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Open VSX Registry surpasses 300 million monthly downloads, as industry leaders back critical developer infrastructure

Natalia Loungou — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Open VSX Registry surpasses 300 million monthly downloads, as industry leaders back critical developer infrastructure Natalia Loungou Tue, 2026-03-03 09:00

BRUSSELS - March 3, 2026 - The Eclipse Foundation today announced major security and infrastructure advancements to the Open VSX Registry as it surpasses 300 million downloads per month, underscoring its role as critical infrastructure for AI-native and cloud-based development platforms.

The Open VSX Registry is the vendor-neutral extension registry for tools built on the VS Code™ extension API. It powers a growing ecosystem of AI-enabled and cloud-based developer platforms, including Amazon’s Kiro, Google’s Antigravity, Cursor, IBM’s Bob, VSCodium, Windsurf, Ona (formerly Gitpod), and others.

With peak daily traffic exceeding 50 million requests and more than 10,000 extensions from over 6,500 publishers, Open VSX has become a critical production dependency for developer platforms serving millions of users worldwide. As adoption deepens across production workflows, major commercial adopters are contributing to efforts that strengthen Open VSX’s security, reliability, and long-term sustainability.

“Open VSX has evolved into foundational infrastructure for the global developer ecosystem,” said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation. “As adoption accelerates across AI-native and cloud-based development platforms, we are investing to ensure the registry remains secure, resilient, and vendor-neutral. Support from leading commercial adopters reinforces Open VSX as trusted, shared infrastructure.”

Industry leaders invest in sustaining shared infrastructure

At this level of usage, reliability and shared accountability are no longer optional. As AI-native IDEs and cloud development environments scale rapidly, extension distribution has become mission-critical infrastructure rather than a background service.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made a strategic investment to strengthen the reliability, performance, and security of open infrastructure operated by the Eclipse Foundation, including the Open VSX Registry. AWS support accelerates improvements in traffic management, malware detection, and platform resilience.

Cursor, one of the fastest-growing AI-native developer environments, is also supporting Open VSX as its extension traffic continues to grow, underscoring the registry’s role in modern development workflows.

Together, these investments reflect a broader industry shift toward shared responsibility for the sustainability of critical open source infrastructure.

Proactive supply chain protection

Sustaining trust requires both technical safeguards and operational investment. The Open VSX Registry has introduced a new pre-publication verification framework to identify security risks before extensions are published.

The framework enables the registry to:

Detect namespace impersonation and extension name spoofing
Flag exposed credentials or embedded secrets
Scan for known malicious patterns
Quarantine suspicious uploads for review prior to publication

The system is designed to evolve alongside emerging threat models. The registry is also implementing responsible rate limiting and traffic management to ensure sustainable growth and consistent availability during periods of elevated demand. Rate limiting is targeted at sustained, high-volume automated traffic. For the vast majority of developers and open source projects, normal usage will remain unchanged.

Infrastructure designed for reliability at global scale

Security alone is not enough. Platform resilience must scale alongside demand. To support continued growth, the Open VSX Registry is transitioning to a hybrid, multi-region architecture. Core services will operate in AWS in Europe as the primary production environment, with a fully operational on-premises deployment in Canada maintained as an independent secondary environment.

All registry data, backups, and telemetry remain within these regions and are encrypted in transit and at rest, reinforcing vendor-neutral extension distribution aligned with global expectations for trust and operational independence.

This architecture reduces single points of failure and strengthens resilience for the expanding ecosystem of AI-native and cloud-based development platforms that rely on the Open VSX Registry.

Open VSX will be a Platinum Sponsor and active participant at OCX 2026, the Eclipse Foundation’s flagship developer conference, April 21–23, 2026, in Brussels. Additional updates and ecosystem developments will be shared at the event. Registration for OCX is now open. Developers, contributors, and ecosystem partners are encouraged to attend sessions and join discussions shaping the future of open developer tooling and infrastructure, including the latest advances in AI-integrated developer environments.

Trusted, open infrastructure requires both institutional support and community contribution. Organisations that depend on the Open VSX Registry are encouraged to participate through sponsorship or membership, and developers are invited to contribute to the project and help shape its future.

