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As the European Industrial Linux, ELinOS 8 combines enhanced cybersecurity, supply chain transparency, regulatory compliance, and hardware flexibility in a unified development environment that helps manufacturers accelerate product development while meeting growing security and compliance requirements.

SBOM: Security and Compliance built in

Security is at the core of ELinOS 8. The new release introduces integrated Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation, enabling complete transparency across the software supply chain and simplifying vulnerability management throughout the entire product lifecycle.

Generated automatically during the build process, the SBOM provides a comprehensive inventory of all software packages, libraries, files, and versions included in a system. Delivered in the industry-standard SPDX v3 JSON format, the SBOM supports:

• Software component inventory management
• Vulnerability and security analysis
• Open-source license compliance verification
• Software dependency traceability
• Regulatory and customer compliance requirements

The SBOM is automatically created for every ELinOS project without requiring additional user actions, ensuring that documentation always reflects the exact software content of the deployed system.

To further support manufacturers in addressing emerging cybersecurity regulations, ELinOS 8 includes tooling and workflows that help organizations meet the requirements of the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Combined with comprehensive software transparency and security reporting, ELinOS provides a practical foundation for building compliant embedded products.

Advanced Security Hardening

ELinOS 8 introduces several significant security enhancements for embedded and industrial deployments.

The ANSSI compliance verification test suite enables developers to evaluate system hardening according to recommendations from the French National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI – Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information). The integrated test suite validates system configurations against established hardening rules and provides detailed reporting, including hardening-level assessments and actionable security recommendations.

Additional security improvements include:

• GCC Fortification Level 3 enabled across ELinOS target packages for enhanced runtime protection against buffer overflows and memory-related vulnerabilities
• New audit support for RISC-V platforms
• Reproducible kernel and root filesystem builds for improved software integrity and verification
• Build machine-independent timestamps with support for fixed build dates and times

Long-Term Stability with Linux Kernel 6.12

ELinOS 8 is based on the latest Linux 6.12 Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel, providing organizations with a stable platform backed by up to ten years of long-term maintenance and security updates.

This enables product manufacturers to align operating system support with the long lifecycle requirements of industrial automation, transportation, aerospace, defense, medical, and critical infrastructure applications.

Expanded Hardware Support and reduced Platform Lock-In

The new ELinOS 8 release significantly expands hardware support through the addition of several new Board Support Packages (BSPs) from leading embedded hardware vendors, including NXP, Toradex, TQ-Systems and AMD Xilinx.

ELinOS 8 further improves BSP lifecycle management by decoupling vendor BSP maintenance from the core product release cycle. Customers can install ELinOS service releases without disrupting vendor or project-specific BSP adaptations, enabling faster deployment of security fixes and maintenance updates. New BSPs and vendor BSP updates can be delivered independently, allowing hardware support to evolve more rapidly while preserving project stability and reducing maintenance overhead.

By supporting a broader range of processors and boards, ELinOS 8 gives developers greater flexibility in hardware selection, reduces platform lock-in, and helps accelerate time-to-market for embedded projects.

One Development Environment across all Architectures

A key advantage of ELinOS is its ability to streamline software development processes across large engineering organizations. ELinOS 8 provides a unified development environment across Intel, ARM, and RISC-V architectures. Development teams can use the same tools, workflows, and configuration concepts regardless of the target hardware platform.

This consistent approach eliminates architecture-specific learning curves, simplifies collaboration between teams, and reduces onboarding efforts for new developers. Organizations can standardize embedded Linux development across multiple product lines while maintaining a common toolchain and workflow.

Faster than traditional Linux Build Systems

ELinOS continues to differentiate itself through its unique feature-driven configuration model and ease of use. Unlike traditional Linux build systems that require extensive expertise and customization effort, ELinOS offers an intuitive graphical configuration wizard that allows developers to get started quickly and become productive immediately.

The platform includes more than 400 precompiled software packages that can be selected through a feature-oriented configuration approach. ELinOS automatically configures both kernel and user space simultaneously, generating a Linux system that contains only the required functionality.

The result is a streamlined development process and a highly optimized operating system with:

• Reduced attack surface
• Smaller footprint
• Lower complexity
• Faster development cycles
• Improved maintainability

Flexible Long-Term Support and Security Services

To address different project requirements, ELinOS 8 is available with long-term support. Customers can also benefit from dedicated security services and SYSGO expert assistance throughout the development and maintenance lifecycle.

Driving Secure and Sovereign Embedded Linux Development

"ELinOS 8 is our most security-focused release to date," said David Engraf, Head of Product Development at SYSGO. "With integrated SBOM generation, ANSSI hardening validation, reproducible builds, Linux 6.12 LTS, and support for more additional BSPs, we are helping customers address growing cybersecurity and compliance requirements while accelerating development. At the same time, ELinOS continues to simplify embedded Linux development through a unified toolset across Intel, ARM, and RISC-V platforms. This allows engineering teams to standardize processes, reduce complexity, and bring products to market faster."

Available Today

ELinOS 8 is available immediately.

Developers interested in getting to know the platform can download a free test version and start building secure embedded Linux systems today at: www.sysgo.com/get-elinos