotec.ai)i, Steve Pham (Creator of Odie & an expert on O3DE's linux implementation), Kimberly McGuire (Independent Robotist), Ramon Roche (General Manager of Dronecode Foundation), and John Bryant (Executive Director of Open 3D Foundation)—were onsite throughout the week, connecting with developers, researchers, and roboticists.

openIDL

  • openIDL launched the first-ever free and open production-ready insurance data standard: openIDS Homeowners Standard v.1.0.
    • The openIDS Homeowners Standard v.1.0 is available for industry adoption marking a significant industry milestone that sets the stage for a new generation of open, interoperable insurance data models.
    • openIDS Homeowners Standard v.1.0 introduces a consistent framework for capturing and exchanging property risk data. With this standard, insurers, regulators, and ecosystem partners can streamline compliance reporting, reduce data friction, and unlock opportunities for innovation & digital transformation across the insurance value chain.
    • >> Read the press release. 
    • Get the standard.
  • What if we created a shared, open, production-ready data standard that anyone could use, on any platform, with any technology stack? Josh Hershman explains why open standards became the real innovation.
  • Explore what industry leaders are saying about the impact of openIDL and how openIDS is shaping a new era of clarity, efficiency, and trust in P&C insurance. View testimonials about the value of openIDL and open insurance data standards (openIDS).

OpenInfra Foundation

  • The OpenInfra Foundation is excited to welcome Viettel, Vietnam’s largest telecommunications and technology group, as its newest Platinum Member! 
  • The StarlingX 11.0 release is now available! Check out the project’s blog and the release notes to learn what’s new in this release.
  • On September 8-9, OpenInfra Summit Asia | KubeCon | CloudNativeCon will take place in Shanghai. This flagship event unites adopters, technologists, and community members from across the region to drive innovation in open source infrastructure and cloud native computing around common, industry-wide use cases like nextgen AI. Over two days, CNCF Projects will collaborate with the OpenInfra community across dozens of open technologies, including two of the most active open source projects to exist, Kubernetes and OpenStack, to shape the future of open source software and technology as a whole.

Open Mainframe Project

  • The Open Mainframe Project has had a busy event season! Check out all of our recaps and videos for GSUK, IBM TechXchange and SHARE below.
  • The Open Mainframe Project ambassador Dan Kelosky continues his Zowe Explorer tutorial, where he shares how to save a list of links to your z/OS data sets in a local file for quick access. 
  • New episode of Mainframe Coven featuring Lezlie Browder! Lezlie reflects on inclusive tech culture, teaching across generations + offering grounded advice for women balancing caregiving, career growth, and lifelong learning. Listen here.
  • Checkout the latest whitepaper introducing RAG to Riches, an explainable infrastructure framework that unifies business and operational mainframe data into a single, accessible intelligence layer.

OpenSearch

  • Announcements
  • News and Analyst Coverage
    • HyperFRAME Research published a research note on OpenSearch’s recent momentum, including the announcement of IBM’s Premier membership, stating that it is a “strategic endorsement of OpenSearch as a vital enterprise platform for artificial intelligence workloads, specifically Retrieval Augmented Generation.”
    • ITBrief published a byline from OpenSearch Software Foundation Executive Director on the next phase of AI infrastructure: consistency, cost and consolidation.
    • TFiR published a video interview with Bianca that highlights how OpenSearch is evolving into an AI-ready platform for search and observability, the growth of the project and member community, and Bianca’s priorities for the Foundation in 2026.
    • GigaOm’s Radar for Vector Databases v3 positions OpenSearch as a leader and a fast mover, highlighting the leadership of its platform play.
  • Events
    • re:Invent Week, Las Vegas - Visitors at the OpenSearch booth explored the latest developments in search, observability, and agentic workloads, along with live demos.
  • Stay Connected and Explore OpenSearch—OpenSearch Blogs - Guides, insights, and community highlights

Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) Project

OpenJS Foundation

  • Check out our latest short video series, JavaScript Security Snapshot! Rafael and Ulises talk about all things security, including why you should upgrade, incident response plans, build teams and more.
  • With npm supply chain attacks on the rise, secure publishing practices are becoming a pressing concern for anyone maintaining npm packages. The OpenJS Security Collaboration Space has released updated guidance to help maintainers reduce exposure, strengthen release processes, and better protect the ecosystem.

