The Linux Foundation | 17 September 2026
Welcome to the September 2026 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter
The open agentic AI community is coming together in San Jose for AGNTCon + MCPCon North America, October 22–23. More than 3,500 developers, researchers, maintainers and technical leaders will gather for 150 sessions across 11 tracks focused on MCP, agent infrastructure, security, interoperability and production agent systems. Register by October 8 to save.
Beyond the event, six developments stand out this month. The Agentic AI Foundation welcomed the Gates Foundation as its first philanthropic member, bringing the perspectives of underserved communities into the development of agentic AI and supporting broader participation in the first MCP Dev Summit Nairobi. The Linux Foundation welcomed TRACE, an open specification developed with AMD, Anthropic, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OPAQUE and TII to provide portable, verifiable runtime and compliance evidence for AI agents and confidential workloads. The Xen Project launched the Xen Safety Committee to develop shared engineering artifacts for functional safety certification and extended security coverage for Xen releases to five years. OpenSearch won the Analytics & Data Intelligence Solutions category in SiliconANGLE’s 2026 TechForward Awards as the project celebrates five years of community growth. New LF Energy research found that open source software can deliver two to five times greater net value for grid operators and introduced a standardized framework for evaluating those investments. LF Energy also welcomed three new members and three new projects, advanced Power Grid Model to Early Adoption after more than 10 million downloads, and documented how TenneT achieved a tenfold improvement in grid security analysis performance with PowSyBl.
You’ll also find new Linux Foundation research, training and certification opportunities, registration for upcoming events, and project news spanning cloud native, AI, energy, cybersecurity, automotive, telecommunications, mainframe, geospatial and open hardware.
>> Read on for even more news, research, and opportunities from across the Linux Foundation.
Contents
- Education Opportunities
- LF Event Highlight
- LF Research: Survey + report
- LF Europe: Community Updates
- Linux Foundation Projects: Featured news
- LF Events: Mark your calendar!
- Follow us!
Education Opportunities
🎒 Back to School Means Back to Skills
New skills are the new school supplies. Save up to 40% on Linux Foundation Education training and certifications and build practical expertise across AI, cybersecurity, cloud native, and more.
Plus, the new Model Context Protocol Associate (MCPA) certification is here, giving you a way to validate your foundational knowledge of MCP and the technologies powering agentic AI.
LF Event Highlight
The open agentic AI ecosystem is coming together in San Jose. Join 3,500+ developers, researchers, maintainers, and technical leaders at AGNTCon + MCPCon North America, October 22–23, for two packed days focused on the technologies shaping the future of AI agents. Dive into 150+ talks across 11 tracks, hands-on workshops, and conversations with the people building MCP, agent infrastructure, multi-agent systems, developer tooling, security, interoperability, and more.
This is where the agent stack is being built. Be part of it.
- View the full schedule
- Explore the keynote speakers
- Register by Oct 8 + SAVE!
LF Research: Catch up on two new reports this month (one is hot off the press!) and participate in one or both of our surveys!
The latest LF Research and LF Energy report, The Open Source Value Proposition for the Energy Sector, introduces a benefit-cost framework to help energy grid operators answer the question: How do we systematically quantify the ROI of open source software? Grid operators should read the report to learn how to adopt this framework to transform procurement debates into objective, evidence-based roadmaps.
FINOS and LF Research are excited to share the write-up from the June 2026 AI in Finance Leadership Summit, AI and Open Source in Financial Services! Summit discussions revealed that firms face an urgent patch window, accelerating costs, and compliance hurdles as they grapple with new agentic workflows. Read the full report to discover recommendations for managing token spend and strengthening enterprise resiliency!
What’s happening in the cloud native world? From new tool adoption to the biggest challenges teams are facing today, we want to know what your experience looks like. The CNCF and LF Research have teamed up once again to capture the pulse of the cloud community, and we need your perspective to make the picture complete. If you’re just starting your journey or you're a seasoned cloud developer, your input helps shape the research that guides the industry.
LF Europe: Community Updates
Save the date on 6 October because the full conference schedule for The Linux Foundation Member European Forum is now live, and it's shaping up to be one of the year's most important gatherings for open source leaders in Europe.
Taking place in Prague, Czechia, the Forum brings together business and technical leaders from across the Linux Foundation's member community for a single, focused day of conversation on the issues shaping Europe's open source future, chief among them, digital sovereignty.
A few sessions worth planning your day around:
- Presenting the Europe Spotlight Report — Mirko Boehm, Sr. Director for Community Development, and Paula Grzegorzewska, Sr. Manager, Strategic Partnerships, both LF Europe, unpack the latest data on the state of open source in Europe.
- How to Be a Good Citizen Contributor to Open Source in the Age of Regulation — Roman Zhukov (Red Hat) on what responsible contribution looks like as compliance requirements tighten.
- AI Slop vs. Open Source: Why the Next Contribution Crisis Is Already Here — Philippe Ensarguet (Orange) on the quality threats facing open source projects as AI-generated contributions scale.
- Transparency Upstream, Evidence Downstream: Manufacturers and Open Source Under the CRA — William Janssen (TrustEngine) on what the Cyber Resilience Act actually requires of manufacturers working with open source.
The Forum is an invitation-only gathering for Linux Foundation member organizations, designed to be small and focused enough for the kind of candid, high-level conversation that a larger conference can't always deliver. That said, invitations are open to request: if your organization is a Linux Foundation member and you'd like to be part of the conversation in Prague, you can request an invitation directly.
Linux Foundation Projects: Featured news
Formations
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Linux Foundation Welcomes TRACE to Advance Verifiable Runtime Evidence for AI Workloads | The Linux Foundation announced the contribution of TRACE (Trust, Runtime Attestation and Compliance Evidence), a new open specification for hardware-attested runtime and compliance evidence for AI agents and confidential workloads. TRACE provides a portable, cryptographically verifiable evidence layer designed to help organizations prove how AI workloads handle sensitive data and enforce policies across cloud and confidential computing environments. [Read the announcement >>]
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Linux Foundation Announces Key Industry Support for Linux Vendor Firmware Service | The Linux Foundation announced that Dell Technologies, HP Inc., Lenovo and NVIDIA have joined the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as Premier Members, strengthening vendor-neutral infrastructure for secure firmware updates across the Linux ecosystem. Their support will help enable standardized, automated firmware and microcode updates across enterprise fleets, AI clusters, GPUs and other Linux systems, improving security, reliability and long-term sustainability. [Read the announcement >>]
Academy Software Foundation (ASWF)
- ASWF Dev Days is September 17! Join developers, engineers, and open source contributors from around the world for a 24-hour virtual event focused on improving the software that powers film and animation. Project maintainers will provide mentorship and curated, day-sized tasks for contributors of all experience levels.
Register and learn more - PyTorch Conference North America 2026
Join the open source AI community in San Jose, October 20–21 for two days of technical talks, workshops, keynotes, and conversations spanning the full AI stack. Connect with developers, researchers, technical leaders, and contributors working across PyTorch, vLLM, DeepSpeed, Ray, Helion, Safetensors, and more. (LF Events)
Register now - Catch Up on Open Source Days 2026
Revisit the sessions, technical talks, and community highlights from Open Source Days 2026 in the official event playlist.
Watch the playlist here - The ASWF Virtual Town Hall Series runs September 15–24! Join project leaders and contributors for conversations about what’s new across ASWF projects, upcoming priorities, and ways to get involved.
