Linux Foundation Newsletter: November 2025
The Linux Foundation | 19 November 2025
Welcome to the November 2025 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter.
As we move toward year‑end, open source activity at the Linux Foundation (LF) remains at full throttle. In the past month, we welcomed major new projects, strengthened our AI‑and‑infrastructure portfolio, and reinforced our global collaboration model across security, research, and innovation. A huge thank you to all contributors, maintainers, members and staff who keep this momentum going!
Here are more of this month’s highlights:
- Valkey 9.0 Delivers Next‑Gen Performance at Scale
The open‑source key‑value database project announced version 9.0 this month. This release introduces atomic slot migration, multiple databases in cluster mode, hash‑field expiration, and benchmarks showing support for over 1 billion requests per second across 2,000 nodes.
- Read more about the latest version of Valkey in Diginomica
- Fluxnova Launches Under FINOS to Orchestrate Financial Workflows
The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) announced Fluxnova in partnership with Fidelity Investments, NatWest Group, Bank of Montreal, Deutsche Bank and Capital One. Fluxnova, a fork of Camunda 7, is an open orchestration platform enabling audit‑ready workflows, visual process models and process traceability in heavily regulated financial services environments.- Read more about what makes this platform so critical to the ecosystem in the SD Times
- Overture Maps Foundation Names New Executive Director and Lands on Fast Company’s 2025 Next Big Things in Tech List
William Mortenson has joined the Overture Maps Foundation as its new Executive Director. Mortenson brings more than 25 years of geospatial leadership and begins guiding Overture’s next phase of open map‑data growth, interoperability and adoption. The project also saw major industry recognition this month, landing a spot on the coveted ‘2025 Next Big Things in Tech’ list by Fast Company.- Read more about the appointment and industry recognition on the Overture Maps site.
- PyTorch Foundation Welcomes “Ray” to Deliver a Unified Open Source AI Compute Stack
The PyTorch Foundation announced its latest hosted project: Ray, a widely adopted distributed computing framework that enables scaling AI workloads from a single machine to thousands of nodes. Ray now joins PyTorch and vLLM under the PyTorch Foundation umbrella, reinforcing the open‑source AI stack.- More on the project’s contribution to the LF in The New Stack and Forbes
- Major Infrastructure & Edge Release: StarlingX 11.0
The open‑source cloud infrastructure project hosted by the Open Infrastructure Foundation released version 11.0, bringing enhanced edge‑security, IPv4‑exhaustion mitigation, IPsec pod‑to‑pod encryption and stronger rollback support for complex multi‑cluster deployments.- Read more about the new feature and optimization updates in Network World
What’s Next?
- Visit the Ray, Valkey, and Fluxnova GitHub repositories to explore updates and join the community.
- Review the StarlingX 11.0 release notes and see what's new for edge‑cloud ops.
>> Read on for more news, research, and opportunities from across the Linux Foundation.
Contents
- Education Opportunities
- LF Europe: Community Updates
- LF Research: Are you an RTOS user? We want to hear from you!
- Linux Foundation Projects: Featured news
- LF Events: Mark your calendar!
- Follow us!
Education Opportunities
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LF Europe: Community Updates
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Open Is Sovereign: Why Europe’s Digital Future Must Be Built on Global Open Source Ecosystems

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Across Europe, “digital sovereignty” has become a defining political and economic priority. The concern is real: in an age where code defines competitiveness, no nation or region can outsource its technological destiny. Yet too often, the debate around sovereignty is framed as a binary choice between global collaboration and regional control, essentially between openness and protectionism. That’s a false choice. True sovereignty is not about isolation; it’s about mastery of critical resources based on a full understanding of how modern software is built. And for the digital realm, the surest path to mastery runs through open source.
So, the question is – how? Read Gabriele Columbro’s blog to see why open source is the foundation of Europe’s digital autonomy.
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- LF Europe Member Summit 2025 - Ghent, Belgium | The Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit 2025 took place on 28 October in Ghent, gathering members, policymakers, and industry leaders to shape the future of Europe’s open source strategy.
- The day opened with remarks from Gabriele Columbro, General Manager of LF Europe, followed by a keynote conversation with Thomas Dohmke, former CEO of GitHub. Together, they set the tone for discussions centered on collaboration, digital sovereignty, and industrial innovation.

Gab & Thomas - Fireside Chat - Morning sessions featured insights from Paul Brooks (Rockwell Automation) on the Margo Project, Renzo Cherin (Lloyds Banking Group) on open source in financial services, Christophe Villemer (Savoir-faire Linux) on energy innovation, and Philipp Ahmann (Etas GmbH) on open source in automotive. These talks concluded with a panel on “Open Source Enabling Industrial Innovation”, moderated by Paula Grzegorzewska (LF Europe).
- The session explored how open source collaboration drives innovation, efficiency, and sustainable growth across manufacturing, energy, finance, and automotive sectors.

Morning session attendees @ LF Europe Member Summit 2025 - Ghent, Belgium - In the afternoon, Daniele Tonella (ING) delivered a keynote on innovation in banking, followed by Peter Giese (SAP) on building sovereign cloud-native infrastructure with NeoNephos.
- The Digital Sovereignty track featured Sachiko Muto (RISE/OpenForum Europe), Hilary Carter (LF Research), and Sebastian Raible (APELL), highlighting Europe’s growing focus on trust, interoperability, and autonomy.
- The summit concluded with updates from Mirko Boehm on LF Europe’s evolving policy and project priorities, and closing remarks from Gabriele Columbro, before attendees gathered for a community reception.
- The day opened with remarks from Gabriele Columbro, General Manager of LF Europe, followed by a keynote conversation with Thomas Dohmke, former CEO of GitHub. Together, they set the tone for discussions centered on collaboration, digital sovereignty, and industrial innovation.
- LF Europe Roadshow 2025 - Ghent, Belgium | The LF Europe Roadshow on 29 October in Ghent continued the week’s focus on open collaboration and digital sovereignty, bringing together developers, policymakers, and open source leaders from across Europe.
- Two parallel tracks — Cybersecurity & the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and Open Collaboration & Digital Sovereignty explored how open source communities are shaping a secure and sustainable digital future.

Track attendees @ LF Europe Roadshow 2025 - Ghent, Belgium - Highlights included Greg Kroah-Hartman’s keynote on the CRA’s impact for developers, a CRA Working Session with experts from Arm, Samsung, and the Confidential Computing Consortium, and Christopher “CRob” Robinson’s talk on global cybersecurity strategy.
- The European Open Source track featured updates from NeoNephos, Sylva, RISC-V, OpenInfra, and PowSyBl, alongside discussions on funding open source and digital sovereignty with MEP Alexandra Geese, Jutta Horstmann, and Gabriele Columbro.
- The event highlighted how open source communities and policymakers can collaborate to turn regulation into an enabler for innovation building a stronger, more sovereign digital Europe.
- Two parallel tracks — Cybersecurity & the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and Open Collaboration & Digital Sovereignty explored how open source communities are shaping a secure and sustainable digital future.
- Sylva Project Turns 3 | This November marks three years since the launch of Project Sylva, the first project hosted at Linux Foundation Europe. Born from a shared vision to reduce fragmentation in telco cloud infrastructure and align with Europe’s values of privacy, security, and sustainability, Sylva has grown into a key force in open collaboration across the telecom industry.
- Over the past three years, the community has delivered remarkable results:
- Production-grade stack live across 10 countries
- 35 contributing companies and 16 financial sponsors
- 20 validated network functions on the Sylva stack
- Pioneering work in supply chain security and the industry’s first Green Dashboard measuring CO₂ per CNF
- Looking ahead, Sylva is expanding its focus to Edge Federation, AI, Open RAN, and 6G readiness, while deepening its commitment to digital sovereignty and regulatory compliance under NIS2 and CRA.
- Congratulations to the entire Sylva community and its leadership for shaping the future of Europe’s telco cloud through open collaboration and innovation. Learn more.
- Over the past three years, the community has delivered remarkable results:
- Case Study | PowSyBl - A Community-Led Open Source Project for European Grid Sovereignty
- PowSyBl (Power System Blocks) is an open source library for power system modeling, visualization, and simulation. It enables Transmission System Operators (TSOs), Regional Coordination Centres (RCCs), and other stakeholders to build advanced, customizable grid analysis tools that support Europe’s energy transition.
- Originally developed by RTE and open sourced under LF Energy in 2019, PowSyBl entered its next phase of growth in 2025 by joining Linux Foundation Europe. This move provides the project with a neutral and trusted home that strengthens Europe’s commitment to digital sovereignty, shared governance, and public–private collaboration.
- As Gabriele Columbro, General Manager of Linux Foundation Europe & Executive Director of FINOS noted: “PowSyBl reflects how open source can serve as a strategic lever for Europe's digital sovereignty. By joining LF Europe, the project is reinforcing a collective commitment to building digital public goods that underpin our energy infrastructure. This is not just about collaboration – it’s about shaping a future where Europe leads in openness, resilience and technological autonomy.”

