The Zephyr Podcast

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: ZDS Call for Papers
Zephyr Maintainers Forum

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Linus' guitar pedal project, and why it clearly needs Zephyr next
RISC-V Summit Europe recap: QEMU, custom instructions, DSPs, and low-power cores
ETM tracing, CoreSight, and "time-travel" debugging
Testplan v2 for faster, smarter CI
CMake unity build experiments
ESP-NOW broadcast sample and ESP32 WPA Enterprise support
Realtek Ameba Wi-Fi support
BCM2711 framebuffer driver for Raspberry Pi
native_sim DMIC and I2S file backend for audio testing
DMIC shell
nPM10xx LED driver and fake LED controller
ARMv8-A AArch32 execution state support
DPLPMTUD probe tracking for QUIC
Neighbor Awareness Networking, aka Wi-Fi Aware
Experimental Model Context Protocol support
Mutex misuse detection and reverse iterable sections
Himax HX8353E display driver
New shields and boards: MikroElektronika EERAM 3.3V Click and Armfly STM32H743XIH6
Upcoming Zephyr meetups and developer survey reminder
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A reminder to fill out the Zephyr Developer Survey 2026 before it closes at the end of June. Thanks in advance!
iBattery SDK, a Zephyr-friendly battery intelligence layer with software-side state-of-charge experiments
ZMK coredump experimentation using coredump subsystem flash backend for persistent post-crash diagnostics
Fresh documentation for iterable sections
ESP32 power-down support for better CPU and peripheral power management
The board catalog can now expose and search by RAM and flash size
IPv4 NAT support
min-len/max-len properties for better Devicetree binding validation
A generic charlieplex LED matrix driver
Color dithering support for palette-backed displays, including six-color e-paper panels
X-NUCLEO-WBA25A1, a Bluetooth 6 expansion shield with UART/SPI HCI options
QEMU Arm Cortex-A72 support for Raspberry Pi 4-style emulation work
 ArduCam Mega SPI Camera Shield
M5Stack PaperColor, with a Spectra 6 full-color e-paper display and PMIC support
nRF93M1 DK, a compact Nordic LTE Cat 1 bis development kit
ESP32-P4 support landed, with ESP32-P4-Function-EV-Board as the first board supported
Analog Devices Low-Speed Mixed-Signal Playground for ADC/DAC-heavy analog experiments
Linus Torvalds' GuitarPedal project
USB2CANFDV2, a tiny WeAct USB-to-CAN-FD board with isolated CAN
Submit ideas for the Zephyr Workshop 2026, and one more nudge to fill out the developer survey :)
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An Ada runtime for Zephyr
Composite fuel gauge support for battery estimation without a dedicated fuel-gauge IC
Golioth's local shell talks SMP to devices over Web Serial, with a live demo at local-shell.golioth.dev
USB Fastboot support in the works
ESP32-P4 support coming, because apparently ESP32 can also mean "no Wi-Fi"
The new buzzer subsystem, and thoughts on RTTTL-style ringtone playback
DT_NODELABEL_C_TOKEN, for retrieving devicetree node labels as C tokens
West snippets, including listing and shell completion support
TAD2144 TMR angle sensor driver
TMP451 temperature sensor driver, including remote temperature sensing use cases
ESP32 I2C target mode support
Nordic USBHS and BC1.2 battery charging support
AD5529R high-voltage DAC shield
LilyGO T-Deck support, a keyboard-and-display ESP32-S3 LoRa device
Oh, did we mention the Developer Survey?
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Build there, flash here workflow for remote builds and local flashing
A Zephyr-native Meshtastic stack, with LoRa, Protobuf, GNSS, sensors, MQTT and more
minmax.h cleanup for the new lowercase min/max macros
Min/max constraints for devicetree binding properties
BCM2711 mailbox controller support for Raspberry Pi
nsim_mount, a native_sim filesystem for mounting host directories
A new DALI lighting subsystem
DT_DESCENDANT_NUM_ON_BUS devicetree helper
CS40L26/27 haptic driver support
Titan Micro TM6605 LRA haptic driver
LP586x I2C LED matrix driver
New and updated boards: Arduino Nesso N1, Wio Tracker L1, W6100-EVB-Pico2, KC868-A8
The Zephyr Developer Survey 2026 is open!
The Documentation Working Group RFC and Robotics WG have been created
Upcoming Zephyr meetups in London, Wrocław, Vienna, Sapporo, Lyon, and more
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