Hi all,

We are pleased to announce the release of Zephyr kernel version 1.11.0.

Major enhancements with this release include:

* Thread-level memory protection on x86, ARC and Arm, userspace and memory domains
* Symmetric Multi Processing (SMP) support on the Xtensa architecture.
* Initial Armv8-M architecture support.
* Native development environment on Microsoft Windows.
* Native build target on POSIX platforms.
* POSIX PSE52 partial support.
* Thread support via integration with OpenThread.
* Firmware over-the-air (FOTA) updates over BLE using MCUmgr.
* Lightweight flash storage layer for constrained devices.
* Additional SoC, platform and driver support for many of the already supported platforms.


Detailed changes since v1.10.0 can be found here:
https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/releases/tag/zephyr-v1.11.0

A blog post can be found here:
https://www.zephyrproject.org/let-the-party-begin-zephyr-os-1-11-is-here/

Thanks to all who contributed to this release.
With this release, master is open again for development and new features targeting v1.12.

Regards,

Carles