Linux Foundation Newsletter: October 2025
The Linux Foundation | 15 October 2025
Welcome to the October 2025 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter.
Autumn is upon us and open source innovation shows no signs of slowing. Over the past month, the Linux Foundation welcomed new projects, celebrated major project milestones, and advanced our mission of enabling open collaboration across industries. Here are more of this month’s highlights:- React Foundation Launches Under the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation announced the formation of the React Foundation, a new home for React, React Native, and supporting projects to thrive under neutral, open governance. Contributed by Meta and backed by industry leaders, the foundation aims to support the long-term sustainability of one of the world’s most popular front-end frameworks.- Read more about the launch in the LF newsroom
- See additional coverage in InfoWorld and SD Times
- Disney Research, NVIDIA, and Google DeepMind Contribute Newton Physics Engine
A new project, Newton, has been contributed to the Linux Foundation by Disney Research, DeepMind, and NVIDIA. Newton is a GPU-accelerated physics engine designed for robotic simulation and reinforcement learning—bridging the gap between virtual training and real world deployment.- Read more about the project in the LF newsroom
- LF Decentralized Trust (LFDT) Celebrates One Year
LF Decentralized Trust marked its one-year anniversary with key milestones, including new members, community growth, and the move of Hiero, the distributed ledger technology powering the Hedera network, to graduated project status. The initiative continues to drive forward open source solutions for tokenized assets, verifiable credentials, decentralized identity, and public trust.- Recap the progress in the LFDT blog
- What’s Next?
Read on for more news, research, and opportunities from across the Linux Foundation.
>> PS - LF Europe Member Summit is right around the corner! Register now!
Contents
- Education Opportunities
- LF Event Spotlight: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
- LF Europe: Community Updates
- LF Research: What is your organization’s ROI on open source contributions?
- Linux Foundation Projects: Featured news
- LF Events: Mark your calendar!
- Follow us!
Education Opportunities
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LF Event Spotlight: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America is NEXT MONTH, taking place November 10-13 in Atlanta, Georgia. Join us for a week of collaboration, learning, and growth alongside members of #TeamCloudNative worldwide.
View the schedule full of educational sessions, explore the tracks, and check out all 18 CNCF-hosted Co-located events, including Observability Day, Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day, ArgoCon, BackstageCon, Platform Engineering Day, and more!
LF Europe: Community Updates
Final Call: Join Us in Belgium for a Landmark Week in Open Source
The dates are fast approaching for our special event series in Belgium, taking place from 28-30 October. This is your final opportunity to register and join fellow European leaders, developers, and policymakers for three days of strategy, hands-on policy insights, and high-level security discussions.Whether you're looking to set strategy with fellow members, dive deep into the Cyber Resilience Act, or engage with policymakers, there is an event tailored for you.
- LF Europe Member Summit
This exclusive, complimentary gathering is for Linux Foundation Europe members. Join us to set your Europe-wide open source strategy for the year ahead, with a full day of keynotes and sessions featuring leaders from across the private and public sectors.
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- This event is free for, and exclusive to, all members.
- REGISTER FOR THE MEMBER SUMMIT >>
- LF Europe Roadshow
Hosted in partnership with the OpenSSF, this event is a one-day public event bringing together open source contributors, industry experts, and policymakers to discuss AI, digital sovereignty, and the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
- Hear keynotes from Daniele Tonella (ING Group CTO) on open source in vertical industries and Greg Kroah-Hartman (Linux Foundation Fellow) on what the CRA means for developers. Don’t miss the Digital Sovereignty Panel featuring MEP Alexandra Geese, Jutta Horstmann (Heinlein Group), and Gabriele Columbro (LF Europe), plus a CRA Working Session led by experts from Arm, Samsung, and the Confidential Computing Consortium. View a list of featured speakers.
- As a valued community member, enjoy 50% off registration with code LFEUFRIEND — promo price €49.
- Hear keynotes from Daniele Tonella (ING Group CTO) on open source in vertical industries and Greg Kroah-Hartman (Linux Foundation Fellow) on what the CRA means for developers. Don’t miss the Digital Sovereignty Panel featuring MEP Alexandra Geese, Jutta Horstmann (Heinlein Group), and Gabriele Columbro (LF Europe), plus a CRA Working Session led by experts from Arm, Samsung, and the Confidential Computing Consortium. View a list of featured speakers.
- European Open Source Security Forum
To conclude the week, the OpenSSF and the leading think tank CEPS will co-host this forum to unite open source leaders and policymakers. The agenda will focus on impactful security initiatives and policy efforts.
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- This complimentary event is invite-only due to limited space.
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LF Research: What is your organization’s ROI on open source contributions?
Help us capture the return on investment from contributing to OSS projects! LF Research has launched a novel survey to quantify open source investments and benefits across different organizational contexts. Please share your insights on your organization’s own OSS contributions and receive a discount code for LF courses and certifications! The survey closes Oct 31!
New research on the economic value of AI to Africa, the Middle East, and Türkiye
In our series on the value of open source AI, the Linux Foundation partnered with Meta to publish the second report on AI in Africa, the Middle East, and Türkiye (AMET)! Read the full study for an overview of open source AI adoption in this region, the technology’s impacts across the workforce and within sectors, and how open source AI provides value unique to AMET.
Linux Foundation Projects: Featured news
Collaboration at OpenSearchCon North America 2025
Aether
- IEEE Future Networks World Forum 2025
We are pleased to announce that a “Energy Efficiency Testing and Power Modeling of O-RAN Radio Units” paper has been selected for inclusion in the IEEE Future Networks World Forum 2025 in Bangalore, India. The paper is co-authored by Aether’s Sarat Puthenpura and Alexandro Stancu, along with Zhuohuan Li, Prasanthi Maddala, N. K. Shankaranarayanan, Ivan Seskar, Rutgers University, WINLAB; and Christian Nunez Alvarez and Gregg Albrecht, Keysight Technologies. - Recent News
- Community Member Profile – Scott Baker
Scott was a leader in operating the production Open Networking Foundation (ONF) Aether network which hosted edge sites at multiple universities, commercial organizations, test clusters, etc. He also contributed to the development of the Runtime Operational Controller (ROC), a component for managing Aether connectivity services. He even had an active “Aether At Home” edge site with an eNodeB bolted to the ceiling of his home office where he deployed a couple of test edge nodes using raspberry pi devices together with cellular USB dongles.
