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Firmware & Software
arduino-pico 6.3.x Moves to Pico SDK 2.3.1 and Widens FreeRTOS to 32 Priority Levels: What to Check Before You Upgrade
Earle Philhower's arduino-pico 6.3 series moves the RP2040/RP2350 Arduino core to Pico SDK 2.3.1 and raises FreeRTOS from 8 to 32 priority levels, a breaking change for anyone who sets task priorities by hand. Two bugfix releases followed, and 6.3.2 closes an AudioBufferManager DMA crash.
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Firmware & Software
nrf54-arduino-core 1.0.22: A Register-Level Arduino Core for XIAO nRF54L15 and nRF54LM20A, With No Zephyr and Native PlatformIO
An MIT-licensed, bare-metal Arduino core for Nordic's nRF54L family skips Zephyr and the nRF Connect SDK, adds native PlatformIO support in 1.0.21, and patches a macOS upload regression in 1.0.22. Thread, Matter, Zigbee and Channel Sounding are still marked experimental.
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Firmware & Software
ESPHome 2026.10.0 Makes Native ESP8266 Builds the Default and Compresses OTA Uploads on ESP32, RP2040, LibreTiny and Host
ESPHome 2026.10.0 makes a native ESP8266 Arduino toolchain the default, roughly halving cold compiles in the project's own benchmarks. It also compresses OTA images by about a third on ESP32, RP2040, LibreTiny and host, adds 20 components and ships breaking changes worth reading before you update.
