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 0.16.9	2024-10-09	Planning
Zephyr SDK 0.17.0	2024-10-09	Planning
Zephyr SDK 0.18.0	TBD	Planning
Zephyr SDK 0.19.0	TBD	Planning

Plans

Zephyr SDK 0.16.9

• gdb-py linked to Python 3.10
• Minimum required glibc version update to 2.28

Zephyr SDK 0.17.0

• Picolibc 1.8.8

Zephyr SDK 0.18.0

• Clang/LLVM support

Zephyr SDK 0.19.0

• Binutils 2.43
• GCC 14.2
• QEMU 9.1
• DTC 1.7.1

Future

• Multi-platform host tools support
  • QEMU
  • OpenOCD