Fewer keys under the doormat: why trusted publishing matters for Open VSX Mikaël Barbero 9 October 2026 Every software registry eventually learns the same lesson: the most valuable thing in a publishing pipeline is not the code...
Eclipse Foundation GitLab incident postmortem: CVE-2026-85706 Mikaël Barbero 13 August 2026 Between 12 and 14 September 2026, our GitLab instance was affected by CVE-2026-85706, a critical vulnerability in GitLab that allowed...
Growing the Eclipse Foundation Security Team to Meet the AI Moment Mikaël Barbero 13 August 2026 For the last several years, the Eclipse Foundation Security Team has worked alongside our project communities to keep the software...
Optional Identity Verification for Eclipse Foundation Committers Launches June 2 Mikaël Barbero 27 May 2026 Trust is a core part of open source collaboration. At the Eclipse Foundation, we have always required committers to provide...
Don't become the next Trivy: how to make your releases, tags, and automation resistant to compromise Mikaël Barbero 26 March 2026 This is Part 2 of our response to the Trivy supply-chain compromise. Part 1 covered how to consume GitHub Actions...
Stop trusting mutable references: how Eclipse Foundation projects should harden GitHub Actions after the Trivy compromise Mikaël Barbero 24 March 2026 On March 19, 2026, an attacker used compromised credentials to publish a malicious Trivy v0.69.4 release, force-push 76 of 77...
Open VSX security update, October 2025 Mikaël Barbero 27 October 2025 Over the past few weeks, the Open VSX team and the Eclipse Foundation have been responding to reports of leaked...
Eclipse Open VSX Registry Security Advisory Mikaël Barbero 2 July 2025 This security advisory provides additional technical details following our initial statement and the corresponding CVE record. TL;DR A vulnerability in...
Vulnerability in Eclipse Open VSX Registry extension publication process Mikaël Barbero 27 June 2025 On May 4th, the Eclipse Foundation (EF) Security Team received a notification from researchers at Koi Security regarding a potential...
Strengthening Open Source Security: Eclipse Foundation Selected by the Sovereign Tech Agency for a New Service Agreement Mikaël Barbero 28 February 2025 We are pleased to announce that the Eclipse Foundation has been selected by the Sovereign Tech Agency for a new...