- By being hosted under LF Europe, PowSyBl gains greater visibility within EU research and policy frameworks, support for regulatory compliance, and access to broader open source communities working on critical digital infrastructure. The result is a growing, distributed ecosystem where Europe’s grid operators and innovators co-develop open, secure, and sovereign technologies for the energy future.
- >> Read the full case study to learn more about PowSyBl’s journey and impact.
LF Research: Are you an RTOS user? We want to hear from you!
Zephyr is turning 10, and we want to understand its impact on this milestone anniversary to better meet the needs of the community. We're interested in hearing from all RTOS users about how Zephyr or other solutions you’ve chosen have made a difference in your products and work, and how you've seen the community evolve.
Your insights will help shape the next chapter of Zephyr!
Four new research reports
The 2025 State of Open Source in Financial Services
LF Research, FINOS, GitHub, and Scott Logic are excited to announce the fifth annual State of Open Source in Financial Services! The study features findings from a survey fielded in the financial services community earlier this year as well as data analysis from GitHub. Insights indicate the growing maturity and value of open source in the industry, while a lack of clear ROI and licensing concerns are impeding open source contribution. Read the full report for an overview of this year’s open source trends in financial services!
The State of Global Open Source 2025
In partnership with Canonical, LF Research has completed the worldwide analysis of its 2025 World of Open Source Survey! In its third year, the findings confirm the value of and dependency on open source software, while at the same time highlighting the lack of governance and security frameworks protecting and sustaining this use.
The Value of Open Source AI for APEC Economies
In the third instalment in the Meta-sponsored series on open source AI, we examine the technology’s adoption in, benefits to, and impacts on economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. This study provides important context on adoption & investment rates, economic benefits through productivity gains, localization efforts through open source, and sector-specific insights.
Global Cooperation for Human-Centered AI
LF Research, in partnership with Futurewei, has published the insights from the GOSIM AI Vision Forum in Beijing! The Forum convened global researchers, policymakers, and innovators to explore how AI can be developed and deployed to serve humanity’s collective interests while empowering human values and capabilities. The insights included the transformation of education and the creative industry, the design of human-AI interaction systems, the foundations of good AI governance, and the multistakeholder development of digital public goods.
Linux Foundation Projects: Featured news
Swag @ BazelCon + PX4 Developer Summit 2025, The Linux Foundation
Academy Software Foundation (ASWF)
- Save the Date | The Academy Software Foundation’s (ASWF) annual Open Source Forum will be held on February 26, 2026 in Los Angeles. The event brings together Foundation members and select guests from the motion picture and media industries to collaborate and discuss new technologies impacting studios.
- CG Garage sat down with David Morin, Executive Director of Academy Software Foundation, to explore how the ASWF provides a home for vital industry standards like ACES, OpenEXR, and OpenColorIO. Listen to the podcast.
Aether
- Open Networking Foundation/Aether and Rutgers WINLAB in Collaboration with Keysight Technologies and ORCID Labs to Present Innovative RAN Energy Efficiency Research Results.
Two presentations showcasing recent results on in-depth research conducted on RAN energy savings were featured at the O-RAN Alliance Face-to-Face Meeting in October. The featured presentations, “Energy Efficiency Testing and Power Modeling of O-RAN Radio Units” and “Energy Efficiency Testing in a Commercial O-RAN System,” mark a major milestone in the NTIA-funded O-RAN Energy Efficiency Research Program, highlighting collaborative progress toward building sustainable, open, and data-driven RAN infrastructures. Together they demonstrate how rigorous testing, cross-vendor validation, and power modeling can drive actionable strategies for reducing network energy consumption while maintaining performance and interoperability across the O-RAN ecosystem. - Powering the future: New research gives significant insight to make 5G and NextG networks more energy efficient (in RCR Wireless News)
In this article, learn about the POET (Platform for O-RAN Energy Efficiency Testing) research project which represents a major advancement to mobile network energy savings. Thanks to funding from the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) through the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund, researchers at the Open Networking Foundation/Aether Project and Rutgers University WINLAB, in collaboration with Keysight Technologies, are pioneering groundbreaking work in O-RAN (Open Radio Access Network) energy efficiency. - Lightweight Innovation in Open RAN: How Aether SMaRT-5G is Driving Real-World Energy and Traffic Optimization Without E2/A1 Interfaces
The SMaRT-5G team successfully demonstrated a proof-of-concept of a new energy saving solution together with technology partners in Japan. Check out results of our open source solution that demonstrates how traffic steering and energy savings can be achieved without using E2 or A1 interfaces, which are the key pillars of the O-RAN architecture. - O-RAN Energy Efficiency Testing and Modeling Paper to be Published by IEEE
We are pleased to share that our paper “Energy Efficiency Testing and Power Modeling of O-RAN Radio Units” has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE Future Networks World Forum 2025 in November. Supported by the NTIA Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund, this work addresses one of the most critical challenges in both current and future generation wireless networks: energy efficiency. O-RAN Radio Units (O-RUs) are among the biggest energy consumers in mobile networks, and understanding their power consumption is a critical first step towards making 5G and NextG systems more sustainable. - Community Member Profile – Andy Bavier
Andy has been involved with Aether since its inception in 2020 and served for several years on the Aether Technical Steering Committee as a member of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) technical team. He contributed to the Monitoring and Alert infrastructure that is an integral part of the Aether Management Plane (AMP). He created multiple dashboards to simplify monitoring of various attributes of Aether, including resource health and subscriber activity.
Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD)
- OpenUSD v25.11 Released | Pixar has announced OpenUSD v25.11, featuring performance, flexibility, and accuracy improvements. This release enables UsdImagingSceneIndex, updates usdchecker with a new validation framework, and adds support for nested rigid bodies in UsdPhysics. Learn more.
- Say hello to our latest OpenUSD Visionary, Sean Snyders. As a Distinguished Engineer at Trimble Inc., Sean is advancing how OpenUSD transforms construction workflows by enabling more fluid data exchange, collaborative modeling, and simulation. Read the blog.
Automotive Grade Linux (AGL)
- Automotive Linux Summit | Join us in Tokyo on December 8-10, 2025! Featured sessions include:
- How to Accelerate SDV with AGL SoDeV - Yuichi Kusakabe, Honda Motor Company
- SDV-Oriented Use Cases Leveraging Next-Generation Vehicle Diagnostics and Virtual Fleets - Masanori Itoh, Toyota Motor Company
- Accelerating Software-Defined Vehicles: SDV-EG Updates & New AGL SDV Reference Platform - Jerry Jiancong Zhao, Panasonic Automotive Systems
- Embedded World 2026 | AGL will have a booth at Embedded World in Nuremberg on March 10-12, 2026. We have reserved several spaces in our booth for members to showcase their AGL demos. Apply here to participate by January 16, 2026.
- Save the Dates | We will hold two AGL All Member Meetings (AMM) next year:
- Summer AGL AMM will be in Tokyo on May 13-14, 2026
- Fall AGL AMM will be in Berlin on September 30-October 1, 2026.
- Additional details including the call for proposals will be shared in the coming months.
CAMARA
- TMForum writes, “Camara Project’s latest drop boasts 60 network APIs,” about how mobile operators strive to present a unified global network fabric to developer communities via standard APIs. Leading this effort is the CAMARA project, which is central to driving API standardization across the industry.
- CAMARA joined apidays Netherlands to discuss how CAMARA enables developers to access open network capabilities through standardized, easy-to-use APIs. Henry Calvert from the GSMA moderated a panel session with Dutch Mobile Network Operators, exploring how open APIs are revolutionising digital infrastructure and developer access. The team engaged with developers and shared insights on building scalable, intelligent systems.
- Learn how CAMARA community member, Laura LaCarra of Telefonica, finds value in being part of the open telco API ecosystem, in this new Voices of CAMARA interview.
- Telecompaper posted Dutch Mobile operators launch CAMARA APIs to help combat online fraud, highlighting the popularity of CAMARA’s anti-fraud APIs. The story was published in conjunction with the apidays Netherlands event.
- CAMARA made a strong impression at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA this year with their standout SWAG items, booth, and great conversations around CAMARA APIs.

