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    Linux Foundation Newsletter: March 2026

    The Linux Foundation | 18 March 2026

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

    From new foundations to milestone anniversaries, this month underscores how open source continues to reshape industries—from the web platform powering billions of users to the telecom infrastructure enabling next-generation networks. Open governance is no longer just an aspiration; it's the operating model for the technologies the world depends on.

    This month brings landmark project contributions, surging momentum in agentic AI standardization, new open source foundations advancing 5G and 6G innovation, and a packed calendar of global events bringing communities together in person.

    Here are this month’s highlights:

    • The React Foundation Launches Under the Linux Foundation | Meta contributed the React project to the Linux Foundation, establishing the React Foundation with open governance and long-term operational support for one of the world's most widely used web frameworks. Initial Platinum members include Amazon, Callstack, Expo, Huawei, Meta, Microsoft, Software Mansion, and Vercel.
    • OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation Launches to Accelerate Open Source AI-RAN | Announced at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2026, the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation is a new global public-private initiative building a production-ready open source CU/DU stack for 5G and early 6G networks. Founding members include AMD, AT&T, DeepSig, Ericsson, Nokia, NVIDIA, Softbank Corp., SRS, and Verizon.
    • New Research: Active Open Source Contribution Delivers Up to 5x ROI | A new Linux Foundation Research report, ROI for Open Source Software Contribution, based on a global survey of 500+ IT leaders, finds that organizations actively contributing to open source realize a 2–5x return on investment—with code contribution delivering 3.6x, community contribution 3.2x, and financial contribution 2.4x. Meanwhile, passive consumers face hidden costs up to $3.5 million from maintaining private forks and internal workarounds.
    • Agentic AI Foundation Momentum: 97 New Members + MCP Dev Summit Schedule | The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) welcomed 97 new members—including Gold members like American Express, Autodesk, JPMorgan Chase, Red Hat, and ServiceNow—growing to 146 members shaping open agentic AI standards. The AAIF also unveiled the MCP Dev Summit North America schedule, featuring 95+ sessions in New York City on April 2–3.
    • Zephyr Project Celebrates 10 Years of Open Source Embedded Innovation | The Zephyr Project marked its 10th anniversary with new data showing it has become a production-grade, foundational technology for embedded systems worldwide. The celebration kicked off at the embedded world Exhibition & Conference 2026 in Nuremberg, Germany.

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

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    LF Europe: Community Updates

    • Open Sovereign Cloud Day, 23 March, 2026—Schedule Now Live | Co-hosted by CNCF and Linux Foundation Europe and co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, brings together cloud native practitioners, maintainers, and public and private sector stakeholders to explore how open source technologies enable digital sovereignty across Europe and beyond.
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      • As governments, enterprises, and critical industries seek greater control over data, infrastructure, and supply chains, cloud native technologies play a key role in building interoperable, resilient, and transparent systems. The event focuses on open, standards-based approaches to sovereignty, helping organizations avoid lock-in while supporting regulatory compliance, data residency, and operational resiliency.

      • The program features real-world case studies, lightning talks, and technical sessions including sessions on the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework, designing portability and exit strategies for cloud platforms, lessons learned from running sovereign cloud infrastructure for the International Telecommunication Union, and achieving data sovereignty with Kubernetes and CloudNativePG. The event will also include a panel discussion on reclaiming digital sovereignty for citizens and institutions.

      • Designed for engineers, platform builders, policymakers, and organizations working with sovereign cloud infrastructure and regulated environments, Open Sovereign Cloud Day highlights how the CNCF and Linux Foundation ecosystems are helping shape open and interoperable sovereign cloud platforms. Learn more about the schedule >>

    • Linux Foundation Europe participated in FOSS Backstage 2026 | A two-day conference dedicated to exploring the non-technical aspects of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The event brought together leaders, practitioners, and stakeholders from across the open source ecosystem to discuss topics such as community governance, legal and compliance challenges, open source economics, diversity and inclusion, security, and project sustainability.

      • As part of the program, Mirko Boehm, Senior Director for Community Development at Linux Foundation Europe, presented the session “Does FOSS Buy Sovereignty? Participation vs. Ownership.” The talk examined a key question shaping current European technology policy: whether simply adopting open source software leads to digital sovereignty.
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      • The session highlighted that sovereignty does not automatically arise from license freedoms alone. Instead, it depends on technical capability, institutional knowledge, and active participation in open source development communities. Mirko explored the difference between passive adoption and meaningful engagement such as contributing code, participating in project governance, and operating critical infrastructure and how these factors influence the ability of organizations and nations to shape technological trajectories and reduce dependency on proprietary systems.

      • The talk also introduced the concept of “interdependent autonomy,” emphasizing how participation in global FOSS communities can strengthen strategic autonomy while fostering collaborative innovation.

      • Learn more about the session >> 

    • A New Chapter for Linux Foundation Europe Leadership | Linux Foundation Europe is entering a new phase of growth and leadership. Since launching in 2022, it has grown into a vendor-neutral home for open collaboration in Europe, now supported by nearly 200 members and hosting seven collaborative projects.

      • In a recent blog post, Gabriele Columbro reflects on the organization’s progress in helping connect European open source efforts with global collaboration, while also raising the profile of open source in key policy discussions around topics such as the Cyber Resilience Act and digital sovereignty.
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      • Effective March 1, 2026, Thierry Carrez has become General Manager of Linux Foundation Europe. Carrez brings extensive experience in open infrastructure, governance, and community building through roles including General Manager of the OpenInfra Foundation, leadership in the OpenStack community, and long-standing involvement in open source institutions. Columbro will remain engaged through his role on the LF Europe Advisory Board, helping ensure continuity as LF Europe builds on its momentum to support Europe’s digital future through open, sustainable, and globally connected collaboration.

