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Linux Foundation Newsletter: February 2026

Written by The Linux Foundation | Feb 18, 2026 6:00:00 PM

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

AI infrastructure is moving from experimentation to production—and open source is defining how it scales. From Kubernetes powering the majority of AI workloads in production to new research on India’s accelerating AI ecosystem, February reinforced a clear reality: the future of AI is being built in the open.

This month brings major ecosystem signals—new global events advancing agent interoperability, fresh data on AI adoption at scale, survey findings that confirm cloud native’s central role in AI, and opportunities to help shape the next generation of technical talent.

Here are this month’s highlights:

  • The Infrastructure for Agentic AI Gets Its Own Stage | MCP Dev Summit North America (April 2–3, New York City), a new event from the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) focused on advancing MCP and interoperable agent infrastructure. This summit brings together builders defining the standards and systems that will underpin the next generation of AI applications. Register today >>

  • Kubernetes Solidifies Its Role as the Operating System for AI | The latest CNCF Annual Cloud Native Survey shows Kubernetes has become the de facto operating system for AI workloads, with 82% of container users running Kubernetes in production. As organizations move AI from experimentation to production, cloud native platforms are providing the scale, stability, and orchestration required to support real-world AI systems.

  • New Data: Open Source Is Fueling India’s AI Acceleration | Linux Foundation Research and Meta released AI for Economic and Social Good in India, a new report examining how open source is accelerating AI adoption and economic growth. The data is clear: 76% of Indian startups rely on open source AI, with talent density and startup velocity positioning India as a global AI leader. Read the report >>

  • Who’s Hiring—and How? Add Your Voice to the 2026 Tech Talent Survey | Hiring, upskilling, retention — what’s actually working? The 2026 Tech Talent Survey gathers insights from professionals responsible for building technical teams. Your input helps shape workforce strategies across the industry. Take the survey >>

  • The 2026 Global Events Calendar Is Live | Our 2026 events calendar expands its focus on open source AI and cloud native systems, with new and expanded programs including MCP Dev Summit, Agentics Day (Europe), Cloud Native AI + Kubeflow Day, and PyTorch Conference Europe. Explore the 2026 events calendar

PS: Register now >> for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 March 23-26

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

Contents

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LF Europe: Community Updates

  • EU Open Source Week 2026: Highlights

    • EU Open Source Week 2026 brought developers, maintainers, policymakers, and organizations together across Brussels at the end of January, highlighting the role of open source in Europe’s digital future.

    • The week began on 28 January, when Linux Foundation Europe joined OpenForum Europe and MEP Michał Kobosko at the European Parliament for a breakfast discussion on the proposed European Union Sovereign Tech Fund, focusing on maintainer sustainability and long-term funding for open source

    • On 30 January, the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2026 convened public and private sector leaders to explore how open source delivers Europe’s digital sovereignty across security, cloud, AI, standards, and industrial innovation. Linux Foundation Europe was a Gold Sponsor of the Summit. Gabriele Columbro (GM of Linux Foundation Europe) delivered a keynote on Europe’s digital sovereignty and the strategic role of open ecosystems, while Paula Grzegorzewska (Strategic Partnerships Senior Manager, LF Europe) moderated the panel “Building Alternatives – Cloud & AI”, which examined how open source can support competitive European cloud and AI ecosystems, trusted infrastructure, and interoperability.

    • The week concluded with FOSDEM on 31 January and 1 February, Europe’s largest free open source developer gathering. Linux Foundation hosted and affiliated projects with stands included Dronecode Foundation and the Zephyr Project, RISC-V International, Xen Project, OpenTofu and OpenBao, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation together with the OpenInfra Foundation and the TODO Group, and Linux Foundation Europe alongside the Open Source Security Foundation. European-led initiatives such as NeoNephos, Carbyne Stack, PowSyBl, and OpenAgri also highlighted Europe’s growing leadership in open, sovereign technologies.

      • FOSDEM sessions also explored key strategic themes for Europe. In the Funding the FOSS Ecosystem track, Gabriele Columbro and Abel Samot discussed how enterprise and venture capital investment can strengthen upstream open source projects and enable sustainable commercial ecosystems in Europe. Another panel, Global collaboration and Europe’s digital sovereignty goals, examined sovereignty as a matter of capability and participation in global open source communities, with contributions from experts across LF Europe, FINOS, Open-Xchange, and the OpenInfra Foundation, moderated by Paula Grzegorzewska, LF Europe.

      • As part of the FOSDEM Fringe, Linux Foundation Europe hosted an evening reception on 31 January, bringing the community together for informal networking and collaboration. We thank our reception sponsors: Cloud Native Computing Foundation, OpenSSF, Linux Foundation Education, OpenInfra Foundation, Dronecode Foundation, and the Sovereign Tech Agency.

    • Linux Foundation Europe looks forward to continuing these discussions at upcoming events across Europe.

