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A milestone few weeks for open source and Europe's digital sovereignty
Welcome to the July 2026 Eclipse Foundation member newsletter. It’s been an exciting few weeks for the Eclipse Foundation community, with significant progress across a number of projects and initiatives. I would like to share a few of the highlights in this month’s edition.
Recent policy developments in Europe reinforce just how central open source has become to economic resilience and technological leadership. In June, the European Commission's Communication on European Tech Sovereignty marked an important milestone by placing open source at the heart of Europe's strategy for digital sovereignty.
Notably, the Commission recognises that long-term success depends not only on open technologies, but also on the neutral governance, stewardship, security, and sustained investment that mature open source foundations provide. I’m particularly encouraged to see the Eclipse Foundation's Software Defined Vehicle Working Group highlighted as an example of how competitors can successfully collaborate on shared technology under open governance while continuing to innovate and compete in the marketplace. It’s another indication that governments and industry increasingly recognise that open collaboration is essential to building trusted digital infrastructure and strengthening long-term competitiveness.
That same need for trusted, resilient open source is becoming even more important as AI dramatically accelerates the discovery of software vulnerabilities. The ability to rapidly identify, validate, and deploy fixes is becoming a critical capability for open source ecosystems.
Through our participation in the Alpha-Omega Project, the Eclipse Foundation recently gained early access to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview for defensive security work. This opportunity is one of many that helps us strengthen the security of critical open source infrastructure. We remain committed to ensuring that open source continues to provide not only the foundation for innovation, but also the resilience that governments, industry, and society increasingly rely upon.
Our commitment to open collaboration is also reflected in an important milestone for our community. Open VSX has reached version 1.0 and graduated to the Eclipse Foundation's Mature Phase – a testament to the strength of its governance, the dedication of its contributors, and its position as the leading vendor-neutral extension registry for modern developer tools. It’s worth noting that the platform now supports more than 600 million extension downloads every month, and has been recognised as a finalist in the 2026 CODiE Awards for Best DevOps Tool.
As we look ahead to the second half of 2026, I invite you to help shape our shared future by participating in the 2026 Community & Ecosystem Insights Survey. Your perspective will inform how we continue to serve our members, projects, and the broader open source ecosystem.
I also encourage you to explore new independent research from 451 Research, which highlights the strategic value of openly developed, sustainably governed technologies such as Open VSX and ThreadX. And finally, I hope you’ll take a few minutes to read our 2026 Annual Community Report, which celebrates the remarkable achievements of our global community over the past year.
Thank you for being part of this journey, and for helping the Eclipse Foundation build an open, innovative, and resilient digital future.
“It’s another indication that governments and industry increasingly recognise that open collaboration is essential to building trusted digital infrastructure and strengthening long-term competitiveness.”
The Sovereign AI Foundation is a new initiative that brings together Eclipse Foundation member organisations to collaborate on one of today's most important technology challenges: advancing open, trustworthy, and sovereign AI. As organisations seek greater transparency, interoperability, choice, and control over the AI technologies they depend on, this vendor-neutral forum enables members to share knowledge and use cases, assess emerging technologies, and develop practical resources.
Participation is open to Eclipse Foundation member organisations with an executed Member Committer and Contributor Agreement.
Learn more and get involved → kickoff meeting details →Understanding Eclipse Foundation top-level projects
The Eclipse Foundation hosts hundreds of projects spanning a wide range of technologies and industries. To help organise these initiatives, projects are grouped under Top-Level Projects (TLPs), each with its own Project Management Committee (PMC) responsible for oversight, governance, and strategic direction.
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The Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors recently approved some updates to Eclipse governance documents.
The Eclipse Foundation’s Standards and Specifications Policy, which described how the Eclipse Foundation and its projects interact with standards and specifications organisations, is no longer relevant for Eclipse Foundation open source projects, as valuable portions of it are handled by existing policies and processes, including the Eclipse Foundation Development Process and the Eclipse Foundation Functional Safety Process, along with our usual practices. The restrictions demanded by the retired policy added unnecessary barriers for our open source projects.
The Eclipse Foundation’s Guidelines for the Review of Third Party Dependencies described how the IP Team would review content that fell outside of the scope of the IP Policy as it was written at the time. In time since these guidelines were brought into existence, we’ve updated the IP policy to the point where these guidelines are no longer required.
Therefore, the Board approved to revoke these two Policies.
Further, the Board approved the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process 1.4.1. In a minor update references to the "Membership at Large" were replaced with "Members".
Similarly, the Board approved the Eclipse Foundation Development Process 1.12. The updated version addresses some inconsistencies with the Bylaws and aligns with evolving open source practices. With this update, we assert that the Eclipse Foundation is the open source steward for all Eclipse Projects; updated the definition of EMO to reflect recent changes to the Bylaws; removed references to the Architecture Council; and replaced references to the "Membership at Large" with "Members". In order to better reflect the nature of the technologies created by our projects, we changed former references to "extensible frameworks, exemplary applications" (and similar) to "Eclipse Technology"; reinforced that Releases are content that is intended to be distributed outside of the Committers of the Project; and removed attempts to further frame the definition of Releases with exceptions (e.g., we removed the notion of milestone builds). To ensure that we can be inclusive of a wider variety of options, we removed mentions of specific communication technologies (websites, mailing lists, forums, …) and replaced them with "communication channels". As part of our ongoing effort to better leverage the Incubation Phase, we reinforce that the Incubation Phase is a time during which project teams are just learning our processes and practices, and may not get everything right. As a housekeeping matter, we removed empty “reserved” section headers. All changes have been reviewed by the Eclipse Technical Advisory Council, and all sections of the document have been renumbered.
The Board also acknowledged the updates made to the Antitrust Policy, IP Policy, Trademark Usage Policy, and Internal Rules. The updates mainly pertained to the removal of the reference to the Eclipse.org Foundation, Inc. following the windup of the US entity in November 2025.
All governance documents have been updated on the Eclipse Foundation Governance Documents section of our website:
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