Explore the full schedule and register
Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)
- Register for AGNTCon + MCPCon North America: AAIF's flagship conference on agent infrastructure and production agent systems is happening at San Jose McEnery Convention Center on October 22 and 23. The event includes more than 150 talks across 11 tracks and 5 workshops, with keynote speakers Tim O'Reilly, former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, MCP co-creator David Soria Parra of Anthropic, and AAIF CTO Manik Surtani. Use code COMMUNITY25 to save 25% on registration. Register here >>
- Envoy AI Gateway becomes Agent Router and joins AAIF: Envoy AI Gateway has joined AAIF as its sixth hosted project and taken the name Agent Router. The code, maintainers, and APIs stay the same. Agent Router gives application teams one API for connecting to models and MCP tools, while platform teams keep credentials, routing, and usage limits in one place. Read the announcement >>
- MCP usage surged this summer: MCP tool calls from ChatGPT users reached 98 times their January level by August, and Resend passed a million monthly tool calls. The credit goes largely to the July release of the MCP specification, which made the protocol stateless so any available server can handle the next request. That change let service providers add capacity as demand grew. Read the blog >>
- AAIF adds a Sandbox phase for early-stage projects: AAIF's Governing Board and Technical Committee approved a new Sandbox phase, below Growth, for projects that already work and are gaining community interest but are not yet used widely enough in production to qualify for Growth. A Sandbox project gets a neutral home and standard infrastructure, along with a six-month checkpoint and a twelve-month deadline to apply for Growth. Read the blog >>
- A2A joins AAIF: Agent2Agent (A2A), the open standard that lets agents discover each other, delegate tasks, and exchange work across frameworks and vendors, is now a hosted project at AAIF. A2A is backed by more than 150 organizations and runs in production across supply chain, financial services, and mobile platforms, including Huawei's HarmonyOS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and AWS Bedrock. Read the blog >>
Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia)
- IAMF was shortlisted during the IBC Innovation Awards nomination process, providing recognition for AOMedia’s immersive audio initiatives.
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Alliance for Open Media Publishes Open Audio Renderer (OAR) v1, Advancing Open Spatial Audio Read the press release here>>
- AOMedia Video Codec Working Group Announces Availability of Libaom v3.14 “Pinkie Pie” Read the press release here>>
Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD)
- Meet the Visionary: Mindy Li on Bridging Reality Capture and Physical AI with OpenUSD at XGRIDS: Discover how XGRIDS utilizes Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) alongside 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) to capture reality, constructing expansive, precise digital twins for advanced spatial computing applications.
- 2026 AOUSD Member Summit Is October 28! Mark your calendars for October 28 as the Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco hosts the annual gathering (with both physical and online participation choices available). The event welcomes all Founding and General Members, Liaisons, plus Interest Group Contributors. Stay tuned for additional details and registration links.
Alpha-Omega
- Security Scanning at Foundation Scale
Learn how the Apache Software Foundation used Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and Project Glasswing to run AI security scans across 230 repositories at scale. Read more. - Defending our ecosystem against AI threats
Learn how the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation with a grant from Alpha-Omega created their own team of Security Engineers in Residence (SEiRs) to perform defensive research and move discovery forward. This work defends open source projects against AI-driven vulnerabilities and scales CVE management. Read more.
App Defense Alliance
- News & Insights page is live
The App Defense Alliance has launched a new News & Insights hub that showcases updates, perspectives, and press coverage.
Explore News & Insights → - Why Trustworthy Security Certification Depends on Independent Oversight
Steering Committee member Tony Balkan explains the critical role that independent oversight and testing labs play in building trust in the security certification process.
Read the article → - Demystifying app certification
The Alliance is publishing a series of posts to equip developers with resources to navigate assessment levels and the certification process.
See the latest update →
Automotive Grade Linux (AGL)
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AGL Advances Software-Defined Vehicles at COSCUP 2026
The Automotive Grade Linux Japan team hosted a dedicated "Software Defined Vehicle Accelerated by Open Source" track at COSCUP 2026 in Taipei. Seven speakers detailed key technical advances around SoDeV—AGL's hypervisor-based reference platform for SDVs—focusing on hardware virtualization with Xen, Zephyr RTOS driver domains, and Yocto-based build reproducibility. Highlights included live demos of SoDeV running on Raspberry Pi 5 and Flutter IVI on RISC-V, illustrating the platform's cross-architecture portability and production readiness.
Read the blog → - Register for AGL All Member Meeting Europe in Berlin
Registration is open for the upcoming Automotive Grade Linux All Member Meeting, taking place from September 30 to October 1, 2026, in Berlin, Germany. The event gathers community members, maintainers, and automakers to discuss key technical updates, including SoDeV updates, unified HMI architectures, and automated testing frameworks. Attendees can join technical sessions, review live project demos, and network with leading stakeholders shaping open-source automotive software.
Register now → - Register for Automotive Linux Summit Tokyo
Co-located with Open Source Summit Japan from December 7–9 in Tokyo, this event brings together automotive system engineers, Linux kernel experts, and open source leaders. Community members are encouraged to join and learn more about SDV architectures, functional safety, hypervisors, in-vehicle graphics, and open-source supply chain security.
Register →
CAMARA
- Meet CAMARA at Open Source Summit Europe: CAMARA will be at Open Source Summit Europe in Prague, October 7–9, with a booth and new sock designs. Register here >>
- Network APIs and open standards: Global 5G Evolution examines why telcos have yet to report standalone Network API revenue and argues that open, standardized APIs such as CAMARA and GSMA Open Gateway can help reduce integration costs, accelerate adoption, and create a more scalable path to enterprise value. Watch here >>
- Network APIs become infrastructure for AI agents: TeleInfoToday explores how CAMARA and GSMA Open Gateway are making telecom capabilities such as device location, identity, quality of service, and edge discovery accessible to AI agents through standardized APIs and emerging MCP integrations. Read on >>
- Join CAMARA at API Days London: CAMARA will be at API Days London, September 30–October 1, connecting with the API community and exploring how open network APIs are shaping the future of digital services. Learn more >>
CHIPS Alliance
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CHIPS Alliance's open source I3C Core has been expanded with Host Controller support, implemented by Antmicro. The new capabilities enable the Core to manage I3C peripheral networks, including dynamic addressing, in-band interrupts, and higher-speed communication, and have been verified through simulation and FPGA hardware testing. The work strengthens the open-source IP portfolio and lays the groundwork for broader integration with platforms such as Zephyr and Linux.
Read more about it. - CHIPS Alliance projects Caliptra and VeeR will be featured across a range of sessions at the 2026 OCP Global Summit, highlighting advances in open hardware security, silicon roots of trust, device identity, secure key distribution, verification, manageability, and attestation. Speakers from CHIPS Alliance member organizations including AMD, Google, Intel, Marvell, Microsoft, and NVIDIA will share the latest developments and industry collaboration around open, secure infrastructure. Learn more.
- The Open Source EDA Birds-of-a-Feather session at DAC 2026 brought together more than 120 researchers, industry practitioners, and open-source developers to explore the intersection of AI, open-source hardware, and EDA. The session highlighted advances in open-source EDA infrastructure, AI-assisted design, benchmarking, PDK development, and workforce development, with CHIPS Alliance contributing to the discussion on the growing open-source ecosystem. Learn more about the open source BoF directly from the organizers in this blog.
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
- CNCF Announces Kubeflow’s Graduation, Solidifying a Standard for Cloud Native AI Operations | Milestone marks widespread enterprise adoption for automating end-to-end AI and machine learning lifecycles on Kubernetes.
- CNCF Announces Graduation of Cloud Native Buildpacks, Advancing the Standard for Container Builds | Project reaches broad production adoption for transforming application source code into OCI-compliant container images across cloud environments.
- Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Karmada Graduation | Multi-cluster, multi-cloud Kubernetes orchestration project reaches production maturity as global enterprises scale AI training and inference across hybrid infrastructure
- Kubernetes v1.37: Garhwal | The latest release of Kubernetes v1.37 introduces 67 enhancements: 16 have graduated to Stable, 23 have graduated to Beta, 27 are entering Alpha, and 1 is a deprecation/removal.
- CNCF and SlashData Report Highlights China’s Cloud Native Momentum as AI Moves to Inference | New research finds China’s IIoT developers (48%) outpace the global average (42%) in cloud native adoption as AI infrastructure matures.
- China Merchants Bank Wins CNCF End User Case Study Contest for Unifying AI Training and Inference on Kubernetes | China Merchants Bank’s new cloud native platform lifted average accelerator compute utilization from 35% to more than 60% and cut inference cost per 1 million tokens by more than 60%.