CHIPS Alliance
- As the Caliptra partners and CHIPS Alliance members Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA and AMD continue to push the boundaries of open hardware security, we’re excited to announce the Caliptra 2.1 RTL release—another important step in building a more secure and transparent silicon ecosystem. This update builds on Caliptra 2.0, delivering refined features, improved verification, and smoother integration for adopters across the industry. Learn more.

- CHIPS Alliance had a strong presence at the OCP Global Summit, demonstrating how open source silicon development is advancing innovation across data centers, AI and custom silicon. CHIPS was prominently mentioned in a number of keynote sessions on Tuesday as well as Thursday’s detailed technical sessions as part of the overall Caliptra effort. These sessions helped drive attendance to the CHIPS Alliance booth, which was shared with the OpenPower Foundation, on the exhibition floor. Rob Mains, Executive Director of CHIPS Alliance, chatted with interested attendees about a wide range of topics including interoperability, open standards, and the importance of community-driven silicon innovation. If you missed the CHIPS Alliance sessions, watch the videos.
Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP)
- Civil Infrastructure Platform at OSS Japan: The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) is proud to be a Silver Sponsor of Open Source Summit Japan, taking place in Tokyo from December 8–10, 2025.
- Visit the CIP booth to meet the team and learn how CIP is advancing open source solutions for long-term industrial and civil infrastructure systems.
- Session Highlight: Towards a Decade of Industrial-Grade Linux: CIP’s Journey and the Road Ahead
- Speaker: Yoshitake Kobayashi, TSC Chair, Civil Infrastructure Platform / Toshiba Corporation, Monday, December 8, 2025 | 11:15 – 11:55 (JST)
Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC)
- Gartner’s Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2026 spotlight CCC among the leading forces shaping our digital future. By 2029, Gartner predicts that 75%+ of operations processed in untrusted environments will be secured in-use by confidential computing. This is a major leap forward for secure, privacy-preserving collaboration across industries. Learn more.
- The Confidential Computing community will be gathering at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels! A community-organized devroom will take place on Sunday, February 1, 2026. Call for Proposals closes December 1, 2025. Submit your proposal.
- Confidential Computing Consortium’s October Newsletter is live. This month’s issue covers 2026 key strategic updates from our Executive Director, highlights from recent industry events in San Francisco and New York, new member announcements, and the latest technical updates from the TAC. Read here.
- On October 20th, the Confidential Computing Consortium hosted a hands-on workshop in San Francisco where our community came together to design and debate the future of AI data safeguards. Participants from Google, NVIDIA, TikTok, Meta, and more shared real-world deployments, bold experiments, and fresh perspectives on privacy-preserving computing. From live technical exchanges to a “Shark Tank” challenge on proofs of humanity, the day showcased the creativity and collaboration that make this ecosystem thrive. Read the full recap.
- We’re pleased to welcome Acompany Co., Ltd. as the newest General Member of the Confidential Computing Consortium! Acompany provides Confidential Computing as a strategic security foundation, powering secure data collaboration and advancing trusted AI. From data clean rooms for KDDI to mission-critical national security initiatives, Acompany’s work demonstrates the transformative potential of Confidential Computing.
- By joining the CCC, Acompany reinforces our shared goal—to make Confidential Computing the default for secure data processing and trusted AI just as HTTPS became the default for the web. Read the announcement.
Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF)
- cdCon 2026—Call for Program Committee. cdCon, our annual Continuous Delivery conference, will take place at Open Source Summit North America in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 18-20, 2026. Apply to join the cdCon Program Committee
- DevOps Dozen Awards Finalist. cdCon 2025—which took place June 23–25, 2025, in Denver, Colorado—is a DevOps Dozen Awards Finalist for Best DevOps Event of the Year! Vote here