  • Blog: Linux Foundation Europe 2025: Milestones, Momentum, and What’s Next

    • Our recent blog, Linux Foundation Europe 2025: Milestones, Momentum, and What’s Next, looks back at a pivotal year for open source in Europe from policy and regulation to funding, security, and global collaboration. It explores how open source continues to power Europe’s digital sovereignty across sectors such as cloud, telecoms, energy, hardware, and AI, and what’s needed to keep the ecosystem sustainable as the regulatory and geopolitical landscape evolves.

    • Featuring reflections from Gabriele Columbro and insights from events, research, and community work across Europe, the blog also outlines what’s next for LF Europe in 2026. If you are interested in how Europe can strengthen its digital future through open, global collaboration, this is a must-read. Read the blog >>

 

LF Research: Tech Talent survey + two new reports

Are you a technical training or hiring manager? Participate in our 2026 Tech Talent survey!

 

Two new reports on AI’s impacts around the world!

In advance of the India AI Impact Summit, we examined the unique characteristics of the Indian AI market and how the country is primed to address societal challenges and inequity through accessible AI adoption. Through a literature review and a dozen interviews, the report shows that India’s $200-billion-plus global IT services industry, its large and digitally native population, and its history of national digital public infrastructure make it a key environment for AI to scale rapidly and broadly. Read the complete findings and recommendations >>

 

The Canadian installation of our Meta-sponsored series on open source AI shows that despite Canada’s early momentum in policy development, funding, and academic excellence, it faces challenges in the commercialization of AI. To address this gap, open source AI provides an opportunity to kick-start innovation and adoption by lowering barriers to access and market entry and enabling sovereign development by providing greater security, transparency, and customization. The reports conclude with a handful of recommendations.


Linux Foundation Projects: Featured news


Hightlight from LF Member Summit 2025.

Academy Software Foundation (ASWF)

  • The Academy Software Foundation’s (ASWF) annual Open Source Forum will be held at Netflix Studios in Los Angeles and virtually on February 26, 2026. This exclusive event brings together executives from across the motion picture and media industries to discuss new technologies impacting studios.

Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD)

  • With the ratification of Core Specification 1.0, AOUSD solidified USD as the universal language for building 3D worlds. 2025 highlights include:
    • Major ecosystem growth - 17 new General Members, 63 Contributors
    • New Interest Groups for Industrial Digital Twins, Web, and Build
    • OpenUSD releases improved performance, accessibility & developer experience
    • Read the blog >> by Steve May, CTO of Pixar Animation Studios & AOUSD Chairperson, for a deep dive into 2025 milestones and what’s next for OpenUSD in 2026.

Automotive Grade Linux (AGL)

CAMARA

  • Bringing AI into CAMARA APIs with MCP: CAMARA issued a new community white paper, “In Concert: Bridging AI Systems & Network Infrastructure through MCP: How to Build Network-Aware Intelligent Applications.” The paper explores how AI applications and agents can integrate with telecom networks using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Learn more >>
    • Fierce Network highlights the new whitepaper in a post entitled,” CAMARA charts path for network-aware AI applications with MCP,” noting the paper outlines how “CAMARA network APIs and MCP can work together to connect AI systems with real-time network intelligence.”
    • CAMARA Outreach Committee chair, Markus Kummerle recently joined a closed panel discussion from Unthinkable Lab in London, which explored what’s next at the intersection of Network APIs, AI, and MCP. TelecomTV, and Unthinkable Lab, which co-hosted the event, have published a follow-up report, “ Accelerating Telco APIs with Agentic AI,” and industry analyst Dean Bubley also posted his takeaways of the discussion.
  • CAMARA will be at MWC Barcelona 2026 from March 2–5, 2026:
    • On the show floor: Check out CAMARA API demos at participating telco exhibit booths, including Aduna, Qbois, and Vydens (in the Startup Portugal pavilion).
    • GSMA Open Gateway Developer Conference: Learn how operators, aggregators, and vendors are leveraging CAMARA APIs across the ecosystem.
    • Community Reception: Join CAMARA and Red Hat for an in-person reception on Tuesday, March 3, 6:30–8:30 PM (CEST). (RSVP is now closed)
  • Join CAMARA Project at CloudNative Telco Day 2026, co-located with KubeCon + CloudNative Con EU, on March 23, 2026 in Amsterdam. CAMARA will host a panel at Cloud Native Telco Day, featuring Nathan Rader, Chair of CAMARA’s governing body, Jill Lovato of the Linux Foundation, and Andreas Boruga of Aduna, with additional experts. The discussion will focus on two key areas: coverage—where APIs are available, consistent, and supported—and use cases—what customers actually adopt and why.

