Hello Buildpacks community. It's been a busy month, and we’d like to share some updates about what we've worked on, as well as some great useful content:  

Releases

• Lifecycle 0.10.2

• Pack 0.17.0

• Github Actions 4.0.1

RFCs

• Finalized RFC-0069: Stack buildpacks

• Finalized RFC-0070: New Buildpack Descriptor Keys

• Finalized RFC-0071: CNB User Research 2021

• Finalized RFC-0072: Set Image Working Directory to value of CNB_APP_DIR

• Finalized RFC-0073: Asset Cache (Offline Buildpacks)

• Finalized RFC-0074: Move layer types to new table in layer.toml

• Final Comment Period for PR #135: Move analyze phase

Community

• AppPack, which provides app deployment inside your own AWS account, is our newest adopter. Welcome to the community!

• Qovery now supports buildpacks!

Team

• Congratulations to our newest Implementation team maintainer Jesse Brown!

Resources

• [news] Your Linux container and Kubernetes forecast for 2021 by Scott McCarty (InfoWorld) 

• [blog] First look at Cloud Native Buildpacks support in Spring Boot 2.3 (Milestone 1) by Tim van Baarsen

• [blog] Pruning Pack CLI Commands by David Freilich

• [video] Using Cloud-native Buildpacks in Local & Remote Development Workflows by Ram Iyengar

• [blog] Joe's Cloud Native Buildpacks by Joe Kutner