CMSIS Version 5 will focus on improvements and further industry adoption. The license will be changed to the permissive Apache 2.0 license, to enable contributions from interested third parties.
Support for the new ARMv8-M architecture will be added as well as improvements for ARM Cortex-A/Cortex-M based hybrid devices (with a clear focus on Cortex-M interaction).
The CMSIS-RTOS API and RTX reference implementation with get several enhancements:
CMSIS-Pack will get additions for generic example projects, project templates, and multiple download portals. It will also adopt the Flash loader technology from IAR Systems.
As announced on embedded world, the development repository of CMSIS Version 5 is now available on GitHub: https://github.com/ARM-software/CMSIS_5
ARM invites all interested parties to contribute and/or to provide feedback for the CMSIS project using GitHub.
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> "CMSIS++ seems a long way to go ... but I hope that CMSIS++ or something equivalent (near Posix) will arrive in the next months/years"
hrusch, CMSIS++ is indeed a long way to go, but not that long. right now the reference synchronisation objects (native C++) are fully functional (i.e. passed the Keil CMSIS RTOS validator), and the reference scheduler (also native C++) is "almost" ready (for convenience now it is partly running inside a Darwin process, with Cortex-M support to follow soon).
but if are really interested in CMSIS++, the only way to make it happen sooner is to contribute to the project.