automotive

As we steer towards the end of 2025, it’s amazing to look in the rear-view mirror and see just how far the Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) community has travelled.

As the year draws to a close for the automotive sector and the wider software-defined vehicle landscape, two prominent thought leaders and Eclipse SDV Ambassadors, Filipe Prezado and Martin Schleicher, share a clear view of what 2026 will hold for SDV technology, architecture, adoption, and industry readiness.

Company Unites Global Automotive Leaders to Drive Open-Source Innovation and Streamline SDV Development, Leveraging Proven Platform Expertise and Leadership

On 4 December the first Eclipse SDV community meeting in South Korea took place at the LG Sciencepark in Seoul. LG Electronics, together with the international Eclipse Foundation, hosted the event. BMW, ETAS, and Hyundai Mobis also participated.

As we eagerly await the Eclipse S-CORE 0.5 release, it’s no small feat keeping up with the flurry of activity within the Eclipse SDV ecosystem. That’s exactly why we put together this quarterly newsletter:

The team has just added support for Eclipse ThreadX, another Eclipse Foundation-hosted RTOS — bringing an additional option for the RTOS foundation.

Codethink announced that it has successfully achieved a positive and complete Functional Safety Assessment for the Eclipse Trustable Software Framework (TSF).

A report [in German] on the SDV Hackathon 2025, written by the winning team from CarByte.

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.

The event brought together around 130 Eclipse SDV community members and enthusiasts on-site and online to explore the latest advancements and challenges in software-defined vehicles (SDVs) and open source software (OSS).