- Community Member Profile – Scott Baker
- Recent Event
- OpenRAN Global Forum
In case you missed the insightful webinar, “Energy Efficiency in Open RAN” as part of the Open RAN Global Forum, you can now view the video on-demand (registration required). Aether’s Sarat Puthenpura participated and was joined by Sushil Rawat, Telus; Chris Murphy, VIAVI Solutions and Arun Handoo, Qualcomm Technologies and Catherine Sbeglia-Nin, Moderator for RCR Wireless News.- While Open RAN can be more energy-intensive than traditional RAN, it is also a key pillar in building sustainable 6G networks. This session explores the latest progress, architectural innovations, and standardization efforts aimed at reducing power consumption and improving energy efficiency across Open RAN deployments—from lab trials to real-world implementations.
- OpenRAN Global Forum
Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD)
- Welcome new member! HCLTech has joined the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) to help advance the standardization of OpenUSD and unlock the potential of Physical AI. Through this collaboration, HCLTech will contribute its expertise in AI-driven transformation to support AOUSD’s mission of enabling unified 3D content creation, simulation, and real-time collaboration. Learn more.
- Pickford AI premiered “Whispers” at the Busan International Film Festival (Sept 21, 2025), an interactive AI thriller where viewers influence a detective’s investigation. The project, created with Emmy winner Bernie Su and featuring SAG-approved AI voices, showcases how OpenUSD-enabled technologies are enabling new forms of audience participation.
- Pixar launched the 12th RenderMan Art Challenge, themed “First Contact” (Aug 13–Nov 11, 2025), celebrating the interstellar magic of Elio and the 30th anniversary of Toy Story. Supported by AMD, Dell, NVIDIA, Adobe, and others, the competition invites artists to push creative and technical boundaries using RenderMan’s open technologies.
- DigitalFish completed a NASA Phase I STTR project demonstrating how OpenUSD can extend XR capabilities for mission rehearsal and training. In collaboration with Cornell University, they built a VR simulator where participants drove NASA’s VIPER rover on lunar terrain. The work paves the way for new OpenUSD schemas for XR and interactivity — and feeds directly into AOUSD’s standards efforts.
CAMARA
- CAMARA recently unpacked its Fall ’25 Meta release, showcasing new stable Network APIs and why CAMARA matters for marketplaces, operators, and developers. An overview webinar covered new and updated APIs, deployment patterns, and next steps on the roadmap, helping telcos and app builders accelerate time-to-value. Thank you to CAMARA board members and industry leaders and Herbert Damker (Lead Architect, Deutsche Telekom and CAMARA TSC Chair & Board Member), Tanja de Groot (Open API Chief Architect, Nokia & CAMARA Board Member), and Johanna Wood (Director Network APIs, Vodafone & CAMARA Board Member) for sharing their insights.
- Read the press release here.
- Watch the recording here.
- News coverage
- TelcomTV wrote, “Camara Project’s latest drop boasts 60 network APIs,” highlighting the Fall ‘25 Meta release as CAMARA APIs advances in its maturity and stability.
- Sdxcentral covered CAMARA’s latest release offering 60 specially curated APIs designed for developers to build and iterate upon telecom projects in their article, “Camara project launches 60 telecom APIs for network interoperability.”
- Telcompaper released, “CAMARA Project reaches 60 APIs including 23 new features in autumn update” featuring CAMARA’s third major release consisting of 10 stable APIs and 27 software updates, along with 23 initial versions of new APIs.
- Mobile Europe published, “Proximus Global launches Konera API platform” as the launch comes as The Linux Foundation’s CAMARA project issues their third meta release.
- The Infobip SHIFT event in Zadar was a resounding success, with strong engagement from developers throughout the conference. Both the lightning talk on integrating Number Verification into code and the Network API presentation on the main stage received excellent feedback. Additionally, the “Unleash Your Creativity at the CAMARA Network API” Ideathon, held on October 16th at Workshop #1, provided a valuable platform for participants to collaborate and drive innovation.
- CAMARA made a strong impression at API Days London, featuring a prominent banner near the GSMA-hosted panel and active engagement through discussions and giveaways. Thanks to Steven Pater (Vodafone) and Dessita Petrova (Liberty Global) for representing CAMARA onsite.
- Join us at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025, November 10–13 in Atlanta, Georgia! Visit the CAMARA booth to meet community members, pick up swag, and learn how CAMARA enables developers to access open network capabilities through standardized, easy-to-use APIs. Event details here >>
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.
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- Stop by the CIP booth to meet the team and learn more about how CIP is building open source solutions for long-term industrial and civil infrastructure systems.
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
- CNCF Welcomes 20 New Silver Members Reflecting Broader Cloud Native and AI Adoption | New members span DevOps, platform engineering, and agentic AI, underscoring cloud native’s critical role in modern infrastructure across industries.
- CNCF Expands Infrastructure Support for Project Maintainers Through Partnership with Docker | CNCF projects gain access to trusted container distribution, enhanced security tooling, and usage insights via Docker’s Sponsored Open Source Program.
- Announcing H1 2026 KCDs | We’re excited to announce the first wave 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’s Helm Project Remains Fully Open Source and Unaffected by Recent Vendor Deprecations | Recently, users may have seen the news about Broadcom (Bitnami) regarding upcoming deprecations of their publicly available container images and Helm Charts. These changes, which will take effect by September 29, 2025, mark a shift to a paid subscription model for Bitnami Secure Images and the removal of many free-to-use artifacts from public registries.
- Effective GPU: A Heterogeneous AI Virtualization Pooling solution by SF technology built on top of HAMi | SF Technology, the technology arm of SF Express—China’s leading integrated logistics service provider—operates one of the largest and most advanced logistics networks in the world. With a strong focus on digital transformation and intelligent logistics, SF Technology leverages cutting-edge AI and cloud native technologies to optimize operations, enhance customer experience, and drive business innovation.
- Refactoring Nutanix Kubernetes Platform for a Consistent Experience with Cilium | Nutanix needed a more modern, efficient, and easier-to-manage CNI for its managed Kubernetes platform (NKP), especially as existing solutions posed complexity in configuration and lacked performance optimizations. Customers also required seamless networking between VMs and Kubernetes pods.
- Millennium bcp Enhances Digital Banking Resilience with k8gb | Millennium bcp, the largest privately-owned bank in Portugal, operates in a highly regulated environment, requiring continuous compliance with European Central Bank and Banco de Portugal mandates, including the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and similar regulations. To meet stringent requirements around availability, disaster recovery, and cloud neutrality, Millennium bcp adopted k8gb, a CNCF sandbox project for global load balancing across Kubernetes clusters.
Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC)
- We are excited to welcome Phala Network as the newest General Member of the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC)! Phala is a secure cloud platform enabling developers to run AI workloads inside hardware-protected Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). They are also contributing directly to CCC-hosted projects — with their open-source project, dstack, now part of the Linux Foundation under the CCC. Read the announcement.
- CCC September newsletter just dropped! 📢 Get highlights from the AI Infra Summit, details on the upcoming AI-Ready Data Safeguards Workshop (Oct 20, SF), OSFF New York, plus new resources and member news! Read the newsletter.