CHIPS Alliance

  • We published “Our Vision and Priorities for 2026,” outlining the next phase in our evolution as a community-driven hub for open source silicon. Matthew Cockrell, 2026 Governing Board Chair, shares strategic, operational, and leadership updates, including our shift to a Community-Driven Leadership Model and priorities across Caliptra, OpenPRoT, SystemVerilog Tools, F4PGA, and AI-driven chip design. Read the full blog >>

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

  • What CNCF Project Velocity in 2025 Reveals About Cloud Native’s Future | Ten years into CNCF’s journey, one thing hasn’t changed: we still rely on real signals—open source contributions, real-world deployments, and community energy—to understand where we’re headed. Cloud native is now invisible infrastructure, quietly powering our everyday lives. By watching the pace of project activity, we get a front-row seat to how teams are building the future.
  • Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Dragonfly’s Graduation | The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the graduation of Dragonfly, a cloud native open source image and file distribution system designed to solve cloud native image distribution in Kubernetes-centered applications.
  • Dragonfly v2.4.0 is released | Dragonfly v2.4.0 has been released, introducing a load-aware scheduling algorithm and the Vortex transfer protocol to significantly improve P2P download performance and resource efficiency. Key updates also include the transition from a Go-based to a Rust-based client and enhanced multi-cluster Kubernetes deployment support.
  • CNCF celebrates successful mentees from LFX Mentorship 2025 Term 3 | The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is thrilled to congratulate the 2025 Term 3 (September – November) CNCF LFX Mentorship Program mentees who have successfully completed the program! This term saw a fantastic cohort of mentees working across 27 different Graduated, Incubating, and Sandbox projects, including Cilium, KubeArmor, KubeEdge, Kubernetes, OpenCost, and many more.
  • Case Study: Ke Holdings Inc. | Scaling machine learning infrastructure with GPU virtualization using Kubernetes and HAMi

Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC)

  • We’re excited to welcome Invary as a General Member of the Confidential Computing Consortium.Invary brings deep expertise in continuous runtime integrity attestation, helping ensure systems remain trusted throughout execution, not just at launch. Read the announcement >>
  • CCC’s January Newsletter covers:
    • New leadership for the Regulators & Standards SIG
    • Updated outreach priorities and technical storytelling for 2026
    • TAC-led work on adoption-focused guidance and remote attestation
    • Recent industry coverage reflecting broader confidential computing deployment
    • Ways for members to contribute through blogs, events, and the CCC job board
  • CCC Executive Director, Mike Bursell, Named to OpenUK New Year Honours List 2026 | Congratulations to Mike Bursell, Executive Director of the Confidential Computing Consortium, on being named to the OpenUK New Year Honours List for 2026. This recognition celebrates his long-standing contributions to open source and his leadership in advancing confidential computing as a foundation for security, privacy, and trustworthy systems. Read the announcement >>
  • Protecting Agentic AI Workloads with Confidential Computing | As AI systems become more autonomous, protecting agent identity and data becomes critical. This new blog from Mike Bursell explores a growing gap in AI security: Agentic AI systems can be tampered with unless their identity, workloads, and data are protected. It explains how Confidential Computing provides hardware-based isolation and attestation to help make autonomous agents more trustworthy and verifiable. Read the blog.
  • Nvidia Touts New Storage Platform, Confidential Computing For Vera Rubin NVL72 Server Rack | New coverage on NVIDIA’s Rubin NVL72 highlights a major shift: confidential computing is extending across CPU, GPU, and interconnects, enabling organizations to verify trust cryptographically rather than rely on contractual assurances. This momentum reflects what our ecosystem is already seeing. CCC and IDC research shows that 75% of organizations are adopting confidential computing, with production deployments accelerating across regulated and high-risk environments.

DAOS Foundation

  • DAOS Year in Review | Check out the DAOS Year in Review! Highlights include two releases, updated roadmaps, community activity including several events, and looking forward to an exciting 2026! Read the blog >>

  • 2026 Virtual DUG | Save the date! The 2026 virtual DUG will take place on May 21, 2026. The DAOS User Group is targeted towards storage customers and partners who are a part of the DAOS community or follow DAOS development. Register to attend >> and stay tuned for the preliminary agenda!

  • 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 presentation recordings and slides!

Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF)

  • Welcome to new Associate Member Kyndryl! Kyndryl is joining with an eye on the Trusted AI Agents Working Group. Check out the blog welcoming them to DIF >>
  • Welcome to our new Operations Manager, Gracezel Luis! Gracelluis is an experienced project manager, content marketing professional, and operations expert. The addition of Gracezel will allow DIF to continue to focus on Operational Excellence in 2026. She will be handling all membership and working group administration. Look out for a blog post next month where Grace and Gracezel interview one another in an AMA format!
  • DIF Hot Takes launch February 17, 9 am UTC. Join Bumblefudge as he gives you the lowdown on MOSIP Connect. See the DIF calendar or join >> 
  • The Steering Committee approved two CAWG specifications | User experience guidance 1.0 and the Organizational identity profile 1.0
  • Trusted AI Agents creates a Delegated Authority Task Force, submits PR for 4 use cases, reviews a Threat Modeling Report, begins a Delegation Report, and considers MCP-I contribution
  • CAWG announces two new Task Forces: ACDC and VC/VP.
  • DIF will be on the screening committee for the programming at TDI in April. Call for Talks >>

DPDK

eBPF Foundation

Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) Project

  • ELISA Project at FOSDEM 2026

    •  At FOSDEM 2026, the ELISA Project engaged the community on the growing role of open source in safety-critical systems. A featured talk, Code, Compliance, and Confusion: Open Source in Safety-Critical Products, examined progress and ongoing challenges around certification, governance, and system design.

