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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.

The Eclipse SDV Hackathon is back! This time, it’s happening in two cities simultaneously, from 30 September to 2 October, 2025. Registration is now open.

Eclipse RCP has served mission-critical applications for decades, but the shift toward web-first technologies is accelerating - and it's time to prepare. This article offers a clear-eyed look at why now is the ideal moment to begin planning your migration, with insights from seasoned experts.

Eclipse Theia 1.63 is a massive update packed with 99 improvements, introducing autonomous AI agents, image input support, and AI-driven end-to-end testing tools for next-gen IDE and tools development. Whether you're building cloud-based tools or integrating AI into your workflows, this release is a must-read for developers and tech leads.

The MacStadium team recently connected with George Adams and Stewart Addison from Adoptium as they shared their Orka experience and use case.

On 24 June at the Automotive Electronics Congress, 11 of Europe’s biggest automotive companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on open source automotive software under the governance of the Eclipse Foundation and the SDV Working Group.

Meet Elena Gantner from Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation, committer to the Eclipse S-CORE project and emerging voice in the SDV space.

The 2025 edition of the Eclipse Embedded and IoT developer survey is now underway! Take the survey now – it only takes a few minutes. Your insights and opinions will help shape the future of Embedded and IoT systems. Let's make a difference together!

Join open source leaders, project maintainers, and institutional stakeholders in Brussels, 22–23 October 2025, for a unique opportunity to reflect on the first year of the Cyber Resilience Act and shape what comes next.