- New Compliance page is live. This page is a resource hub to help organizations and practitioners navigate governance, security, and regulatory considerations in Confidential Computing. Explore guidance on: Workload governance, Verifier responsibilities, Ecosystem expectations, GDPR compliance in the AI era.
Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF)
- 📄 New CI/CD Cybersecurity Guide to Seamless DevSecOps. Check it out
- ☀️ GSoC Mentor Organization Guide: how to apply to be a Google Summer of Code mentor organization (Hint: the process starts in October).
DAOS Foundation
- 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)
- DIF Labs Beta Cohort 2 Completed: Three projects concluded successfully on September 24, 2025, including Anonymous Multi-Signature Verifiable Credentials (ZKMPA), Privacy-Preserving Revocation Mechanisms, and Legally-Binding Proof of Personhood via QES (QVC), all demonstrating working implementations.
- New Trusted Agents Working Group Launched: This group addresses AI agent identity, authentication, and trust infrastructure with initial focus on Agentic Authority Use Cases
- DIF Steering Committee Elections: Nominations and candidate questions being accepted through October 9, with final slate answers expected September 16
- DIF Newsletter Highlights:
- New Collaboration Launched: DIF joined Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust and Trust over IP to launch Decentralized Trust Graph Working Group for developing standards around trust networks and reputation systems.
- Credential Schema Specification 1.0 Released: Claims & Credentials Working Group released standardized schemas for basic identity credentials, ensuring interoperability with W3C Verifiable Credentials, OIDC, and schema.org.
- DID Methods Progress: Working group refined evaluation criteria for DIF-recommended DID methods, emphasizing multiple independent implementations and production deployments; continued work on proposed W3C DID Methods Working Group charter.
- DIDComm Compact Binary Encoding Support: Working group advanced CBOR implementation and evaluated architectural approaches for supporting multiple encoding formats in version 2.2 or future major release.
- Hospitality & Travel Profile Development: Working group creates comprehensive credential schemas for food preferences, dietary restrictions, and accessibility requirements.
DPDK
- New DPDK Dispatch Newsletter
Subscribe today to catch the upcoming Q4 edition dropping later this month.
- Celebrating 15 Years of DPDK
Join us in celebrating 15 years of innovation with a special Developer Spotlight featuring Bruce Richardson, one of DPDK’s founding maintainers.
- A Day in the Life of a Packet
Explore the new series, for a behind-the-scenes look at how DPDK powers the hidden engine of the internet.
eBPF Foundation
- The eBPF Foundation has awarded $100,000 in research grants to advance eBPF safety and efficiency.
- A new blog post from eBPF Foundation pa
Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) Project
- ELISA Project Seminar (15 October) - Software Hash ID: you will not be able to live without it.
- Join Thomas Aynaud, CTO of Software Heritage, for an in-depth look at the Software Hash Identifier (SWHID), the new international standard (ISO/IEC 18670:2025) revolutionizing how software provenance and reproducibility are managed.
- Learn how SWHID simplifies SBOM creation and strengthens traceability across safety-critical and regulated industries. Register for this free seminar today.
- Driving Automotive with Open Source: From Compliance to Collaboration - Philipp Ahmann, Etas GmbH.
- We are excited to share that at the upcoming Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit, ELISA Project Ambassador Philipp Ahmann (ETAS) will present “Driving Automotive with Open Source: From Compliance to Collaboration.”
- Philipp will explore how automakers and suppliers can align safety and security requirements with open collaboration covering practical processes, tooling, and community models that turn compliance evidence into shared engineering momentum.
- If you are attending, add this session to your agenda and connect with the ELISA Project ambassador to learn how our working groups help make Linux fit for safety-critical use. Learn more.
- ELISA Project Workshop | Munich: November 18, 2025
Join the ELISA Project and Red Hat for a three-day, in-person workshop focused on advancing collaboration in Linux-based safety-critical systems. The program features technical talks, working sessions, and community discussions led by experts from Red Hat, the Linux Foundation, Boeing, Fraunhofer AISEC, and more. Register today.
FinOps Foundation
- We’re excited to announce that early bird registration is open for FinOps X 2026. Join 2,500+ FinOps practitioners, leaders, and community members for keynotes, collaborative chalk talks, technical deep dives, and networking opportunities.
- FinOps X Day Washington D.C.: Join the FinOps Foundation for a full day of learning and building connections at Convene Hamilton Square in Washington D.C. on October 21.
FINOS
- Last Chance: OSFF New York | October 21 - 22 | 20% off Code NEWYORK20
FINOS’s flagship conference brings two days of open source innovation in financial services. View our Keynote Speakers here including speakers from Citi, Accenture, BlackRock, Fidelity Investments, Red Hat, Fannie Mae, Block, RBC, and more. Register here with NEWYORK20 for 20% off. - Workshops Registration | October 20-23 | New York City
We have various workshops taking place on October 20, 21, and 23 in New York City. Join us for AI Reference Architectures Workshops, a FDC3 Sail Workshop, and/or a SDLC Controls in Financial Services Workshop. Register here. - Recording - All Community Call Q3
Watch a recap of the FINOS Q3 All Community Call, where we shared exciting updates from across the FINOS ecosystem! In this session, we covered key announcements, upcoming events, and the latest initiatives in open source in finance. Watch here. - Recording - CDM/DRR Integration Masterclass with REGnosys
Many firms see the value in CDM and DRR—but hesitate due to perceived complexity. This hands-on masterclass shows you how to integrate DRR into your internal systems faster and more efficiently using Rune’s Translate 2.0 and the Rosetta platform. Watch here and view the Masterclass Q&A here.
High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF)
- HPSFCon is back for 2026! Join us in Chicago, March 16-20, 2026. ☘️
- HPSF hosted a four-day tutorial at ICPP designed to give developers practical experience with some of today’s most important HPC tools. Check out the recap.
- The OpenCHAMI Developer Summit 2025 at TACC brought together the community for strategic discussions, technical deep dives, and hands-on tutorials that advanced OpenCHAMI’s role as the open, community-driven foundation for HPC system management. Check out the recap.
LF AI & Data
- LF AI & Data projects BeeAI and Docling were were on display at the recent IBM TechXchange event in Orlando, including: two BeeAI workshops (“AI Agentic Bootcamp with BeeAI” and “BeeAI: Build Production Agents with Simple to Customize UIs; and Docling’s “Deep Dive into Docling with the Core Development Team” workshop.
- Researchers at Cornell, with contributions from LF AI & Data community members, recently published a technical white paper on “Advanced Layout Analysis Models for Docling” that presents improved document layout models that outperform previous baselines in accuracy, with competitive runtime.