    • ELISA also led two Birds of a Feather sessions: Linux & Open Source Software for Safety Applications in Railways, exploring large-scale reuse and certification in the rail sector, and Safety-Critical Linux: Challenges across industries, which brought together participants from automotive, aerospace, medical, robotics, and rail to identify shared challenges and opportunities for cross-industry collaboration.

    • The team also connected with attendees at the Linux Foundation Europe stand.

  • Upcoming ELISA Seminar, 11 March 2026 | From Requirements to Code: Managing End-to-End Traceability with BASIL. In this one-hour session, Luigi Pellecchia (Red Hat) will present BASIL, an open source tool that helps teams manage requirements, testing, documentation, and code traceability in safety-critical systems. Learn more about this seminar >> 

FinOps Foundation

  • State of FinOps 2026 is here | This year’s report covers the impact of AI on FinOps, executive involvement, adoption across technology (SaaS, Data Center, Data Platforms), FOCUS, and other emerging industry trends.
  • FinOps X is the conference for technology value | Join us June 8-11 in San Diego and discover actionable best practices on FinOps for AI, FinOps for SaaS, FinOps for Data Center, FinOps-Enabled Executive Decisions, Optimization for Value, and Adopting FinOps.

FINOS 

  • OSFF London: Registration Now Open! | OSFF is the premier event that connects the leaders in financial services, technology, and open-source innovation. This conference is uniquely designed to foster partnerships, advance talent development and accelerate technological advancements across the finance industry; building faster, trusted and secure solutions. Register >> with Code OSFFLONDONLF20 for 20% Off.
  • OSFF London: Submit Your Proposal to Speak | We are looking for thought leaders ready to address the industry's most pressing challenges through the lens of collaboration and mutualization. We welcome talks on a wide range of topics relevant to open source in financial services. Our talk themes this year center around our strategic initiatives. Submit a CFP >>
  • Fluxnova Webinar: Automate, Orchestrate & Accelerate Workflows | This Open Source in Finance webinar introduces a Camunda 7 CE alternative, Fluxnova. Learn more about Fluxnova - the new open source BPM platform for automation and orchestration across end-to-end processes / workflows. Watch the Webinar >>
  • FINOS Gold Governing Board Nominations are Open | FINOS Gold Members can submit nominations for one open seat on the FINOS Governing Board. Nominations close February 27 at 5pm PT. Email MemberSuccess@finos.org for more information.

GraphQL

Green Software Foundation

  • Green Software Foundation’s 2025 Annual Report | Learn how the GSF is building standards and tools to measure software’s sustainability in the age of AI, explore our achievements, and the initiatives that define our direction for 2026. Read the full report >>
  • Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) for AI specification ratified by GSF | The first consensus-based standard for measuring emissions across the AI lifecycle | Led by Navveen Balani (Accenture) and Henry Richardson (WattTime), with 20 member organizations, it makes AI carbon footprints transparent, comparable, and actionable. Read the article >>
  • SCI for Web design document completed | Fourteen GSF members piloted an AI-assisted process to build consensus on measuring web application emissions. The design document defines the scope and criteria for SCI for Web in Q1 2026. This extension of an ISO standard will help developers measure and compare web emissions across the full delivery chain. Read the full article >>
  • Amadeus transfers Carmen to GSF | This open source measurement engine enables organizations to track emissions across cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters, making measurement actionable at the team level. Learn more >>

High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF)

  • HPSFCon is a month away! Check out the top five reasons to attend the conference, and register today.
  • Join us for the HPSF Community Summit 2026 in Braunschweig, Germany, February 25-27. Learn what’s new with HPSF projects, give us feedback on your use of HPSF software, meet with project communities, and tell us how to grow and improve them.
  • ICYMI: Our HPSF 2025 year in review is live, featuring a deep dive on all of our projects. Check it out.

LF AI & Data

  • LF AI & Data’s Open Model Initiative has entered Phase II, strengthening governance and technical leadership while advancing open, reproducible multimodal AI through new community-led initiatives in evaluation, benchmarking, and model development. Read the blog >> to learn more and get involved.
  • At FOSDEM 2026, Carol Chen of Red Hat showcased how Docling transforms PDFs and Word files into structured, searchable data for modern documentation workflows. Watch the recording >> and explore the slides to learn more.
  • Check out the recent blog on “Budgets as Code” with Flyte, OpenLineage, and Marquez, showing how platform teams can enforce real-time GPU cost controls through GitOps-driven policies, lineage-based auditing, and admission-time governance. Read the blog >> to learn more.
  • LF AI & Data’s Docling project has surpassed 50,000 GitHub stars and doubled its daily PyPI downloads, reflecting strong global community momentum around open, trusted document intelligence. Explore the Docling project >> and get involved.
  • Catch LF AI & Data project, Flyte, onsite at NVIDIA GTC March 16-19 in San Jose in the Union.ai booth. They’ll also be demoing Flyte 2.0 in the NetApp booth and co-hosting the AI Bulder’s Happy Hour (3/16) and AI Bulder’s Party (3/18).

