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EmeritOSS provides a new lease of life for three open-source projects.
The tool adds a way to patch otherwise abandoned programs.
More open-source projects will be added if there's demand.
You may find it hard to believe, but there are critical open-source programs, such as Kubernetes' Ingress-NGINX, that are dying for lack of support. Now, Chainguard, a cybersecurity company focused on securing the software supply chain, is stepping up with EmeritOSS to keep such programs alive. EmeritOSS is a stability-focused program that preserves and secures mature, popular, but unmaintained open-source projects, starting with Kaniko, Kubeapps, and Ingress-NGINX.
'Sustainable stewardship'
Chainguard describes EmeritOSS as "sustainable stewardship for mature open source," targeting widely used projects that have reached functional maturity but lost active maintainers or been archived. The goal is not to add new features, but to provide safe, predictable maintenance, so organizations can run critical workloads while planning migrations or adopting successor technologies.
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