OpenSSF

  • The 2025 OpenSSF Annual Report is now available, highlighting a year of major progress in strengthening the security of open source software. The report covers key achievements across education, security tooling, vulnerability reporting, research, and public sector engagement, alongside growing global collaboration. It also shares insights from OpenSSF leadership and working groups on the challenges and opportunities ahead. Download the report to explore how the community is shaping a safer open source future.
  • Recap: OpenSSF Community Day Korea 2025

    • OpenSSF Community Day Korea 2025 took place on November 4 in Seoul, bringing developers, security engineers, industry, academia, and the public sector together for a full day of hands-on discussions on open source security. The sessions covered CI/CD security, SBOMs, kernel testing, post-quantum cryptography, and AI supply chain risks, highlighting OpenSSF’s focus on education, policy, projects, and community. The event marked an important milestone in the growth of the OpenSSF community in Korea. Read the recap blog.
  • KubeCon Keynote Recap: “Supply Chain Reaction” and Why the OSPS Baseline Matters More Than Ever
    • What happens when a Kubernetes cluster is fully locked down, yet still gets compromised?
    • At KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America, Stacey Potter and Adolfo García Veytia used a live, story-driven incident to show how a compromised compiler image can bypass “perfect” cluster security, and why the OpenSSF OSPS Baseline is essential for securing the entire supply chain lifecycle. Their keynote made clear that modern attacks target workflows and build systems, not just code. Read the recap blog to learn more.
  • Tech Talk Recap: Simplifying DevSecOps in Air-Gapped Environments with Zarf
    • The latest OpenSSF Tech Talk explored how Zarf simplifies secure software delivery in air-gapped and restricted environments, where connectivity limits often break traditional DevSecOps workflows. With real-world insights from Defense Unicorns and Boeing, the session showed how Zarf enables reproducible, auditable, and secure-by-default deployments even under strict isolation. Watch the sessions.
  • Upcoming events:
    • Meet the OpenSSF community at several key events in early 2026. At FOSDEM 2026 (Jan 31–Feb 1), OpenSSF will be onsite sharing a stand with Linux Foundation Europe, a great chance to learn about ongoing security work and meet project contributors. In March, OpenSSF will host Open Source SecurityCon Europe 2026 and sponsor KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, with a full booth presence. More details will follow.
    • Dark Reading published expert commentary from Christopher Robinson after speaking to him about the OpenSSF’s work categorizing 150,000 malicious npm packages. CRob notes the importance of MFA and artifact signing to verify that code is secure here: “Infamous Shai-hulud Worm Resurfaces From the Depths.”
    • In a Forbes article about the value of inclusive and resilient financial systems, Christopher Robinson of OpenSSF and Michael Lieberman of Kusari are included for their thoughts on secure fintech systems. Both suggest that open source software can play an important role in the future of finance, down to the code, and the Open Software Security Baseline is referenced in the article, “Secure By Design: Financial Systems For Climate Resilience.”
  • OpenSSF in the News: 
    • Dark Reading published expert commentary from Christopher Robinson after speaking to him about the OpenSSF’s work categorizing 150,000 malicious npm packages. CRob notes the importance of MFA and artifact signing to verify that code is secure here: “Infamous Shai-hulud Worm Resurfaces From the Depths.”
    • In a Forbes article about the value of inclusive and resilient financial systems, Christopher Robinson of OpenSSF and Michael Lieberman of Kusari are included for their thoughts on secure fintech systems. Both suggest that open source software can play an important role in the future of finance, down to the code, and the Open Software Security Baseline is referenced in the article, “Secure By Design: Financial Systems For Climate Resilience.”
    • This month VMblog published Christopher Robinson’s cybersecurity predictions for 2026. CRob points out the importance of MLSecOps, SBOMs, and more in the article, “Five cybersecurity predictions for 2026.” 

