```rst EVerest TSC Meeting - 22 October 2026 =====================================

Attendance

Voting Members

  • [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

  • Robert de Leeuw [Pionix]

  • Martin Litré [Pionix]

  • Gustavo Ramirez [Kempower]

  • Nuno Costa [Efacec]

Agenda

  • 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

  • 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:

Notes

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 ```