- Don’t miss LF AI & Data at the Open Agent Summit (Oct 21, San Francisco), Sandi Besen of IBM will present on BeeAI, an LF AI & Data Foundation project at the forefront of this transformation, at the Open Agent Summit (Oct 21, San Francisco). Co-located with PyTorchCon 2025, the Summit is your chance to connect with global experts shaping the rise of AI agents. Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/gNrNb8et
- Linux Foundation GM and SVP of Networking, Edge and Access recently presented a talk on “AI Agents: Open Source Opportunities & Challenge,” at the ’AI Agent Internet Architecture and Technology‘ seminar hosted by China Mobile. Watch a recording here.
- A recent article in The New Stack, The Linux Foundation in theAge of AI, examines how the Linux Foundation (via LF AI & Data, PyTorch Foundation, etc.) is positioning itself as a “home” for open AI governance and ecosystem coordination.
- Check out Part 3 of our LF AI & Data blog series that explores the cost, fairness, and ethical challenges of bringing LLM-powered recommender systems into production. From latency and token costs to privacy and fairness audits, this post outlines proven design patterns for making these systems scalable, responsible, and trustworthy. Read Part 3 here: “Leverage LLM for next-generation Recommender Systems: Design Patterns for Cost-Aware and Ethical Deployment.
- The Docling project, at just a year old, has just reached GitHub’s list of top 500 repositoriesThanks to our incredible community of contributors, users, and enthusiasts, we’ve gone from parsing PDFs to parsing our way into GitHub history!
LF Broadband
- Türk Telekom has launched a comprehensive network transformation initiative to modernize its access infrastructure and overcome the limitations of traditional vendor-specific architectures. At the center of this effort is SEBA-VOLTHA, the open source, cloud-native broadband access management system hosted by LF Broadband. Read the full case study.
LF Decentralized Trust
- LF Decentralized Trust marked its one year anniversary with a post from Executive Director Daniela Babosa on accelerating innovation, collaboration, and opportunity and a report with project highlights from year one by Tracy Kuhrt, Chair of the Technical Advisory Council.
- Hiero, a ledger project that launched alongside LF Decentralized Trust, also celebrated its first year with a post from the community with both milestones to date and plans of future development.
- LF Decentralized Trust announced a line up of new members, including associate member Deutsche Bundesbank and a number of general members that reflect the growing momentum in the Ethereum ecosystem.
- The release also included Hiero's graduation and the launch of Minokawa, a smart contract privacy project contributed by Shielded Technologies.
- CoinDesk reported on a United Nations white paper detailing its use of Hyperledger Indy, an LF Decentralized Trust project, in a pension funds project and concluding that blockchain is the "ultimate" identity tech.
- The World Bank published the article "The World Bank and Blockchain: A New Era of Transparency," which describes FundsChain, a blockchain-based platform built on Besu (an LF Decentralized Trust project), that improves traceability and accountability and streamline operations of grant funding for projects around the world.
- As reported by Coincu, HSBC has introduced a tokenized deposit service, delivered by a private network built on Besu, for corporate clients to facilitate secure cross-border transactions, with Ant International as the first customer.
- This Crowdfund Insider article covers the news that CaixaBank is one of the banks in the European Stablecoin Consortium, which plans to issue a Euro-denominated stablecoin using Hyperledger Fabric, another of the LF Decentralized Trust projects.
- Trust over IP (ToIP), a standard project under LF Decentralized Trust, and Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF), a sister standards project inside the Linux Foundation, introduced three working groups tackling trust in the age of AI, sparking coverage in Identity Week.
- In a case of cross-community collaboration, this guest post announces that Harmonia, an LF Decentralized Trust lab, will merge into Smoot, a project that serves a modular, reusable, vendor-agnostic interoperability framework.
- For more updates from LF Decentralized Trust, check out the current and past issues of Decentralized Digest.
LF Edge
- Join LF Edge’s multi-topic webinar, “Embedded WASI World,” on October 29 at 8AM PT to explore how WebAssembly (Wasm) is transforming embedded development—from the cloud to the edge, featuring insights on LF Edge’s Ocre Project and industry leaders across the ecosystem. Register >>>
- Discover how the new Node-RED connector for EdgeX Foundry makes building edge applications faster and easier. Read the latest LF Edge blog to see how developers can now integrate EdgeX with visual, low-code workflows in just a few clicks.
LF Energy
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The full playlist from LF Energy Summit Europe 2025 is now available. Explore all the talks from across the ecosystem, from keynote presentations to sessions featuring maintainers and members showcasing project developments.
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OSPOlogyLive Lyon Nov 5–6 If you’re driving software strategy, SBOM adoption, or open source compliance, join leaders across Europe shaping policy and infrastructure. Only 50 seats. Free registration.
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Record Breaking Attendance at LF Energy Summit Europe. A crowd of 365 stakeholders – a nearly 50% increase from 2024 – gathered from across electric utilities, technology vendors, policy makers, global energy companies, researchers, and more.
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Linux Foundation Energy Announces New Members and Key Advances in Open Source Infrastructure.
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Digital Substation Pt.2 – Insights the second piece by Guillaume Tucker explores the open source part of the energy ecosystem and how the concept of software-defined networking (SDN) applies to substations.
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OperatorFabric 4.9.0 Release: Includes enhanced custom screen features.
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Pionix Contributes Key BaseCamp Components to Strengthen the EVerest Open Source Stack: This move enriches EVerest’s open source capabilities and demonstrates the powerful role members play in shaping the future of the digital energy transition.
LF Networking
- LFN’s Nephio community gathered on September 26–27, 2025, at the Eurecom Campus SophiaTech in Biot, France—home of OpenAirInterface and a leading European engineering and research institution—for a two-day, hands-on workshop focused on evolving the Nephio codebase and documentation. Learn more about the event in this summary blog post.
- A recent LFN blog from community and board member Frank Brockners explores how Agentic AI is transforming automation — from smart assistants to interconnected “agentic intranets” — and highlights open source as the foundation for interoperability and developer empowerment in this new era.
- The Cloud Native Telco Initiative (CNTi) project invites community contributors to help strengthen the CNTi Test Suite for cloud-native network functions — improving stability, expanding test coverage, and validating CNFs like Free5GC across Kubernetes environments. Learn more here.
- Linux Foundation GM and SVP of Networking, Edge and Access, Arpit Joshipura, recently presented a talk on “AI Agents: Open Source Opportunities & Challenge,” at the ’AI Agent Internet Architecture and Technology‘ seminar hosted by China Mobile. Watch a recording here.
Margo
- Margo Community Gathers in Paris for Sounding Board Meeting
- The Margo community came together in Paris from September 15–18 for its latest Sounding Board meeting, a key opportunity to connect, align, and discuss the project’s upcoming milestones.
