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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.

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.

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.

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

The Eclipse SDV Hackathon returns from 6–8 October for its fourth edition. This year, the entire community will come together in one location: Friedrichshafen.

The Eclipse Foundation welcomes the European Commission’s new European Tech Sovereignty strategy as a major step toward recognising open source as essential to Europe’s digital autonomy, resilience, competitiveness, and long-term technological leadership.

Open source infrastructure has become essential to modern software development. It supports the tools developers use every day, the embedded systems powering connected devices, and the software foundations behind emerging industries such as software-defined vehicles and industrial automation.

Two new 451 Research Market Insight Report Reprints by S&P Global and licensed to the Eclipse Foundation, examine how this infrastructure is evolving in two key areas: Open VSX and Eclipse ThreadX.

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We are happy to announce the release of SUMO version 1.27.0. 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.20312733 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20312733)

Starting with this release, vehicles will default to departSpeed "avg" and departLane "best_prob".
As a result, the insertion flow rate is much higher, especially on multi-lane roads.

Eclipse Theia 1.71 delivers 79 improvements across SCM, Theia AI, Dev Containers, testing, and core platform capabilities. Read the announcement to learn about the new SCM History Graph, Workspace Trust for AI, reasoning controls, token usage warnings, and the new PR Reviewer Agent for AI-assisted code reviews.

AI agents rarely fail because their models are not “smart enough”. In open source AI systems, failures typically occur later, when demos are deployed to production.

As advanced AI lowers the cost of discovering and exploiting software vulnerabilities, Europe must treat open source security and rapid patch deployment as critical resilience infrastructure.