     

    LF Research: Two new reports

    What is the value of contributing to open source? We estimated contribution ROI in our latest report!

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    LF Research recently published ROI for Open Source Software Contribution, a study based on results from a survey and quantitative model asking the community to estimate the benefits and investments of contributing to open source. Findings show that organizations spend hundreds of thousands of dollars maintaining private forks or developing internal workarounds, while those who choose to contribute upstream experience faster responses to security issues, increased development speeds, easier talent retention, and reported benefit-to-cost ratios of 2-5x on average.

     

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    This month, LF Research also published Zephyr® Turns 10: A Decade of Adoption, Maturity, and Ecosystem Evolution! This report marks Zephyr’s 10-year anniversary by exploring how the project is used and perceived by organizations and contributors and what challenges and opportunities lie ahead. Drawing on survey data and qualitative interviews, the report shows that the project has reached operational maturity and is widely deployed, with varied criticality and integration into products. Key tensions shape Zephyr’s next decade, with sustainability challenges and emerging technologies requiring caution and security measures.

     

    Linux Foundation Projects: Featured news

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    Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)

    • The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), the open foundation driving the transparent and collaborative evolution of agentic AI, recently announced the addition of 18 new Gold Members and 79 new Silver Members. The AAIF now represents a community of 146 members collaborating to advance open protocols, tooling and best practices for agent-based AI systems.
    • AAIF’s new Governing Board Chair, David Nalley shares an update that highlights AAIF’s first quarter success story: new members, technical wins, and open governance. By combining knowledge from diverse organizations, he defines how we can solve complex technical challenges and build tools that serve developers, infrastructure operators, and end users.

    CAMARA

    • Hear insights from Christer Boberg, Head of Technology & Strategy at member organization Aduna Global, on how CAMARA and open source are shaping the telecom landscape in this new CAMARA Community Voices interview. Watch here >>
    • Diginomica’s Alyx McQueen spotlights CAMARA’s recent white paper, In Concert: Bridging AI Systems & Network Infrastructure through MCP, positioning CAMARA and MCP for network-aware AI applications. “CAMARA is exposing telecommunications network capabilities to AI agents through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), making network intelligence programmatically discoverable while defining the security.” Read on here >>
    • CAMARA at Mobile World Congress 2026:
      • CAMARA member organizations displayed CAMARA APIs in action via demos on the showfloor, including the Ericsson On Demand solution UI and the creation of simulated support tickets on a live 5G core instance running in Google Cloud, with a large volume of synthetic traffic flowing through the system.
      • Fireside Chat: Network APIs, from 1 to 47: How DITO, Twilio and Shush are Delivering Real Results
      • CAMARA Outreach Committee chair, Markus Kummerle, was a judge at the Open Gateway Hackathon, a two-day challenge where 96 developers built real solutions using AI agentic systems and mobile network APIs. The hackathon challenged the teams to build innovative applications using network APIs through Nokia’s Network as Code platform – sponsored by Nokia and delivered in collaboration with Google Cloud, Orange, MasOrange, Telefónica and Vodafone.
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      • The community co-hosted a community reception at MWC Barcelona with member org Red Hat in Barcelona on March 3rd. It was energizing to connect with 130+ community members (with a full waitlist), from operators, to developers, partners, and open source leaders, who are helping make network capabilities more accessible through open APIs.
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    • Community news coverage:
      • Telstra iTNews that it and Optus are participating in the GSMA Open Gateway industry wide initiative, to accelerate work to make CAMARA standard network APIs more widely available in the Australian market. Details here >>
      • TradingView reports that Aduna is accelerating global Network API adoption with a major ecosystem expansion, which includes CAMARA-based aggregated network APIs. Learn more here >>
      • Catch CAMARA at Cloud Native Telco Day on 22 March in Amsterdam, co-located wit KubeCon + CloudNative Con EU. The panel session, “From Footprint to Value: Commercial Adoption of CAMARA APIs” features member panelists Andreas Boruga (Aduna Global), Nathan Rader (Deutsche Telekom & Chair of CAMARA’s governing body) and Huub Applelboom (KPN) discussing what “good” looks like for multi-operator availability, basic expectations on conformance and SLAs, and how those signals unlock real adoption, specifically for the cloud.

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    Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

    • Announcing H2 2026 KCDs | We’re excited to announce the full list of Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs) for 2026! These community-organized events bring together local practitioners, adopters, and contributors to connect and share cloud native knowledge.
    • 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.
    • CNCF Annual Report 2025 | 2025 marks ten years of progress for the CNCF and was a pinnacle year for the evolution of open source cloud native innovation. CNCF now hosts more than 230 projects with over 300,000 contributors worldwide, making it one of the largest open source organizations in the world.

    Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC)

