- FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org/2026/)
- CI for Doxygen coverage delta checker
- Doxygen style guidelines
- CMake optimization with Perfetto
- ASCII only on documentation (https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/pull/98214)
- Motor Control Driver Architecture for Hard Real-Time FOC Applications
- Forward Database table for Ethernet bridge
- Counter subsystem now supports 64-bits values
- BL61x overclock
- DTS binding examples section
- Zcompose
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Episode Summary
- Documentation & CI Improvements
- New Doxygen guidelines are now enforced via CI, automatically flagging undocumented APIs and improving code documentation coverage across the project.
- Build System Optimizations
- Community contributions have optimized snippet parsing performance, reducing build times by a couple hundreds of milliseconds.
- Architecture Working Group Updates
- Discussions on motor control (FOC), and unified driver designs for complex hardware.
- Documentation pages will be allowed to use non-ASCII character (it’s 2026!)
- Networking Features
- New forward database (FDB) support for Ethernet bridges, expanding Zephyr’s already robust networking stack capabilities.
- Hardware Features
- 64-bit counter support merged
- An interesting overclocking contribution for Bouffalo Lab boards with “safe” and “unsafe” modes.
- Device Tree Improvements
- New
examples:property in Devicetree bindings for better documentation and code snippets.
- New
- FOSDEM Presentations
- Benjamin presented on AI/LLM tools for code development and reviews, while Fabio discussed release engineering. The meetup also featured a sneak peek of Zcompose, a Docker Compose-like tool for orchestrating multi-node Zephyr applications. Many other great presentations including from people who recently started to contribute to Zephyr. Recording will be posted soon so stay tuned!