News and Press Releases

Sandra Feliciano, Dr George Sharkov, and Simon Phipps to lead ETSI’s EUSR Working Group developing European standards for the Act

Sophia Antipolis, France, 16 September 2025

ETSI is pleased to announce it has elected three new officials to lead EUSR Working Group within TC CYBER, a standardisation working group to support the EU Cyber Resilience Act. In response to a request from the European Commission in early June of this year, ETSI is facilitating the harmonisation of cybersecurity standards for digital products across the EU.  Its three new appointments, Sandra Feliciano (Chair), Dr George Sharkov (Vice-Chair), and Simon Phipps (Vice-Chair) bring a wealth of diverse expertise in standardisation, conformity assessment, SMEs and open source software development.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 09 September 2025

The ETSI Open Source MANO community is proud to announce OSM Release EIGHTEEN, a Long-Term-Support (LTS) release of OSM, meeting the established cadence of two releases per year and incorporating the latest innovations produced by the OSM Community.

OSM Release EIGHTEEN builds upon the architectural evolution of previous releases, further consolidating OSM as a cloud-native orchestrator for infrastructure, platforms, and services. This release introduces significant advancements in declarative operations, cluster management, and modular installation, reinforcing OSM’s position as a leading open-source orchestration solution.

Sophia Antipolis, 27 August 2025

ETSI published a response to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence for the Revision of the New Legislative Framework.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 7 August 2025

ETSI Software Development Group OpenCAPIF (SDG OCF) is excited to announce Release 3.0.0, introducing several new features and enhancements aimed at improving functionality, security, and usability. This release includes significant updates to event management, feature negotiation, dynamic configurations, and security, along with numerous bug fixes and testing improvements.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 23 July 2025

ETSI Software Development Group OpenSlice (SDG OSL) is thrilled to announce the Release 2025Q2, marking a significant step forward in integrating advanced technologies and enhancing the user experience. This release reaffirms the group’s commitment to innovation and excellence in the ICT sector.

Sophia Antipolis, 17 July 2025

ETSI published a response to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence on the revision of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on European standardisation.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 17 July 2025

The ETSI Work Programme showcases the ongoing efforts of our Technical Committees (TCs), Industry Specification Groups (ISGs), and Software Development Groups (SDGs), shaped by European standardisation mandates and the goals of our 900+ members.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 11 July 2025

Standardisation is indispensable for ensuring the seamless integration of quantum technologies into existing and future infrastructures. The European Commission highlighted the strategic importance of standardisation in the Quantum Europe Strategy published on 2 July, acknowledging ETSI’s contributions on Quantum Key Distribution (QKD). The strategy states that “A comprehensive QKD testing and evaluation facility is also being deployed […]. This facility enables rigorous characterisation, security testing, and early support for standardisation, closely aligned with the activities of ETSI Quantum Key Distribution”.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 30 July 2025

ETSI is pleased to announce significant progress from its Technical Committee on Data Solutions (TC DATA), marking key advancements in standards for distributed data solutions, addressing quality metrics, semantic interoperability, and trusted digital frameworks. 

Sophia Antipolis, France, 2 July 2025

ETSI has published the official report from the NGSI‑LD Plugtests™ event, held from 24 to 28 February 2025 at its headquarters in Sophia Antipolis. The event achieved an 88 % interoperability success rate, highlighting the maturity and alignment of NGSI‑LD implementations with ETSI standards, including ETSI GS CIM 009.