# PX4 Dev Call: Jan 28, 2026 (Team sync, and Community Q&A)

**URL:** <https://discuss.px4.io/t/px4-dev-call-jan-28-2026-team-sync-and-community-q-a/48373>\
**Category:** PX4 Autopilot\
**Created:** [January 27, 2026, 2:00am UTC](https://discuss.px4.io/t/px4-dev-call-jan-28-2026-team-sync-and-community-q-a/48373 "2026-01-27T02:00:16Z")\
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# PX4 Sync / Q&A - 2026-01-28T16:00:00Z

**Agenda**

- Announcements
- Future Events
- Flight Testing Update
- Release Discussion
- Bug Report / Q&A

**Announcements**

**Future Events**

> **[PX4 Community Meetup @ Leuven, Belgium · Luma](https://luma.com/sw0ae3c1)**
>
> Note: Times are in local timezone, event starts at 9:00 AM local time.
> Join the PX4 community for a half-day meetup in Leuven, just ahead of FOSDEM. Sponsored…

**PX4 Developer Summit CFP**

> **[Call For Proposals (CFP) | LF Events](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/program/cfp/)**
>
> Open Source Summit is the premier event for open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge…

**Flight Testing Update**

About the Test TeamThe team at Ascend Engineering (Chicago). are running flight testing for the community.

**How to reach out to the team**

GitHub: Tag user @PX4PX4PX4PX4\*\*/testflights\*\*

Discord: #Flight Testing & Log Analysis

**Weekly on the PX4 Dev Call**

**How to Request Testing (GitHub)**

Write down the steps to te@PX4PX4t your issue/pull request

Make sure to note the risk involved in flying

Write down things to look out for / anticipate - eg: “we are looking for no yaw jumps”

Add issue/pull request to the Flight Testing project board

Make sure to specify any hardware/software requirements as much as possible

**Updates** :

- [[v1.17 Release Candidate] - Flight Testing & Flight Issues (log archive) · Issue #26271 · PX4/PX4-Autopilot · GitHub](https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/issues/26271#issuecomment-3802461729)

## Release Discussion

**v1.16.1**

New release tag is cut

> **[Release v1.16.1-rc2 · PX4/PX4-Autopilot](https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/releases/tag/v1.16.1-rc2)**
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> What's Changed
> 
> \[BACKPORT 1.16\] Correction of routing issue of mavlink parameter messages to CAN nodes by @dakejahl in #25658
> \[BACKPORT 1.16\] serial: nuttx: revert tcdrain back to fsync by @dakejah...

**v1.17.0-alpha1**

> **[Release v1.17.0-alpha1 · PX4/PX4-Autopilot](https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/releases/tag/v1.17.0-alpha1)**
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> Preliminary Release Notes can be found here https://docs.px4.io/main/en/releases/1.17

## Community Q&A / PRs for Review

Q&A/Discussion:

- NXP Team Flight tests by @dk7xe: [[v1.17 Release Candidate] - Flight Testing & Flight Issues (log archive) · Issue #26271 · PX4/PX4-Autopilot · GitHub](https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/issues/26271#issuecomment-3806603042)

PRs:

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Issues:

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