About the Open VSX Registry

The Open VSX Registry is the open, vendor-neutral extension registry for tools built on the VS Code™ extension API. Governed transparently under the Eclipse Foundation, it provides developers, publishers, and platform builders with a trusted open alternative to proprietary extension marketplaces. Because Eclipse Open VSX is open source and self-hostable, organisations may also deploy their own internal registry implementations as needed.

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2026 Eclipse Foundation Board Election Results

Gesine Freund — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:45:36 +0000

2026 Eclipse Foundation Board Election Results Gesine Freund Mon, 2026-03-02 10:45

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.

Hendrik Ebbers, Johannes Matheis are returning, and Antonio J. Jara will be joining as the Contributing Member representatives. Ed Merks and Shelley Lambert will be returning, and Sebastian Schildt will be joining as the Committer Member representatives. Congratulations! We're looking forward to working with them on the Board, effective 1 April 2026.

We thank Christophe Biquard, Angelo Corsaro, Matthew Khouzam, Manoj Nalledathu Palat, and Carlo Piana for running in this year’s election.

We also thank Matthew Khouzam for his many years of service to the Eclipse Foundation Board.

Eclipse Foundation unveils full agenda for OCX 2026

Natalia Loungou — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Eclipse Foundation unveils full agenda for OCX 2026 Natalia Loungou Thu, 2026-02-26 07:00

BRUSSELS - February 26, 2026 - 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.

OCX is the Foundation’s flagship conference and one of Europe’s leading gatherings for open source professionals, featuring nearly 150 sessions across six thematic tracks and five collocated communities. Over three dynamic days, developers, architects, researchers, and industry leaders will dive into the technologies, standards, and collaboration models shaping the next era of open innovation.

Following a successful debut in 2024, OCX 2026 returns with a significantly expanded technical program, growing from three to five collocated communities and increasing session volume by more than 35 percent. Each community offers deep domain expertise while connecting attendees to the broader open source ecosystem.

“Like the Eclipse Foundation itself, OCX 2026 continues to grow in scope, diversity, and depth,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. “As AI reshapes software development, software-defined vehicles transform mobility, and new regulations redefine accountability, open collaboration has never been more essential. This year’s agenda reflects the real challenges and real opportunities facing our community.”

What developers will find at OCX 2026

OCX 2026 delivers three days of practical engineering insight, strategic perspective, and meaningful community-driven collaboration.

Main OCX program: Cross-domain innovation in action
The core program brings together leading practitioners to address software security, enterprise Java evolution, embedded and edge computing, cloud-native architectures, governance, and cross-industry innovation. Sessions are grounded in real-world implementation and built for professionals shipping and scaling software. Attendees leave with actionable techniques, architectural insight, and proven approaches they can apply immediately.

Five collocated events within a single conference experience

OCX 2026 features five collocated events within the conference, each offering a concentrated experience for specific technical communities while remaining fully accessible with a single pass.

Open Community for Tooling
Formerly EclipseCon, this event continues the legacy of one of the industry’s most respected developer tooling communities. Topics include AI-assisted IDEs, modeling frameworks, language servers, next-generation workflows, and productivity engineering. If you build tools or depend on them to deliver high-performance software, this community is essential.

Speaker Highlights:

Programming in Every Language: Building Cultural Tools with Langium - Malik Lanlokun
AI in Action: The Ultimate Live Demo with Theia AI - Jonas Helming

Open Community for Automotive
Open collaboration is accelerating the shift to software-defined vehicles. This event explores open standards, safety-conscious architectures, and real-world implementations. Engineers and platform architects will gain practical insight into the software foundations powering connected mobility.

Speaker Highlights:

Diagnostics Reimagined: How Eclipse OpenSOVD Powers Open Collaboration and Standard Evolution - Thilo Schmitt & Alexander Mohr
Fifty Shades of SDV: A Blueprint-Driven Roadmap for Orchestration Adoption - Naci Dai & Oliver Kral

Open Community for AI
Open source is redefining how AI systems are built, validated, and governed. This event examines trustworthy AI frameworks, open model ecosystems, responsible governance strategies, data sharing and dataspaces, and production deployment lessons. Developers building production-grade AI systems will find both technical depth and forward-looking guidance.

Speaker Highlights:

Commit to Quality: AI-Enhanced Testing in Open Source - Shelley Lambert & Longyu Zhang
Understanding Machine Decisions - Haishi Bai

Open Community for Compliance
With regulations such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) raising expectations for secure software, compliance is now a core engineering concern. This event equips teams with practical strategies for security, licensing, and regulatory alignment without slowing innovation. If you deliver software into the European market, this content is critical.

