Welcome to the GUAC Update, a monthly review of what has happened in the GUAC community and what’s coming up. If you have feedback, please let us know. To include something in next month’s update, leave a comment in the issue.
New contributors
Thanks to the following people for making their first contributions in October (the people listed here may have contributed to other parts of the project previously):
- Abhiraj Adhikary: guac-docs#169
- Robbie Cronin: several contributions to GUAC and guac-docs
- Martin W. Kirst: guac#2207
- Rishikeshav Ravichandran: guac-docs#157
Releases
We had several releases for GUAC in October. These releases include performance improvements in certifiers, as well as the addition of batch queries for certain nodes. Version 0.8.9 introduced a compatibility-breaking change to the CLI as well.
Full details for each release are below:
- GUAC v0.8.9
- GUAC v0.9.0 (blog post)
- GUAC v0.9.1
- GUAC v0.10.0 (blog post)
- GUAC v0.10.1
- GUAC v0.10.2
- GUAC v0.11.0 (blog post)
- GUAC v0.11.0
Note: We do not typically publish blog posts for bugfix releases.
Events
If you couldn’t make it to SOSS Fusion in Atlanta, you can watch the recordings:
- GUAC maintainer Mihai Maruseac presented “End-to-End Secure ML Development”
- GUAC maintainer Jeff Mendoza presented “Scorecard at Scale: Old and New Possibilities for Lifting Security on All Repositories
And be sure to check out these upcoming events:
- Cloud Native Rejekts in Salt Lake City, UT on November 11, 2024:
- GUAC maintainer Parth Patel will present “Papers, Please - Scrutinizing AI model creation”
- KubeCon & CloudNativeCon in Salt Lake City, UT on November 12–15, 2024:
- Open Source Security on Tap party hosted by Kusari, ActiveState, and ControlPlane
- Join several GUAC maintainers and contributors at the Kusari booth (Q37)
Coming up
Be sure to join us in the weekly Maintainer Meetings, monthly Community Meeting, or on Slack and office hours, to participate in the conversation.