Overture Maps Foundation

  • The Overture Maps Foundation is building a new foundation for travel through Global Entity Reference System (GERS). Overture's Contributing Member OpenTravel is contributing at the technical level to define a universal location ID and supporting details in a developer-friendly format. Read the blog.
  • Overture’s Amy Rose and Jennings Anderson break down how open map data is built, how our pipelines operate, and how developers can put Overture datasets to work today through a podcast with Software Engineering Radio. Listen to the podcast.
  • Overture Maps Foundation Releases 2025-11-19.0 Dataset and Schema v1.14.0
    • Overture’s latest monthly release is now available on AWS and Azure, featuring updates across all GA themes, millions of new POIs from RenderSEO and AllThePlaces, expanded TomTom road segment coverage across 115 countries, and refreshed OSM data. This release also introduces a new roller_coaster class to the schema, with data planned for next month. Users can access release artifacts, changelogs, bridge files, and the GERS registry through the release notes. Get the open data here. 
  • Meet Overture at events:
    • GeoBuiz Summit 2025 (January 13–15, 2026; Denver, US): Overture is excited to join geospatial and data leaders at GeoBuiz Summit 2026 in Denver to explore the future of mapping, AI, digital twins, and open, interoperable standards like GERS.
    • Overture Member Summit 2026 (April 21-23, 2026; Florence, Italy): Save the date for Overture Maps Foundation Member Summit! It is our annual event where members come together to exchange ideas, strengthen connections, and set Overture’s future direction. This year’s summit in Florence, Italy, April 21-23, 2026, will build momentum for our shared mission through key discussions, collaborative sessions, and engaging activities that bring our community closer and align us on goals for the year ahead.

P4

  • Recent News
    • 2026 P4 Technical Steering Team Election Results. We are pleased to share the results of the recent 2026 P4 Technical Steering Team (TST) Elections. Bili Dong (Google), Shweta Shrivastava (Intel), and Steffen Smolka (Google) have been elected to two-year terms.
      • The P4 community maintained strong momentum in 2025, marked by significant advancements from working groups and increased engagement through the annual P4 Workshop, regular virtual events, blogs, and publications. We anticipate an even more exciting year ahead!
    • 2025 P4 Workshop Wrap Up. The 2025 P4 Workshop brought together researchers, industry leaders, and developers from across the programmable-networking community to showcase the latest advances in P4 and its expanding role in modern systems. The event was hosted in conjunction with OCP Global Summit and highlighted how P4 is progressing beyond packet processing into broader systems domains. 
  • Upcoming Events
    • P4 Developer Days - In-Network Inference with P4: From Stateless to Hybrid Approaches
      January 21, 2026 | 8:00 PT—Aristide Akem, University of Southampton
      • In-network machine learning (ML) techniques employ the P4 language to embed trained ML models directly into programmable network data planes. This has enabled novel applications in network security, routing optimization, and traffic classification, amongst others. This presentation charts the evolution of these techniques, starting with stateless, packet-level inference models like Henna. It then explores the shift to stateful, flow-level approaches as demonstrated in Flowrest.
      • The talk culminates with Jewel, a novel hybrid system that performs joint packet and flow-level inference for improved accuracy and efficiency. This journey from stateless to hybrid methodologies highlights the advancements and trade-offs in building intelligent, high-performance, and ML-empowered networks with P4.

PyTorch Foundation

RISC-V

SONiC

  • Nokia has joined the SONiC Foundation as a Premier member, expanding its long-standing contributions and supporting AI-optimized, open data center networking. Nokia will expand upstream collaboration and help advance high-capacity, AI-optimized data center fabrics. Read the press release. 
  • The SONiC Hackathon 2025 winner spotlights are now available, highlighting the people behind the code and the ideas pushing SONiC forward. Each winning proposal dives deep into how these teams approached challenges, experimented with new solutions, and delivered improvements that matter to the community. Check out the following blogs on all Hackathon winning proposals:
  • The new SONiC Voices video series is live, featuring interviews with SONiC board members, contributors, and users on open collaboration, AI-driven networking trends, and where SONiC is headed over the next two to three years. Watch the full playlist to hear insights from leaders at Microsoft, Nexthop AI, Dell Technologies, Arista, Rakuten and more.
  • The SONiC Myths Debunked video series has launched, with SONiC leaders and users tackling the biggest misconceptions surrounding SONiC’s adoption, cost, deployment, and community support. These quick, informative clips offer clear insights into how SONiC actually performs in real-world environments. Watch the full playlist here.

