Hello Buildpacks community. Notably this month, the Cloud Native Buildpacks Security Assessment was presented to the CNCF TOC by Andres Vega. You can watch the meeting recording on YouTube. We also have KubeCon NA coming up in October, and our team is preparing talks and office hours sessions (links below). Here are some other updates:

Releases

• Lifecycle 0.11.4
• Pack 0.21.0-rc1
• Github-Actions 4.3.1

RFCs

• Finalized RFC-0093: Remove Shell Processes
• Final Comment Period for PR #172: Remove Stacks & Mixins
• Final Comment Period for PR #177: add status field

Community

• Join us at KubeCon North America 2021! Project Office Hours are October 14 at 1:30pm PDT.
  
• Sambhav Kothari and Javier Romero will present an Intro to Cloud Native Buildpacks at KubeCon on October 15 at 3:25pm PDT
  

Resources

• [blog] Hello Buildpacks, Goodbye Dockerfiles by Robert Jensen
  
• [blog] Summary Of LFX’21 Summer Mentorship With CNCF: Buildpacks by 
  Haimantika Mitra
• [blog] Summary of GSoC’21 with Cloud Native Buildpacks by Mritunjay Sharma
• [video] Cloud Native Buildpacks Security Assessment with Andreas Vega