The Zephyr Podcast

A refreshed Zephyr merge list with clearer status indicators, filtering, mobile support, and built-in guidance
A redesigned documentation page for the list of Zephyr services, grouping Zephyr's many capabilities into visual categories
The hwsim virtual Wi-Fi driver for testing access points, scanning, authentication, and connectivity on native_sim
Multi-toolchain Twister builds, including GCC and LLVM coverage for the same platform
A new Twister host-sidecar concept for automatically managing processes such as virtiofsd during tests
Microchip XC32 toolchain support for Zephyr builds
SSH channel support for carrying additional data streams over an established connection
A TI TDP2004 DisplayPort and HDMI redriver driver
The X-NUCLEO-67W61M1 Wi-Fi 6 shield based on the ST67W611M1 coprocessor
Native RTP media transport support, with an audio streaming sample
Portable per-controller I2C timeouts using zephyr,transfer-timeout-ms
Runtime zbus channel creation and registration for dynamic modules such as LLEXT extensions
Quectel BC66 and BC660K NB-IoT modem support, including socket offload and power-management hooks
New platforms: the TI AM13E230X LaunchPad, MPS3 AN536 Cortex-R52, and the STM32H7 Renode Reference Platform
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Linus on AI tooling for kernel development, sparked by the Patchwork/Sashiko discussion
A new timeout management benchmark
Doxygen top-level group cleanup and a new CI check to keep stray groups out
dependency-mode devicetree property key for reversed initialization dependencies
TLA2528 combined ADC and GPIO expander driver
ADIS16470 ruggedized IMU driver (a 400 € component!)
LLEXT support for OpenRISC
New boards: Heimann HTPA thermal camera eval board, M5Stack StickS3, Ganga SoC
Zephyr Tech Talk next week: Evaluating the Real-Time Behavior of Zephyr Systems
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Device filesystem for /dev-style access and Linux portability
CDAC THEJAS32 RISC-V support
Proposed fan subsystem
Twister preferred_toolchain support for better LLVM coverage (among other things)
Initial DWC2 USB host controller support
Pouch, portable data across devices, gateways, and transports
A trigger.py workaround for delayed GitHub Actions schedules
Microchip SmartFusion2 FPGA + SoC support
The RISC-V WCH CH32V103EVT board
A Bouffalo Lab BL61x Wi-Fi driver
HS400 enhanced strobe support for eMMC
A new I2S shell for audio testing and tone generation
AMD Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC support
New boards: Radxa ROCK 3B and Adafruit TRRS Trinkey
A per-test coverage matrix dashboard
Upcoming Tech Talk on evaluating the real-time behavior of Zephyr systems
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New Zephyr RTOS Cookbook from Roy Jamil and Ayoub Bersheela (AC6), now on Amazon in print and e-book
Git 2.55: one-step commit fixups, auto-stash on checkout, and remote groups for fetch and push
Linux kernel debating the Assisted-by: tag
Address Sanitizer memory poisoning to catch use-after-free, buffer overflows, and unallocated access
Lightweight heap write sanitizer for sys_heap
rpmsgfs filesystem for mounting remote-core directories over RPMsg
MAINTAINERS file "deferral" so driver changes reach the actual driver maintainer, not just the subsystem owner
Revamped tracing sample with cross-OS terminal viewer rendering traces on the fly
Hall-effect flow meter driver
STG-800 lococube mini-PLC (24 V, CAN, and a rugged enclosure)
FeatherWing MAX3421E shield (USB host and device over SPI)
XIAO nRF54LM20A
MIMXRT685-AUD-EVK, an audio-focused NXP crossover MCU with HiFi DSP
RA8P1 Titan: a Cortex-M85 beast with dual gigabit Ethernet, MIPI DSI/CSI, and a Raspberry-Pi-style header
Check out Zephyr Tech Talk next week (https://github.com/golioth/pouch)
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snprintk() vs. snprintf() 
Linux 7.2 drops strncpy()
Steam Machine teardown, and another kite spotted inside
SPDX 3 SBOM support lands in Zephyr, a day before it merged in the Linux kernel.
Web-based SPDX 3 visualization tool, for browsing the dependency graph, sources, licenses, ... from your SBOM.
Standalone UF2 USB MSC bootloader
Where double-tap reset actually came from (Arduino, around April 2015, on a SAMD21 board)
Ghost edge AI sticker, a flexible nRF54L15 PCB with vibration and temperature sensing
GigaDevice ramping up their Zephyr efforts
Twister post-build checks flag stray Git repos pulled in during CI
A WCH QingKe Debug Module console driver, single-pin printf-style logging in the spirit of Arm SWO
scoped_guard() and scoped_cond_guard(), Python-with-style auto-releasing locks for C
ZMS' interactive storage calculators
UDP logging backend for coredump
MikroElektronika Two Wire ETH Click, a tiny 10BASE-T1S single-pair Ethernet shield
Four new ST B-M2MEM-PACK1 M.2 memory packs, hexa/octa-SPI flash and RAM on an M.2-style connector
TI AM243x-EVM, Sitara with dual R5 clusters, a Cortex-M4, gigabit Ethernet, EtherCAT, and PCIe
One last nudge to fill out the Zephyr Developer Survey before it closes!
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