Two days after Zephyr 4.5.0, the project put out a maintenance release for an older branch. Zephyr 4.3.2 was published on the evening of 30 October 2026 as a bugfix release for 4.3.1, and its security section is long: 225 CVE entries. For 121 of them the notes give a description and a GitHub security advisory. The other 104 are marked as under emba
NearMeter Technologies has put NINASENSE nRF on Crowd Supply as an upcoming campaign. It is a small open hardware board for battery-powered sensors, with Bluetooth LE for short range and LoRa for long range. Hackster.io wrote about it on 29 October 2026.
LILYGO has a new handheld development kit, the T-Display K230, which CNX Software covered on 28 October 2026. Unlike most LILYGO boards it is not built on an ESP32. It uses Canaan's Kendryte K230, a Linux-capable RISC-V processor with an AI accelerator, and pairs it with a LoRa radio on the main board and optional cellular connectivity in a keyboar
Wi-Fi does not reach the bottom of the garden. Zigbee needs a chain of mains-powered routers to get to the shed, and there is no socket at the gate or the rain barrel. This is where LoRaWAN earns its place: a battery sensor that sends a few bytes from hundreds of metres or even kilometres away and runs for years on a pair of cells. It is not a repl
