Eclipse News

2026 Eclipse Foundation Board Election Results

Monday, March 2, 2026 - 10:45 by Gesine Freund

The Eclipse Foundation would like to thank everyone who participated in this year’s election process and is pleased to announce the results of the 2026 Eclipse Foundation Contributing Member and Committer Member elections for representatives to the foundation’s board. These positions are a vitally important part of the Eclipse Foundation's governance.

Java primitives and instanceof: Why the rule is changing

Friday, February 27, 2026 - 11:34 by Natalia Loungou

For decades, Java has drawn a clear distinction between primitive types and reference types, with each category following its own rules in the language. One of those rules was simple: instanceof applies to reference types, not primitives. That separation has shaped how generations of Java developers reason about type checks and conversions.

ORC Monthly: Momentum After FOSDEM

Thursday, February 26, 2026 - 14:29 by Shanda Giacomoni

Following a strong presence at FOSDEM and our second Code & Compliance event, conversations around the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) continue to mature — shifting from awareness to practical implementation. The sessions and workshops helped advance key ORC deliverables, including the voluntary security attestations project and ongoing work around due diligence

Eclipse Foundation unveils full agenda for OCX 2026

Thursday, February 26, 2026 - 07:00 by Natalia Loungou

The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source software organisations, has announced the full agenda for Open Community Experience (OCX 2026), taking place 21–23 April 2026 at The EGG conference centre in Brussels, Belgium.

Hardening the Open VSX Registry: Keeping it reliable at scale

Thursday, February 26, 2026 - 05:29 by Natalia Loungou

As the Open VSX ecosystem continues to grow, keeping the registry stable is a top priority. Behind the scenes, we are strengthening the infrastructure so that even during peak loads or major provider outages, developer workflows remain uninterrupted.

Eclipse Ankaios 1.0.0 released

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 - 06:35 by Diana Kupfer

The Eclipse Ankaios project community announced the general availability of Eclipse Ankaios 1.0.0, the first major stable release.

When an SBOM becomes operationally useful: lessons from Eclipse Kura

Thursday, February 19, 2026 - 04:38 by Natalia Loungou

Supply chain security has become a critical topic in the security world in recent years, and while SBOMs are a foundational piece, they are still infrequently generated and even less frequently used in a way that meaningfully improves software supply chain security.

Why ecosystem-specific trust frameworks don’t scale across data spaces

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 - 04:14 by Natalia Loungou

As long as an organisation participates in a single data space, ecosystem-specific trust frameworks work reasonably well: rules are defined, compliance is checked, and trust decisions stay inside a bounded context. The challenge begins when organisations need to operate across multiple data spaces at the same time, a scenario that is becoming the norm rather than the exception.

ORC’s First Whitepaper on Open Source Software Stewards and the Cyber Resilience Act

Thursday, February 12, 2026 - 08:44 by Shanda Giacomoni

The adoption of the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) represents a major shift in how cybersecurity responsibilities are defined across the software ecosystem. For the first time, the regulation explicitly recognises Open Source Software Stewards as a distinct category of legal actors, separate from manufacturers, and subject to a tailored set of obligations.