DAOS Foundation
- Recent News
- DAOS Version 2.6.4 Released
We are excited to announce the release of DAOS 2.6.4 release which includes the daos-2.6.4-7 RPM packages and their prerequisites. It contains the following updates on top of DAOS 2.6.3. Check out the link for the full release notes:- Libfabric has been updated to version 1.22.0-4.
- Mercury has been upgraded to version 2.4.0-8.
- Argobots has been upgraded to version 1.2-3.
- Libisal has been upgraded to version 2.31.1-7.
- pmemobj has been upgraded to version 2.1.0-6.
- Additional bug fixes and enhancements
- Latest Oak Ridge National Labs Discovery Supercomputer Gets DAOS Storage Option. HPE is building two new supercomputers for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); Discovery to succeed Frontier, which will use HPE’s GX5000 Cray exascale supercomputer, for the converged AI and high-performance computing (HPC) era, with a K3000 DAOS storage option, and a Lux AI system.
- High-Performance Orphan Child DAOS and Enakta Labs. Denis Nuja, founder of Enakta Labs discusses DAOS and how Enakta plans to commercialize DAOS in this article. “Because DAOS is open-source there is no lock-in and, arguably, it has better bandwidth and latency numbers than competing software, meaning it can keep their vastly expensive GPU clusters busier than alternative storage software. Enakta can also offer direct, engineer-level support.”
- DAOS Version 2.6.4 Released
- Upcoming Event
- 9th DAOS User Group (DUG) at SC’25. Don’t miss the 9th annual DUG, an in-person event on November 16th, 9am - 1pm. The event is taking place in conjunction with Supercomputing’25 in St. Louis, MO. There is no fee or registration required to attend. Check out the exciting line-up of speakers!
Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF)
- Steering Committee Updates
- DIF announced its Steering Committee election results, welcoming three new members: JC Ebersbach (identinet), Matt McKinney (ArcBlock, AIGNE), and Eric Scouten (Adobe). These leaders join re-elected members Sam Curren (Indicio), Rouven Heck (Fidenexum), and Markus Sabadello (DanubeTech) to guide DIF's strategic direction.
- Key Technical Developments
- The newly formed Trusted AI Agents Working Group has made substantial progress on its inaugural Agentic Authority Use Cases work item and establishing governance processes for evaluating AI agent identity requirements. The group is exploring how existing DID and verifiable credential standards can be adapted for AI agents, addressing critical needs like delegation chains, authorization boundaries, and human oversight mechanisms. See use case progress here.
- Other notable advances include:
- Applied Crypto WG's progress on BBS+ integration with device-bound credentials and post-quantum cryptography
- Creator Assertions WG's finalized interim trust model leveraging S/MIME governance for content authenticity
- DIDComm WG's exploration of post-quantum encryption approaches for version 3
- Ecosystem Growth
- DIF's Hospitality & Travel Working Group demonstrated real-world applications with presentations from Google Wallet on TSA integration and Passive Bolt's NFC-based hotel check-in solutions. The APAC/ASEAN SIG explored Terminal 3's privacy-enhancing technologies for AI agents with Hedera blockchain integration.
- Upcoming Events
- The community is preparing for DevConnect featuring ZKID Day (November 17) focused on zero-knowledge identity solutions, and TRUSTECH 2025 in Paris (December 2-4) covering innovative payment and identification solutions.
- For complete details, visit our newsletter.
DPDK
- DPDK Dispatch Q4 (Data Plane Development Kit)—your quarterly update on the latest developments, insights, and highlights from the community driving the evolution of high-performance network software and applications, read the latest and subscribe.
eBPF Foundation
- A new case study explores how Ant Group has secured their platform with Kata Containers and eBPF for fine grained control.
- eBPF Foundation has announced the inaugural recipients of its new Community & Advocacy Fellowship. The 2025 fellows are Teodor Janez Podobnik (eBPFChirp Newsletter) and Yusheng Zheng (bpf-developer-tutorial).
Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) Project
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ELISA seminar recap | Introduction to Requirements Engineering – Pete Brink, UL Solutions.
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In a recent ELISA seminar, Pete Brink (UL Solutions) explained the essentials of requirements engineering for safety-critical systems from writing clear, atomic, testable requirements to using frameworks like EARS for consistency. He highlighted the importance of traceability, clarity, and iteration throughout design and testing. Learn more.
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ELISA Project at Open Source Summit: Tokyo, Japan 2025
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The ELISA Project will be featured at the Safety-Critical Software Track during Open Source Summit Japan 2025 in Tokyo. Community members will explore the intersection of open source and functional safety, with sessions on requirements traceability, vulnerability management, safety architectures, and real-world OSS deployment.
- Highlights include talks from Toyota, Fujitsu, EMQ, Etas GmbH, and Hitachi, covering topics from human-centric quality assurance and CRA compliance to safe Linux architectures and open innovation in energy systems. Learn more.
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FinOps Foundation
- FinOps X 2026 registration is open—Join 2,500+ FinOps practitioners June 8-11 at San Diego for keynotes, collaborative chalk talks, technical deep dives, and networking opportunities. Take advantage of early bird pricing—save $200 when you register today.
- 2026 State of FinOps Survey—We want to hear your perspectives on FinOps challenges, priorities, and emerging trends for FinOps today in the 2026 State of FinOps Survey.
- FinOps Certified: FinOps for AI— Whether you’re just beginning to explore AI costs or are deep in the weeds of managing models and usage, this training series will guide you through real-world strategies and best practices.
FINOS
- OSFF New York Wrap Up & Session Recordings Now Live.
- Couldn’t make it to OSFF New York or want to revisit your favorite talks? We have a wrap up of all of the important announcements from OSFF. Plus, session recordings are now available by track on the FINOS site. Dive in and explore the latest in open source innovation across finance.
- Read the Wrap Up and Watch the Sessions
- 2025 State of Open Source in Financial Services Report
- This year's report by FINOS, The Linux Foundation Research, GitHub, and Scott Logic is available to download! 93% of respondents say open source improves software quality and 87% see business value to their organization. View all the results today.
- Read the Report
- Fluxnova Launch Announcement
- We’re thrilled to announce Fluxnova, a new open source orchestration platform developed under FINOS governance in collaboration with Fidelity Investments, NatWest Group, Deutsche Bank, and Capital One. Fluxnova empowers financial institutions to modernize their infrastructure, reduce vendor dependency, and build long-term industry resilience.
- Read the Press Release and Explore the Microsite
- CDM (Common Domain Model) Becomes an Active Project
- In under three years since its open-sourcing, the CDM has evolved from a collaborative proof of concept into a production-grade open standard that is helping financial institutions streamline trade processing, regulatory reporting, and data management across global markets.
- Read about the Major Milestone
- Open Source in Finance Developer Day at apidays Paris | December 11, Paris
- Building on events in New York and London, the event is coming to Paris as a full‑day, code‑level track dedicated to open source innovation in financial services. The full schedule will be released soon! Reach out to help@finos.org for a discount code.
- Register Here
- Open Source Summit Japan | December 8-10, Tokyo
- Join our Executive Director Gabriele Columbro for a keynote at the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit Japan. If your team will be in Tokyo and would like to connect, reach out to us at help@finos.org.
- Event Details Here
High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF)
- HPSFCon is back for 2026! Join us in Chicago, March 16-20, 2026. ☘️
- We’re delighted to welcome Modules to the High Performance Software Foundation as an established project. Modules, also called Environment Modules, is a tool designed to help users dynamically modify their shell environment.
- Microsoft has Microsoft has joined as a HPSF premier member! Microsoft has been at the forefront of high-performance computing (HPC) and open source software development. Their commitment to advancing the state of software for performance portability aligns with HPSF’s mission to support open source software that builds trust, longevity, and sustainability.
- HPSF will be at SC25 in St. Louis, Missouri, November 17–21. Don’t miss our BoF session featuring a panel of community leaders and be sure to visit us at the HPSF booth in the exhibit hall.
LF AI & Data
- Check out recent blog post, Bringing Accuracy and Context to AI: How Docling and OpenSearch are Shaping the Future of RAG, showcasing how open source tools (and LF AI & Data and Linux Foundation projects) Docling and OpenSearch are working together to redefine retrieval-augmented generation. Learn more.
- LF AI & Data’s Docling project hit 100K daily downloads! Congratulations to the Docling community on reaching a major adoption milestone. Get involved by contributing, testing, or learning more at docling.ai
- Learn how BeeAI can help cities transform climate risk data into clear, actionable plans aligned with UN SDG 11 in this summary blog post, on hackathon-winning Hive.ai from Wavestone.
- ICYMI, the LF AI & Data and LF Research report, The State of Sovereign AI: Exploring the Role of Open Source Projects and Global Collaboration in Global AI Strategy, examines how open source is shaping national and regional AI strategies worldwide. Download it today for more insight.
- In Building Enterprise-Ready Multimodal RAG with Milvus, learn how pairing the open source vector database Milvus with the Nano Banana generative model enables scalable, production-ready multimodal RAG systems.
- A recentLinux Foundation Research report, The Value of Open Source AI for APEC Economies, developed in partnership with Meta, explores how open source AI can drive inclusive, sustainable growth across 11 Asia-Pacific economies. The study highlights AI’s potential to boost productivity by up to $3.8 trillion USD by 2038, with manufacturing, healthcare, and education emerging as key growth sectors. Read the report.
LF Broadband
- Netsia Recognized at Network X Awards. LF Broadband member Netsia won the Outstanding Multi-Gigabit Fibre Access Innovation award for BB Suite, their hardened SEBA distribution supporting scalable open broadband access. The deployment with Türk Telekom continues to be a leading example of open source network transformation. Read the blog.
- VOLTHA 2.14 Update Available. The VOLTHA TST walkthrough highlights multi-NNI support, optimized ONU reboot control, on-demand diagnostics, and CI/CD scaling guidance. Watch here.
- Glotel Awards Finalist. LF Broadband was named a finalist in the 2025 Global Telecoms Awards for advancing open broadband infrastructure. View the full shortlist.
LF Decentralized Trust
- LF Decentralized Trust announced a number of new members, including Edge & Node, Glide Identity, Networks for Humanity, OpenZeppelin, and The Bank of Korea, the 10th central bank to join the foundation.
- The release also included the launch of Paladin, a new programmable privacy project that started last year as a lab, contributed by Kaleido. Paladin has already been deployed in a number of projects including central banks, commercial banks, and other financial institutions.
- The blog post Besu’s Journey: Bringing Ethereum into the Enterprise, written by a maintainer from Kaleido, delves into developments that optimize the EVM client for enterprise and institutional implementations.
- Crypto News reported on Oracle's new digital asset and tokenization platform for banks, which is powered by the Hyperledger-Fabric-based Oracle Blockchain and will also integrate with Besu.
- As part of a series called Privacy in Motion, LF Decentralized Trust Executive Director Daniela Barbosa shares her thoughts on where we are and what comes next in terms of building transparent, privacy-first technologies in an interview filmed riding through Las Vegas.
- An article in EE Times by Daniela Barbosa previews her keynote at RISC-V Summit on the potential to leverage RISC-V as a software-only layer to streamline development and deployment of privacy-focused blockchain applications.
- For more updates from LF Decentralized Trust, check out the current and past issues of Decentralized Digest.
LF Edge
- The LF Edge webinar, Embedded Wasm World, brought together experts from Atym, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Wind River, and more to explore how WebAssembly is transforming embedded and industrial solutions. Sessions covered the Ocre project, Wasm-based containerization, and real-world applications driving secure, scalable edge innovation. Watch the replay.
- LF Edge blog post Akraino Release 9: Powering the Future of Physical AI at the Edge, introduces new blueprints enabling real-time coordination between machines, humans, and environments—advancing autonomous systems, robotics, and environmental monitoring. Read more.
LF Energy
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LF Energy Summit North America 2025 recap: a one-day, 80-person deep dive on OSPOs, AI/simulation, congestion management, and project updates (PowSyBl, SEAPATH, GEISA, TROLIE). For utilities, operators, and grid tech teams
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Join the Guided Substation Engineering with CoMPAS event (Dec 3): see how utilities, protection & control teams, and integrators can simplify IEC 61850 workflows end to end and cut errors with built-in validation.
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How RTE virtualizes substations with SEAPATH/VIPeR: from proprietary PACS to modular, interoperable open source. For utilities, grid ops, and P&C engineers.
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CoMPAS 0.25.0 is out: updated deployment with enhanced Open SCD integration (v0.41.0.5 / Docker v0.42.0.1)
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Open source congestion management: Accenture & Artelys’ modular stack (OpenSTEF, pypowsybl, HiGHS) for system operators and utilities. Read the recap.
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PowSyBl: open source grid modeling used by European TSOs/RCCs for capacity and security—ideal for operators and planners. Read the recap.
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PowSyBl for European grid sovereignty: a community-led, modular library now under LF Europe, used by TSOs/RCCs for large-scale planning and operations. For operators, regulators, and vendors. Read the case study.
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OperatorFabric 4.10.0 Release: Enhances process monitoring, UI performance, and interoperability across grid operations
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Smarter Data Science for the Grid: How Alliander’s Power Grid Model DS Brings AI Agility to Energy Planning. Read the recap.
LF Networking
- The O-RAN OSFG and UNH-IOL workshop brought together LFN projects (ONAP, Nephio, Anuket), the O-RAN Software Community, and academic partners to advance modular and interoperable open RAN innovation. Learn more about the event in this recent blog post, Building the Future of Open RAN Together .
- Check out the LF Networking blog Advancing Cloud-Native Automation: Nephio Developers Unite for the R6 Summit in France, highlighting how the Nephio community came together at Eurecom Campus to align on R6 priorities, enhance documentation, and advance automation and AI integration in cloud-native networks. Read the blog.
- At DTW-Ignite, Nephio TSC Chair Sana Tariq, Ph.D. joined Nokia to discuss how Nephio is transforming network automation through Kubernetes, declarative intent, and GitOps principles—enabling the shift from complex, monolithic telecom architectures to agile, cloud-native networks. Watch the discussion.
- The Linux.com feature, Disaggregated Routing with SONiC and VPP: Architecture and Integration – Part One, explores how open source projects are better together, highlighting how integrating SONiC’s control plane with FD.io VPP’s high-performance data plane creates a fully software-defined router that delivers ASIC-class performance on standard x86 hardware, driving open, cost-efficient, and flexible network innovation.
- LFN will launch a video series spotlighting Nephio Release 5 progress and community insights. Topics include architecture, GitOps and Porch foundations, observability, GenAI use cases, and cross-project synergies with Sylva, O-RAN, and CAMARA. Subscribe to the LF Networking LinkedIn and YouTube channels to stay updated on new episodes.
- Stay tuned for the upcoming launch of LFN’s new Layer 8: Voices of Open Networking podcast series! The first episode will cover the history behind the Cloud Native Telco Initiative (CNTi) project.
Margo
- Margo Project Highlights at LF Europe Member Summit 2025: At the LF Europe Member Summit in Ghent, Paul Brooks of Rockwell Automation shared updates on the Margo Project, emphasizing how code-first practices can accelerate standards development. “We’ve found we can build a standard much faster with this approach,” he noted, underscoring how open source collaboration is driving innovation across industries. Learn more about Margo.

