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The TOC has updated the Due Diligence Guide to clarify expectations for adopter interviews during the moving levels process. These changes aim to reduce delays, improve the quality of adoption signal, and give projects a clearer picture of what to prepare before applying.
Here is a summary of what changed and what it means for projects and TOC members.
Welcome to the July 2026 edition of the Cloud Native Project Monthly (CNPM) Newsletter.
We hope you enjoyed KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan this week and we look forward to seeing many of you at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China soon!
CNCF staff will be at the various maintainer-focused activities in Shanghai on September 8-9.
Please take a moment to complete the 2H 2026 Maintainer Survey. Your feedback is essential for us to serve you better in the second half of the year.
Welcome to the June 2026 edition of the Cloud Native Project Monthly (CNPM) Newsletter.
We look forward to seeing many of you at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan next month!
CNCF staff will be at the various maintainer-focused activities on July 29-30.
Please take a moment to complete the 2H 2026 Maintainer Survey. Your feedback is essential for us to serve you better in the second half of the year.
Welcome to the May 2026 edition of the Cloud Native Project Monthly (CNPM) Newsletter.
We didn't send out an edition in April due to the volume of other staff messages sent to the maintainer mailing lists.
We look forward to seeing many of you at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India next month!
CNCF staff will be at the various maintainer-focused activities on June 18-19.
CNCF staff will soon begin rolling out a new repository called
.project
into project GitHub organizations. If you see a new repo appear, do not be
alarmed: this is expected, and there is no action required from maintainers for
the initial rollout.
The short version is that
.project
is a standardized metadata repository for CNCF projects. It gives each project
a clear, machine-readable home for information like project details,
repositories, maintainers, governance references, security contacts, and other
metadata that CNCF systems rely on.
As CNCF projects grow, maintainers increasingly spend time answering repetitive technical questions across Slack, Discord, and GitHub issues - often the same questions, many of them already answered in documentation.
High-traffic projects like OpenTelemetry and Envoy Gateway have been using Kapa.ai to handle thousands of community questions per month, reducing the volume of inbound support questions maintainers handle directly.
CNCF has partnered with Kapa.ai to provide AI-powered documentation assistants to hosted projects at no cost.
Welcome to the March 2026 edition of the Cloud Native Project Monthly (CNPM) Newsletter. We hope you’re excited for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Amsterdam in a few days!
CNCF staff will be at the Maintainer Summit and the Project Pavilion throughout the week. Please find us if you have any questions about support for your projects.
Late last year, we announced the strategic agreement with GitHub to provide GitHub Copilot Enterprise licenses to CNCF project maintainers at no cost. Since then, we have seen a strong response from the community, with over 100 Enterprise seats already in active use.
As we move forward, we are working to simplify our infrastructure and billing. To that end, we will be phasing out all legacy GitHub Copilot Business licenses in early April 2026.
Welcome to the February 2026 edition of the Cloud Native Project Monthly (CNPM) Newsletter.
We hope you’re excited for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe and plan to attend the Maintainer Summit!
You can learn more about the event and other worldwide KubeCon + CloudNativeCon opportunities in this month’s newsletter.
Planning a major update, new feature, or milestone to align with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 (March 23–26)? The CNCF PR team can help amplify your news.
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