Dear SDV Community, 2026 will be the year we turn momentum into milestones. The first milestone has already been reached: At CES in Las Vegas, 32 automotive companies signed the Memorandum of Understanding for open source collaboration, expanding the initiative launched last year with 11 signatories. In addition, the achievements of 2025 continue to resonate across the ecosystem: from the release of Eclipse S-CORE 0.5 Beta and the first open diagnostics stack with Eclipse OpenSOVD, to concrete progress on functional safety, governance, and global community growth. These milestones marked a shift from establishing foundations to delivering tangible, open solutions for the automotive industry. Leveraging on our newest strategic member TRATON, we aim at expanding our platform to the commercial vehicle ecosystem with focus on the particular features of handling highly heterogeneous fleets. In 2026 we will also strengthen the Eclipse SDV role in EU led initiatives, by participating actively in the European Connected Vehicle Alliance (ECAVA), positioning the Eclipse Foundation as the go-to ecosystem to host automotive open source initiatives. With that strong base in place, 2026 is about execution and impact. The community is advancing toward Eclipse S-CORE 1.0, strengthening Functional Safety through Eclipse TSF, expanding AI-assisted cloud-native tooling, and broadening international collaboration. What lies ahead reflects not only technical maturity, but the power of open collaboration to accelerate software-defined vehicle development across the industry. Equally important is the role of the community itself. Whether you contribute code, share expertise, or simply follow project progress, your engagement matters. Eclipse SDV is shaped by its contributors and adopters, and 2026 offers many opportunities to get involved, influence direction, and help turn open innovation into real-world impact across the automotive value chain. To foster this growth, we want to make it easier to get to know the Eclipse SDV activities, actors and projects, by improving the quality, breadth, and accessibility of information on our website. |
Dr. Sara Gallian Senior Manager, SDV & Automotive Programs |
- Eclipse S-CORE 0.5 beta has been released. Read the release notes.
- At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, Eclipse SDV and the Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) announced a significant expansion of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for an Automotive-Grade Open Source Software Ecosystem. Read the press release.
- TRATON has joined the Eclipse SDV ecosystem as Strategic Member. Hyundai Mobis upgraded to Participant Member. Learn more and see all members.
- The Eclipse TSF project is now fully live at: https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse/tsf/tsf
- Our community member Kaloyan Rusev wrote a great blog post showing how AI is transforming the developer experience for software-defined vehicles by combining Eclipse Ankaios with Eclipse LMOS.
- Getting started with Eclipse S-CORE: A new 11-minute hands-on video tutorial has been published by Lukasz Juranek from uCAN Devices.
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- Key automotive trends at this year's CES have been summarised in Stéphane Lagresle's "Automotive Storytelling" podcast. The episode is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Tech Times also published a great CES automotive recap.
- 45% of automotive OEMs and suppliers currently rank the transition to SDVs as their top strategic priority, according to IoT Analytics’ Software-defined Vehicles Adoption Report 2026. Key insights from this report have been summarised in this article.
- Designing a Formula 1 engine has helped Ford gain the edge against Chinese cars, Ford's CEO Jim Farley said. Learn more in this articlepublished by Business Insider (spoiler alert: it's about software!)
- In a new Automotive News podcast episode, Ozgur Tohumcu, general manager for automotive and manufacturing at Amazon Web Services, talks about how manufacturers will use satellites to keep consistent high-bandwidth connectivity for vehicle features.
- In SDVs, cybersecurity must be embedded across design, production, operation, and decommissioning, rather than being treated as a late-stage add-on, argues an insightful article published by All About Circuits.
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Meet Ansgar and Christian at Embedded World 2026From 10-12 March 2026, embedded world will take place at Messe Nürnberg. Our SDV Ecosystem Director and our Technical Program Manager will represent Eclipse SDV in Hall 4/booth no. 4-554. |
Meet Christian at OpenChain & FriendsThe second annual OpenChain and Friends event will be held in Stuttgart on 24-26 March. This open source management and community meetup is all about trusted supply chains. |
More Events- SDV Community Days Q1 at T-Systems, 24-25 February in Bonn – register here.
- Open Community for Automotive, collocated with Open Community Experience, will take place from 21-23 April, 2026 in Brussels. Register to attend and/or become a sponsor!
- Automotive Open Source Summit 2026 will return to Starnberg on 30 June. Join us.
Make sure to subscribe to our SDV Community Calendar to stay up to date on all our regular meetings and events! |
Haishi Bai is Principal Architect at Microsoft and Eclipse Symphony Project Lead. |
Featured SDV Committer: Haishi Bai (Eclipse Symphony)When and how did you start your career in automotive? I actually never started a formal career in automotive. I still see myself as a student of the industry: learning continuously while contributing through open source initiatives like Eclipse Symphony. How has open source software influenced or changed your work and career? Open source has shaped almost everything I do. For the past decade, I’ve worked almost exclusively on open source projects. It’s been an exciting and rewarding journey, helping kick off projects like DAPR, KEDA, Copecetic, Eclipse Symphony, and others. Seeing these tools grow and support developer communities has been one of the most fulfilling parts of my career. What has been your #1 benefit of joining the Eclipse SDV Working Group? For me, it’s the learning experience. Through the Working Group, I’ve had the chance to meet OEMs, developers, entrepreneurs, and visionaries from around the world. Every conversation teaches me something new. What’s your 1-sentence pitch for Eclipse Symphony? A platform-agnostic workload orchestrator designed to manage workloads across cloud and highly heterogeneous edge environments. How would you describe Eclipse SDV in three hashtags? #OpenInnovation #SoftwareDefinedFuture #GlobalCollaboration |
Heads-up: 2026 Program Plan
The 2026 Eclipse SDV Program Plan has been approved by the Steering Committee. Find the full Program Plan here. |
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