Sylva

  • The Sylva Project is excited to co-host Cloud Native Telco Day 2026 together with LF Networking (LFN) — bringing the global telco, cloud, and open source communities together for a full day focused on cloud native telco architectures, automation, and AI-ready networks.
    • Where: Amsterdam (co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2026)
    • When: 23 March, 2026

Ultra Ethernet Consortium

  • UEC’s 2025 Year-End Letter Is Here! What a milestone year for the Ultra Ethernet Consortium. From the official release of UEC Specification 1.0 to a rapidly expanding ecosystem of members, contributors, and partners, 2025 marked a major step forward in building an Ethernet-based, high-performance network for AI and HPC at scale. Read the UEC 2025 in Review: Preparing for What Comes Next - A Letter from UEC’s Chair, J Metz.
  • Save the date: 2026 UEC Member Summit will take place Monday, April 27 through Thursday, April 30, 2026, at the Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center, located at 7800 East Tufts Avenue, Denver, CO. Additional details regarding registration, agenda, and lodging will be shared as we get closer to the event!

UXL Foundation 

Valkey

  • Reinvent—House of Valkey turned into a three-floor takeover of the Strip’s Taco Bell Cantina, glowing with neon and powered by deep house music. The night was filled with connection, entertainment, and even live performers. Builders, maintainers, contributors, and the open-source curious enjoyed exclusive swag, a custom menu, giveaways, and a few late-night surprises.
  • SymfonyCon Amsterdam—Valkey had an amazing time at SymfonyCon Amsterdam. We brought along our signature Valkey bouncy balls, enjoyed the ball pit, and joined in celebrating Symfony’s 20th anniversary with a cake-cutting ceremony.

Zephyr Project

  • Zephyr 4.3 is Here: What’s New?

    • Zephyr 4.3 is now available with major updates and nearly 800 contributors. The new USB Device “Next” stack is now the default, and CPU frequency can scale dynamically based on system load. A new instrumentation system adds automatic profiling and call tracing using compiler hooks. The release also adds OCPP 1.6 support for EV charging and a new Twister display harness for automated UI testing. New tools like DT Doctor, traceconfig, and interactive RAM/ROM charts improve the developer experience. With over 100 new boards added and Zephyr moving to a bi-yearly cadence, the merge window for Zephyr 4.4 is already open. Be sure to check the full release notes and migration guide for all details. Read more.
  • Using Zephyr RTOS as a unikernel for improved application performance. Unikernels tightly couple a specific application with a heavily trimmed OS into a single binary, making systems smaller, faster to boot, and more secure than traditional OSes, especially for cloud, edge, and IoT use cases. While Zephyr RTOS is not typically used as a unikernel, Antmicro has enhanced its suitability with features like bootargs, Virtio, and virtiofs, and benchmarks show Zephyr-based unikernels add only about 50 KB of disk space and 0.3 MB of RAM over a native Linux app while offering faster startup than full Linux VMs or containers. Learn more.
  • PAwR Simplified: Zephyr® and Bluetooth® LE 5.4 in Action. This blog shows how Bluetooth® LE 5.4 PAwR works in action with Zephyr RTOS to create precise, low-power, and synchronized IoT communication. Using one advertiser and three scanners on Infineon hardware, the project demonstrates collision-free data exchange, LED sync, and real-time temperature reporting. It’s a clear example of how structured timing and Zephyr’s real-time capabilities enable scalable and reliable IoT networks. Learn more.
  • Top Picks from the Zephyr Podcast: What to Listen to This Month
  • Glimpses from the Zephyr Project Meetups:
    • Two recent Zephyr Project meetups, one in Osaka and another one in Copenhagen brought developers together for practical talks, live demos, and deep dives into real-world Zephyr use cases. Both events highlighted how the Zephyr community shares knowledge across industries and regions. Read the full recaps to catch the key takeaways, photos, and standout moments from each meetup.
  • Meet the Zephyr community at several exciting events in early 2026!
    • At FOSDEM 2026 (Jan 31–Feb 1), Zephyr will share a stand with the Dronecode Foundation, featuring live demos, products running Zephyr, and opportunities to connect with project developers while learning about CRA readiness and security best practices.
    • Join the community again on Feb 12 in Winterthur for the Zephyr Project Meetup, co-hosted by Noser Engineering and ZHAW, with technical talks, networking, and a CFP open until Dec 20.
    • Then at Embedded World 2026 (Mar 10–12), the Zephyr Project will have both a dedicated booth and a special conference track showcasing member-company demos, real products powered by Zephyr, hands-on technical sessions, and a celebration of Zephyr’s 10-year anniversary.

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