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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.