Hi,

We are pleased to announce the release of Zephyr RTOS version 2.5.0!

Major enhancements with this release include:

• Introduced support for the SPARC processor architecture and the LEON

processor implementation.

• Added Thread Local Storage (TLS) support
• Added support for per thread runtime statistics
• Added support for building with LLVM on X86
• Added new synchronization mechanisms using Condition Variables
• Add support for demand paging on systems with MMU

The detailed release notes can be found here:

https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/releases/tag/zephyr-v2.5.0

The next release, v2.6.0, is scheduled for May 28^th, 2021. The merge window is now open.

Thank you to everyone that contributed features, documentation, testing, infrastructure, and bug fixes!

Regards,

Anas