Speaker Highlights:

Taming the SBOM Chaos – A Legal Compass for the CRA and Open Source Compliance - Hendrik Schöttle
Layered Compliance: Using the Swiss Cheese Model to Prevent Catastrophic Failure - Georg Link

Open Community for Research
Presented in collaboration with the Apereo Foundation and academic partners, this event demonstrates how open source accelerates the path from research to scalable, real-world systems. Topics include reproducibility, open science practices, and production-ready implementations bridging academia and industry.

Speaker Highlights:

VOStack open-source Software Stack for the virtualization of IoT devices - Anastasios Zafeiropoulos
UniTime Overview: From Research to Practice - Tomas Muller

Featured keynote speakers

OCX 2026 brings together perspectives from high-performance sport, European digital policy, and global open source leadership.

Ruth Buscombe - Formula 1 race strategist and F1TV analyst, Buscombe opens the conference with “The Winning Formula: What F1 Teaches Us About Marginal Gains, Teamwork, and Data-Driven Decision Making.” Her keynote connects the precision of elite motorsport with the collaborative performance culture of open source communities.

Rolf Riemenschneider - Head of Sector IoT at the European Commission, Riemenschneider leads research and innovation under Horizon Europe, coordinating strategy for Cloud-Edge Computing and the Internet of Things. His keynote will explore Europe’s digital trajectory and the role of open technologies in strategic data spaces.

Mike Milinkovich - Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation since 2004, Milinkovich is a long-standing open source leader who has served on the boards of the Open Source Initiative, the OpenJDK community, and the Executive Committee of the Java Community Process. He will share insight on the evolving role of open collaboration in a rapidly shifting technology landscape.

Register now and be part of what’s next

OCX 2026 is built for developers, architects, researchers, and decision-makers driving modern software forward. One registration unlocks the entire experience, including the main program and all five co-located events.

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Discounted registration rates are available until March 16. Capacity at The EGG conference centre is limited, and early registration is recommended.

Thanks to our sponsors

OCX 2026 is made possible through the generous support of our sponsors, including SAP, TypeFox, EclipseSource, Azul, Obeo, Equo Tech, ETAS, Eurotech, LG, Red Hat, KentYou, OSGi, and Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH. Their leadership and commitment to open source innovation help drive collaboration across industries and strengthen the global open source ecosystem. We sincerely thank all of our sponsors for their partnership and commitment.

Organisations interested in supporting OCX 2026 and engaging with the global open source ecosystem are invited to contact sponsors@OCXconf.org to request sponsorship information and review the sponsorship prospectus.

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The Eclipse Foundation and ECSO formalise cooperation through new Memorandum of Understanding

Shanda Giacomoni — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:58:56 +0000

The Eclipse Foundation and ECSO formalise cooperation through new Memorandum of Understanding Shanda Giacomoni Tue, 2026-02-03 09:58

The European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO) and the Eclipse Foundation have formalised a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), establishing a framework for close cooperation between the two organisations.

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The OpenHW Foundation unveils the first industry-ready RISC-V ecosystem to advance European digital sovereignty

Natalia Loungou — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The OpenHW Foundation unveils the first industry-ready RISC-V ecosystem to advance European digital sovereignty Natalia Loungou Mon, 2026-01-26 07:00

BRUSSELS - January 26, 2026 - The OpenHW Foundation, a global leader in developing RISC-V core IP, today announced the launch of the Unified RISC-V IP Access Platform (UAP) as part of the TRISTAN project. The UAP represents Europe’s first comprehensive collection of industry-ready RISC-V components. As interest in digital sovereignty continues to grow, particularly within the European Union, the UAP makes it significantly easier for technology organisations to innovate based on an open, sovereign foundation.

“The Unified RISC-V IP Access Platform is critical to supporting technological sovereignty in Europe, and the OpenHW Foundation is committed to developing it as a sustainable, interoperable, and community-driven resource for the broader RISC-V ecosystem,” said Florian Wohlrab, Head of OpenHW Foundation. “Open source collaboration is essential to maintaining a competitive playing field, and by working together, we can go further, faster.”