    • CCC welcomed two new members, Invary (General Member) and Modelyo (Startup Member), reflecting continued industry adoption of Confidential Computing.
      • Invary is a cybersecurity company focused on continuous Runtime Integrity attestation, enabling organizations to verify that systems remain in a trusted state throughout execution, not just at boot. Joining the Confidential Computing Consortium allows Invary to collaborate with industry leaders who are shaping the future of trusted execution.Through CCC participation, Invary aims to help advance industry understanding of runtime integrity and contribute to standards that support verifiable trust throughout the workload lifecycle. Read more >>
      • Modelyo is a confidential computing platform built for government and regulated industries, where strong security guarantees and data sovereignty are essential. The platform uses OpenStack together with Intel SGX and Intel TDX to enable organizations to run sensitive workloads with hardware-level protection, while maintaining full control over their infrastructure and data.Through participation in the consortium, Modelyo aims to contribute practical deployment experience to the broader community, helping accelerate adoption and improve operational understanding of confidential computing in regulated contexts. Read more >>
    • CCC introduced a new benefit for Premier Members: an annual podcast conversation with the Executive Director to highlight thought leadership, innovations, and open source advancements. Read CCC’s newsletter to learn more.
    • CCC participated in OC3 (March 12–13, hybrid Berlin + online) and NVIDIA GTC (week of March 17), where members will showcase real-world deployments of Confidential Computing and Secure AI. CCC’s Executive Director, Mike Bursell, delivered a talk around regulations and standards in Confidential Computing. 
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    • The CCC received an update on OpenVMM from Caroline (Microsoft). Microsoft informed the CCC that while OpenVMM is currently used in millions of production Azure VMs and is not yet fully open source, the company is actively working to migrate the project to a neutral GitHub organization. This transition is complex but is being undertaken to meet CCC requirements. Read CCC’s newsletter to learn more.

    Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF)

    • What’s the ROI for open source? A new report by The Linux Foundation shows that by simply using OSS, organizations get 4.8 x ROI, but why stop there? Being an active member of an open source foundation offers the same bonus. Companies can also unlock further gains by contributing to the code or the community. Read more >>
    • cdCon 2026 is where the next era of software delivery takes shape | Plan to join us at Open Source Summit in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 18–19. View cdCon schedule >> (will be announced today).
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    Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF)

    • Vouched has donated MCP-I to DIF, an open identity and delegation standard for AI agents to be developed under the Trusted AI Agents Working Group. Read more >>
    • Watch out for upcoming DIF Hot Takes: Join Eric Scouten and Gideon Lombard for their takeaways from DID Unconference Africa, and Alex Bainbridge for his takeaways from ITB Berlin.

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    eBPF Foundation

    • Introducing the eBPF Meetup Program |The eBPF Foundation launched a new Meetup Program to support the growth of local communities by providing financial assistance for venue costs, food, and swag. This initiative empowers developers to share real-world production experiences and collaborate on the next generation of eBPF projects.

    • eBPF Fellowship Update: Podcasts, Labs, and Community Building | The eBPF Community & Advocacy Fellowship Program has its first round of updates, highlighting new initiatives to lower the entry barrier for developers, including interactive eBPF Coding Labs, expert-led podcasts, and launching the first-ever eBPF meetup in Slovenia.

    • The RISC architecture frontier: Is eBPF ready for ARM64 and RISC-V? | The New Stack explores eBPF's expansion beyond x86, highlighting ARM64’s maturity as a "first-class citizen" and the ongoing efforts to bring standardized, "write once, run anywhere" capabilities to RISC-V.

    • eBPF report shows efficiency, security gains at scale | CFOtech covers the eBPF Foundation's new research report, which highlights how major enterprises like Meta, Cloudflare, and Netflix are achieving massive cost savings and performance gains. The report provides quantified evidence of eBPF’s ROI, including a 35% reduction in CPU usage for Datadog and 50% lower networking costs for Polar Signals.

    • Why eBPF Is Redefining How Software Runs Inside the Linux Kernel | Techstrong TV features a discussion on how organizations are moving observability and security functions directly into the kernel to achieve lower latency and improved operational efficiency.

    Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) Project

    • From Requirements to Code: Managing End-to-End Traceability with BASIL - ELISA Seminar.

      • If you missed the ELISA Seminar or want to rewatch it, the recording is now available.

      • In this session, Luigi Pellecchia (Red Hat) explores BASIL, an open source requirements and traceability management tool under the ELISA Project that helps teams connect specifications, requirements, test artifacts, documentation, and source code using flexible traceability matrices. Watch the recording Watch the recroding here >>

    • ELISA Project at the Embedded World 2026 | The ELISA Project joined the Embedded World Exhibition & Conference (March 10–12, 2026) in Nürnberg, Germany, engaging with the global embedded systems community around the safe use of Linux in safety-critical systems. As part of the conference program, Kate Stewart (The Linux Foundation) presented “Approaches on Assessing Safe Usage of Linux,” sharing insights into current ELISA Project approaches for evaluating Linux in regulated environments. ELISA ambassadors and community members were also present to connect with attendees and discuss collaboration around Linux-based safety-critical development.

    • Introducing the ELISA Glossary | In the latest ELISA Project blog, Simone Weiß (Linutronix) introduces the ELISA Glossary, a growing resource designed to clarify common terms used in safety-critical open source and the ELISA community. The glossary provides practical definitions covering safety, embedded software, standards, and open source processes, helping readers navigate technical discussions and documentation more easily. Read the blog >> to learn more and explore the glossary.

       

    FinOps Foundation

    • FinOps X 2026 Agenda is Live | Sessions from Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, Intuit, Palo Alto Networks, Canva, and more are now on the agenda. Browse keynotes, chalk talks, and breakouts covering AI cost management, unit economics, FOCUS implementation, and FinOps at scale.
    • State of FinOps 2026 Report | The sixth annual State of FinOps report captures how the discipline has expanded across the full technology portfolio and what teams are prioritizing in 2026.
    • FinOps Framework 2026 Update | The FinOps Framework has been updated for 2026, including a refreshed definition of FinOps, clarified Scopes, and updates to Principles, Capabilities, and Phases.

    High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF)

    • HPSFCon 2026 is this week! Follow our social channels | LinkedIn and Bluesky to stay up to date with HPSF projects and talks from the conference.

      • The first several days are packed with main stage sessions and then HPSF Project Meetings kick off on Wednesday afternoon through Friday including: AMReX, Apptainer, Chapel, Charliecloud, Environment Modules, Flux Framework, HPX, Kokkos, OpenCHAMI User Summit, Spack, and Trilinos User Group (TUG).

