Release 2026.04

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Dear RIOTers,

You can also read the changelog on our guide site.

The 2026.04 release includes:

  • RIOT is now synced to Codeberg (#21997) :snow_capped_mountain:.

  • Added support for the pro-micro-nrf52840 (#22089), slstk3301a (#22069) and stm32h7 (#21978) :robot:.

  • The Guide Site continues to evolve, becoming the default entry point for new users, replacing doxygen. Including more tutorials and an experimental Supported Boards section :alien:. The doxygen documentation remains in place for the API and is accessible at https://api.riot-os.org/

  • Removed over a million lines of vendor code from the EFM32 family, replacing it with a pkg/gecko_sdk dependency (#22040) :broom:.

  • The Raspberry Pi Pico 2 / RP2350 has been improved so much, you could write a thesis about it, including unified abstractions between RISC-V and ARM and more (#21753) :frog:.

  • Added drivers for the amg88xx (#22104) and ADS1X1X (#21694) :trolleybus:.

125 pull requests, composed of 229 commits, have been merged since the last release, and 9 issues have been solved. 27 people contributed with code in 84 days. 1878 files have been touched with 25007 (+) insertions and 1141523 deletions (-).

You can download the RIOT release from Github by cloning the repository and checkout the release tag 1 or by downloading the tarball 2, and look up the release notes for further details 3.

A big thank you to everybody who contributed!

Best regards, Ann

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