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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.

This recap covers the Open Community for Compliance track at Open Community Experience 2026 (OCX26), with sessions focused on the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), SBOMs, open source governance, and what compliance actually requires from engineering teams.

This recap covers the Open Community for Research track at Open Community Experience 2026, focusing on how open source research moves from prototypes to open source platforms across IoT, AI, and digital infrastructure.

The Eclipse Safe Open Vehicle Core (S-CORE) community is happy to announce the release of version 0.7.0. This significant update introduces a host of new features, enhancements, and stability improvements, reinforcing our commitment to providing an open and safe platform for the next generation of vehicle software.

The Open Community for Automotive at OCX26 focused on how open source collaboration is transforming the software-defined vehicle ecosystem and enabling a full middleware platform for series vehicle production.

The main track at OCX26 focused on the practical challenges of building and operating open source systems at scale. Across three days, sessions addressed software trust, digital sovereignty, distributed architectures, and the integration of AI into enterprise environments.

The Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) Working Group continues its strong growth trajectory in 2026, welcoming a diverse set of new members from across the global mobility, transportation, and embedded systems ecosystem.

The keynote agenda at OCX26 addressed the broader context in which open source systems are designed and deployed. Across three days, speakers explored how open source intersects with digital sovereignty, trust, AI adoption, and regulatory change.

The 2026 State of Open Source Report shows that 98% of organisations are maintaining or expanding their use of open source. Open source is core infrastructure. The industry has solved adoption. It has not solved what comes next.

What was once a live demo on the show floor is now available to everyone as a fully documented, reproducible Eclipse SDV E2E Demo Blueprint.

The Open Community for Automotive (OCA) at OCX 2026 focused on how open source collaboration is transforming the software defined vehicle ecosystem and enabling a full middleware platform for series vehicle production.

In the growing constellation of Global South contributors shaping today’s open source ecosystem, Fon Emmanuel Noel Nfebe stands out as a hands-on builder, a humble mentor, and a quietly persistent innovator.

What’s new in the Eclipse SDV community? Our latest Eclipse SDV Newsletter is live, packed with insights, updates, and stories from across the open source SDV ecosystem.

On 28-29 April 2026, the Eclipse SDV community gathered at Esslingen University, Campus Stadtmitte, for the SDV HackFest HS Esslingen to strengthen the SDV ecosystem and project adoption.