Zephyr 3.7? LTS?

[Torsten Robitzki]

Hello,

I just saw, that Zephyr 3.7 is released as a LTS release. As I have a list of bug fixes and workarounds in my project. I would love to upgrade to 3.7 to see if these are still necessary. As Nordic has it's own Zephyr flavor, I thought that the releases might be similar, but I see only a `v3.5.99-ncs1-branch` branch in the nrfconnect/sdk-zephyr repository on github.

The documentation of the nRF Connect SDK states 2.7.99-cs2 as the latest versions.

Is there a corresponding version of the Nordic flavor Zephyr, that corresponds with the official Zephyr 3.7? And if so, is it also a LTS release?

A confused

Torsten

[SwRa]

HI Torstein,

The latest release of NCS downstream of zephyr is v3.6.99-ncs2 that was released on July 4: https://github.com/nrfconnect/sdk-zephyr/releases/tag/v3.6.99-ncs2 We don't have any corresponding to Zephyr v3.7 yet. 

Best Regards,

Swathy

[Torsten Robitzki]

Hi Swathy,

Sorry, I just looked at the "Active" tab in the branch view and didn't noticed the other branches.

Does you answer also imply, that there is no long term stable release of the Nordic-Flavor Zephyr?

best regards,

Torsten

[Torsten Robitzki]

And one other thing: There are two different repositories on github:

- nrfconnect/sdk-nrf

- nrfconnect/sdk-zephyr

In my projects west.yml, I refer just to the `sdk-nrf` repo, while this is referencing `sdk-zephyr`. I see no reference in the sdk-zephyr towards the `sdk-nrf` repo. Is this something has changed? Is the `sdk-zephyr` repo now the root for west?

I ask, because I do not find any 3.6.99 branch in the sdk-nrf repository.

[SwRa]

Hi Torsten,

It's sdk-nrf that is referencing sdk-zephyr. 

NCS v2.7.0 refers to v3.6.99-ncs2: https://github.com/nrfconnect/sdk-nrf/blob/v2.7.0/west.yml#L66

In the upcoming NCS 2.8.0, sdk-zephyr will be v3.7.99. As of today, we have not released a LTS of nRF Connect SDK

Best Regards,

Swathy

[Torsten Robitzki]

Thank you!