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The automotive industry is undergoing one of the most profound transformations in its history. While discussions often centre on electrification or autonomous driving, the real paradigm shift is driven by software. The emergence of the Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) marks a transition from hardware-centric engineering to software-centric value creation. Yet this shift is not merely technological, but also cultural: it fundamentally changes how innovation takes place.

BRUSSELS – 30 JUNE 2026 – The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source software foundations, in collaboration with the Open Regulatory Compliance (ORC) Working Group, today announced the launch of the ORC Learning Hub, a free global education initiative designed to help the people responsible for building, maintaining, securing, and governing open source software prepare for the European Union’s

Eclipse Open VSX has reached an important milestone in its evolution as open source infrastructure for developer tooling. The project now serves millions of developers worldwide through AI-native IDEs, cloud development environments, and VS Code-compatible platforms, delivering more than 600 million extension downloads every month.

Eclipse Theia’s OCX26 project update highlights a year of strong momentum across the platform, Theia AI, and the Theia IDE, including around 1,200 merged PRs, close to 80 contributors, and a Codie 2025 Award. Watch the recap to learn how Theia is evolving for custom tools, AI-native IDEs, and Eclipse RCP modernization.

Eclipse SDV’s end-to-end (E2E) Demonstrator Blueprint for software-defined vehicles has been featured by the technology news platform Electronic Design.

Due to regressions in mesoscopic behavior and visualization, we are releasing SUMO version 1.27.1 as a hotfix.
The download links are (as always) here: https://sumo.dlr.de/download
The major changes are listed below and the full list of changes is given at https://sumo.dlr.de/Changelog
If you cite the new release in your publications, please use the DOI

The European Commission’s Communication on European Tech Sovereignty cites Eclipse SDV as an example of successful industrial open source collaboration. This recognition is an important milestone.

On 19 May 2026, the Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) community held its first-ever meetup in India, hosted by Bosch Global Software Technologies in Bengaluru. What began as a conversation just a few months earlier quickly evolved into a landmark community event.

Open VSX has been named a finalist in the 2026 CODiE Awards in the Best DevOps Tool category.

Reaching version 1.0.0 is a special moment for any open source project. It marks more than a collection of features or bug fixes. It reflects years of collaboration, thousands of commits, countless discussions, and a shared belief that an idea is worth building together.

Today, we are pleased to celebrate the release of Eclipse Open VSX 1.0.0

Building production-ready domain-specific AI takes more than a great demo. This talk from OCX 2026 shares 10 practical lessons from real-world projects, covering design, evaluation, context management, agentic workflows, and operational readiness.

Gabriel Tomuța is a Software Engineer at Elektrobit Automotive and an active contributor to Eclipse Ankaios within the Eclipse SDV community.

Eclipse Theia 1.72 delivers faster builds with esbuild, improved AI agent workflows, safer tool confirmations, and better VS Code extension compatibility. Read the release notes to see what changed across Theia, Theia AI, the Theia IDE, devcontainers, and the workbench.

The Eclipse SDV Hackathon returns from 6–8 October for its fourth edition. This year, the entire community will come together in one location: Friedrichshafen.

The Eclipse Foundation welcomes the European Commission’s new European Tech Sovereignty strategy as a major step toward recognising open source as essential to Europe’s digital autonomy, resilience, competitiveness, and long-term technological leadership.

Infosys has joined the Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) Working Group, a global open-source consortium under the Eclipse Foundation focussed on accelerating software-defined vehicle innovation.

Open source infrastructure has become essential to modern software development. It supports the tools developers use every day, the embedded systems powering connected devices, and the software foundations behind emerging industries such as software-defined vehicles and industrial automation.

Two new 451 Research Market Insight Report Reprints by S&P Global and licensed to the Eclipse Foundation, examine how this infrastructure is evolving in two key areas: Open VSX and Eclipse ThreadX.

See Theia AI and Theia IDE in a 40-minute all-live OCX26 demo featuring agents, capabilities, MCP, sub-agents, skills, custom workflows, AI-assisted code review, and more. The recording is a practical look at how AI-native features can be integrated into custom tools and domain-specific IDEs.