- The session fostered valuable discussions around the path toward Margo’s next release and reinforced collaboration across members and contributors.
- And in true Margo spirit, the meeting had a touch of fun, a new “member” made a surprise appearance, quickly becoming a community favorite (rumor has it she loves Margo-ritas!).
- Stay tuned for more updates and highlights as Margo continues shaping open interoperability at the edge.
- Learn more about Margo →
Open 3D Foundation
- 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. O3DE 25.10 details here >>
- The recent 25.10 release brings major enhancements to O3DE’s mobile pipeline and core features, thanks to the hard work of contributors over the past year. Take a look below at what’s possible with in-engine images from MadWorld, a beta game developed by Carbonated. This project was already using 25.10 features in production environments, demonstrating what’s achievable with O3DE today.
Photos submitted by Open 3D Foundation member company Carbonated, which features O3DE in their the MadWorld video game (beta version).
- The recent 25.10 release brings major enhancements to O3DE’s mobile pipeline and core features, thanks to the hard work of contributors over the past year. Take a look below at what’s possible with in-engine images from MadWorld, a beta game developed by Carbonated. This project was already using 25.10 features in production environments, demonstrating what’s achievable with O3DE today.
- Learn How to Add Realism to Your O3DE Game with the Physics Grab Gem! This tutorial and blog by Porcupine Factory walks you through how to implement realistic object manipulation using physics-based controls. Read the blog >>
- September Connect Meeting: Catch highlights from the September O3DE Connect meeting featuring an AMA with John Bryant, Executive Director of the Open 3D Foundation. He shares insights on community momentum, project direction, and what's ahead. Read more >>
- Odie made an appearance at SIGGRAPH 2025, where the O3DE community joined Birds of a Feather sessions alongside ASWF and AOUSD. Executive Director John Bryant highlighted O3DE’s role in the evolving USD and real-time graphics landscape. Read the blog >>
OpenAPI
- OpenAPI Specification 3.2.0 (and patch 3.1.2) was released, introducing richer Tag Objects, a QUERY HTTP method, streaming support, and security enhancements. Many of these updates came from the ongoing Moonwalk initiative, which channels innovation into the 3.x line instead of waiting for v4.0.
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Two companies joined OAI in 2025: Jentic (bridging AI and API worlds) and Apideck (building unified API integrations), expanding community and use-case coverage.
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OAI’s events presence ramped up: the OpenAPI Summit at API:World, talks at Apidays London (including a session on v3.2), and digital attendee badges being introduced.
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In the Ecosystem Spotlight, Scalar’s openapi-parser was featured — it supports multiple OpenAPI versions, offers high performance, plugin architecture, and works in both browser and server contexts.
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As ever, the OAI team invites feedback and stories about adoption of v3.2, plus participation in future newsletters, Ecosystem Spotlight contributions, and community engagement via Slack.
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Read all the news in full in our September newsletter.
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openIDL
- openIDS by openIDL stands for Open Insurance Data Standards. Why do we need openIDS? With openIDS, the insurance industry gains:
- Vendor-agnostic, royalty-free standards
- Seamless interoperability across systems
- Faster, more accurate regulatory reporting
- A future-proof framework that evolves with technology and regulation
- openIDL working groups are a great way to get involved. Join the openIDS Data Standards Working Group (DSWG) and the Homeowners Workstream.
- openIDL recently made available for review the first openIDS data standard, built around an insurable object (a residence) and aligned with core insurance records known as the Residential Structure Model that defines a large range of attributes that help insurers evaluate residential risks.
- On LinkedIn? Follow openIDL to stay up to date with the latest news.
OpenSearch
- Announcements
- OpenSearch 3.3 release now available. This release introduces new capabilities for search, observability, and AI-powered applications. Explore the expanded observability toolkit and new features that simplify agentic AI integrations - built to support evolving developer needs.
- News coverage
- In a recent Forbes piece, “How RAG Continues To ‘Tailor’ Well-Suited AI”, Bianca Lewis, Executive Director of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, shared: “Vector search and retrieval-augmented generation “RAG” have emerged as critical AI workflow tools to make business data more structured...” These tools, vector search and RAG, are helping ground AI in accurate, context-rich data, reducing hallucinations and driving real enterprise value. Read the full Forbes article to learn more >>
- Diginomica wrote, “Uber and OpenSearch - semantic search gains drive enterprise momentum,” covering conversations with Uber’s Yupeng Fu and OpenSearch Software Foundation’s Pallavi Priyadarshini at OpenSource Summit Europe revealing “how community governance and enterprise adoption are reinforcing each other…” Read here >>
- For all OpenSearch related news, see here >>
- New Case Studies:
- See Agentic AI in Action. Learn how Pega, with NetApp Instaclustr, migrated 1,000+ Elasticsearch nodes to OpenSearch, boosting security and saving 60K+ engineering hours annually, all while supporting 2M+ monthly users. Case study here >>
- A large enterprise moved to OpenSearch resulting in 25% lower infrastructure costs, $175K annual savings, faster query performance, 10% more disk capacity and improved disk IO, and a platform ready for AI-powered workloads. Read the Bonsai Case Study here >>
- Eleven new blogs were added to the OpenSearch blog in September. Learn more about OpenSearch, its capabilities, and the community behind it here.
- Stay updated on all things OpenSearch by subscribing to the official newsletter. Get exclusive updates, event info, and the latest community news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up here.
- Events
- Join us at our upcoming events: Observability Day + Kubecon - Nov 10-13, OpenSearchCon Korea - Nov 4, OpenSearchCon Japan - Dec 11.
- For all events from user groups to conferences, see here >>
Open Mainframe Project
- Open Mainframe Project is 10! Over the past decade, Open Mainframe Project has championed the deployment of Linux and open source software on mainframe systems including on z/OS, fostering an inclusive, innovative ecosystem for technical collaboration and growth. The project celebrated at IBM TechXchange in Orlando on October 6-9 and again GS UK in Northamptonshire on November 3-6.
- Summer mentorships have come to a close! Check out our mentee’s final blog posts on the Open Mainframe Project blog.
- In the latest episode of “I am a Mainframer,” host Steven Dickens sits down with Emma Skovgard, an IT security engineer at Danske Bank, who shares her unconventional journey into the mainframe ecosystem.
- The most recent Mainframe Coven episode, hosts Jessielaine and Richelle chat with Meredith Stowell, Vice President of IBM Z & LinuxONE Ecosystem, a visionary leader helping more people find their way into tech.
- Zowe 3.3 has been released and introduces a wave of improvements, refinements, and foundational updates that aim to make enterprise development and operations smoother, more transparent, and easier to contribute to.
- Join us at GS UK November 3-6 for our Open Mainframe Project talks.
Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) Project
- Join the OPI community in San Jose on October 17 for the first OPI Summit on DPU/IPUs, happening alongside Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit. The event brings together leading experts, developers, and community members to explore the latest in open programmable infrastructure. From hands-on technical sessions to big-picture keynotes, it’s the place to learn, connect, and shape the future of DPU/IPU innovation. See the agenda and register to attend. Learn more about the event in Paul Pindell (F5)’s recent blog post.
OpenJS Foundation
- The OpenJS Foundation is proud to join peers across the ecosystem in signing the joint industry statement, “Open Infrastructure is Not Free: A Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship.” Read more about how our OpenJS maintainers need support and funding from the broader ecosystem.
- Codemod is partnering with OpenJS to save developers from Node.js upgrade headaches, making app migrations smoother, faster, and way less painful.
- The React Foundation is live under the Linux Foundation, giving React a proper home and making sure the framework keeps rocking the JavaScript world. Read what OpenJS Foundation Executive Director has to say about the launch here.
- OpenJS and HackMD are partnering to provide Markdown collaboration tools for OpenJS projects, making it easier for developers to work together in real time and maintain high-quality documentation.
- Node-RED Community Conference 2025 registration is open + talks are live! Join online on November 4 for smart home hacks, industrial tech talks, creative projects, and community fun.
- The OpenJS Foundation is bolstering security for its hosted projects by implementing clear escalation processes, providing tools like the OpenPathFinder dashboard, and offering proactive threat protection.
Overture Maps Foundation
- We’re honored to share that Overture Maps Foundation has received the GeoGov Summit Innovation in Public-Private Partnerships Award! This recognition celebrates our 40+ member ecosystem working together to build open, scalable geospatial infrastructure that benefits everyone. A huge thank-you to our members, contributors, and the broader community, and to Geospatial World Forum (GWF) for this honor.
- We’re thrilled to share that the Overture Maps Foundation has been named to Fast Company’s 2025 Next Big Things in Tech list for our work on the Global Entity Reference System (GERS)! This recognition, in the “Small and Mighty” category, celebrates teams making an outsized impact through innovation, and it truly belongs to our entire community. From members and engineers to partners and contributors, you’ve all helped shape what open, interoperable geospatial data can be. Read our blog to learn more about what this means.
- Overture 2025-09-24.0 is now live | Explore the latest open data
- What’s New:
- Added 6M new POIs from Foursquare Open Source Places
- Improved confidence scores with new signal patches
- Expanded TomTom transportation data with broader coverage in Italy, Portugal, Mexico, Egypt, Sweden, and Indonesia
- Introduced new schema properties to enhance clarity and usability across themes
- What’s New:
- Meet us at upcoming event:
- FOSS4G NA 2025 ( November 3–5, Reston, VA, US): Dana Bauer will also be attending FOSS4G North America. Reach out to her at dana@overturemaps.org if you’d like to connect.
OpenSSF
- Open Source SecurityCon 2025
- Join open source and security leaders for a full day of insights at Open Source SecurityCon 2025, co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America. Led by Program Chairs John Kjell and Marina Moore, the event features expert talks and panels on AI security, software supply chains, DevSecOps, policy automation, and SBOM transparency plus lightning talks and networking sessions.From Docker’s keynote on supply chain resilience to discussions with leaders from Red Hat, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Google, IBM, and OpenSSF, attendees will explore the latest strategies for securing open source at every layer. View the Open Source SecurityCon 2025.
- Recap Blog: OpenSSF Tech Talk on Securing the AI Lifecycle
- On September 24, the OpenSSF hosted a Tech Talk focused on securing the AI/ML lifecycle.
- Speakers Sarah Evans (Dell Technologies), Mihai Maruseac (Google), and Marcela Melara (Intel Labs) shared insights on building trust, transparency, and better tooling for AI security.
- They introduced the Visualizing Secure MLOps whitepaper and discussed model signing, provenance tracking with Intel’s Atlas project, and new AI SBOM standards.
- The session highlighted how collaboration and open tools can help make AI systems safer and more reliable. Read the recap blog or watch the recording and join the OpenSSF AI/ML Security Working Group to get involved.
- An Open Letter from the Stewards of Public Open Source Infrastructure
- Leading open source foundations and infrastructure stewards including the OpenSSF, Python Software Foundation, Rust Foundation, Sonatype, Eclipse Foundation, and others have issued a joint open letter calling for sustainable funding and shared responsibility in maintaining public open source infrastructure.
- The statement highlights how critical systems like Maven Central, PyPI, crates.io, Packagist, and others support billions of downloads each month, yet rely on limited funding and volunteer efforts. It urges commercial users and organizations to align usage with support, adopt responsible consumption practices, and partner financially to ensure long-term resilience.
- Read the full statement and learn how your organization can help support a stronger, more sustainable open source ecosystem.
- From Ghent to Brussels: OpenSSF’s Week of Policy and Security in Europe
- At the end of October, Linux Foundation Europe, and OpenSSF will host a series of key events in Belgium focused on open source policy, collaboration, and security.
- The week begins in Ghent with the Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit (Oct 28) and the LF Europe Roadshow (Oct 29), featuring OpenSSF’s CRA in Practice Track and a keynote by Christopher Robinson (CRob) on cybersecurity and global digital regulation. It concludes in Brussels with the European Open Source Security Forum (Oct 30), co-hosted with CEPS, bringing together policymakers, security experts, and open source leaders to advance EU-wide security initiatives.
- From technical collaboration to policy alignment, this week marks a major step in strengthening Europe’s role in secure, sustainable open source innovation. Learn more about the event and register soon!
- Meet the OpenSSF Community at Upcoming Events!
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This fall, the OpenSSF team will be on the road across Europe and the U.S. connecting with partners, developers, and security leaders.
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Join us at the Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit, LF Europe Roadshow, and the European Open Source Security Forum in Belgium (October 28–30) for conversations on policy, security, and collaboration.
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We are also sponsoring the Open Source in Finance Forum New York, the premier gathering for leaders driving open innovation in financial services.
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Plus, don’t miss us at the PyTorch Conference, where the OpenSSF AI/ML Security Working Group will lead a discussion on applying DevSecOps lessons to AI and Machine Learning. Come meet the community, share insights, and help shape the future of secure open source.
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P4
- Upcoming Events
- P4 Developer Days - P4sim: Protocol-Independent Packet Processors in ns-3 October 29 | 8:00am Pacific
- 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.
- 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 - P4sim: Protocol-Independent Packet Processors in ns-3 October 29 | 8:00am Pacific
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Recent Events
- 2025 P4 Workshop | The P4 Workshop was a hybrid event with the live portion led by keynotes from Krishna Doddapaneni (Corporate Vice President, AMD Pensando) and Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo (Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo). Additional live presentations were delivered by P4 community members from Cisco, Google, Intel, XDPnet and XSight Labs. Pre-recorded talks by Altera, Google, Mumbai University, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Synopsys, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, UT Austin, and University of South Carolina.
