Editorial – News from the 61st volume

This issue inaugurates the 61 st volume of the Real-Time Systems journal.This is the only journal dedicated exclusively to real-time computing, its principles and applications, and it has been so since its inception in 1989.It is 36 years of uninterrupted and consistent publishing activity, hosting high-quality reference work on all aspects of research and practice in this vibrant field.Among the articles published in the journal we can find several seminal works, some of which were distinguished with awards by the real-time systems community.The Real-Time Systems journal continues providing a single source coverage of the state-of-the-art in real-time computing.In its existence the journal catered for all trends that crossed this field, from priority and deadline-driven scheduling, for uniprocessors and for multiprocessors, to tasks synchronization, real-time operating systems, distributed real-time systems, feedback scheduling, fault-tolerant real-time systems, formal verification, real-time databases, real-time middleware, real-time communications, wireless sensor networks, servers for aperiodic tasks, hierarchical scheduling, compositional design methods, hardware-software codesign, scheduling-control codesign, limited-preemption scheduling, mixed-criticality systems and more recently AI-based design and AI-supported operation of real-time systems.In any of these trends you can find most of the influential articles in this journal.The Real-Time Systems journal has also embraced extended versions of the best papers presented in real-time systems conferences, from RTSS to RTAS, RTNS, RTCSA, ECRTS, ISORC and others, nourishing a tight and prolific relationship with the real-time systems community from whom it inherited the commitment to scientific value and rigor.This commitment has always been instrumental to guarantee the quality of submitted articles, but also, and primarily, of the review pipeline, ensuring that all published articles are of the highest standard for this community.This is so independently of the quantitative metrics that today rule all journals across all