Paul Brooks of Rockwell Automation - Project Margo will be featured at SPS 2025 (Nov 25–27, Nuremberg, Germany)—the global event for industrial automation and smart production. Join leaders from Red Hat, Belden, and Rockwell Automation for their joint session, “Our Multi-Vendor Journey to Margo: Driving IT/OT Convergence at the Industrial Edge” on November 25 at 14:00. Learn more.
Open 3D Foundation
- 25.10 Release
- The O3DE 25.10 release is out and a huge milestone for the Open 3D Engine community. It consists of more than 100 bug fixes, performance enhancements, and some of the systems were overhauled to improve usability and user experience.
- GameFromScratch 25.10 Release Review
- Check out GameFromScratch’s review of the latest O3DE release 25.10, covering everything from the improving onboarding experience to various quality-of-life enhancements. Watch here >>
- News Coverage
- TechPowerUp covered O3DE’s latest release, 25.10, unveiling sharper graphics and smoother game play. Read on here >>
- Phoronix wrote on O3DE 25.10 release stating that the release, “re-engineered the installation process to provide more efficient building of this engine, an improved debug experience with lower memory use and faster build times…” Read more here >>
- Community
- November Open 3D Connect meeting with Carbonated, talking about their experiences and lessons learned creating a mobile game in O3DE. Recording and photos coming soon.
- Events
- John Bryant, Executive Director of Open 3D Foundation & Steve Pham, Creator of Odie, joined ROSCon in Singapore, along with Ramón Roche, General Manager of Dronecode Foundation and many more O3DE community members.