- CNCF Welcomes New Silver Members as Enterprises Scale AI From Training to Inference | New members including SoftBank Corp. and Crusoe join the cloud native community to help build cost-efficient, sovereign infrastructure.
Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC)
- EU Cyber Resilience Act Readiness: With CRA reporting requirements having taken effect September 11, ED Mike Bursell is asking CCC member companies to confirm whether they're using CCC open-source projects in commercially available software — key info for determining which projects need Linux Foundation stewardship support. Read more from CCC’s August Newsletter.
- AI Identity Takes Priority in Agentic Security: An evaluation of technical publications, presentations, and industry insights reveals that establishing identity for autonomous agents has become a top priority for organizations safeguarding AI workloads, making hardware-attested Confidential Computing a critical foundation. Discover key takeaways in the message from the CCC Outreach Committee. Read more.
- Multi-Vendor Attestation Progress: The TAC highlighted The Certifier Framework, which offers a unified approach to attestation across different CC-capable hardware vendors, and opened up contributions on new draft guidance for securing AI agents. Read more.
- Share Your Insights on PETs Adoption: The Fraunhofer Institute has launched an anonymous study examining the main roadblocks to implementing Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, ecosystem growth, and viable commercial models. Technologists, researchers, investors, executives, and policy experts are invited to share their feedback to help shape an upcoming European policy report. Take the survey.
- Stay in the loop: Subscribe to CCC newsletter and get monthly updates and messages from CCC's Executive Director, TAC, Outreach Committee, and more!
Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF)
- CI/CD Cybersecurity Guide: Implementing Open Source Security Tooling into your CI/CD Pipeline | Read it
- Project news and posts:
- The Spinnaker project has been very busy! Read the release preview and check out the full project roadmap.
- MCP Connects Tools, CDEvents Provides Meaning: Why Syntactic Message Passing Is Not Interoperability | Read more
Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF)
- KYA-OS 1.0 has passed Steering Committee approval. Look out for a blog post with updates. Link to the specification. Check out the mention of the KYA-OS approval in Business Wire!
- The DIDcomm Working Group is considering working on a proposal to have DIDcomm as an add-on to MLS in IETF. If you’re interested in working on this, get in touch. Read the survey results here
- Significant progress has been made on the DIF instance of the Universal Resolver, with GoPlausible.com donating an edge-worker form-factor of the resolver called thisdid.com that runs very price- and compute-efficiently on modern clouds for most known DID methods. We've got our third and fourth DIF-Recommended DID Method. Did:cid is an heir to the DIF-incubated Sidetree methods, and did:ethr is approved as one of the most well-established blockchain-based methods.
- Release of the HatPro draft by the Hospitality and Travel Group. The executive summary, overview, and implementation guide (updated for the current version) are available on the Hospitality and Travel WG Website.
- Approval of CAWG Specifications version 1.3.
- Members and friends of DIF, we are upgrading all of our records and moving to a formal Zoho CRM system. This will lower our costs and allow better follow up with all members.
DPDK
- Three open community threads from DPDK Summit Stockholm's Birds of a Feather session, on data plane memory allocation, Rust bindings, and contributor workflow, are now on the dev mailing list. Morten Brørup (SmartShare Systems) reported back on a proposed new heap library with variable-size fast-path allocation, NUMA-aware slabs at 2^N block sizes, and per-lcore caches to reduce contention. Adel Amodwala (Mastercard) led a discussion on bindgen patterns for Rust applications on DPDK alongside Bruce Richardson's (Intel) RFC for a Rust-friendly EAL initialisation path, and Thomas Monjalon (NVIDIA) covered issues.dpdk.org and progress on AI-assisted code review that will let contributors run the same review locally against their own patches.
- The DPDK Summit Stockholm 2026 session recordings continue to release weekly on the DPDK Project YouTube channel. Newly added this cycle: Aaron Conole (Red Hat) and Stephen Hemminger on deploying large language models as coordination and test-harness tools in DPDK CI, and Marat Khalili and Claudia Cauli (Huawei Ireland Research Center) on AI-assisted formal verification of the DPDK eBPF verifier.
- The Q3 DPDK Dispatch newsletter is now archived on dpdk.org, covering the Stockholm summit, five Q2 stable releases across three LTS branches, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS shipping DPDK 25.11 as its packaged default, Grout's Debian Intent-to-Package for the graph router, plus community spotlights on Tim O'Driscoll and NXP's Suchit Lepcha. Tim O'Driscoll names four open questions for DPDK's next phase: its place in AI infrastructure, its role in the Ultra Ethernet Consortium's software stack, deeper crypto acceleration, and reach into hyperscalers who already use it silently.
eBPF Foundation
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eBPF Foundation Grants $100,000 to Advance Developer Tools and Security
The eBPF Foundation has awarded $100,000 in academic research grants to teams at Virginia Tech and the University of British Columbia. The $50,000 unrestricted grants will support open-source projects focused on automated eBPF verifier error diagnostics and secure, remote virtual machine observability in cloud environments. These initiatives aim to lower developer barriers, improve upstream safety, and deliver actionable toolchains to the broader eBPF community.
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Google Enhances Infrastructure Performance Using Custom eBPF Schedulers
Google has successfully deployed application-tailored CPU scheduling policies using eBPF frameworks like sched_ext to overcome general-purpose kernel constraints. The architecture delivered a 5% improvement in queries per second for core RPC serving stacks alongside double-digit throughput gains for memory-intensive workloads. Infrastructure teams can explore the full case study to see how safe, in-kernel policy execution enables rapid performance iteration without system reboots.
Read the case study →
Enabling Linux in Safety Applications (ELISA) Project
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From Watchdog Software to Mixed-Criticality Architectures: ELISA Workshop 2026 Highlights
Have you had a chance to learn more about the latest technical work shared at the ELISA Workshop London 2026? Explore SafetyGuard’s approach to heartbeat monitoring, fault detection, watchdog responses, and application recovery using Rust, shared memory, eventfd, and epoll. Learn how AGL SoDeV brings together Xen, Zephyr, VirtIO, and AGL, and how the Xen community is addressing partitioning, MISRA C compliance, safety requirements, assumptions of use, and fault-injection testing. Read the blog and join the ELISA community to review the work, share your requirements, and contribute to its continued development. Learn more. - ELISA Tools Working Group
The ELISA Tools Working Group brings the community together to evaluate and develop tools for functional safety in Linux. The group supports tools including BASIL, KSNav, stress-ng, and Cregit, while also exploring planned tools such as Tigran. Read the blog to learn more about its work on traceability, static analysis, testing, and compliance. Join the Tools WG to share your tools, use cases, challenges, or experience. - From Safety Processes to Latency Monitoring: ELISA Workshop 2026 Highlights
What does it take to build confidence in Linux for safety-critical applications? Explore how ELISA helps identify gaps around requirements, documentation, testing, traceability, tools, and system understanding across different industries. Learn how Canonical mapped its secure software development lifecycle to ISO/SAE 21434 and IEC 62443-4-1, and how OSADL continuously monitors around 200 PREEMPT_RT systems to study Linux latency under different loads. Read the blog and join the ELISA community to contribute to these discussions. -
Meet the ELISA community at these upcoming events:
FINOS
- Open Source Finance Forum (OSFF) New York Schedule Announced
The Open Source Finance Forum (OSFF) New York 2026 schedule is now live! Join us November 4–5 for 70+ sessions focused on how financial services firms are adopting, governing, and contributing to open source and AI. Hear from speakers across leading financial institutions and technology firms, including Morgan Stanley, Fidelity, NatWest, TD Bank, Microsoft, AWS, Red Hat, and more. Topics span AI governance and agentic workflows, software supply chain security, cloud controls, platform engineering, open industry standards, and open source strategy. New this year, Day 1 will also include Fluxnova Con at OSFF, with three dedicated Fluxnova tracks running alongside the broader OSFF program.
