Hello Paketo community!

Before heading to the updates, we’d like to gauge the interest on moving the weekly Working Group meetings to a more EMEA friendly time. If you are interested, please add your proposed times (or vote for the ones already proposed) in this Doodle survey.

New features/Buildpacks

• Java buildpack 7.0.0 and Java Azure 8.0.0 released. Before upgrading, please review:
• If you are using the Datadog Node.js agent, you should review its release notes for details before upgrading to this buildpack version
• Liberty has had a major version update. Check their release notes before upgrading
• Go buildpack 2.1.0 released, including reproducible builds!
• Paketo Elastic APM buildpack 5.0.0. A previously commercial buildpack, now contributed as open source!

RFCs of note

• Include libs to tiny that are needed for node #231
• Create scratch stack #243
• Builder config RFC #241

 Events/talks/trainings/blogs

• Register for Cloud Foundry Day, a Kubecon NA collocated event happening on October 25^th.
• Registration is free both for in-person and virtual attendance, learn more here!
• New blog post by Kevin Ortega from IBM: “WebSphere Liberty now available” 

Adopters

• Bloomberg
• Uses Paketo-based buildpacks for internal platforms
• Fly.io
• Paketo is one of the buildpacks options that Fly users can select from in flyctl

Do you want to see your project/organization in the list? Learn here how to do it!

Top 5 most active repos (by # of commits last 30 days, excluding RFCs)

1. packit
2. Java
3. Java-azure
4. liberty
5. samples

Source

What else would you like to see in this newsletter? What do you feel is not necessary? Please let us know!