- The Orange Pi 6, a 12-core Cortex-A720 SBC, maybe powerful enough for hardware-in-the-loop CI
- Shell command chaining with
&& - A VirtIO input driver bringing touch, mouse, and keyboard to QEMU
- A FIDO2/CTAP2 authenticator subsystem, with a button-press sample
- A native u-blox M10 GNSS driver
- A Linux LED native_sim driver that maps host LEDs to Zephyr LED devices
- Hardware JPEG encoding on STM32 H7/H5/U5
- A native LR1121 LoRa driver, sub-GHz and 2.4 GHz
- Ebyte E80 node and EORA hub gateway, both LR1121-based
- The Arm Corstone-1000 A320 FVP (the chip, not the Airbus)
- The MuseLab nanoCH32V317, RISC-V with on-chip Ethernet PHY and high-speed USB
- The BeagleConnect Zepto, a tiny MSPM0 Click carrier
- Several new CAN boards from CANmodule
- The nRF54L15 Tag, coin-cell-sized with dual antennas and Bluetooth channel sounding
- A reminder to fill out the Developer Survey and send topics for ZDS in Prague:
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Episode Summary
- Orange Pi 6: A 12-core Cortex-A720 single-board computer that may be powerful enough to serve as a private GitHub runner for hardware-in-the-loop testing.
- Smarter CI: The new targeted test-plan generation roughly halved weekly compute (from ~800k to ~300k minutes); keeping MAINTAINERS file areas accurate helps it pick the right tests for your changes.
- Shell Command Chaining: A new
&&operator lets you chain shell commands on a single line, handy for test scripting and another step toward a proper shell. - VirtIO Input Driver: A VirtIO input driver adds touch, mouse, and keyboard to QEMU on both Arm64 and x86, so you can drive LVGL GUIs without relying on native_sim.
- FIDO2/CTAP2 Authenticator: A new FIDO2/CTAP2 subsystem turns any USB-capable Zephyr device into a security key, storing credentials in flash and confirming logins with a button press; a ready-to-flash sample is included, with PIN support already queued up.
- u-blox M10: A native u-blox M10 GNSS driver supporting GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, and Galileo, built on Zephyr’s existing modem chat infrastructure.
- Linux LED native_sim Driver: A native_sim LED driver maps host LEDs exposed under /sys/class/leds to Zephyr LED devices, letting you test blink patterns against real hardware like a ThinkPad’s lid dot.
- STM32 JPEG Encoding: Hardware JPEG acceleration is now available beyond the N6, covering H7, H5, and U5 parts with enough SRAM to encode a full camera frame in one pass.
- LR1121 LoRa Driver: A native LR1121 driver expands the LoRa family with a Semtech part that handles both sub-GHz and 2.4 GHz operation.
- Ebyte LR1121 Boards: The E80 STM32-based end node and the ESP32-based EORA hub gateway both land with LR1121 support.
- Corstone-1000 A320 FVP: Arm’s Fixed Virtual Platform provides a register-level software model of the Cortex-A320 (plus an M0 and secure enclave for chain of trust) — the chip, not the Airbus.
- MuseLab nanoCH32V317: A RISC-V board with an on-chip Ethernet PHY (straight to the magnetics, no RMII) and high-speed USB on the roadmap.
- BeagleConnect Zepto: A tiny, ~$1 MSPM0-based carrier designed to sit under a MikroE Click board with cleverly friction-fit pin headers.
- CANmodule Triple-CAN Board: A STM32G473-based board offering three CAN interfaces, part of a family covering single, dual, and isolated variants.
- nRF54L15 Tag: A coin-cell-sized development board with dual antennas and Bluetooth channel sounding for distance finding, plugging directly into a carrier.
- Developer Survey & Prague: A nudge to complete the Developer Survey (already past 400 responses) before it closes, and to submit topics for the Zephyr Developer Summit and Zephyr Maintainer Forum in Prague in October.