View the schedule
Register here - LF Research and FINOS Publish Report on AI and Open Source in Finance
Following a successful AI and Open Source in Finance leadership Summit, Linux Foundation Research and the FINOS AI Fund have released a joint report synthesizing insights from industry executives, regulators, and security experts. The study highlights an urgent 18-to-24-month window to automate software vulnerability remediation. It also provides frameworks for AI cost governance ("tokenomics"), agentic workflow management, and collaborative initiatives like OSERA and Akrites examining AI integration, supply chain security, and open standards in regulated environments.
Download the report here - OSERA: Bringing open source supply chain remediations in production at scale
As part of the collective Linux Foundation response to AI-enabled cyber threats, FINOS launched OSERA, the Open Source Enterprise Resiliency Alliance, to enable enterprises to harden the open source they depend on and bring it up to production at scale. The initiative is highly complementary to Akrites: while Akrites serves as the upstream engine, offering a centralized Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) and coordinated disclosure process to support maintainers of the commons we all depend on, OSERA focuses on downstream consumption providing financial institutions - and any enterprise - with a platform to prioritize, produce, and frictionlessly route in their production environment under predictable SLAs and with standardized bank-grade attestations.
Learn more
See v0.1 of FINOS OSERA Remediation Standards - konspekt Contributed to FINOS Labs for Portable AI Decision Records
FINOS has accepted konspekt into FINOS Labs as a proposed open standard for capturing human-readable, portable decision records across generative AI development workflows. Contributed by Denis Urusov, konspekt provides a vendor-neutral format for tracking project decisions, open questions, architectural artifacts, and code provenance. The initiative enables engineering teams to maintain auditable, transparent governance trails as AI-assisted software development becomes widespread.
Learn more and get involved - FINOS Releases Common Domain Model (CDM) 7.0
FINOS has released CDM 7, a major production update consolidating over 130 enhancements across financial product modeling, legal agreements, and transaction lifecycles. Underpinned by Rune DSL 10, the release completes functional ingestion mappings, introduces a Smart Contracts Framework, and adds native Python distribution via PyPI. These capabilities lower integration barriers, allowing developers to incorporate standardized data structures directly into enterprise workflows.
Read the release notes - Podcast: Open Data vs. Open Source in AI Workflows
In a recent podcast episode, Amy Rose, CTO of the Overture Maps Foundation, joins FINOS to discuss the architectural differences between open-source software and open data models. The discussion covers how Overture builds interoperable global map layers and resolves complex entity definitions across massive datasets. The episode also highlights why modern agentic AI systems require detailed record-level metadata rather than high-level summaries.
Listen on Spotify
Watch on YouTube
Green Software Foundation
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GSF Launches Software Water Intensity (SWI) Specification: Software feels weightless, but it isn't — every API call, video stream, and AI query runs on physical infrastructure with a real water footprint, from data centre cooling to electricity generation to chip manufacturing. The Green Software Foundation is developing a new standard to change that. Modelled on the proven SCI approach — an ISO/IEC 21031:2024-accredited methodology already used industry-wide to measure carbon — SWI will give software teams a consistent, comparable way to measure, report, and reduce their water impact, and the Standards Working Group is shaping the open questions now, so get involved while the standard is still being written.
High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF)
- Save the date for HPSF Conference 2027 from April 12-16, 2027 in Montreal, Canada. The HPSFCon call for proposals (CFP) opens on September 15th.
- Why Join HPSF? A Guide to Membership in the High Performance Software Foundation - High performance computing is no longer confined to national labs and supercomputing centers. As AI, accelerated computing, and cloud-based HPC reshape the landscape, more organizations than ever have a stake in the software that powers it. HPSF membership gives technology organizations a formal way to support our mission, help steer our direction, and connect with peers across the HPC ecosystem.
- Learn more about how the HPSF took shape with an article from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on Building a Sustainable Software Ecosystem - High-performance computing (HPC) is a relatively small, niche market in the global computing landscape, but its importance to scientific discovery is outsized. With the advent of exascale computing, additional paths to scientific discovery have emerged, providing an unprecedented capability for studying complex physical phenomena. Allowing projects to be open source and part of a foundation makes each one more stable, more sustainable, and higher quality because more total resources are working to improve and maintain them. It also helps us increase the scope of each product.
- Why Collaboration Matters More Than Ever in HPC with a spotlight on Christian Trott of Sandia National Laboratories and the Kokkos project - The future of high performance computing is getting more complex by the day. Hardware architectures are evolving rapidly, AI is reshaping funding priorities, and engineering teams are under pressure to deliver production ready software across increasingly diverse systems. Solving those challenges requires more than technical expertise. It requires collaboration built on shared governance, trusted infrastructure, and open development.
Jupyter
- Jupyter Day 2026 Is Coming to San Jose
Join the Project Jupyter community on October 19, 2026 for a full day of talks, posters, and community discussion focused on the future of interactive computing. The event will bring together developers, researchers, educators, and infrastructure leaders from across the Jupyter ecosystem.
Learn more and register - Join the Jupyter Mini Summit in Prague
Connect with the Jupyter community on October 6 for ecosystem updates, collaborative discussions, and conversations about what’s next for Jupyter. Meet the people building and using Jupyter across research, education, infrastructure, and open source. Since this is co-located at Open Source Summit Europe, happening on October 7-9 in Prague, Czechia, pre-registration is required - don’t miss out!
- What You Told Us: 2026 Jupyter User Survey Results
The results are in from Jupyter’s 2026 User Experience and Product Enhancement Survey. More than 500 respondents shared feedback on what’s working, where the biggest pain points remain, and what they’d like to see improved—from environment management and collaboration to editor features, performance, and AI.
Read the full survey results here
LF AI & Data
- Join the LF AI & Data Mini Summit at PyTorch Conference: Connect with the LF AI & Data community on October 19 in San Jose for a full day of technical sessions, project lightning talks, and a hands-on Docling workshop. The Mini Summit is free for PyTorch Conference attendees, but space is limited—be sure to add the LF AI & Data Mini Summit to your PyTorch Conference registration >>>
- LF AI & Data Welcomes AIRSEAI: This new open source embodied AI project provides a modular framework for developing and deploying intelligence across diverse robotic platforms without vendor lock-in. Its three-stage roadmap progresses from modular single-robot planning to dual-arm, data-driven manipulation and collective coordination among heterogeneous robots. Read the announcement >>> | Explore the companion blog >>>
- Monocle Advances to Incubation Status: Monocle helps developers turn complex agent traces into repeatable tests using OpenTelemetry-based tracing and pytest-style validation. Teams can verify tool calls, agent handoffs, errors, token usage, and performance directly within their CI/CD workflows. Learn more >>>
- Read AI Builds Enterprise Agentic Search on Milvus: A new case study explores how Read AI uses LF AI & Data project, Milvus, as the vector database powering search across meetings, email, chat, CRM data, and more. The deployment delivers 5× faster agentic search and sub-20–50ms retrieval latency across billions of records and millions of tenants. Read the case study >>>
- Docling Comes to Label Studio: A new integration introduces a purpose-built Docling annotation interface and the first native DocLang export available through an annotation platform. Organizations can use the workflow to create trusted evaluation and fine-tuning datasets based on their own real-world documents. Learn more >>>
- Open Source AI Powers Public-Sector Innovation: A new blog explores how ITU’s GENIE.AI framework uses LF AI & Data projects OPEA and Docling to help governments build adaptable, vendor-neutral AI services. The platform is already supporting agriculture, health, and climate-focused deployments in Lesotho, the Gambia, Bangladesh, and El Salvador. Read the blog >>>
- Explore What’s New in Egeria: A new four-part blog series explores recent advancements in Egeria, LF AI & Data’s open source project for metadata and governance. The first three installments cover how Egeria 6.0 doubled platform capabilities while cutting its runtime footprint in half, five new role-focused web interfaces introduced in Egeria 6.1, and a growing connector library that helps organizations catalog existing data systems without disruptive migrations. Read Part 1 >>> | Read Part 2 >>> | Read Part 3 >>>
- Open Lakehouse + AI Meetup in Paris: Join the Unity Catalog community on September 23 for an evening exploring the building blocks of composable lakehouse architectures. Speakers will also share approaches for creating AI-ready on-premises and hybrid deployments. Register >>>
LF Broadband
- VOLTHA Technical Steering Team Returns Full Slate; Co-Chairs Reappointed for 2026
- LF Broadband is heading to Network X 2026, exhibiting in the Broadband Forum pavilion. The event brings fixed and mobile telecom together under one roof, connecting 5,500+ network and service professionals, including more than 1,500 operators from across Europe and beyond.
