Eclipse News

Commodity software for vehicles is increasingly being developed as open source. But the community and companies need to further develop their self-image.

On 27 May, Open Regulatory Compliance is hosting a panel, “The Cyber Resilience Act and Open Source: What Maintainers Really Need to Know,” which will be live-streamed by GitHub as part of Maintainer Month. 

Will developers remain empowered creators or become passive users of opaque, vendor-controlled systems?

Read the full blog post from Mike Milinkovich!

As AI becomes integral to our development environments, questions arise about control and transparency. Recent events, like the restriction of the C/C++ extension in VS Code forks, highlight the challenges of relying on tools that, while open source at their core, may have proprietary constraints.

Latest news from the SDVerse: Read our second Eclipse SDV Newsletter to learn more about our new Eclipse SDV members & projects, reports, upcoming events, and more.

Struggling to get AI coding agents to follow your project’s unique conventions? This article introduces a simple yet powerful solution — a "project-info" file — that gives AI the essential context it needs to work seamlessly within your codebase, all demonstrated through a hands-on video with the AI-powered Theia IDE.

We're happy to announce the release of SUMO version 1.23.0.
 

An interview (in German) with Michael Plagge, VP Ecosystem Development at the Eclipse Foundation, on why active participation in Open Source will lead to success in the automotive industry.

Security is fundamental to open source software. With growing dependencies, evolving threats, and expanding community usage, proactive security reviews have become essential.

Adoptium is happy to announce the immediate availability of Eclipse Temurin 8u452-b09, 11.0.27+6, 17.0.15+6, 21.0.7+6 and 24.0.1+9. As always, all binaries are thoroughly tested and available free of charge without usage restrictions on a wide range of platforms.