    LF AI & Data

      • KubeFlowDay (Flyte project team onsite)
      • LF AI & Data will be featured at the AI Native Summit, co-located with KubeCon Amsterdam on March 27 (co-hosted by ETSI & CNCF) with sessions on Docling and the state of the union by Mark Collier, as well as sessions from board member Stephen Chin at the main conference.
      • The Flyte project will be presented in the Union.ai booth

    LF Broadband

    • Open source software and open standards are increasingly foundational to modern broadband networks, but their real value is unlocked when they evolve together. LF Broadband and the Broadband Forum are hosting a webinar on April 9 to examine trends around open broadband technologies and standards, and the role of AI. Register for free >>
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    • LF Broadband announced VOLTHA version 2.15, with fine-grained ONU control, better PM statistics, and stability improvements.

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    LF Edge

    • The State of the Edge 2026 report is now available, featuring insights from nine industry experts on the most important trends shaping edge computing, including AI-driven architectures, agentic AI at the edge, next-generation wireless systems, and emerging industry use cases across industrial, tactical, space, and retail environments.
    • What if you could run AI on industrial data without sending it to the cloud? See how EdgeLake enables AI at the edge by keeping data local while allowing queries from anywhere, supporting real-time analytics, AI-generated dashboards, and LLM-powered insights across distributed edge environments.

    LF Energy 

    • Registration Open for LF Energy Summit Europe 2026 | Registration is now live for LF Energy Summit Europe 2026, taking place September 15–16. The event convenes utilities, vendors, and practitioners to showcase open source implementations for production-grade digital energy infrastructure. Early bird rates are available through June 30.
    • Pionix Wins 2026 Hitachi eMobility Startup Challenge | LF Energy member Pionix received the infrastructure category award at the Hitachi eMobility Startup Challenge. This recognition highlights the role of the EVerest project in providing a stable, industrial-grade open stack for software defined charging that reduces integration friction and supports compliance.
    • FlexMeasures v0.31 Adds Forecasting API and Data Annotations | FlexMeasures v0.31 introduces API endpoints for triggering and retrieving forecasts for sensor data. The release also restores visual annotations on time series data, enabling operators to add context to data in the UI. Additional improvements include enhanced CSV upload validation and infrastructure updates.
    • 7 Design Challenges in Behind-The-Meter Orchestration | Nicolas Höning of Seita Energy Flexibility and LF Energy FlexMeasures maintainer identifies seven key design challenges for behind-the-meter (BTM) energy management. The analysis covers stack levels, optimization scope, sector coupling, and the choice between business rules, algorithms, or deep learning for orchestration logic.
    • A Case Study on Testing LFE Seapath at National Grid Electricity Transmission | National Grid Electricity Transmission conducted a proof of concept with GE to evaluate LFE Seapath for hosting virtualized protection applications. In lab testing across 44,000 repetitions, the average round trip time was 5.5 milliseconds, demonstrating the deterministic real time performance required for protection systems. National Grid intends to deploy a pilot scheme using this architecture before 2030.
    • What Do Virtualization and SEAPATH Really Change for RTE? | RTE describes its move from turnkey, supplier-specific systems toward an interoperable architecture using SEAPATH. The presentation details how RTE uses a three-server cluster to virtualize HMI, gateway, and automation functions, enabling VM-level redundancy and reducing hardware complexity.
    • Introduction to GEISA | Michael Stuber of Southern California Edison introduced the Grid Edge Interoperability and Security Alliance (GEISA). The project defines management and data APIs and execution environments to support application deployment across grid edge devices, with an initial focus on interoperability for electric meters.

    LF Networking

    • ONE Summit India, hosted by member organization Infosys, took place in Bangalore on February 25. The event featured over 130 attendees from across 35 organizations with collaborative discussions focused on where telecom is headed next: AI-native networking, cloud native infrastructure, and open collaboration as the operating model to get there. Read the summary blog >> for more details, and stay tuned for slides and videos!
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    • At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Dr. Junlan Feng of LF Networking platinum member organization, China Mobile (and former LFN Board Chair), presented “The Agentic Imperative” at MWC's Agentic AI Summit. The session highlighted how open source is helping turn Agentic AI into real-world, scalable systems: by connecting AI agents with cloud-native networking and programmable infrastructure and referenced LFN’s recent white paper, "Architecting Autonomy: The Convergence of Agentic AI and Open Source Networking.”
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    • Cloud Native Telco Day, happening 22 March and co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU in Amsterdam, features a packed agenda combining networking and cloud native open source communities to collaborate, share lessons learned and new concepts applicable across both worlds. LFN is co-sponsoring the event with Sylva; sign up to attend today!
    • LF Networking’s latest publication, Architecting Autonomy: The Convergence of Agentic AI and Open Source Networking, outlines how agentic AI can power autonomous network operations and AI-ready infrastructure. Download it here >>
    • LFN is a sponsor of the The Linux Foundation’s 2025 Open Source ROI Survey examining how organizations use and contribute to open source and the measurable impact of upstream engagement. Across 567 organizations, the report finds 2–5x ROI across contribution types and ~10% faster product development for contributors. In the report, LF VSP/ GM of Networking, Arpit Joshipura, cites the Networking industry moving from using open source to building the network with it through upstream collaboration.
    • The Nephio community webinar series explores progress toward the R6 release, updates on the project’s evolving architecture and GitOps foundations, and collaboration with initiatives including Sylva, O-RAN, and CAMARA. Sessions also cover observability, security, GenAI-driven automation, and adoption across the community. Watch the sessions >>

    Margo

    • The Margo Initiative is accelerating interoperable edge application management with Preview Release 1 (PR1). PR1 focuses on interoperability at the industrial edge including themes covering application definitions, fleet management strategies, and workload hosting device requirements. Industrial end users, application developers, device manufacturers, and workload fleet manager providers can now begin to validate industrial use cases and monitor incremental progress toward a fully interoperable ecosystem, evaluate interoperable lifecycle management and monitoring strategies via workload fleet management software, explore how applications can be defined and packaged for consistent deployment across Margo-compliant devices, and understand device requirements that enable interoperable management and application hosting.