LF Decentralized Trust
- OpenWallet Foundation will join LFDT effective January 1, 2027, bringing its open source wallet and credential work into the same home as LFDT's identity projects. LFDT Executive Director Daniela Barbosa will lead the combined community; founder Daniel Goldscheider moves to Secretary of the newly announced Global Digital Collaboration.
- Hyperledger Fabric now underpins Brazil's national identity card and federal revenue services, Daniela Barbosa told Cointelegraph Brasil, and Besu has run Citi Token Services since 2024 and Japan Securities Clearing Corporation's commodity tokenization platform since 2023. Across LFDT projects, deployments now process billions of dollars in transactions. Portuguese-language piece.
- DBS and Citi settled the first weekend cross-border USD payment between Singapore and New York on SWIFT's blockchain ledger on September 5, clearing in minutes rather than the two business days weekend cutoff windows normally require. The ledger, ready for initial use in July, is built on Besu, with 17 banks in the live pilot through December.
- Consensys, a major Besu and Teku contributor, announced a two-company split on September 9. The consumer wallet business becomes MetaMask under Joe Lubin; institutional infrastructure work (both LFDT projects, plus Linea) moves into a newly formed Consensys under Mike Kriak.
LF Edge
- Explore the State of the Edge 2026: A new blog series highlights insights from the latest State of the Edge report, covering scalable edge architecture, emerging AI technologies, private 5G, and open digital twins. The latest installment explores how open standards, event-driven architectures, and AI are making digital twins practical at scale. Read the latest blog >>> | Download the full report >>>
- EdgeLake 2.0 Builds Momentum at the Edge: EdgeLake has released version 2.0.2606 with new capabilities for data ingestion, connectivity, diagnostics, and modular deployment. With production adoption across smart cities, buildings, energy, and industrial environments, the project’s roadmap now focuses on improved high availability, standardized Unified Namespace support, and progress toward zero-touch provisioning. Read the blog >>>
- Meet the LF Edge Community at ONE Summit Japan: Join LF Edge in Tokyo on December 10–11 for ONE Summit Japan, co-located with Open Source Summit Japan. Connect with the community and explore the latest developments in Edge AI, data at the edge, open infrastructure, and real-world edge deployments. Register by October 5 for early-bird pricing. Register now >>>
- Explore AI at the Distributed Edge at TRANSFORM 2026: LF Edge member ZEDEDA is hosting TRANSFORM 2026 on September 15 in Houston, bringing together practitioners and industry leaders to discuss the operational realities of deploying, securing, and scaling AI at the edge. ZEDEDA originally contributed Project EVE, now an LF Edge Impact Stage project, to the open source community. Reserve your seat >>>
LF Energy
- LF Energy Summit Europe 2026 | LF Energy Summit Europe returned to Berlin September 15–16. Thank you to everyone who joined us. Stay tuned for session recordings and highlights.
- SEAPATH Becomes LF Energy's First Graduated Project | SEAPATH is the first project in LF Energy's history to reach Graduated status, with RTE running it in production across its R#SPACE program. Grid2Op and OpenGridFM advanced to Incubation, CoMPAS advanced to Early Adoption, and SC Decarbonization Hub and GXF moved to Emeritus.
- OpenSTEF 4.0 Ships Modular Redesign | OpenSTEF 4.0 ships a modular redesign with a metalearning ensemble system, a foundation-model forecaster, and a new backtesting framework called BEAM. Alliander runs it in production at thousands of grid locations.
- FlexMeasures Reaches v1.0.0 | FlexMeasures v1.0.0 adds 100+ pull requests and new scheduling capabilities for commercial and industrial assets, including multi-commodity modeling and a more consistent Job API.
- OpenGridFM Releases GENCO | IBM Research, Hydro-Québec, and the GridFM community released GENCO, a neural solver unifying power flow, optimal power flow, and state estimation. It ran up to 30x faster than a Newton-Raphson AC solver and up to 85x faster than interior-point methods, validated on real SCADA data from Hydro-Québec's 1,200-bus network.
- CDS Customer Data: Initial Draft Specification Published | LF Energy's Connected Data Specifications project published an initial draft of CDS Customer Data (CDS-WG3-01), standardizing secure, authorized access to utility customer account and billing data.
LF Networking
- Explore Model-Driven Network Orchestration with StratoWeave: Join this one-hour webinar for an introduction to StratoWeave, the new LF Networking project for model-driven, declarative network orchestration. Explore its architecture, layered YANG models, multi-vendor device adapters, streaming telemetry, and closed-loop automation, followed by a live demo showing how service intent becomes device-level configuration. No prior StratoWeave experience is required. Register >>>
- Register for ONE Summit Japan 2026: Join the global open networking community December 10–11 in Tokyo to explore agentic AI, Edge AI, cloud-native infrastructure, automation, and next-generation networks. Register by October 5 to receive early-bird pricing! LF Networking members are also eligible for a 20% discount.
Register now >>>
- FD.io CSIT 26.06 Advances Open Networking Performance Testing: The FD.io community has published the CSIT 26.06 Release Report, delivering expanded VPP performance coverage, new test environments, and continued progress toward automated, hands-free releases. Check out the results >>>
- Bringing Agentic AI to Telecom Networks: The latest installment in a thought-leading series on the intersection of AI Native networking, LFN CTO Ranny Haiby explores how A2A, MCP, and open source projects such as OpenAN and Essedum can address telecom’s needs for scale, safety, security, and cross-vendor trust.
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Margo
- Margo Launches New Video Series
The Margo Initiative has introduced "Three Questions with Margo," a new video series featuring industry leaders and experts addressing core challenges in industrial automation. Each episode explores key perspectives on scaling industrial innovation, leveraging AI, and building interoperable open ecosystems across diverse vendor environments. Industrial architects, engineers, and technical decision-makers can subscribe to gain actionable insights into the future of the industrial edge.
Watch the series → - Margo PR3 Plugfest Registration Open for Chandler, Arizona
The Margo PR3 Plugfest comes to Intel’s campus in Chandler, Arizona, from October 27–30, 2026. Open to both members and non-members with an active implementation, this four-day event offers hands-on, round-robin testing to validate multi-vendor interoperability in real-world edge environments. Participants receive full on-site catering, direct feedback channels with the technical working group, and documented interoperability evidence as the ecosystem advances toward General Availability.
Register now →
OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation
- OCUDU Ecosystem Developer Summit: The schedule is live! In our latest blog, we take a look at the sessions and themes. Over three days at the Boeing Auditorium, developers, operators, defense integrators, and researchers will gather to explore how the carrier-grade stack is expanding into radar sensing, AI-native network operations, zero-trust security, and tactical field deployments. Learn about the session highlights here and register here.
- OCUDU Webinar Series
OCUDU EF launched a new developer-focused webinar series for users, integrators, and contributors working with open, disaggregated RAN systems in June. After a break over the summer, the series now returns with episode 4: Understanding the OCUDU CI/CD Framework. In this webinar, attendees will learn how OCUDU uses its CI/CD framework, Retina-orchestrated testbeds, and contributor testing expectations to maintain code quality and release readiness prior to real baremetal hardware deployments.
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- Recap episodes 1-3 - You can watch episodes 1-3 on the OCUDU youtube channel, alternatively read the recap blog here to get up to speed.
- Episode 4: Understanding the OCUDU CI/CD Framework, September 17, 5pm CET, Register here.
