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Towards a Decade of Industrial Grade Linux: CIP’s Journey and the Road Ahead - Yoshitake Kobayashi, Toshiba Corporation / Civil Infrastructure Platform
The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) project will celebrate its 10th anniversary in April 2026. As we approach this major milestone, this talk reflects on CIP’s decade-long mission to provide Industrial Grade Linux for systems requiring long-term reliability, security, and sustainability.
We will began with the latest updates, including the latest Super Long-Term Support (SLTS) kernel based on Linux 6.12, ongoing alignment with IEC 62443-4 and the EU Cyber Resilience Act, and secure update mechanisms using The Update Framework (TUF). We will also highlight CIP’s long-term contributions to key upstream projects, including KernelCI for test automation, the Real-Time Linux project for deterministic performance, and Debian LTS/ELTS for building a stable and maintainable base system. These collaborations reinforce CIP’s commitment to upstream sustainability and community alignment.
The latter part of this session, we will outline the challenges and opportunities for open source in the next decade of critical infrastructure. Drawing on lessons from CIP’s journey, the talk will offer insights into how industry and community collaboration can build more secure and sustainable systems.