July 10th, 2024

Important Update on Mbed

Arm has set the end of life for Mbed by July 2026. Mbed OS will be available but not maintained, while Mbed TLS joins TrustedFirmware. Users are advised to switch to other platforms.

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Important Update on Mbed

Arm has announced the end of life timeline for Mbed, with the platform and OS reaching their end in July 2026. While Mbed OS will remain publicly available but not actively maintained, the Mbed TLS project will continue as part of the TrustedFirmware community project. Arm suggests educational institutions transition away from Mbed for embedded development teaching, and commercial projects should seek alternative frameworks. Users are advised to migrate their data from Mbed.com to other platforms, with an export tool available. The Mbed website and forum will continue to operate normally for now, with updates to be shared in due course. Arm emphasizes its commitment to IoT development through industry standards and tools, encouraging users to explore alternative platforms like Mbed CE, Arm Keil MDK v6 Community Edition, Arduino, micro:bit, Raspberry Pi Pico, CMSIS RTX, FreeRTOS, Zephyr, and Yocto.

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By @qazxcvbnmlp - 10 months
I remember a very respectable mentor 10 years ago mentioning to avoid mbed when it came out as this kinda thing comes and goes.

For a while I thought he was wrong and it would stick around. It did not.

By @chrsw - 10 months
Even though I never developed on Mbed, I always thought it was a cool project and I should take a look at it one day. I don't think Arm rolled this out right. It never looked like it was super easy to get going on a real, widely available dev board. Oh well, maybe it will thrive in the open.
By @pjmlp - 10 months
Yet another cool OS project that bites the dust.