    NEWTON

    • Announcing the availability of Newton 1.0, the latest update from the open-source, extensible physics engine, supercharges robot learning through robust, physics-based simulation.

      • Key highlights of Newton 1.0 include:

        • Stable Articulated & Complex Mechanism Simulation for accurate, reliable machine modeling.
        • High-Fidelity Hydroelastic Contact Modeling for realistic soft contact and touch-based interactions.
        • Deformable Body Simulation for simulating cables, cloth, rubber, and other elastic materials with VBD.
        • Accelerated Robot Learning at Scale for seamless integration with open simulation and learning frameworks.
      • Learn more about Newton 1.0 >>

       

    Open 3D Foundation

    • O3DE has joined the Academy Software Foundation as an associate member. The project looks forward to contributing to initiatives and working groups focused on advancing graphics, rendering, and interoperability helping drive the next wave of innovation in 3D content creation. Press release here >>
    • February O3DE Connect - Andre Alvarez acted as spokesperson for a team of five who created In Sight over a single weekend at Global Game Jam using Open 3D Engine (v25.10.2) — a dreamlike game exploring “Masks.” Learn more here >>
    • O3DE exhibited at SCALE 23x with a booth run by the SoCal O3DE user group.
    • Read about O3DE Contributor of the Month, Reece Hagan - a self-taught programmer whose passion for coding and gaming began at age 11. Today, Reece is making significant contributions to O3DE, helping advance the open source engine while inspiring the broader community. Learn more about his journey here >>

    OpenIDL

    • openIDL is transforming how the insurance industry understands, shares, and leverages data. With Open Insurance Data Standards (openIDS), we are establishing a common foundation that empowers insurers, regulators, and solution providers to innovate with greater speed, consistency, and confidence.

    Open Mainframe Project

    • We’re excited to announce the Mainframe Software Hub for Linux! 🙌 💙 This vendor-neutral hub is designed to centralize build scripts, patches, and releases in one location, making it easier than ever for the community to find and use open-source software on s390x architecture.
    • NEW EPISODE: I Am a Mainframer: Junior Tamekem Tadiffo, IBM Z Student Ambassador. Junior Tadiffo shares his journey discovering the mainframe through a friend's recommendation, earning IBM Z badges on z/OS Explore, and leading the University at Buffalo IBM Z Club.

    Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) Project

    • Catch OPI onsite in Barcelona, April 29-30 at OCP EMEA Summit. In a shared space with sister projects CHIPS Alliance and SONiC, OPI members will feature OPI demos in action.

    OpenJS Foundation

    • Node.js is moving to one major release per year starting with Node 27! 🚀 Read why we're evolving >>
    • We announced the new Node.js LTS Upgrade and Modernization Program! We're helping enterprises move safely off end-of-life Node.js versions to reduce security risks alongside NodeSource. Check out the details on the on the OpenJS blog >>
    • We’re thrilled to welcome Socket as our newest Silver member. Socket is doing critical work to secure the JavaScript ecosystem by helping developers identify and prevent supply chain risks.
    • ICYMI 👀 We're hosting a summit at RenderATL this August! This summit gives stage maintainers and contributors to share real world lessons and experience. Learn more and register today >> 

    OpenSearch

    • February newsletter highlighted new blog articles, release notes, member company IBM case study and more. Stay in touch with OpenSearch Updates>>
    • Release highlights and new features:
      • Data Prepper 2.14: The OpenSearch Data Prepper maintainers announced the release of Data Prepper 2.14. This version expands support for observability use cases with new application performance monitoring service map and improved Prometheus support. Big thanks to all of our OpenSearch Data Prepper maintainers.
      • OpenSearch Agent Health is a new open source observability and evaluation solution for AI agents. It’s available as a zero-installation NPX tool that delivers three core capabilities in a lightweight (~4 MB) package:
        • Solving the reasoning gap: OpenTelemetry-native trace observability.
        • Solving the cost-latency spiral: Structured benchmarking.
        • Solving the evaluation paradox: Real-time agent evaluation
      • 2026 OpenSearch Roadmap: The OpenSearch community leaders explore how far OpenSearch has come and outline the 2026 roadmap — built on four pillars: search modernization, observability & analytics, scalability & resiliency, and community & platform. These pillars set the course for OpenSearch as the preferred open source solution for search, analytics, and observability
    • Media coverage:
      • A recent article in ITBrief UK highlighted the upcoming OpenSearchCon Europe 2026 event, taking place in Prague on April 16-17, sharing that its agenda places migration stories, operational tooling choices and AI-era retrieval methods side by side, reflecting how search and observability teams increasingly share infrastructure and engineering priorities. Read more >>
    • Recent events
      • OpenSearch participated in SCALE 23x in Pasadena from March 5–8 with a booth, live demo, and swag. The event also included a session titled “OpenSearch: The Open Source Path to Search and Observability,” presented by Anirudha Jadhav and Shenoy Pratik Gurudatt. The talk included the latest improvements in query performance and scalability, and real-time analytics, as well as its expanding ecosystem with new plugins and SDKs in multiple programming languages, and its compatibility with cloud-native environments.
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      • OpenSearch Ambassadors Amanda Katona and Kris Freedain were live at the LF Members Summit, presenting on 1 Year of Open Governance and what it has meant for the OpenSearch Software Foundation. Since joining a vendor-neutral foundation, the results are impressive, and the future of the OpenSearch Project is brighter than ever.
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    OpenSSF

