A periodic summary of what shipped, what is being designed, and what needs help. Every issue stays readable on the web without subscribing.
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Five reds fixed, ESP-IDF v6.1 final with an S31 errata, the MCP taxonomy gets its CVEs, four new boards in the intake queue, and SKILL.md goes first-party at Google.
eVera CI restored (fail-closed #52 fix), eCAD KiCad generator fix across 70 files, MCP six-class taxonomy, silicon week (Sapphire RV64, ESP32-S31, DAL-A SBC, S100P), device-CVE series.
ZDS day 2 (functional safety, CRA readiness), the ~45-issue audit-fix merge wave, four new boards, ESP-IDF v6.1 (P4 Wi-Fi back, ECDSA-SBv2 disabled), and two MCP CVEs.
Zephyr Developer Summit Day 1 from Prague (40+ sessions, the first Community Awards, MCP now an LF project), the Synaptics/onsemi bidding war over edge-AI silicon, and the Apple Oct-13 home-hub event to watch.
The first EmbeddedOS Foundation newsletter: who we are, what the site now publishes (news, articles, documentation, free books), and how to follow along or get involved.
The Foundation publishes a newsletter: a periodic email rounding up what has actually shipped, what is being discussed, and where help is needed across our projects. The first issue is in the archive above, and every issue stays readable on the web without subscribing.
The newsletter is for people who want to stay in touch without watching every repository. If you read an issue and find nothing relevant to you, that is a sign we did it right — it means we included only what was worth your time.
Each issue will cover three things. First, shipped work: what was released or merged since the last issue, in concrete terms. Second, design discussions: open questions in our projects where outside input would genuinely help, with links to the discussions themselves. Third, calls for help: the tasks, reviews, and testing that are currently blocking progress.
What it will not carry: fundraising appeals, announcements of plans with no substance behind them, and rehashes of the News page. If there is not enough real material to justify an issue, we will skip it rather than fill it.
The newsletter will go out periodically, not on a fixed schedule. The Foundation is volunteer-run, and we would rather send six substantive issues a year than twelve thin ones. You will not receive filler to meet a quota.
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If you follow the repositories or the News page closely, the newsletter will mostly confirm what you already know. It exists for everyone else.
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