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What open source has taught me about community, resilience, and purpose

Diana Kupfer — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:57:19 +0000

What open source has taught me about community, resilience, and purpose Diana Kupfer Tue, 2026-04-14 07:57

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https://opensourceglobalvoices.org/what-open-source-has-taught-me-about-communi…

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Where research, engineering, and policy converge: Open Community for Research at OCX

Natalia Loungou — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:36:52 +0000

Where research, engineering, and policy converge: Open Community for Research at OCX Natalia Loungou Wed, 2026-04-08 10:36

The Open Community for Research at OCX is where game-changing collaboration happens. From 21-23 April, the Eclipse Foundation is once again bringing together a unique mix of developers, researchers, industry leaders, and policymakers to discuss and collaborate on the technologies that are shaping the future of open source in Europe.

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https://blogs.eclipse.org/post/charley-mann/where-research-engineering-and-poli…

2026 State of Automotive Software Development: Key insights from the report

Diana Kupfer — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:21:57 +0000

2026 State of Automotive Software Development: Key insights from the report Diana Kupfer Tue, 2026-04-07 14:21

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https://eclipsesdv.org/news/2026-state-of-automotive-software-development-key-i…

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Eclipse hawkBit™ 1.0 Release

Denislav Prinov — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:39:49 +0000

Eclipse hawkBit™ 1.0 Release Denislav Prinov Tue, 2026-04-07 02:39

Eclipse hawkBit™ 1.0 - The Open-Source Standard for IoT Software Updates Has Arrived

We are thrilled to announce the official 1.0 release of Eclipse hawkBit - the culmination of years of community-driven development, 84 contributors, nearly 4,000 commits, 20 releases, and a relentless focus on making over-the-air software updates for IoT devices reliable, scalable, and secure.

This is more than a version number. hawkBit 1.0 signals production readiness, API stability, and a platform you can confidently build your IoT update infrastructure on - today and for years to come.

The Journey

From its first public milestone to the 1.0 release, hawkBit was shaped by deliberate, careful engineering - 27 milestones, 2,442 pull requests, and a clear trajectory from experimental to enterprise-grade. hawkBit didn't just reach 1.0 - it accelerated into it.

hawkBit now holds Eclipse Mature project status - the highest maturity level in the Eclipse Foundation.

What hawkBit Delivers

hawkBit is a domain-independent back-end framework for rolling out software updates to constrained edge devices, powerful gateways, and everything in between. It is built for operators who need control, scale, and flexibility - whether in automotive, industrial automation, smart buildings, telecommunications, or consumer IoT.

Three integration APIs - DDI (REST/HTTP) for direct device polling, DMF (AMQP/RabbitMQ) for federated device management through gateways, and a full Management REST API for orchestration and tooling.
Enterprise-grade operations - multi-tenancy with full tenant isolation, cascading rollout groups with configurable success/error thresholds and emergency shutdown, approval workflows with third-party integration, and fine-grained role-based access control.
Security at every layer - per-device security tokens, gateway tokens for fleet management, mTLS certificate authentication, OAuth 2.0/OIDC, and entity-level access control.
Deployment flexibility - run as a monolith or split into microservices. Scale horizontally with Spring Cloud. Self-host with full sovereignty over your update infrastructure.

Helps you comply with legal obligations such as:

Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill (UK starting 2023/12)
Radio Equipment Directive Cyber Security Commission Delegated Regulation (EU 2022/30)
ETSI EN 303 645

The Ecosystem

hawkBit does not stand alone. It is the server at the center of a broad, proven ecosystem of device clients and platform integrations.

Commercial offerings like Bosch IoT Rollouts and Kynetics Update Factory build on top of hawkBit as their foundation - further validating its production maturity.

Device Integration

hawkBit's HTTP/JSON-based DDI API makes client integration straightforward, which is why it has attracted numerous integrations across a wide range of platforms:

Eclipse Hara - hara-ddiclient Kotlin library
SWUpdate - embedded Linux update agent
rauc-hawkbit-updater - RAUC client in C
rauc-hawkbit - RAUC client in Python
hawkbit-rs - Rust crates for hawkBit clients
Zephyr RTOS - embedded/IoT kernel
ChirpStack - LoRaWAN Network Server

Thank You

hawkBit 1.0 exists because of a community that believed in building something durable.

To the 84 contributors who shaped this project across 2,442 pull requests.
To our committers - who have carried the torch across a decade of development.
To Bosch, for sponsoring hawkBit's development from day one and believing in open-source IoT infrastructure.
To the Eclipse Foundation, for providing the vendor-neutral governance that makes hawkBit a project the entire industry can trust.

You proved the value long before 1.0 made it official.

This release belongs to all of you.

Release 0.10.0 serves as the mandatory migration baseline for existing deployments, clearing the path for this moment.

https://hawkbit.eclipse.dev

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March 2026 Community Newsletter

Natalia Loungou — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:39:47 +0000

March 2026 Community Newsletter Natalia Loungou Mon, 2026-03-30 06:39

Read the March community newsletter to get updates on Eclipse Thea, Open VSX Registry, AI-assisted development, OCX, and more.

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https://newsroom.eclipse.org/eclipse-newsletter/2026/march

Google’s AAOS SDV: Open source and the open question of governance

Diana Kupfer — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:56:47 +0000

Google’s AAOS SDV: Open source and the open question of governance Diana Kupfer Mon, 2026-03-30 05:56

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https://eclipsesdv.org/blogs/googles-aaos-sdv-open-source-and-the-open-question…

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The Eclipse Theia Community Release 2026-02

Jonas Helming — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:25:48 +0000

The Eclipse Theia Community Release 2026-02 Jonas Helming Thu, 2026-03-26 09:25

The Eclipse Theia Community Release 2026-02 is here, bringing together 167 improvements from Theia 1.67 and 1.68 into a stable milestone for adopters. From GitHub Copilot integration and Agent Skills to shell execution, stronger agent workflows, AppTester automation, and the new Terminal Manager, there is a lot for Theia builders and users to explore in this release.

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https://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2026/03/26/the-eclipse-theia-community-release-…

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Theia Coder in Action

Jonas Helming — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:58:07 +0000

Theia Coder in Action Jonas Helming Tue, 2026-03-24 08:58

Our new demo video shows Theia Coder across a complete workflow, from app generation and code updates to planning and automated E2E testing. It also introduces the Capability concept for enabling workflows like testing, shell access, and GitHub-related tasks more easily.

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https://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2026/03/24/theia-coder-in-action/

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