    • OpenSSF announced the Gemara Model, a framework proposing a seven-layer architecture for the GRC technology stack. Developed by contributors across the ecosystem, the model brings engineering discipline to governance and compliance processes while enabling automated, scalable risk management aligned with modern software development practices. Read the blog >> and the publication >>
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    • The OpenSSF February Newsletter highlights several key initiatives across the ecosystem, including the release of a new Compiler Annotations Guide for C/C++ designed to improve memory safety without requiring major code rewrites. The issue also features updates on Security Slam 2026, a 30-day challenge helping projects strengthen security hygiene, and the newly released agenda for Open Source SecurityCon Europe in Amsterdam. What’s new at OpenSSF? Stay in the loop with all the latest updates and events within our community.
    • The OpenSSF Baseline and Best Practices Badge Program continues to help open source projects demonstrate their security posture through a recognized community standard. By meeting practical security requirements, projects can earn the OpenSSF Baseline Badge and signal to users and contributors that they follow established open source security best practices. Read the blog >>
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    • OpenSSF recently convened leaders from major open source package repositories, including npm, PyPI, Maven Central, RubyGems, crates.io, Packagist, CPAN, and Go modules, to discuss shared security challenges across ecosystems. The discussion emphasized the importance of maintainer identity protection, governance and abuse handling, transparency and auditability, and the role of sustainability in maintaining secure software repositories. Read the blog >>
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    • A new OpenSSF case study with Red Hat examines how organizations can prepare for the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) while supporting sustainable open source development. The collaboration highlights how frameworks like SLSA and the Open Source Project Security (OSPS) Baseline can help organizations meet regulatory requirements without placing undue burden on volunteer maintainers. Read the case study >> to learn more.
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    • “What’s in the “SOSS”?” Podcast
      • A new episode of the “What’s in the SOSS?” podcast features Jennifer Power and Hannah Braswell (Red Hat) joining OpenSSF’s Sally Cooper to discuss the Gemara Project and how it aims to improve interoperability across Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) engineering in open source ecosystems. The conversation explores how the Gemara model can help standardize approaches to automated risk assessment and governance across modern software development environments. Listen now >>
      • In the AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) podcast series, OpenSSF leaders Jeff Diecks and Christopher Robinson discuss the groundbreaking AIxCC. The competition was designed to create autonomous systems capable of finding and patching vulnerabilities in open source software, a crucial effort given the pervasive nature of open source in the tech ecosystem. Listen to the podcasts: Episode 1 >> | Episode 2 >> | Episode 3 >> | Episode 4 >>

    Overture Maps Foundation

    • BrightQuery joined the Overture Maps Foundation as a General Member, with plans to contribute large-scale organizational and location datasets spanning 324M organizations, 512M locations, and 1.2B people across 222 countries. This contribution will significantly strengthen the Overture Places dataset, adding authoritative global coverage and improving interoperability for developers building mapping, analytics, and AI applications.
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    • Overture will participate in the Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) Toronto on April 14, where Senior Community Manager Nora Anwar will join a panel exploring the role of shared entity graphs and open governance in financial data infrastructure. The session will introduce a new open data consortium under The Linux Foundation and discuss how shared standards can help financial institutions better connect and analyze global entity data.
    • Overture data continues to support academic and student innovation, including a recent project from the Corporate Innovation Laboratory at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Students used Overture data alongside Mapillary imagery to address the “last-meter navigation” challenge by identifying building entrances, demonstrating how open map data can help solve real-world geospatial problems. Learn more >>
    • The latest Overture Places dataset (72M+ points of interest) was recently analyzed by Big Data & GIS consultant Mark Litwintschik, who explored its structure and composition using tools such as DuckDB, Python, and QGIS. His technical breakdown highlights the scale and usability of the dataset for applications ranging from local discovery tools to global logistics and analytics systems. Learn more >>
    • The February Overture Maps newsletter highlighted ongoing improvements across the open datasets and continued development of the Global Entity Reference System (GERS). GERS aims to provide a shared identifier system for geospatial entities, helping organizations connect datasets and reduce the costly “conflation” work often required to merge map data from different sources. Subscribe to Overture’s newsletter >>
    • Overture will be present at P3C 2026 in Dallas, where the team will showcase how open, interoperable geospatial data can support large-scale infrastructure projects. A featured panel will explore how shared map foundations can help governments and industry collaborate more effectively on initiatives such as transportation planning, emergency response, and permitting systems.
    • The foundation will also attend Geospatial World Forum 2026 (April 27–May 1 in Amsterdam), one of the leading global gatherings for the geospatial industry. Overture will host a booth and engage with the community to discuss how open map data supports sovereign data strategies, cross-sector collaboration, and the development of shared geospatial infrastructure.