LF Broadband

LF Decentralized Trust

LF Edge

  • LF Edge’s EdgeLake project has advanced to Project Stage 2, marking strong community growth, mature governance, and real-world adoption, while introducing a new Model Context Protocol to enable real-time AI reasoning at the edge. Read the announcement >> to learn more.
  • LF Edge’s Akraino has introduced the new Autonomous Agents Networks (AAN) blueprint family, enabling edge autonomy for real-world use cases such as industrial automation, disaster response, first-responder support, and machine safety.
  • LF Edge has published a new case study highlighting collaboration between InstantX and Automotive Grade Linux, showing how open source projects can interoperate to address real-world automotive challenges. Check out the case study >> to learn more.

LF Energy 

  • LF Energy Advances EV Charging Security with Independent EVerest Audit | LF Energy has completed and publicly released an independent security audit of the EVerest project, conducted by Quarkslab and coordinated by OSTIF. The audit reinforces LF Energy’s commitment to secure, reliable, and trustworthy open source infrastructure for EV charging.
  • LF Energy Battery Data Alliance Announces the Battery Data Format (BDF): A New Open Standard for Battery Data Interoperability | LF Energy’s Battery Data Alliance announced the Battery Data Format (BDF), a new open standard for battery data interoperability. BDF defines a unified, machine-readable schema that makes battery data shareable, reproducible, and model-ready across the ecosystem.
  • Power Grid Model v1.13.x Released: Expanded Power Flow Modeling and Observability | Power system modeling is essential for grid planning and operations as systems become more complex. Power Grid Model supports this with open source software focused on correctness, transparency, and real-world use. The v1.13.x release adds enhanced power flow modeling, stronger observability checks for meshed grids, and ongoing improvements to documentation and maintainability.
  • End-to-End Substation Digitalisation with QMU 800 & CMPC 800 | End-to-end substation digitalisation was a key theme at LF Energy Summit Europe 2025. This session showed how high-resolution measurement combined with virtualised edge computing can consolidate monitoring and analytics into shared infrastructure. The approach improves system visibility while reducing hardware complexity and operational blind spots across substations.

  • LF Energy 101 at OSS Japan 2025 | LF Energy 101 at OSS Japan 2025 highlighted how open source enables the digital energy transition. The session explained why modern energy systems depend on software-defined, community-driven approaches to remain reliable, scalable, and secure.

LF Networking

  • For over a decade, ONE Summit has served as a premier global gathering for open networking and edge leaders, and its India edition, hosted by Infosys on February 25 in Bengaluru, continues this legacy with a full-day program spotlighting AI-native, cloud-native, and open networking innovation. Register now to secure your spot >>
  • LF Networking has published its 2025 Year in Review: Powering the Open AI-Native Networking Revolution, highlighting how the community advanced open, interoperable, and AI-native networking in 2025 and what’s ahead in 2026. Read the full report to learn more >>
  • Are you attending KubeCon + CloudNative Con EU next month? Join LF Networking and Project Sylva for Cloud Native Telco Day on March 23, 2026, in Amsterdam, and connect with telco, networking, and cloud native communities to share insights, lessons learned, and new ideas driving open source innovation.
  • Connect with LF Networking leaders at MWC Barcelona, March 2–5:
    • Attend the Agentic AI Summit on March 2 to hear a featured fireside chat with Arpit Joshipura and Dr. Junlan Feng (China Mobile) on “The Agentic Imperative,” exploring how Agentic AI is driving network autonomy and new telecom opportunities
    • 5G Future Summit March 2, 15:00-19:00 — Joshipura will also join a fireside chat with Dr. Tom Rondeau, Principal Director for FutureG, US Department of Defense, as part of the week’s 5G and next-generation networking programming.
    • Visit the Infosys booth (Hall 2, Stand 2E43) to catch Arpit’s panel discussion on open networking and AI on March 3.
  • LF Networking has launched a new Nephio Community Webinar Series spotlighting recent project progress and community work, from architecture and CAMARA integration to observability, GitOps, security, and ecosystem collaboration. Check out the latest Nephio episodes >>

Margo

  • Margo Preview Release 1 (PR1) | PR1 provides early access to an interoperable industrial edge application lifecycle management specification and sandbox environment.
    • This preview enables ecosystem participants to explore application packaging, hosting, and fleet management concepts, validate interoperability use cases, and contribute feedback that will inform the first general release in 2026.

Open 3D Foundation

  • Open 3D Engine 25.10.2 Released: 25.10.2 Release Notes are now available. This maintenance release addresses issues identified in 25.10.1 and improves key workflows:
    • Project Manager: Requirements for the Visual Studio version have been loosened, ensuring newer versions do not trigger compatibility errors when building new projects.
    • Export Project: Asset files for shading and global illumination are now correctly bundled in exported packages.
  • In the latest O3DE Connect meeting, Joe Bryant reviewed the project’s progress over the past year and outlined plans for 2026, including upcoming releases and continued improvements for contributors. Read the full recap: O3DE 2025 in Review and a Look into 2026
  • The first O3DE newsletter of 2026 highlights key updates from the ecosystem:
  • Significant community growth in 2025.
  • Upcoming Open 3D Connect meetings to review 2025 and preview 2026.
  • Opportunities for speakers and contributors to participate in Open 3D Connect and blog features.

