Hi,

We are pleased to announce the release of Zephyr kernel version 1.14.0. The 1.14.0 will be the first Zephyr LTS release that we will support for at least 2 years.

Major enhancements with this release include:

* Extensible and Pluggable Tracing Support
* Compartmentalized application memory organization
* Logging System Overhaul
* Introduce system calls for BSD socket APIs
* Support for IEEE 802.1AS-2011 generalized Precision Time Protocol (gPTP)
* Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) TX support
* Support for TLS and DTLS using BSD socket API
* Support for Link Layer Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)
* Introduced reworked ADC API and updated Nordic, NXP, Atmel, and Synopsys DesignWare drivers
* Support OS driven Power Management framework
* Basic support for Arm TrustZone in Armv8-M

The detailed release notes can be found here:

https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/releases/tag/zephyr-v1.14.0

I would like to thank all the contributors to this release. In total 250 contributors participated in the development of 1.14. Its taken a lot of hard work from everyone in the Zephyr community!

Thank you again,

Kumar Gala