- John Bryant, Executive Director of Open 3D Foundation & Steve Pham, Creator of Odie, joined ROSCon in Singapore, along with Ramón Roche, General Manager of Dronecode Foundation and many more O3DE community members.
OpenAPI
- There’s been a great reception to our OpenAPI Specification v3.2 release, with a great deal of coverage and interest in the new features and capabilities (as outlined in our blog post).
- You can also find a great overview of v3.2 presented by Lorna Mitchell from her presentation at Apidays London.
- The OpenAPI Specification is also ramping up for further releases in 2026, with an expected v3.3, covering improvements to Security Schemes and greater integration with MCP and AI protocols more generally.
- The Arazzo Specification is currently scoping for version 1.1, and looking for ideas at their GitHub Discussions.
- Finally, we have Apidays Paris coming up, and our OpenAPI sub-conference. Keep an eye out for updates on the agenda coming soon on LinkedIn.
OpenChain
- OpenChain has released an AI System Bill of Materials Compliance Guide after 18 months of development.
- We expect to launch a Cross-Industry SBOM Quality Guide - building on our existing Telco SBOM Quality Guide 1.1 - in December 2026.
- Multiple ISO/IEC 5230 conformance announcements in the semiconductor industry, with NXP and Telechips being notable developments in November
- Our first major logistics company - CJ Logistics - announced adoption of ISO/IEC 5230
- Check out detailed news here.
openIDL
- Every time data is reformatted, accuracy is at risk. openIDL preserves clarity and trust by eliminating translation errors. With consistent standards, insurers and regulators can rely on accurate and trustworthy reporting.
- Stay tuned for big news from openIDL coming soon ⏳ The first-ever production-ready openIDS…
- Join us in building the open, modern data standard the insurance industry needs. Visit the openIDL website ➡️
- Property and casualty insurance runs on data. Yet without shared standards, every integration becomes a one-off, every mapping introduces risk, and every new requirement slows innovation. In a recent webinar, leaders from AAIS, Cloverleaf Analytics, and Perr&Knight explored how openIDS (Open Insurance Data Standards) can change that by delivering an open, extensible, and technology-agnostic approach to data exchange across the P&C insurance ecosystem. Learn how openIDS is modernizing data exchange across the insurance industry.
OpenInfra Foundation
- The OpenInfra Summit Europe united over 1,200 attendees from 65+ countries at École Polytechnique to celebrate global collaboration in open infrastructure. All of the keynote and breakout session videos are now available on the OpenInfra Foundation YouTube channel, including an NVIDIA keynote on how they use Kata Containers to secure AI and a multi-participant live demo migrating workloads from VMware to OpenStack.
- The OpenStack for AI Working Group launched the OpenStack for AI Whitepaper at OpenInfra Summit Europe. Nine OpenInfra Foundation Members came together to lay out how the OpenStack community is responding to the AI infrastructure shift and what the future of AI on OpenStack will look like.
- At KubeCon NA, Google introduced Agent Sandbox, a new CRD and Operator that aims to standardize the management of stateful, isolated workloads through a declarative API in Kubernetes. A key part of this launch is the addition of Kata Containers support, bringing VM-backed isolation and strong workload boundaries to the Agent Sandbox ecosystem. Learn more.
Open Mainframe Project
- In the latest Mainframe Coven episode, Sudharsana Srinivasan shares how her early passion for coding led to a career in IBM firmware development, emphasizing mentorship, learning from experience, and preserving mainframe knowledge for future generations.
- Ricki West reflects on his move from consulting to systems programming at the UK Land Registry, his work supporting early-career mainframers through WAVEZ, and why connecting the dots across technologies matters most on the I am a Mainframer podcast.
- Simran Sharma talks about her non-traditional path into tech, her involvement with the Mainframe Open Education Student User Group, and how open learning resources help newcomers grow their skills and confidence.
- Dr. Gloria Chance unpacks how everyday communication shapes workplace culture, showing how intentional dialogue can build stronger, more inclusive communities across the mainframe ecosystem.
OpenSearch
- Announcements
- IBM joined the OpenSearch Software Foundation as its newest Premier Member. IBM will contribute engineering and governance across search, analytics, and AI – including RAG, vector search and open agentic AI. IBM’s membership expands OpenSearch’s contributor base and helps steer technical direction, underscoring the shift toward open, interoperable AI stacks built on open source. Read more in Blocks and Files >>
- News Coverage
- KMWorld writes, "The OpenSearch project announced that OpenSearch 3.3 is now available for download, packed with new features to enhance search, observability, and AI-powered applications.” Read more >>
- The New Stack covers OpenSearch 3.3 as this release builds on 3.2’s advances with UI upgrades, performance tuning, and improvements to the insight workflow for developers and enterprise users. Read on >>
- See more OpenSearch related news.
- Events
- OpenSearchCon Korea was a great success, featuring many insightful talks. Whether you want to relive the experience or catch up on what you missed, you can watch all the sessions watch all the sessions here >>

- OpenSearch made a strong impression at Observability Day and KubeCon NA with their standout SWAG items, booth, and demos.

- Join us at the upcoming OpenSearchCon Japan - Dec 11.
- See all events from user groups to conferences.
- OpenSearchCon Korea was a great success, featuring many insightful talks. Whether you want to relive the experience or catch up on what you missed, you can watch all the sessions watch all the sessions here >>
Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) Project
- OPI hosted its first OPI Summit on DPU/IPUs in conjunction with Open Compute Summit in San Jose, CA last month. It gathered experts, developers, and community members who explored the latest in open programmable infrastructure. Watch a recording of the event on OPI’s YouTube channel.
OpenJS Foundation
- Missed JSConf 2025? No worries, we’ve got you. All the talks are now on YouTube.
- Lit has officially joined OpenJS as our newest Impact Project! Big thanks to Google for trusting us with the project.
- With OpenJS support and investment from the Sovereign Tech Agency, Lodash is becoming more secure, more modern, and guided by a broader community of contributors.
- Through the OpenJS Ecosystem Sustainability Program, NodeSource will help organizations using outdated and unsupported versions of Node.js stay secure as they plan their upgrades.
- Our newest incubating project, Perspective, brings advanced real-time analytics and visualization tools to the open source JavaScript ecosystem.
- We've launched the Bundler Collaboration Space to bring projects like Vite, Webpack, Rspack, and others together on shared goals for the JavaScript bundler ecosystem. Join the conversation today.
- At JSConf, we celebrated our community members with the fourth annual JavaScriptLandia awards, with honorees across the JavaScript ecosystem. Read about them here.
- Still running on an old version of Node.js? We’ve got new guides and tools to help you migrate your code smoothly.
- All of the sessions from our first virtual NodeREDCon are now available on YouTube!
OpenSSF
- OpenSSF released a new free course “Secure AI/ML-Driven Software Development” (LFEL1012) to help software developers learn how to use AI assistants in a secure way and to create secure software.
- OpenSSF Announces Key Membership Growth and Golden Egg Award Winners at Open Source SecurityCon North America
The OpenSSF announced new general members Target Corporation and Thread AI, with OSTIF upgrading its membership, underscoring growing collaboration to secure open source software. At Open Source SecurityCon North America, OpenSSF also recognized Golden Egg Award winners from Dell Technologies, NYU, and Defense Unicorns for leadership in AI/ML and supply chain security. Learn more about the recent milestones.
- Building Security in Open Source for Financial Services: OpenSSF at Open Source Finance Forum (OSFF) NYC

