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The third edition of the Eclipse SDV Hackathon is just around the corner, and we’re excited to introduce the 2025 challenges.

GPT-5 or Sonnet-4: Which AI handles real coding better? Watch them go head-to-head in the Theia IDE on real-world tasks—from instruction following to complex bug fixing—and see which model fits your workflow.

Michael Plagge, VP Ecosystem Development at the Eclipse Foundation, joined "Under the Hood: Automotive Storytelling" to explore how open source collaboration is transforming automotive software development from the ground up.

The open source community is mobilizing in unprecedented fashion as the European Union's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) approaches its September 2026 reporting deadline, with penalties reaching up to €15 million or 2.5% of global turnover for non-compliance. The Eclipse Foundation's Open Regulatory Compliance (ORC) Working Group has more than doubled its membership to over 50 organizations in just months, attracting technology giants Microsoft and Red Hat as strategic members alongside GitHub, Google, Nokia, and Mercedes-Benz.

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OCCTET isn't the Eclipse Foundation's only CRA-related initiative. The Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group (ORC Working Group) is also now offering initial resources to support CRA implementation and compliance. The Working Group has also expanded its membership: Microsoft and Red Hat are now on board as strategic members, along with Google, exkide, and Open Source Matters.

The first half of 2025 has been a period of foundational strengthening for the Oniro Working Group. We're not just building an operating system kit; we're crafting the tools that will redefine how devices interact, empowering developers to create new experiences. 

Here’s a preview of the topics and sessions shaping Code & Compliance Community Day 2025, taking place October 22–23, 2025 in Brussels. This event brings together open source maintainers, compliance leads, manufacturers, and institutional stakeholders to reflect on the Cyber Resilience Act’s (CRA) first year and help shape what comes next.

TheiaCon 2025 is where this vision comes to life: through technical talks, live demos, and shared lessons from those building the next generation of tools.
The Call for Proposals (CFP) is now open, and we’re looking for talks that bring real engineering stories: architectures that work, lessons learned from the field, performance data, and code others can build on.

The safety science company plans to help advance the safe adoption of innovative open source automotive software.

The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is facing mounting criticism from industry stakeholders, with some describing the situation as a “five‑alarm fire.” Concerns centre on the law’s classification of certain digital products — particularly those tied to security and safety — as “critical,” a designation that could impose disproportionate compliance burdens on manufacturers and service providers. Many of the unresolved questions raised by the CRA are being addressed within the ORC's FAQ.

The Adoptium Summit, a free half-day virtual event happening on 1 October 2025, will bring together developers, users, and ecosystem stakeholders from around the world to explore the latest innovations in Java and showcase practical real-world use cases powered by Adoptium technologies.

Carmen Delgado, in collaboration with Tanja Obradovic, Thomas Froment and Diana Kupfer, explores how open collaboration and vendor-neutral governance are keeping Java relevant.

AI workflows in Theia IDE just leveled up—agents can now delegate tasks to each other, like testing an app and automatically logging bugs in GitHub. Check out how agent-to-agent delegation makes multi-agent automation seamless and scalable.

Find out why Jakarta EE is still the smartest choice and learn about the Eclipse Migration Toolkit for Java.

As we dive into the summer months, we’re combining our June and July updates into a single post, because June was packed.

Committers are welcome to share their needs and priorities in our annual satisfaction survey to help us enhance our open source community!

What began as an academic prototype has, over the years, grown into a mature, open-source framework for distributed industrial automation based on IEC 61499.

The article introduces Canonical's new builds of OpenJDK, offering enterprise-grade security, extended support, and timely access to new Java releases. A key highlight is the rigorous testing process: Canonical's OpenJDK builds are rigorously tested against the Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) using the Eclipse AQAvit by Adoptium testing framework to ensure their correctness across various architectures and Ubuntu LTS versions. 

The new Eclipse SUMO release brings new output formats (parquet and csv) and fixes many bugs. It also prepares a future change in the default departSpeed and departLane of vehicles by providing options to set the respective default.

Whether you are an experienced developer or new to the ecosystem, Initiative 31 aims to make Eclipse an OS-agnostic IDE.