From 6–8 October, 2026, we brought together 57 developers, students, automotive professionals, and open source enthusiasts at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany, for Eclipse SDV Hackathon Chapter Four, hosted by the ZF Group.
We’re pleased to celebrate an important milestone for four projects in the Eclipse Technology Top-Level Project: Eclipse SW360, Eclipse Tycho, Eclipse Apoapsis, and Eclipse Common Security Infrastructure (CSI).
Dear friends and users,
we are happy to announce the release of SUMO version 1.28.0.
The download links are at https://sumo.dlr.de/Download.
If you cite the new release in your publications, please use the DOI
10.5281/zenodo.23219601 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23219601)
This release brings many enhancements and fixes to mesoscopic simulations including an improved jamming model (--meso-ltm).
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.
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.
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.
We are happy to announce the release of Eclipse S-CORE 0.9 milestone. This update introduces architectural enhancements, new capabilities, and stability improvements.
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.
Read the August 2026 Community Newsletter today.
Nine hack coaches, two tracks, and a room full of people ready to build together in Friedrichshafen.
If you want to put your organisation in front of developers, architects, and the people who actually decide what gets adopted, here's where to do it and why.
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.
Read the July 2026 Community Newsletter today.
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.
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.