- Episode 5: OCUDU on Baremetal: Hardware, config, UE connect, September 24, 5pm CET. In this webinar, attendees will learn how OCUDU ensures code quality and release readiness through its end-to-end CI/CD framework, contributor testing workflows, and Retina-orchestrated testbeds before transitioning to baremetal hardware deployments. Learn more and register here.
- How CNS Built its Novel RA-NN on OCUDU Case Study
A new case study demonstrates how CNS used OCUDU to build, validate, and test its novel Radio Access Neural Network (RA-NN) and Centralized Unit Intelligence Plane (CU-IP) across both simulated and real-hardware environments. By contributing these general-purpose AI-native capabilities back upstream, CNS is helping strengthen OCUDU's open, modular 5G stack for the broader community. - COSMOS, Intel and Airspan test OCUDU
COSMOS, Intel, and Airspan Networks are collaborating to integrate and test the OCUDU open-source software stack with Aether/SD-Core and commercial O-RAN radio units on the COSMOS city-scale testbed. Supported by the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation, this industry-academic partnership aims to advance open-source RAN innovation through comprehensive, end-to-end evaluation in real-world deployment scenarios. Read more from Airspan here.
Open Mainframe Project
- Looking Back at SHARE Pittsburgh 2026
SHARE Pittsburgh 2026 brought together the mainframe community for a week of technical sessions, great conversations, and new connections. Take a look back at some of the favorite moments captured by community members throughout the event.
View the full photo album and download photos - Explore Stories from the Open Mainframe Project Mentorship Program
The Open Mainframe Project Mentorship Program gives students and early-career developers the opportunity to work directly with open source projects, mentors, and the mainframe community. Hear from participants about what they built, what they learned, and how the experience helped shape their next steps.
Read the mentorship blogs here - Modernize Your CICS Development Workflow
Modern CICS development can still happen directly on the mainframe. In this practical guide, Akanksha Modi walks through getting started with VS Code, Zowe Explorer, IBM Z Open Editor, and the Zowe Explorer for CICS Transaction Server extension.
Read the blog post - Join Open Mainframe Project at IBM TechXchange 2026
Open Mainframe Project Pre-Conference Day takes place October 26 in Atlanta, kicking off IBM TechXchange 2026 with a full day of technical deep dives, community collaboration, and open source mainframe innovation. Sessions cover topics including OpenTelemetry on z/OS, Zowe, zopen, DevOps, USS, and next-generation mainframe talent.
See the Open Mainframe Project’s recommended sessions
Explore IBM TechXchange 2026 and register - GS | Forge26 Is Coming to Northamptonshire
Join the GS-UK community November 2–5, 2026 at Whittlebury Hall for four days of technical sessions, networking, and collaboration focused on the mainframe ecosystem. The conference brings together practitioners and experts across areas including CICS, Db2, z/OS, AI on Z, security, storage, hybrid cloud, and DevOps. (GS-UK Forge)
Explore the event and register
- Hear from the People Powering the Mainframe Community
Explore Mainframe Voices for stories, perspectives, and experiences from people across the mainframe ecosystem. From career journeys and community involvement to lessons learned and industry insights, these features put the spotlight on the people helping move mainframe technology forward.
Read the latest Mainframe Voices - Teaching Mainframe Skills to the Next Generation
In the latest I Am a Mainframer video, Geoffrey Decker shares his perspective on teaching mainframe skills and helping prepare the next generation of mainframe professionals. It’s a useful look at the role education and knowledge-sharing play in keeping the mainframe community strong.
Watch the video
Open Programmable Infrastructure
- OPI Summit on DPUs/IPUs 2026, San Jose, CA, October 15
The second OPI Summit on DPUs/IPUs will take place alongside OCP Global Summit in October 2026, bringing together the DPU/IPU hardware, software, and services ecosystem. The session lineup will feature vendor-neutral APIs, open blueprints, and hands-on hardware demos covering DPU native storage services, SONiC DASH programming, OVS offloading, automated DPU onboarding and more. The schedule is coming soon, stay tuned for updates.
OpenSearch
- OpenSearchCon North America | San Jose | September 22–24: One week left to register! The community is getting ready for three days of search, observability, AI, and open source innovation. The program includes keynotes, hands-on workshops, an unconference, a Solutions Showcase, networking, and deep dives into vector search, agentic AI, relevance, observability, and Apache Lucene.
What You’ll Get:- Real-world strategies for vector search, agentic AI, and observability
- Deep dives into search relevance, plugins, AI observability, and vector optimization
- Connections with engineers, architects, and open source contributors
- Hands-on workshops to build an OpenTelemetry observability stack or an AI-powered search application
- OpenSearch Agent Skills Hackathon wraps up: The first Agent Skills Hackathon challenged developers to build open, reusable skills for search, observability, log analytics, and migration. Read about the winning submissions >>
- OpenSearch 3.8 gets faster: Explore the latest improvements to vector search, AI agents, and observability. Read the coverage from Dutch IT Leaders >>
- OpenSearch’s next chapter: Get the latest perspective on OpenSearch, the Foundation, and Executive Director Bianca Lewis.
Read the interview from IT’s FOSS >> - Observability, streamlined: See how OpenSearch 3.8 brings faster vector performance, broader agent integrations, and new analytics tools together. Read from KMWorld >>
OpenSSF
- OpenSSF Community Day Europe 2026 Schedule Is Live: The full session lineup for October 6 in Prague (co-located with Open Source Summit Europe) is now published. See also Schedule Highlights & What to Expect and OpenSSF Community Day North America: First-Time Experience Register | Full schedule | Sponsor
- Wondering where you are with CRA readiness? Bring your questions to Prague. Join the OpenSSF Global Cyber Policy Working Group for an interactive workshop (and boxed lunch!) at Open Source Summit Europe + Embedded Linux Conference, Friday October 9, 2026 12:45 - 14:00 CEST | Chamber Hall (Floor 3) View the workshop | Event details | Register
- Sign up for the OpenSSF Newsletter to receive more in depth news on community meetings, technical project updates, and cybersecurity policy & regulatory updates.
From the Blog:
- Case Study: Conquering the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) with 1,400 Upstream Security Fixes: Ericsson Software Technology eliminated private forks and contributed 1,400+ dependency updates and fixes back upstream to meet CRA obligations.
- Introducing BOMHort: Kubernetes-Native SBOM Visualization & Governance at Scale Joins the OpenSSF Sandbox: Authored by Mario Fahlandt, BOMHort delivers centralized SBOM visibility and governance for platform and security teams.
- Join OpenSSF at AGNTCon + MCPCon North America: Securing Agentic AI: Workshops and talks on the Secure Agentic Framework (SAF) ahead of the October San Jose event.
- Tech Talk Recap: A Practitioner's Guide to CRA Readiness: Recap of the CRA Tech Talk, timed right at the September 11 ENISA reporting go-live.The recording is now live on YouTube. Download the presentation deck.
- Open by Default After AI: The GDS Guidance and the Enforcement Question: Sal Kimmich and Simon John on NHS England's SDLC-8 guidance restricting public GitHub repo access over AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery concerns.
- A Community Guide to the EU CRA September 11 Deadline for Manufacturers: The September 11 CRA reporting milestone is here. Our new community guide explains manufacturers’ reporting obligations and how open source maintainers and stewards can prepare for collaboration when vulnerabilities affect downstream products.
- OpenSSF at Hacker Summer Camp 2026: Black Hat & DEF CON Highlights and Recap: Recap of OpenSSF's presence at Black Hat/DEF CON, August 1–9 in Las Vegas.
Recent Podcasts:
- #64 – S3E16 The Heartbeat of the Kernel: Why Upstream is the Ultimate Security Strategy with Greg Kroah-Hartman: Tied to Linux's 35th birthday — CRob and Greg Kroah-Hartman on 25+ years of kernel maintenance.
- #68 – S3E20 CRA Readiness: Practical Strategies for Open Source Communities with Megan Knight: Breaks down the CRA compliance timeline and shares practical strategies and key resources for maintainers.
