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BRUSSELS and Wilmington, DE  – 30 July 2026 – The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source software foundations, and the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP), a global nonprofit foundation dedicated to improving software security, today announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen open source security and support industry readiness for the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).

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For decades, the automotive industry assumed the answer was the conference room: draft the document, hold the meeting, reach agreement, then build. Eclipse SDV proposes something else entirely - publish the code first, validate it together, and let that experience produce the standard. What LG Electronics calls “Code First” wasn’t just an open-source strategy. It was an argument for rewriting how the auto industry collaborates.

Eclipse Theia 1.73 is now available and introduces a strong set of new features, including AI Registry integration for easily discovering and installing MCP servers and skills. The release also adds provider-native server-side tools, Mermaid diagrams in AI chat, OAuth 2.1 support for remote MCP servers, and many additional platform improvements.

A coordinated effort to secure open source is overdue. But routing the world’s most sensitive security data through a single jurisdiction recreates the very weakness it sets out to fix. In an immediate response, a new initiative has been announced to coordinate the full vulnerability remediation lifecycle.

Open source collaboration sounds great in theory, but the journey from observer to active contributor, especially for a company seeking strategic business advantage, can feel complicated. How do you start, and more importantly, how do you gain influence in a massive ecosystem?

At the Eclipse Foundation, we witness this transformation daily. This is the story of how LKS Next, the technology and consulting company within the Mondragon Corporation, went from having zero positioning in the dataspace domain to becoming a recognised leader in Eclipse Tractus-X, one of the Foundation’s most active projects, in less than 18 months.

The automotive industry is undergoing one of the most profound transformations in its history. While discussions often centre on electrification or autonomous driving, the real paradigm shift is driven by software. The emergence of the Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) marks a transition from hardware-centric engineering to software-centric value creation. Yet this shift is not merely technological, but also cultural: it fundamentally changes how innovation takes place.

BRUSSELS – 30 JUNE 2026 – The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source software foundations, in collaboration with the Open Regulatory Compliance (ORC) Working Group, today announced the launch of the ORC Learning Hub, a free global education initiative designed to help the people responsible for building, maintaining, securing, and governing open source software prepare for the European Union’s

Eclipse Open VSX has reached an important milestone in its evolution as open source infrastructure for developer tooling. The project now serves millions of developers worldwide through AI-native IDEs, cloud development environments, and VS Code-compatible platforms, delivering more than 600 million extension downloads every month.

Eclipse Theia’s OCX26 project update highlights a year of strong momentum across the platform, Theia AI, and the Theia IDE, including around 1,200 merged PRs, close to 80 contributors, and a Codie 2025 Award. Watch the recap to learn how Theia is evolving for custom tools, AI-native IDEs, and Eclipse RCP modernization.

Eclipse SDV’s end-to-end (E2E) Demonstrator Blueprint for software-defined vehicles has been featured by the technology news platform Electronic Design.

Due to regressions in mesoscopic behavior and visualization, we are releasing SUMO version 1.27.1 as a hotfix.
The download links are (as always) here: https://sumo.dlr.de/download
The major changes are listed below and the full list of changes is given at https://sumo.dlr.de/Changelog
If you cite the new release in your publications, please use the DOI

The European Commission’s Communication on European Tech Sovereignty cites Eclipse SDV as an example of successful industrial open source collaboration. This recognition is an important milestone.

On 19 May 2026, the Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) community held its first-ever meetup in India, hosted by Bosch Global Software Technologies in Bengaluru. What began as a conversation just a few months earlier quickly evolved into a landmark community event.

Open VSX has been named a finalist in the 2026 CODiE Awards in the Best DevOps Tool category.

Reaching version 1.0.0 is a special moment for any open source project. It marks more than a collection of features or bug fixes. It reflects years of collaboration, thousands of commits, countless discussions, and a shared belief that an idea is worth building together.

Today, we are pleased to celebrate the release of Eclipse Open VSX 1.0.0

Building production-ready domain-specific AI takes more than a great demo. This talk from OCX 2026 shares 10 practical lessons from real-world projects, covering design, evaluation, context management, agentic workflows, and operational readiness.

Gabriel Tomuța is a Software Engineer at Elektrobit Automotive and an active contributor to Eclipse Ankaios within the Eclipse SDV community.