OpenIDL

  • Did you know openIDL released the first-ever free and open production-ready insurance data standard known as openIDS (open Insurance Data Standards)? Find openIDL standards here >>
    • Community Specifications
    • openIDS Base Standards v.1.0
    • openIDS Homeowners Standard v.1.0

OpenInfra Foundation

  • The OpenInfra Foundation welcomes Hystax, Leaseweb, and Spitzkop as its newest Silver Members. Meet the global network of organizations powering the future of open source infrastructure.
  • This year, the OpenInfra Summit Asia is combined with KubeCon CloudNativeCon & PyTorch Conference China in Shanghai, September 8-9. Registration and the CFP will be opening soon.

  • Kata Containers will have a booth at KubeCon CloudNativeCon EU. Meet members of the community and learn how you can secure AI and sensitive workloads with hardware-based isolation.

OpenJS Foundation

  • Check out the OpenJS Security Program Annual Report 2025! With support from Alpha-Omega, we leveled up security across Node.js and the OpenJS ecosystem in 2025. Faster vulnerability response, automated releases, a new OpenJS CNA, stronger disclosure practices, and hands on support for over 10 projects.
  • OpenJS Foundation is hosting a dedicated summit at RenderATL, built just for Node.js and JavaScript folks. Learn more about the summit, which happens August 12-13 in Atlanta in a recent blog post >>
  • Understanding JavaScript security is more important than ever! Check out our free training course to better spot security flaws in JavaScript apps, design safer systems, and bring a security-first mindset to every stage of development.
  • New on the blog:
    • AI is changing how software vulnerabilities are discovered and how quickly they are reported. For community-led open source projects, this shift is both promising and deeply challenging. Check a recent blog on how AI is stress-testing open source security.

    • Lodash rolls out major security overhaul—It includes security fixes, stronger governance, and improved maintenance which means it's safer and more reliable for your projects.

Open Mainframe Project

  • Now live: The Open Mainframe Project Annual Report! Celebrating a decade of open mainframe, check out the progress we’ve made together, from technical advancements across projects to continued growth in mentorship and community engagement worldwide.
  • In the latest I am a Mainframer episode, Hunter Johnson of Broadcom explains how the Beyond Code initiative focuses on real-world challenges facing mainframe organizations.

Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) Project

  • OPI will be onsite at the OCP EMEA Summit, April 29-30 in Barcelona, sharing a booth with SONiC and CHIPS Alliance, we will feature a handful of OPI demos. More details are coming soon, but mark your calendars and plan to stop by!

OpenSearch

  • OpenSearch 3.5 is here | This release brings expanded Prometheus support, enhanced search optimization through Search Relevance Workbench, agentic memory for self-learning apps, and greater control over query performance. Read the blog to learn more >>
  • Bianca Lewis, Executive Director of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, has been named a finalist in the Innovative Women in Tech Leadership category for the 2026 theCUBE Technology Innovation Awards. Her leadership in open source search continues to drive meaningful innovation and real-world impact across the technology ecosystem. Learn more >>
  • Learn about the OpenSearch Ambassador Program, applications for the 2026-2027 cohort are open until February 16, 2026. Apply today >>
  • In a recent TFiR article, Bianca Lewis of the OpenSearch Software Foundation explores why 2026 will be a pivotal year for agent-ready databases, and how AI agents are driving new requirements for search, data access, and system design. Read more >>
  • In the latest episode of InstaBlinks, member company NetApp Instaclustr speaks with Dotan Horovits, OpenSearch Ambassador, to explore the current search technology landscape and explain why the future lies in combining vector and traditional approaches through Hybrid Search. Watch here >> to learn how hybrid search can make your results smarter, faster, and more precise.
  • An article in InfoQ reveals how Uber is gradually migrating all search use cases to OpenSearch’s pull-based ingestion, moving toward a cloud-native, scalable architecture while continuing to enhance the platform and contribute to the OpenSearch community. Read more >>
  • As part of VMblog’s 18th annual predictions series, Bianca Lewis joins industry executives and experts to share perspectives on how search, observability, and AI will coevolve in 2026. Read on >>
  • OpenSearch blogs feature the latest updates across search innovation, community programs, and platform stability. Explore how the OpenSearch Vector Engine is transforming enterprise search with AI-powered semantic capabilities, hybrid search, and RAG integration, enhancements to the OpenSearch Kubernetes Operator, and upcoming opportunities to connect with the community at OpenSearchCon China. Stay up to date with the latest technical insights, community news, and event announcements here. Interested in submitting a blog for OpenSearch? Learn more about the blog process here.
  • Upcoming OpenSearchCon events:

