First release of the seL4 Core Platform
2021-10-22 – The seL4 Core Platform (seL4CP) has been proposed in an seL4 RFC. It was co-designed and -implemented with the Laot project and has now been publicly released for feedback and (eventual) TSC endorsement.

Gernot Heiser and ETH Zurich co-authors win Best Paper award at DATE'21
2021-10-10 The paper “Microarchitectural Timing Channels and their Prevention on an Open-Source 64-bit RISC-V Core” by Nils Wistoff, Moritz Schneider, Frank K. Gurkaynak, Luca Benini and Gernot Heiser won Best Paper at the Tier-1 Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference.

Gernot explains why seL4 is safe – and the role of TS

2021-09-28 – Following CSIRO's abandoning of TS and the seL4 technology TS developed, the seL4 community and the seL4 Foundation have grown a lot. This has led to concerns that the broader participation might have the potential to undermine the integrity of seL4. In his latest blog, Gernot explains why there is no reason for such concern, and how TS is re-building to continue driving the research that keeps seL4 define the state of the art.

TS services receive interim endorsement from the seL4 Foundation
2021-08-22 – The seL4 Foundation has given interim endorsement to TS as a trusted provider for services around seL4.

seL4 protects world's most secure drone from DEFCON hackers

2021-08-13 – On 6 August DARPA brought the “SMACCMcopter” to DEF CON and invited the assembled hacker elite to attack it. The SMACCMcopter was the research vehicle of the Air Team at DARPA's HACMS program. The Trustworthy Systems team worked with project partners to deploy seL4 and leverage formal methods to protect the drone from cyber attacks. The result? Predictably, sel4's verified security enforcement defeated the hackers comprehensively. As DARPA said: “Formal methods FTW!”