Guest: Chris Friedt (LinkedIn)
Organization: Zephyr (Twitter)

The Zephyr community has released LTS v2 which comes with many new features and enhancements. Touted as the biggest release of Zephyr ever, this release had more than 1,000 contributors and supported over 350 boards and 9 architectures. To learn more about this release, we invited Chris Friedt, Zephyr Release Manager.

Friedt believes that it’s not about Linux vs Zephyr. In the modern world, we are going to package Linux and an RTOS like Zephyr together and they work as a single product. “It’s going to enable manufacturers to make better Linux-based products,” said Friedt.

Topics covered:

• What role do you see Zephyr is playing in today’s world where we do have Linux and other kernels out there?
• What kind of combined use cases of Linux being used with Zephyr is he envisioning?
• Let’s talk about what other new features there are in LTS v2? What are the enhancements that you made?
• It’s LTS – long-term support version – for how long is a release supported and what’s the importance of these LTS releases for the actual product manufacturer?
• How easy is the upgrade path from one release to the next?
• How many boards are supported by this release?
• We then talked about the growth of the community.
• Security has been a priority for the Zephyr project. What improvements were made in this release since it’s LTS?