- The P4 Workshop is an annual event that provides an opportunity for the P4 community to share knowledge, insights and experiences, and facilitate collaboration. The slides and videos from this event are now available on-demand.
- 2024 P4 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Wrap-up | Check out the wrap-up session highlighting the results of the projects hosted by The P4 Language Consortium during GSoC 2025. Contributors presented their work and shared key insights.
- P4 Developer Days - Mechanizing the P4 Language Specification with P4-SpecTec | The P4 language has four main representations of its syntax and semantics: the official specification, formalizations, implementations, and a test suite. While the four representations are intended to consistently define the P4 language, they often diverge, as each is managed by different parties and evolves at a different pace. This lack of alignment complicates both specification evolution and compiler maintenance.We present P4-SpecTec, a mechanized specification infrastructure for the P4 language. From this single source of truth — the mechanized specification — we aim to generate multiple backends, such as a type checker, interpreter, test suite, and specification document, in a consistent and automated manner.
- P4 Developer Days - From Semantics to Software: Building a Verification Ecosystem for P4 using HOL4P4 | We present a comprehensive formal verification ecosystem for the P4 network programming language, built upon HOL4P4, an abstract model of P4 execution embedded in the interactive theorem prover HOL4. The HOL4P4 formalization provides a semantics and a corresponding type system with formally verified progress, preservation, and type-soundness theorems.
- 2025 P4 Workshop | The P4 Workshop was a hybrid event with the live portion led by keynotes from Krishna Doddapaneni (Corporate Vice President, AMD Pensando) and Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo (Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo). Additional live presentations were delivered by P4 community members from Cisco, Google, Intel, XDPnet and XSight Labs. Pre-recorded talks by Altera, Google, Mumbai University, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Synopsys, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, UT Austin, and University of South Carolina.
- P4 Developer Days - Enabling Portable and high-Performance SmartNIC Programs with Alkali | In this presentation, we will present the demo and design of Alkali, a SmartNIC compilation framework that enables developers to write target-independent programs, while the compiler automatically handles cross-NIC porting and performance tuning.
PyTorch Foundation
- PyTorch Conference 2025 #PyTorchCon kicks off next week in San Francisco, October 22–23. The conference will feature keynotes, technical sessions, and community highlights from across the global AI community.
- Co-located events on Tuesday, October 21:
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- Open Agent Summit: Full-day program on open agentic AI collaboration, infrastructure, protocols, and real-world deployment. Details
- Measuring Intelligence Summit: Half-day event on evaluating reasoning models, superintelligence, and the evolution of benchmarks. Details
- AI Infra Summit: Half-day event on scaling, training, inference, and optimization strategies for modern AI workloads. Details
- Startup Showcase: Early-stage AI startups will pitch live to VCs, engineers, and industry leaders. Learn more about the showcase
- PyTorch Associate Training will also take place on October 21. This one-day, instructor-led course is designed to prepare participants for the upcoming PyTorch Certified Associate exam. Discounted pricing is available for conference attendees.
- Open Source AI Week runs October 18–26 across the San Francisco Bay Area, bringing together the global AI community to explore cutting-edge research, tools, and open collaboration. View the schedule
- The PyTorch Ambassador Program highlights and supports community leaders who educate, advocate for, and build with PyTorch in meaningful ways. The first official cohort launched in September 2025. Meet the ambassadors
- Read our latest member blogs:
- Meta – TorchAO Quantized Models and Quantization Recipes Now Available on Hugging Face Hub
- Meta – Experience in Reducing PT2 Compilation Time for Meta Internal Workloads
- Meta – Disaggregated Inference at Scale with PyTorch & vLLM
- Meta & Google – Distributed Checkpoint: Efficient Checkpointing in Large-Scale Jobs
- Intel – High-Performance Quantized LLM Inference on Intel CPUs with Native PyTorch
- Intel – PyTorch 2.8 Brings Native XCCL Support to Intel GPUs: Case Studies from Argonne National Laboratory
RISC-V
- RISC-V Summit North America 2025 kicks off next week, and there is still time to register!
- This year’s lineup includes speakers from NASA, Google, AWS, and more, diving into the latest in open computing innovation. Whether you’re an active contributor or just beginning your RISC-V journey, this is the place to learn, connect, and get inspired.
- New this year: Developer Workshops on October 22 — designed for anyone building on or curious about RISC-V. These sessions go beyond theory, offering hands-on training to strengthen your skills and grow the next generation of RISC-V champions.
- Explore dedicated tracks across key areas shaping the future:
- AI
- Datacenter / HPC
- Design and Verification
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- Global Adoption
- ISA and Processors
- Security
- Software
- Don’t miss your chance to be part of the movement driving the future of open computing. >> Save your spot today!
SONiC
- A long-time SONiC contributor, Nexthop AI has advanced to Premier membership, joining the Governing Board to help drive SONiC’s evolution as an open, AI-optimized NOS. The company continues to contribute to platform management code, product support, and leadership across community workshops and hackathons. Learn more in our press release.
- Explore four new user stories highlighting SONiC’s deployment across AI, telecom, and fintech sectors—from powering SAKURA Internet’s TOP500-ranked GPU cloud to modernizing national-scale digital payments infrastructure. Check out these case studies.
- The SONiC Foundation will be onsite during the week of October 13, featuring a co-located SONiC Workshop on October 16 and an Extended Workshop at Google Campus on October 17. Learn more about SONiC activities at OCP Global Summit.
- The SONiC 2025 Virtual Hackathon has officially concluded, with winners to be announced at the OCP Global Summit and featured on SONiC’s LinkedIn page. Subscribe and stay tuned for updates on the winning teams and their innovations.
Sylva
- Don’t miss project Sylva at the Linux Foundation Europe Roadshow, happening 29 October in Ghent, Belgium. Sylva community leaders will present an update on the project as part of the “European Open Source” track. More details and registration information are available here.
- Sylva member RedHat Red Hat discussed the common goal of helping service providers reduce operational complexity and optimize costs through a unified cloud foundation. In this new blog post, Red Hat EMEA VP of Telecommunications, Rich Stephens, explains how with Sylva 1.5, Red Hat OpenShift is a validated option for Sylva deployments.
- Sylva member organization, WhiteStack, just announced the first Sylva Validation Center in the Americas, a testing environment designed to evaluate and certify the compatibility of cloud-native network functions (CNFs) with Sylva’s framework.