OpenSSF

  • In 2025, the OpenSSF community participated across FOSDEM in a wide range of sessions and discussions. OpenSSF contributors led packed devroom sessions and hands-on security discussions. The community also announced a global initiative focused on helping open source maintainers, manufacturers, and software stewards prepare for cybersecurity regulations, including the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Read our FOSDEM Recap and reflections >>
  • New community initiatives, including OSSAfrica, are working to expand open source security awareness and participation by supporting contributors and maintainers in underrepresented regions and connecting local communities with global efforts. Read the announcement >>
  • A new OpenSSF blog examines how voluntary security attestation models under the EU Cyber Resilience Act could unintentionally shift liability and operational burden onto open source developers and stewards.
  • Season 3 of What’s in the SOSS?, the OpenSSF podcast, has officially launched with new episodes exploring open source security, community leadership, and practical insights from across the ecosystem. Tune in every other Tuesday for fresh conversations and new perspectives.
  • Open source security works best when it’s built together. Organizations can join OpenSSF to collaborate on shared solutions and invest in the long-term security of the open source ecosystem. All are welcome to get involved by contributing to projects, joining working groups, and participating in community discussions.

Overture Maps Foundation

    • Transportation: Added ~85,000 km of new road segments, expanding coverage across ~150 countries
    • Places: ~150,000 new place records added from DAC Group
    • Addresses: Re-promoted December data, including a new province-level dataset for Quebec
    • Base, Buildings, Divisions: Minor incremental updates across all themes
    • GERS: Registry and bridge files updated and available for continued integration
    • Read the release notes and get the open data >>
    • Overture Maps Foundation Executive Director Will Mortenson looks back on three years of progress -- from building open, interoperable map data at global scale to launching GERS, the backbone of geospatial interoperability. Learn how shared infrastructure is reducing the “conflation tax,” accelerating innovation, and reshaping the future of mapmaking worldwide.
  • GeoBuiz Summit 2026 Highlights: Collaboration, Interoperability, and Infrastructure
    • Last month, Overture Maps joined leaders across industry, government, and academia at GeoBuiz Summit 2026 to discuss the future of open, interoperable geospatial data and the shared infrastructure needed to support it.
    • Our recap blog highlights include Will Mortenson’s perspective on providing a common foundation of map data, a consistent schema, and the Global Entity Reference System (GERS) to make it easier to connect datasets and reduce redundant work.
    • We’re excited to share that we’re now a Strategic Organizational Member of OpenStreetMap US, reinforcing our commitment to the open mapping ecosystem. Learn more.
  • Easier Access to Overture Datasets – STAC catalogue
    • Overture now offers a STAC catalogue that brings all available datasets together in one convenient place – making discovery, access, and reuse simpler than ever. To make things even better, every dataset is also released as a PMTiles file, allowing you to query data directly in your browser with no setup required. Learn more and start using STAC catalogue.
  • Upcoming Events
    • P3 Conference—March 23-25, 2026 | 📍Dallas, TX
      • Overture is sponsoring P3 Conference 2026. We’ll join a roundtable, host a panel on a new public-private partnership model, and have a booth onsite for deeper conversations.
    • Overture Member Summit 2026—April 21-23, 2026 | 📍Florence, Italy
    • Geospatial World Forum 2026—April 27 – May 1, 2026 | 📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands
      • Overture will be onsite at Geospatial World Forum 2026 with a dedicated booth, joining global leaders from government, industry, academia, and the open source community. Visit Overture’s booth to connect with the team.
  • Member Spotlights
    • Hospitality Meets Global Place IDs | Hospitality finally has a global registry for property IDs. With GERS (Global Entity Reference System) from the Overture Maps Foundation, organizations can reduce integration costs and focus on building better destination experiences across hotels, restaurants, tours, transportation, wellness, and more. See demo from inHotel of what GERS enables.
    • The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation Joined Overture as a Contributing Member | The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation has joined the Overture Maps Foundation as a contributing non-profit member. Through this collaboration, GEM will participate in Overture’s working groups and task forces, supporting the development of open, interoperable global building and infrastructure datasets. This work directly aligns with GEM’s mission to improve the quality, consistency, and transparency of exposure data used in seismic risk assessment. Learn more.
  • Overture In the News
    • GovCIO: A New Era of Open-Source Geospatial Collaboration – Will Mortenson discusses his transition from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to leading the Overture Maps Foundation. He shares how Overture is reducing duplication in mapmaking through open, collaborative geospatial infrastructure and expanding GERS beyond traditional mapping use cases.

    • Location Business News: New Overture Maps Chief, Industry Partners Signal End of ‘Data Tax’ at CES – Will Mortenson, newly appointed Executive Director of the Overture Maps Foundation, outlined Overture’s global expansion plans at CES, emphasizing open collaboration to eliminate the industry’s costly “data tax.”