RISC-V is an open standard instruction set architecture used to develop custom processors for a wide range of applications, including embedded systems and consumer devices. The European Union considers RISC-V critical to achieving technological sovereignty and driving greater competition in the global semiconductor market, valued at more than USD 700 billion. While the EU currently accounts for roughly 10% of this market, the 2023 European Chips Act aims to double that share to 20% by 2030.

The UAP lowers key barriers to entry for EU-based organisations by providing a single, unified source of verified, industry-ready RISC-V IP. It consolidates both hardware and software components and provides clear visibility into each item’s maturity, usability, licensing, and integration workflow. This marks the first time such a comprehensive collection of verified EU RISC-V artifacts has been assembled, much of it fully open source, representing an important step toward European digital sovereignty. The platform also ensures that IP produced by multiple EU research projects is captured, maintained, and made accessible for driving sustainable, long-term collaboration.

To support its digital sovereignty goals, the European Union has invested heavily in cutting-edge RISC-V research and development through the Chips Joint Undertaking (CHIPS JU), which funds projects such as TRISTAN, of which the OpenHW Foundation is a member.

Launched in 2023, TRISTAN aims to industrialise RISC-V cores by moving them from research environments into real-world applications and creating a sustainable open source ecosystem to drive competitiveness and enable more agile innovation. The TRISTAN consortium includes 46 partners spanning large enterprises, SMEs, research organisations, universities, and industry associations connected to RISC-V. Together, they combine expertise and resources from across Europe and beyond to drive innovation and collaboration.

Originating within the TRISTAN project, the UAP brings together RISC-V IP under various licenses from TRISTAN and other Chips JU projects, providing end users with a centralized place to find verified, industry-ready RISC-V components.

The UAP acts as a unified access page, linking to repositories hosted on the OpenHW Foundation GitHub, automatically mirrored to a European-hosted GitLab instance and to other public forges where appropriate, or maintained as private assets. It provides documentation, status information, and an evolving structure designed to better support integration across toolchains, accelerators, and infrastructure components.

Oversight of the UAP is provided by the Virtual Repository Task Group, which includes representatives from TRISTAN and ISOLDE. Additional Chips JU and RISC-V-related EU projects, including Rebecca, RIGOLETTO, and Scale4Edge, are also joining the initiative. As more EU projects open source their IP, they will be added as maintainers so that each project can curate its own catalogue and ensure continuity beyond the end of TRISTAN.

“The Unified RISC-V IP Access Platform is one of the most important initiatives to come from the TRISTAN project, ensuring that the contributions from consortium partners continue to have an impact on the European stage long past the end of our funding,” said Rob Wullems, NXP Semiconductors GmbH, TRISTAN Project Lead. “Critically, it enables us to build and nurture a community around European RISC-V that will drive ongoing innovation and collaboration that supports European technological sovereignty.”

About The OpenHW Foundation

OpenHW Foundation, an industry collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation, is a global non-profit organisation dedicated to developing, verifying, and delivering high-quality, open source RISC-V processor cores and related IP for commercial and industrial applications.

With its extensive network of members and partners, the OpenHW Foundation is driving the advancement of open source RISC-V processor technology across cloud, mobile, IoT, AI, automotive, HPC, and other domains. Through its CORE-V Task Group, the organisation ensures industry-aligned, high-quality development, supporting cutting-edge SoC production worldwide.

OpenHW Foundation is supported by leading innovators such as Thales, CEA List, Siemens, Red Hat, ETH Zurich, Beijing Institute of Open Source Chip, and many more.

About TRISTAN

The TRISTAN project, nr. 101095947 is supported by Chips Joint Undertaking (CHIPS-JU) and its members Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, Turkey.

Learn more at tristan-project.eu

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Automotive innovation through open collaboration: momentum builds around open source software as a key driver of efficiency and success

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:45:00 +0000

Automotive innovation through open collaboration: momentum builds around open source software as a key driver of efficiency and success Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 2026-01-07 06:45

LAS VEGAS / CES 2026 – 7 January 2026 – The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source software foundations, and the Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) today announced a significant expansion of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for an Automotive-Grade Open Source Software Ecosystem, transforming this group into one of the most advanced collaborations on next-generation vehicle design in the world.

