Release Plan

Preface

A new version of Zephyr SDK is released on on-demand basis; for example, when there is a toolchain bug that affects Zephyr RTOS or a new feature that is required for Zephyr development.

Timeline

Release	Release date	State
Zephyr SDK 0.16.6	1 May 2024	RC1
Zephyr SDK 0.17.0	TBD	Planning
Zephyr SDK 0.18.0	TBD	Planning

Plans

Zephyr SDK 0.17.0

• Binutils 2.42
• GCC 14.1
• QEMU 9.0
• DTC 1.7.0
• gdb-py linked to Python 3.12

Zephyr SDK 0.18.0

• Multi-platform host tools support
  • QEMU
  • OpenOCD