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Modernizing an Eclipse RCP application is still a significant re-architecture, but AI-assisted development is changing the economics. This article explores how AI can accelerate codebase analysis, testing, business logic extraction, UI reimplementation, and repetitive migration work and why now may be the right time to revisit an RCP migration strategy.

11 September marked the first Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) deadline and an important milestone for the ORC community’s work. Months of work went into preparing for it, from testing the Single Reporting Platform to building the CRA FAQ and the ORC Learning Hub. 

New vendor-neutral initiative brings together an initial community of 17 organisations to connect industry needs with open source AI projects and turn shared expertise into practical guidance for greater choice and control

Taking place 27 October in Brussels, Code & Compliance will examine practical approaches to developing compliant products, navigating evolving European regulatory frameworks including the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and AI Act, and strengthening collaboration between manufacturers and the open source ecosystem.

A new article from WELT looks at how the shift towards software-defined vehicles is changing the way automotive manufacturers, suppliers, and software companies approach this question. The article features Ansgar Lindwedel from the Eclipse Foundation and highlights Eclipse S-CORE as one example of this approach: working together directly on open source code for the automotive software foundation.

AI is changing custom tool and IDE development far beyond simply adding an assistant, from designing for AI agents to rethinking UX, architecture, prototyping, and team skills. This updated guide summarizes the key decisions to consider when building modern tools and IDEs in 2026 and is worth a read if you are planning a new tool or evolving an existing one.

EU regulatory frameworks have not always accounted for the unique ways open source software is developed and maintained. The EU AI Act represents progress in recognising open source, but adapting the EU’s regulatory framework to open source in practice remains an ongoing process. 

For the second time in just ten months, Eclipse SDV traveled to Japan to connect with our highly engaged local community. This time, we not only co-hosted a meetup but also participated in Automotive World Japan, a major industry exhibition that brings together automotive manufacturers, suppliers, and technology providers to showcase and discuss innovations shaping the future of mobility.

The EU-funded OCCTET project delivers open source tools to help organisations identify software components, address vulnerabilities, and prepare compliance documentation ahead of the first CRA reporting deadline.

Eclipse Theia 1.75 adds major new AI capabilities including Agent Plugins, agent Memory, and MCP Apps with interactive UI directly in chat. The release also brings a unified AI configuration experience, SCM improvements, faster startup, updated platform technologies, and dozens of additional enhancements - well worth a look at the full release notes.

Eclipse S-CORE 0.9 Milestone

We are happy to announce the release of Eclipse S-CORE 0.9 milestone. This update introduces architectural enhancements, new capabilities, and stability improvements.

Jakarta Faces gets a fresh perspective in this article by Angelo Rubini, who introduces AliFaces - a marketplace concept for stateless Jakarta Faces components.

The piece covers how moving to a stateless architecture can benefit Jakarta Faces applications, addressing common challenges in modern web development. Rubini presents practical insights on building scalable web applications while maintaining the familiar component-based approach that Jakarta Faces developers appreciate.

A new whitepaper from Berylls by AlixPartners examines the potential cost, time, and strategic benefits of open source middleware for the automotive industry. Eclipse S-CORE features prominently throughout the paper as a concrete example of an emerging open source middleware initiative.

A number of resources have been published or updated in recent weeks by the European Commission, ENISA, standards organisations, national cybersecurity authorities, and open source organisations. With so much to wade through, we have collected some of the most relevant resources to get you started.

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Eclipse Theia 1.74 introduces 60 improvements, including a new AI First perspective, enhanced AI session management, per-session model selection, a telemerty framework and server-side compaction for long-running AI interactions. Check out the release overview to discover what’s new for users, adopters, and developers.

The Eclipse Foundation and OWASP partnership arrives at exactly the right moment, not as a proactive initiative but as a reactive necessity. The open source ecosystem has spent years operating on a distributed trust model where security responsibility is diffuse by design. The CRA upends that model by imposing legal accountability on manufacturers, including those whose products incorporate open source dependencies. That changes the calculus for every enterprise shipping into Europe.