    P4

    • GSoC 2026: P4 Language Consortium Accepted: The P4 Language Consortium is back in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2026 for the third year in a row, with 8 project ideas. We’re looking for students who want to spend the summer coding with us. Learn more >> 
    • Gigaflow: Pipeline-Aware Sub-Traversal Caching for Modern SmartNICs: The challenge with modern virtual switches is their inability to efficiently offload millions of dynamic wildcard rules to SmartNICs because hardware caches are too small. Enter Gigaflow. Learn more >>
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    PyTorch Foundation

    • PyTorch Conference Europe 2026 Schedule is live, featuring 95+ technical sessions. The program spans eight tracks including infrastructure, training, inference, agent-based applications, and responsible AI, with featured talks on audio modality for LLMs, torch.compile C++ wrapper mode, and compliance engineering. Register now >> for PyTorchCon EU from 7-8 April in Paris, France.
    • PyTorch Foundation Announces New Members as Agentic AI Demand Grows - we recently welcomed nine new members including Clockwork.io, Emmi AI, NIPA, Nota AI., and yasp.ai. The expansion supports the growth of open source AI infrastructure projects like PyTorch, vLLM, DeepSpeed, and Ray as agentic AI demand accelerates.
    • PyTorch Day India 2026 Recap highlights the builder-focused event in Bengaluru hosted by PyTorch Foundation, IBM, NVIDIA, and Red Hat. The event brought 460 in-person attendees together for technical talks and interactive discussions to foster collaboration within the open source AI community.
    • PyTorch at NVIDIA GTC 2026 will showcase Helion and ExecuTorch at Booth #338 from March 16–19 in San Jose. Technical sessions will cover CUDA graphs, fault-tolerant training, and ultra-scale runbooks for NVIDIA GPUs.
    • PyTorch Helion Hackathon took place on March 14 in San Francisco. This hands-on event focused on GPU kernel authoring and performance optimization using the Helion framework.
    • Read our latest blogs >>
    • KernelAgent: Hardware-Guided GPU Kernel Optimization introduces an agentic system that achieves a 1.56× speedup over default torch.compile by integrating hardware-performance signals into a closed-loop multi-agent workflow for Triton Kernels.
    • FlexAttention + FlashAttention-4: Fast and Flexible presents a FlashAttention-4 backend for FlexAttention on Hopper and Blackwell GPUs. The implementation generates CuTeDSL code to provide 1.2× to 3.2× speedups on compute-bound workloads.
    • Deploying PyTorch Models to the Micro-Edge describes a TinyML pipeline using ExecuTorch and Arm Corstone-320. It details training a CNN in PyTorch and deploying it to a simulated Arm Ethos-U NPU for on-device inference.
    • Enhancing Multimodal Training and Memory Efficiency with DeepSpeed introduces a PyTorch-identical backward API and low-precision model states. These updates enable a 30% speedup for multimodal training and a 40% reduction in peak memory.
    • Quantization-Aware Training in TorchAO (II) details QAT integrations for Unsloth and Axolotl. It introduces PARQ, an optimizer-based technique that allows 3-bit models to match 4-bit accuracy while reducing memory footprint.

    RISC-V

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    • Register for RISC-V Summit Europe—Bologna, Italy,  June 8–12, 2026 | Join the global RISC-V community for a week of keynotes, technical sessions, tutorials, demos, and networking, shaping the future of open computing. The Summit brings together leaders from automotive, AI, HPC, aerospace, embedded systems, and many other industries, alongside developers, engineers, researchers, and students, to drive innovation across the RISC-V ecosystem.
    • World RISC-V Days recap—Spanning 11 regions worldwide | This year’s events brought together 687 attendees and featured 40+ presentations—highlighting the growing global momentum and innovation across the RISC-V ecosystem, with a full 2026 recap coming soon.
    • ​​Following a successful week at embedded world 2026, a series of YouTube Shorts highlighted co-exhibitors from the RISC-V Pavilion—including Andes Technology, Siemens, XuanTie, Nuclei System Technology, Tenstorrent, Akeana, and Semidynamics—offering a closer look at who they are and what they showcased on the stand.
    • The Edge AI Foundation shares a video interview recorded at Embedded World with Andrea Gallo. Live from Nuremberg, this session explores the cutting-edge of embedded systems and artificial intelligence, showcasing how AI is integrated into modern technology.

    SONiC

    • SONiC continues to gain industry momentum with analysts predicting SONiC-based data center switching revenue will surpass $5B in 2026 and enterprise adoption growing 25%+ year-over-year through 2027. As organizations build next-generation AI and edge infrastructure on open networking, now is a great time to join SONiC Foundation to shape the future of the Open Network Operating System.
    • Upscale AI has joined the SONiC Foundation as a Premier Member, strengthening collaboration on AI networking infrastructure and large-scale AI cluster deployments built on SONiC.
    • Are you going to be at OCP EMEA Summit on April 29–30? Join us for SONiC activities including a half-day SONiC Workshop and two days of live booth demos, with agendas now live featuring sessions and demos from across the SONiC ecosystem. View agenda for SONiC Workshop and booth demos.
    • Explore how organizations are deploying SONiC in the real world through user and deployment stories from companies like SAKURA Internet, Mitsui Knowledge Industry, Rakuten, Alibaba, and Orange, highlighting SONiC’s impact on AI infrastructure, hyperscale data centers, telecom networks, and national-scale digital platforms.
    • Discover the next generation of SONiC contributors by exploring our newly published SONiC mentorship spotlights on the SONiC blog, featuring mentee projects and the innovative work they’re bringing to the SONiC community.