- #69 – S3E21 Watering the Community Garden: Navigating the EU CRA for Open Source with Roman Zhukov: Uses a "community garden" analogy — exempt maintainers as hobbyist gardeners, stewards as garden associations, manufacturers as farm-to-table restaurants.
- #70 – S3E22 Private Forks, CRA Deadlines, and the True Cost of Open Source Compliance with Dave Russo: Red Hat's Dave Russo on the ~$250K-per-release cost of private forks and "champion stewardship."
- #71 – S3E23 Navigating the New Era: The EU Cyber Resilience Act Explained with Madalin Neag: OpenSSF EU Policy Advisor Madalin Neag demystifies the CRA.
- #72 – S3E24 Balancing AI's Double-Edged Sword: Software Engineering, Unlearning, and Ecosystem Sustainability with Mark Russinovich: Azure CTO and OpenSSF Chair Mark Russinovich on AI's impact on software engineering and supply chain security.
Overture Maps Foundation
- Overture 2026-08-19.0 Data Release & Schema v1.18.0: Final deprecation notice for the categories property ahead of September removal, refreshed Addresses for Canada and NZ, updated Places taxonomy with expanded BrightQuery coverage and improved operating_status details, and expanded transit and landform features in Base.
- Overture Maps at the 2026 Esri User Conference: Live demos showed millions of Places and 2.5B+ building footprints rendering in ArcGIS via Parquet feature layers. Read Dana Bauer’s recap on how Overture reduces data processing costs, grounds AI with GERS IDs, and powers real-world use cases like Fresno County’s emergency routing.
- Podcast: Why Overture Maps Matters for the Financial Industry: CTO of the Overture Maps Foundation, Amy Rose, joined Aaron Grizz Griswold on the FINOS podcast to dive into how Overture, founded alongside Microsoft, AWS, Meta, and TomTom, is working to build global open interoperable map data. Discover how open data, record-level metadata, and interoperability are shaping the future of geospatial data across industries.
- Check out Overture’s latest demos:
P4
- P4 GSoC 2026 Wrap-up: Our third summer as part of Google Summer of Code has come to a close. Thank you to our contributors and our mentors for the time they dedicated to making it a good one. View final project reports
- 2026 P4 Workshop: The first keynote for our annual Workshop on October 12 in Silicon Valley has been announced! Don’t miss Muhammad Shahbaz and the rest of our great program. Register here
PyTorch Foundation
- PyTorch Conference China 2026: Advancing the Open Source AI Stack - PyTorch Conference China 2026 brought developers and organizations together in Shanghai to advance an open-source AI ecosystem spanning hardware integration, cloud infrastructure, and model deployment.
- Alibaba Cloud, Ant Group, Cambricon and Huawei Come Together in Shanghai to Advance the Open Source AI Stack at PyTorch Conference China - Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon joined the PyTorch Foundation as Platinum members, and Ant Group joined as a Gold member, with the new memberships announced September 8 at PyTorch Conference China in Shanghai.
- Cambricon Joins the PyTorch Foundation as a Platinum Member - Cambricon, founded in 2016 as an early pioneer in AI chips, has joined the PyTorch Foundation as a Platinum member to advance AI chip and software development within the ecosystem.
- PyTorch 2.14 Release - PyTorch 2.14 brings CuTeDSL-generated CUTLASS kernels to Inductor, a new nccl2 backend for PyTorch Distributed, and expanded ROCm, Intel XPU, and NVIDIA platform support.
- PyTorch Ecosystem Landscape Welcomes 10 New Projects - The PyTorch Ecosystem Working Group welcomed 10 new projects to the PyTorch Ecosystem Landscape - Perforated, AReaL, TorchJD, RLinf, Miles, SMG, FiftyOne, TokenSpeed, VisualTorch, and TorchSurv.
- PyTorch x Hugging Face in Bengaluru: Building India's Next Generation of ML Systems Contributors - More than 170 students, engineers, researchers, and open source contributors gathered in Bengaluru for a joint PyTorch and Hugging Face event focused on growing India's ML systems community.
- Your Guide to Hardware Acceleration & Compute Infrastructure at PyTorch Conference North America 2026 - A session-by-session guide to PyTorch Conference North America 2026 tracks on getting PyTorch to run fast, portably, and reliably across GPUs, TPUs, NPUs, and custom ASICs.
- Agentic AI and Next-Gen Intelligence Sessions at PyTorch Conference North America 2026 - A look at PyTorch Conference North America 2026 sessions on training agents, serving agents in production, agents that build PyTorch, and PyTorch in the physical world.
- vLLM Sessions at PyTorch Conference North America 2026 - PyTorch Conference North America 2026 will feature vLLM sessions on KV cache management, disaggregated serving, hardware portability, kernel optimization, Mixture-of-Experts inference, and production serving.
- Core PyTorch Sessions at PyTorch Conference North America 2026 - An overview of Core PyTorch sessions spanning compiler and runtime work, distributed communication, device portability, release engineering, CI, observability, and contributor infrastructure.
- Join us at upcoming events:
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- PyTorch 2.14 Release Live Q&A, Virtual, September 17, 2026. Bring your questions about PyTorch 2.14 to a live Q&A with maintainers from Meta and Reflection AI, moderated by Chris Gottbrath.
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- London PyTorch Meetup, London, UK, September 16, 2026. An evening of PyTorch talks, food, drinks, and networking with the PyTorch Meetup London community, including talks on scaling model training with TorchTitan.
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- PyTorch Community Meetup Kampala, Kampala, Uganda, September 19, 2026. A gathering of students, researchers, developers, and open source contributors across Uganda and East Africa to learn, share, and connect around PyTorch and modern AI.
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- PyTorch Meetups Madrid (Spain), Madrid, Spain, October 14. The official launch of the PyTorch Meetups Madrid community, bringing together local talent working across production ML, research, and early Machine Learning journeys.
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- PyTorch Conference North America 2026, San Jose, CA, October 20-21. PyTorchCon gathers top-tier AI pioneers, researchers, and developers to explore the future of open source AI and the impact of PyTorch Foundation projects including PyTorch, vLLM, DeepSpeed, Ray, Helion, and Safetensors.
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- NVIDIA GTC Berlin, Germany, Berlin, Germany, October 20-22. An AI infrastructure conference featuring a keynote from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and sessions spanning the AI stack, from hardware to physical AI.
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- PyTorch Day Korea 2026, Seoul, Korea, November 21. The first large-scale offline conference hosted by the PyTorch Korea User Group.
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- NVIDIA GTC Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C, November 30-December 3. Government leaders, policymakers, scientists, and industry partners gather to explore how AI is accelerating American economic growth and scientific discovery, featuring a keynote from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang.
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- NeurIPS 2026, Sydney, Australia, December 6-12. The PyTorch Foundation will be sponsoring NeurIPS 2026, the Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
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- PyTorch Day Japan 2026, Tokyo, Japan, December 10. Hosted by the PyTorch Foundation, Hugging Face, IBM, and Mitsubishi Electric, this community-driven event is dedicated to open source AI and the impact of PyTorch Foundation projects.
RISC-V
- RISC-V Summit China 2026: The summit takes place October 18-20, 2026 at the Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center. Sponsorships are still available.
- Save the Date for RISC-V Summit North America 2027: Join us February 16-18, 2027 at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero in San Francisco for three days of technical innovation, ecosystem collaboration, and discussions shaping the future of open computing. More details coming soon.
- World RISC-V Days returns, 22 to 28 February 2027. Eleven countries hosted an event in 2026, and we would like more on the list next year. Hosting is deliberately light work: you provide the venue, and we provide guidance, promotion, and global visibility. Lori Servin is taking names at lori@riscv.org.
