The Zephyr Podcast

OpenDial, a DIY surface dial and hi-res scroll wheel running Zephyr FOSDEM 2027 will have an Embedded & Resource-Constrained OS devroom Linux kernel developers plan to drop the Assisted-by tag requirement Clang Thread Safety Analysis for the kernel (in review) A proposed basic_radio driver API for packet radios, from TI Per-register callbacks for I2C target devices (in review) The WCH CH446 analog crosspoint switch Jumperless V5, and its creator on Embedded.fm 532 Ollama, for running open models locally Zsign, an encrypted key vault for signing MCUboot images The Zephyr meetup in Dublin, 29 October

Zephyr support coming to PX4 (open source drone autopilot) The Gboard Conveyor Belt Version, from Google Japan The Framework Wireless Touchpad Keyboard is up for pre-order, with an nRF54LM20 and ZMK Muse Gadgets, ESP32 and Raspberry Pi devices for Meta's Muse agent Zephyr on the Nokia N900, by Anas Nashif An OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly bugging an executive conference room with an ESP32-S3 board Zephyr moves to LVGL v9.6 New net_buf documentation, with diagrams Tests for the LoRa shell, with a fake LoRa driver Networking throughput changes reported on pull requests Memref, memory reference counting (in review) A text terminal on the display for the console, logs and shell (in review) A proposed relay subsystem The Zephyr meetup in Dublin, 29 October

The first Zephyr Maintainers Forum The Zephyr Community Awards winners Zephyr Network Buffers, Johan Hedberg Fake Drivers: A Practical Guide To Zephyr Test Doubles, Henrik Brix Andersen Where Zephyr Fits in Space Computer Architecture and From TTEthernet To TSN on Zephyr, Yasushi Shoji Network Subsystem Status and Overview, Jukka Rissanen USB Development and Testing on Native Simulator, Johann Fischer A Generic RF PHY Driver API for Proprietary Protocols in Zephyr, Sean Lyons Libiio on Zephyr, Maureen Helm and Pete Johanson Linus Torvalds in conversation with Dirk Hohndel A Native API for Linux Systems With Systemd + Varlink, Lennart Poettering The Framework Wireless Touchpad Keyboard, running ZMK Next stop: Vancouver, May 2027

Three picks from the ZDS schedule: USB Development and Testing on Native Simulator, Network Subsystem Status and Overview and From Zero Hardware To Production: High-Performance Sensors With Zephyr TI and Infineon upgrade to Platinum membership Git 2.56 adds git history drop CMSIS-Zephyr, examples for the Arm CMSIS Debugger and Keil Studio with Zephyr Price increases for the 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 Zephyr's hardening tool gains in modularity and provides clearer recommendations ns_to_cyc_at_hz(), compile-time nanoseconds to cycles at a given frequency Generic reference-counted objects A Coccinelle script for migrating to ZASSERT The MediaTek Genio 700 and Genio 510 EVKs, with Zephyr on a Cortex-A55 WisBlock platform support The Pebble Round 2, a SiFli SF32LB52 smartwatch with a round display The M5Stack StackChan, an ESP32-S3 desktop robot The network conformance suites now run nightly iperf3 support in zperf fota_http, firmware updates over HTTP(S) into MCUboot USB host hub class support An MCX backend for the SWD bit-bang driver The native_sim video source is merged A driver for the TSM12 capacitive touch sensor The TI TPS62873, a stackable 15 A buck converter The ST VL53L5CX multizone time-of-flight sensor GFSK modulation for LoRa transceivers

Canonical's Zephyr 26.04 LTS, with up to 15 years of security maintenance The Zephyr docs assistant, also available as an MCP server for your editor Raspberry Pi locks boards to their factory RAM capacity mpipe gains player utilities and base plugins A native_sim video source A semihosted flash driver, backed by a file on the host A LIN driver API FIDO2 over BLE DMA2D direct rendering on all applicable STM32 families A driver for the ADS1262 and ADS1263 32-bit ADCs The ADV7535 MIPI DSI to HDMI bridge ZASSERT, a per-file / per-module assertion facility The network stack tested against the standards with TTCN-3 An SNTP server library A native_sim Wi-Fi driver using the host's nl80211 TCP now reports received data with SACK The Tang Mega 138K Pro Dock, a Gowin FPGA with a hard RISC-V core The embedded world Conference call for papers closes 28 September