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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> we do have reasons to distinguish between CMSIS and CMSIS_5. ... In the end it's just names and does not really matter.
this means you will abandon CMSIS and all further releases will go to CMSIS_5, even if they'll be in fact for CMSIS 6, 7 etc?
do you realise that this will be a real mess? whatever reasons you have (probably some outdated internal procedures and a poor understanding of the Git workflow), they should be re-evaluated.