Launched in June 2025 with 11 signatories, the MoU now includes 32 global companies, representing leaders across the entire automotive value chain. This reflects significant momentum and strong industry alignment around an open, interoperable, and certifiable software foundation for next-generation mobility, implemented within the Eclipse SDV Working Group.

“The growing participation in this collaboration reflects a clear global shift toward open innovation in the automotive industry,” said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation. “Industry leaders recognise that trusted, open source foundations are essential to delivering the next generation of safe, intelligent, and connected vehicles.”

Aligning the industry around shared principles

The expansion of this global collaboration strengthens a shared commitment to addressing common industry challenges through collaborative open source development. By working within an open source software ecosystem with vendor neutral governance, participating organisations reduce fragmentation, improve interoperability and share the burden of developing complex, safety critical software.

The collaboration is designed to achieve:

Up to 40% reduction in development, integration, and maintenance efforts for non-differentiating software, freeing up engineering capacity for innovative development
Up to 30% faster time to market through shared, automotive-grade components
Improved interoperability across suppliers and vehicle platforms
Greater sustainability and long-term software maintainability

“Through joint development of non-differentiating software, manufacturers and suppliers can focus their resources on what truly matters: delivering unique, customer-centric experiences.”, said Dr. Marcus Bollig, VDA Managing Director.

A united, global ecosystem

With today’s news, this MoU group expands to become one of the world’s largest and most advanced open source ecosystems focused on code-first solutions for next-generation mobility. New signatories include an array of industry leaders and innovators, such as 42dot, Accenture, AVL, Capgemini, Coretura, Cummins, ECARX, Elektrobit, Infineon, LEAR, LG Electronics, Michelin, MOBIS, QNX, Qualcomm, Red Hat, Schaeffler, Traton, Stellantis, T-Systems, and Useblocks joining founding participants Aumovio, BMW, Bosch, ETAS, Hella, Mercedes-Benz, Qorix, Valeo, Vector, Volkswagen, and ZF.

Together, this group makes up a global ecosystem that spans every facet of the automotive value chain, including manufacturers, suppliers, software companies, semiconductor providers, and cloud specialists.

From shared vision to working software

At the centre of this collaboration is Eclipse S-CORE, an open source, automotive-grade software stack developed within the Eclipse SDV Working Group. S-CORE brings together multiple SDV projects into a common reference stack and tooling environment designed to support certifiable, production-ready automotive software.

In November 2025, Eclipse S-CORE delivered its first public release (version 0.5), marking a key milestone and demonstrating the practical results of coordinated open source development. A full release is planned for 2026, targeting vehicle programs expected to reach the market at the latest by 2030.

A sustainable, global model for automotive software

Eclipse SDV provides a sustainable, transparent, and scalable model for industry-wide software innovation. By building shared software foundations in the open, participants are creating a common base for innovation that reduces redundancy, enhances safety, and accelerates time to market.

Together, these organisations are establishing a new benchmark for responsible, certifiable, and globally coordinated software innovation that will shape the future of mobility.

About the VDA

The Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) represents the interests of the German automotive industry. Its members include manufacturers of passenger cars, commercial vehicles, trailers, and suppliers. The VDA promotes innovation, safety, and sustainability in mobility.

About Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle

Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle (SDV), a working group within the Eclipse Foundation, supports the open source development of cutting-edge automotive technologies that power the programmable vehicles of the future where software defines features, functionality, and operations. With over 50 members, including leading automotive manufacturers, global cloud providers, technology innovators, and key supply chain partners, the initiative has strong industry backing. The working group's mission is to provide a collaborative forum for developing and promoting open source solutions tailored to the global automotive industry. Adopting a “code first” approach, Eclipse SDV focuses on building the industry's first open source software stacks and associated tools that will support the core functionalities of next-generation vehicles.

About the Eclipse Foundation

The Eclipse Foundation provides our global community of individuals and organisations with a business-friendly environment for open source software collaboration and innovation. We host the Eclipse IDE, Adoptium, Software Defined Vehicle, Jakarta EE, Open VSX, and over 400 open source projects, including runtimes, tools, registries, specifications, and frameworks for cloud and edge applications, IoT, AI, automotive, systems engineering, open processor designs, and many others. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, the Eclipse Foundation is an international non-profit association supported by over 300 members. To learn more, follow us on social media @EclipseFdn, LinkedIn, or visit eclipse.org.

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