SPDX
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Journal of Innovation features SPDX’s impact on improving supply-chain information: Two papers examine how SPDX is used to generate more trustworthy, usable, and actionable information about the supply chain in the context of Digital Product Passports and Risk Assessment Frameworks. The articles highlight how SPDX provides practical assessments to help organizations meet AI and security regulatory requirements by providing an open, machine-readable exchange layer for structured data about provenance and other product information. Read both articles in the August 2026 Journal of Innovation issue: Supply Chains Reimagined: Circular, Smart, and Adaptive.
SONiC
- Join the SONiC Community at OCP Global Summit: SONiC will have a full week of activities in Silicon Valley, including a community booth with live demos from October 13–15, the SONiC Workshop on October 14, and an Extended Offsite SONiC Workshop at Nokia’s Sunnyvale office on October 16. The offsite workshop requires separate registration, and space is limited. Explore the full program | Register for the Extended Workshop
- Join the SONiC Hackathon 2026: Developers, researchers, students, and other innovators are invited to develop new ideas across networks for AI, AI-assisted networking, security, test reliability, developer experience, and more. Teams of up to five can register by September 15, with the virtual hackathon taking place September 28–October 1 and winners announced during the OCP Global Summit SONiC Workshop. Submit your team
- SONiC Scale-Up Test Standard Produces Measurable Results: The first full-scale switch-side verification passed all 22 standard LLR and CBFC test cases, including zero packet loss in tested lossless traffic scenarios. The community is continuing interoperability testing and advancing the draft standard from v0.4 toward v1.0. Explore the testing methodology and results
- Submit a Proposal for SONiC at ONE Summit Japan: The SONiC community will gather in Tokyo for a dedicated booth on December 10–11 and a technical workshop on December 11. Submit a vendor-neutral proposal for a workshop session or live booth demo by October 4. Submit a proposal | Learn more
Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers
- Developer Spotlight: Jason Leo
Self-taught developer Jason Leo leveraged his open source contributions to Chromium to transition from front-end web development to his dream job as a full-time browser engineer. Today, he works on an AI-integrated Chromium browser while encouraging aspiring contributors to overcome fear and get involved in the community. Read his Developer Spotlight to learn more.
Sylva Project
- Meet the Sylva Project community at Open Source Summit Europe 2026, taking place 6-9 October in Prague. Join the Sylva Summit on 6 October for project updates, technical talks, real-world use cases, and discussions about new technologies and trends shaping cloud-native telecom and edge infrastructure.
Visit the Sylva booth on the Expo Floor to meet community members, learn more about the project, explore demos, discover ways to contribute, and pick up Sylva swag.
You can also attend Sylva-related talks throughout the week. Learn how Sylva can support digital sovereignty by reducing vendor lock-in and improving transparency and interoperability. Don’t miss the live Open RAN demonstration showcasing a GitOps-based deployment with Sylva and Duranta across central, regional, and far-edge environments in two labs located around 1,000 km apart. Learn more and register for the event.
- Sylva Hackathon 2026
Join the Sylva community for the Sylva Hackathon 2026, taking place 23-24 November in Bern, Switzerland. This two-day, hands-on event will bring together developers, operators, vendors, architects, and contributors to work on shared technical challenges across the Sylva ecosystem.
Collaborate in small teams on topics such as Telco GitOps, automation, deployment workflows, testing, and documentation. Whether you are an experienced contributor or new to Sylva, this is an opportunity to build practical skills, exchange expertise, contribute to the project, and help advance open, production-grade telco cloud infrastructure. Learn more.
Valkey
- Join ValkeyConf Prague for just €30! On October 5, connect with the Valkey community, learn from experts building and scaling Valkey, and get an inside look at the latest developments shaping the project. With ValkeyConf happening just before OSSUMMIT Europe, it is an easy way to get more from your open source week. Register now!
- Analyzing Atomic Slot Migration ACL requirements explores why Valkey’s Atomic Slot Migration requires different ACL permissions than traditional replication. Because migrated data is executed on the target node using the authenticated replication user, ASM requires write access in addition to standard replication permissions.
- Simulating Real Workloads with valkey-benchmark explains how to use Valkey’s benchmarking tool to evaluate performance under workloads that better reflect real-world applications. The guide covers common benchmarking pitfalls and shows how keyspace size, payload size, pipelining, and cluster configuration can be adjusted to produce more representative results for capacity planning and performance testing.
- Reducing Memory Overhead in Valkey 9.1 explores three memory optimizations introduced in Valkey 9.1 that reduce per-key overhead without requiring configuration or application changes. The improvements reduce memory usage for small strings and sorted set members, with savings of up to 44% for string overhead and up to 8.5 bytes per sorted set member.
Zephyr Project
- Zephyr Pr Welcomes Seven New Silver Members as Global Embedded Ecosystem Continues to Grow
As the Zephyr Project celebrates its 10th anniversary, it welcomes seven new Silver members: Canonical, Dojo Five, GigaDevice, Morse Micro, Northern.tech, Siemens, and Space Cubics.
Their expertise spans the embedded product lifecycle from firmware architecture, connectivity, and security to testing, deployment, software updates, and long-term maintenance strengthening Zephyr as a reliable, portable, and vendor-neutral platform. Read the announcement and join the community at the Zephyr Developer Summit in Prague, where the recipients of the first-ever Zephyr Community Awards will be announced. Learn more. - Meet the Zephyr Community at Open Source Summit Europe 2026
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From FreeRTOS To Zephyr: A Practical Migration Guide for Embedded Developers
Jacob Beningo of Beningo Embedded Group shares a practical strategy for migrating embedded applications from FreeRTOS to Zephyr. The blog explains key differences in APIs, priorities, stack sizes, build systems, devicetree, kernel objects, and interrupt handling. It also outlines how careful analysis, adaptation, validation, and testing can help teams complete a successful migration and benefit from Zephyr’s broader ecosystem.Read more. - How Zephyr Simplified Pre-Silicon and Production Firmware Development
Qualcomm’s PMIC software team adopted Zephyr to unify its pre-silicon and production firmware development workflows around a shared application codebase. Zephyr’s Devicetree, Kconfig, west, Twister, and Pytest enabled the team to support different hardware platforms and automate hardware-in-the-loop testing through GitHub Actions. This approach reduced code synchronization work, made pre-silicon testing more relevant to production, and helped the team reach production readiness on schedule. Learn more. - Meet the Zephyr Project community at these upcoming events:
- Zephyr Project Meetup (September 19, 2026) – Buenos Aires, Argentina
- embedded world North America - Sep 22-24, 2026
- Zephyr Project at ROSCon Global - Sep 22-24, 2026
- Zephyr Project Workshop & Meetup (Sep 24, 2026): Stuttgart, Germany
- Zephyr Project Meetup (October 1, 2026) – Moonachie, New Jersey, USA
- Zephyr Maintainers Forum - October 6, 2026
- Zephyr Developer Summit - October 7-9, 2026
- Zephyr Project Meetup (October 12, 2026) – Munich, Germany
- Zephyr Project Meetup (October 16, 2026) – Bucharest, Romania
LF Events: Mark your calendar!
- Cloud Foundry Summit
Sep 21–22 / Heidelberg, Germany - OpenSearchCon North America
Sep 22–24 / San Jose, United States - Automotive Grade Linux All Member Meeting Europe
Sep 30–Oct 1 / Berlin, Germany - kcpCON
Oct 1 / Virtual - Linux Plumbers Conference
Oct 5–7 / Prague, Czechia and Virtual - MCP Dev Summit Toronto
Oct 5–6 / Toronto, Canada - Observability Summit Europe
Oct 5 / Prague, Czechia - ValkeyConf
Oct 5 / Prague, Czechia - Linux Foundation Member European Forum
Oct 6 / Prague, Czechia - OpenSSF Community Day Europe
Oct 6 / Prague, Czechia - Embedded Linux Conference Europe
Oct 7–9 / Prague, Czechia - Open Source Summit Europe
Oct 7–9 / Prague, Czechia - PromCon Europe
Oct 7–8 / Munich, Germany - Dapr Day Virtual
Oct 8 / Virtual - Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit
Oct 8 / Prague, Czechia - Linux Security Summit Europe
Oct 8 / Prague, Czechia
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