- Canonical Kubernetes is now part of Project Sylva’s reference architecture, marking a strategic step toward expanding cloud-native options within European telecommunications infrastructure. This integration strengthens the Sylva ecosystem by offering service providers choice and flexibility in selecting Kubernetes distributions that align with regional and open-source priorities.
Ultra Ethernet Consortium
- Since the June release of the 1.0 Specification, the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) has continued advancing open standards for AI and HPC workloads – from the application layer through Ultra Ethernet Transport (UET) and hardware optimizations for large-scale performance. UEC is now working to standardize key innovations such as Programmable Congestion Management (PCM), Congestion Signaling (CSIG), and In-Network Collectives (INC) to enhance next-generation network efficiency.
- Read the latest update and catch us at #OCPGlobalSummit booth C49 with SNIA next week to learn how UEC is accelerating AI through open standards.
- Read the latest update and catch us at #OCPGlobalSummit booth C49 with SNIA next week to learn how UEC is accelerating AI through open standards.
- We were excited to share that the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) was featured at OCP GlobalSummit! Keith Underwood, Senior Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, presented “Ultra Ethernet: Escaping the Chaos of Order” on Tuesday, October 14 (4:05–4:25pm) at SJCC Concourse Level, Room 230A.
- Most networks have long been built to keep packets in order – even when applications don’t need it – adding unnecessary cost for modern AI workloads. UEC’s 1.0 Specification rethinks this approach, removing redundant ordering to deliver scalable, efficient networking purpose-built for AI.
- The session explored how Ultra Ethernet is reshaping networking for AI and beyond. View the schedule.
- A new paper summarizing the key innovations and design decisions behind the Ultra Ethernet (UE) 1.0 Specification is now available. It highlights the major themes that guided the specification process and offers valuable context for the consortium’s ongoing work to advance open, high-performance networking for AI and HPC. Read the paper.
UXL Foundation
- We welcome Marvell into the UXL Foundation as a General Member!
- The UXL Foundation announced the appointment of Manuj Subharwal, Director of Product Management AI Software at Qualcomm, and Andrew Wafaa, Senior Director Software Communities and Fellow from Arm, as the new co-chairs for the UXL Foundation’s steering committee.
- Rod Burns from Codeplay has acted as the Chair of the Steering Committee for the past two years. Rod has grown the UXL Foundation to over 40 members and guided projects under open governance with a vendor-neutral approach. He has stepped down as chairperson, and we thank him for all of his leadership and accomplishments to date in establishing and growing the UXL Foundation.
- The oneAPI Developer Summit hosted by the UXL Foundation has shared the recordings of the session on the UXL Foundation YouTube - please check them out!
Zephyr Project
- What’s in the SOSS? Podcast #40 – S2E17 From Manager to Open Source Security Pioneer: Kate Stewart’s Journey Through SBOM, Safety, and the Zephyr Project:
- In this episode of What’s in the SOSS? Kate Stewart shares her unconventional journey into open source from navigating legal hurdles at Motorola to leading safety-critical initiatives at the Linux Foundation. She discusses the evolution of SPDX and SBOMs, how the Zephyr Project became a security exemplar with gold-level OpenSSF badging, and offers insights on the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). A must-listen for anyone interested in embedded systems, security best practices, or the future of open source. Listen to the full episode.
- How Zephyr is eating the (embedded) software world - Benjamin Cabé, The Zephyr Project:
- At The Things Conference, Benjamin Cabé showed how Zephyr RTOS powers everything from wind turbines to medical devices, laptops, and home automation. With its lightweight kernel, rich abstractions, and strong CI, testing, and security features, Zephyr is now a top open source project with thousands of contributors. Watch the session.
- EdgeVerse Techcast: Driving Open Source Forward: NXP and the Zephyr Project:
- In this episode, Bridgette and Kyle welcome David Leach, who shares how NXP goes beyond adopting Zephyr by actively leading in governance, engineering, and sustainability. From maintaining connectivity protocols like Bluetooth Classic and enterprise Wi-Fi, to serving as maintainers, collaborators, and release managers, NXP ensures Zephyr is stable, secure, and production-ready. David highlights NXP’s long-term commitment and calls on developers not just to adopt Zephyr, but to get involved and shape the ecosystem. Listen to the podcast.
- New: The Zephyr RTOS Podcast
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This quarter marks the launch of the Zephyr RTOS Podcast, your go-to source for insider updates, developer stories, and the latest buzz from the Zephyr community.
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The first four episodes cover everything from new features like OCPP support for EV charging, the Twister Display harness, and fresh Adafruit and MikroE shields, to practical tools such as DT Doctor and the new PR dashboard. You will also hear discussions on CI challenges, macro pitfalls, new RP2040 board support, and highlights from The Things Conference and the Zephyr Developer Survey 2025.
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Tune in on iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, YouTube, or via RSS, and join the conversation on Discord to stay connected with the Zephyr community.
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- 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 Osaka, Japan (Oct 20), Sevilla, Spain (Oct 27), Copenhagen, Denmark (Oct 28), and Anaheim, California (Nov 5) 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 Embedded World Exhibition & Conference (Nov 4–6, Anaheim, California), the Open Source Summit Korea (Nov 4–5), and the Zephyr Online Conference by Elektor (Nov 5). 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!
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The Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit
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The Linux Foundation Europe Roadshow
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European Open Source Security Forum
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JupyterCon
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Open Source Summit Korea
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ArgoCon North America
Nov 10 / Atlanta, United States - BackstageCon North America
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BazelCon
Nov 10–11 / Atlanta, United States - CiliumCon North America
Nov 10 / Atlanta, United States - Data on Kubernetes Day North America
Nov 10 / Atlanta, United States - EnvoyCon North America
Nov 10 / Atlanta, United States - FluxCon North America
Nov 10 / Atlanta, United States - Istio Day North America
Nov 10 / Atlanta, United States - KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
Nov 10–13 / Atlanta, United States - Kubeflow Summit North America
Nov 10 / Atlanta, United States - Kubernetes on Edge Day North America
Nov 10 / Atlanta, United States - KyvernoCon North America
Nov 10 / Atlanta, United States - Observability Day North America
Nov 10, 2025 Atlanta, United States - Open Source SecurityCon North America
Nov 10, 2025 Atlanta, United States - OpenFeature Summit North America
Nov 10, 2025 Atlanta, United States - OpenTofu Day North America
Nov 10, 2025 Atlanta, United States - Platform Engineering Day North America
Nov 10, 2025 Atlanta, United States - PX4 Developer Summit
Nov 10–11, 2025 Atlanta, United States - WasmCon North America
Nov 10, 2025 Atlanta, United States - gRPConf India
Nov 19, 2025 Bengaluru, India
To register for in-person attendance or virtual LF events, please view our full calendar of events here, and be sure to subscribe to our events newsletter. Check out our Flickr stream for photos of past events!
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