Overview The theme of R3 is “strengthen the platform ; get ready for O-RAN”. As such, a major focus in this release has been on improving the functional robustness, stability and usability of the Nephio core components. In addition, a significant effort has been put into improving the documentation and simplifying developer workflows, to ease onboarding of new developers into the Nephio community. A number of O-RAN user stories have been triaged in readiness for implementation in future r...