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The Eclipse Foundation provides our global community of individuals and organizations with a mature, scalable, and business-friendly environment for open source software collaboration and innovation. The Foundation is home to the Eclipse IDE, Jakarta EE, and over 415 open source projects, including runtimes, tools, and frameworks for a wide range of technology domains such as the Internet of Things, automotive, geospatial, systems engineering, and many others.
The Eclipse Foundation is a European-based international not-for-profit association supported by over 355 member organizations who value the Foundation’s unique Working Group governance model, open innovation processes, and community-building events. Our members include industry leaders who have embraced open source as a key enabler for business strategy. Source
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Search ArticlesWe All Depend on Open Source. One Country Should Not Hold The Keys To Defending It.
A coordinated effort to secure Open Source is overdue. But routing the world’s most sensitive security data through a single jurisdiction recreates the very weakness it sets out to fix. About three weeks ago, a United States export-control directive ordered the suspension of access to two frontier artificial intelligence models - models, whose defining capability was finding software vulnerabilities at scale - for any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.
From Observer to Active Open Source Contributor: The LKS Next Trajectory
Open source collaboration sounds great in theory, but the journey from observer to active contributor, especially for a company seeking strategic business advantage, can feel complicated. How do you start, and more importantly, how do you gain influence in a massive ecosystem? At the Eclipse Foundation, we witness this transformation daily.
June 2026 Community Newsletter
Mattia is a Principal Software Engineer specializing in IoT edge technologies, embedded systems, and industrial automation. Since 2022, he has led core development initiatives for Eurotech’s M2M IoT Edge framework. Complete the 2026 Eclipse Foundation Committer Satisfaction Survey to shape the tools, processes, and infrastructure behind the projects you build. Open VSX has been named a finalist in the 2026 CODiE Awards! We’re proud to be recognised for innovation in the Best DevOps Tool category.
The Eclipse Foundation and the ORC Working Group launch ORC Learning Hub to help open source developers, maintainers, and software teams prepare for the Cyber Resilience Act
Tuesday, June 30, 2026 - 06:03 by Natalia Loungou BRUSSELS – 30 JUNE 2026 – The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source software foundations, in collaboration with the Open Regulatory Compliance (ORC) Working Group, today announced the launch of the ORC Learning Hub, a free global education initiative designed to help the people responsible for building, maintaining, securing, and governing open source software prepare for the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
Eclipse Open VSX graduates to mature phase, marking a major milestone for open developer tooling
Eclipse Open VSX has reached an important milestone in its evolution as open source infrastructure for developer tooling. The project now serves millions of developers worldwide through AI-native IDEs, cloud development environments, and VS Code-compatible platforms, delivering more than 600 million extension downloads every month.
Open VSX 1.0.0: Celebrating a Milestone and the Community Behind It
Reaching version 1.0.0 is a special moment for any open source project. It marks more than a collection of features or bug fixes. It reflects years of collaboration, thousands of commits, countless discussions, and a shared belief that an idea is worth building together.
Europe Chooses Open Source: The Eclipse Foundation Welcomes the European Commission's Communication on European Tech Sovereignty
I.Why the Commission's Tech Sovereignty Approach Is the Right Call The European Commission's Communication on European Tech Sovereignty, published on June 3rd 2026, is a landmark. For the first time, the EU has not only mentioned Open Source as part of its digital policy but has put Open Source at the centre of how Europe intends to secure its technological future.
New 451 research market reports explore sustainable open source infrastructure through Open VSX and ThreadX
Open source infrastructure has become essential to modern software development. It supports the tools developers use every day, the embedded systems powering connected devices, and the software foundations behind emerging industries such as software-defined vehicles and industrial automation. Two new 451 Research Market Insight Report Reprints by S&P Global and licensed to the Eclipse Foundation, examine how this infrastructure is evolving in two key areas: Open VSX and Eclipse ThreadX.
Optional Identity Verification for Eclipse Foundation Committers Launches June 2
Trust is a core part of open source collaboration. At the Eclipse Foundation, we have always required committers to provide their real first and last name when signing their committer agreements, and we have long stated that certain committer information, including name and email address, is publicly displayed in connection with contributions. On June 2, the Eclipse Foundation will make optional identity verification generally available for Eclipse Foundation committers.
May 2026 Community Newsletter
Meet James Perkins, Software Developer at IBM and a long-time contributor to the open source ecosystem. Your voice matters in the Eclipse Foundation ecosystem. We’re gathering insights to improve how we support our community, projects, and collaborations. Share your insights for a chance to win swag. The Eclipse Foundation has launched Open VSX Managed Registry, the open source software ecosystem’s first foundation-operated managed service for critical developer infrastructure.