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CRA Due Diligence: Balancing manufacturers' obligations with open source realities.

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Registration for OCX 2027 is open

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Have your say in the 2027 State of Open Source Survey

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Four new project proposals, including Eclipse LIBERSOM

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Didas’s open source journey across East Africa

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TheiaCon 2026 takes place 28–29 October

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Committer profile

Afonso Oliveira

Meet Afonso Oliveira, Software Engineer at Ainekko and a committer on the CORE-ET Silicon Platform project.

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New projects & releases

New project proposals

Eclipse LIBERSOM provides a complete, open source C++17 implementation of the Open SOME/IP protocol stack for automotive and embedded systems.

Eclipse INCEpTION provides a platform for interactive and automated annotation of text and multi-modal content, supporting human-in-the-loop workflows, external machine-learning recommenders, and AI-assisted annotation capabilities.

Eclipse S-CORE Verified provides an open, versioned suite of reproducible tests to verify that candidate distributions based on Eclipse S-CORE conform to its APIs, runtime characteristics, component integration contracts, documented external interfaces, expected behavior, and quality standards.

Eclipse Enactum provides software for modeling, deploying and adapting distributed applications across edge and cloud resources.

Featured article

From idea to Eclipse Foundation project: How to write a strong project proposal

Creating a successful open source project proposal for the Eclipse Foundation requires clarity, vendor-neutral language, and thoughtful framing. This guide outlines key recommendations for drafting a strong proposal, including defining a clear purpose and scope, selecting an appropriate project name and Top-Level Project home, identifying initial committers, and articulating the project's ecosystem context.

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New project releases

Eclipse CommaSuite 3.2.0

2026-10-20

Eclipse Epsilon 2.9

2026-10-19

Eclipse Open VSX 1.3.0

2026-10-16

Eclipse JNoSQL 1.1.20

2026-10-08

Eclipse eTrice 5.10.0

2026-10-05

Eclipse OMR 0.11.0

2026-10-05

GlassFish 8.0.5

2026-10-04

RCP Testing Tool 2.8.2

2026-10-04

Eclipse Basyx 2.2.0 (Python)

2026-10-02

Eclipse ESCET 13.0

2026-09-30

Eclipse RDF4J 6.2.0

2026-09-30

Eclipse JNoSQL 1.1.19

2026-09-29

Eclipse Theia 1.76.0

2026-09-24

Eclipse StatET 4.13.0

2026-09-24

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Global voices

Didas’s open source journey across East Africa

For Didas Mbarushimana, open source is a way to learn, connect, and create opportunities internationally.

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Community updates

Registration for OCX 2027 is open!

Join the open source community in Brussels on 13–15 April 2027. Register to attend or submit a talk to share your expertise and practical insights. Register today.

Have your say in the 2027 State of Open Source Survey

Share your experiences and perspectives on open source to help shape the 2027 State of Open Source report. Participate in the survey.

Adding RAG to Jakarta EE 11 with the JDK and Jakarta specifications

Learn how to integrate retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) into a Jakarta EE 11 application using the JDK and Jakarta specifications. Read the tutorial.

Learn Eclipse IDE step by step with Ayan Dutta

Explore Eclipse IDE with a step-by-step video tutorial series by Ayan Dutta. Watch the playlist.

Langium AI introduces new tools and documentation

Langium AI helps LLMs and AI agents work more reliably with domain-specific languages (DSLs). Explore its new website, documentation, and tools for building more context-aware AI developer experiences. Learn more.