At the Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) in New York, OpenSSF highlighted the critical role of open source security in the financial sector. Through sponsorship and expert talks, OpenSSF showcased initiatives to secure AI systems, standardize project security with the OSPS Baseline, and stabilize global vulnerability data. Speakers from IBM, Bloomberg, Kusari, and OpenSSF emphasized collaboration across regulators, institutions, and maintainers to reduce systemic risk and build a more trustworthy software ecosystem for finance. Learn more.
- SBOMs in the Era of the CRA: Toward a Unified and Actionable Framework
With new global rules like the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) are becoming essential for software security and compliance. The blog explains how standards such as SPDX and CycloneDX are uniting to make SBOMs interoperable and useful for real-world risk management. Through open tools like Protobom, BomCTL, and SBOMit, OpenSSF is helping turn SBOMs into practical, automated tools that strengthen trust and transparency across global software supply chains. Learn more.
Overture Maps Foundation
- Overture Maps Foundation Welcomes New Executive Director
Overture Maps Foundation is pleased to announce Will Mortenson, EdD as its new Executive Director, guiding Overture’s next phase of growth and industry leadership. With over 25 years of geospatial experience, Will brings a strong vision for advancing open, interoperable map data and deepening collaboration across industry and government. Read the full announcement.
- Exploring GERS at FOSS4G UK.
In case you missed it, Overture’s Technical Product Manager Dana Bauer shared an engaging talk at FOSS4G UK on the Global Entity Reference System (GERS). Follow along as she takes a field geographer’s approach to mapping Leeds’ music venues and assigning them GERS IDs—showing how Overture is connecting datasets through unique identifiers. Watch the talk. - Unlocking Interoperability with Open Map Data
At CARTO’s Spatial Data Science Conference, Drew Breunig offered a clear and compelling explanation of how Overture’s open map data enables interoperability across spatial datasets—empowering organizations to build richer, more connected applications. Watch the session. - Overture Maps Foundation October 2025 Data Release
The Overture 2025-10-22.0 release is now live, delivering continued improvements across key themes. Updates include: A new basic category property in Places, 455M address records (+9M from last month) with strong GERS stability, Refreshed OSM data and new TomTom segments, and Expanded building coverage across Southeast Asia. Release notes.
P4
- Recent News
- From Research Labs to Government Networks: The Journey of P4TG. Check out this blog to learn about P4TG, a hardware-accelerated traffic generator and analyzer implemented directly in the data plane of Intel® Tofino™ programmable switches. It combines the flexibility of P4 with the performance of switching ASICs to provide line-rate traffic generation and precise measurement capabilities at terabit speeds. Alongside the data-plane implementation, P4TG includes a Rust-based control plane, a REST API for automated testing workflows, and a web-based frontend for convenient configuration and live visualization, making it suitable for both hands-on lab work and fully scripted test pipelines.
- Upcoming Events
- P4 Developer Days - AR/CG Network Traffic Classification in Programmable Dataplane | November 12 | 8:00am Pacific
- In this presentation, we explore the importance of classifying AR/CG traffic directly within the network device to enable low-latency, intelligent forwarding. We outline the end-to-end process of feature extraction and deployment within a programmable data plane, focusing on how key traffic features are computed and mirrored in P4-enabled switches.
- P4 Developer Days - Implementation of Periodic Behavior with P4: Challenges and Solutions on Intel Tofino with Application in Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) | November 19 | 8:00am Pacific
- Implementing periodic time behavior in hardware data planes is challenging due to limited arithmetic capabilities such as the lack of modulo operations, restricted timestamp precision, and resource constraints. This talk presents a general mechanism for implementing periodic time logic in P4, i.e., enabling data plane behavior that repeats in fixed time intervals, applicable to a broad range of time-aware applications.
- P4 Developer Days - QuIP: A P4 Quantum Internet Protocol Prototyping Framework | December 3 | 8:00am Pacific
- Quantum entanglement is so fundamentally different from a network packet that several quantum network stacks have been proposed; one of which has even been experimentally demonstrated. Several simulators have also been developed to make up for limited hardware availability, and which facilitate the design and evaluation of quantum network protocols. However, the lack of shared tooling and community-agreed node architectures has resulted in protocol implementations that are tightly coupled to their simulators. Besides limiting their reusability between different simulators, it also makes building upon prior results and simulations difficult. To address this problem, we have developed QuIP: a P4-based Quantum Internet Protocol prototyping framework for quantum network protocol design.
- P4 Developer Days - AR/CG Network Traffic Classification in Programmable Dataplane | November 12 | 8:00am Pacific
- Recent Event
- P4 Developer Days - P4sim: Protocol-Independent Packet Processors in ns-3
- While ns-3 is one of the most widely used discrete-event network simulators, it lacks native support for programmable data plane behaviors described in P4. P4sim addresses this gap by integrating P4’s protocol-independent, table-driven packet processing model into the ns-3 simulation framework.
- View the video and slides here >>
- P4 Developer Days - P4sim: Protocol-Independent Packet Processors in ns-3
PyTorch Foundation
- PyTorch Conference 2025 brought together more than 3,000 developers, researchers, and innovators from across the global AI ecosystem for keynotes, technical sessions, and collaboration in San Francisco last month.

- Read all about it in our PyTorch Conference 2025 Recap on Accelerating the Future of Open Source AI
- Session recordings from the conference and co-located events are now available:
- Explore announcements from PyTorch Conference:
- Dell Technologies joins the PyTorch Foundation as a Premier Member
- Qualcomm joins the PyTorch Foundation as a Premier Member
- Ray joins PyTorch Foundation as a hosted project to help deliver a unified open source AI compute stack
- The PyTorch Ecosystem continues to expand with LMCache and DeepInverse, both advancing open source tools for inference and imaging.
- The Foundation also celebrated its 2025 PyTorch Contributor Awardees, recognizing community members who have made outstanding contributions across development, research, and advocacy.

- Blogs and technical announcements from the PyTorch & torchcomms Teams at Meta from PyTorch Conference 2025:
- PyTorch Team at Meta & Lightning AI: Monarch + Lightning AI: Unlocking New Possibilities in Distributed Training
- PyTorch Team at Meta: Introducing ExecuTorch 1.0: Powering the next generation of edge AI
- Team torchcomms at Meta: torchcomms: a modern PyTorch communications API
- PyTorch Team at Meta: Helion: A High-Level DSL for Performant and Portable ML Kernels
- PyTorch Team at Meta: Introducing PyTorch Monarch
- PyTorch Team at Meta: Introducing torchforge – a PyTorch native library for scalable RL post-training and agentic development

- PyTorch 2.9 Now Available: The latest release introduces major performance improvements, expanded support for quantization and distributed training, and new features for inference and export. Read the full release blog
- Read the latest from PyTorch Foundation’s blog:
- PyTorch Team at Meta: KernelFalcon: Autonomous GPU Kernel Generation via Deep Agents
- vLLM Team at IBM: Hybrid Models as First-Class Citizens in vLLM
- vLLM Team at IBM Research, vLLM Team at Red Hat, and vLLM Team at AMD: Enabling vLLM V1 on AMD GPUs With Triton
- Snowflake: SuperOffload: Unleashing the Power of Large-Scale LLM Training on Superchips
- PyTorch Team at Meta: When Quantization Isn’t Enough: Why 2:4 Sparsity Matters
RISC-V
- October Highlights: A Milestone Month for RISC-V
- October marked an exciting chapter for our community with the success of RISC-V Summit North America 2025 in Santa Clara, California. The event brought together industry leaders, developers, and innovators from around the world to showcase the latest advancements in open computing and celebrate the momentum of RISC-V across industries.
- Thank you to everyone who joined us and made the Summit such a success! Couldn’t make it—or want to relive your favorite moments?
- Photos are now available on Flickr (do you spot yourself?!), and presentations are available on our YouTube channel.
- Check out our October News:
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- RISC-V Takes First Step Toward International Standardization as ISO/IEC JTC1 Grants PAS Submitter Status
- RISC-V International to Announce 25% Market Penetration
- Insights from the 2025 RISC-V Summits and Andes Technology’s Pivotal Role
- Quintauris-Everspin Partnership Targets Dependable Open-standard Processors for Car Industry
SONiC
- SONiC’s global adoption continues to accelerate across AI, telecom, and financial sectors, with four new case studies showcasing its versatility and impact:
- SAKURA Internet deployed SAKURAONE, an 800-GPU cloud infrastructure powered by SONiC, ranked 49th in the June 2025 TOP500.
- Mitsui Knowledge Industry built the AI infrastructure behind Tokyo-1, achieving major cost savings and improved lifecycle control.
- Rakuten validated SONiC at scale across multi-vendor platforms, realizing 50%+ cost savings versus proprietary NOS solutions.
- A national retail payments operator in India modernized its infrastructure with SONiC, enabling hundreds of millions of secure daily transactions and reducing TCO by 40%.
- Read the case studies
- Congratulations to the 2025 SONiC Hackathon winners! This year’s event brought together 31 teams from 12 organizations, recognizing standout innovation across categories including Most Impactful (Alibaba Cloud), Most Innovative (Cisco), Most Wanted by Users (Amazon), Most Wanted by Devs (Alibaba Cloud), and Rising Star (Oklahoma State University). Read the announcement.
- The SONiC Workshop, co-located with the OCP Global Summit, is now available to watch online. Catch the full recording to hear industry leaders discuss SONiC’s latest innovations and real-world deployments. Watch the recording.
- The SONiC Extended Workshop recording is now available on the SONiC YouTube channel. Watch the sessions to explore the latest technical updates, community insights, and real-world use cases from SONiC experts. Watch now.
- The Linux.com blog Disaggregated Routing with SONiC and VPP: Architecture and Integration – Part One explains how combining SONiC’s control plane with VPP’s data plane enables a fully software-defined router that delivers ASIC-level performance on standard x86 hardware while reducing cost and vendor lock-in. Read more.
- The blog Understanding SONiC Architecture Through a Restaurant Analogy by Rajshekhar Biradar explains SONiC’s modular design through a creative metaphor, comparing SONiC’s components to a restaurant’s staff working in harmony. The piece illustrates how SONiC’s orchestration, abstraction, and modularity deliver a seamless, vendor-independent networking experience. Read more.
Sylva
- Sylva joined the Linux Foundation Europe Roadshow on 29 October in Ghent, Belgium, with an overview presentation from community member Julie Borghese of Orange. Slides from her presentation are available here.
- Check out Sylva-related content on the new YouTube channel! Watch session videos, media interviews, or catch up on past TSC meetings. Subscribe today.
- Sylva celebrated its third birthday as a project! Learn more about how far it's come in this new blog post.