    Sylva Project

    • Cloud Native Telco Day, Amsterdam, 22-27 March | Join the Sylva community for this event, co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, featuring a packed agenda combining networking and cloud native open source communities to collaborate, share lessons learned and new concepts applicable across both worlds. Sylva sessions include:

    UXL Foundation

    • The UXL Foundation Members Meeting happened in mid-January and covered a number of topics including the UXL Foundation Strategy 2026 and the new SIG for Memory Centric Computing. All of the existing SIGs presented out as well so we heard some highlights from the AI SIG, Math SIG, Language SIG, Language SIG, Hardware SIG and the Open Source Working Group. Focus for this year:

      • From demos to prescriptions: Publish interop/conformance guidance

      • Elevate memory‑centric compute: Launch oneMCC SIG

        • oneMCC SIG: Charter + mailing list; 2 community calls/quarter.
        • Extensions for PIM/PNM: draft proposal + sample kernels (reductions/embeddings).
      • Increase HPC/AI ARM Kleidi Integration: Portable on ARM recipes: build/tuning guides for oneDNN/oneMath/oneDAL
      • RISC‑V Portability: Turnkey demo using oneAPI Construction Kit with portBLAS/portDNN; blog + video walkthrough
      • Increase technical talks: 1–2 co‑talks at ARM/Memory/RISC‑V event
      • Operational transparency: Monthly health metrics & Steering decisions in UXL GitHub

    • Here is a calendar of upcoming UXL Foundation SIG meetings.

    • We are also excited to share that we will have an expanded UXL Foundation AI SIG to become the AI & Scientific Computing SIG, with the first session happening on April 23, 2026. Please save the date.

    • Join us on March 26 at 7:00 a.m. - 7:45 a.m. P.D.T. for the inaugural UXL Foundation Steering Committee Mentor Session: Navigating Fragmented Accelerator APIs - Qualcomm’s Perspective on UXL, oneAPI, and Memory‑Centric Compute.

    • As AI, HPC, and heterogeneous computing continue to scale, developers and platform providers face a growing challenge: fragmented accelerator APIs and divergent programming models across CPUs, GPUs, and specialized accelerators. This fragmentation slows innovation, increases porting costs, and complicates performance portability. In this webinar, Qualcomm shares its technical perspective on how open standards anchored by Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation can help address these challenges. We will outline the problem space, the goals and positioning of UXL, and why SYCL is emerging as a key programming backbone for heterogeneous systems looking toward 2026. This talk is informational and exploratory in nature. It reflects Qualcomm’s current thinking and industry observations, without implying product commitments.

    Valkey

    • Valkey introduced Valkey Admin – an application that gives you a direct, visual interface to your Valkey clusters. Immediately upon connecting, you can see the shape of the cluster itself: which nodes are primaries, which are replicas, and how individual nodes are behaving. From there, you can drill into node dashboards, view key metrics, and understand what's happening without reconstructing the picture manually. Learn more >>
    • Allen Helton (Ecosystem Manager at Momento) and Mike Callahan (Marketing Leader at Momento) share their takeaways from the recent Unlocked Conference, discussing what operators are observing in production and how the focus is shifting from pursuing maximum throughput to prioritizing system predictability. Read the blog for more insights >>
    • Madelyn Olson, maintainer of the Valkey project and Principal SDE at Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon MemoryDB, shares four data infrastructure shifts to watch in 2026—from compression as a cost lever to consolidation, durability for in-memory systems, and the rise of dedicated data management teams.It’s a pragmatic look at where database strategy is headed next and why efficiency and operational clarity are becoming central priorities. Read the full breakdown >>
    • Thomas Betts, Senior Laureate Application Architect at Blackbaud, chats with Madelyn Olson, maintainer of the Valkey project and Principal SDE at Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon MemoryDB. They discuss how Valkey started as an open source fork of Redis and how the team optimized memory usage and improved throughput. Listen here >>
    • It's FOSS writes an article on Valkey 9.0, exploring solutions to long-standing challenges in performance and cluster management. It walks through features like atomic slot migration and multi-database clusters, highlighting reported gains of up to 40% higher throughput and support for 1B+ requests per second at scale. Read the full story >>
    • Diginomica covers Valkey 9.0 and its continued improvement in scalability in distributed systems. New features like fine-grained expiration, atomic slot migration, and multi-database clusters work to eliminate complexity, led by community feedback that shapes the project and its future. Read the full article >>.
    • Valkey sponsored Hack NC State 2026 on February 14th at 11 AM – February 15th at 11 AM for a 24-hour hackathon at NC State. 371 students participated in an API Integration Challenge. Among many impressive teams, Team Catfish rose to the occasion.
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    • The Valkey newsletter is launched in February 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. Subscribe here >>

    Zephyr Project

    • The Zephyr Project is celebrating its 10-year anniversary with new research from Linux Foundation Research highlighting its rapid global adoption. 
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      • According to the report, 70% of surveyed organizations in the U.S. and Canada and 62% in Europe already use Zephyr in commercial products, with most planning to increase adoption. The findings reflect Zephyr’s evolution into a mature, production-grade open source real-time operating system (RTOS) widely used in long-lifecycle embedded and industrial systems. Learn more >>

    • 10 Years and Still Learning—Zephyr Podcast #025 | The latest Zephyr Podcast (#025) celebrates the project’s 10-year milestone while covering recent community updates, new hardware support, and ecosystem developments. The episode highlights topics including the Zephyr anniversary survey, new drivers and board support, upcoming events like Embedded World, and news from the broader embedded and IoT community. Listen to the podcast >>

    • Zephyr Project at Embedded World 2026 | The Zephyr Project participated in the embedded world Exhibition & Conference (March 10–12, 2026) in Nuremberg, Germany, bringing together developers, ecosystem partners, and the broader embedded systems community. At the Zephyr booth (Hall 4, Stand 4-170), attendees explored live Zephyr RTOS demos, connected with maintainers and ecosystem companies, and learned how Zephyr is being used across a wide range of hardware platforms and embedded applications. The event also featured a dedicated Zephyr conference track covering topics such as development workflows, safety certification, and running Linux and Zephyr side by side. During the week, the community also celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the Zephyr Project with special activities and networking opportunities. More details and highlights from the event will be shared soon.

    • Meet the Zephyr Project community at these events:


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