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| latest release version = 4.2.0

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2025|07|19|df=yes}}<ref>{{cite web |url= https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/releases/tag/v4.2.0 |title= Zephyr v4.2.0|website= [[GitHub]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.zephyrproject.org/zephyr-rtos-4-2-now-available-introduces-renesas-rx-support-usb-video-class-and-more|title= Zephyr RTOS 4.2 Now Available|website= [[Zephyr blog]]}}</ref>

| marketing target = [[Internet of things]], [[Embeddedembedded Systemsystem]]s

| programmed in = [[C (programming language)|C]]

| language = English

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==Features==

Zephyr intends to provide all components needed to develop resource-constrained and embedded or microcontroller-based applications. This includes, but is not limited to:<ref name="docs.zephyrproject.org"/>

* A small kernel

* A flexible configuration and build system for compile-time definition of required resources and modules

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===Configuration and build system===

Zephyr uses [[Kconfig]] and [[devicetree]] as its configuration systems, inherited from the [[Linux kernel]], but implemented in the programming language [[Python (programming language)|Python]] programming language for portability to non-[[Unix]] operating systems.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/tree/master/scripts |title=scripts/ folder |website=[[GitHub]] |date=12 May 2020}}</ref> The RTOS build system is based on [[CMake]], which allows Zephyr applications to be built on [[Linux]], [[macOS]], and [[Microsoft Windows]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/application/ |title=Application Development: Zephyr Project Documentation |website=Zephyr Project}}</ref>

===Utility''West'' toolutility "West"tool===

Zephyr has a general-purpose tool called "west"''West'' for managing repositories, downloading programs to hardware, etc.

===Kernel===