P4

PyTorch Foundation

  • PyTorch Foundation: The Next Chapter, Together and Why I’m Joining the PyTorch Foundation announce a leadership transition as Mark Collier joins as Executive Director of PyTorch Foundation and Matt White transitions to CTO of PyTorch Foundation alongside his role as Global CTO of AI at Linux Foundation. The posts outline the Foundation’s evolution into a multi-project home for PyTorch, vLLM, DeepSpeed, and Ray, and priorities for the next phase of growth.
  • PyTorch Conference Europe 2026 will take place April 7–8 in Paris. The two-day event hosted by PyTorch Foundation will feature technical talks, hands-on workshops, and sessions spanning infrastructure, training, inference, agent-based applications, responsible AI, security, and privacy. Registration and sponsorship opportunities are available.
  • PyTorch Day India 2026 Recap highlights the inaugural PyTorch Day India in Bengaluru, which brought 460 in-person attendees together for technical talks on kernels, compilers, inference, and production AI systems.

RISC-V

  • New Free Course: Porting Software to RISC-V | A free, self-paced course for experienced engineers who need to move performance-critical software to RISC-V with confidence. Designed for those working close to the hardware, this advanced course focuses on real-world porting challenges across instruction sets, operating systems, and firmware. Enroll For Free >>

  • Community Challenge | Build a RISC-V Microcontroller from the Ground Up with HaDes-V, in partnership with Graz University of Technology, Using a modular, step-by-step approach, you will design a pipelined 32-bit RISC-V microcontroller, validate each stage with golden reference modules, and gain practical experience with SystemVerilog, verification, and debugging tools. The remote phase runs from March to May 2026 and requires only a standard laptop. RSVP Today >>

SONiC

Sylva

  • Join the Sylva community in Amsterdam, March 22-27, 2026 during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU:
    • Sylva + LF Networking are co-sponsoring Cloud Native Telco Day on March 23; and connect with telco, networking, and cloud native communities to share insights, lessons learned, and new ideas driving open source innovation.
    • Check out Sylva-related sessions >> at the main KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, and be sure to add them to your agenda!!
    • Sylva Developer Day is happening Friday, March 27 in Amsterdam. Extend your stay to dive deeper into the community and connect with folks working the code in real time. More details to follow.
  • Sylva v1.6 is now available! It brings a focused set of upgrades that make it easier to run, evolve, and secure cloud-native telco infrastructure, without adding operational drag. Learn more in this recent blog post >>

Valkey

  • Unlocked Conference (Jan 22): The Unlocked Conference featured several Valkey sessions, including Valkey 9.0: Scaling Without Chaos, Valkey in Production, 350 Caches Without a Fork, and more. Behind the scenes, the Valkey community also had a great time connecting and enjoying some fun at the photo booth.
  • Laracon India (Jan 31 - Feb 01): Valkey community member, Shirish Kulkarni ran the Valkey booth, demoed Laravel integrations for caching, sessions, and queues, and gave away Valkey swag that was a huge hit with attendees.
  • The Valkey newsletter is launching to share project updates, releases, community highlights, and what contributors are working on—all in one place. If you’re building with Valkey or just want to follow the project's growth, it’s a great way to stay in the loop. Learn here >>
  • Take a look back on 2025 with the Valkey community. It was a huge year for the community with the release of Valkey 9.0, seeing numerous key features added, and getting to host events like Keyspace Amsterdam. We can't wait to continue our story with this community, and come back with an even bigger presence in 2026. Read on >>

Zephyr Project

  • Brussels Calling—Zephyr Podcast #020 | Recorded during FOSDEM week, the latest Zephyr Podcast dives into recent Zephyr developments from documentation and CI improvements to build optimizations, networking updates, device tree enhancements, and new hardware features.

    • The episode also highlights FOSDEM talks, including previews of Zcompose and discussions on AI tools, release engineering, and real-time motor control. Listen to the latest podcast >>

  • Graphics Rendering Visual Library (grvl)—a lightweight GUI library for Zephyr-based MCUs | How can you build a touch-based user interface on an MCU without adding complexity?

    • This blog introduces grvl (Graphics Rendering Visual Library), a lightweight, open source GUI library for devices running Zephyr Project. grvl combines XML-based layouts with JavaScript scripting to create configurable touch interfaces with a small footprint and low power usage. The blog shows how grvl supports common image formats, multiple architectures, and even UI development without target hardware, making it well suited for embedded, industrial, and wearable devices. Read the full blog >>

  • Zephyr on HiFi4—DSP Development, Simplified

    • This blog explains how Zephyr Project runs on the Cadence HiFi4 DSP found in NXP i.MX and i.MX RT processors. It shows how the DSP can offload audio, signal processing, and AI workloads from ARM cores, improving responsiveness and reducing power consumption. Using Zephyr, developers get a unified, open workflow across ARM and DSP cores, with support for OpenAMP communication, real-time processing, and production-ready audio pipelines through Sound Open Firmware. Read the blog >>

  • Zephyr Project at FOSDEM 2026 & EU Open Source Week

    • The Zephyr Project had a strong presence in Brussels during FOSDEM 2026 and the wider EU Open Source Week. Across the FOSDEM stand shared with the Dronecode Foundation, an in-person community meetup, a packed Zephyr RTOS BoF, and technical sessions on topics such as SBOMs and embedded security, the community came together to share real-world experiences, demos, and ideas for the future of Zephyr.

       


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