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EVerest TSC Meeting - 22 October 2026
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Attendance
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Voting Members
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- [x] (Chair) Marco Möller [Pionix]
- [ ] Cornelius Claussen [Pionix]
- [x] Kai-Uwe Hermann [Pionix]
- [x] Piet Gömpel [Pionix]
- [x] Moritz Barsnick [chargebyte]
- [x] Holger Rapp [Qwello]
- [ ] S. Shankari [NREL]


Other Attendees
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- Robert de Leeuw [Pionix]
- Martin Litré [Pionix]
- Gustavo Ramirez [Kempower]
- Nuno Costa [Efacec]


Agenda
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- Highlights of the month
- EVerest Development Update
    - Core Updates
    - Cloud Communication WG
    - Car Communication WG
- Vulnerability Management Team Update
- EVerest stable release 2026.10.0
    - Release highlights
    - Compliance testing and federated testing
    - Status and timeline (rc1 today, testing window until 2026-11-20)
- EVerest and AFIR
- OSS in the age of AI: contribution, review and governance
- EU Roadmap: Smart and Bidirectional Charging (D4E / STF / CoW, sub group 8 on open source)

- Events Recap
    - EU Workshop: Integration of charging stations in fleet management (Brussels, Oct 7)
- Upcoming Events
    - EVerest CPO Forum (online, Nov 3, 17:00 CET)
    - The Connected Homes Energy Forum (Berlin, Oct 26-27)
    - Electronica 2026 (Munich, Nov 10-13)
    - 5th joint meeting of D4E, STF and CoW on bidirectional charging (Brussels, Nov 23)
    - V2G Leadership Summit (Brussels, Nov 24)
    - EU Open Source Week 2027 (Brussels, Jan 25 - Feb 1)
    - FOSDEM 2027 (Brussels, Jan 30-31)

- Next TSC on November 26th 2026 at 5pm CET

Action Items
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- Send out recording and slides to EVerest mailing list
- All: test 2026.10.0-rc1 on your hardware and report regressions by 2026-11-20
- All: consider adding a federated test node; reach out to the TSC for support
- Release 2026.10.0 before the next TSC (2026-11-26)
- VMT: publish patch release 2026.02.2 with additional security fixes
- Tell everest@lists.lfenergy.org where you will show EVerest


Recording:
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- `https://youtu.be/3bN2bqngyTQ <https://youtu.be/3bN2bqngyTQ>`_


Notes
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Decisions:
- none

Other:
- 2026.10.0-rc1 published today: about 690 commits, 47 contributors (22 first-time), 3 breaking changes and 13 deprecations with migration guides
- Release scope: merged C++ ISO 15118 stack (DIN 70121, -2, -20), OCPPmulti (1.6, 2.0.1, 2.1), AC DER / V2X, new EvseSlac module, MCS support, manager overhaul, security hardening
- AFIR: 11 of 12 charger-side obligations ready; already covers the 1 Jan 2027 ISO 15118-20 mandate
- OSS and AI: maintainers flooded by PRs; open question how merit-based step-up to committer/maintainer should evolve when review is the bottleneck
- EU Roadmap SG 8: draft due 7 Nov, presented at V2G Leaders Europe 24 Nov
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