CNCF ANNOUNCES GRADUATION OF CLOUD NATIVE BUILDPACKS, ADVANCING THE STANDARD FOR CONTAINER BUILDS

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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has graduated Cloud Native Buildpacks, an open source project that builds OCI-compliant container images directly from application source code. The project was jointly created by Pivotal and Heroku in January 2018 and joined the CNCF later that year. It now has 535 contributors across 164 organizations, with adopters including DigitalOcean, GitLab, Google, and Bloomberg, where the project powers AI infrastructure. To reach graduation, the project completed a third-party security review with Quarkslab and the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund, and received an OpenSSF Best Practices passing badge.