Ultra Ethernet Consortium
- This month, Ultra Ethernet Consortium Steering Member Broadcom has introduced the Thor Ultra, an 800G AI Ethernet NIC fully compliant with the Ultra Ethernet Consortium specification. This launch marks an important step for the UEC ecosystem, showing how open Ethernet standards can drive performance and scalability for AI workloads while giving organizations flexibility across XPUs, optics, and switches. Check out the full UEC blog for details, plus Broadcom’s official press release and recent media coverage from ServeTheHome and SDxCentral. Read the blog.
- In a new cross-posted blog, UEC member Nokia explores how the UEC Spec 1.0 is driving the next evolution of Ethernet for AI and HPC at scale. Specification 1.0 introduces advanced load balancing, congestion control, and built-in security, addressing the pain points that limit performance in large-scale AI clusters.
- Read how Nokia and UEC are shaping the future of open and interoperable Ethernet for AI.
- At OCP Global Summit, Ultra Ethernet: Escaping the Chaos of Order featured Keith Underwood, Senior Distinguished Technologist at HPE, sharing how the Ultra Ethernet Consortium is rethinking traditional networking assumptions.


UXL Foundation
- We are thrilled to welcome Marvell Technology, Inc. as a General Member to the UXL Foundation!
- The UXL Foundation had a presence at the 2025 OCP Global Summit in San Jose. Hanwoong Jung, Samsung, Project Leader of Universal Deep Learning Compiler, gave a talk titled, “oneMCC: Building an Open Software Ecosystem for NDP Devices.”
- The oneAPI Developer Summit hosted by the UXL Foundation was a success. Review the videos at your convenience.
- Former Steering Committee chair Rod Burns wrote a blog reflecting on his experiences in establishing open governance and the UXL Foundation. Read Rod’s blog here.
- UXL Special Interest Groups
- On Tuesday, November 4 there was a Language SIG meeting hosted by Nikita Grigorian. Nikita spoke about the dpctl project and how it provides Python bindings to the DPC++ runtime objects. Nikita is an AI frameworks engineer working for Intel since 2022, supporting and maintaining the dpctl package and the dpctl.tensor submodule. The MATH SIG met on November 12, with CDAC presenting on “Harnessing Arm Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) for Accelerated OpenBLAS and NumPy Performance” by Aniket Garade and Kuldeep Pal (CDAC).
- Sign up for the mailing lists to receive invitations and stay informed about upcoming UXL Foundation SIG meetings. Please check the calendar for details of upcoming meetings. We welcome proposed topics for any of our meetings, so get in touch if you want to present.
Valkey
- Announcement | Valkey 9.0 release setting a new bar with 1 billion+ RPS clusters, 40% higher throughput, and major feature launches including hash field expiration, community-driven, open source collaboration strikes again with the latest innovations from the Valkey project.
- Event | House of Valkey, a three-floor takeover of Taco Bell Cantina, on Dec. 3 in Las Vegas - For the builders, the maintainers, the contributors, the curious, and those all in on open source.
- Join us for exclusive swag, custom Taco Bell menu, deep house beats all night, live performers, giveaways & surprises, and spiked Baja Blasts. No re:Invent badge needed—just register and show up ready to connect >>
Zephyr Project
- What to expect at the Zephyr Project Meetup (November 20, 2025) – Garching, Munich, Germany
- We are excited to announce the agenda for the upcoming Zephyr Project in-person meetup in Garching, Munich, Germany, happening on November 20, 2025 from 5:00 pm – 9:30 pm. This in-person gathering is open to anyone curious about open source, embedded systems programming, and software development. Learn more.
- New Zephyr Podcast Episodes (#008–#010)—Catch Up Now!
- Episode #010 – “Watch Your Language!” (Nov 7, 2025)
A deep dive into Zephyr’s migration to C17, new Actuator and NVMEM APIs, and a look at the LRC client and AkiraOS. Also featuring news on Debian’s APT Rust changes, a Rust-based Arduino API, and the upcoming Zephyr Tech Talk on Arduino integration. Don’t miss the Zephyr 10-year survey and upcoming community meetups! - Episode #009 – “OpenBMC Ported to Zephyr (and More!)” (Oct 31, 2025)
From OpenBMC support in Zephyr to new integrations with wolfSSL, Edge Impulse, and Zephelin, this episode highlights Zephyr’s expanding reach. The hosts cover Raspberry Pi’s Zephyr-ready VS Code extension, STM32 wake-up pins, UVC encoder samples, and updates ahead of FOSDEM 2026.
- Episode #010 – “Watch Your Language!” (Nov 7, 2025)
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- Episode #008 – “It’s Raining Boards!” (Oct 24, 2025)
Feature freeze for Zephyr 4.3 brings a storm of new boards and shields including Microchip’s PIC32CZ CA80, Renesas RA8D2, Pebble 2 Duo, and more. Learn about the new Devicetree linter, EEPROM API work by Buildroot’s Peter Korsgaard, and the Zephyr board catalog’s growing potential as a structured data resource. - The Zephyr Project Podcast keeps the community up to date on kernel developments, hardware support, and ecosystem news. The latest three episodes dive deep into language updates, tooling, and the fast-growing Zephyr ecosystem.
- Episode #008 – “It’s Raining Boards!” (Oct 24, 2025)
- Meet the Zephyr Project Community at Upcoming Events! The Zephyr Project is hitting the road this fall and we can’t wait to connect with developers, contributors, and enthusiasts around the world.
- Join us for in-person Zephyr Meetups in Munich, Germany (Nov 20,2025), Karlsruhe, Germany (Dec 4,2025) to network, share ideas, and explore the latest in open source and embedded systems development.You can also catch Zephyr at major industry gatherings, including the Open Source Summit Japan 2025 (Dec 8-10,2025, Tokyo, Japan) and the Open Source Experience 2025 (Dec 10 & 11 Paris, France).
- Whether you are an experienced developer or just getting started, come meet the community, learn from experts, and see how Zephyr is shaping the future of connected devices.
LF Events: Mark your calendar!
- Yocto Project Virtual Summit 2025.12
Dec 2–4, 2025 / Virtual - CozySummit Virtual
Dec 3, 2025 / Virtual - GitOpsCon North America Virtual
Dec 4, 2025 / Virtual - AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit Japan
Dec 8–10, 2025 / Tokyo, Japan - Automotive Linux Summit
Dec 8–10, 2025 / Tokyo, Japan - Open Source Summit Japan
Dec 8–10, 2025 / Tokyo, Japan - Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit
Dec 10, 2025 / Tokyo, Japan - Linux Plumbers Conference
Dec 11–13, 2025 / Tokyo, Japan and Virtual - Open Compliance Summit
Dec 11–12, 2025 / Tokyo, Japan - OpenSearchCon Japan
Dec 11, 2025 / Tokyo, Japan
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